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committed doom and gloomer peter watkins goes slummin across the pond to take on the american justice system circa with this priceless piece of zeitgeist paranoia that leans so far left it falls over constantly watkins is pure tourist as he assembles this our gang tragedy with cliché freaks hippies and black revolutionaries pitted against trigger happy cops and military and a kangaroo court tribunal made up of disapproving calcified adults making poor fashion statements talk about a revolution in punishment park we have radical youth versus corrupt system as dissenters convicted of crimes are given the choice of imprisonment or a three day trek across punishment park death valley and freedom of course the law enforcement officials monitoring their journey arent about to play fair and combined with the stifling heat the fate of our protagonists looks sealed punishment park has elements of kafka in setting as well as theme trials are held under a large canvas tent where shackled prisoners shout defiance at a hardcore love it or leave it group of inquisitors such as members of silent majority for a peaceful america who snarl back neither group spends much time listening to the other and the proceedings sometime takes on a teen parent battle over the keys to the car look mostly its just one side saying whats wrong with america the other saying whats right with no one offering solutions for change meanwhile the punishment park martyrs stumble endlessly about the dessert while cops with guns act like twelve year olds it kind of has the look and feel of some of my s college film making class when we were younger and knew more then than we do now peter watkins has always been on the side of the underdog and the common man against what he perceives as a corrupt powerful few culledon was a strong indictment of military atrocity in th century scotland that still resonates war game is a raw sobering look at nuclear aftermath that should be required viewing for all punishment park has its value as well but for other than intended reason watkins vision today is a textbook example of the left in full tilt counter culture s paranoia and given the times vietnam kent state the chicago such strident hysteria seemed not that great a distance from the truth but years later the fever has subsided and punishment park with its unrestrained narrow viewpoint is a pretty silly ride

most critics have written devastating about that michalkov movie but i wanted it to see myself and unfortunately they are right the film had the greatest budget ever in russian movie history two international stars colorful mass scenes apparently shot quite close to the kremlin but in the end it appears to be a nice sweet nothing you would not believe that this director earlier has made masterpieces like urga and burnt by the sun the characters in the storyline are not convincing neither jane nor mccracken nor andrej only general radlov worth being mentioned it remains on the surface all the time politically it is to me a glorification of the army and especially the russian one with values like honor and duty and having lived at least half a year in siberia my russia is much more than the one that is depicted in michalkovs movie regarding burnt by the sun by the same director as a no question points movie one of the best i ever seen in my entire life i was totally disappointed by that one sorry nevertheless michalkovs unique talent in delivering amazingly beautiful pictures is still there

ever had one of those nights when you couldnt sleep and just turned on the tube to see what was on that is how i ran across this tripe for myself i would have been better served tossing and turning for the minutes i wasted with this film in its attempt to be real this movies characters come off as such gangsta stereotypes that the story should have been the premise for a wayans brothers movie the dialog please it sounded like a white man was trying too hard to write this film the editing was horrible one of my favorite scenes involved a car chase down a bunch of narrow alleys cut to the characters being chased though and they are driving through a park complete with baseball fields in the background when any of our homies get shot in this film he bleeds miraculously through clothes that have no holes which is more than i can say for the plot of this predictable load ofbaking soda indie films can be great even if they are low on budget and effects but they still need to have some cinematic integrity if i could have given it a i would if you watch it i hope it is on cable because even the cheapest rental would be too much to pay actually minutes was too much to pay

an awful b movie at best with video quality similar to dead alive i challenge anyone who is a aliens james cameron movie fan to count how many times either lines or almost entire sequences were ripped off from the first two alien movies to make this classic piece of garbage cast members such as r lee ermey and ray wise were the only two actors with any talent and the lead jack scalia was really absolutely horrible i think they cast him for his massive cleft chin i was also annoyed with the stereotyping of the only black male on the set john toles bey who must look at this movie and just wonder look him up sometime as he has done a lot of interesting movies but on this movie the script as i said earlier was a rip off of aliens tweaked and turned into a submarine thriller it included such lines as i got a bad feeling about this and kill me as one crew member is infected by one of the mutants and his belly starts doing the alien hop just before it pops out of his stomach there is also a rip off of the classic get some via bill paxton we also have a bunch of navy grunts running through caves with creepy crawlies popping out of walls even the explosions of the mutated creatures is very similar to the popping of aliens as they charge marines in the movie aliens and the kicker is that some of the mutants spit acid as opposed to having acid for blood there are many more major examples so if you want to see this script done well watch the first two classics alien and aliens with sigourney weaver youll have a more enjoyable time the plot could have been interesting and done better if not for confusing sequences in the start of the movie and generally poor editing camera shots were pretty dull and honestly it wasnt very hard to stop watching it and walk around the room to get a snack or check email many of the interactions between characters made little or no sense and went nowhere more often than not the whole command structure between crew and capt was poorly done im not even sure if there are captains in the military that have full control over nuclear subs in general this just shows that there was little research done for background information to make the movie seem at least a little respectable and there are many other similar examples like dive depth etc if you like horrible movies or are a big fan of alien and aliens and want something to just laugh and shake your head at then this movie may be for you as for me this one is going back on the shelfpermanently

this cheap grainy filmed italian flick is about a couple of inheritors of a manor in the italian countryside who head up to the house to stay and then find themselves getting killed off by ghosts of people killed in that house i wasnt impressed by this it wasnt really that scary mostly just the way a cheap italian film should be a girl her two cousins and one cousins girlfriend head to this huge house for some reason i couldnt figure out why and are staying there cleaning up and checking out the place characters come in and out of the film and its quite boring at points and the majority of deaths are quite rushed the girlfriend is hit by a car when fleeing the house after having a dream of her death and the scene is quite good but then things get slow again until a confusing end when the male cousins are killed together in some weird way and this weirdo guy i couldnt figure out who he was during the movie or maybe i just dont remember goes after this one girl attacking her until finally this other girl kills him off hate to give away the ending but oh well the female cousin decides to stay at the house and watch over it and they show scenes of her living there years later the end you really arent missing anything and anyway you probably wont find this anywhere so lucky you

i cant help thinking that this is francos hamage to the marquis de sades one thousand days of sodom people in this case women abducted to serve as slaves to a privileged elite check kinky sex check torture including whipping check victims chosen at random to be killed check thank goodness franco didnt go the whole hog and introduce cinema audiences to the delights of coprology and indeed coprophagy another perversion that crops up repeatedly in de sades tediously long and disgusting saga i rather hoped that this film would fall into the so bad its good category but even the acres of naked flesh and numerous sexual encounters didnt make up for the dismal dialogue dreadful acting elusive plot and just to put the tin hat on it dubbing and english sub titles a belt and braces approach missing from the womens costumes the alsation gave a very professional performance though of course i could be wrong about the de sade angle after all i failed to realise that the actor playing the head warden at the prison was a trans sexual i must pay more attention to the size of peoples hands in future according to another reviewer the film was banned in the uk well it clearly isnt any more though i fancy that the nipple needling scene was cut to satisfy the censors on the dvd i watched it was only clearly visible on the spanish trailer which in case youre wondering i watched to compare it with the english one the dvd also features an interview with jess franco though youll need better spanish than mine to understand it unless im much mistaken its neither dubbed nor sub titled and it points out that the person sodomising the character played by franco is ajita wilson disguised using a moustache kind of ironic given that she had had the requisite appendage surgically removed

i rented this movie because it supposedly takes place in a jazz club you know those hip cool places you might stumble upon late on a saturday night well theres not one ounce of cool in this ridiculous movie the score is goofy the original songs are awful both lead actors singing is continually off key to be kind and unprofessional at best the plot is no more complex than boy meets girl the acting is laughable and the only decent cinematic moments are the stock footage scenes the jazz club scenes feature sophomoric dialog smothered by overly busy organ music this joey de francesco should keep his day job unless his day job is helping with movie scores is it possible to not only get my four dollars back but have my therapy sessions paid for as well this movie interestingly enough is so bad you might want to watch it sort of like driving by a bad accident you just have to look at least once just get the ear plugs ready

i have been a huge lynn peterson fan ever since her breakthrough role in the blockbuster movie far north and even though i loved her in her one other film slow where she plays francis this is by far and away her strongest role lynn as im sure you all know or should plays the critical role of driver unfortunately other than lynns amazing performance im afraid this movie doesnt really have much going for it oh wait there was one other thing the amazing creativity of the editing to remove profanity for tv viewers memorable lines like you son of a gun you son of a witch shoot and well forget you ok bye ps does anyone know where i can get another lynn peterson poster

i just happened to stumble to this film and checked imdb for more information score well not so bad genre scifigood i like scifi so i got the movie and i was looking forward to have a relaxing sunday evening watching it but butno as in summary this isnt a movie at all it is a religious advertisement including preatching about jesus god devil end of the world etc movie starts with a epic abduction story driving at night car stops bright light and so on well actually that was the film last of this ummm frankly i dont know what to call itwas dialogue about end of the world and last judgement quite a same stuff what these tv preachers tell you but they are good at it honestly if you want to see a scifi movie or something with ufos please stay far away from this thing it has nothing to do with them if you want to hear some cuckoo heads opinion what the bible has to say and what you should do then go ahead and watch this thing but i still prefer going to the church at sunday this is complete bull and evangelical christian propaganda as another users said= well i should have red another users comments before i got the movie % of voters have rated this thing as yeah right please go somewhere else to do your propaganda

this television show is stereotypical and far fetched in many of its aspects first of all the setting all of the characters attend pca this unbelievable boarding school with painted stylish dorms the campus seems to have no reasonable rules for instance the boys are often seen in the girls dormitories and vice versa but this may be simply because the dorm adviser a silly character that basically bores the viewer instead of amusing them as i assume her purpose is supposed to be sits around and does nothing i have friends in boarding schools and they laugh at many aspects of the school in this show next the characters i was so disappointed to discover that nickelodeon wasnt creative at all with the personalities in this show they all represent on characteristic which is exaggerated to the extreme zoey is supposedly perfect in everything she does looks grades sports guys judgment creativity etc michael is the jock logan is the arrogant jerk who basically does nothing aside from aggravate all the characters as well as us poor viewers nicole is the preppy idiot who knows nothing but somehow maintains straight as dana was the tough girl quinn is the unrealistic smart kid whom they consistently make fun of chase is the guy who is afraid of confessing his true feelings which really aggravates me as the show continues and that new girl lola or something is just another clone of nicole the main two characters that aggravate me the most are zoey and quinn first of all i just do not understand zoeys character she was obviously created to be the perfect character as i said above but she seems to be the most flawed out of all of them in most of the episodes she creates a problem then has to fix it whats frustrating is that we are supposed to love her and think she is amazing when they havent even created a very realistic character to begin with quinn on the other hand bothers me because she is exaggerated to the point at which her character is absolutely insulting the impression i get from nick concerning her character is that geeks and nerds are people to laugh at to criticize to mock in the spring break episode they did a year ago they introduced two more nerds who the characters had to make cool i found this highly offensive and stereotypical what kind of message is nick sending to these kids is it dont do well in school dont get good grades dont study hard youll end up being a geek and we will mock your profession in future television series because that is definitely the message i get from these poorly constructed characters and it is an awful message through and through all i can do is hope that nick one day realizes that by putting down the intelligent folks in our world they are not doing anyone any good

when you see barry corbin in the cast of a movie you can never be sure if it will be a classic or trash guess which category solo falls into apparently derived from a popular sci fi novel weapon solo stars mario van peebles as a human looking robot who decides to think for himself and is thus targeted for elimination he hides out in a mexican village obviously to save money on locations and extras paying in pesos is cheaper than paying in dollars i suspect william sadler is along for the ride as one of the robots and soldiers sent to destroy van peebles van peebles manages to beat them all with ease of course while corbin watches all this with bemusement from afar the movie is a horrible ripoff of the the terminator and cyborg series and apparently has little to do with its source material it is horribly written and acted and the big fight at the end if downright comical van peebles a decent actor elsewhere is a scream as he pretends to be a robot covered in synthetic flesh he looks like he is doing the robot dance most of the time

hello it is i derrick cannon and i welcome you to the first ever cannonite review show my movie for this week was debatable what route what movie what excellent four star epic would i choose guess what i decided to pull a one eighty and go the other route ive decided to review a movie so atrocious that it totally killed what could have been a very unique concept the movie i will review today is jack frost two revenge of the mutant killer snowman the stars in this movie include christopher allport as sam tiller eileen seeley as anne tiller marsha clark as marla david allen brooks as agent manners sean patrick murphy as captain fun ray cooney as the colonel and scott macdonald as the killer snowman himself jack frost its hard to believe that this movie was in the same series that gave us the incredibly funny jack frostloved the carrot scenebut its even harder to believe that this is the exact same cast the movie was ruined for me as soon as they arrived on the island and captain fun was introduced what was the point of his character and how did he fit into a horror moviethe only possible reason i could see was that they wanted to give us a character that was total killer snowman fodder sam tiler seemed more paranoid then he did in the original his babbling about anti freeze was one of the most pathetic display i had seen in a movie his wife however was one of the few bright spots she played her role as the main woman to a hilt she was a voice of reason in film of pure idiocy the scene where she figures out how to kill the snowmen was one of the most anticipated parts of the movie ray macdonald once again did a great job as jack frost despite what he was given if it wasnt for such weak characters he could have been immortalized like chuckyfreddy and jason laugh if you must but when it comes down to it jack frost had spunk he had humor and most importantly he had an undoubtable vicious streak this movie could have been so much more it could have been a continuation of a great franchise instead any plans to make a jack frost three have been canceled this movie gets a two out of ten for me and its lucky that it even gets a one

it seems like people are attracted to shows that showcase pathetic lives that have no purpose what so ever to me i give my sincerity to nbc for their dire efforts to make new changes in television making laugh track free shows they seem to always find big success like the office when i first started to watch it seemed to me that it could have potential to be a smash hit but after a couple of episodes i really felt like going to church and donating every penny in my entire bank to pathetic people showcased in these lowlife poor disgraceful areas and the end where they show earl and the brother in bed together it just seems to me that this show is trying to show the bad side of life like street beggars or people who struggle to pay the rent and have no sense of what the real world of normal people in society are like i just seem to always be disgusted when i watch the filth the people in this show live in its like venice beach in california beautiful but so many hobos believe me im no rich guy middle class and not a clean freak either a bit sloppy but it just seems to me that the show just cant seem to get off of all the gruesome schmuck people out there who have one leg i just wish that they would show a little more class not all filth and poorness and trailers and just below average life it just seems to depress me to me this show is nothing more than a showcase of what not to do in life what not to be it also shows me that education is the most important thing you can have because apparently these two dont have an ounce of smarts this is a schmuck u mentary

i had been waiting eagerly to see this movie but when i finally got the chance i was very disappointed i had to stop half way or was it quarter way because of the poor script and directing not to mention the poor cast josh hartnett is the only one who can act and hes much more suitable to be the hero of the story well basically the story is just about a loose girl from the country who cheated on her long time decent boyfriend only to have meaningless sex with a spoiled rich brat this movie failed to draw my sympathy not even when the writer intended to i wonder where the moral values go the actors are so stiff that when i resume the movie few weeks after it was interrupted due to its boring nature they still failed to make me pay attention the spoiled couple can only disgust me what a movie i think all the people involved in this production need to sit down and review it together so that they wont make the same mistakes next time round and next time they might consider josh hartnett as the protagonist

the vhs cover for the evil below makes it look like a cool underwater horror flick sadly its closer to a boring adventure flick and has no real horror elements it starts off with some divers who get attacked and we see a bit of blood but thats the only blood in the entire film the evil below isnt the worst around but for a horror film it is tediously boring the acting is decent and to be honest the only thing that keeps you watching is the developing romance between the two leads theres a few nightmare sequences where it just seems like the director didnt know what to do i manged to sit through it all just about but i wouldnt recommend this film to anyone horror fans might want a copy for the cool vhs cover but its best left at that

plankton or creatures from the abyss as im positive its more commonly known as & filmed under as the title creatures from the abyss appears over a moving image & in the same font type as the rest of the credits starts with five something kids mike clay rogers his girlfriend margaret sharon twomey sisters julie ann wolf & dorothy loren depalm & an annoying idiot named bobby michael bon whom decide to all fit into a small rubber boat & head out to sea dont ask why as i dont know oh & the complete idiot bobby left the petrol behind & never thought to tell anyone so it comes as no great surprise that they end up stranded out at sea without any petrol for the motor & to make matters worse they become trapped in a thunder storm & discover a dead body floating in the water shortly after their luck seems to change when they come across a yacht & potential safety in a flash everyone boards the yacht & begin to explore first of all they find a scientific lab with various fish specimens & computer equipment then down below they find fully furnished & luxurious cabins they find a chemist deran sarafian who appears mad & cant talk they eat fish from the fridge which makes dorothy puke up green vomit beetles & slugs they learn that these fish are living fossils s of years old & have been contaminated by toxic waste dumped in the sea & that they fly mutate bite & are generally unpleasant to be around i really cant be bothered to go on with this plot outline so i wont heres what i think this italian production was produced & directed by massimiliano cerchi under the pseudonym al passeri id hide under a different name if i made a film this bad too & i think plankton is quite simply one of the worst films ever there are so many things wrong with this film its difficult to know where to start first the script by richard baumann is total crap it makes no sense whatsoever & is so slow & dull it was torture for me to sit through why would five people just simply set sail for the middle of the ocean on a rubber dinghy barely big enough to fit them all in what were they planning on doing exactly why do we often get point of view shots from these fish creatures but they seem to be totally invisible to the characters as they are never shown on screen even though they are right next to a character & how do these fish get around the boat as there is no water for them to swim in peoples actions & reactions to things are all wrong they constantly split up they make bizarre decisions that simply dont make any sense in the situation they find themselves in & some of the dialogue is as awful as anything ive heard i could go on all day about all the plot holes & ridiculous goings on but ill run out of space if i do the fish creatures themselves look awful a mixture of rubbish rubber puppets & some really bad stop motion animation at the end the scenes where they interact with the human cast also look terrible with some bad super imposition i have heard a lot of comments saying that plankton is gory dont make me laugh forget it there is virtually no blood or gore in plankton whatsoever there are a couple of slimy scenes when bobby transforms into a fish monster while having sex with julie but its pretty brief & he doesnt kill her he just sort of drips slime on her grows a couple of tentacles & a fish head comes out of his mouth later on julies vagina starts to drip some dark slime but thats it we never get to actually see what happens to her or what the slime is dorothy has a fish creature come out of her back off screen & control her but again we never get to see what happens to her while margaret commits suicide a very brief shot of a plastic harpoon stuck to her forehead easily the grossest scene is when dorothy pukes up that green stuff with what looks like beetles & slugs in it thats it only one person actually dies on screen & for the most part plankton is quite tame & as exciting as watching paint dry & i nearly fell asleep its so boring i cant see how anybody can like this total crap i just cant the acting is awful the dubbing is awful the characters are awful & i hated all of them tecnically plankton is predictably crap as well with an estimated budget of only $ all i can say is where did the money go the sets are monotonous & dull with one lab & a few cabins the special effects are bottom of the barrel stuff including the most fake looking exploding boat ever the cinematography is bland the music sucks there is zero atmosphere or tension & as a whole plankton like its name sake is as low in the food chain as it could possibly be i hate plankton its awful in every single aspect of its overlong minute duration do yourself a favour & avoid this one at all costs unless your either a masochist or insomniac

hey the grudge what up man i have a friend i would like you to meet the grudge meet johnnys worst of list johnnys worst of list meet the grudge whats going on here i was under the impression that this was supposed to be a sequel to the grudge rather than a remake if thats the case then why does it do nothing but rehash the original this floater doesnt even feel like a movie its just a minute soundtrack of the weird contortionist chick making that annoying croaking sound a sound on which id recommend you not get me started it was kind of creepy the first time i heard it but ive heard it about times since so its pretty much run its course and its made even more annoying by the people in the audience who thought itd be funny to imitate the sound whenever there was a quiet spot in the movie sigh folks youre not funny so just shut up i promise you every single time that a character was walking slowly through an empty room which is approximately % of the movie somebody in the audience would start it up uhhhhkkkkkkuuuuuhhhhhkkkkkk yes i know thats a horrible way to replicate the sound with letters but you get the gist so then some dude in the audience would giggle and not to be outdone deliver his own rendition i was very close to just walking through the audience and punching random people i told you not to get me started theres absolutely nothing about the grudge that i can recommend theres not a single original scare or idea in the entire film theres not one memorable acting performance are you a sarah michelle gellar fan welp enjoy her two minutes of screen time and one line of dialogue are you an amber tamblyn fan i hope you can deal with the fact that shes given nothing more to do than walk around looking like shes suffering from a pinched nerve can you believe the story if you can call it that is even worse than the grudges at least the original was fairly creepy and boasted a few effective jump scenes i didnt jump once during this lametrosity yeah i made the word up deal with it thats right not a single time the scares are so manufactured and they are so blatantly telegraphed that there is absolutely no shock value once the gotcha moment arrives watching this movie is like playing a good game of chess youre always four or five scenes ahead there are also some weird scenes thrown in that make no sense whatsoever one that immediately comes to mind is a scene where a girl drinks a gallon of milk and then begins to regurgitate it back into the jug huh i say huh the audience laughed i shook my head and sighed there was a lot of that during the movie laughing sighing head shaking falling asleep i did twice the movie even makes a th hearted attempt at a plot twist wow its so bad that i dont think we should even dignify it by labeling it a twist did they really think anybody would be surprised at the revelation of who was hiding under the hoodie please it was as shocking as elton john coming out of the closet and of course the ending goes the whole non closure look we might have another sequel route as soon as the credits rolled the audience booed my sentiments exactly had the audience paid money for this turd burger then things would have most likely gotten violent and i wouldve gladly led the charge we learned from the grudge that theres a japanese belief that when someone dies in a powerful grip of rage then a curse is left behind much like a ben affleck movie its a stain that forever becomes a part of the place where the death occurred well in the grudge we learn that when a horror movie covers its budget during its opening weekend then its sequel will be rushed out and more often than not it will be as bad as this and will leave a stain on any theater where the movie shows the gist if youre a total wimp and never saw the grudge then this might provide a few cheap scares but i strongly recommend saving your money otherwise theres a good chance youll be the one walking out of the theater with a grudge

both killjoy and killjoy stunk but the first was better the special effects in this movie were not special at all even though the killings were better in this installment they were not anything to brag about one thing that was worse in part were the characters they changed emotions suddenly and some of their lines were just dumb for instance one character quoted you better have some respect or youll find out what is means to me once i heard that line i figured it was of the worst ive ever heard another thing that i hated about this movie was the fact it was too short a successful movie has to go more than one hour and twenty minutes like killjoy if full moon makes part of killjoy that would be stooping to the lowest level they can possibly go overall of

having watched this movie several times i have come to the conclusion that milos forman made a very daring decision to manufacture a muse for goya when the artist led what most would consider a tempestuouspassionate life while the french revolution and the napoleonic era raged across europe surely one that would have sufficient drama upon which to draw while i do understand that mr forman was relating in the microcosm of the tragedy of ines life the devastation of the world at that time i was left feeling that there was just so much of goya left out so much of his humanity the strongest and most eloquent point this film made was that because of mans fallen nature each of us is a potential villain in the stream of life each of us has evil within us that we must fight with the help of god how eloquent when goya says he should have helped ines more how true for all of us we must defend and protect the innocent the superbly ironic scene in which the once imprisoned priest sentenced to die pronounces the death sentence on lorenzo who condemned him originally is the stuff of genius i was left wanting something more when the credits rolled maybe less of the unreal coincidences and more of the inner life of the characters

lil pimp is the story of a little boy who becomes a pimp the animation and voice acting were perfect for this type of film i laughed out loud for the first minutes or so of this movie mostly at the concept after that the joke wore thin as a minute animated short lil pimp would have been a classic instead this movie consists entirely of one joke that lasts far too long weathers voiced by ludicrous does have several crude and funny one liners unfortunately that is all the boys pet rat is good for as he contributes nothing else to the story eventually i grew as bored with his remarks as i did the rest of this movie i am a big fan of south park and other animation aimed at adults i also play several online pimp games so i am partial to stories about pimps the transition from little boy to lil pimp was brilliant but after that both the story and dialog became redundant and predictable i give this movie a five it is worth watching for the great concept and voice acting just do not expect much else or you will be quite disappointed

endless repetition about the evil world bank imf globalization and the americans are blamed for all of africas problems—and the movie is long about two hours but it seems longer the french actually occupied mali the country in which the movie takes place for centuries but are only peripheral bad guys one doesnt learn enough about any of the characters to really care whats happening to them—they are completely marginal to the preaching which goes on and on and on theres no plot no character development no humor except for a few pokes at bush and wolfowitz but thats almost cheating its so easy and the production values are mediocre—no redemption there it is amazing that a movie can spend two hours preaching about such a big topic and convey utterly zero real information the irish ballad i was dying and then the famine came has more content the movie is boring the sub titles are tough to read there is no real content about the subject of the film and the propaganda is relentless skip this one

after kenneth opels rousing story of the invigorated me back into the pleasure of reading during grade school i had high hopes for this series the story of an underdog bat voyaging across country to reunite with his colony captivated my imagination and resonated deeply with my burgeoning imaginationupon hearing of this series i began browsing bardel animations site and liked what i saw the character design looked impressive and the fast paced plot seemed to have been stretched respectably across a thirteen episode arc much was my disappointment then when i decided to watch a rerun early one morn the opening episode shows our hero shade silverwing pursuing a tiger moth in the deep hours of the night chirruping an echolocatory song we see a nifty if crude cgi effect illuminate the moth and the chase takes on a frenetic turn as the tiny insect creates numerous illusory copies of itself do deceive its pursuer as a lover of biology i had a decent understanding of the principles in place tiger moths can sense the sounds their predators use for echolocation and spin a sonic cover for themselves but without such exposition i would have surely been lost a minor quibble i thought surely they director will fill us in momentarily i waited in vain once our protagonist roosts down with some of his fellows we are treated to some of the dullest dialog ive ever seen on television chinook shades childhood rival begin taunting the diminutive hero with the stupidest lines ive ever seen on a show i can understand the writers not producing shakespeare but one would think theyd have had some social contact in their lives surely enough to make communication seem natural oh how wrong i was the voice acting while not horrendous hardly was a shining example of human achievement oh shade youre broken the law shades mother sighs emptily you must come with me young one croaks frieda the wizened elder of the silverwing colony the actors try but it hardly matters at this point as the story becomes less and less compelling with each pass minute while each episode deals with a problem of the week as is typical of with most television series overarching story arcs pervade the saga for better and worse while the main point of the story is shades reunion with his family later episodes tack on other story arcs involving cannibalistic bats from the southern jungles and a brewing war between birds and beasts the writers try to do too much at once fighting to compress as many promising ideas as possible in the hopes that it will grab audience interest enough to keep the bloody show going on unfortunately these attempts are futile to all but the eight to ten year olds at whom this show is aimed while its nice to see canadian media be perpetuated it would be all the sweeter if the enjoyability of the series wasnt limited to the immediate family of the animators or frothing fans of kenneth oppels books there are worse things out there your children could be watching than silverwing but far better programs are out there too pass on the mediocrity and read the books instead

okay some other people have commented that this isnt an action flick so i dont need to rehash that even though i just did this isnt exactly a let down in fact its nice on occasion to see an actor try something different but unfortunately this isnt one of those occasions now the story non existent this film lacks in storyline almost as much as showgirls did sure they throw in a couple environmentalist no not even environmentalist something else tidbits here and there to please seagal being that thats what hes into this doesnt make a story not even close now the ending even those amongst us who actually liked this film the ending you have to admit it was a bit much or a lot stupid now from what i understand this was a direct to video film at least in the states but this is even too good for this one this piece of garbage should have been cable only on tbs or starz late night

hollywood had a long love affair with bogus arabian nights tales but few of these products have stood the test of time the most memorable were the jon hall maria montez films which have long since become camp this one is filled with dubbed songs anachronistic slang and slapstick its a truly bounteous crop of mesopotamian corn and pretty near intolerable today it was nominated for its imaginative special effects which are almost unnoticeable in this day and age consisting mainly of trick photography the only outstanding positive feature which survives is its beautiful color and clarity sad to say of the many films made in this genre few of them come up to alexander kordas original thief of baghdad almost any other arabian nights film is superior to this one though its a loser

i had gone to the movies expecting to see a great film based on all the word of mouth and terrific reviews the minute the opening sequence started i knew i was in trouble the music and credits were trying so hard to evoke emotion i wanted to puke all i got from this film was clichéd characters contrived dialog and an unemotional script director writer paul haggis has managed to get great reviews with his manipulative self righteous writing but it doesnt fool me some performance were good don cheadle is always good i think terrance howard is slightly over rated but he was decent ludicrous was way too on the nose he should stick to rapping brendan fraser was fine jennifer esposito left no impression what so ever i find nothing interesting about her sandra bullock is always the same in every movie shes just okay matt dillon was very good and i enjoyed watching him work ryan philippe was good as well but as far as the script and the lousy directing this is actually one of those movies that is so annoyingly bad i actually took the time to write about it i would not recommend this film to anyone what a waste of time

mad scientist professor tabani drinks a potion he has brewed up in his laboratory but is turned into a blood craving vampire insteadwhen draqil pays a visit tabani sees a picture of aqils wife shabnam andafter turning aqil into a vampireheads for shabnam to make her his brideaqils brother discovers the grave of the vampire and his brother at tabanis castle and kills his brother with a knife to free his soultabani succeeds in putting the bite on shabnam and once turned she tries to lure her young niece awayaqils brother races against time to put a stop to the vampire cursezinda laash almost put me to sleepthe plot is extremely slow but more or less follows bram stokers famous novelthe suspense is completely absent as is the gore and nuditythe film is only recommended for curious horror fans that want to see the second horror film made in pakistanafter madman from

the acting was flat at least none of the actors sounded like theyd just got the script that morning and the film and sound quality made me think of the s movie of the week bombs the only thing that told me that it was indeed not a s movie of the week was the reference to dna testing but for me being eastern orthodox the most egregious thing about thisfilmwas the total romishness of the religion romania is % orthodox but youd never know that from this movie father soren is irish and id have known this even if i hadnt seen the actor play the irish pub keep michael sullivan in star trek voyagers fairhaven episodes the bishop was wearing roman vestments and for the record not even orthodox bishops wear their vestments unless theyre saying the liturgy especially if they live in a monastery about the only non romish paraphernalia i saw was the bar cross on the door of the church and even then i had to squint to see it the first reviewer said the producers had done their research well if thats true they messed up on the religious aspect of the film

i was one of the many fools who were sapped out into paying for this at the theater even though i payed bucks for matinée before pm prices the remakes story was ho hum the cgi morlocks were lame the eloi were rastafarian to mimic todays fads no i did not think the chick was hot at all the re killing of the heros modern girlfriend was somewhat cruel overall just a sad bad remake ill take rod taylor weena and the fat glowing eyed surfer morlocks over this junk any time my estimation is that many of the reviewers who like this awful remake are young kids which does not account for either good taste or a true value of the old classics which are largely unappreciated by todays confused and ever wanting more youth when the s version came out i first saw it in the s for summer fun it was pretty damn impressive and still holds up you dont have to have an over abundance of cgi in a movie for it to be better too much of this looks fake i cant say enough of how disappointingly bad the morlocks looked and they ran and jumped around like they were in a childs video game stars out of

interferencia starts as unemployed martin sanders andres bagg hears something strange on his phone he hears a mysterious man talking to a prostitute named diana & arranging to meet her soon after martin reads a local paper & sees the front page story about a prostitute being murdered & thinks back to what he heard martin confides in his friends laura virginia lustig & aaron oliver kolker but they dont believe him then shortly after the same thing happens again the phone call the man the prostitute & her death reported in the papers martin decides he has to find the killer & put a stop to his killing spree but who is it this argentinian production that was apparently shot in just eight days why so long on a budget of about $ why so much was written & directed by sergio esquenazi & i cannot believe some of the glowing comments interferencia has on the imdb out of user ratings as i write this of them rate this pile of crap out of i am sorry but there is no way anyone should be giving a film this bad a quite literally perfect score of out of if a score for a film on imdb is fixed then this is it i honestly dont believe that if you showed interferencia to average people that well over of them would rate it as being absolutely perfect no way on earth the user comments are also amazingly positive all by imdb users who have only wrote comments for one film this the one user besides me who has actually written more than one comment gave it a rock bottom out of which sounds just about right everyone is entitled to an opinion but i would stake my life on the fact most of those positive comments are from fake accounts set up purely to big this piece of crap up where do i start how on earth can i adequately describe how bad interferencia is the plot is a mess that basically lives or dies by its terrible twists while most twists turn a plot on its head & alters the perspective of everything that has gone before in a clever & relevant way & are genuine surprises here in interferencia the twists destroy the first half of the film & makes it utterly pointless in a it didnt actually happen sort of way & the twist is so poorly handled that it leaves you asking more questions than it answers what made martin go mad why did he imagine the phone calls why did he imagine a killer why did he imagine the newspaper headlines no explanation is given for martins behaviour during the first hour or so of the film theres just this absurd revelation that it was all in his mind & thats it thats all the exposition there is then theres a plot twist about martins missing wife & her lover before martin for reasons unexplained starts to kill his friends for no apparent reason i am sorry but interferencia is so bad its so boring its so badly written & thought out that i honestly cant think of a positive thing to say about it sorry guys but thats how i feel quite simply interferencia is one of the worst films i have ever seen & is a complete mess both conceptually & technically according to the imdb interferencia was hot in just eight days to be honest it doesnt feel like that at all nope it feels more like it was shot in five days the whole film is an eyesore interferencia has probably the worst nighttime shooting i have ever seen its like no attempt was made to light the scenes its like the makers just went into a dark room or basement or whatever & just shoot the scene regardless of whether you could see anything the scenes set outside in the daytime have this horrible unnatural blue green tint to them for no apparent reason which just looks daft & becomes increasingly irritating this strange tint is not repeated on indoor scenes so they are also quite jarring & noticeable theres no real horror or scares in fact i would say interferencia is more of a thriller than a horror as far as gore goes there are two decapitated heads in a fridge a knife is stuck in someones mouth & nothing else according to the imdb this had a budget of about $ which makes interferencia one of the lowest budgeted films ever commercially released surely some people think just because a film is low budget all reasonable viewing standards should go out of the window & we should accept any old crap wrong to watch this on dvd you will still have to pay good money & i personally think we have the right to expect some sort of good product if this can get released & praised like its oscar worthy then we can all release our holiday camcorder footage including embarrassing karaoke footage & scenes of total blackness as we forgot to take off the lens cap & win top prizes at the next cannes film festival the acting is awful although the female lead virginia lustig is actually rather sexy & helps ease the pain of the final twenty odd minutes as she features a fair bit interferencia is an absolutely terrible film seriously i beg you dont be fooled by all the fake positive comments there is no way anyone not involved in this or have some sort of agenda is going to give it a or out of an amateurish mess that is truly horrible to sit through sorry but thats the way i see it sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind you have been warned

and generally speaking you will eventually have to research this little gem when describing i changed my sex or glen or glenda as it is better known i must echo the thoughts of andrew smith who so hit the nail on the head when he wrote if you havent seen any of ed woods other movies this one is a completely bewildering experience if you have seen any of ed woods movies this is still completely bewildering the film is both hilarious and tragic yet it moves with a strange rhythm of its own that leaves one in no doubt that its author knows and means every word he is saying during its running length wood bless him had some of the loftiest ambitions as a director wanting to promote peace understanding and even acceptance in the s of all times when tim burton recreated a viewing of glen or glenda by studio execs for his biopic he showed the execs laughing and telling each other that this had to be a put on more than fifty years later there are still people fighting just to be given the kind of respect that the normal take for granted so i say it most certainly is not no the real comedy in glen or glenda is the sheer ineptitude wood displays in composing his message directors frequently use stock footage when they can find some that suits their purposes and can be edited to fit with their own footage ed wood used stock footage indiscriminately and tim burtons biopic celebrated the fact with a scene in which wood as played by johnny depp bets that he could make an entire film out of stock footage sadly the real ed wood died before he had a chance but glen or glenda is the closest he ever came the imdb states that twenty percent of this sixty something minute film is stock footage and it is never difficult to guess which footage footage of busy highways planes flying overhead poor lightning effects soldiers doing their thing theyre all used in a haphazard manner sometimes repeatedly and they often only have a loose connection to the story wood is trying to tell had wood been able to sit back and think about what he is trying to do for a while there is no telling what kind of heights he could have achieved wood himself appears in the film as the titular character a confused transvestite who imagines himself as a woman named glenda aside from the daring manner in which he attempts to make his point wood makes one hideous woman having found myself out on the fringe of a society that thinks i am disabled and need to be cured myself i honestly found myself hoping for the best outcome for woods character in order to make his point however wood weaves in short stories of two other transvestites one of them takes the extreme step of enduring a sex change in order to become a woman the other finds himself so disenfranchised that he fears being arrested again so much he commits suicide the scary thing about this film is that if you edited out the transvestism and substituted such disenfranchisements as my position on the autistic spectrum or such things as schizophrenia very little of the film would even need to be changed that is how little society has learned since ed wood was a boy the other significant personality in glen or glenda is bela lugosi whom wood shoehorned into the film speculation varies upon woods motives but the accepted theory is that wood wanted to help revive lugosis career and would do anything in order to achieve this with the exception of taking his time to carefully construct a good film that is in glen or glenda wood makes usage of lugosi that was best described in flying saucers over hollywood as bizarre lugosi plays a character billed as the scientist but comes off more as an omnipotent puppet master people who have not seen ed wood films before the biopic will think tim burton made up the beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep speech if anything burton was being restrained about which bizarre speech to use in depicting wood ian dialogue nothing can prepare you for seeing the speeches in their original context not even criswells hilarious ranting during plan from outer space observant types will also note the presence of delores fuller woods girlfriend at the time again burton dramatises her reaction to seeing the script for the first time whereas the film portrays her as being accepting and forward thinking i cannot help but feel that burtons portrayal is more accurate as fuller looks extremely uncomfortable in her role she only appears for about fifteen minutes but her delivery seems so mechanical so lifeless that she somehow manages to seem less talented than her cast mates if such a thing is possible whether woods direction was better focused in this case than usual is hard to determine but if the ability of the support cast to leave the stars with the obvious exception of bela in the dust is any guide then it should come as no surprise that fuller would only appear in a very small role within one other wood film that she went on to write a number of hit songs tells you she made the right decision to stay behind the camera while wood would appear before the camera again it was never as more than a cameo a walk on or a bit part i gave glen or glenda a one out of ten i generally only give this rating to films that are so bad they become entertaining as a result bold and well intentioned as it was glen or glenda fits that description to a t

in the ring it was a videotape a website was the problem in feardotcom the danger in pulse came from computers and phone and one missed call featured—you guessed it—deadly phones in stay alive the piece of technology that causes all manner of problems is an online game those who play it wind up dead soon afterwards how clever directed by william brent bell who and featuring an unimpressive cast of twenty somethings that you might have seen before but probably cant remember where or what the hell their names are this is an extremely derivative piece of film making aimed squarely at the pg horror set seasoned scary film watchers will no doubt find stay alive extremely tedious highly predictable and not in the least bit frightening the poorly developed plot follows a group of gamers with extremely daft names october loomis phineus hutch and swink who attempt to unravel the mystery behind the deadly game before they too become victims eventually they discover that it is the evil spirit of the legendary countess elizabeth bathory who is killing anyone who dares to play and that their only hope of survival is to continue with the game to the end with a story as dumb as this viewers should expect a film with loose ends aplenty not one iota of logic who made the game how and why is never explained very little in the way of scares or gore and a dumb closing scene to leave the door open for—god forbid—a sequel

i was wondering if there was a place or a link that someone can send me or post for me so i can watch this show it seems to be a missing show i have been looking for years now its about oz and a girl who has to help save it it was really good but i found a good oz type thing on the web but i cant find it again or seem to remember a lot of it due to being years and was thinking that this one maybe it and from reading all this it sounds good and maybe the missing show that i really liked please someone help me thanks so much so please anyone that can help me or give me a link that would be so helpful again thank you so muchor if anyone has an oz based good videos please post as well

first of all ed wood jr is not the worst director ever plan from outer space not withstanding coleman francis deserves that title i present exhibit b glen or glenda the first half of the movie consists of a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of crossdressing especially since it was made in the last minutes of movie are also not bad as well this is not to say the movie doesnt have problems bela lugosi was totally extraneous intoning odd lines poor bela looked like even he wasnt sure what was happening at times the acting was decidely wooden though no worse than a period universal b movie the long dream sequence that makes up the middle of the film was totally bizarre more like a vaguely menacing stag film than a dream sequence the alan ann story the supposed original focus of the film has a tacked on quality about it no ed wood jr is not the worst director ever he was able at least for part of this movie to make an earnest social statement when coleman francis tried to do that in night train to mundo fine aka red zone cuba it just ended in chaos glen or glenda is at least watchable without robot help

youve seen the same tired worn out clichéd sit com stories characters stories s of times before…only this excels at sucking more than others first and foremost there isnt a single character in this show thats even remotely likablein particular michael rapaports dave gold is by far one of the biggest asses ever to grace a television screen everrepugnant comes to mind if in real life a father was this unlikable cruel and just generally unfit to parentfratricide would be your only option to call the remaining characters stereotypes would be too complementary if these characters ended up on life support the line to pull the plug would be light years long how this show finished one complete season much less is a mystery fox cancels arrested development and keeps this on the air you tell me the terrorists arent winning

mmmm a previous summary says if you like aliens and predator you will enjoy this film i could not disagree more this film pays no respect to its weighty lineage and has reduced two of the best loved sci fi strands to little more than a teen horror slasher movie it has none of the tension or foreboding present in previous alien or predator movies and there is no discernible lead character i really did not care about any of the characters and i positively yearned to see the stereotypical cast die as soon as possible in the vain hope something better would replace them it really takes super human incompetence to have two of the most fearsome creatures ever invented positively fail to make a gripping thrilling movie only watch this if you want to see how not to do it

i like errol flynn i like biographies and i like action movies this featured all three of thesebut i didnt like this film it just went on too long although the last minutes was excellent especially in the photography with some great low angle shots however i seemed like it took six hour to get to that point and i really cant say why i feel this way the action is interesting errol flynn and olivia de havilland are fine in fact it was refreshing to see de havilland actually be supportive of flynn instead of her normal role as antagonist to him yet something is lacking in this movie the film has been roundly criticized for its historical inaccuracy but i dont hear that same criticism for a lot of other films which have done the same in fact its rare when a film is historically accurate for some reason this revisionist history offended most critics if the film had made general custer a lot worse than he really was they would have probably liked it well too bad in their twisted way critics prefer villains to heroes i really wish i could have enjoyed this more but ill take a lot of other flynn adventures over this one

black dragons is a second feature wwii propaganda film popular at the time its not as bad as some would have you believe a secret meeting hosted by the respected dr william saunders george pembrokeis interrupted by a mysterious stranger names monsieur colomb bela lugosi shortly thereafter the participants at the meeting begin to turn up murdered their bodies being placed on the steps of the japanese embassy in washington colomb is suspected federal agent dick martin clayton moore is assigned to the case and meets saunders niece alice saunders joan barclay who tries to assist him the reasons behind colombs actions are not explained until the final reel until all is explained at the end the story is hard to comprehend lugosi who had by this time been reduced to appearing in a string of low budget quickies is actually quite good in this one he is not allowed to over act as much as he ususlly did and credit for this has to go to director william nigh lugosis character slinks through the shadows and is reminiscent of his dracula even to the point of the full close ups of his piercing eyes clayton moore a one dimensional actor at best would become tvs lone ranger in a few years joan barclay makes a good heroine although a little dated now black dragons is not a bad way to spend an hour

i have to say this is better than most syfy outings but that isnt saying much the plot is that someone buys a game that is made from the bones and skin of a dead witch from the spanish inquisition and nobody ever expects the spanish inquisition he and his friends play the game only to be interrupted halfway through when the friend who went on the beer run is killed in a way that the game predicted what then follows are a series of kills that are typical for a movie like this or any of the final destination movies it has the puzzle at the end and the interesting subplot with the cop who wants the game to bring back his family but otherwise its just a mess

i had to watch this movie with my year old he didnt laugh once during the entire movieand he loves dogs and will laugh at nearly anything this movie was horrible from all aspects poor script even accounting for a childrens g rated movie poor production the jittery camera shots made me feel nauseous for the first ten minutes poor acting perhaps they were directed to act cartoonish and even poor sound quality there are parts where the audio level seems fine then you cant hear what the next actor is saying im willing to put up with quite a lot when it comes to watching a childs movie but this was worse than having a stick in my eye i also didnt like being battered over the head with the god heaven belief thing in all it was the biggest waste of minutes in my lifeand ive done some serious time wasting in my day

heres a spoof thats guaranteed to entertain folks in the iq range of homer simpson its a cheap shot at every great superhero notably spiderman and batman but it doesnt end there it gets progressively worse until it disintegrates into a pathetic ensemble of slapstick trollop by the truckload for those interested in the plot youve only to watch spiderman while under the influence of some heavy narcotic what you get is dragonfly man – a boy wonder who loves the girl next door suddenly inheriting some stupendous super powers the rest of the script is as predictable as waking up in the morning and brushing your teeth but dont take my word for it for kids this is somewhat amusing for adults its a great film to drop the kids off for

forget what i said about emeril rachael ray is the most irritating personality on the food network and all of television if youve never seen minute meals then you cannot possibly begin to comprehend how unfathomably annoying she is i really truly meant that you cant even begin to be boggled by her until youve viewed the show once or twice and even then all words and intelligent thoughts will fail you the problem is mostly with her mannerisms as you might have guessed ray has a goofy mouth and often imitates the parrot if you love something or think its awesome a word she uses roughly times per telecast just say it and shes constantly using horrible unfunny catchphrases like evoo extra virgin olive oil shut up whats worse is ray has two other shows on the network i think this is some elaborate conspiracy by the terrorists to drive us mad give me more tyler florence ray is lame

this film is about the complicated friendship romance and deceit between two men and two women during the world war ii a lot of effort has been put to make the edge of lovelook the right period however i find this effort too excessive particularly in terms of the tone of the colours most of the first half of the film is processed so much to have a strong bluish tone its hard to make out whos who in this tone another detrimental point is the fancy use of image splitting lens there are many scenes that have three or four images of the same thing such as three keira knightley smiling face or four pairs of arms in embrace that simply makes the film confusing and hard to follow instead of being artistic as for the plot it is plain boring the way the story unfolds is not engaging at all sienna millers unstable character is annoying in fact all the main characters are annoying and unlikeable keira knightleys accent is impossible to understand making it a further impediment to understanding the plot i strongly advise avoiding the edge of love unless you watch a film only to appreciate great costumes nice sets and lighting

being a science fiction fan from my early childhood long time since i always hated implausible plots its a pity that most authors of science fiction stories for children do not show this kind of respect for their audience i always suspected them of thinking children are to dumb to realise so we dont have to strive the writer of science fiction is no exception the story is about a boy who is instigated by his new friends to spy after his parents because they think that the parents are aliens as intriguing the idea sounded to me as much was i bored by its realisation it seemed to me that the filmmakers had exactly this one idea and tried to stretch it over the ninety minutes by dunking it into a dark stylish and painstakingly slow atmosphere the only thing that kept me in my seat was the question how do they manage to get out of this implausible rubbish and then bang they did not even try so if you are looking for good entertainment for both children and parents go and watch klatretøsen instead

this has got to be the most god awful piece of cinematic crap i have ever watched it makes mel brooks movies oscar worthy by comparison jim vanbebber needs to be publicly slapped for trying to pass this off as any form of entertainment while some may say that this movie is true to the low budget genre of such classics as the texas chainsaw massacre or night of the living dead the production value is not in question it is vanbebbers ability to cast and present a plausible story line the casting is deplorable for the role of charlie he must have picked the first actor he saw with a beard and long hair never mind that this actors hair came halfway down his back mansons never went much past his shoulders this actor spoke in a dreadful monotone without so much as a fraction of the personality that steve railsback or even jeremy davies lent to their portrayals of manson the actor chosen to play tex watson had curly blond hair instead of straight dark hair a fact that anyone who has shown even the most remote interest in the manson case knows he looks like a minnesota farmer on little house on the prairie the actress playing susan atkins has a butt wider than oprahs while those familiar with the family members know that clem was considered somewhat retarded the actor portraying him did so in such a campy chaplinesque way it was like watching an old vaudevile act instead of sharon tate looking like a beautiful pregnant woman the actress looked like bloated alcoholic trailer trash vanbebber speeds up the filming in some places for artistic effect yet this technique hasnt proved remotely useful since the munsters the end credits list every known family member yet we are never introduced to the majority of them and those we are introduced to we arent sure who they are sometimes facts are destroyed in this movie as well lotsapoppa did not die in real life steven parent was shot four times not twice abagail folger did not have her throat slit where were mary brunner and bruce davis during the himnan murder patricia krenwinkel never sported a dorothy hamill hair style the most baffling aspect of this movie is what the modern day freaks had to do with this movie why was the girl wearing a rubber mask with a dildo attached what was their problem with the journalist what was the meaning or purpose of the final confrontation why were they included period the viewer never knows holy mackerel i could go on and on but space prevents it dont try to eat popcorn during this garbage because your hand will be too busy scratching your head while you repeatedly say what the f

its one of the imponderables of low budget independent film making that so many with so little in the way of real talent fancy themselves frightmeisters the paucity of talent evinced by these wonky wannabees is there for all the world to see case in point flight of the living dead or as i quickly came to know it shite of the living dead theres nothing wrong with paying homage to ones heroes ive done it many times over the years myself in many different ways in fact in the xlibris book the night riders co written with m kelley i dedicate it in part to the six writers whose work inspires me still richard matheson harlan ellison shirley jackson edgar allen poe hp lovecraft and robert e howard had it been a motion picture i wouldve dedicated it to the directors whose films have inspired me over the years very high up on that list wouldve been george romero its nothing less than a crying shame that the makers of this film werent truly as inspired by romero as their title suggests

talk about over acting not just by govinda but also by salman and larathe direction was awful the first half hour you would pretty much want to switch the movie offbecause this movie is a real stinker mark my words i liked govinda in some o his comedy roles like haseena maan jaayegi jodi no akhiyon se goli maare and jis desh mein ganga rehta hai and this does not compare to any of them and salman khan should not do comedy roles at all he sucks he does not know how to do comedy the only good comedy role he did was in andaz apna apna which was brilliant next to amir khan there were so many overly done stupidly unfunny scenes in this movie that make you want to take out the dvd and burn it so no one else in your house watches it ever again

it was full of plot holes inaccuracies doesnt the time clock stop for injured players or loss of helmets in texas football games and not so much redemption so your dad beats the crap out of you well do something right for once and then he will love you and make it all worthwhile either make the movie about a team and its quest for a championship or make a movie about a player within a team and his personal struggle but instead this movie tried to do it all and came up more than a couple yards short the book probably showed the whole story much better the movie should have picked one element of the story and stuck with that instead the movie jumped from one character dialogue to flashes of game play and then another character dialogue months later without actually telling you who people were or why they were important the qb calling his sibling to take care of the mother whatever happened with that because the mother was coherent by the end of the final game does that mean shes not crazy anymore its one redeeming quality was the soundtrack buy that and then watch sportscenter highlights while iggy pop plays in the background

the first time i had heard of guest house paridiso was in the er washroom after having just seen fight club in each urinal was deposited a small round black circle when the circle came into contact with moisture to put it delicately it caused a colour picture to form with photographs of the two stars and the tag line youll p*** yourself laughing when youd finished washing your hands the circle had dried and faded to black again waiting to spring its surprise on the next victim okay maybe the punchline wasnt terribly sophisticated but you have to admit it was innovative in fact i think i can honestly say ive never seen anything like it in my life before and these days of over a century of cinema and marketing thats a real feat what a pity the film that went with it failed to live up to the promise i hate to pan guest house paridiso and i am indebted to rik mayall richard twat and adrian edmondson eddie elizabeth ndingombaba for many years of laughter through their appealing television series be it the invention of the young ones the sitting room plays of bottom or even solo work such as rik in the new statesman in fact this would have made an hilarious minute tv special unfortunately its an minute film theres definitely some merit to be had and i laughed continuously throughout the protracted finale which spoofed the exorcist and raiders of the lost ark and involved well youll have to see that bit for yourself yet often the pace is leaden and a sterile atmosphere is throughout the two stars edmondson taking his usual backseat this time due to the fact that he adequately directs never really get into first gear mayall only sporadically showing the foul mouthed mania that makes us love him on the small screen indeed the writers presumption that we are already familiar with the characters leads to them being underdelivered to the audience the slight hints of depth seen in the series richies effeminate failed social climbing for example are not present here and instead we are left with parodies of parodies the fawlty towers accusation does pass water complete with drunken chef and unseen called for waiter pasquele which uncannily rhymes with manuel some of the ideas such a hotel next to a nuclear reactor with a childrens swing hanging over a cliff face are very very funny but ultimately the frenetic pace is stolen the two constantly looking for a studio audience that isnt there and all the dead laugh areas patched up with incidental comedy music that would have been dated in a carry on film two decades ago paridisos brand of puerile sadistic perverse humour is funny and i feel sure it will make you laugh just not as often as it should

i finally managed to sit through a whole episode of this show i was very very tired clearly previously i would always have to turn it off because i thought it was that bad watching a full episode convinces me that it really is that bad i couldnt even tell you what happened but i distinctively remember not laughing for people who think this is the new all in the family or married with childrenhave you ever actually watched those shows they are well written and well acted and most importantly funny this show is not funny you might think so if this is the first sitcom you have ever watched i cannot see who else would i echo all previous sentiments about arrested development etc its probably my own fault for getting frustrated with television and not watching it thereby allowing the stupid people to dictate what actually stays on the air

jack higgins straightforward thriller about a guilt ridden ira bomber forced into one last job where have i heard that plot before gets a snarky treatment from cult director mike hodges mickey rourke with alarming red hair confesses all to the priest bob hoskins of all people who accidentally witnessed the shooting the rules of the church keep father bob from talking but then rourke goes and falls in love with the priests blind niece they bond at the church organ what really thats the plot alan bates is around as the top dog mobster whos calling the shots literally and he seems to be the only actor whos on to the jokey tone hodges is aiming at bates is all set to do a sort of uk prizzis honor but no one else including an effortlessly charismatic liam neeson in a supporting role has been informed

i went to see this nights ago here in cork ireland it was the world premiere of it in the tiny cinema in the triskel arts centre as part of the cork film festival i found strange fruit to be an excellent movie it is a bit rough around the edges but for a low budget movie that is to be expected in general the acting particularly from the main lead kent faulcon is wonderful the cinematography and direction excellent and the script hugely entertaining and thought provoking with some nice set ups and witty dialogue the ending was a bit sudden with no conclusion given to characters and events once the finale came to its gripping end but perhaps thats what the filmmakers were going for it certainly did make the movie more unsettling i did like the fact that the main character never came to terms with his mother on screen it leaves you wondering whether or not he ever will as in real life sometimes these things are never settled this was a good choice to leave it unresolved rather than sentimentally wrapping it up taut and suspenseful throughout strange fruit is a hugely ambitious debut and i have high hopes for what the writer director kyle schickner will unleash next he and his colleagues are a talent worth watching i hope strange fruit gets a wider release soon as more people deserve to see this movie an above average thriller with some original and insightful twists on homophobia and racism in americas deep south highly recommended

i have to start out by saying that the actresses and actor did a fine job for what they worked with the problem in dark reality is you had a poor director who tried so hard to be innovative and evocative he ended up trashing up the film from start to finish you can tell the film reel quality itself is low but the poor lightning and shaky camera only hurt it further by obscuring what is going on the sound is muffled and often times not understandable im sure huston the director would argue this was to induce a state of panic in the audience but he had more than ample material in which to do it having to result to camera and lighting the way he did was a sign of over the top syndrome the story is good a basic sadistic female kidnapper story that avoids cliché by keeping the girls in a state of despair the whole time for good reason billy bob from silence of the lambs treated his victims better than netwon the biggest problem with the story is that dead people constantly harass the lead character in her mind and by the second time they showed up i was fast forwarding as this was attempting to destroy the only decent part of the film in the end the way the director pieced it together showing random blurry things and constant barely viewable scenes not because of horror because of the lighting angles and camera ultimately destroyed this film huston was obviously trying too hard and if anything it resembled a bad film school project if you want to see a decent story then its all right but be warned the film quality is enough for most to turn it off

generally speaking im a an admirer of jess francos film making but for some of this movies i really have difficulties understanding the motivation behind them or even their reason of existence like this sick puppy for example sadomania has absolutely no cinematic value its poorly made without any sort of plot and featuring some of the most ill natured sleaze footage ever captured on film this is another filthy women in prison film where rape lesbian action and violent torture games are daily routine the guards are crazier than the prisoners and the institution is protected by an impotent governor who only gets sexually aroused when he spots a girl having sex with a dog the girls are all very beautiful and naked throughout the entire film yet you cant really enjoy this sight with all the perversion going on the dubious highlights include a barbaric hunting game you can guess what he prey is a duel to death between a guard and a prisoner and the image of a poor girl having a needle injected all the way through her nipple auch avoid this sick mess and youll save yourself the trouble of taking two baths in order to wash the filth off

i watched gomeda on movie theater at my city my friend took away me and i was really curious what would be it looked like well i must say this movie was not a horrormay be we can say that is fantsastic experimentationok here i go anyway but there was a lot of shootingactingdramatictheatrical and storytelling problemsi can understand because of director is very young and gomeda is his first feature filmok directing of this film was not pretty badi seeunfortunately due to the restraints placed on the film by its extremely low budget the visuals are often as murky as the storylineand there is no powerful gothic scenesas a horror movie it really fails no scares at all and it is quite muddled and boring some people say gomeda is an art movie but i could not see a laughableterrible and breoken off art movie like thatso how can we say it is an art moviejust funny

there is only one word to define the whole movie that is awful how mostly martha was remade is awful the title of the movie is awful the actors are awful and the idea of combining good cooking and usa is awful if you have seen bella martha well that is the original title and it means beautiful martha this one is a punch in the stomach the acting of msjones is so poor and unnatural that even jessica alba considered one of the worst actresses http wwwrazziescom history nomactrasp would have done better not to mention the cook who would better play a different role and the little girl not worth mentioning bella martha was a very nice movie an authentic one why was it remade there was a story here they took it out there is no story what shall it represent in one way also this movie was perfect you know when all ingredients fit together well this is the case here a perfect crap

this movie is a great movie only if you need something to sit and laugh at the stupidity of it as a geologist this movie gets most of the important facts wrong and uses actors that are too young to even be considered in the top of their fields it is interesting how it shows spurting lava in massive caverns below the earths surface it also is funny how seismically active areas are shown to have massive destruction from a magnitude earthquake they seem to forget the building standards in these areas would be higher needing a bigger quake to do this much damage also it is funny how much they make the coast line of washington state and also oregon to look as though they are nice beaches of southern california the jelly donut analogy is very entertaining even if the way it is used is wrong the director does a good job of adding more comic relief with the supossed phds

tamara just felt like another teen oriented knock off of the i know what you did last summer trend and is painfully dull a high school outcast who is heavily into witchcraft and black magic is accidentally killed during a cruel prank carried out by a group of bullies who secretly bury her in the woods vowing to tell no one the next day the supposedly dead tamara arrives at school with a completely new image and seduces her would be killers and has a little revenge this is basically a combination of carrie the craft and every other straight to video teeny bopper turkey that hits the shelves these days the actors are absolutely atrocious and look about ten years too old to pass off as high schoolers there is some gore which is actually nothing all that interesting since the movie is so boring and i couldnt wait for it to end if you like modern garbage than i insist you seek this one out otherwise dont bother

this slightly ponderous late s sci fi horror schlock isnt entirely a loser its about a manned space rocket that crash lands in a remote area a bunch of scientists go to investigate and discover that the astronaut is in some kind of coma hes being kept alive by alien embryos that have been mysteriously implanted in him anyway the title alien monster soon raises its head causing general havoc including partial head removal the main problem with the film is its pacing it takes quite a while for the blood beast to appear and he really only comes into his own in the last minutes or so he is undoubtedly a completely ridiculous creation but thats really not a problem as he provides a fair amount of comic relief at the end of the movie where we have the final stand off and this ludicrous creature starts talking with the voice of the doctor he killed earlier you will be doing well not to have a giggle so too in the brilliant x ray scene where we see the alien embryos floating about in the astronauts body its just too funny for words but unfortunately the fun moments in night of the blood beast come too few and far between if youre a s sci fi nut though then its well worth checking this one out just dont expect too much

well i got and saw this movie based on the rather high score here now and some of the good reviews usually imdb is a good guide when it comes to score though in this case i was very much deceived the movie is a present day detective story with vinnie jones as the investigator journalist who investigates the death of a construction worker mixed with this is a made up dickens novel called the riddle set in the th or th century which also deals with a murder story both story lines are connected through the discovery of an unpublished manuscript sounds interesting it could have been however this movie horribly fails in a number of areas acting mediocre at best but it is watchable no worse than your average uk sitcom though for a movie one expects a little better especially with a score of over music the music used is simply horrible it distracts and it is annoying especially the pub music and the music which plays in the journalists apartment storyline this is a big joke there are gaping plot holes everywhere and even the obligatory love story is so unrealistic that its almost funny furthermore without going into any detail i can safely say that the ending is absurd and one of the worst pieces of acting and storyline of the year camera work at times camera positions and views are distracting and serve absolutely no purpose to the story im a bit of a movie fanatic and watch on average to movies a day but this is easily the worst movie ive seen in months dont waste your money or your time on this rubbish

if you think its beautiful to be obsessive about who you are in love with then i can imagine giving it a good rating but i cannot imagine that this theme of obsessiveness and having little respect for others such as the way paulie treats the teachers who try to help her is anything you would want to teach your children yes its also bad the way victoria treated paulie but guess what thats life isnt it a more important lesson to learn how to get past these disappointments and make the best of your life or is falling off the roof a better lesson to teach our children secondly when marys father didnt show up for the dinner and paulie helped mary release her anger that mary even said she wished he were dead somehow i dont think this is a good message either that you deal with your disappointments through anger

i rented this movie today worst movie ever it was a total waste of time and a horrible story the acting was horrible especially by the actress of sai she was so bad it was ridiculous i cant tell if it was her bad acting or because the character was just that stupid in the first place i cant even get my mind wrapped around just how awful and pointless this whole movie was im surprised someone even thought it was a good idea to film this movie and bother to release it if youre looking for a good vampire horror flick this is not the movie for you move right along its a waste of time and money heck i wouldnt even download this movie if someone paid me this movie is so bad it doesnt even deserve a i wish i could give it a

looking back on the year one of the things i will remember most is the snakeamania on the internet for a film called snakes on a planebut unknown to me there was a straight to dvd rip off film called snakes on a trainafter seeing this i feel its at best a below par b movie the plot a husband and wife get on a train to go to los anglesto get help form the husbands uncle who is a shamanthis is because the wifes family do not approve of her marring himso they have put a curse on her that snakes will become herthought with a sixteen hour drive to los angles and a group of passengers the include an ex narc cop and some drug traffickerswill they get there in time before the snakes take her over view on the film first the effectsi have to say that while some scenes with the smaller snakes look good in a gory waythe main effect shots you have to wait eighty minutes to seeare sadly that bad that they completely kill any good memories of the filmthe film makes os video games look like t next to thisone of the things i noticed is that there is no screenplay credit on the film and the directors make the film so anti climatic it ruins the whole film final view on the film a below par b moviewith an unbelievably bad ending

ive never saw the first three but i know theyre all better than thistrash its about some kid who throws a party wow sounds amazingsarcasm is it nooo it starts off with a kid laying in bed and hes getting woke up by his mom so the kid pretends to be sick so he doesnt have to go to school he goes to his uncles house and rounds up some people and throws a party i didnt laugh at all while watching this trash i cant imagine someone sitting down and writing down this dialogue thinking man dis @#$ is gunna be big yo makes me wonder if they even had a script for this movie i watched this knowing it would be bad but usually watching a bad movie makes me feel good because it gives me something to make fun of this just disgusted me two thumbs down

against my own better judgment i went to see this film today and god i wish i hadnt awful the first avp film looks like a classic compared to this its that bad these guys actually make paul ws anderson look like a master storyteller in fact this is what id expect an alien and or predator film to look like if it was made by uwe boll this movie actually offended me and lord only knows what would transpire if ridley scott or hr giger were ever forced to watch this piece of crap i cant understand how any fan of either franchise could like this film truly i dont know where to begin i mean the first avp was poop but it at least a semi interesting story and setting and occasionally some genuine tension it didnt take itself overly seriously and it could at least be semi enjoyed on a purely leave your brain at home basis but this one it felt to me as though the people behind it thought they were making the next horror masterpiece one after the other was a contrived suspenseful scene in a dark room or corridor with creepy music playing essentially bashing you over the head saying be scared now as james cameron once said you cant be told to be scared you can only have your own senses heightened the guys that made this film obviously werent paying attention because they tried everything in the book to force you to be scared rather than letting you come to that level yourself its a cliché for internet nerds to say god i was so bored from this movie and felt like leaving well this is exactly how i felt even in the middle of the action scenes they took this film totally seriously which removed any possibility of enjoyment even the gag about how governments dont lie to their people was played without a hint of irony as for the characters i knew going in that the human characters were going to be completely pointless to this film but seriously if theyre going to be on screen at least have them doing something that is relevant to the story i dont care about this guy being beaten up by his dreamgirls boyfriend i dont care about the mother whos own daughter doesnt even know her boo hoo a pair of night vision goggles for a present give me a break or the released criminal just trying to make a decent living and set an example for his brother what a guy hell even the obligatory hot chick in panties moment was more contrived than usual i get the feeling they expected the audience to be so shocked at the ending as well as seeing chestbursters come out of kids expectant mothers being raped and the like that that would make up for everything i dont think so then we move onto the stars of the film and again very little to write home about were the aliens well designed i wouldnt have a clue because you can never see the damn things all you see is one of a mouth a head a tail or a really dodgy cg outline climbing a wall and barely enough to actually process that it is in fact an alien before mr i cut marilyn manson and nin music videos think ill do the same thing here editor goes at it with the slice tool also notice how hack action directors always set their films at night and in the rain hmmmm the predator couldve been fighting giant sea monkeys for all we knew yes the predator was more impressive this time around and i did think some of the new weaponry was cool but that was about it also since when does a predator sound like a dinosaur from the lost world there were a couple of things that i kinda liked though one was the use of sound effects and music from the original films i also giggled a little bit at get to the chopper although other references were stupid the main characters name being dallas give me a break i also liked the visual fx for the predators vision as well as how the hybrid alien looked certainly beat the one from resurrection but really those are the only positive things overall i found this movie inane pointless insulting and above all else offensive to the vision of the original creators of both creatures that theyve left the door open for another one leaves me almost depressed if they had any decency theyd remove dan obannon ron schusett and hr giger from the credits of this film theyve done nothing to deserve this

its like someone took a fantasy type video game and put it in a blender and the resulting scene mishmash is what we have to sit through now let me go on record by saying how much i love chinese fantasy films from the fun and silly to those focusing on martial arts to the more dramatic and romantic types—its a genre i very much enjoy films like a chinese odyssey pandoras box and a chinese odyssey cinderella both of which were written and or directed by jeffrey lau the bride with white hair butterfly & sword green snake a chinese ghost story swordman ii zu warriors from the magic mountain crouching tiger hidden dragon and others which is why i was looking forward to a chinese tall story one of the films characters is the monkey king aka sun wukong an extremely well known character in chinese mythology first told in the stories of the journey to the west the epic adventure written about years ago the story of the monkey king and his disciples is also the focus of the chinese odyssey films amongst many others other familiar characters that appear in the film are zhu wuneng the pig character and sha wujing so how does it all go wrong well lets take an example familiar to western audiences how about the robin hood mythology a well known story from ye olden days lets say that our robin hood film starred wesley snipes as robin hood and haley joel osment as friar tuck maid marian is none other than rosie perez lets give sir robin an uzi as well because you never know when you might have to waste the sheriff of nottingham they might need rocket packs also and while were at it give them a tactical nuclear weapon because that sure could come in handy if you think this sounds like a really neat retelling of the robin hood tale then a chinese tall story is the movie for you as i indicated above this movie is a jumbled mess in the first minutes we are introduced not only to sun wukong zhu wuneng and sha wujing but also to the monk tripitaka who is actually the main protagonist kidnapped children a millennium bug demon which shoots laser beams an underground tree god a lizard imp tribe an angelic girl in an intergalactic egg the lord chancellor tortoise a sea dragon king a ever morphing magic golden staff a chatterbox imp girl wormholes in space and the four heavenly knights all this wouldnt be too bad the tales and myths passed down over the years certainly do have all sorts of fantastical elements but i guarantee you the chinese mythology does not include much of the stuff we get subjected to in the last half of the film helpful advice to the filmmakers just because your computer effects guys can come up with cool looking spaceships and depictions of intergalactic war does not mean they should you know your chinese mythology movie is on the wrong track when the director asks and i am not making this up—its a direct quote from the commentary i asked the composer whether or not we can have a more rock and roll type music when she transforms into some kind of android like thing is there a story hidden in here somewhere yes yes there is most of the adventure follows tripitaka played by nicholas tse—gen x cops time and tide my schoolmate the barbarian and meiyan the lizard imp girl played by charlene choi and a computer choi is the best thing going in this film you may know her as half of the canto pop group twins and from other films such as the twins effect a fun flick and just one look a surprisingly good drama romance comedy poor choi being a lizard imp and all is hardly recognizable with her warts snagged out teeth doughy nose and hunched back that is until the computers get a hold of and beautify her which somehow makes it worse tse is passable but all of the supporting actors were abysmal a couple of recognizable faces in bit parts are wasted at one point i was debating with myself if a chinese tall story was a spoof i was almost able to convince myself that it was when the intergalactic egg girl played by a very pretty fan bing bing got out and lit up a marlboro while talking with tripitaka who was practicing martial arts dressed in a spider man costume but it is not a spoof of course there is the typical hong kong silliness but the movie takes itself seriously enough with enough scenes of romance and pathos scored with a sledghammering of violins and evocative cellos and rousing action and adventure you might think that you could watch this on a netflix rental and it wouldnt cost you anything oh but itll cost you all right is there anything good to say sure the colors are vibrant they are the best thing about this movie and the filmmakers certainly were trying very hard too bad all that effort went into a movie that is not much more than a bad video game

as a fan of nearly any period drama and at that a huge jane austen fan i was horrified by this adaption as a fan of the version of mansfield park i was constantly comparing the two and this fell far short it felt hugely rushed and very one dimensional so that it became boring very quickly there seemed to be no subtly to the relationships particularly that of fanny and edmund and little atmosphere despite being set in a beautiful location despite having looked forward to the jane austen season since christmas i turned this off after an hour and went to bed i will be interested to watch the adaptations of persuasion and northanger abbey of which i have no much loved version to see if they still manage to bore me in such a manner

this movie was awful plain and simple the animation scenes had absolutely terrible graphics it was very clear to see that this film had about the budget of my grocery bill the acting was just as bad ive seen better acting in pornographic films i would seriously like the hour and twenty minutes of my life back in fact i registered on imdb just so that other people dont get sucked into watching this like i did dont get me wrong though i love sci fi films this one seemed more like the intro to a video game im glad i only spent a dollar to see this one the story line reminded me of the movie pitch black a prisoner on a ship in outer space escapes oh my goodness what are we gonna do i would not even let this play in the background of my house while i was cleaning bottom line here you can do better

i went through great efforts to get this movie after reading the comments on this site i really dont have time to write reviews but i felt this was my duty as a sci fi horror buff this is only the second review i have written the other was for dracula now to the point this movie sucked plain and simple i kept wondering if i was watching the same movie as those who wrote all those lovely comments i have seen movies with bad effects bad acting bad sound you name it and ive seen it but this really sucked i dont care how much it costs or didnt cost to make movies like this and dracula should be banned and the whole cast and crew arrested and jailed for time murder by the way did i mention that this movie sucked i mean really sucked the plot was non exist and the acting was weak it seems like the writer saw pitch black and got upset because he didnt think of a plot like that first so he decided to make his own ripped off version but instead the suck factor took over and possessed him dont watch this youll have more fun if you pull down your pants and sit on burning coals

wow thank god i was on an airplane and could look out the window bad hollywood fire scenes predictable terribly acted who the hell was that awful woman who played the wife badly casted awfully written this movie was apparently made to appeal to the type of person whos willing to kneel at the alter of either firemen specifically heroes or gods in general i suppose i just dont have enough bad things to say about this film it couldnt have been cheap either with all the stars that were in it plus all those special effects and fire scenes had to have cost a fortune yet it still sucked worse than any movie i can even remember seeing funeral scene astonishingly bad courtship between fireman and aforementioned awful woman corny contrived trite firehouse pranks dont we all wish we could be both so manly and churlish at the same time

my wife and i enjoy bad science fiction movies some movies are so bad they are good mansquito was one of those that one was bad but it had some redeeming qualities it makes you wonder how a self respecting actor approaches lines like hey mansquito this one is so bad it has now taken its place as our standard for bad it isnt just a bad movie it really stinks there was the coed strike force the indian that rode around in a black cloak and used a sword for crying out loud he shot down a helicopter with an arrow we tried to laugh at this movie but there were no points at which it didnt rise above pitiful we couldnt come up with any redeeming features except for one those were the words the end there seemed to be no plot no character development and no point to the movie someone in hollywood needs to be fired

henry don ameche turns up at the entrance to hell and recounts his life story to his excellency laird cregar the story focuses on his relationships with females throughout his life and in particular his relationship with martha gene tierney at the end of the film we cut back to henry and his excellency for a very predictable ending unfortunately there is nothing more to say about the film because nothing happens its a sentimental story of one mans life and its very boring i watched it with my girlfriend and my dad and we all thought it was rubbish despite the lubitsch touch i yawned more than times hugo charles coburn is good whenever he is on screen as the grandfather and there were a few funny moments of dialogue the colour made it a good spectacle but it wasnt enough to save this plodder from going into the reject pile in the same mould as its a wonderful world and you cant take it with you and so not surprisingly it was nominated for an oscar a story about ordinary people none of whom are interesting and with no storyline of any interest boring sentimental and the biggest damp squib of an ending that i can remember

mr brento wonders if this movie was produced by the same who produced the dragonball z tv series of course not this is a hong kong real action movie based on the first episodes of the japanese original cartoon which was also based on a comic book series and i really dont know if it was produced under the license of the dragonball creators however the story of the monkey boy with special powers is an ancient tale known all over asia in japan the name of the boy in the tale is songoku in china it is sunwukong in korea it is sonogong etc and the story in dragonball has much to do with that tale by the way as i said this movie is based on the first episodes of the dragonball series which was followed by dragonball z although i think the us version had a different airing order and all the scenes related to sexuality were also contained in the original cartoon series without so much overacting and so much insistence on it but because of your comments i may suppose they were completely removed in the american dubbing anyway i agree with you about the overacting in the film and about how poor this adaptation of the original cartoon is but maybe because of that nobody can forget it after watching it

i saw this movie a few years ago and man i never want to golf again i mean ninjas apparently have no respect for the game of golf or the way it has evolved and im not talking about victimless stuff like forging a scorecard no no based on what ive seen here they shamelessly massacre policemen and golfers alike on hallowed country club grounds judge smailes would be spinning in his grave and do they repent for said sins no no based on what i have seen here the typical response by a slain ninja is to take over the body of a buxom female telephone repairwoman and seek revenge i find this morally reprehensible and needless to say after viewing this nonsense i not only stopped golfing and talking on the telephone but also decided to stop feeding the homeless

generally speaking i dont make negative comments on here but since this is a festival piece i dont want you to waste your time when you could see something else that might not be playing again i thought the actors were pretty bad for instance they totally didnt play off each other rather they waited to recite their lines which were pretty poor to begin with the dialogue sounded really forced norman or whatever his name tried or so it would appear to be witty and biting in the lines he chose but just fell really short after words he asked if anyone saw the ending coming and some people were all yea and he all but called them liars look there were so many clues the biggest being a briefcase full of cash for a $ an hour whore i mean the john gave her at least gs tell tale sign now no you couldnt see exactly what was going to happen but by the time the twist actually occurred i for one didnt even care i was just glad to get out of there i asked him which draft he shot and he said maybe next time he will wait to shoot til cause this needed a lot of work but he seemed like a fairly nice guy he is making his own films hell probably get better and i hope he does not in a snotty way either i mean it i wish him luck just remember this is just my opinion

calling this film a decent or enjoyable horror tribute is far too optimistic heck you cant even refer to it as a nice spoof of the genre because its way below average its funny but not haha funny you know but still id say to give it a look if only for the huge amount of trivia elements in it by the way all those people whore complaining about this movie here in their comments have only themselves to blame when you see the dvd cover of this film you should already know that its not going to be on the same level as the piano for example so dont come complaining afterwards evil ed couldve been something but the totally screwed it up i suppose the main idea behind this film is criticism towards the growing cutting committee in horror nowadays it shows an editor named edward whos slowly wellnot too slowly going nuts by seeing all the violence and gore in the movies produced by his company produced the big boss is named sam campbellfunny isnt it personally i also expected a character named bruce raimi but to my surprise there wasnt anyway this guy became rich by making movies called loose limbs they feature and im not kidding you scenes in which a girl is getting raped by a beaver and then gets shot in the head by a bazooka now who says horror isnt original anymore with all the gore and the loose limbs its hard to believe it but it really gets boring very quick after a decent first minutes evil ed turns into complete boredom and never recovers from that the only think left to do then besides pushing the eject button of course is look for the obvious amount of references to other much better horror films i saw scenes obviously stolen from the evil dead silence of the lambs braindead and several othersand theres a huge amount of classic horror posters on the walls to admire as well evil ed finds it origin in sweden im convinced theres a lot up talent there far north take the danish nattevagten as an example but none of them talents joined the cast or crew of evil ed only to see if youre in a dumb mood and you dont want to use your brain at all

i didnt have much high hopes for this one before seeing it the story yelled stereotype at me i mean come on its so stupid the plot line about the innocent android that realizes that the people who created him are immoral then decides to change everything i had to see it three times the first two times i fell asleep because i was so incredibly bored by it its very rare that movies bore me so much i fall asleep during them the third time i forced myself to watch it simply to be able to warn people about it i got the distinct impression that the people responsible for this mess had tried to take all the cool neat things from other scifi action movies and put them together to make a kick ass movie they took the android robot lots of action thin story stereotype characters and a big fight in the end and threw it together unfortunately the movie sucks the acting is so wooden you could build a house out of it the storyline plot is absolutely laughable the camerawork and editing is horrid the direction is non existent and to top it all off everything is so cliche and ridiculous that it just annoys the hell out of you i was left with the feeling that i couldve spent the time watching this one doing something much more creative like trimming my fingernails or watching the grass grow

the combination of dan haggerty elves and linda blair exorcist is enough to make any horror fan excited about this movie and once you see the cover art to this film of a frozen zombie coming out of their cryogenic chamber youll think you were in b movie horror heaven at least thats the way i approached this film but boy was i in for a shock i love horror movies i love b movies as well nothing makes my day more than a cheesy little film about zombies monsters murderers that sort of thing but to say that this movie was lacking is an understatement this movie was pure trash youd think the zombies would look somewhat like what the cover art of the box displays but instead you get actors with masks that are clearly sold at any halloween display counter furthermore the script is beyond pitiful our main character joseph suffers the loss of his wife and son and seeks solace in the warm hearted mary played by blair not once do you see any sign of sadness or discomfort on the part of josephs character instead we see the head of the cryogenic labs a man named dr miller eager to get the dead bodies and experiment with their organs there is no emotion or anything to make you believe you should give a damn about anyone in this film all and all very disappointing all the elements to make a great horror film were there you had your zombies your decent actors and your story but the lack of good writing and little if any sense of direction screwed this one up royally overall out of

this could have been the best game ever but the game makers just screwed up after assassinations and the ending this is a combination of prince of persia hit man gta and age of empires ii saladin yes these four games mentioned above are considered to be one of the greatest games ever made you combine the four and you get this game it has all the good aspects of the four games like acrobatic skills stealth assassinations open world and the history for the first assassinations you feel this game is greatest but after the third things seem to get so repetitive that you only hope for the game to end i have played this on a pc and the pc version is horrible with glitches and the stupid side missions are senseless my advice to all this is a good game but get it either for the xbox or ps dont get it for the pc lastly this game came from the creators of prince of persia surely the producer is hot but the game is not hot and it is not better than the four games mentioned above

this movie despite its list of b c and d list celebs is a complete waste of minutes the plot with its few peaks was very predictable it was so silly that i cannot believe that i am taking the time to even write a review of it flex to his credit has grown in his ability to act since playing michael jackson in a made for tv movie a few years ago tangi on the other hand has regressed as she was more talented in her role as felicitys flunkie some years ago as i sat watching this train wreck of a film with its pitiful production and horrible sound quality other four letter words came to my mind to qualify what i thought of this film however in an effort to keep my writings g rated ill simply say this film is another four letter word starting with an l lame

haaaarrrryyy the amplified dispassionate female voice could have been leona helmseley in heat but no it belongs to allison hayes as nancy archer the foot woman of the title in the most infamous role of her film career allisons performance literally rips off the roof in fact make that a couple of roofs jaw droppingly tacky aotfw is the tale of nancy a neurotic boozy heiress and her loveless lothario husband harry william hudson who also co starred opposite the amazing colossal man nancy has a close encounter of the third kind in the desert with a bald giant from outer space who wears a mini skirt and gladiator sandals and who has a thing for nancys jewelry what he does to her once hes carried her off is probably best left a mystery but soon nancy starts to grow treading into the center of town on tranquilizers tightly wrapped in nothing but the bed sheets the buxom giantess heads toward the low rent saloon where harry is having a few laughs with a floozy named honey yvette vickers the confrontation turns ugly the poverty row f x make the alien giant and nancy appear to be transparent due to incompetently transposed images youll understand why director nathan juran changed his name to nathan hertz on the credits juran was no stranger to directing giant creatures human and non having also directed the deadly mantis the th voyage of sinbad jack the giant killer plus several episodes of tvs world of giants and land of the giants a lot of laughs for all the wrong reasons

this french film is supposedly about a creepy dim witted cop who investigates the rape and murder of a young girl in a small town however the film is really about nothing and it takes forever to say nothing if it takes a character ten minutes to walk from point a to point b the film spends ten minutes showing this walk and these are the action scenes there are also static shots that last for minutes making the viewer wonder if he accidentally hit the pause button on the remote the script has enough material for a minute movie the movie lasts seven hours or so you do the math the actors were apparently amateurs and it shows note to self never see a dumont movie again

i realize why people hate this film and i hated blair witch projectso go figure this is about as staged as it gets & yes they do insult your intelligence by trying to make it seem reali really liked the madame lalaurie storyline though its more than likely made up but the main reason i like this film is fake or not when the ghosts start attacking & kidnapping themi get chill bumps every time & have to look behind me as it feels like somethings there with mei know its my imagination but hey more than half of the drivel that is horror in todays cinemas & dvds doesnt give me goosebumpsso that makes this a creepy delightnot for everyone as skeptics will hate it & not for gorehounds as with a pg rating there is no gore and the females are very annoyingyoull wish the ghosts would take them off & experiment on them before its all said & done ** out of *****

theres something about a movie that features female bodybuilders that gets me in front of the screen every time ive seen pumping iron ii aces iron eagle iii raven hawk and even the tv movie getting physical which featured some big names in the sport they were tolerable in their own ways mostly because they featured rachel mclish rowwr then i went and watched nemesis iii prey harder on the sole basis that it featured such luminaries as sue price debbie muggli sharon bruneau and ursula sarcev love the ladies always will but after this im kinda glad i missed the first two nemesis flicks well the first one anyway most of the footage here is lifted bodily and kicking and screaming i would guess from nemesis ii actually that one looked marginally entertaining from the evidence supplied here but even though price and company flex and pose they dont get much of a chance to do anything else like say act in fact this whole film is an exercise get it ha ha in oblique story telling ambiguous characters and open ended movie making in terms of filming as well as the story line nothing makes much sense but even if it did there would still be issues such as making such small parts for such larger than life women as these what a crime of course it was written and directed by albert pyun so what did you expect cohesion one star only in consideration for all the hard work that price muggli bruneau and sarcev obviously put into their bodies not the craft work done within the movie itself thanks ladies

first off im amazed to see that this film has got a rating of on this site at first i thought it might be industry people logging in to imdb and jacking up the rating but after looking on rotten tomatoes and seeing that this film has something like a % approval rating it seems that maybe folks have just been duped again into mistaking pretentious crap for profundity i mean this film is simply awful the acting is simply terrible but the rest of the film is worse at least the acting provides some unintentional laughs the plot involves a teenage skateboarding boy who is being questioned along with his friends for a murder that happened by a park where they skate and thats about it the rest of the film consists of the aforementioned terrible acting terrible dialog slow motion shots of people walking of peoples faces of people skating often set to music that does not fit the scene perhaps that was done to be cool or experimental or hip or perhaps it was done in hopes that it would fool people into thinking that it is somehow profound but it does not work nothing in this film works its pretentious garbage i cant not recommend it enough

one of the worst movie i have seen in so far the story hesitates between a silly thriller or a dumb comedy as nothings happens the void is filled with long boring dialogs that dont make any sense the cast is famous but doesnt bring any emotions except to fast forward the play and it happens in a plush seaside hotel that looks really gloomy in comparison the one of the shining is funfair nb a lot of users think that it is located in the french riviera they are wrong it isnt the south of france nice cannes but totally the opposite cabourg & normandy to be simple the beaches of the d day thats why the sea is as grey as the sky and there isnt sun

if it were possible i would have given this sorry excuse for a movie a zero star it was by far the worse i have ever seen it was as if it were a home movie that some bored highschoolers decided to make as a joke the acting was horrific the actors didnt even react to the fact that they were being murdered honestly i bought this movie by mistake the spanish title said jeepers creepers so i thought hmm maybe itll be ok wrong it was honestly the worst ever i didnt get past minutes of the stupid movie i skipped through chapters and nothing interesting ever seemed to happen the cameramen were also terrible it was like a home movie i would never recommend anyone to watch this terrible terrible moronic movie

laura fraser creates her ideal man on a virtual reality machine and hes suddenly brought to life of course oh what jolly japes dont ensue in a britcom flop so day glo bright yet so dismal it manages to make the execrable s american teen flick weird science look almost decent the sex obsessed script is by the sun film critic nick fisher a former teeny mag agony uncle whos obviously never watched an episode of smack the pony in his life shame because then he might at least have been in with a shout of writing female characters that were recognisably members of the human race this knicker twisting lot have all too clearly emerged from the virtual brain of someone who imagines theyre amusing suddenly the thought of new wave iranian cinema is somehow attractive

give director stanley tong of jackie chans super cop and rumble in the bronx and what do you get you receive a series of kung fu fights and a lack of magoo like madness the limited plot has magoo leslie nielsen put into an international plot where he steals a world renowned gem of course he has no idea what he is doing in fact he has no idea that he had the gem within thirty minutes you could get very bored watching this there are some very funny moments though like when he is cooking the chicken you will wish that you were as nearsighted as magoo its a fun movie to watch but its quite a disaster you have to love leslie nielson because he was made some very funny movies this isnt his best but he does a good job playing magoo i thought it was a funny film and it should be recommended to young children because they will probably think that its very funny

i happened to catch this movie on late night tv i saw the opening credits and thought this looks good well i was very wrong while not excruciatingly bad it had some funny and tender momentsit lacked any sense of cohesion it started off well enough with kathy batescharacter having a midlife crisis of sorts when her husband leaves her and her singing idol is murdered but kathy has played these disaffected women so well before think fried green tomatoes the problem wasnt kathy it was the clueless screenplay that wandered all over the place it was as if the writers must have been thinking what will we do next the script also felt very contrived some others who have posted comments on this movie have wondered why it didnt receive a cinematic release the main reason i think would have been to avoid embarrassment and the critics would have murdered it having said all that i thought the small woman who played maudie was fantastic and stole the movie not to mention how beautiful she is

what can be said about such a pathetic movie very bad acting the main actress seems to know only one facial expression fear mixed with weakness like a poor beaten dog the other actress the one who plays the evil looks like the female double of ozzy osbourne with an awful red wig the other actors are so pitiful that they dont even worth being described theres absolutely no plot the story begins with possibilities but goes nowhere we dont know anything about the meaning of nor who rayden really is excepted the simple shes evil or shes a child of apocalypse which is not an explanation we dont know why the parents have been killed what kind of danger is growing and why sara was chosen as the film goes on we just watch pseudo scary scenes with a bad music moreover the end doesnt tell anything we just see two possibilities as if one of them was a bonus scene or the directors cut theres no plot so no possible interpretation is just full of clichés it is so obvious that i couldnt help laughing for example the deserted library or the bathroom scenes ghost silhouettes walking with a blast of wind theres even the fashionable little scary girl as in dark water or the ring of course the main character is bullied at school and looks like a stereotyped gothic girl dark hair red lips skinny black clothes is it an obligation to make her credible i dont think so the psychology of sara is so few developed and so typical that it doesnt make her credible nor endearing terrible direction as i said nothing original everything has already been seen a thousand times and is used here without any real purpose there are some funny incoherences for example i dont know if ghost science paranormal course or whatever is taught in american universities in europe it is really not the case teachers talking about negative energies or using unmaterial creatures sensors ridiculous also how can you watch a movie shot in the sixties with a super camera on a computer screen without spending hours of your time for a digitalization in the movie they watch it immediately on the computer screen and how can you on this old film isolate a tiny detail then zoom in and see a perfectly identifiable face i wonder if the director has ever tried to digitize an old analogical film eventually just worths being watched if you like to laugh at silly movies or maybe if you want to fall asleep on your couch but its an expensive way to fall asleep

heftig og begeistret intense and enthusiastic is a documentary like story of a male choir up in berlevåg in the very northern part of norway where the weather is cold and hostile the days are dark during the winter and the towns are faced with young people moving to the more populated parts in the south of norway where the climate is warmer and there are more opportunities the most beautiful part of this movie is the humans themselves the people in the choir who are aged from to all have unique colorful lives and are very enjoyable beings they are characterised by the harsh climate and the recession of the north and have adapted to the way of living required throughout the movie we learn a bit about many people in the choir and we follow them through songs some events in a church and on the harbour and in the end a trip to murmansk the outside environment filmed in the movie is very beautiful and characterised by the norwegian nature the scenography is also natural and taken directly from the choir and from the peoples lives that we meet thei r livingrooms the bathroom the kettle on the oven there is nothing artificial about this movie not the people not the environment not their music and not their feelings everything is as real as can be it all loses out though when it comes to giving a story it is very beautiful and real but why do we see it is it because of the songs is it because of the nature or is it simply just to see a story about berlevåg mens choir about their life and some of the trips they have the message if there is any is that this small society copes with life through such social events like the choir the choir have kept the people together for many many years it is all nice but being as popular as it has been seen by almost in norway there is something wrong there is no beginning or end to it nobody gains or loses anything nobody reveals any message or tries to convince the audience of that this is good or that life up there is great why was this movie made i am sorry it is a nice movie about good people but compared to the average european scandinavian or norwegian movie this does not deserve a out of it is closer to out of and that is what i will give it if you see this movie in a theater you should expect the average age on the audience to be around it has reported to be consistently high in all theaters maybe this is also the reason for it receiving such very high praise in the news and good grades also on the imdb it is a movie about elders for elders it is a movie of i regret nothing in my life and a story saying that living in a small town like berlevåg might be a nice life too

i found this movie to be okay on paper this movie has everything a person may want romance comedy drama a bank robbery a unique cast great music and storytelling in reality this movie ended up being mostly garbage and ill tell you why a this is my biggest problem the editing this movie has by far the worst editing ive ever seen short of local car dealership commercials the editing couldve been done better by a deaf parkinsons patient tapping away at imovie with a a dead cat there are scenes where two characters are talking to each other and you can see their lips moving and the audio video isnt in sync because its clearly dubbed why was it dubbed i dont know its english dubbing english the voices were done in a studio elsewhere in certain scenes could they not find a boom mic theyre not expensive jesus even i own one and i dont make films b andrew keegans performance lacked it really didnt seem like he wanted to be a part of this project and his acting was the equivalent of a skit performed by dare for schoolchildren at least john krasinksi showed some enthusiasm yes john krasinski is the only reason i rented this flick and its the only real reason worth watching hes did a good witty performance and he was the most three dimensional character dean edwards character was quite thin as was whats her face final word if youre a fan of john krasinski this is worth your time if not dont even bother the editing

there could be some spoilers ahead but i doubt it i have no idea how the screenplay for this one made it past the shredder its horrible completely unwatchable i hung in there for minutes about half the running time and just couldnt stand it anymore i was an elijah wood fan in the s see the war and i learned to enjoy mandy moores shifts from bubbly to serious this year see chasing liberty which is surprisingly entertaining ive seen bits of run lola run so with three leads i liked this should have been fine it wasnt nobody turned in a good performance woods jones was flat for an aspiring writer he had next to no imagination his violent fantasies looked like they were ripped off from a christmas story and his lustful ones were huh a cross between boring and alarming potente is absolutely unlikable from the first second and id only know that she was supposed to be the girl by reading the box speaking of the synopsis whoever they employed for that job made the film sound funny quirky romantic and quite enjoyable whoever that person was he or she should have been employed to rewrite this script by the halfway point i didnt care about any of the characters anymore moores lisa is an aspiring actress whos bubbly and a little conniving for no apparent reason at all but her ludicrous period play which is supposed to be funny in presentation is on a par with the rest of the script there is supposedly a happy romantic comedy ending to this turkey given the character material they had to work with i just cant envision it save your money warn your friends dont watch this movie

a man kicks a dog in the air a woman kicks a cow out of her bed a man kicks a violin down the sidewalk a woman sucks on a statues toe for seconds a man kicks a blind man in the stomach jesus rapes a young girl there you have it i just saved you an hour of your life surely there are those to whom this shocking vanguard of cinematic expression would appeal but i found it no different from the puerile disconnected videos i used to shoot with my friends in the th grade except we never had a real cow having heard endless sermons from beard stroking art connaisseurs of how this is such an important film i thought it would be worth my time make no mistake this is crap if i hear one more person call buñuel the father of cinematic surrealism i think im going to punch someone if anything he issued a major step backward from the surrealist beginnings pioneered by his seniors fritz lang metropolis fw murnau faust and robert weine caligari years earlier this made a joke out of the whole thing as if buñuel didnt have the confidence to truly embrace the art sans sarcasm sans labsurdité it would take buñuel another years before he would refine his style into something admirable skip the early stuff and hop straight to if you want to be more impressed by his work im sure he would agree in buñuel himself stated that he would happily burn all the prints of his old movies in this case i would be happy to pour the lighter fluid

ya know i have no idea how everybody elses teenage life was but this does not reflect the folks i knew and hung around with let alone myself and just in case if youre wonderingnowe werent pristine clean cut pat boone type teens if there was ever such a thing look im not saying being a teenager is easy the better well actually the best teen movie of this time is fast times at ridgemont high now those kids i knew and were as realistic as it got back then and maybe now this was crap this was a low rent version of fast times and even then it didnt do much for me it had a few moments but not enough for me to recommend this or even claim this is how it was for teens back in i couldnt relate the lead girl girls did nothing for me and please if they really wanted to keep their virginity they would have in which case this film would not have been made pure crap and a bad staple to be left behind as a time capsule cinema for teens young adults in the early s

the first killjoy but heres the review of killjoy contains spoilers so beware readers oh my oh my my my ill start off with telling you that i had no hopes in the least bit that this movie would be good considering that killjoy the first movie is without a doubt the worst movie ever made the sequel didnt have much promise as expected it didnt deliver the deaths were even lamer than in the first movie there was absolutely no eye candy whatsoever and every single prop looked so fake that i wouldnt be surprised if they had a kindergarten class make them look i dont even know where to begin hm for starters the movie wasnt even feature length it was only an hour and eight minutes long min but then again ending it early was actually a reprieve in fact thats the only reason that this movie wasnt as bad as the first because the first was longer usually i dont give spoilers in reviews but since i dont want any of you to go through the torture of watching this waste of film im going to spoil away not that theres much to spoil lets start with the ending killjoy is the pussiest killer ever it takes explosions firebombs guns etc to kill all of the normal serial killers in horror movies guess what it took to kill killjoy a f***ing glass of water no lie in the end a girl picked up a cup of water and threw the water on killjoys face then killjoy started screaming and they tried to make it look like his face was melting by putting dried rubber cement on his forehead then he laid there and the people went to sleep now lets hit the acting very terrible not even one person was believable in the least bit i dont even know what to say other than it looks like they just hired a few hobos living on the streets to act in this film seriously i honestly doubt that they spent any more than dollars total to make this movie they had nothing most of it took place in the woods which wouldnt have cost them anything to film on the actors werent giving in any effort whatsoever so its blatant that they were probably working for free they didnt have any kind of special effects or nice props and they probably used ketchup for the blood hell who am i kidding they probably didnt even spend dollars they probably spent $ on a bottle of ketchup and that was it a f**kin movie made with a budget of $ for bobs sake they couldnt even afford to rent a cop uniform in the end after killjoy dies the girl wakes up and says where is he and the main woman replies hes gone then suddenly some fat goofy guy with scars on his face pops out of nowhere with a cell phone saying you have a phone call the girl answers and says oh hi mom and smiles then the fat goofy guy walks along to reveal that its a police officer however hes wearing khaki pants and a regular button up green shirt with a lame badge on the front pocket hell it was probably the badge that the director got when he was in safety patrol in rd grade then they all got into a tan blazer and drove off as the credits rolled they couldnt even get a police cruiser so they just got a tan blazer f**kin lame killjoy didnt even have the ice cream van that he had in the first movie killjoy is without a doubt the most flamboyantly gay slasher ever if there was a slasher that wore hot pink spandex and carried a rainbow flag he still would not be as gay as killjoy killjoy isnt funny either and believe me he did try to be the only good thing about this movie is an extremely lame threat given by one of the delinquents somebody makes a comment to some boy about not passing third grade to which the boy responds ill show you third grade in a threatening manner that has to be the absolute worst threat that ive ever heard ill show you third grade this movie doesnt even work on a so bad its good level its filth unless you did something bad and you are feeling so guilty about it that you want to punish yourself severely dont watch this movie just remember if a flaming homosexual clown with a huge black afro tries to bore you to death with gay jokes and attempt to kill you at the same time just throw some water at him case closed final rating out of

so then this is what passes as high art for the likes of sxsw film festival and sundance eh well i suppose i can relate as long as story script dialog acting save for ms aselton cinematography and editing are completely irrelevant i remember telling other film making friends some years ago that the biggest problem with digital video was that we were now going to have to wade through a future sea of crap to get to anything worth watching now that anyone and his brother or brothers in the case of the duplass could run out and make a movie the puffy chair need i say more this feature length video is yet another chapter in the dismal ever expanding world of dudeology movies young guns armed with a dvxa a few thousand dollars a hastily written shallow script and some friends they call actors who decide one afternoon to make a movie and voilà instant feature video makers dont get me wrong im all about independent cinema ie hollywierd sucks but having said that you cant argue with some of the realities of that system if the duplass brothers wouldve had to have gone out and raised a real budget and bring on real producers its clear a script like this would never have been green lighted and therein lies the problem there is no longer such a thing as a vetting process for getting films sorry videos ready for production just grab a dv p camera and off you go and what makes it worse is that high profile festivals like the aforementioned actually embrace and encourage this kind of nonsense and why precisely because its no budget i think its important especially in todays climate of indie films to quit allowing video makers to high jack the language by labeling themselves filmmakers there is quite a difference in my book when you have to go out and actually put your script on the line asking friends and family or business people for real money to make a feature film knowing the potentially losses at stake then you will know what it means to be a filmmaker but dropping a few hundred at sams club for some dv tapes some soda and chips doesnt cut it oh and by the way i have to mention how utterly annoying it was to listen to a female being addressed as dude throughout the entire movie even mark borchardt reserves that intensely overused moniker for his male friends only where it is at least endearing where his buddy mike is concerned i think its high time the indie film community started to call out these shoddy no budget videos for what they are and simultaneously scold prestigious festivals for giving such casual efforts high praise either that or ask these festivals to at least have the courtesy to add a new category to their festival line ups dude films

i have seen previous movies from cédric klapisch and therefore expected a quality movie with psychological depth having been an erasmus student myself and having visited several friends studying abroad i know very well what it means to spend some time abroad and mix with different cultures at the same time yes it is great fun because of that i thought i should not miss this movie unfortunately i was disappointed to find that lauberge espagnol fails to satisfy in many ways the characters are stereotyped the events are trite and the story is shallow although there are quite a few familiar situations they are irritatingly cliché and do not go beyond the trivial events this made the movie uninteresting to watch and gave me a strong been there done that dont you have anything to add feeling apart from that the movie lacks a firm story it sometimes looks more like a documentary or real life show than a seriously made movie however i can imagine that if you havent studied or travelled abroad this might be fun to watch

the photography is accomplished the acting is quite good but in virtually every other department the greek tycoon is a dreary bore taking its inspiration from the real life love affair of jackie kennedy and aristotle onassis the film is a glossy but absolutely empty soap opera of the kind that can be found on tv all day long viewers who embrace the whole celebrity magazine culture paparazzi photographs and gossipy stories about the rich and famous will undoubtedly find much to whet their appetite here but those who prefer films with a bit more substance and craft and quirkiness will find the minute running time a butt numbing slog american president james cassidy james franciscus and his beautiful wife liz jacqueline bisset are in greece on official business a ridiculously wealthy greek shipping tycoon theo tomasis anthony quinn catches sight of liz at a party at his elegant manor despite the fact that both of them are married to someone else there is an immediate attraction between them later at a private party aboard his yacht tomasis makes his desires known to liz some while later president cassidy is assassinated whilst out strolling on a beach liz is shocked and saddened by his death but it isnt long before she seeks comfort in the arms of her greek lover tomasis eventually the two of them are married and their love affair becomes a favourite talking point for the worlds newspapers magazines photographers and wags it is somewhat amusing to note the vigour with which the producers of this film denied that it was a dramatisation of the kennedy onassis story they wanted the film to be seen as an original story rooted in fiction but anyone with a brain can see from where the movie is drawing its inspiration even aristotle onassis himself knew the greek tycoon amounted to his love life getting the hollywood treatment if rumours are to be believed he actually had a hand in approving anthony quinn for the tomasis role j lee thompson isnt really the right sort of director for this type of movie – hes better suited to action fodder like the guns of navarone and ice cold in alex – but he marshals the proceedings with an uninspired professional adequacy quinn is very watchable as tomasis bisset looks lovely as the object of his desires franciscus uses his toothy smile and a façade of integrity to make for a believable politician their performances are good on the surface but theres little for the actors to do on any deeper level similarly tony richmonds photography gives the film an elegant surface sheen as it moves from one exotic locale to the next but the merest of scratches proves that theres nothing behind the films glossy exterior

as an avid disney fan i was not totally impressed by this movie certainly not motivated enough to catch it in the theaters i am however so glad that i caught it on dvd and watched the special features you must check out the moose commentary the entire movie can be viewed with commentary from rutt and tuke the comic relief moose of the story who are voiced by rick moranis and dave thomas two veterans of the famous second city comedy troupe ad lib in character for an hour and a half about a movie that they are clearly fond of i laughed the whole time the enjoyment i got from this commentary completely made up for the tepid reaction i had to the film itself do yourself a favor and listen to it