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This film screened last night at Austins Paramount theater as part of the SXSW Film Festival We were graced with the presence of director Mike Binder and stars Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle who took audience questions after the film It is a remarkable and powerful film about what it is like to lose yourself and begin to find your way back The performances are phenomenal and the story manages to be both tragic and funny in a way that is all too rare The trailer for the film tries a little too hard to emphasize the comedic aspects This is a breakout role for Adam Sandler While he has begun to transition to more dramatic roles with PunchDrunk Love and Spanglish this role is a significant step forward for him as a dramatic actor He deserves an Oscar nomination as he continues down to transition to more dramatic roles as Tom Hanks did and Jim Carrey is also doing In this role he seemed to be trying to channel Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man Although playing an autistic man is certainly very different than Sandlers traumatized character both characters for different reasons are trapped in their own worlds of childlike isolation and confusion Don Cheadles performance is less surprising but just as good After Hotel Rwanda and Crash weve come to expect remarkable nuanced performances from Cheadle He has the qualities of sincerity and honesty that comes through in this role But he too is also broken and struggling if not in the such profound ways as Sandlers character Cheadle is struggling with difficulties in both his marriage and in his professional life as a dentist Together the characters played by Cheadle and Sandler struggle to heal each other in the way that true friends often do in a way that reminds me of Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting They are both searching for that part of the themselves that they have lost and trying to find again Reign over Me is one of the best major studio films to be released this year The soundtrack which is almost another character in the plot is wonderful The filming in the streets of New York a city that suffered a great tragedy and has also had to heal itself is also quite beautiful The supporting roles by Jada Pinkett Smith Liv Tyler Saffron Burrows in a very odd role Donald Sutherland and Mike Binder himself are all quite good WriterDirector Mike Binder has really delivered a story that so many will be able to connect with on numerous levels This is a story about grief family healing male friendship mental health and the meaning of love Reign over Me does not disappoint The film is almost hypnotic as it draws you into the lives of its characters Hollywood would have a much better reputation if it made more characterdriven charming films like Reign over Me

If you want to have a great time then this is THE movie to watch Take the premise There is this college which admits people with minimum qualifications of BA BCom MCom MA MBA MCA BE MTech and BCA So you have to take into account the time consumed and thus it is obvious that all students are 40 Also the school admits students of a heavier dispensation and has a course of PHd in weight loss and the only student who failed this course is Manisha Koirala Only she was a snake in the past life Still not convinced OK read on Heres a scene Akshay Kumar a college student is chased by Arman and he takes out a bazooka and shoots him Then throws grenades Then one of the grenades hits Akshay But doesnt die and continues to fight Arman the snake plunges a half foot dagger into Akshay and stomps on it but Akshay is still there Then Akshay gets on a jet ski and follows Arman They fight and Arman chokes Akshay underwater and finally Akshay is dead So we think as soon as Arman is out of the picture Akshay swims away to Raj Babbar Principal of this college Boxing Refree Parapsychology ka professor mumbling priest But no one I repeat no one takes the cake but a certain Mr Nigam You gotto watch to learn more

Its probably a cultural thingsomehow the natives of this country have been conditioned to find this stuff funny I have experienced this phenomenon firsthand during an openair cinema event where this film was shown before the feature Most of the indigenous audience laughed and no this wasnt in a sanitarium or a clinic for retarded children this was in a welltodo area and the audience consisted mostly of educated adults So it must be possible somehow to find this amusing but honest to goodness I have no idea what it takesmaybe its in the air or the water prolonged exposure to which causes this condition Something must cause it obviously the only thing I can say is that I am quite sure what doesnt cause it the movie itself There are no jokes in it Its brain dead stupid nonsensical unfunny lame Its in short a waste of time Any Tom and Jerry is funnier heck even funerals are funnier Just in case you have been fortunate enough not ever to have seen any of the Stooges performances Its three guys behaving running even talking like retarded infants causing all kinds of unfunny mayhem with no plot no real purpose and no real conclusion Its like ugly Teletubbies without the cute costumes Sitting in a crowd watching this garbage in this country can be quite exasperating because you feel like you are at a party with a bunch of potheads and you are the only one who hasnt smoked anything So unless you are prepared to intoxicate yourself to make this bearable or come equipped with whatever it is that makes people think watching three ugly old men behave like morons is funny my advice on this is Stay way Far away

The Crater Lake Monster is easily one of the most awful amateurish film Ive ever seen ranking right up there with Manos the Hands of Fate in terms of poor acting useless direction and kindergartenlevel production values In this movie a sillylooking claymationstopmotion animated dinosaur wakes up after a meteor hits a lake in Bumblebum CA and begins dining on the local hayseeds In the thrilling climax the creature described by one local as a giant alligator with flippers drags its ponderous bulk over the ground to chase its wouldbe lunch before a bulldozer bumps it a couple of times it dies from boredom Every character in this moovie is a complete moron One pointless subplot shows a hick go into a liquor store to purchase a 475 pint of Ripple instead of simply buying the bottle the idiot shoots the cashier and another bystander shoots at a cop gets chased towards the lake all so that he can eaten by the monster Unfortunate closeups of the monster reveal it to be nothing more than a piece of styrofoam Theres a fake magician struggling with a phony British accent to make him seem more legit two overlybumbling redneck boat renters some cheesy prehistoric cave art done in crayon and annoying banjopickin background moosic In one painful scene the fake magician and his dopey wifegirlfriendaccomplice manage to pad the movie an extra 4 minutes by cowmenting on how may stars they can see in the night sky even though it is clearly day time still Even on constant fastforward this moovie hurts and hurts bad MooCow says call the fumigators cause this cow pie really stinks 8P

This film is a massive Yawn proving that Americans havent got the hang of farce Even when it has already been written for them The original film Hodet Over Vannet is a witty comedy of errors that I would rate 810 It isnt just about a linguistic translation but certain absurd chains of events are skipped entirely robbing the film of its original clever farcical nature and turning it into a cheap oops there go my trousers style of farce

One would expect a movie with a famous comedian in the lead role to be a funny movie This is not the case here I laughed out loud once throughout the whole movie and that wasnt even during the final comedyscene which one would also expect to be the funniest This is one you can watch when it comes to TV dont spend any other money renting it

Yes Lifetime has a habit of making the male species look stupid And this soap opera aint kidding when they make Perry King supposedly a well renowned medical doctor unable to see the evil surrounding him Puts your trust in doctors huh How can anyone not see whats going on Is he that stupid And the evil wife with a face like a horse goes around killing off his entire family without a trace How does she acquire all the drugs That isnt explained How does she get off being a secretary in a hospital without any credentials I guess the director Don FauntLeRoy asks us to just believe it I didnt I kept yelling at the screen at the stupidity of King with all right in front of his face If the wife was that attractive maybe just maybe Id accept it But shes not even that Shannon Sturges is the perfect wife and I tell you she has the face of a horse I wouldnt cross the street for her yet our perfect husband does and quickly After everybody in the cast get knocked off I wasnt satisfied with the come up pence given to our villainess She deserved more than she got William Moses plays the doctors brother who unfortunately you know his outcome from day one Pleasure to at least see one pretty face in this clinker That of Lesley Anne Down She gives the film a 2 count just on the relief of seeing someone fetching in this mess Perry King deserved his fate What a jerk

How can a name not even a real name break your heart Heres how There have been few film versions of a celebrated novel that have done better justice to their source material than Anthony Minghellas movie of Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain If youve read the book you will be able to feel most of the major scenes soul shakingly recreated I personally cried numerous times while reading the novel and spent much of the evening watching the film through tears Astounding scope beautiful words great acting and great music In the interview on the DVD accompanying the film Minghella talks about the multiple layers of the story All of them work One of the best films Ive seen and an invitation to one of the greatest novels of the last ten years

I thought I was going to see a UFO movie Instead I saw a movie that was trying to make the audience me make the decision to accept Christ in my life or risk going to Hell The whole UFO thing was one big red herring The acting in it was pretty pathetic In fact it looked as though some people from an Evangelic Church just got got together and decided they wanted to make a movie All the characters talked as though they were in church conversing with other church members It wasnt reallife dialog at all I wish I had read some reviews before seeing this movie so I wouldnt have wasted my money on it If on the other hand you are into the whole church scene in a big way and want to see a demonstration of how to push your views no matter how limiting onto other people then by all means go see it

Its not just that this is a bad movie its not only that four of the best Mexican movie makers are in this film and its not only that the script is terrible Its just thatthis movie sucksbig time This people are wasting money in terrible scripts Its supposed to make a criticism about Mexican society but were fed up with this kind of films Is bad language supposed to be funny I dont get it Mexican cinema is in big trouble if this kind of movies are going to continue playing and being written and produced Please dont think this kind of movies are well received in Mexico We hate them and they dont reflect us

Tokyo Eyes tells of a 17 year old Japanese girl who falls in like with a man being hunted by her big bro who is a cop This lame flick is about 50 filler and 50 talk talk and more talk Youll get to see the less than stellar cast of three as they talk on the bus talk and play video games talk and get a haircut talk and walk and walk and talk talk on cell phones hang out and talk etc as you read subtitles waiting for something to happen The thin wisp of a story is not sufficient to support a film with low end production value a meager cast and no action no romance no sex or nudity no heavy dramajust incessant yadayadayadaing C

The movie was very good when it came out I attended Cooley High and Cooley upper grade center around 1968 i was also home coming queen and grew up and lived in the area of Cabrini Greens i knew a lots of people in the movie it was nice to see friends in the movie that lived in the area also and they had a chance to be a star that may have been a once in a life time experience for them i had good times growing up on the north side and tough times i can relate to the movie Cooley High is no longer standing but a person like myself and others still remember the fun we had growing up attending Cooley High there is a lot of history around this north side area to be told

I really didnt like this movie because it didnt really bring across the messages and ideas LEngle brought out in her novel We had read the novel in our English class and i absolutely loved it im afraid i cant say the same for the film There were some serious differences between the novel and the adapted version and it just didnt do any credit to the imaginative genius that is Madeleine LEngle This is the reason i gave it such a poor rating Dont see this movie if you are a big fan of LEngles texts because you will be sorely disappointed However if you are watching the movie for entertainment purposes or educational as was my case then it is an alright movie

All I can really say is that Im glad that I was knitting socks while watching the movie or I would be very angry for having wasted 2 hours of my life The acting was terrible the plot was even worse There were some scenes that were meant to be serious that had my husband and I laughing out loud I highly recommend this movie to people who like to do their own version of MST3K

SAKURA KILLERS 1 outta 5 stars Maybe in 1987 this movie might have seemed cool if you had never ever seen a good ninja movie Cheesy 80s music cheesy dialogue cheesy acting and waybeyondcheesy martial arts sequences The coolest scene is at the beginning with an aged Chuck Connors playing golf on a beach several black clad ninjas try to sneak up on him and it looks like he is too intent on hitting his ball to notice suddenly he reaches into his golf bag and naw I wont spoil it for you if you ever have the misfortune of seeing this movie youll thank me The story is a lot of nonsense about some stolen videotape or something A bunch of dimbulb Caucasian heroes are trained in the ways the ninja because only a ninja can fight a ninja or something like that Strange these guys dont seem to fight any better after their training than before oh well the movie does move along pretty briskly The fight scenes may not be great but they are plentiful and the overdone sound effects are good for a few chuckles

I am writing this review simply because I am a huge fan of the book Prozac Nation and was appalled by the film I think that if you hadnt read the book you would have been lost watching the film as it provided no real back story to Wurtzels depression There was no real mention of her childhood her relationship with her father her experiences at summer camp her first therapists in fact the film gives the impression that she has never been in therapy until Dr Sterling That said if you had read the book you would have been confused by the amount of editing that had taken place I found the book to be a vivid portrayal of depression highlighting Wurtzels low points and the experiences she had along the way The film however began at Harvard and literally threw the audience straight in with no real explanation of what was going on Events that in the book were important such as Wurtzels miscarriage her summer working in Dallas her suicide attempt whilst on Prozac were omitted from the film Also this is pedantic but Wurtzel did not lose her virginity to Noah The suicide attempt that was shown in Sterlings office was completely different to the book For a start she actually overdosed on Mellaril as opposed to the parasuicidal gesture shown in the film All in all I would say that if you have read the book and enjoyed itidentified with it then dont watch the film Read More Now Again by the same author instead Or watch Girl Interrupted The only redeeming feature was the performance by Anne Heche who I believe portrayed Dr Sterling very well Christina Ricci was also good though her performance seemed a little stilted Jessica Lange made for enjoyable viewing but looked the opposite of how Wurtzels mother is described in the book Conclusion Dont bother

I have seen The Running Man several times as I am a Stephen King fan and have all his movies but now it is even better because up until 2 days ago I didnt know about this website and I didnt realize that the Paul Michael Glaser that was involved with this movie was the same Paul Michael Glaser that I grow up watching on Starsky and Hutch television show For me this is a pleasant surprise because I cant tell you how many times I cried when Starsky or Hutch got hurt The episode where Starsky Kill Starsky almost died I cried so hard My dad had to turn away from the show What to you expect of a kid at age 12 Now I intentionally look for films and programs involving Paul or David Soul and anything that Stephen King has his hands on Im so there Just got to say Happy birthday Paul

This movie and several other movies from the 1950s with a religious overtone such as The Robe Quo Vadis and Samson and Delilah unfortunately depict all pagans or anybody who isnt a Jew or Christian as morally depraved and decadent The focus is only on biblicalrelated stories that ignore the world outside the Bible As far as they are concerned nothing good came from pagan Egypt Greece or Rome Any movie that preaches about the one true god gives a short shift to freedom of religion The movies ignore the fact that ancient Judeas lack of religious freedom made it a fertile ground for religious extremism Most 1950s religious movies also overlook the loss of freedom the occurred after Christians assumed political power in the 4th century

I dont have much to say about this movie It could have been a wonderful tourdeforce for Peter Sellers but it is one of the most tragic misfires in movie history That it was Sellers final movie makes it all the more painful The terrible screenplay direction and shockingly wooden performances all come dreadfully together to make this one of the most unwatchably awful movies ever made I wish so much that I could find even a snicker or a chuckle buried somewhere in this pile of putrid blubber but its a lifeless humorless disaster The truth hurts Peter why couldnt you have stopped at BEING THERE

I actually saw this movie in the theater back in its original release It was painful to watch Peter Sellers embarrass himself so badly The story was incredibly lame and difficult to follow and the ending was ridiculous It was just sad to see how the mighty had fallen I wont say that Im a huge Peter Sellers fan but I did thoroughly enjoy the Pink Panther series and I felt that he gave a strong performance in Being There But this film should never have been made From what Ive read he pursued producing this film against the advice of the people around him Fine but that still doesnt excuse the studio actually releasing the film

Dream Quest was a surprisingly good movie There were some noticeable goofs but that can be expected in a movie like this that was made in such a short time I did not feel any urge to fast forward during the movie and I found it pretty entertaining It gets kind of silly at times but overall I recommend it They probably used up all the glitter in the nearby stores and some of the costume designs were pretty good

Ray lives on Ray Dir Taylor Hackford Cast Jamie Foxx Kerry Washington Regina King Clifton Powell Curtis Armstrong and Sharon Warren Written by Taylor Hackford and James L White Rating Hit the road Jack and dont come back…no more no more no more NO MORE Who wouldve thought that this immortal line that has almost become a remedial mantra for broken relationships in popular culture was conceived over a lovers brawl Ray Charles was a genius And if there was one thing that he knew breathed and lived for it was music So in a lifetime that comprised acute poverty a desperate struggle with darkness guilt drugs and painful affairs Ray still found moments when inspiration hit him out of nowhere and words and notes took their own shape to form an instant eternal classic There are some lives that deserve to be transformed on the silver screen Ray Charless life was one of them It almost comes as a shock to learn that this project had no studiobacking until it was completed And that backing probably came after the initial screenings where Jamie Foxxs performance was lauded and predicted as a surefire Oscar winner in hushed voices Jamie Foxx as Ray almost convinces us that it is indeed Ray Charles performing on screen and not an actor impersonating From the crooked allknowing smile to the bent gait of not so much a handicapped but a man dancing through his demons Foxx captures every essence of the actual Ray Charles Ray was a complicated man He never demanded sympathy and very rarely showed it himself An astute businessman he ensured his success at any cost sometimes at the price of losing his loved ones He never apologized for his philandering ways and always maintained that he loved his family which we are convinced he did He liked sex it was as simple as that But beneath all there also existed a Ray that was afraid of darkness Imagine the horrors of a blind man afraid of darkness His fear was because of his guilt Ray was convinced that he was the reason for his brothers death and his whole life was spent trying to redeem himself Ray was a maverick who fused gospel with jazz an unheard blasphemous practice in the 50s But his intentions werent to instigate He was simply practicing the only way he knew of getting close to God It is hard to capture such an eventful life as that of Ray and that is perhaps where the movie fails We are never really allowed to get close to Ray as a person We know him only as much as we see him His relationships especially with Margie HendricksRegina King arent explored in detail And the script barely passes over Della BeaKerry Washington Rays wife who everyone knows was a rock by his side And the biggest blunder of all is the rushed almost abrupt climax Its as if the director suddenly realized he was out of stock and called for a packup Nonetheless Ray is definitely recommended for a flawless performance from Jamie Foxx and an able stellar ensemble The songs and age create a sense of nostalgia and we get a genuine feeling that the film is made with sincerity Abhishek Bandekar Note Ray is nominated in six categories at this years Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best ActorJamie Foxx Rating Poor Average Good Very Good Excellent 19th February 2005

Lets be fair there are no RULES for scriptwriting so I wont say the movie SHOULD be something other than it is Ill just state my opinion OK I really liked the script the way things are told and characters are introduced However I think when a play is adapted to the silver screen it could maybe try and fit this other media Since this movie was directed by João Falcão the same man who directed the play its not too much of a surprise that the film turned out a bit too theatrical Its the mans first movie for cryin outloud What Im saying is there are parts in the film like the city of Nordestina which slightly resembles the set of Hoje é Dia de Maria that feel like were not at a movie theater Were at the theater Lines are spoken too formally characters are moving choreographically and the lightening is clearly meant for a stage Sure maybe that was the intention but thats been done On stage Wonderful things have been made when adapting a play into a movie the beautiful Closer for instance When I went to see this one though I didnt feel like I was watching a movie But overall it was a good one worth watching Its a nice love story funny at times and sad at others My vote is a 7

The quintessential housewife and perfect mother Donna Reed as Donna Stone could do it all Settle spats between the children or neighbors take care of her hardworking pipesmoking pediatrician husband Alex and still have a stack of pancakes three types of breakfast meat and a tall glass of milk and OJ ready for the kids every morning before breakfast Over the course of the past fifty years weve lost sight of the idealistic stayathome mom family meals together at the kitchen table and preparing dinner for a hardworking husband when he comes home from work I wish the show were available on DVD Id discontinue my cable altogether

Hello Dave Burning Paradise is a film for anyone who likes Jackie Chan and Indiana Jones The films main protagonist is most definitely the bastard son of these two strange fathers As for the other characters well they are familiar transformations of similar action film stereotypes Where this film is original is in the blending of the traditional Hong Kong movie style with the Hollywood action adventure Sadly this has not been true of the films he has made in Hollywood

This film has a really weird mixture of genres toilet humour and action in one It doesnt really pull it off it should have stuck to one genre The best thing I can say about the movie is that the dog in it is cute The most disturbing sequence is in the middle of the film when Moses Sandler and Carter Wayans decide to stop off at a hunting lodgemotel Im not quite sure what the point of this sequence is it just seems gratuitous in the extreme The proprietor of the hunting lodge Charlie is a very nerdy looking guy For some reason Moses starts a conversation with Charlie about porno jacking off homosexual sex sex in a threesome Charlies photo of his wife appears to be Charlie dressed in drag There is no reason for this really juvenile dialogue and scene Anyway the whole scene seems to be directed to the moment when a naked Moses ends up with Carters gun up his butt and Charlie sees them through the window It all reeks of school boy humour about homosexuality horrified and titillated all at the same time which I dont find funny at all I have a friend who is always raving about Adam Sandler movies This is the first one Ive seen after this Im not sure I want to see any more BTW this is my husbands account hes seen Happy Gilmore and he tells me its quite good maybe I should give Sandler just one more chance Countess Skogg

Well made documentary focusing on two Sudanese refugees who get resettled in the United States Its your basic fish out of water story with a nonfiction twist I found it fascinating to see how Peter and Santino lived prior to coming to America and how they adapted once they arrived here in Houston Texas They expected a sort of heaven but found out that its a lot harder than it looks to cope well in the states They go from hopeful idealists to somewhat more realistic skeptics Everywhere they go they meet bureaucrats with paper trails that most citizens may take for granted They fret that they are blacker than the AfricanAmericans here and dont feel accepted because of that One of the Lost Boys manages to leave Houston to go to Olathe Kansas where he finds conditions slightly better but still less than ideal There are people that try to help them as well as try to hurt them in this film Not shown but talked about are those who put a gun to their heads and robbed them leading one Lost Boy to comment negatively that all black people in America are no good I found it interesting too that they arrived in Houston in August 2001 a month before the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists I had hoped to see their reaction to this tragedy but its not mentioned at all Still all in all a really well done documentary with no narration None is needed really The Lost Boys do a fine job expounding on the events going on around them without any help at all thank you very much

This is a low budget well acted little gem Alice a small town Massachusetts teenager fed up with her existence takes to the road to escape her mother who flips burgers and her own job as a check out in a super market She sets out for Florida and to stay with her wealthier high school friend who is a freshman at Miami After her car suspiciously breaks down on the thruway and she loses all her money she ends up with a retired couple in an RV who also happen to be traveling to Florida The couple brilliantly played by Judith Ivy and Bill Raymond are overly hospitable and it turns out a prostitute and and her pimp Slowly Alice is lured into truck stop prostitution as the RV meanders down the thruway in the general direction of Florida Through intermittent flashbacks we learn a little more about Alice and her desire to leave tiny Milford We also see the couple in a new light and their life and the choices made by the couple and Alice all seem quite credible An excellent well made film that you will think about when it is over

All budding filmmakers should watch this movie it is like a masterclass in digital film making in itself Some of the scenes look like they have been shot on much higher production values than what they really have been It is very encouraging that such a well crafted piece of work can be made on a low budget The acting is very good and the characters are very interesting particularly that of the lead boy John Kielty who manages to play a teenager experiencing difficulties whilst remaining really likable His beautiful but fading mother was also very well portrayed and the relationship between her and her boss was very intriguing This is a very quirky interesting piece and I will be looking for anything else made by the same team The director is certainly one to watch

jeez when i heard this movie was a NATIONAL LAMPOONS i thought it was going to be awesome but i really got a say it was a rather disappointment I have seen the most movies theyve made from Christmas vacation to van wilder and this movie is the worst movie in their name really bad actors and a to much intense movie this movie is probably good to watch if you are watching it with a crowd of worked up people and the ability to laugh at it but if you are into good comedys like i am i do not suggest this movie i would much rather watch van wilder a second or third time than to watch this movie you have been warned

I watched this hoping to find out something I didnt know about modern historys most infamous man and couldnt help thinking that history has been rewritten in HITLERTHE RISE OF EVIL Hitler was so obsessed with his niece that he threatened to have one of her admirers shot Hitler turned up with a gun in his hand to arrest Ernst Rohm Forgive me for asking but havent the writers confused Adolph Hitler with Tony Montana from SCARFACE Thats bad enough but what really offended me was that theres entire chunks of historical context missing in this mini series Germany lost the first world war and the allied powers made Germany pay a heavy price for doing so It was this economic environment that led the German people to have someone anyone to restore their pride and thats why they turned to Nazism The German humiliation of the 1920s caused by the allied powers seems to be entirely missing therefore there is no way that HITLERTHE RISE OF EVIL can be taken seriously as a historical document and I havent even mentioned that Himmler and Goering are conspicous by their absence There is one positive point about the mini series and thats Robert Carlyle in the title role Okay some of his mannerisms are wrong and his voice is a little too loud Archive recordings show that Hitler had a soft seductive voice but Carlyle is a charismatic actor and he does manage to communicate Hitlers own charisma on screen Comments in the British press that Carlyle resembles the synth player from Sparks more than Adolph Hitler are unfounded and he gives one of the better interpretations of Hitler I liked the performance by Robert Carlyle but I hated everything else about this mini series and wondered why on earth it was made in the first place Theres nothing to recommend it to serious history fans

Grand Central Murder 1942 Dir S Sylvan Simon Production MGM This mediocre B mystery was one of only five films released in 1942 with Simon as director Surely he could have fit another Red Skelton film or two on his schedule Anyway Grand Central Murder is a shameless ripoff of the Thin Man films minus the wit charm and chemistry of the leads We are treated to a paper thin plot that can barely support its 73 minutes bad acting and weary gags Van Heflin and Virginia Grey play Nick and Nora Charer Rocky and Butch Custer Hes a PI and shes his wife and sleuthing partner They engage in humorous banter with each other See Its completely different already Heflins the only one here who hints at bigger and better things although hes real close to being a jerk in this Virginia Grey was in Another Thin Man but again let me stress THIS FILM IS NOTHING LIKE THAT ONE no sir And just in case we start to think that this film is absolutely nothing like another film say THE THIN MAN we actually like Sam Levene pops up as the lead detective whos kind of dim and has to have Van Heflin subtly direct him toward all the important leads Hmmm Quickly the murder is that of bitchy schemer Mida King who likes to trade up on rich men until she finds an even richer one Shes played by Patricia Dane whos like a C version of Hedy Lamarr until she opens her mouth and turns into an F Theres a whole array of wacky suspects all with their own motivation for wanting Mida dead Theres the society type the tough talking dames the thug the exlover and a shady theater impresario Tom Conway here saddled with the unlikely character name of Frankie Ciro Roman Bohnen plays a nervous jittery type something I believe he may have done before Millard Mitchell plays an idiot cop who in a running gag that wont quit cant stop thinking about the piece of ass hes got waiting for him once this case gets wrapped up thats right Millard Mitchell swordsman Finally in a completely ground breaking method of storytelling something weve never seen before all the suspects are gathered up in one place where they tell their stories as flashbacks to the detective as Rocky takes mental notes until eventually the guilty person is compelled to dramatically blurt out a confession On top of the actual picture being a dud I naively thought going in that there might be a couple of location shots of the actual 1942era Grand Central but alas no Theres merely one very brief shot at the beginning Thanks for nothing Grand Central Murder So to sum up a wee bit formulaic but Heflin was okay ½ out of 4

Sequels are a capricious lot with most nowhere near the stature of the original Sometimes you find a sequel that is considered better than the original some critics such as John Charles have stated that Project A2 is better than the original I disagree somewhat but this movie is still a worthwhile followup and fits well in the output of brilliant Hong Kong action cinema in the 1980s as well as Jackies own oeuvre I do wonder how with such an awesome release of great films that his later films were not as good He only has directed two films in the 1990s and none past that but he has had much clout in many of the films where he is not officially the director Earlier in 1987 Jackie had brain surgery following a disastrous fall in the filming of Armour of God This encouraged him to work on his next film close to home This did not encourage him to stop risking his life and his stunt team for our amusement What resulted is a smash hit at home that eclipsed the original in box office tallies 31 million HK dollars compared to 19 million for the original Jackie Chan is once again police officer extraordinaire Dragon Ma and he is ordered to work with Three Wan Superintendent Chun Lam Wai Royal Warriors who is the only Chinese police officer allowed to have a gun yet is thought to be staging arrests to make himself look better and ignoring the crimes of a triad lord named Tiger Au Michael Chan WaiMan Dragon Lord Apparently Chun has too much power to be taken down directly but he is relieved of the Sai Wan district now he is Two Wan which Dragon Ma takes over This inefficient and corrupt office will soon get a makeover and there is a great scene where three officers who do not know who they are dealing with attempt to assault Ma to teach him a lesson about complaining about police officers He soon has that district shipshape and Tiger Au taken care of The fight choreography and stunts with Tiger and his men are quite awesome My favorite stunt was a beautifully brutal fall from the second floor into a large vase and that vase did not appear to be soft Meanwhile a couple of subplots are happening There are pirates who have survived from the first film who are looking for revenge and food Then there are revolutionaries including Maggie Maggie Cheung In The Mood For Love and Rosamund Kwan Casino Raiders who are trying to raise funds for Dr Sun Yatsen to overthrow the Qing Government as well as government operatives who are trying to find these rebels Throw in a mixture of corrupt Hong Kong and British Cops as well as legitimate ones and you have a stew that is getting a bit too many ingredients but yet still seems to coalesce This works well when there is a Marx Brothers influenced scene the Marx Brothers have done this type of scene a few times with The Cocoanuts 1929 being the first at Maggies place where everyone is looking for someone while hiding from someone else Many weeks were spent on this scene alone and the effort certainly shows There are several faults with the film There is a certain didactic nature that creeps in the film that seems a bit outofplace especially one small speech towards the end that Jackie gives when dealing with the Mainland revolutionaries and the extremely easy conversion of the pirates that survived from the first film Female characters are once again underused and underappreciated especially Maggie Cheung I was not as satisfied with the continuance of the plot as much as the first film either The individual scenes dominate my feelings for the film instead of thinking of this movie as a cohesive whole I do not fault the film for not being able to have Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao like the first though I have heard the main reason behind this was that those two were filming Eastern Condors but I do wonder if Jackie could have waited a small while to get them to perform in this they would work together for the last time the following year in Dragons Forever but they are missed I found this to be quite an enjoyable and wellmade film and it is rightfully regarded as one of the better comedic action films of the 1980s This film is also quite good in a few unexpected places The art direction is superb Eddie Ma Poonchiu the costumes are exquisite the cinematography is good and the movie looks quite authentic But the stunts comedy and the action is what I remember this film for There is a chase involving a handcuffed Dragon and Chun that is superb part of the axe throwing scene would be used in Shanghai Noon The last twenty minutes is full of aweinspiring hits falls chilipeppers as a mouthmace Jackie writes in his autobiography about how he used real peppers in this scene you can see him in a lot of mouth pain during the outtakes at the end and is a worthy conclusion to this movie The most famous stunt from this sequence is his homage to Buster Keaton from Steamboat Bill Jr 1928 with the exception that there is no hole and only a weak section where his head pops through Fans of Jackie andor Hong Kong action cinema should consider this a must own and watch I certainly do

I felt compelled to write about this movie after i joined IMDb because i thought it was the worst script writing i have seen in a while The actingdirectionotherareas of the movie are fantastic I love brad Pitt with George Clooney It works The witty banter was still there too from the first movie My question is how in the world did they let this script out of the drafting process I thought that not only did the plot develop like a slug racing to the end of the sidewalk but that twist can i call it that was so incredibly stupid that i wanted to go demand a refund from the ticket booth I have never felt so played and used from a movie in my entire life Here i was expecting something similar to the first movie good chemistry good acting good direction amazing plot only to find that they had taking my 8 dollars and made a mockery out of it The part that gets me still is that this movie has now grossed more than 125 million dollars In summary I felt that this movie insulted my intelligence I still feel like the only part the writers concentrated on was that little bit with Julia Roberts acting like Julia Roberts This movie made me sad and angry

A solid B movie I like Jake Weber His understated delivery is refreshing in a time of over the top performances I liked the relationship between the father and son I liked the family dynamics The Wendigo looks silly but it is a representation of the kids toy and the dead deer Its an amalgamation like see This is a psychological story not a Freddy slash em up instant gratification flick Watch it and reflect on your inner child and what the movie might have to say to you and youll be fine Nice work

I rented the DVD in a video store as an alternative to reading the report But its pretty much just more terrortainment While the film may present some info from the report in the drama youre taking the word of the producers theres no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film Not one The acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else There may be some truth to it but it really has a bad Hollywood stereotype smell to it IMDbs user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and I have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever I can I wish I had on this one

Chairman of the Board is a ridiculously stupid film from the popular comic Carrot Top also seen on the 1800COLLECT commercials He plays a surfing inventor who comes upon a man who has a flat tire Top helps him out and a few days later discovers the guys died and has given his company to the comedian Even if someone else was in Carrot Tops role it still would have been bad The jokes which are constantly rigged throughout are terrible and the idea of a romantic plot twist should have been discarded DO NOT WATCH

I bought the video for 13 at HMV we pay more in Britain as a friend had told me it was highly rated and the reviews on this site were generally impressive I have to say that the opening credits were a let downthe dancingmusic not very powerful The car ride and unexpected crash just as the lady passenger was going to be harmed was a nice touchsomething unexpectedthough the way she walked away from the car with hair perfectly groomed and still carrying a handbag looked corny for most Directors but for Lynch was something else Her dazed walking around after such a shock was enhanced by a regular low noise similar to fingers scraping along a blackboard I thought another Lynch master touch perhaps portraying the demons gnawing into her shocked and traumatised self conscious After a while this noise became somewhat annoying and on further investigation I discovered the new video cassette squeaked I dont know whether this squeak took away a lot of my enjoyment but this movie became a waste of timeand money The two female characters had some presence and the lesbian scenes were fair enough though predictable There were no male characters of any merit and apart from a few vaguely good scenes the hoover switching on there were far too many dreadful scenes that were plain weak and ridiculous Eg the coffee being spat into the napkin by the menacing loon and the silly monster face at the back of the diner Oh and what about the paint in the wifes jewelsboring and naff This whole film gives you the feel of the failed geniusyou know when you listen to the worst Dylan track ever and think my God that was embarrassingwas that really Bob The whole feel is that of a failed TV movie badly put together with a few not many extra bits to give it a 15 rating I whizzed it on during the last 30 minutes Do I give it another chance and watch again If I want to be puzzled and work hard at understanding a film I will watch Frank Woods Guide to Consolidated Accounting Lynch did one classic Blue Velvet and Straight Story was nice This like Wild at Heart was a let down his weirdness is now predictable and stale Anybody want to buy a 2nd hand video Make way for some younger original talent David Four out of Ten and no more Sorry

At first I didnt didnt like it that much although I did They didnt include the third Trueba generation the love between Blanca and Pedro wanst well explained and some actors were too different from what I had imagined Later I realized that had the movie been more loyal to the book it would have been like five hours long and would be kind of tedious Now I like it very much because my favourite characters are there as I portraited them Clara really looks like an Angel in live and her introduction to the story at the beggining of the film was fantastic loyal and short Glenn Close is Ferula I pictured her just like that only not in mourning throughout the whole thing Esteban is find enough I never really liked his character and although I was interested in him I hated him a lot more specially when he hit Clara As in the book the very last part is the most exciting one and it has real history too there The movie is really good specially considering that it was a gringo film based upon a latin american book Its amazing how many famous stars are there dont you think so

Its impossible for me to objectively consider this movie Not that I havent tried mind you but I sit down and I pop in the aged VHS and I watch the openingand suddenly Im five years old again and clutching my very own Care Bear and watching the movie with open eyes and an eager heart I can see objectively that this movie is a BIZARRE combination of cuddly baby merchandisingmascots and creepy prepubescent children with evil powers that has a thin story and uninteresting animation But my inner fiveyearold goes Yay Care Bears every time I think about it So Id only cautiously reluctantly recommend this movie for those who saw it during their early youth and can call on the awesome power of nostalgia while watching it like me OR those lovably cynical GenXYers who deliberately seek out the wonderfully badstrange a category in which this moviedefinitely belongs To those actually looking for a compelling movie or wholesome family entertainment You might want to keep looking

this was a fabulous adaptation of Jane Eyre the only problem i had with it was that i didnt like Zelah Clarke i thought she was too old and made Jane seem much to timid in the book Jane seemed like a much stronger character i was really annoyed by this portrayal of her the part where its the morning after Rochester asks her to marry him and she runs up to him and hugs him always makes me laugh i think they made a bad choice in casting her but Dalton was absolutely wonderful as Rochester he makes this version of Jane Eyre worth seeing another thing that made this version not quite 100 was the quality of film i know it was made in the eighties for TV if it had been a feature film and better quality it would have been perfect my main complaint however is that Zelah Clarke was definitely too old

I happened to have seen this movie this morning on TCM Very bad acting low budget and poor plot are the impressions I felt while watching the movie The only highlight of the movie was watching tender young Rita Moreno 23 years old playing a teenage Indian squaw in love with an older man in his 50s She reminded me of a earlier version of Sue Lyon as Lolita 1962 only a more innocent Lolita She bounces up and down like a 1950s teeny bopper almost as if you would expect her to be chewing gum falling all over this old man willing to give him anything as he plays it off like shes a hindrance to him Any man in his 50s that had a beautiful virgin teenage girl willing to do ANYTHING for him and be his bride would be insane not to take advantage of her Its too bad that the censorship board back when this movie was released didnt permit more of an expansion of a character such as Rita Morenos The only reason why I gave this movie a 3 instead of a 1 is Rita Morenos appearance in the movie

This Oscarwinning short film 40 minutes based on a short story by William Faulkner takes us back to smalltown Tennessee in December 1941 Two brothers one about 18 and one about 8 are looking for birds eggs obviously a huge collectors item for boys in the South around this time Well the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and the older brother Pete decides to enlist He gives his prize egg to his little brother Willie and heads off wishing to show more emotion and tenderness to his little acolyte Well Willie isnt having any of it if Pete can be a soldier so can he He heads to Memphis showing his stubbornness and determination as he gets the better of several adults along the way After finding the enlistment center in Memphis he demands to see his brother pulling a knife on a lieutenant and wounding him in the process We are shown the devotion and love of a little brother Jonathan Furr He delivers a impeccable performance as a stubborn strongwilled boy in the gentler times of yesteryear The movie tries and mostly succeeds in showing how brothers can show devotion and the importance of family ties in ones youth As the two brothers reunite shortly the movie delivers a cathartic cry as the brotherly love envelops us all This movie is like a cold bottle of water Maybe Dasani or Aquafina good clear water with a flavorful mineral packet but not pure natural spring water like Evian Still it quenches your thirst and you dont doubt its purity and quenching effects It is more run of the mill and less expensive than some but gets the job done leaving one refreshed and detoxified afterwards 710

The portrayal of the Marines in this film is spot on The action scenes are some of the best ever produced in accuracy of content The uniforms and weaponry of both the US and German troops were perfect The costumes and weaponry of the Berbers were perfectly accurate as well This film could easily be used to teach militaria of the period and has been used by the USMC Academy for this purpose The scenes depicting Roosevelt shooting and the rifles he was using was beautiful Procuring so many period weapons in such good shape is testament to the attention to detail and presentation this film should be noted for Millius is a genius

I was 10 or eleven years old when this movie came out and it has stayed with me for 35 years since When the movie came out all of the theaters in the St Louis area distributed as a lure a pack of flower seeds that had the movie name etc on the front On the back of the pack it read in so many wordsplant these seeds at midnight If a white flower grows you are savedbut if a red flower grows you are doomed Suffice it to say that for an eleven year old kid I did not plant the seeds for fear of what may pop up Here is the spoiler As the movie starts out you see a small toy tank moving about in the dirt On a small road a family is leaving town and suddenly the camera turns to the tank again and it is full size It rolls over the car and you see bloody limbs protruding from the wreckage then just as sudden the tank is small again The reason this movie stuck with me for that long was because I had a exact toy tank as the one in the movie Unfortunately I dont know what happened to it but I did keep a wary eye on that thing ever since Turn out the lights put in the DVD make a sandwich and watch this movie It is very good

A woman as rich as she is insecure has a history of alcoholism and nervous breakdowns helped no doubt by a smoothtalking gigolo husband who openly cheats on her Naturally nobody believes her when she claims to have been accosted by a giant man who stepped out of a giant satellite Much to the delight of her husband this could be the incident which finally puts her away for good From the very opening scenes with its ludicrous news broadcast and ridiculous satellite encounter youll probably be convinced that the only redeeming value of this movie is that it is so bad that it is funny Although not too far off the mark this is most definitely not true Unlike most movies of this genre this is not really a scifi or a horror film but actually a serious drama which intelligently incorporates a scifi scenario into the plot Its not a good or even mediocre drama but it will exceed your expectations if you werent expecting any legitimate drama at all The acting is surprisingly good for such a low budget effort and most importantly it is well edited and excellently paced It is never boring and manages to generate more than a little interest in seeing what will come next Nevertheless this is still a movie strictly for those who cant pass up the chance to see a 1950s film with a title like Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

The three shorts included on this compilation issued in 1959 are timeless Chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either Chaplins score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done The problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying The shorts have been stretchprinted to fit the 24 frame ps speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at 20 frames ps This results is jerky motion that doesnt look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time its just not excusable that the current DVD version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in 1959 and are still stretch printed There are separate restored versions of these classics available even on DVD and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done A minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but I say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating The shorts are still worth 10

If this is the authors and directors idea of a slice of life they are clinically manic depressives A sad moody film at best with ubiquitously aimless and unhappy characters who negatively interact with disastrous results This film is billed as a comedy What was so funny about losing your home to an allegedly premeditated arson or the drug induced forcible rape of one of the main characters Is this art imitating life Jack Black was mildly amusing as the mountain man weed farmer However even this segment of the film was rife with pathos What was the point of living in the middle of nowhere with an entourage If Blacks character was so paranoid why was he doing acid with a group of people right out of Woodstock Is there no end to disconnected relationships a plot less script and scene transitions lacking any cohesiveness or logical chronology

Of the thousands of movies Ive seen so far this is the first one which made me think of the wasted talents expression I had never EVER seen so many fine actors giving so dreadful performances Frédéric Pierrot Elsa Zylbersteinand so on The aging makeup is quite awful and to make it worse lit broadly The use of music eg love at first sight for the young aide de camp is at times so caricatural that I could feel most spectators around me smile awkwardly So far Antoine de Caunes has been quite a good actor but seeing this one and les morsures de laube I think he should start considering quitting Please Antoine give up that master of balantree project I doubt you deserve it

Id liked the Takashi Miike films Id seen so far but I found this pretty disappointing Id bought it but I wont be keeping it I saw it on the Adness DVD which has just two episodes In the first a killer abducts women cuts the top of their skull off to expose the brain plants them in the ground up to their chin and plants a flower in the brain You can tell that from the DVD box In the movie the top of the head is digitally blurred out by TV static Had you not seen the DVD box the viewer wouldnt know what people were looking at until later a young cop produced a small model of the body Oddly there is also a flash frame later on of the womans head and it is not censored Apart from this Im not really sure what was going on Some women get phone calls and a sketchy animated character cavorts around when that happens An animated character also appears on TV screens sometimes Its unclear if anybody sees it In the second episode pregnant women are being found cut open and their babies are missing Again a cop produces a model of what the corpses are like which is helpful since again the actual body is censored There is also a natural birth in the movie but oddly even that baby and the umbilical cord are censored According the the DVD box uncensored versions were not kept when this was originally made Perhaps even if they had if they knew they were going to be censored maybe they didnt bother actually showing anything Not sure If I hear the later episodes are better maybe Ill look for them As it is I wont bother

I like the movie Twisted Desire had Jeremy Jordanone of my favorite and one of the cutest actors ever Melissa Joan Hart is a good actress Ive seen most of her movies but all of Jeremy Jordans The thing i dislike about Twisted Desire is when Nick gets arrested and Jennifer rats him out Twisted Desire is my second favorite movie My first is The Goonies But i still love Jeremy Jordan

I saw this film at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival La Pianiste reinforces the Austriansgrim thesis Im formulating Isabelle Huppert won a welldeserved Best Actress award at Cannes for her portrayal of a woman who in her efforts to attain the artistic ideal loses her humanity Trapped by her talent she suppresses her emotions and her sexuality until they can only be expressed in twisted and terrifying ways When a younger student falls in love with her our hopes rise but are soon dashed by the realization that she cannot experience love the way others can It is too late for her and the films final 30 harrowing minutes are tellingly devoid of the beautiful music that carried the first 90 minutes The message seems to be that the music itself is not enough without the life and beauty its describing

THIS REVIEW IS MOSTLY ALL SPOILERS IF YOU PLAN ON ENJOYING THIS FILM DONT READ THIS REVIEW Thats the problem with kids TV nowadays Its all so patronizing and condescending Wow that was fun wasnt it No it wasnt And unfortunately it seems to have permeated into children films as well And that is what Flight of the Reindeer is all about Admittedly I havent seen Flight of the Reindeer in a few years so I might be hazy on some points but I remember being thoroughly unimpressed with it at the time Essentially the story follows a lecturer who is given a book for Christmas Now the lecturer is an esteemed scientist on the flying habits of some animal I think it was bullfrogs Anyway through this book Mr Lecturer family man learns that reindeer can fly in exactly the same way as bullfrogs Apparently this book was written by a scientist many hundreds of years ago who disappeared in the North Pole Now if it were me I would have thrown the book out the nearest window Flying bullfrogs are a naturally occurring phenomenon but flying reindeer is a fantastic and wholly unrealistic concept But Mr lecturer ISNT me so I guess that explains why he decides to fly to the north pole leaving his wife and kid at home with no idea where hes gone Of course things go awry and before he knows it a flying reindeer has crashed into his private plane and hes stranded at the North Pole Are you still following this Good His family of course are devastated I would be too I mean what a sucktacular Christmas Elsewhere Mr lecturer finds himself in a hidden town at the North Pole inhabited by midgets and one tyrannical figure who dresses only in red and white Rather than try to escape immediately as I would have done he greets everyone there with open arms This hidden civilization of midget monsters and he greets them with open arms Ooookayyyy They feed him this story that they are the elves of Santa Claus and they spend all year round making toys for kids they have no idea exist And Mr lecturer accepts all this He even accepts that Santa Claus is in fact the scientist who disappeared two hundred years ago or whatever Theres just one problem they dont want him to leave The world cant know of their secret existence After all before theyd know it thered be a McDonalds and a Starbucks on every street corner Still with me Now Mr nice guys family find the book and assume hes gone to the North Pole Boy wouldnt they be embarrassed if they found out hed just gone for a brisk walk Before the audience knows it theyre jetting off to spend a Christmas in the most authentic winter wonderland on the planet Meanwhile Mr lecturer gets sick of all the uppity midgets and decides to leave I cant remember exactly but I do recall him holding Santa Claus to gunpoint A fire fight ensues when the midgets attack and he manages to escape via Santas sleigh With Santa hot on his heels and with bloodlust in his eyes Mr Whatever through some marvellous coincidence finds himself flying alongside his familys plane that is looking for him So he jumps on to their plane the planes flies back and everyone lives happily ever after The fact is there have been some shocking films made in the name of Christmas over the years but because they feature that festive charm they get away with it And its that charm that is utterly devoid from Flight of the Reindeer There isnt much wrong with it nothing which insults the intelligence well obviously there IS but its a kids film and thus can get away with such things or anything particularly offensive but the problem is there is nothing much right about it either It just doesnt FEEL Christmassy And for a film that is all about Christmas that it a pretty major flaw But hey I dont think Flight of the Reindeers target audience mind about that Why should they Theyre all so doped up on sedatives they probably couldnt spell Christmas I give it three out of ten If it was a TVMovie then Id add another two stars onto it We all know how bad they can get

The premise of the film was very promising sort of a gay Napoleon Dynamite type of film And to be fair there were some funny moments and funny lines but it really wasnt very good overall The script and dialog felt like a local sketch production full of clichés and scenes that were predictable However there was enough that was amusing that I stuck around to see how it finished since there were hints that something special happens at the end But it seems that either the film ran out of money or the writer ran out of ideas because the ending is extremely abrupt almost skipping directly from what looked to be the key conflict in the film to the final credits Overall it was very disappointing but not completely unwatchable

This is a great documentary film Any fan of car racing should own a copy of this outstanding film Director Stephen Low did a great jobas well as the main stars of the film Father Son Mario Michael Andretti The DVD looks sounds amazing And best of all its IMAX Great home theater test disc

How much longer are we to persist with this flawed belief that once a director produces great groundbreaking work all future work cant be all that bad after all he made suchandsuch Mulholland Drive is a case in point and is in fact unmitigated rubbish The performances are excellent particularly from Watts and Theroux but a good film they do not necessarily make What Lynch has clearly forgotten is that just making a film unnecessarily wierd only works when it takes the audience by surprise When the audience is expecting the film to not make sense then the film has to have some substance to keep the audience interested Lynch succeeds in the first half of the film with the murdermystery set up with lots of twists and red herrings and then plop The story decends into a quagmire of bizarre halucinations and pointless segues Methinks Lynch realised how muddled the film was becoming and threw in the lesbian and mastobatory scenes to the audience awake and to stop the male viewers from standing up and leaving Watching the film at the preview I was surrounded by Lynchophiles who had no more idea of what was going on than I did but left the theatre commenting on the layers and layers of Lynchs filmmaking Excuse me but these people are the same nitwits who stand in art galleries staring at canvasses that have been painted white commenting on the courage of the artist at painting such a brave work Films like these are made because a Lynch is trading on his previous work and b because people convince themselves that unintelligeable film is art and therefore must be good I queried a number of the Lynchophiles about what they ACTUALLY liked in the film and only response I recieved that wasnt a broad layers type of answer was that they liked it when the chicks got their kit off Nuff said

I can see the guys doing the budget preparation for this flick Well lets see now we spend 50 getting Dirk Benidict cause Battle Star Galactic and the ATeam were cool The we spend 40 making a Demon Costume never mind that the Demon is supposed to be incorporeal in the script And we spend the rest making the movie This was pretty bad and VERY cliche Have a loved one present when watching or bring a good book

I really enjoyed Candid camera with Dom DeLuise and I was surprised to see that after the years Suzanne Somers have becomed the costar of the show But that was the only positive side of the show the whole studio the intro the hosts all that give the new meaning to the word pompous Well that would be OK if the materials werent so crppy I mean come on the best you can do is show few men that have problem with getting ketchup out of the bottle Suzanne Somers walking with Halloween basket in July ice cream place that sells only vanilla Ive seen few episodes and each time it was horrible They were posing like its the greatest show ever and then fill the time with scenes so dull that I really felt embarrassed to watch Even the people in them looked bored and that just cant be good

This movie isnt even good enough for the 1 bin at the grocery store I only purchased it because Terrence Howard was in it Guess he couldnt be too choosy about his roles during this time The movie in itself was hard to sit through It seemed they were grasping at straws with a storyline The guys night out had to be the most boring Ive ever seen One minute they are talking and the next reciting poetry Even the arguments were hard to follow Most of the acting lacked any depth I have no idea what they were going for with this one but they certainly missed the mark

Being a fan of bad movies I was thrilled to find a 3 pack of crppy horror at Best Buy today The set was cheap and included a terrible film called the Dark that I actually remember seeing in the theater The remaining 2 were equally as bad Creatures from the Abyss being probably the worst of the bunch Since they were all bad that isnt saying much But its stupidity bad acting terrible effects and retarded storyline actually made this one a lot of fun to watch I was rolling on the floor with each new plot development The discovery of the abandon ship the missing crew the realization that there was something terribly wrong It was great Of course everyones favorite scene seems to be the sex scene OMG I almost lost it Between that an the monster cam I have to say I enjoyed this film a lot I am a fan of bad movies so I enjoyed it but in all fairness I did have to give the movie a 1 IT WAS AWFUL But if rubbish is your bag at least rent this one YES the BAD pun was intentional

NATURAL BORN KILLERS 1994 Cinema Cut R Directors Cut NC17 Its an unusual Oliver Stone picture but when I read he was on drugs during the filming I needed no further explanation Natural Born Killers is a risky mad all out filmmaking that we do not get very often strange psychotic artistic pictures Natural Born Killers is basically the story of how two mass killers were popularised and glorified by the media there is a great scene where an interviewer questions some teenagers about Mickey and Mallory and the teenager says Murder is wrong but If I was a mass murderer Id be Mickey and Mallory Mickey describes this with a situation of Frankenstein the monster and Dr Frankenstein Dr Frankenstein is the media who has turned them into these monstrous killers Most Oliver Stone films examine the flaws of the America the country that the director loves and admires I guess Natural Born Killers is about the effect of mass media technology and how obsessive as a nation Americans are and most of the world over things such as mass killers and bizarre situations The killers played by Woody Harrelson Mickey and Juliette Lewis Mallory are executed astonishingly by two excellent actors who step into the lives of two interestingly brutal killers Mickey and Mallory believe that some people are worthy of killing perhaps in the cruel theory of Social Darwinism survival of the fittest Mickey says in his interview in prison that other species commit murder we as humans ravage other species and exploit the environment the script is interesting but it is questionable how much this film amounts to in the sense of making us think about society and human behaviour rather than the intensity of a 2 hour bloodbath that we have seen The last hour of the film takes place in a maximum security prison we see the harsh realities of prison life the attitudes of the warden etcoverfilling of prisons maybe Stone is questioning the future the path that society is leading to Two other interesting characters First a reporter who runs a show about Americas Maniacs and is obsessed with boosting ratings that he goes to any length to capture the story of Mickey and Mallory The other is police officer Scagnetti an insane perhaps sadistic officer that is in love with Mallory he also has some weird obsession with mass killers since his mother was killed during the massacre at Waco Texas by Charles Whitman The cinematography is superb different colours shadows styles create a feeling of disorientation the green colour most evident of all is green to resemble the sickness of the killers in the drugstore when they are looking for rattlesnake antidote The camera work is insane shaky buzzy it takes some determination to get use to it and accept it Highly unorthodox psychedelic and unusual Natural Born Killers does not glamourise the existence of insane murderers it questions it and how we as the public may fuel this attribute Although the above review sound quite positive I did dislike the film Quentin Tarantino who originally wrote the script for the film was not pleased with the altered screenplay and he asked for his name to be removed I can see why While mildly interesting at times Natural Born Killers is a mess of a picture 410

This movie is so aggrivating The main character looks like hes 35 and Ive seen scrawny beanpoles with more balls than this guy The plot twists are so predictable its not even worth watching for the humor factor Also some of the worst dialogue Ive heard in 3 years lets go find a small animal to torture UghI cant even continue dont watch this pile of garbage it was made in 8 days The one highlight is the drunk dude calling the main character a faggot for drawing pictures 2 out of 10 unwatchable

Bette Davis turns in a coldly amusing performance as Mildred Rogers in this 1934 film The film seems rather dated now in 2003 It is no doubt well worth watching for film buffs and Bette Davis fans but may not have as much appeal for the average movie watcher today It was startling for me to see how young Ms Davis looks in this move The actors turn in performances which are basically sound and the story is meaningful and interesting Leslie Howard is well cast as Philip Carey the clubfooted medical student This is a film with a strong message about whom we choose to love and why However Of Human Bondage didnt seem to have a strong impact on me mentally or emotionally I felt slightly indifferent and detached about the movie after viewing it I have an intuition that this may be the reaction that the director was going for You be the judge

This is almost the worst film you will ever see 2012 Doomsday currently pulls the rug from under this one for me The props are a perfect example of what Frank Zappa once referred to as cheepnis It looks as if the space scenes were made in a 1950s power station just prior to demolition The music really sucks The acting is wooden and ham The characters they portray are shallow and unconvincing The plot is predictable It is immediately and brazenly obvious when they copy techniques and ideas from other films The quality of direction beggars belief But you have to see it if only to experience what has to be one of the biggest wastes of a tiny budget ever This is a priceless example of a stupid movie

This is probably the worst film I have ever seen it makes Plan 9 from Outer Space look wonderful The acting is wooden the plot silly and the SFX nonexistent The only good thing about it is the fact that it is not a long film The scenery is sometimes quite pretty assuming you like trees if that helps any

Spoilers in this review Despite a few highly improbable scenes including the boys in PE measuring their penises in a contest and the few obligatory teenstryingtogetlaid vignettes this movie captures the painful essence of high school in ways that few teen films have ever done It achieves this by not only showing the trio of friends Gary Dave Rick as smoking drinking ever on the prowl teens but also dwells on the nature of friendship itself as these three friends have their loyalties tested This film is a snapshot of the time when childhood ends For the shy romantic Gary when he sees the lovely Karen for the first time he falls instantly in love The awakening emotion in Gary is writ large on the screen and he proves his love for her by taking her in when she is jilted by her lover This love for Karen signals the end of Garys innocence as the bonds with his two best friends will be tested and broken over the course of the story The confident ladies man Rick is the person in high school we all secretly wish we were handsome cool and always has the impossibly beautiful girls in a swoon Rick turns out to be a cad but you have to bear in mind that his character is only 17 years old He panics and makes a bad decision From Ricks perspective the story is also about finding the one girl of his dreams a bad breakup and then at the end reconciling The look on Ricks face as Gary walks in and sees Karen kissing Rick shows that he at last understands that his best friend and he love the same woman As in real life you dont bow out because your friend has an unrequited love This is the tragedy of the film Rick is no villain and constantly through the film he reminds Gary and Dave that theyre his best friends The soulful quality of Garys performance however is the heart of the story Lawrence Monoson is a beautiful loser He does everything right his hearts in the right place and hes consumed by love for Karen Yet Karen in the end is not moved by Garys devotion and kindness Karen represents all the people in the world who take in without giving back who exist in a vacuum of their own ego and never stop to realize the emotional damage and trauma they inflict on others This film is brutal in its statements on love and friendship but thats what makes it unique among teen films It ceases being a comedy and becomes a hopelessly romantic film albeit one doomed to a tragic conclusion Anyone who has ever found the girl of his dreams and did not win her will understand The heartrending crushes of high school are every bit as real as the emotional strains of adulthood and this film will remind you of that in bold strokes Garys final reversal as he drives away with the inscribed locket is as poignant a moment as any in cinema One feels after watching this that its really made of two movies The first part is a silly teen sexploitation film and once the story begins its a strongly affecting drama A terrific movie It should also be noted that the soundtrack was prescient in its selection of many rising stars including The Police The Cars Devo Oingo Boingo The Plimsouls The Waitresses Gleaming Spires and Phil Seymour

Not that a film by Ulli Lommel filled me with hope but I must confess that ZODIAC KILLER managed to sink beneath my lowest expectations There is a recent trend among young filmmakers of utilizing digital video for their early projects which is all well and good for giving these kids the opportunity to create work without spending all their money on expensive film stock But many of these young filmmakers have also wised up to the notion of filtering the finished movie so that it appears qualitatively more like celluloid The effect is never perfect but it helps Unfiltered digital video really only works for the mockumentary style because it never looks like anything other than video Therein lies the primary trouble with ZODIAC KILLER Watching the movie feels like watching a daytime soap opera about a murderer It does not feel like watching a movie And whats even more unforgivable is that the Lommel is NOT a young filmmaker He ought to know better He ought to know that its virtually impossible to generate horror or even suspense on video For the love of god this guy has been directing since the sixties He may be the only director who has failed to improve over a forty year career in the business And lucky us he wrote the script too So you can expect convoluted actions that mean nothing unjustified behavior and at least one truly pretentious plot element that will leave you utterly unsatisfied Please please miss this film Youll thank me later

I first viewed this movie when it first came out and also bought an LP recording of the soundtrack I liked it so well I went back to see it several timescannot understand why it was considered a flop Julie Andrews was lovely in this film her voice was in top form and the costuming was beautiful The film contains a little bit of everything and even though some of the scenes were a bit heavyhanded they were still fun I recently found I could get a copy in DVD form and ordered itI was disappointed that a couple of songs and sequences in the movie were not included in the version of the DVD I ordered

Philippe Garrel makes us breathe the forgotten atmosphere of the Nouvelle Vague almost lost among the vestiges of its ancient splendor but ready to rise again from its ashes if recalled from the past They who are a little acquainted with the directors subjects on the other hand may know very well how hes obsessed by a lingering sense of loss as far as fickleness of reality is concerned Les amants réguliers therefore show us the parallel stories of an amour fou and of a tempted revolution gone to ruin under the direction of young French students The first part of the story is about the dramatic events of May 68 in France evoked in a series of astonishing plansequences a sort of cinema verité style that place the student insurrection in anything but an enviable light against a pitchblack background Theres much that can be said about the peculiarities of blackandwhite photography used to describe the battle between students and police where the high contrasts confer an unrealistic atmosphere to the sequences and darkness closes in upon the excited bodies wrapping them in mystery The images completely deprived of words show the real consistence of the myth made of crude violence more and more emphasized by the exasperated reality of the movie shootings The individual doesnt count anything at all here he tends to disappear in the mass What really matters in these fight scenes are the significance of the masssuggestion the blind fury of the juvenile assault sinister eulogies of the power of the mob even if conceived like separate entities apart from any kind of emotion with the cold and distant look of an entomologist intent to catalog his insect collection The second part of the story is described in a quieter and most intimate way Stands out on the horizon the distressing portrait of a selfcentered generation in search of its lost time completely disenchanted about the individual values of men inclined to rotate on its own axis between opium fumes and making a funeral oration in the praise of its recent defeat Les amants réguliers seems to evoke from time to time the shadow of the great Robert Bresson revised and corrected by Garrels particular sensibility without drifting away from the main argument trying to expand overall perspectives on the subject of human disillusions that though painful may bring us to the truth In my opinion trying to penetrate deeply into the substrate of the story if a man lets himself go and play things by ear he probably will find that he can bring out the dark side of his self with dire and irretrievable consequences

Aaran is one of the movies where you find the loop holes in Indian Cinema Here is one good example to show how excellent writers directors and actors succumb to the producers Here is one of the most wonderful actors Mohanlal acting in a movie about a real story in Kashmir The seriousness of the film is slaughtered with sub standard comic scenes and songs There is this character Havaldar Jaykumar who in reality is the son of the producer of the film Hence he doesnt have a hair cut despite his officer asking him to do so This kid doesnt know what is acting and he is the hero of the movie God Help Indian Cinema with such producers This movie is a pathetic display of what happens in Kashmir A sensible viewer can intuitively understand the constraints of such wonderful writers actors and directors who want to share their real life experiences But the unfortunate part is that a movie about the highest ranks in Indian Militia turns out to be a pathetic display that only makes one think that the movie was stupid We should oust such producers in the film industry and pave way for good cinema

In order to pull off a job like this caper in Rififi eg The Score and its opines one has to have nerves of steel This one apparently demands and commands it Jules Dassin is the master I was on the edge of my seat throughout It deserves to be better known even though it was not at the time of its release in 1954 due one supposes to the director being blacklisted in the hypocritical Hollywood of its day I would recommend this film to anyone who has not has the pleasure of seeing it I cannot give it enough stars

When the remake of When A Stranger Calls was out obviously I was interested in watching the original Then when I read about the original which I recall had my sisters totally freaked out back in the day I saw that the real money is on Black Christmas which apparently beat everyone to the the caller is in the house punch So I Netflix that and it sits at the top of my list for months due to its very long wait All this time I am getting more and more eager to see it Then one day out of the blue it finally arrives And its a total snore Sure maybe I had elevated expectations but I dont think it would have gained more had I seen it fresh The thing is its Christmas in some Canadian college town and theres this sorority having a party We see some killerPOV shots as he climbs this trellis and sneaks into the attic So we KNOW hes in the house Then were introduced to our charactersOlivia Hussey as the mousy whiny Canadianaccented Jess Margot Kidder as the annoying overtly aggressive alcoholic Barb Shes so annoying even her mother disinvites her for her Christmas festivities Theres also this irritating Janis Ian clone Phil and this alcoholic den mother Mrs Mac seen taking nips from the various bottles of booze she has stashed all over the house We also meet Jesss highlystrung boyfriend Peter played by Keir Dullea of 2001 and Bunny Lake is Missing fame though halfway through the film I was still asking myself Which ones Keir Dullea So it seems that the house has been receiving obscene phone calls but this was before email so they couldnt ask him to send a photo Thenwell you know how they say those plastic drycleaning bags are not a toy One of the sisters finds that out the hard way Dont worry if you dont catch the first 14 shots of the plasticencased corpse face as it reposes in the attictherell be 28 more interspersed throughout the film obviously there to make you say Oh my God Theres a corpse in the attic Though after the first hour that changes to How come the dumb police havent found the rather prominentlyplaced plasticencased corpse in the attic Especially as it is made abundantly clear that it is clearly visible from outside the house Really any time before CSI came on the air must have been such a golden age of crime the cops are so dumb Fortunately some of them look like John Saxon Anyway after a lot more darn boring human drama the house mother fears that her precious kitty has ascended a vertical ladder and has pushed open a heavylooking trap door that rests atop it those wily cats for she sticks her head in there and ends up with a hook pulley in her neck for the trouble Now we have two corpses up in the attichey why dont we have 75 more shots trying to chill us by the fact that there are now TWO corpses in the attic So by now the police have begun to take the situation seriously and tap the houses phone and station a cop outside They inform Jess and her pal Janis Ian that if the obscene caller calls back they need to keep him on the phone Jessica who has grown even more whiny mousy and annoying keeps asking the caller Who is this What do you want Who are you after like the first 89 calls when it is clear that he is not going to answer her Isnt that like a sign a developmental disability The inability to learn from unsuccessful attempts at something And whats he going to do suddenly say Oh yeah hi its Bob from the Laundromat Dumb Jess Spoilers Anyway soon Janis Ian and Lois Lane Kidder are piled in bed with ketchup splashed on their faces this films idea of gore and idiot Jess realizes that not a single door or window in the house is locked Hello Are you being stalked or what Then the cops realize that the killer is in the house and call Jess and tell her dont ask questions just do as I say… walk to the front door and get out So what does moron Jess do Starts screaming Phil Barb Phil Barb Hey great idea sister Now why dont you go right upstairs where you know a psychotic killer is lurking Of course she does and sees her former friends all splashed with ketchup prompting this viewer to scream at the screen Have a clue now Now obviously one needs to be understanding and realize that this movie was made before the classic slasher movie tropes were solidly in place and that it doesnt move to the same pace were used to and seeing a plasticcovered corpse in the attic like 206 times probably WAS scary back in the day and people werent used to being stalked by psychopaths so they wouldnt think to you know lock the doors or windows And they might be tempted to wander upstairs when they have just been told that a rabid killer is up there You see people were stupid back in the 70s We have to understand that One of the big shocks is that we dont even see our protoFinal Girl kill the psycho But believe me that fact is more interesting being read in this review than sitting through the movie for Spoilers end Hey check out Cinema de Merde my website on bad and cheesy movies with a few good movies thrown in You can 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Tony Goldwyn is a good actor who evidently is trying his hand at directing A Walk on the Moon appears to have borrowed from other better made films The present story takes place in the late sixties at a summer resort for working class Jews not far from Woodstock The screen treatment by Pamela Gray doesnt have much going for it so its a puzzle why Mr Goldwyn decided to tackle this film as his first attempt at direction The Kantrowitz family is spending some time at the resort We see them arrive at the small bungalow that is going to be their temporary home Marty the father comes only for the weekend he works in what appears to be a family small appliance business repairing television sets mostly In a few days the first man will walk in space so the excitement is evident The Kantrowitz women are left behind Pearl Martys wife and her motherinlaw Lilian spend idle days in the place until the blouse salesman arrives Pearl goes browsing and she finds much more than a shmatte she gets the salesman as well It appears that Pearl and Marty have no sexual life at all After two children Pearl who appears to be sexy and with a high libido is ready for some extra marital fun That is the basic premise for the film which becomes a soap opera when the young daughter Alison decides to play hooky and go to the Woodstock festival nearby where horror of horrors she witnesses her own mom making out with the blouse salesman Whats a girl to do Well stay tuned for the grand finale when all the parties are happily reunited by the little sons bedside when he is stung by wasps and the salesman comes to apply some home remedy and daddy is called from the city after knowing about Pearls betrayal with the younger stud Poor Diane Lane she went to make Unfaithful later on which is the upscale version of this dud Viggo Mortensen is the salesman who caters to his lonely female customers whispering little somethings in their ears Liev Schreiber as Marty the cuckolded husband doesnt have much to do Anna Paquin plays the rebellious Alison and Tovah Feldshuh is the unhappy Nana who would like to have stayed in the city watching her soap operas instead of witnessing first hand one that is playing in her own backyard Watch it at your risk or pop the DVD in the telly when you have a fun crowd at home and you really want to have a laugh or two dishing the film

I have seen many of Shahrukhs movies and this is a very good role for him He has such versatility but he mainly stays in positive roles As Rahul he is very dark and disturbing yet I found myself sympathizing with him much of the movie If for nothing else watch this movie for Shahrukh He plays a very complex and real character very convincingly The story is very typical and has been done before but the character development is very strong and entertaining The opening is a little confusing but by the end it doesnt matter The songs I found very likable and give insight to what characters are thinking Very clever I think this movie was very good and recommend it to all Shahrukh Khan fans It is a must see

If this movie were any worse it would have been directed by Uwe Boll This nonsensical mess makes Ed Wood look like Hitchcock It has been a while since I have seen this steaming pile but I do remember that I wanted to do grievous bodily harm to all those involved How anyone can give this movie any more than 1 star amazes me to the graciousness of all those that viewed this tripe I give it one star because there is not a rating lower All copies of this movie should be burned the ground sowed with salt and reserved as a landfill for the most toxic of waste No one copy should be kept under ultra hi security and shown only to film makers as an example of how not to do it

By far this is the worst Halloween movie ever made The acting is bad except for Paul Rudd and Donald Pleasence The girl who played Kara forgot her name was ok but overall this movie was basically a big letdown Nothing moved the story forward it lacked substance and the scares that made Halloween and H20 so good All and all skip this movie its not worth the price of rental

If I look hard enough flaws can be found in this film primarily with the script I found the character of Wolf not totally convincing However those were my only complaints Because when this movie started on Cable I was just going to record it and watch it later However from the beginning with the eerie music and Cameron Diaz doing her spaced out 60s dance I was riveted I never got up until the movie was over It seemed like I never even blinked The acting of Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster was excellent The scenes were beautiful the girls were beautiful and the music was haunting and very touching The story was quite unique and at times had a surreal quality The viewer would tend to like the picture more if they had a good understanding of the state of mind of young people in the 60s and 70s especially in America Many of the scenes basically succeeded in showing something of that era that is hard to pin down It was a bit more complicated than the simplistic statement that they wanted to change the world and ended up disillusioned although that may be the most obvious aspect Phoebe learns more and more about this as the movie progresses One aspect that didnt seem to be covered by the other reviewers that might bear mentioning is the way the two daughters seem to drift through life after the death of their father They both had adored him and his presence had been a stabilizing factor in their lives and obviously he had loved them dearly We read so much today about boys who lose their fathers too soon only to lose their way themselves This film covers the ripple effect of the loss of the father on the daughters left behind first on the older sister Faith then on to her younger sister Their mother feels inadequate to try to be both parents This type of dynamic is not covered in hardly any other movies especially in so many different layers of plot and subplot Phoebes inner struggles of reality versus perceptions are gradually peeled away like layers of an onion Speaking of plot this movie should rate higher than it has here I kept waiting for some great conspiracy to be found out concerning the death of Faith How it did resolve itself surprised me even if others may have guessed much sooner Maybe not for everybody but I could watch this movie many many times

SPOILER ALERT All throughout Australia the summer turned into a deluge of rain and hail stones the size of baseballs that was causing havoc in coastal cities like Sydney Its under these hectic conditions that tax lawyer David Burton Richard Chamberlaingot involved in a case as a defense attorney involving the death of a local aborigine who was found dead outside a Sydney bar Having five fellow aborigines arrested for Billy CormansAthol Compton death its determined by the police coroner that Billy died of drowning not by violence even though he had bruises on his neck and shoulders Yet the court decided to prosecute the five for his death charging them with manslaughter instead of murder David defending the five gets no help from them in their defense with the accused assailants opting to remain quite and keep what happened to Billy to themselves and take whats coming to them from the court One of the defendants Chris David Gulpili begin to somehow invades Davids dreams as if he wants to tell him what was really behind Billys death David at first not taking his dreams of Chris seriously begins to sense that their real when he meet him at the courthouse Chris confirms Davids dreams by showing him a strange looking black rock that David saw Chris have in his dreams Later meeting Chris and what turns out to be an aborigine shaman Charlie Nandjiwarna Amagula who came to his house that evening David is told that he like Charlie has spiritual powers that he inherited from his mothers grandfather Those powers will reveal to him the future that has to do with the strange weather conditions that are flooding the Australian continent The earthChris tells David is going through a gigantic cleansing cycle with the old world about to be washed away and the new world ready to take its place David is confused about what both Chris and Charlie are telling him but as the rains continue to increase and the ocean waves start to rise he feels that something terrible is going to happen David wants to know if its all aborigine folklore or theres some scientific facts or logic behind their end of worldlike revelations By now its obvious that both Chris and Charlie are members of an aborigine tribe right in the heart of modern Sydney That alone can get Chris off as well as his four friends for the murder of Billy Since the Australian government will not prosecute tribal aborigines leaving any justice to be done by the tribes themselves Still Chris refuses to admit hes a member of a native tribe and he and his four friends are convicted of manslaughter in Billys death with the sentences to be handed down by the judge within days David now determined to find out what was the reason for Chris silence and why Billy had to die is taken by Chris to the scene of the crime Its there that David finds out that Billy betrayed Chris tribe members by going there with Billy not being a member of Chriss aborigine tribe Its also revealed to David that he himself has some kind of spiritual connection with the Austrailan aborigines as both Charlie and his stepfather Rev BurtonDavid Parslow told him The stage is now set for the great and final cleansing cycle that Davids been seeing in both his nighttime dreams and daytime visions It comes in the form of a massive tidal wave rolling out of the Pacific Ocean into the Australian coast city of Sydney and then submerges the entire continent

The plot in the future when nearly all men have been killed by a Ychromosometargeting virus a hot female genetic engineer creates a man in a chem lab is intriguing Despite the somewhat promising premise the movie falls flat in nearly every regard The dialogue is laughable The characters are paper thin The exploration of a singlegender world is shallow The worst part of the entire movie is the Asian detective who delivers lines so cheesy and contrived that youll want to vomit I cant imagine how on earth this trash got produced Most of the movie is male bashing All men are violent All men rape women Men are only animals All of the women even the closet hetero cases seem to display anger toward fear of and hatred for men If you want to see a scifi film something along the lines of this movies premise youd do best to look elsewhere

This film is without a doubt the worst action film I have ever seen I am sorry but it is just pathetic In fact the best part of the movie this movie is supposed to be a serious one is when a chicken speeds across the road on foot at about 100 miles per hour This pathetic editing mistake makes the film absolutely hilarious for approximately 2 seconds then it is back to non stop on the edge of your seat as you try to find a comfortable position to sleep in action

This is beyond a shadow of a doubt the absolute worst movie I have ever seen Its been a long time since Ive seen it but the jokes are NOT funny the plot is painfully forseeable calling the main characters stupid is to vastly upgrade their intelligenceuggh I just wanted to punch Tom Arnold and make him cry because he wasted two hours of my life when I was done watching this piece of cinematic filth I dont even know why I ever wanted to watch it but remember if you see this movie DONT SAY I DIDNT WARN YOU PS Tom Arnolds character sings a song in this movie called Im My Own Grandfather Nuff said

The 60s is an occasionally entertaining film most of this entertainment is from laughing at the film It is extremely uneven and includes many annoying elements Take for instance the switch between black white and color If done right this could of been fairly effective but because it was done poorly it turned into a nuisance and only detracted from the already bad experience much of the film had an odd feel to it The acting wasnt extremely bad for a made for TV flick but then again it was downright embarrassing at other times Many of the events were not coherent and ending up being confusing How did this family somehow end up being at many of the big events during the 1960s The ending was much too sappy for my tastes because it was hollywoodized everything had to turn out right in the end I would advise you to not waste your time on The 60s and do something else with your time Im glad I watched this in class and not on my own time I think I can safely say that the best part of the movie was the inclusion of Bob Dylans music Those are just my rambling thoughts on the flick I hope you take my advice and stay away from this

The early films of the Dead End Kids before they were rechristened the Bowery Boys were all very entertaining and wellproduced films from Warner Brothers Despite their being rather formulaic they still had excellent writing acting and hold up well over time Do NOT confuse these with the cheap Bowery Boys films from Monogram Picturesdespite the presence of Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey these films were several notches below the earlier films in regard to quality The film begins with toughguy John Garfield winning the lightweight boxing championship Unfortunately shortly after this hes on a drunken binge and is blamed for a murder he really didnt commit The problem is that he was so loaded that he wasnt sure he didnt kill the man so he runs away and lives the life of a hobo Eventually he meets up with feisty May Robson and the Dead End Kidsas well as a lady you just know will become his girlfriend given time Where the rest of the film goes was not all that surprising but because of the quality of the film it doesnt seem to matter Garfield and the Kids are at their best and this is a film sure to please all but the pickiest of viewers

As anyone old enough knows South Africa long suffered under the vile racist oppression of apartheid which completely subjugated the black population One of the most famous antiapartheid activists was Steve Biko who was murdered in jail Following the murder reporter Donald Woods sought to get Bikos message out to the world In Cry Freedom Woods Kevin Kline befriends Biko Denzel Washington before the latter is arrested on trumped up charges When Woods attempts to spread Bikos word he and his family begin living under threat of attack and they are finally forced to flee the country The last scene gutwrenchingly shows police firing on protesters As one of two movies along with A World Apart that helped galvanize the antiapartheid movement Cry Freedom stands out as possibly the best ever work for all involved

One would think that since this film has a bad rep that I would be exaggerating when I say I hated this filmBut Im am serious this movie was just so stupid and so unfunny and such a waste of timeI mean after the first 30 I had a major headache and the smile I had on my facethat was mostly getting ready to laugh was wearing offWhen this film was over I was so glad and because I had good expectations that it would be funny I was extremely disappointedThe acting is not great the comedy moments are lame and unfunnyHardly anything is good about this because I laughed at like maybe 2 partsOverall this is so boring and I cant tell you how awful this is I think this could be used as a suicide techniqueI mean I dont think for some its even watchableSo my final words on this are AVOID AT ALL COSTS

This is absolutely the most stupidest movie ever produced in front of a camera I cant believe I was gullable enough to rent this piece of junk I have seen some bad movies in my time But this takes the cakeIce cream and Chips Too Omg I still cant get over how bad this thing was The acting was a Joke The Plot was Non Exsistantand the camera work had to be done by a 3 year old child I have never seen a movie take so long to go Nowhere I mean the whole movie could have been shot is less than 30 minutes I guess this guy had some extra time on his hands Like 3 Hours And an extra 60 bucks in his wallet and decided one night Hey Lets go make the stupidest movie ever made And they did just that Give me a breakIm heading back to the video store right now to get Demand my money backAnyone else who has watched this piece of trash should do the same

Woman with wig who dyes her hair in the middle of the film takes of wig presumably does not see what the audience can see from miles away begin spoiler alert that her hubby is having an affair with her best girlfriend and they both try get rid of her end of spoiler alert And what a spoiler that was the title already gives it away doesnt it Bad acting bad script waste of time Oh yeah in the end she lives happily ever after If you liked this movie youll really love Cannibal women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

After watching this movie I was honestly disappointed not because of the actors story or directing I was disappointed by this film advertisements The trailers were suggesting that the battalion have chosen the third way out other than surrender or die Polish infos were even misguiding that they had the choice between being killed by own artillery or German guns they even translated the title wrong as misplaced battalion This have tickled the right spot and I bought the movie The disappointment started when I realized that the third way is to just sit down and count dead bodies followed by sitting down and counting dead bodies Then I began to think hey this story cant be that simple I bet this clever officer will find some cunning way to save what left of his troops Well he didnt they were just sitting and waiting for something to happen And so was I The story was based on real events of World War I so the writers couldnt make much use of their imagination but even thought I found this movie really unchallenging and even a little bit boring And as I wrote in the first place it isnt fault of actors writers or director their marketing people have raised my expectations high above the level that this movie could cope with

For a low budget project the Film was a success The story is interesting and the actors were convincing Eva Longoria who now stars on the TV Show Dragnet is sexier than ever The locations were ideal for the ganster plot and the director shows his talent by taking on many roles for his project Of course this low budget film could use better editing transitions and more special effects for the gun scenes but the music keeps this script moving Although this film has its share of problems such as continuity I must say that I would rent the directors next movie If your a film student you could learn a few things from the directors commentary

Why does this movie fall WELL below standards Ultimately the answer lies in the poor humourless script A slimaverage looking Travolta looking rather dapper in black I must say even with a HUGE mullet and Gross both act very well as two youngish slickdressed but nevertheless dimwitted New Yorkers eager to open their own nightclub Other than that the rest of the film is just boring to watch It is SO dull that its really not worth knowing what happens in the films climax on any level Kelly Preston obviously exudes sex appeal and the sexually charged dance with her husbandtobe Travolta is one of the films few pleasures Charles Martin Smith is quite fun to watch as struggling KGB honcho Bob Smith Personally I think the movie would have been better if the plot was altered a little so that the settings did not change from NY to Indian Springs Nebraska which is in the former Soviet Unionyoull understand if you see the movie Apparently this movie was filmed in 1986 ready for a 1987 release I guess Paramount stalled on releasing the movie until January 1989 because of the unbelievable plot It was reported they deemed it unreleasable Nevertheless this 6000000 film garnered a little over an embarrassing 163000 in revenue as it was released only BRIEFLY in places like Texas and Colorado before heading straighttovideo This is testament to the overall BAD quality of this movie

Dolph Lundgren stars as a templar who comes to New York when a key that unlocks the antiChrist is found by an archaeologist of course the demon is only a couple miles behind Dolph and isnt killed so easily as he transfers from body to body Like Fallen without the suspense Of course Lundgren is out of his element and the movie is completely unwatchable I admit to being a fan of Dolph Lundgren like Steven Seagal and JeanClaude Van Damme I try to watch his movies whenever theyre on TV I caught The Minion and boy was I ever disappointed This movie is utterly terrible With action sequences so poorly staged and badly edited you can barely make coherent sense in the fight arena Worst of all is Lundgrens woefully unconvincing perf as a tough guy priest all of this made worse that the movie is such a rip off of Fallen Which was good and End Of Days Which was bad but better than this overall this movie is the worst movie Ive seen from Dolph Lundgren It literally has nothing to recommend it Its awful and its the lowest point in Lundgrens career And I saw CoverUp The Last Warrior and Masters Of The Universe 12 Out Of 4Awful

I watched this film because I thought it would be a classic Amy Adams movie Wow this movie is so bad on so many levels it staggers the imagination It is poorly constructed for one also the script and the acting is just awful But hey even Johnny Depp has a slew of bad films under his belt The upside of this movie would be Amy singing and even on that score I believe better songs could have been chosen Amy is of course beautiful to see and if you are a diehard fan of hers you will probably watch this title no matter what just dont expect too much I wish I could have found more to like but it was just painful to watch I recommend Sunshine Cleaning or Doubt

Why did they have to make such a dreadful adaptation The whole Complete Jane Austin series as a part of Masterpiece Classics looks like a huge disappointment Characters are totally miscast and theres no chemistry on the screen The whole thing feels rather rushed The 1999 movie release based on the same novel seems like a masterpiece compared to this I really want to forget it Im really happy though that Pride and Prejudice wont be remade as part of this project and we will see the iconic and magnificent Colin Firth and Jennifer Elle as protagonists if you skipped this Mansfield Park production consider yourself lucky

The acting was bad the script was bad and the ending was just terriblethe only good comment i could make about this movie would be the special effects and make upbut apart from thatthis movie would be one of the worst movies of 2001why on earth did they have to remake such a perfect movie and ruin itwhy

Brokedown Palace is not the kind of movie I would ever like to see I also did not like the movie when some Aussie man smuggled drugs in Thailand and accused Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale of drug smuggling I would not go to that country no matter what after I saw this movie In fact this movie stinks I prefer to visit Germany to meet beautiful single women Germany is the country I tolerate I also would rather stick to the United States instead After I saw some of the movie in the theatre including the false accusation of drug smuggling I left the theatre and had my money refunded because I cannot tolerate this movie If you are going to to Thailand to meet someone there who could be a drug smuggler forget this

I had always wanted to see this film and the first threefourths proved I hadnt waited in vain But what the hell happened in the end I mean dont get me wrong I liked the film It definitely made me nostalgic of the realistic unique NYC of the 80s that we have lost thanks to Giuliani But its missing another half hour

0s Christian Slater Tara Reid Stephen Dorff Frank C Turner Mathew Walker Will Sanderson Directed by Uwe Boll Based on the video game director Uwe Boll attempts to recreate the game into an actionpacked nail biter sadly he doesnt succeed Instead he makes one of the worst movies ever MADE Even though he gets minor celebrity such as Christian Slater Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff his movie lacks the necessary fundamentals that a movie needs to be good such as a story line and some basic relativity of whats going on in the dark and the light The movie bounces all around and Uwe Boll has no creative control And not to mention the bad CGI used on making the monsters Even though they did look cool and the feedings were well a little lame Honestly this is one of the worst movies ever made My final rating 010

I appreciated the photography the textures the colours and often unlike one comment the lighting What was lacking for me was a coherent storylineI found it often disjointed badly edited and at times difficult to follow My version was 110 minutes IMDb shows one at 125m Possibly the cuts and subtitles didnt help I applaud any films that escape from the Hollywood mould but this left me disappointed Miss Gillain was luminous and the performances were all fine I just wanted a little more dialogue If anyone would like to see another film that has some affinity with this one try Hideous Kinkywith Kate Winslet

While the sparkling chemistry between Ryan and Robbins alone is reason enough to see this movie the supporting cast including Matthau Fry Shalub Durning and the hilarious trio of Jacobi Saks and Maher is an additional plus Matthau shines as Einstein Fry is perfect as Ryans clinical fiancé and Shalubs line about Einsteins gonads is as has been noted one of the highlights of the film The speech that Robbins delivers at his first appearance in public is sheer poetry Kudos to the writers for handling this froth with wit and levity I also thought that Keene Curtis was wonderful as Eisenhower This might be considered something of a chick movie but I think everyone will get a kick out of it Eight very solid points

This is a film which should be seen by anybody interested in effected by or suffering from an eating disorder It is an amazingly accurate and sensitive portrayal of bulimia in a teenage girl its causes and its symptoms The girl is played by one of the most brilliant young actresses working in cinema today Alison Lohman who was later so spectacular in Where the Truth Lies I would recommend that this film be shown in all schools as you will never see a better on this subject Alison Lohman is absolutely outstanding and one marvels at her ability to convey the anguish of a girl suffering from this compulsive disorder If barometers tell us the air pressure Alison Lohman tells us the emotional pressure with the same degree of accuracy Her emotional range is so precise each scene could be measured microscopically for its gradations of trauma on a scale of rising hysteria and desperation which reaches unbearable intensity Mare Winningham is the perfect choice to play her mother and does so with immense sympathy and a range of emotions just as finely tuned as Lohmans Together they make a pair of sensitive emotional oscillators vibrating in resonance with one another This film is really an astonishing achievement and director Katt Shea should be proud of it The only reason for not seeing it is if you are not interested in people But even if you like nature films best this is after all animal behaviour at the sharp edge Bulimia is an extreme version of how a tormented soul can destroy her own body in a frenzy of despair And if we dont sympathise with people suffering from the depths of despair then we are dead inside