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If you havent seen this movie than you need to It rocks and you have to watch it It is so funny and will make you laugh your guts out so you have to watch it and i saw it about a billion and a half times and still think it is funny so you have to yes i have memorized the whole movie and could quote it to you from start to finish you must see this move it is also cute because it is half a chick flick if you dont watch it then you are really missing outthis movie even has cute guys in it and that is always a bonus so in summary watch the movie now and trust me you will not be making a mistake did i mention the music is good too So you should like it if you enjoy music This is a movie that they rated correctly and it will work for anyone

but Cinderella gets my vote not only for the worst of Disneys princess movies but for the worst movie the company made during Walts lifetime The music is genuinely pretty and the story deserves to be called classic What fails in this movie are the characters particularly the title character who could only be called the heroine in the loosest sense of the term After a brief prologue the audience is introduced to Cinderella She is waking up in the morning and singing A Dream is A wish Your Heart Makes This establishes her as an idealist and thus deserving of our sympathy Unfortunately the script gives us no clue as to what she is dreaming about Freedom from her servant role The respect of her stepfamily Someone to talk to besides mice and birds In one song cut from the movie but presented in the special features section of the latest DVD Cinderella relates her wish that there could be many of her so she could do her work more efficiently You go girlfriend In short Cinderella is a very bland character She passively accepts her stepfamilys abuse escaping into her unspoken dreams for relief She only asserts herself once by reminding her stepmother that she is still a member of the family For this she is given permission to go the ball if she completes her housework and finds something to wear a token gesture that is clearly absurd to everyone except of course Cinderella Can anyone see Belle or Jasmine being such a doormat If Cinderella is dull her male counterpart is nothing short of lifeless The Prince in Cinderella gets no dialog and almost no screen time We are given no indication if he is a good man if he respects Cinderella or anything All we know is 1 he is a prince and 2 he dances well Heck even the prince from Snow White got to sing a romantic song at least Not only does this lack of development make the romance less interesting it makes Cinderella look like either a social climber or an idiot weakening her already tenuous appeal Perhaps realizing how dull the main characters were the animators chose to give excessive screen time to the movies comic relief Cinderellas friends the mice Granted these characters are amusing Even so when the comic relief steals the show from the principals well lets just say your story has some problems Dinsey loves to proclaim all its animated features as masterpieces While many of them are there are some that do not deserve this appellate in any way Cinderella is a prime example of this fact

This movie is pretty cheesy but I do give it credit for at least trying to provide some characterization for its principles There are some great moments in the film and the dialogue has some great moments as well The aerial assault sequence is perhaps the best part of the movie I guess I really like the idea of what lengths a veteran will go for a fellow veteran Sure its not all that well done but the premise is not at all bad Tom

I have not seen a Van Damme flick for a while pleasantly surprised he still has it looking older but tougher kind of like Sly becomes more rugged with age This is a good flick and has prompted me to take a look at all the Van Damme movies I have missed over the last ten years I would like to see a good director put Van Damme on the big screen with a good plot Van Damme still has the moves to amaze the audiences the last movie viewed with Van Damme was Legionnaire that was a good flick as well In addition I looked in to Van Dammes early fighting history I too my amazement I realized he is the real deal very accomplished martial artist in his younger years

This is a sleeper It defines Nicholas Cage The plot is intricate and totally absorbing The ending will blow you away See it whenever you have the opportunity

This movie has no heart and no soul its an attempt to whomp up a cult film out of the leavings of other better directors principally David Lynch and Tim Burton Rifkin seems to think that if he overloads on a kind of rotted visual style and fills the street with crud and garbage hes making a statement But its not a statement ABOUT anything except the directors shrill shriek of HEY LOOK AT ME IM AN ARTIST TOO But he doesnt have the imagination of an artist just a good memory for things that worked such as some of the actors trapped in this for other directors All of this would be almost acceptable if this movie was not a turgid boring chore to sit through

This person is a socalled entertainer who has to resort to profanity vulgarity and slander to try and make others believe he has talent I have often seen comics use a little of each with effect but when all you can say is laced with it it is a sign of a drug affected warped mind Makes me wonder where his twisted and fried brain will be in a few more years of abuse Poor man I admit I could not watch all of it too stupid for words The amazing part of this is that somebody actually believes he is a philosopher No wonder self respect and decency are dwindling and perversity is rising Could it be that the UFC might have been a factor in his deadened brain

I absolutely love this film Everything about it It almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen The way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative I related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some Im really glad I ran across this movie If only there were more genius like justin out there

yeah cheap shot i know but this movie is a great example of how a collection of signifiers of deepness political turmoil lovelust can be combined haphazardly to great critical acclaim see also american beauty kaufmans movie plods along with gratuitous sex scenes interspersed with often painful dialog sequences in one scene i counted three different generic European accents affected by the actors and displays of state might run amok yet fails to tie them together into the coherent meditation kundera offered and in its overlong three hours it manages almost completely to gloss over franzthe missing fourth piece in the love triangle that lies at the heart of the plot and in this manner sacrifices the novels central mechanism of displaying the spectrum of emotions and of power relations that obtain in love affairs it also fails to even include token screen time for tomas son used in the novel to exemplify some of the political points kundera was making in the novel combined with the overweening soundtrack these flaws make this movies three hours unbearably weighty in tone yet light in content

really excellent movie one of the best ive seen Touching and simple just like life sometimes you cry sometimes you laugh and its just beautiful not too much of anything just as its suppose to be Really loved the idea of the movie noone is bad or good all or just people sometimes make mistakes mostly because of societys pressure everyone tries to stay strong and some succeed more than others and the most important thing is that you dont have reasons to get angry you can do it but eventually the anger goes away and then you to need to let love come back in although its hard there lies the true happiness Great actors and cast the movie really gets you into the feeling of the movie nice nice nice I recommend to see it especially if you like to see italians life

Tight script good direction excellent performances strong cast effective use of locations Paul McGann gives a detailed subtle performance as the man in the centre of a new murder investigation who may just have committed a similar murder previously There is an interesting moral emotional journey happening with his character Ben Turner and it intersects with the journey undertaken by Amanda Burton Inevitably they cross over Who has done what The examination of WHY both in the past and in the present rather than WHO might have yielded a more interesting Dostoyevskian story but hey whos complaining

I saw this last night and voted it an 8 Since then its grown on me and Id give it a 9 The film has at first a seemingly slightly disconnected facade between the first and second halves The first half is a comedy and theres little hint of the ragged truths of eras life wars religious intolerance that will become revealed in the second half While at first it may be a little disconcerting because its a slightly unfamiliar narrative sequence on reflection it works The acting was good Hultz in the role of Alex the interpreter was especially great Ive scanned most other User Comments and see that some whove read the book are pleased with the movie while there are a few who are not Both feelings of course are valid For me a retired family therapist and oneworld believer the film was relevant on two different levels The first as history gave a powerful reminder of how commonly polarizations happen with demonizing and trying to exterminate any of those with a smidge different moral value system than our own The second was that in demonstrating the first it also revealed something in common to EACH of us ALL our families that each of us must go back to our roots to more fully understand ourselves TS Eliot expressed this exquisitely in the 4th of his Four Quartets when he said We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time Jonathan goes on a fulfilling journey that any of us would find fantastically illuminating to explore and discover our roots what were those people going through then who were they really before when and during the early years before and after we were born Etc So the film at first gives us the impression of a comedy then shifts to give us a lesson in history and human deficiencies but through all that it also gives us subliminally a message about each of ourselves All of us would be abundantly rewarded to go back and understand the place from which we first started

Just watched this and it was amazing Was in serious doubt about renting the DVD or not So if you areand like watching other than brainless actionmoviesdont hesitate any longer Dont let the dull cover put you off The script is one of the best ever Inteligent funny original touching and keeps you at the edge of the seat through the whole movie I had already watched another movie right before this one and was really sleepy and usually I get bored on watching a second movie in one night but this one really made me wake up and didnt have any boring moments It also made me rethink a lot of things in life and gave me a really good feeling Also the acting is great one of Kevin Spaceys best roles The visuals are beautiful and the use of music is very wellchosen If I have to come up with something negative to say about itwellI cant really find anythingEnjoy 10 out of 10

Director Alfred Greens melodrama Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck ranks as one of the more notorious of the PreCode movies These films were produced before the Production Code Administration had the power to enforce its rules in 1934 Inspiration scenarist Gene Markey and Midnight Mary scribe Kathryn Scola penned the screenplay based on Mark Canfields story about the rise and fall of a girl who used her sexual charms to acquire wealth and position in society Incidentally Mark Canfield was a pseudonym for producer Daryl F Zanuck These PreCode films today seem tame but they aroused controversy galore and contained more racy material than most movies until the late 1950s when the Code began to erode The themes that the filmmakers explore are women versus men women versus women and women versus society Our crafty protagonist does enough skulduggery that all themes are about equal Lilys worthless father Nick Powers Robert Barret of Distant Drums operates an illegal speakeasy bar during Prohibition when the Thirteen Amendment outlawed liquor and brews his own booze in a still out back Nick is such as an obnoxious fellow that he pimps out her beautiful but hardworking daughter Lily Barbara Stanwyck of Night Nurse but Lily refuses to help her father out with a sleazy local politician The politician Ed Sipple Arthur Hohl of Private Detective 62 vows to retaliate for Lilys refusal to accommodate him Later Nick chews his rebellious daughter out Lily reproaches him Yeah Im a tramp and whos to blame My father a swell start you gave me nothing but men dirty rotten men And youre lower than any of them No sooner has she stormed off than Nick dies when his still blows up and kills him Lily and her AfricanAmerican maid Chico Theresa Harris of Arrowsmith pack their bags and catch a ride of the first freight leaving town No sooner have our heroines arrived in New York than Lily uses her charm to get a job in a bank Visually director Green shows Lilys shrewd ascension up the ladder with camera angles that move upward until Lilys sexuality threatens to destroy the bank At one point Lily breaks up a marriage between one bank officer Ned Stevens Donald Cook of The Public Enemy and his fiancée Anne Carter Margaret Lindsay of Cavalcade after Stevens had almost fired her for flirting with her boss Brody Douglas Dumbrille of His Women in the employee restroom Lily is extremely shrewd and manages to emerge from each debacle better off than before The board of trustees hires Courtland Trenholm George Bent of Jezebel to take over as president of the bank The first thing that Trenholm does is pay off Lily instead of letting her publish her diary entries about the higher ups at the bank Moreover Trenholm ships Lily off to their branch bank in Paris where Lily doesnt create any commotion until Trenholm arrives and they become romantically attached Lily fights tooth and nail for everything that she has gotten and hates to throw it all away but she sacrifices everything at the end for her husband Ironically Lily winds up back in the same town that she started out in but Trenholm and she are happy now Baby Face qualifies as one of the five best PreCode movies Look for John Wayne dressed up in a suit and tie in one scene

John Scott John Wayne and partner Kansas Charlie Eddy Chandler are trail buddies who make their way to the Rattlesnake Gulch rodeo Scott is a pretty fair contestant but finds that unless hes willing to accept twenty five cents on the dollar in prize money from a crooked promoter hell have to collect his winnings at gunpoint Quite coincidentally bandits Pete Al Ferguson and Jim Paul Fix decide theyd like the rest of the rodeo take they shoot promoter Farnsworth Henry Hall and make it look like Scott and Kansas Charlie are the killers Wayne and Chandler use a running gag in the film where theyre about to go at it with their fists over various trivialities Each time Chandler takes a wild swing Wayne foot stomps him and knocks him silly If youre very attentive theres a neat Liptons Tea ad in one of the scenes in which Scotts love interest Anne Mary Kornman appears Later on in the film the buddies are framed once again over a stage robbery Having a change of heart and seeing the error of his ways bad guy Jim wants to come clean and confess to the sheriff but Pete shoots him down While being patched up Jim tells his story to the doctor and his sister Anne In an unbelievable scene Anne marches right into the middle of a gunfight between the good guys and the villains to confront the sheriff The Desert Trail is one of the blander John Wayne Westerns from Lone Star Productions during this era Noticeably absent are George Gabby Hayes and Yakima Canutt one or both are usually to be seen in these oaters If youre a John Wayne fan though youll have to see it once but that will probably be enough

Massive multiple chills down the spine Im surprised theres people who didnt like it I saw it at 10 oclock in the morning and still got scared stiff And Ive seen hundreds of thrillershorror movies For crying out loudIm 22 I mean OK voice acting not particularly good probably even bmovieish But the genuine look of terror the sound effects the flow From the very start hitting you again and again with relentless unforgiving terrorising scenes So many clichés yet none fails to surprisescare You know its coming its coming its coming BOO and you still jump off the chair Grab a pillow and a blanket call your closest friend over and do not watch it at night Hats off to the Japanese

I watched this movie on the grounds that Amber Benson rocks and Nick Stahl is generally pretty cool I figured that any film featuring two actors I like and respect couldnt be all bad And in that sense I was right considering the cringemaking dialogue they were given both of them perform reasonably well Not well enough to stop the movie from sucking you understand but well enough that I was able to make it through the 75odd minutes of movie and thats the main sign of an awful film when at 40 minutes through youre already praying for it to be over Its hard to know where to start with the problems in Taboo The dialogue as mentioned is appalling wooden and completely unnatural January Jones acting is unbelievably bad and since shes the character we spend most of our time following around the house this is an unforgivable flaw The plot manages to be so convoluted that it makes no sense while simultaneously being so clichéd as to be completely predictable literally not one of the major twists in this film would surprise anyone but a toddler A few interesting shots aside the director tries far too hard with far too little success awkward tracking shots and jittery camerawork distracting from what little element of story there is Three of this movies stars are awarded for the fact that it contains Amber Benson and the last is tossed in on the grounds that one of the jokes made me snigger a little bit I wouldnt recommend this movie to anyone ever under any circumstances Avoid at all costs

I have long tried to understand why people like Shakespeare so much and every few years I give him another go I was hoping that this playfilm my 6th different Shakespeare play would unlock the lucky casket and marry me to the riches of this literary Demigod Bah I clearly chose the wrong key Once the phrase pound of flesh had been uttered 10 minutes into the film the main parts of the plot were transparent which grinds along with a languid script and lifeless acting At every step the plot is laid bare two scenes in advance The concept that a dying aristocrat would persuade his daughter to choose her future husband by means of a lottery is incredulous It is no surprise who wins the matrimonial jackpot because Bassanios a main protagonist in the play and hes the third man to try and there are three caskets to choose from and his friend risks his life to pay the dowry The only genuine surprise that I had watching this film is that it did not end immediately after the resolution of the court case However as soon as the ring treachery began it was immediately apparent what would transpire OK so I know that millions of you love Shakespeare not for the surprise in the well known stories but for the depth and passion of the characters But I felt nothing for the characters Rather than gripped with suspense and admiration during the court scene I sat there impassionately hoping that it would be over soon please One day I might just find a Shakespeare play that does something other than bore me

This is the kind of movie that BEGS to be shown on TV at 3 or 4 in the morning if at all No doubt the filmmakers responsible for Attack of the 50 Foot Woman thought they were making a pertinent statement about women and philandering and the dangers of the demon rum all wrapped up in a scifi allegory Or maybe it was a tax writeoff Either way Attack proves best for the viewer under the following circumstances a extreme intoxication b seen on a doublebill with any of those Jacqueline Suzanne movies maybe Once is Not Enough or c just a night when you feel insecure and the world around you is a little too perfect Pop in Attack and youll feel great guaranteed Its good for a laugh at the expense of the hokey script the rubbery special FX and that foureyed sheriff And I think the last line should be engraved in a monument somewhere in Washington DC its just that memorable Four stars for Attack of the 50 Foot Woman buy a copy mail it to Gloria Steinem shell love you for it

This film does not fail to engage and move even in 2008 to an audience only familiar with modern overproduced sound and computer enhanced techniques The experience of the movie goer in 1922 who could only see this in a cinema with others on their big screen must have been truly profound and a thoroughly satisfying experience One has to ask could a film maker today make a two hour silent movie and make it interesting and achieve the same structure tempo and balance as this movie has Silent film making was pure art it had to hold the attention through its structure direction and acting there was no padding out with more words or computer generated distractions A poorly made or uninteresting silent movie is unwatchable This film needs to be put into context for those who might be disconcerted with the mention of Christian themes This is not a Christiany film it is not selling anything These themes along with reference to current moral standards often appear in this era also church going on Sundays was a national past time Christianity was a given in most households thus the film is only depicting normal life as it was then The themes would have rung true and deep at the time It is most odd given the strong support to good Christian thinking of this particular movie and it is not preaching religion to anyone only highlighting the difference between hypocrites and the honestthat in 1922 a Pastor in an open debate with a representative from the film industry with a large crowd denounced Pickford as an example of immorality along with some other individuals he named NY Times 1922 Maybe they should have watched this movie that also came out in 1922 and learned some lessons The Pastor complained that since the film industry had started church attendance had dropped 500000 The film representative in the debate however made the following observations that saloon attendance had also dropped that there were far more pastors in prison than actors fact and that selecting a few examples from among the many was not representative of the whole Thus there was an ongoing battle between church and the film industry during the early days of film This is a wonderful film about being honest and true to family friends and to be willing to make sacrifices Mary Pickford naive honest feisty full of happiness and joy faithful humorous and silently sacrificing though poor and uneducated she represented the perfect character This however is not thrust down our throat but revealed bit by bit through the film This is reminiscent of some modern Chinese films where characters are slowly languidly revealed over the course of a film and it is this tempo that creates a stronger connection with the character It has a smooth even tempo for the first half that builds all the elements for the last section The last 30 minutes are great film making and it has to be appreciated it was achieved without the benefit of sound running dialog it was achieved through deft acting and great directing It is sometimes surprising to realize that at the end of the film you havent hear a word spoken but it feels like you have heard everything The supporting cast put in great performances especially Gloria Hope Jean Hersholt and Lloyd Hughes The final few minutes are typical Pickford understated humor as she goes outside under the pretext of sweeping the snow a near perfect balance and ending This is a special type of touching humor that should not be underestimated Chaplin used this device often and copied some of from Pickford Another special observation to be made about Silent films and especially Pickford films is that the star often has to hold the camera for much of the movie without the audience becoming jaded or bored with the actors overexposure That Pickford is usually thoroughly the center of attention through most of her movies but the people still couldnt get enough of her is a testament to her fine acting ability

OK I for one thought the trailer was quite good so was hopeful for this film plus with the cast line up I was sure it couldnt get less than a 6 in my books However I got annoyed half hour into the story just where normal films get good this film hit rock bottom SPOILER The guy who everyone is trying to help is so caring of other people getting hurt in the middle of the hustle that he turns on his colleagues to save a tramp and then locks himself inside one of the armoured trucks Not only that he constantly tries to get other peoples attention by which he ends up endangering more people and long story short the outcome is that he is responsible for not just the tramps death but also a police officer getting shot and the kidnapping of his younger brother oh and all 5 of his colleagues dying disgraced deaths But in the end he is HAPPY because he came to his senses halfway through the endeavour so what if all his colleagues are now dead rather than sticking to the plan and being a millionaire This film tried to be so politically correct it makes me sick Ruined a good story Shame really

This movie was by far the worst movie that I have ever seen in my entire life Im not even kidding It was poorly made and the actors couldnt act It was a waste of my time and money It looked like a movie that my friends and I could have put together on our own The case the movie came in is definitely a disguise Nothing in the movie looks like the zombie on the front of the case It appears that the director or makeup artist has just put black eye liner under someones eyes an called them a zombie The credits at the beginning of the movie take up almost 20 minutes of the movie Which watching the credits was the best part of the movie This was honestly an awful movie and I couldnt believe how badly it was put together Scenes jumped from one thing to the other and sometimes u were like whats going on The audio was awful and the action shots looked like a couple of teens joking around making a fake fight scene IF you are considering renting or buying this movie I would advise you to at least watch the trailer for it because it shows how awful it truly is I wish i would have watched it before i rented it

Foolish hikers go camping in the Utah mountains only to run into a murderous disfigured gypsy The Prey is a pretty run of the mill slasher film that mostly suffers from a lack of imagination The victim characters are alltoofamiliar idiot teens which means one doesnt really care about them we just wonder when they will die Not to mention it has one too many cheesy moments and is padded with endless unnecessary nature footage However it does have a few moments of interest to slasher fans the occasional touch of spooky atmosphere and a decent music score by Don Peake Still its business as usual for deadcamper movies There are much better films in this vein but over all The Prey may be watchable enough for diehard slasher fans Although one might be more rewarded to watch Just Before Dawn 1981 Wrong Turn 2003 or even The Final Terror 1983 again 12 out of

Insane really Even if you havent seen the original George Cukor movie with Norma Shearer Joan Crawford Rosalind Russell Paulette Goddard Joan Fontaine and a cast of a thousand other stars you may dismiss this forced politically correct depressing comedy Depressing for many different reasons Meg Ryan for one What has she done to herself Her face can hardly move That alone puts her miles away from Norma Shearer Annette Bening should be suing the DP and Debra Messing what the hell was she doing here Actresses with no connection in the publics subconscious trying to pass for friends totally unconvincingly Eva Mendes in the Joan Crawford part is an outrageous piece of miscasting What a terrible idea Her character is like a transgender performer without any taste or subtlety Bizarre to think that a woman adapted and directed this womenThe only positive things I can mention are a short but very funny appearance by Bette Midler and Cloris Leachman as the housekeeper

Henry Fool is a better film But this is the perfect way to followup a film like Henry Fool To take Henry very seriously his lies and his mysterious aura Even the opening shot of Henry Fool when Simon puts his ear to the ground as Henry comes walking over the hill is more fully manifest through Fay Grim The overthetop jokes that are more or less metajokes about the writing of the film and the jokes themselves are good but the opening of the film is a little saturated in them Also Hartleys use of Dutch angles throughout the film is jarring yes its intention but it feels forced and overused it goes beyond jarring to what Id like to call annoying Its a flawed film but a must see for any Hartley or Henry Fool fan And dont listen to stupid reviews dont watch this unless youve seen the first film The intrigue satire and wit of this movie is totally lost if you havent seen Henry Fool Its a sequel Thats just dumb

Pick a stereotype any stereotype whether racial sexual cultural etc and I bet youll find it in Wassup Rockers Do you think that all Hispanic teenage boys are stupid hairy inarticulate and dirty troublemakers Are Hispanic girls sexcrazed easy assbaring sluts Do Black people all want to start fights and carry guns Do all gay people throw themed parties with pink drinks and ask young boys to model for them Are all White teenage girls rich stuckup princesses who are bored with White teenage boys and are looking for something a little more dangerous If you answered yes to any of the previous questions you my friend are a bigot and you will LOVE Wassup Rockers Director Larry Clark likes to shock his audiences I was 15 years old the first time I saw Kids and I think thats why Im still a virgin but Wassup Rockers isnt shocking… its just bad He tries to be edgy and realistic with his minimal dialog and bodyhair closeups but these characters and this story are completely unrealistic Simply put Wassup Rockers is a teenage boys fantasy What 14yearold boy doesnt want to be a skater who gets in trouble crashes parties drinks 40s and is told by the hot rich White girl that his uncircumcised penis looks dangerous Besides that demographic I really dont know whos going to enjoy this film

On the positive Ill say its pretty enough to be watchable On the negative its insipid enough to cause regret for another 2 hours of life wasted in front of the screen Long whiny and pointless And Im not saying this to be mean I really wanted to like this film it seemed to have everything going for it had the so called buzz and was a hassle to track down besides Had a little more effort gone into it on the story side I believe this wouldve been amazing And I expect the team behind it will produce wonderful work in the future they clearly have the ability But I recommend waiting for their future efforts let this one go

After a decade of turbulent unrest American movies began to switch gears and turn their cameras away from wartorn battlefields political corruption and general social unease to the more intimate world of family dysfunction The toll the selfish Baby Boomers began to take on the American family as they grew up and had kids of their own was making itself felt Kramer vs Kramer is one of the first of these dysfunctional family dramas that would continue to be so popular throughout the 1980s and its one of the best It gets a rather bum rap now because its known as the film that beat Apocalypse Now for the 1979 Best Picture Academy Award but comparing these two films is like comparing a banana to a marinated chicken breast theyre not remotely the same but cant we enjoy them both Directorwriter Robert Benton doesnt try to do anything fancy with his movie its strength lies in its performances those of Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep particularly playing a divorced couple fighting childishly and selfishly over their son The courtroom scene in which they duke it out for custody and in which each is forced to hurt the other in terrible ways is devastating and feels authentic The movie doesnt present Hoffmans solid dad as a hero or Streeps straying mom as a villain Theyre neither good or bad as people theyre simply bad at being married The film is tearjerky at the finale but not in a manipulative way It earns its right to elicit sobs Grade A

Everyone does things that they later regret Things that they wish they could blame on drugs or alien possession Things that although seem rational at the time later reveal themselves to be engraved invitations for suffering and endless recriminations of stupidity For some people it is signing the note for the new Hummer for others it is picking up a homicidal hitchhiker for still others it is sending their bank account information to third world millionaires mysteriously strapped for cash For me it was a film DWar Dragon Wars In hindsight I should have guessed how environmentally friendly and thoroughly recycled this movie would turn out to be from its stuttered and repeating title But with my willing suspension of disbelief intact and a naive faith stemming from the cool looking poster in the lobby I really wanted this film to work Sadly by the time the old man in the pawnshop explained the entire backstory fifteen minutes into the picture I had the sudden sinking revelation that comes from knowing every plot point of a still unseen film And worse I knew just how badly every point would all suck Let me be perfectly clear here the English language lacks sufficient nuance and depth in the field of ultimate evil to properly describe just how bad this film really is As for knowing all the twists of movie I was wrong In the spirit of the old Godzilla films whose scales this one is not worthy to fill it conveniently sprouted extra subplots every time the main characters were threatened by the specter of meaningful dialogue It was infested with close calls miraculous escapes and concentrated deposits of poorly explained angst This film is what would happen if you gave the produces of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers access to the national defense budget And lots of liquor Let me try to explain Imagine you could get a hold of all the coolestlooking set pieces from successful action movies of the last decade First take the rastatalking army of amphibians from Star Wars Episode One and remove their Prozac until they are ready to club Navy Seals Next take close approximations of Kira Knightly and Tom Cruise You can even call him Ethan as a subtle nod to the Mission Impossible franchise and give them lots of film noir narration so no one get confused while trying to follow the wadingpool depths of their thoughts Finally add a raspyvoiced villain in pointy armor worthy of a Lord of the Rings yardsale and a couple of giant cobras angry at having their scenes deleted from latest edition of King Kong and lay them all out in no particular order in modern day Los Angeles Now run to the drugstore to find something for your sudden migraine When you return puree these ingredients until any overlooked hint of originality is dissolved into a homogenized mass of cheese and serve semigelatinous At several points during this picture I found myself saying out loud Make the bad movie stop and breaking into tears To call this a Bmovie would be giving it an undeserved promotion After summer school and a lot of physical therapy it might possibly pass for a C level film if you could somehow sleep through most of it In short if you ever find yourself with money and brain cells to burn and the need to punish yourself for hideous unspoken sins against humanity Dragon Wars might just be the film for you

The English Patient can rightly be compared to the films of David Lean whose sweeping epics such as Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai must have inspired the director Anthony Minghella The film is beautifully photographed and like Lawrence is set in Northern Africa but during the second world war The story is complex but it boils down to a forbidden love between an opinionated and often difficult archeologist played by Ralph Fiennes and a married woman played by Kristin Scott Thomas The story based on a novel by Michael Ondaatje is told in flashbacks by Fiennes Count Laszlo de Almasy the titular character The fact that his name does not sound like hes English plays a key role in what unfolds He has been badly burned in a plane crash occurring just as the film opens and is being cared for back in Europe by Hana an army nurse played by Juliette Binoche What makes this story epic is the vast sweep across place and time and the development of characters beyond that of the two illfated lovers The film makes clear that true love and passion even with dreaded consequences can make life worth living or worth dying for If youre a romantic at heart and can appreciate a film without the standard happy endings and simple moral codes you may find that The English Patient speaks directly to you

The opening scene of this movie is pretty incredible Ive seen a number of scifi movies with great special effects but my roommate and I looked at each other after the opening sequence and he said plainly sensory overload The plot of the movie is pretty simple but the nice thing about this scifi movie is that it lets the audience figure out most of the technology for themselves instead of wasting time to subtly explain it The creatures in this movie are also very interesting You dont get a really good look at them until about two thirds of the way through Overall a very entertaining movie

My friend and I picked Paperhouse out of a random pile of movies on our weekly excursion to the Horror section neither of us had heard of it but the blurb on the box was really promising And the movie didnt disappoint though I still probably wouldnt call it a horror movie exclusively 11year old Anna Madden draws a house and visits it in her dreams She is definitely asleep when shes seeing the house but its so real in a sense that its almost like a completely separate reality Which in view of later events doesnt seem like a far cry from the truth Anyhow she finds she can add to the house its contents and its surroundings by simply adding to the picture While this is going on Anna is getting increasingly more ill with a fever and besides that is getting totally obsessed with the house and her drawing On top of that she and her mother are also dealing with her absent father he has a job that takes him away for long stretches though one gets the impression theres actually more to the story than that OK so the drawing stuff sounds nice enough but frankly theres something really menacing about it The dreamworld is eerily surreal the house for instance is just a grey block in the middle of a desolate field The folks who made the movie did a great job of making us very uncomfortable with this alternate worldongoing dream One of the things Anna adds to the house is a boy Mark who seems to be the same patient her doctor keeps talking about Im not giving that away you know from the moment he appears that its the same kid In reality Mark cant walk due to an illness in Annas drawingworld he cant walk because she didnt draw him any legs She blames herself for his reallife illness and tries to rectify the situation but everything starts getting really weird She even brings her absent father into the drawing with disastrous results The bits with the father are really terrifying I dont want to give anything away so Ill stop there There seems to be a lot going on in this film Im sure youll have a ball analyzing this thing do death with your pals after you watch it Is it a simple a story as it seems or are there actually layers of meaning I dont know but either way its quite fascinating There was a Nightmare On Elm Streetish quality about it in that at a certain point reality and dreams intersect I love things like that My only complaint is that it feels like it COULD have ended many times but didnt Im satisfied with the ending it had some of you sensitive types might want to have Kleenex handy though it really could have a variety of conclusions Anyway it doesnt exactly feel drawn out once its actually over but while youre watching and it keeps fading back in its a little nerve wracking Still Paperhouse is a really GOOD film Its well done and acting especially Charlotte Burke as Anna is top notch Burke who has never before or since appeared in a film is a real gem I dont know why she never went onto do anything else but either way shes really convincing and enjoyable to watch Paperhouse isnt exactly a horror movie its sort of a fantasysuspensesomething else type of movie with some definite horroresque moments but you can still watch it with your family and not be worried that your little brother or grandmother will get grossed out by blood splashing or something Give it a chance you wont regret it And maybe you should read the book too

Perhaps many viewers who got frustrated by this film live their lives without ever thinking deeply about life itself What i want to point out here is that distant is not only an arthouse film but one of the best arthouse films From all the arthouse films I have seen distant is the one that really stands out as a glittering piece of gold It is even fair to say that this films cinematography and depiction of human emotion surpass Tarkovskys Nostalgia One commentator got it right that sex a jaded common feature among foreign films is surprisingly lacking in distant and in a good way What is most remarkable about distant is that it captures the details of life we usually ignore and the rich essence of our existence that often gets buried under the din and visual extravaganza of our commercialized world Fortunately distant doesnt have that much to spare the audiences and what we see on the screen is a bare portrait of human beings

When I put this movie in my DVD player and sat down with a coke and some chips I had some expectations I was hoping that this movie would contain some of the strongpoints of the first movie Awsome animation good flowing story excellent voice cast funny comedy and a kickass soundtrack But to my disappointment not any of this is to be found in Atlantis Milos Return Had I read some reviews first I might not have been so let down The following paragraph will be directed to those who have seen the first movie and who enjoyed it primarily for the points mentioned When the first scene appears your in for a shock if you just picked Atlantis Milos Return from the displaycase at your local videoshop or whatever and had the expectations I had The music feels as a bad imitation of the first movie and the voice cast has been replaced by a not so fitting one With the exception of a few characters like the voice of Sweet The actual drawings isnt that bad but the animation in particular is a sad sight The storyline is also pretty weak as its more like three episodes of SchoobyDoo than the single adventurous story we got the last time But dont misunderstand its not very good SchoobyDoo episodes I didnt laugh a single time although I might have sniggered once or twice To the audience who havent seen the first movie or dont especially care for a similar sequel here is a fast review of this movie as a standalone product If you liked schoobydoo you might like this movie If you didnt you could still enjoy this movie if you have nothing else to do And I suspect it might be a good kids movie but I wouldnt know It might have been better if Milos Return had been a threeepisode series on a cartoon channel or on breakfast TV

In order to enjoy Fur An imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus Stephen Shainberg needs the viewer to suspend all reality and prior knowledge of the American photographer Diane Arbus Paradoxically its the very use of Diane Arbus name and knowledge to her life and work that sets this film up to fail on a grand scale What becomes apparent quite early on with the casting of the beautiful WASPish and glamorous Nicole Kidman as the antiglamorous Jewish Diane Arbus is that Shainberg didnt get Arbus or what her work was about unsentimental realism and seems only attracted to Arbus on a superficial level through her photographs of circus freaks What follows is a kind of pretty and trivial Beauty the Beast fantasy biopic with Robert Downey JR as Kidmans hairy fictional love interest However its not the banality of the story that is the main flaw in this film but the directors misogynistic stance that Diane Arbus one of the art worlds most singular and original woman photographers was incapable of forming her own ideas about her work While his previous film Secretary was a study of female masochism his continued portrayal of the female as submissive spoils this film completely and flys in the face of the real life Diane Arbus courage tenacity and fearlessness in singlehandedly exploring the often shady world of outsiders Imagine an imaginary biopic on pop star Madonnas life with Guy Richie as her Svengali the man behind her career and youll get a feel of how seriously flawed and imaginary this film is It can only work if you have absolutely no knowledge of the subject or just choose to ignore all the facts Its a shame because once you remove all reference to Diane Arbus this film could have stood up on its own as an interesting study on fetishism and a good companion piece to Secretary 410

I love all his work but this looks like nothing sorry This looks more like a David Lynch copycat I think people like it only because its from David Lynch

This is a FANTASTIC film Hána is a very old guy with a very young heart He knows how to live his live fully everyday by teaming up with his friend making pranks on just about everything even his own death While his wife cant deal with his irresponsible behavior she also knows that its exactly why she loves her husband for almost half century I would love to hang out with this old guy because he knows how to enjoy live and never fear of death He is joyful witty mischievous and never boring Vlastimil Brodský brilliantly played Hána at the age of 79 Every look from his eyes and every move from his aging muscles deliver so much about the character to the audience This is a film that leaves a big smile on my face afterwards and it makes me look at my own live a little closer Tomorrow I am gonna go and buy myself a mansion and have some fun If Hána can so can I But I think I will skip the smoking part

This one took me by surprise because i had often been disappointed by Adrian Pasdar in the past but he caught the perfect balance in this performance avoiding both farce and pathos while delivering humour and real emotions The alwayswonderful Julie Waters is terrific here and anyone who has not yet scene her in 1983s Educating Rita should rent it immediately marvelous film The rest of the supporting characters are wellplayed as well many marvelously eccentric without going over the top This one is fun

So funny is the perfect way to describe this 12 minutes spoof of the original Star Wars Hardware Wars is incredibly funny It is presented as the trailer of the space epic Hardware Wars The joke is this imagine Star Wars played by bad actors and incredibly bad special effects The characters include the intergalactic boywonder Fluke Starbucker the ace mercenary and intergalactic wise guy Ham Salad Darph Nader villain and a host of other fantastic characters It is impossible not to laugh as you watch this 12 minutes treasure Its stupid but its fun You will laugh from the start to the end and you will feel the need to watch it again and again and again and again And you will laugh every time you see it 10 out of 10 The funniest 12 minutes ever made You will believe it lasted a minute

Im fan of ART I like anything about Art I like paintings sculptures etc This movie shows it so I like it a lot it shows how a woman wants to paint anything about Art especially naked bodies but she cant do it because of her strict family father at the beginning of the movie she painted herself naked but she wanted a man for her paintings but her family didnt let her paint naked men because its against the moral Even so Artemisia could paint her boyfriend and her art teacher completely naked She falls in love with her art teacher and it seems the art teacher is absolutely in love with her too so at the ending he sacrifices his freedom for hers by lying He said that he raped her but it wasnt true Artemisia fell in love with him but if she says that she will suffer a lot because in the trial in which Artemisia her father and the Art teacher were somebody was hurting her artistic hands to say the truth I think this a great movie about ART and an artistic love Its worth watching Valentina Cervi is great as Artemisia she acts very well I also like her performance in The portrait of a lady as Pansy Osmond 8510

I just got done watching Kalifornia on Showtime for the fourth time since I first saw it back in July of 2001 You would think that with the recent wave of serial killer films that Kalifornia would be amongst some of the earlier films worthy of mention but hasnt Perhaps if this film had been released sometime between like 19961999 maybe it might have been more successful In my opinion Kalifornia is much different from most serial killer films released during the late 1990s It has an almost completely different atmosphere from most of todays serial killer films like Seven or The Bone Collector Many serial killer films have shown a killer but that person is always behind a mask or we never see enough of them to actually learn anything about them Kalifornia is a film that actually tries to break through that barrier and actually understand the criminal mind It tries to answer questions like why do they do the things they do Is it because of something that happened in their past Does it make them feel superior or powerful Or do they do it because they like the thrill of the kill These are some of the things that Kalifornia tries to answer but also leaves room for us to try and figure things out for ourselves Brad Pitt makes an everlasting impression as Early Grayce When we first meet Early in the beginning of the film we see that he is obviously one disturbed individual When we first see him its late at night Early is possibly drunk We then see him pick up a rock throw it off a bridge and it later lands on the windshield of a passing car Pitt is fierce in this film It is always good to see him when he plays psychos or really bad people Its funny that this would later lead him play a true loon like in 12 Monkeys and that he would be on the other end of the spectrum in David Finchers Seven

Seriously all these Satan comes to Earth movies always involve the Catholics Why doesnt Lucifer ever mess with the other denominations The plot is that Asmodeus Played by former Jason Vorhees Kane Hodder has a plot to become human but wasnt he always a demon by getting this young girl who is his sister pregnant with his child Except maybe she isnt his sister The plot isnt clear on this and they intersplice these scenes where he is seeing a shrink about his problem The lead girl gets pregnant while still a virgin with an incredibly creepy scene of her father giving her a gynecological exam to prove her hymen is still intact Eeeewwwwww Her sister played by a washed up and looking much worse for wear Denise Crosby concludes that this is a sign from heaven Praise be Well the demon baby takes moms body for a joy ride and picks off in order a truck driver her friends boyfriend and her friend all being watched by an exmilitary priest whose mission is to kill the baby when it is born We discover that Asmodeus is actually a Catholic Cardinal who is running the whole thing The ending is pretty much incomprehensible and if you could make it that far straight through you have a stronger stomach than I did I paused the film a couple of times it was so awful

I really liked this movie I have seen several Gene Kelly flicks and this is one of his best I would actually put it above his more famous American in Paris Sometimes it seems the story gets lost in Gene Kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers but not in this movie It is definitely worth renting

I guess my husband and I are a little slow We dont usually warm up to a series until they are almost at the end of their production life In this case we didnt start watching KoQs until almost the 6th season Im not sure how it escaped our radar for so long Other than the fact that we are not big fans of appointment TV viewing Our schedules our such that we dont like to commit to watching series every time they come on and we didnt have a DVR yet So I guess it wasnt until TBS starting running reruns on their daily lineup in the evenings that we started watching consistently By the time we got hooked there were only a couple more seasons left before the series was canceled But we still watch it almost daily on TBS I almost prefer to see series this way because you can watch multiple episodes day after day and it helps to build continuity and whats going on with the characters without having to wait a whole week But the episodes stand alone in the since that the stories dont carry over from week to week But that is fine with me because you can watch an episode then miss weeks and still pick back up My only criticism is the writing wasnt always consistent Some episodes would be outrageously hilarious and then some would only be mildly funny So Im not sure it had the quality of writers that Seinfeld or Raymond had But I loved the casting and the characters are all quite believable and realistic Kevin James is just plain funny to look at So even if the plot isnt that great James body language and expressions make the show worth watching Leah Remini is great as the playitstraight wife I think its harder to play the straight character for laughs than the comedic character and she does a great job She has a knack at sarcasm and insults like no one else She is one tough cookie And who can forget Arthur as Carries dad who lives with them in their basement This a great series and I was sorry when it cancelled But a big thanks to TBS for keeping the King alive in reruns

Yes this movie has kids going to space camp and it starts out okay enough as you have the kids meeting one another and learning the ropes Then they introduce Jinx a robot that could not possibly exist in 1986 as they do not have anything with that kind of artificial intelligence now Kid becomes buddy with robot and robot repays the kids kindness by shooting him and a group of other kids in this camp into outer space with a very limited oxygen supply and radios that do not have the signal to reach into space This camp is also not very fun as these kids are put to real training and the instructors get all over them for failing missions or not doing the right things Give it a rest they are there for fun not to become astronauts just yet just give them the experience of space flight not a military like camp However you do get to see Joaquin Phoenix in a fairly early role So in the end a movie that tries to be realistic in some areas but with the introduction of Jinx and other factors you might as well had the kids battle space aliens on top of everything else that was happening in the movie as that would have made the movie a bit more enjoyable at least for me Probably for a few others as well who else would like to see Kate Capshaws face ripped apart by some strange super alien creature

I gave this movie a 5 out of pure pity My intention is not to burst anyones bubble because Ive seen as Ive skimmed through other comments that this movie is quite appreciated by many Well it is not worth any praises and I say this because Ive seen the original anime Basilisk and this movie shames it deeply Perhaps if you see Shinobi alone you could like it It is enjoyable due to the wellchoreographed battles based on fantasy more than on martial arts and I agree that their beauty is deeply enhanced But the story is nothing like the original one Now I understand that when one transforms an animemanga into a movie one must make certain changes I was not expecting to see the freakish characters from the anime although they have a wellestablished role and some are truly profound and welldesigned But I certainly did not expect to see immense and wronglyplaced changes that basically ruin the entire story Characters who are dramatically and unethically mutilated transformed in something the public might love more perhaps For instance Oboro who in the anime is a sweet innocent girl completely and utterly in love with Gennosuke becomes a vengeful clan leader in the movie I liked the fact that the woman becomes strong and evades the limitations imposed on her by the era we are talking about Japan 17th century but her mood changes are unbelievable and badly written Hotarubi which is one of my favourite characters in the film but who is not known for her childish and sensitive nature becomes a pathetic little girl who is not only not madly in love like in the anime but is more or less worthless in the plot I could go on and on like how they made Tenzen the worst and most dangerous character in the anime exceptionally weak and unattractive or how Gennosuke the leading character seems completely misplaced and confused not to mention again WEAK The music is beautiful and the image is astounding which was expected of a Japanese movie and I appreciate it for that But do not watch this if youve seen and enjoyed Basilisk because it is just hopeless Basilisk although based on fantasy with elements of horror and largely exaggerated is splendid and has so much more depth in its characters storyline historical value and it is may I say heartbreaking Shinobi was a waste of time and I could not believe it kept on going after what was supposed to be the climax Alas it pains me deeply to judge a movie so harshly but I advise you against it Please watch the anime or at least watch the movie first and then repair your image of what Basilisk really is by watching the anime Otherwise you will have a seizure when you realize how theyve massacred it

this is a TV movie based on the murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich in the mid 1970sbased how much on truth its hard to tellthis much is certainit is based on the book written by Mark Fuhrmananywaythe movie depicts the crime in flashbacks and its aftermathincluding the arrest of a suspectsome 25 years afterwho was never considered a suspect at the timein the movieFuhram of course is largely responsible for the arrest and closure of the case for Marthas surviving familyin particular her motherthe narrative of the film is by the ghost of Martha Moxleytalking in the first personthis is a very effective device in this movieto meit adds more impact to the movieand puts a human face on the murder victimif only an actress playing the partMaggie grace plays Marthaand i was really impressed with herthere is no way for certain to know Mark Fuhrmans motive in investigating the crimeit could have been out of a sense of justice and maybe he really caredor maybe he just saw dollar signs from a future bestselling bookeither wayit makes for an interesting movieits well acted and fairly fast pacedi dont think there was a lot of extraunnecessary stuff in the moviejust what was needed to tell the storyone could argue that they left out things that would have shed a bit more light on the proceedingsand one would be rightalsoone may argue that the ending was abrupt and again one would be rightbutas i saidfor mei think they told the story with at least most of the essentialsanything else would have likely required a miniseriesas an asidethere is a miniseries entitled A Season in Purgatory which came out 6 years ealier1996which this movie has some parallels toeven if only fainthoweverif you like this movieThen you may be interested in A Season in Purgatory it is my belief that a Season in Purgatory is in fact a fictionalized account of the same crimeanywayfor meMurder in Greenwich is an 810

Bled is a very apt title for this As you watch it you will feel your life being bled from you The cliché in horrors is about people doing exactly what they shouldnt going down into the basement or going up into the attic Then the trouble ensues Take heed then DONT watch this film Show the brains that victims in horror movies never do Stay clear Do not enter And if you need anymore incentive This film is as bad as the worst Uwe Boll film I mean The house of the dead bad I have often thought about entering a review of a film on IMDB and after watching some based on the comments herein I discovered I guess everyones entiled to hisher opinion Please trust me on mine

This movie doesnt even deserve a one This was an utter waste of time It was a waste of film and money It was not offensive but everything was provocative and disgusting My spoiler is one that I think should be read by everyone There is full frontal nudity and disgusting language But not only that there is NO plot line the actors are terrible the accents are horrible the actors are small time and I was even EXCITED to watch this movie The only reason I rented it was for Brian van Holt who got only a fifteen second part by the way I think this might have been a mistake on the directors and editors parts but they repeated the same segments two or three times adding only a new sentence A film similar to this is Eraser Head possibly the most disturbing movie in existence There is no plot line and is not funny Although it isnt trying to be funny DO NOT WATCH EITHER MOVIE

Miriam Hopkins is The Lady with Red Hair in this 1940 biopic of Mrs Leslie Carter which also stars Claude Rains as David Belasco Richard Ainley as Lou Payne and a fine cast of supporting players including Laura Hope Crews and Victor Jory Miriam Hopkins and Claude Rains give wonderful performances Hopkins was a beautiful actress who really makes us feel for Mrs Carter Rains is great as the flamboyant egotistical producerwriteractorimpresario David Belasco one of the great names in theater Though Mrs Carters second husband Lou Payne served as adviser on this film its a poor representation of the real events of Mrs Carters life True there was a much publicized and bitter divorce and she was undoubtedly viewed as a scandalous character for that and for becoming an actress However she had custody of her son Dudley so there was no custody battle Once she broke with Belasco she did not go back to him and in fact started working in vaudeville and actually made some films toward the end of her life She did indeed marry Lou and he became her leading man in many productions The driving force for Mrs Carter in the beginning of this film is regaining custody of her son but she finally realizes that in her time away from him he is thoroughly bonded with his father In the film also and Im not sure if it was true in real life she traveled with her mother and lived in a theatrical boarding house which gives the film some added interesting atmosphere Not a bad movie probably not a depiction of the greatness of either Carter or Belasco One of Mrs Carters most famous moments was in The Heart of Maryland where she wore a wig with sixfoot tresses Offstage fans blew her hair as she hung 35 feet above the stage clutching the center of a bell to keep it from ringing Quite a visual

Kurosawa fresh into color losses sight of his usual themes of truth and perception of reality and opts for a depressing take on Tokyos slums Kurosawa stretches for a style that was in my opinion his antithesis that is to say I feel as if Kurosawa wanted to make an Ozu picture Poorly paced poorly conceived this movie is a rare dud in this auteur body of excellent work While Ikiru while being mundane and depressing was still interesting and well paced and while Stray Dog depicted the slums and social poverty of Japan without being too heavy handed or boring do desu ka den has all the somberness that one could expect with its content with none of the redeeming qualities of earlier Kurosawa pictures Be warned this is not a movie that Kurosawa should be judged by

This movie tries hard but completely lacks the fun of the 1960s TV series that I am sure people do remember with fondness Although I am 17 I watched some of the series on YouTube a long time ago and it was enjoyable and fun Sadly this movie does little justice to the series The special effects are rather substandard and this wasnt helped by the flat camerawork The script also was dull and lacked any sense of wonder and humour Other films with underpar scripting are Home Alone 4 Cat in the Hat Thomas and the Magic Railroad and Addams Family Reunion Now I will say I liked the idea of the story but unfortunately it was badly executed and ran out of steam far too early and I am honestly not sure for this reason this is something for the family to enjoy And I was annoyed by the talking suit despite spirited voice work from Wayne Knight But the thing that angered me most about this movie was that it wasted the talents of Christopher Lloyd Jeff Daniels and Daryl Hannah all very talented actors Jeff Daniels has pulled off some good performances before but he didnt seem to have a clue what he was supposed to be doing and Elizabeth Hurleys character sadly came across as useless Daryl Hannah is a lovely actress and generally ignored and I liked the idea of her being the love interest but sadly you see very little of hernot to mention the Monster attack is likely to scare children than enthrall them likewise with Wallace Shawn as some kind of government operative Christopher Lloyd acquits himself better and as an actor I like Lloyd a lothe was in two of my favourite films Clue and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and I am fond of Back To The Future but he was given little to work with and had a tendency to overact quite wildly Overall as much I wanted to like this movie I was left unimpressed Instead of being fun it came across as pointless and that is a shame because it had a lot of potential with some talented actors and a good idea but wasted with poor execution 110 Bethany Cox

This show is freaking hilarious the jokes are original god and i Love Eric and Kelso yeah i know what they say after the 8th season its not funny anymore because Eric and Kelso are no longer in the show and Randy is a real dumbass Randy is comparing to Eric and Kelso you cant take the funniest characters and switch em with Im a cool guy kind of guy Randy it isnt his fault anyway but the writers are trying to keep the 8th season funny its still is not as much as the earlier seasons but its alright the 360s are awesome the circle Red is a real kind of mentalabusing dad and kitty is always halfhigh halfpie Hyde tries to be cool all the time he has his moments too the least favrioutes characters are Jackie and Donna theyre cool but not without Kelso and Eric great show Dumbass

One of the best movies for all ages You will never be able to look at LION KING again without thinking of the extra history this movie adds Nearly 40 years old I watched this with my wife and two sons after work tonight I have not laughed enjoyed a movie so much in a long time Take time out and watch this with the kids It will remind you of how Disney used to be when you were a young one

I really did like this show once upon a time That is until I realized all the faults in it Its so unrealistic I know its fiction but it isnt even the slightest bit believable Heres why Spoilers ahead folks Are we really supposed to believe that a kid like Yugi would be descended from a Pharaoh of ancient Egypt Cmon Hes the biggest nerd on the face of the Earth And whats up with the Pharaoh aka Atem andor Yamis hair Last I checked Pharaohs were shaved except for a small bit of hair atop the head and wore fancy hats And are we supposed to be convinced that an evil wealthy boy genius named Seto Kaiba can legally run a successful business while still having time to go to a shoddy little school like Domino High Puhleeze First off hed have to legally be an adult to run a company And that would make him not really all too much of a boy genius since hed be the only adult in his class And second off why would he attend a school like Domino High when his business is clearly successful enough for him to attend a fancy snobbish academy Plus the side plots with his little brother are so sappy and lame Every time you turn around that kids been kidnapped by goons for the baddie yawn Nothing new nothing new Joey is the poor kid who lives with a goodfornothing father It says that Joey earns all the money to attend his school because his fathers an alcoholic but you never once see Joey do anything that resembles work He doesnt even mention work And his sister Serenity is a complete moron Why would she choose a snob like Duke who dressed her brother in a dog costume and publicly humiliated him on television over a nice guy like Tristan Is she really that clueless Various characters throughout the show get possessed by demonic forces get their souls stolen by demonic forces and fall prey to mental illness Oh thats childsafe NOT Tea is the typical girlnextdoor type whose only purpose is to be YugiYamis girlfriend And while she has some cool points to her she just doesnt have enough time to shine as a main character The animation is simply awful All the characters look sickly and anorexic The perspectives are terrible especially when they do closeups of somebodys hand and the colors look good but not stellar But the worst plot hole to the series was the fact that Yami says that his Millennium Puzzle can send souls back to their bodies If this was so how come he didnt save Yugis Grandpa in the first place when Pegasus stole his soul and save himself the trouble of getting it back All it really is is a commercial for itself The only plus side to it is YuGiOh The Abridged Series by LittleKuriboh Please Do something more worthwhile Like watch the Abridged version 110

This is a great movie The best role Peter Strauss ever did The music is good the message harsh the actors great and the story is both emotional and raw Only in the seventies did they make them like this one

John Wayne Albert Dekker compete for oil rights on Indian territory and for the attention of Martha Scott in this Republic Pictures film shot out of Utah USA An interesting Western of sorts due to its characters and its more modern setting with Wayne Dekker playing the old and new factions of the West Its based on a story by Thomson Burtis who cowrites the script along with Eleanore Griffin and Ethel Hill Albert Rogell directs in the workmanlike way that befits his career A pretty mundane story is in truth saved by its final third where thankfully the action picks up and we are treated to something resembling a pulse The light hearted approach to the romantic strand doesnt sit quite right and a glorious fist fight between the two protagonists is ruined by Rogell being unable to disguise the stunt men doing the work But hey stunt men deserve their moment of glory always Solid support comes from George Gabby Hayes and Wayne as usual has much screen charisma particularly when rattling off his pistol But in spite of its better than usual Republic budget it remains a film of interest only to 1940s Wayne enthusiasts 410

I was intrigued by the nasty boss character as I am one myself and the actual bosss daughter was attractive and it was interesting to see an even younger Ashton Kushner but this movie is so puerile I had to turn it off It was a waste of time to watch it When people started peeing all over the living room it was too much to watch Painful awful crap movie If they had just toned it down a little Are there really people out there that find it funny and like it I was relieved to know that IMDb readers rated it so low The career side to the story was intriguing as well as the young man trying to get a promotion and win the bosses favor I liked that part Also the opening scene with the coworkers on the train was cool as I like his coworkers characters If you can stomach nonsense movies or you are pretty young then it might be one you can stomach

During 1933 this film had many cuts taken from it because it was very over the top for the story content and the fact that Lily PowersBarbara Stanwyck would do anything to obtain great wealth and power Lilys father had forced his daughter into prostitution at the age of 14 and she grew up in a steel mill of a town with very poor people and her father ran a speakeasy which brought into his home all kinds of male characters who had their eye on Lily As the story progresses Lily meets up with man after man and eventually finds a guy who has everything and is a playboy bank president It is great to see a very young John Wayne Jimmy McCoy Jr who was only 25 when this picture was produced and Jimmy did not even get to first base with Lily not even for lunch A very young George Brent Coutland Trenholm stars along with Barbara Stanwyck and both gave outstanding performances This is a great film from 1933 which was produced by Darryl F Zanuck and was locked up in a fault for many years and just recently is being shown on the silver screen This film is rather mild compared to what we view on the Hollywood screens today but in 1933 it was very naughty to watch this type of film Enjoy

There have been race pictures almost from the beginnings of the movie business Films starring almost entirely black casts have been made by segregated Poverty Row studios more often than not owned by Caucasians for ghetto theaters With the growing urban blight during the 1970s this idea was revived with a wave of blaxploitation pictures made for urban grind houses which overlaid black actors and funky atmosphere over traditional B movie plots This trend even spread into horror features with titles like Blacula Blackenstein and Sugar Hill serving up blaxploitation versions of monster standards And it didnt die with the closing of most urban theaters it just slowly eased into the video age and continues with low budget directtoDVD releases like this one Ed and Jose Quirozs Hood of the Living Dead adopts the recent popularity of horror movies for the hiphop audience Ricky Carl Washington is a young scientist in Oakland trying to keep his younger brother Jermaine Brandon Daniels out of trouble after the death of their parents After Jermaine is shot by drug dealers in a driveby Ricky decides to use the experimental cell regenerating formula hes been working on in an attempt to save the teens life Apparently his efforts are for naught and Jermaines body is taken away However the body never makes it to the morgue Jermaine reanimates in the coroners van as a fleshhungry zombie He kills the drivers then goes after the gang that killed him spreading the zombie infection wherever he goes Having heard from Jermaines friends Kevin Derek Taylor II and Marco Raul Martinez about the attack on the gangsters Ricky feels that the only thing to do is to capture Jermaine and try to cover up the whole matter before he and his accomplice Scott Chris Angelo get arrested for the mayhem theyve caused However they soon find that the contagion is spreading too fast for them to control it By keeping things simple the Quiroz team manages to produce an entertaining little horror feature without overextending themselves to the point where things start to look shoddy Along the way they also add in a few interesting bits of business When first confronted with a zombie Scott tells Ricky Shoot him in the head like in the movies an effective as any way to discover how to kill zombies An extra twist is added when the first head shot doesnt kill the brain adding to viewer unease Another good point is that the soundtrack makes only limited use of subEminem style rap laying in standard creepy music throughout

I have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by its homely simplicity sincerity and goodness Great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting roleI confess I fell in love with Roberta in 1970 and she still touches me today Shown on TV in New Zealand on Christmas day the nicest present I could have had

This is one of the funniest movies ever made And for those of you who dont get it its supposed to be funny So often comedies try to be so intentionally funny that it misses but here is finally a movie that succeeds in being hilarious in the most subtle of ways Even spoofs lack the originality and natural feel of this film It is a comedic classic that will surely be appreciated in another time when studios are fdoing this sort of thing regularly kudos to the makers and to a hilariously subtle cast of actors including Isaac Wade whose performances is topnotch Truly a real breakout star performance by an true underrated stage actor Itll be great to see this guy get his due

Stereotypical send up of slasher flicks falls far short as supposed entertainment Gerrit Graham Michael Lerner Zane Busby and in fact the entire cast are totally wasted Lame jokes abound and every punch line is well telegraphed The dumb one liners come at a fast pace and almost every one falls flat as a squashed grape The musical numbers only contribute to the boredom that sets in and lingers for the entire movie Another negative is the claustrophobic setting entirely within the walls of an abandoned high school Avoid this and seek out one of Lampoons truly funny films like National Lampoons Golddiggers MERK

Dexter Kurt Russell returns from The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes for a new adventure that can stand alone Dexter ever the college student prone to misadventure has an idea for a formula to render things invisible Dean Higgins Joe Flynn is less than impressed and sets his hopes for winning a lucrative science prize with the pupil studying bees However the bees sting the student and he turns out to be allergic There goes THAT chance for a prize But wait Dexter does it He actually concocts a liquid that makes him invisible Trouble is a unscrupulous businessman Cesar Romero learns about it and decides he can use that formula thank you for something illegal Can he manage to steal the bottle out from under Dexters nose This is a companion movie to the TCWT but one need not have seen the first film to enjoy this one Russell is a genial leading screwup who comes through when it really counts The rest of the cast is also a dream with Flynn Romero Jim Bacchus and others showing why their comic abilities are still held in high regard today The script is just innocent fun that is charming with the special effects somewhat simple by todays standards but effective nonetheless If you want to sit down and relive a bygone era or just want to share a quality Grated film with your family this is a great choice Although it is over 30 years old there is a great possibility that even now you will see your loved ones giggle away the blues with a showing of this fine flick

Frankly after Cotton club and Unfaithful it was kind of embarrassing to watch Lane and Gere in this film because it is BAD The acting was bad the dialogs were extremely shallow and insincere It was well shot but then again it is a big budget movie It was too predictable even for a chick flick I even knew from the beginning that he was going to die in the end the only thing I didnt know was how Too politically correct Very disappointing The only thing really worth watching was the scenery and the house because it is beautiful But if you want that watch National geographic I love Lane but Ive never seen her in a movie this lousy As far as Gere goes hes a good actor but he had movies like this so Im not surprised An hour and a half I wish I could bring back

Not a film of entertainment but of real lives limited ambition for the working class in 60s Enjoyable because of my upbringing not sure itd work for most people Typical Loach Full of TV actorsactresses of 70s80s90s

Red Sonja is flawed weak and lacking Even the campness isnt good There are only two good things about Red Sonja The costumes even though the Red Sonja costume is ridiculous Its ironic that a girl who is even afraid to be touched by men because she was raped still choose to wear so few little clothes even when it rains and the music by Ennio Morricone Still the movie is somewhat watchable but certainly not recommendable The story is extremely simple and they didnt even bother to make it interesting The story could have been forgotten if there had been some good action sequences and some humor both are present but are seriously flawed in many ways The movie takes itself too serious and tries to impress but fails completely Brigitte Nielsen is an horrible leading lady I dont know whos accent is worse Hers or Arnies and on top of that She cant act There is also absolutely no chemistry between the two characters which makes the love story totally unbelievable Even worse was Sandahl Bergman as the main villain who acts more poorly than a paper bag Ronald Lacey was somewhat good in his role but my God he looked horrible he changed so much since his only well known role in Raiders of the Lost Ark Maybe it had something to do with his illness which claimed his life in 1991 And by the way what was with all those Raiders of the Lost Ark actors in this movie Next to Ronald Lacey Pat Roach Terry Richards and Tutte Lemkow appeared in a role it seemed like some kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark reunion The only times when the movie gets a bit interesting is during the swordfights even though some of them are needless and weak Only really watchable for the fans of the fantasygenre 410

Youve seen the same tired worn out clichéd sitcom stories characters stories 1000s 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 lifesupport the line to pull the plug would be light years long How this show finished one complete season much less 2 is a mystery FOX cancels Arrested Development and keeps this on the air You tell me the terrorists arent winning

What a waste of time and money My hubby and I saw this movie after seeing the previews and thinking it might be funny WRONG This movie is about 90 minutes too long The actors are trapped in a poorly written script and cant get out The jokes are weak and tired and not even seeing Wilsons naked behind can redeem any part of this film The special effectsarent I half expected to see the harness and wires holding up Uma in her flying scenes And when the effects people apparently could not master the superheros fasterthanaspeedingbullet flying or fight scenes they covered over everything with a swirling vortex of blurred screen which hid the awful effects quite nicely Wilsons sidekick was a lame excuse for a man and Wilson had no chemistry with either Uma or his office coworker The sex scenes werent sexy and the funny scenes werent funny I guess I just expected too much from these actors None of the characters were really sympathetic so I ended up not caring a flying fig about any of them The only memorable performances were the kids who played Bedlam and GGirl as teenagers at least THEY had some chemistry Overall a super stinko movie I wouldnt even recommend it as a rental it would still be a waste of money

I mean really This is not going to help the Australian film industry to make this kind of film with no values of any kind Okay if youre a stoner and have nothing better to do then maybe I think filmmakers from here should try to show the rest of the world what great talented people we have and this is not the vehicle for it Come on now this film is just tacky

Wonderfully put togetherI wish there was a follow up to this documentary to follow up with the lives of some and celebrate the lives of others lostthere should be a part twoa real one It was greatthe film wasnt long enoughI would like to know why the creator of the film did not follow up this is so important to the community periodwell if your are reading this please consider doing another documentary of this sortI am really tired of hearing from naive writers how AIDS and Men go together when they dont actually its the heteros that we need to look intothis film didnt even bother to mention HIV or AIDS and I was so glad for thatI really appreciated the break downs and definitions too Thank you s much for allowing this film to exist

The first Home Alone was a decent enough film the sequel was pretty much the same at a new setting This one tries to be original and succeeds to some degree of course the formula is basically the same so its like watching the same movie for a third time with slightly altered plot The new score is quite badthough the new setting traps piece was if nothing else interesting and different especially compared to the grand score of the first and the almostbutnotquiteasgood score of the second It almost makes up for it by using some pretty good nonoriginal music but its just not the same The plot is fair and somewhat original to the franchise but its still basically the same movie as the first two with worse acting and a less impressive example of the scary character turning out to be good The acting is mostly unimpressive The characters are mostly caricatures The new thieves are less entertaining than the old onesand they make fun of spystuff which is almost criminal given the limited amount of good spy flicks there are and how precious few of them are cool The fact that there are more of themand thereby more traps is just a weak attempt at trying to go one higher than the first two films and it doesnt work The idea behind the thieves and their mission is a tad too adult and serious for a childrens filmand there was a sexual joke or two though that isnt the first time in the series Its also unnecessarily complex as is the plot in general I could follow it but I doubt a kid could Some of the exposition are delivered so obviously that even children may find it stupid The animal stuff is generally not amusing There are fewer siblings which should mean that those there are get developed more but they have less personality than the least featured of those of the first two films All in all just not particularly good or worth watching unless you really love watching criminals getting hurt in cartoony violence I recommend this to huge fans of the series only 310

This is such an exciting documentary it was by far one of the most fun films Ive ever seen I highly recommend it to anyone Its such a fun look at different musical styles exciting people at the crossroads between modern and traditional that is Istanbul and great cinematography that captures beautiful scenes in Istanbul and Thrace Watching the film made me want to book a flight for Istanbul right away Great footage of Ceza a Turkish rapper Also his sister Ayben rapping she is awesome Priceless performances by amazing Turkish musicians Orhan Gencebay Sezen Aksu Muzeyyen Senar The gorgeous voice of Aynur singing in Kurdish And amazing clarinet and signing of a romany gypsy group from Thrace Last but not least Istanbul bands mixing Turkish music and rock as well as trance music Baba Zula Orient Expressions Duman and others

Screwball comedy about romantic mismatches in New York City Peter Bogdanovich is obviously in love with all the women in his picturehe reveres themyet Audrey Hepburn is naturally put a notch above the others because after all shes the princess Bogdanovich probably fell in love with at the movies 30 years prior He shoots her in loving closeups gets right in the sheets between her and a wonderfully hardboiledsoftboiled Ben Gazzara and allows her room to sparkle throughout The loveconnections made in the course of the film are fast and amusing though I did tire of John Ritters TVstyled klutziness Colleen Camp Dorothy Stratten and the grounded earthysensual Patti Hansen are all exciting to watch But its really Hepburns valentine and she absolutely glows from

Cradle of Fear This isnt a movie where intricate delicate little narrative nuances occupy our attention This is not a film where the special effects are supposed to leave us slackjacked uttering that sense of whoa What it is though is a slice of lofi goth horror which leaves little to the imagination created in the eyes of the director Alex Chandon as a throwback to sleazy 70s and 80s horror This is a very visceral experience for 2 hours where four plot lines are connected through lots of watery blood reams of dismembered body parts and innards tied by an intestinal thread of revenge The purveyor of such horrific violence is Dani Filth leadsinger of the metal band Cradle of Filth executing a role he was destined to play As others have said there is nothing new about wanting to carryout occultist revenge In this particular context a convicted sexual predator and murderer Kemper the father of our devilish avengingangel compels his son to exact retribution on those who are some how connected to convicting him to purgatory within an insane asylum What this provides for the Chandon who should be congratulated on also penning and editing this piece is the opportunity to let his sick mind run free He seems to take delight in the idea of splattering blood into the orifices of those on screen and into every nook and cranny that can be reached We are also treated to closeups of skulls being crushed demonic rape and other assorted imagery to engage those who relish getting up close and personal to their horror And for some of those who closely follow these type of films there is the odd sequence which may have you thinking Did I just see what I thought I did because of course Pretty Woman this aint It reminds me of some of the gorefests created out of Italian horror some 20 to 30 years ago and a number of other works where disgusting images have left their mark but not the context in which they were viewed Story 4 of the set is particularly intriguing where the idea of ones obsession can ultimately lead to death in the pursuit of internet violence through the Sick Room where the user is in control of how a life can be snuffed out Further acknowledgements should also go out to a pounding soundtrack that allows Filth to exercise his daytime talent and an effective use of drum and bass often overlooked in filmmaking as a viable form of supporting visuals Using the city of London as a backdrop with real people as opposed to movie standins also adds support to the commando feel of the film OK classic it may not be but blood guts intestines occult and demons in a slightly perverse unproblematic way it is

A very sweet movie about a young Chinese man enamored of western technology and an Englishman trying to make his fortune showing movies in China Its a very interesting story that is presumably based on true events although Im assuming its more fantasy than real Its got a fairy tale quality you rarely get in real life and its also got 8 people credited for the script so they must have been making up stuff right and left This is a very likable movie that conveys how magical film was to people who had never seen it before It is not an especially deep movie touching briefly on the loss of tradition and the encroachment of western culture but mainly just being a pleasant little movie Its actually a movie I enjoyed very much that is already beginning to disappear from my mind 15 minutes after seeing it Light as a soufflé but I enjoyed every minute

Soldier Blue is a movie with pretensions pretensions to be some sort of profound statement on mans inhumanity to man on the white mans exploitation of and brutality towards indigenous peoples a biting unflinching and sardonic commentary on the horrors of Vietnam Well sorry but it fails miserably to be any of those things What Soldier Blue actually is is pernicious trite badly made dishonest rubbish Another reviewer here hit the nail on the head in saying that it appears to be a hybrid of two entirely different movies What it is basically is a lame clichéd poorly acted odd couple romance Strauss and Bergen overcoming their prejudices about the others lifestyle and falling in love ah bless bookended by two sickening massacres which wouldnt have been out of place in a Lucio Fulci splatter flick There is no excuse for the repulsive prurient goredrenched climax in which cute little native American children are variously shot sliced dismembered and impaled in loving and graphic closeup and largebreasted native American women are molested raped and strung up no excuse that is except box office The massacre itself whilst repulsive in its misplaced intention is very badly staged and shot a bunch of actors lying around with bright red paint smeared on them intercut with a few specialeffects sequences of beheadingdismemberment dismemberments incidentally which utilised real amputees in their filming Now thats what I call exploitation Forget all the pap youve heard including the ludicrous commentaries that begin and end the movie about this being a protest an indictment of American brutality towards the native peoples This film doesnt give a stuff about the plight of the Cheyenne had it done so it would have featured some involving native American characters would have led us to get to know and to care about the nameless faceless innocents who get slaughtered at the climax Instead what we get is the silly white bread romance of Bergen and Strauss lousy actors both in this at least with plenty of blood guts and severed heads thrown in to attract the curious Which is a terrible shame because there is a movie to be made about the Sand Creek massacre about all of the real life massacres the US and Britain and all socalled civilised nations have participated in over the centuries Iraq this just isnt that movie

This is a great movie that I dont think gets enough credit as Saturday Night Fever or Grease in John Travoltas career He plays a man who is in love with a girl but is too pig headed to admit his feelings to her Instead he wants to engage in mechanical bull riding because he thinks it will show his manhood Even though it was made in 1980 it is still timely today The great country music soundtrack is terrific 1010

On watching this film I was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity Karen Carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother Richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs As with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc THis had a huge effect on Karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death This heart felt film was not initially something which I would have thought of watching But on starting to view it then I was hooked In the same way that the Tina Turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life The acting was superb and even after nearly 20 years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining I would recommend this to anyone who hasnt yet watched it It is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged

Nononsense Inspector Hollaway a solid turn by John Bennett investigates the disappearance of a famous thespian and uncovers the wicked past history of a creepy old house First and most mundane tale Method for Murder Successful author Charles Hillyer nicely played by Denholm Elliott is haunted by images of the murderous fiend hes writing about in his latest book Although this particular outing is too obvious and predictable to be anything special it does nonetheless build to a real dilly of a genuine surprise ending Second and most poignant anecdote Waxworks Lonely Philip Grayson the always outstanding Peter Cushing and his equally lonesome friend Neville Rogers the splendid Joss Ackland both become infatuated with the beguiling wax statue of a beautiful but lethal murderess Third and most chilling vignette Sweets to the Sweet Quiet reserved and secretive widower John Reid a typically terrific Christopher Lee in a rare semisympathetic role hires nanny Ann Norton the fine Nyree Dawn Porter to take care of his seemingly cute and harmless daughter Jane a remarkably spooky and unnerving performance by the adorable Chloe Franks This standout scary episode is given a substantial disturbing boost by the exceptional acting from gifted child actress Franks who projects a truly unsettling sense of serene evil lurking just underneath a deceptively sweet and innocent angelic veneer Fourth and most amusing yarn The Cloak Pompous horror movie star Paul Henderson delightfully essayed to the haughty hilt by Jon Pertwee purchases a mysterious cloak that causes him to transform into a vampire whenever he wears it This item makes for good silly fun and further benefits from the awesomely pulchritudinous presence of the luscious Ingrid Pitt as enticing vampiress Carla Director Peter Duffell working from a deliciously macabre and witty script by noted horror scribe Robert Bloch maintains a snappy pace throughout and does an ace job of creating a suitably eerie atmosphere Kudos are also in order for Ray Parslows crisp cinematography and the shuddery score by Michael Dress Highly recommended to fans of omnibus fright fare

I had never heard about this movie when it was given to me to translate so I didnt know what to expect I checked it out on IMDb and got curious It didnt take long to realize that this was a gem Outstanding performances great story and its both well directed and well written Its hard to compare it to other movies but Stand by me comes to mind although it has as many differences from The cure as similarities The tale of an extraordinary friendship between young boys plus the dramatic and humorous elements are the most obvious similarities between this movie and Stand by me Other than that The cure is a fine movie in its own right well worth a wider recognition Its dramatic but also adventurous sad but also humorous I cant think of a single thing that bothers me about it Having said that I dont want to give the impression that it is a perfect movie whatever that means but rather that I enjoyed it immensely was very moved by it and wouldnt change a thing in it I wont go into a detailed description of the storyplot partly because it would be either too general or too revealing and partly because you can find that information elsewhere on the site In closing I can only say Wonderful movie see it if you get the chance

In the past 5 years I have rented some bad moviescompletely on purpose See I aspire to be a movie reviewer and as we all know there are horrible movies released every year Anyway about 3 months ago I rented this one I watched it all the way throughand cried profusely This is one of those movies that is so freakin bad it makes you want to puke It actually put a sick feeling in my stomach Ive seen lots of bad movies Mystery Science Theater 3000 anyone but this one takes the cake The plot was hard to follow the lighting horrible and the sounds almost inaudible If there was a negative rating on the scale here this movie would be at 11 for me This may seem odd but I highly recommend it Its something you have to see for yourselfbut dont say I didnt warn you I dont think this review could get any more precise so Im done now

While Hayao Miyazakis movies have always been hitormiss with me with regards to story they are unequivocally gorgeous to the eye with characters of simple animation against a backdrop of artistic images Ponyo sticks to that formula with a lead character so adorable I want a plush doll of her and scenery so pretty it wouldnt look out of place framed up as a picture on a wall The story on the other hand I didnt enjoy quite as much as his last two widereleases Spirited Away and Howls Moving Castle It was just a tad too juvenile coming across as more for kids and leaving adults to just enjoy the animation I was also disappointed that the score done by Joe Hisaishi who also the scores for the abovementioned two movies wasnt nearly as memorable this time around While I cant quite recall Howls score now I still remember it being one of the most beautiful I had ever heard Ditto Spiriteds though I only remember it being very complementary to the movie Maybe its because Ponyo is more juvenile fare that the score isnt quite as haunting In any case this movie is still a mustwatch for fans of anime or Miyazaki

Wow this film was just bloody horrid SO bad in fact that even though I didnt pay to see it I still wanted my money back The film is about nothing intelligible Its a mishmash of scifi cliches that were done better by much more skilled film makers The performances especially by the leads were over the top in a less endearing Ed Wood sort of way Speaking of Ed Wood hed be proud of the characters dialogue Its just too taciturn with no hint of irony or sense of humor On top of that it doesnt make sense nor does the plot or lackthereof The visual effects are okay but not enough to go oh wow thats cool and they just seem to be thrown in to be cool rather than be a good plot device The soundtrack was another mishmash of stuff that really never set any sort of mood Again it seemed as if the director was just throwing in songs in the film in an effort to be cool Which brings me to my final point Perhaps if the director actually worried more about plot story and dialogue instead of trying to be cool he wouldnt have made such a dorky cliche of a short film

Putting the UFO thing aside This was the best documentary Ive seen Factual reporting by Neil and Buzz a must see The interviews and reporting are a revelation since most of the information was stamped confidential in 1969 and only released in 2006 No documentary to date has the detail or accuracy for such a brief 47 minutes The FACTS will blow you away and you will be left in awe of the risks taken to be the first on the moon Neil and Buzz are probably the biggest heros of our time Ever see a man save his own life Bet not Neil saves his life when only miliseconds separated him from death Amazing to watch It is a travesty people have not known all the details assosiated with landing on the moon and the courage those men had when facing certain death from a failing computer 10 stars

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 filmmaking 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 everexpanding world of dudeology movies young guns armed with a DVX100A 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 videomakers 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 greenlighted 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 DVP2 camera and off you go And what makes it worse is that highprofile festivals like the aforementioned actually embrace and encourage this kind of nonsense And why Precisely because its nobudget I think its important especially in todays climate of indie films to quit allowing videomakers to highjack 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 intenselyoverused 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 nobudget 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

This was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released and the first cartoon with sound In the cartoon Mickey does not yet wear gloves He does not yet speak either All he does is whistle and play music The song that he plays is Turkey in the Straw using several farm animals as musical instruments For example he plays the teeth of a cow like a xylophone and pulls nursing piglets like an accordion keyboard I taped this cartoon off of the Disney Channel and I think it is wonderful It was based on a silent film starring Buster Keaton entitled Steamboat Bill Jr

Now I recently had the viewing pleasure to watch the hilarious comedy Bachelor Party one of my new favorite comedies laughed until it just hurt type of movies So I naturally wanted to see the sequel hoping it would have the same laughs but instead Bachelor Party 2 The Last Temptation is made by the American Pie generation where its tasteless and defeats the hole purpose of the first film Yeah the first film has nudity but it doesnt show in every single scene Also the plot is exactly the same from the first its not always a complaint with me but this could have been a little more original The only thing is that Im glad that at least no old actors from the original appear in this movie because it would have been cheesy or really silly looking Ron and Melinda are engaged after only 2 months of dating everyone is against it Melinda has a rich family but theyre pretty happy with Ron and Melindas brother Todd is scared that Ron will take his job So they go out on a weekend to Miami for a bachelor party and Todd is going to make sure that hell trap Ron into a picture that will make Melinda change her mind about the marriage Bachelor Party 2 The Last Temptation has a couple laughs here and there but over all fails to deliver what the first film accomplished These guys Rons friends were more obnoxious than likable except for Seth he was kinda funny The only likable characters other than Seth is Ron and Melinda everyone else just more or less gets on your nerves You wanna watch this film Just watch Girls Gone Wild its the same thing only it doesnt try to pretend that its a film Stick to the original Bachelor Party thats the movie thats going to get you in tears of laughter 310

What makes Midnight Cowboy into a successful movie is the way in which Joe Buck becomes bonded to Ratso Rizzo through a series of hardships that affect them both There really arent many glimpses of hope in this film for either character but the hard realities that beset them both give the film its own type of optimism that these men can at least find humanity within each other This film features Jon Voights finest performance and probably Dustin Hoffmans as well The rest of the cast is made up of unknowns though it is rounded out by a fine series of character actors including the cowpoke on the bus at the start of the film Also for those interested Andy Warhols apprentice Paul Morrissey shows up briefly during the party scene If you havent seen this movie it is essential Check it out

This movie is such a bad work Nothing seems to even try and be realistic Plot is weak acting miserable actors wondering around like in a 1st year production trying very hard to act with no chance at all from the beginning What a flop What a waste of time money and effort to all concerned including the audience Well as in any thriller here too are murders corpses and blood Just imagine someone who 5 minutes ago committed a murder with a knife and came out calm and smiling not to mention clean as a whistle as if slashing ones throat is done by a virtual agent Also this murder was supposed to be done by a tiny fragile woman on a high strong male and she cut his throat Did she ask him politely to bend down for her Much more stupidity of that same kind is going on and on leaving the audience wondering if this meant to be a joke which just turned out to be a bad one Continuity is another huge problem as for instance The eagerhungry groom is lying in bed waiting for his virginbride to get out of the bathroom and after a long while falls asleep Next scene opens with the young couple entering the receptionarea asking for guidance to scenery spots NOT A WORD ABOUT LAST NIGHT Such a waste of time even to try and write about this lowlow supposedtobe movie

Hines and Goforth the perpetrators of this crime begin on the wrong foot first step by assuming that Wells wrote Gothic horror and that all of his lines are meant to be taken seriously That simply isnt true Wells was very much an inheritor of the Enlightenment and his main concern was that Victorian selfsatisfaction might leave the British unprepared for the world the new technology could produce both the good and the bad Two terrible consequences follow the protagonist is portrayed as a wimpy screamer I was reminded of Fay Wray in the original King Kong rather than a man struggling to live out the ironies of an unbelievable catastrophe and the dialog reeks of Victorianisms uttered seriously that Welles clearly meant to be taken tongue in cheek All of this looks suspiciously like Ed Wood with an enormous budget to waste on CGI effects which by the way are so poorly accomplished the Warner Bros cartoon factory of the 1940s could have done a better job Gobs of spattered blood looked like red balloons I expected them to float away any minute Think The Yellow Submarine as done by the old EC Comics Worse yet is the loss of theme which robs the film of any reason to exist Although the makers of this film return the story to its Victorian era they utterly miss the uncanny way Wells story predicted many of the horrors of the First World War a fact not unnoticed by Wells himself who after the war reworked the theme in The Shape of Things to Come Without any theme all we have here are a lot of people running around getting blasted into cartoon balloons when theyre not trying out for a high school production of a drunken students rewrite of Macbeth Really this is the worst most senseless piece of drivel I have suffered through since a friend talked me into seeing the Eastern European cartoon Fantastic Planet thirty years ago That film was so pretentiously dull my friend and I and two total strangers gave up ridiculing it about halfway through and sat near the screen playing cards using the movie as light by which to see the cards its only usefulness as far as any of us could tell But I already have electric lighting in my apartment so I didnt need this putdown of Wells for anything Do not avoid this film steal every copy you can dont pay a cent and burn each and every one of them God in his wisdom created us just for this purpose

i recently went to a free screening of soap girl where the filmmakers were present before the movie they strutted around laughing taking pictures i was excited to see them dressed up in real life and couldnt wait to see the movie on the big screen during the movie the audience errupted with laughter it was clear to me then that they werent laughing with the picture but at the picture this is purely a grade B movie with no logic behind it throw in some nudity some blood and whala you have a movie after the movie i approached a bunch of the filmmakers and asked them why they wanted to make this movie they all acted so serious like they were serious filmmakers they each told me something different to make a controversial movie a funny movie an uplifting movie a socially responsible movie everybody mentioned something different it was clear to me that none of the filmmakers knew what kind of movie they were making and they were now trying to recoup their money by publicizing this movie any way they could to get people to see it Let me warn you dont buy into the hype unless you seriously have nothing else to do it might be worth a film students time to study how a film should not be made otherwise you are better off saving two hours of your life

The Blue Planet series is without a doubt one of the greatest documentaries ever made on the ocean For five years filmmakers worked tirelessly on the series getting footage that has never been seen by anyone ie in the title The Deep I highly recommend you watch this series To see the angler fish outside of the small pictures shown in textbooks is truly a treat but only a needle in the vast haystack of the sea that Blue Planet covers From the open ocean to tidal pools coral seas to the deepest darkest part of the ocean itself the BBC takes the viewer on an almost magical journey through the ocean I have to admit one of my earliest dreams in life was to be a marine biologist and after seeing this series the dream was revived I have studied the oceans of this world for years and have seen countless documentaries on coral reefs and dolphins whales and crustaceans But in all no one has managed to capture the life beneath the waves quite as well as this group of people Watch the Blue Planet series in its entirety I promise you wont regret it

I saw this version about a decade ago and have been looking for it ever since I just recently found an original VHS version and purchased it for 12500 Sounds crazy but if you like me consider it as one of the best the Broadway musical stage has ever produced you wouldnt even think twice Why its just a little over paying for a Broadway ticket today I really hope they rerelease this in DVD form soon Its a piece of musical theater that screams to be seen by all

This is the movie that epitomizes the DD fear of the 80s and even today The fear being that people who play DD or any other roleplaying game for that matter will be sucked in and lose their ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and go on killing sprees child sacrifices suicide etc Great movie for anyone who likes to blame the problems of society on inanimate objects but anyone who has played a roleplaying game a video game or even acted in a play will see this as an insult to their intelligence It is to DD what Wargames was to computers Plus as a movie it just kinda sucks

Im a huge Randolph Scott fan but this film is a dud The whole thing has a canned fake soundstage feel to it with truly awful rearscreen projection It has a good plot idea that the screenwriter has successfully buried in a nitwit script which makes it impossible for the audience to become immersed in the action and truly care about any of the characters The directing is pedestrian and only accentuates how bad the script is instead of helping to improve it Ive seen plenty of thoroughly enjoyable soundstage productions before but this is not one of them All it does is make you appreciate the gritty ScottBoetticher films all the more Randolph Scott is tanned trim and shines that million dollar smile throughout Hes always a pleasureeven in the worst of his films Aside from Scott the other main reason I wanted to see this movie was due to how much I enjoyed Ms Wymore in Errol Flynns movie Rocky Mountian In Man Behind the Gun she is just as beautiful and you can tell shes a good actress but she was forced to say some pretty dumb lines and the blocking she was given by the director was truly awful Ive only seen Phil Carey in Operation Pacific and he plays the exact same character herean arrogant paininthebutt you want to beat into unconsciousness I guess it proves hes a good actorhe made me hate him There are some lame attempts at comic relief that only detract from the film in my opinion Although there are many elements to knock I must say that I found myself truly enjoying the two Spanish songs sung in the musical numbersbut thats not why we go to see Randolph Scott movies right There are definitely worse Scott films out there and this one certainly isnt unbearable but it also certainly couldnt be deemed anything beyond mediocre

This is the type of latenight cable flick usually associated with Andrew Stevens or Shannon Tweed Though unlike most of Tweed and Stevens TA fueled vehicles this is lethally dull Lets cut to the chase The real reason for watching this nonthriller is to see Shannon Dohertys breasts Anyone who states otherwise is a LIAR However most of her steamy sex scenes appear to be all smoke and mirrors Notice that all the shots where her head and chest show at the same time are quick peekaboo flashes The frames where the camera lingers on her nude body theres little or no face attached or shes behind a dripping wet shower door All you boobwatchers out there know what that means Body double I must admit though that the finale where Doherty is bound blindfolded and menaced with a knife provided a certain fetishistic thrill If you find a VHS copy anywhere buy it As all involved are probably too embarrassed to ever let this come out on DVD

Not even the most ardent stooge fan could possibly like the movie I one of them the stooges just arent given any material to work with It is really a shame too because this is the only feature length movie the stooges did with Curly and this one effort by them is painfully unfunny when it could have had great potential Awful musical numbers dont help any either The short they did with the same title has more laughs

First of all let me underline that Im not a great fan of political correctness In fact I like satire or dark humor even if it makes jokes out of minorities The reason why Im pretty sure that this racist piece of work is not worth a look is that it doesnt make fun of minorities to demonstrate their condition of living their social circumstances or the way they are treated by society Moreover it uses every stupid stereotype and prejudice to strengthen xenophobic feelings and reservations Its really a pity but not a surprise that the other comments didnt get that point cause we all had a cheap laugh Congratulations

You know the story of Sweeney Todd now most likely thanks to Tim Burtons recent movie You probably dont know it though from this take on the old tale from Andy Milliganthat notorious sleaze merchant that gave Al Adamson and Ted V Mikels a run for their money It had to happen eventually In my years of watching horror and exploitation from the 60s to the 80s Im finally reviewing an Andy Milligan movie You see from 1964 to 1990 Andy gave us many an exploitation and horror movienone of which was any good and barely watchable The Bloodthirsty Butchers is no exception There is dialog and well there is talk and thats one of the things you will find herelots and lots of talk The movie reaches almost Manos The Hands of Fate levels at times as you wait tirelessly for something to happen While I love cheap looking gore effects the violence is too few and far between and in spite of its reputation the breast scene isnt that shocking I love cheap and sleazy exploitation as much as the next trash cinema devotee but Bloodthirsty Butchers is the kind of bad that MST3K would tear apart mercilessly Sadly Milligan would die of AIDS in 1991 and if there is any movie of his Id say I sort of like it would be the delirious The Ghastly Ones This is no Ghastly Ones thoughits just bad