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Not even Bob Hope escorted by a raft of fine character actors can save this poorly written attempt at wartime comedy as his patented timing has little which which to work The plot involves a Hollywood film star named Don Bolton Hope and his attempt to evade military service at the beginning of World War II followed by his enlistment by mistake in a confused attempt to court a colonels daughter Dorothy Lamour Boltons agent played by Lynne Overman and his assistant portrayed by Eddie Bracken enlist with him and the three are involved in various escapades regarding training exercises filmed in the Malibu California hills Paramount budgeted handsomely for this effort employing some of its top specialists but direction by the usually reliable David Butler was flaccid and this must be attributed to a missing comedic element in the scenario A shift toward the end of the film to create an opportunity for heroism by Bolton is stillborn with poor stunt work and camera action in evidence Oddly Lynne Overman is given the best lines and this veteran master of the sneer does very well by them Dorothy Lamour looks lovely and acts nicely as well and it is ever a delight to see and hear Clarence Kolb as her father whose voice is unique on screen or radio but there is little they can do to save this film cursed as it is with an error in script assignment

I preface by stating I am a big fan of JJL and NOT one of Patrick Therefore I watched this to see her performance and of course it was excellent I do not feel the director was adequate for the film as several very bad choices were made re shot angles blocking etc If the director was trying to give it a realistic feel they failed and lost some good performances because of it Nearly always felt that the camera was way too static too far from intense facial reactions and so many times when the action depended on the intimacy of lead characters the dialog was slow and plodding This easily could have been resolved by cutaways or changes of camera angle But the impression I got was that the budget was too small and only one camera was used I also got the impression that perhaps scenes were shot multiple times and the energy coming from the actors was used up

end of the world looks like a good movie on the box cover but be warned its badbeing a big fan of mega star actor Christopher lee i was fooled like tentacles77a good cast does not mean itll be a good filmthe beginning looks promising then it turns to tediummany parts of the movie are too dark to see whats going onthe rest of the cast is shown briefly likeLew ayresdean Jaggerand MacDonald Carey as a security guardi would expect better from Charles band who made good fun movies like the reanimater and dollsi heard Christopher lee was tricked into making this filmhe was told his co stars were going to be Jose ferrerjohn carridineand dean Jaggerwell dean Jagger is there but the other two never made itlucky themif you make a movie about the end of the world use a bigger budget and better storylinedean Jagger went on to do two good movies afterwardsalligator80and game of death79 sue LyonLolitais also in the movie minus her lollipopif you are a glutton for punishment then watch end of the world i dare you to say awake during the whole movie1 out of 10

I would give this a zero if they had that rating Fun was no fun at all I grew tired of the movie about ten minutes into but endured to the end thinking it had to get better it did not The others I watched this movie with also agreed The acting was annoying I am tired of Jim Careys over the top ham acting The supporting cast was no better While this movie was a statement of corporate greed and the plight of the worker who gets stepped on when a large company goes under the vehicle for this would have been better served another way I actually disliked the leading characters Dick and Jane so much that their antics were never funny but pathetic I am trying to recall one scene where I or anyone I was with laughed and cannot A worthless movie and a total waste of time

The year 2000 had been a bad year for indian films due to lack of quality and imagination from film directors Other than Mohabbatein and Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai nothing stood out CCCC had lot of contraversy due to the financing of the film and this with not really knowing what the film is about has generated good publicity and advanced ticket sales for the film around India and Abroad The only information given was that it was a suspense thriller The film is now been released in 2001 and the film was surprisingly quite good The main plot is to do with surrogacy and is well handled Salman And Preiti give a good performance where Salman doesnt actually take is shirt off at allmust be special effects Rani plays Salmans wife but it is slightly a less demanding role compared with Preiti who plays Prostitute who eventually becomes the surrogate mother The three main leads confirm after Har Di Jo Pyar Karega they have a solid on screen and off screen chemistryapparently Salman Khan who is excellent plays a serious role in the film as a successful business man and is a pity is being exploited as a wannabe comedian in his other films as he is quite underrated in the Mumbai film industry partly due to the films he chooses Ranis Character does not know Preiti is a prostitute until the endthis kept from her and the rest of the familythe rest you should find out as it will ruin the film if i told you The songs are all picturised well especially dekhne walon and the main title song The other supporting actors do a minimal but fine effort as Salmans loving family Abbas Mastan has produced a hit and handled the film subject tactfullyI say go and watch it or rent it whatever you prefer

There are many socalled antiwarantigovt policy films around now which start off as a mea culpa and end with our poor boys are getting hell out there so let the world sympathise with them its not their fault kind of stuff I was half afraid that this would be another in that style even if it treated another subjectaspect of the same subject I nearly didnt go and see it for that matter I almost did not write this review What did we get here An Egyptian gets taken off to a secret offshore torture centre on US orders but it is another Egyptian who has to do the torturing not an American see we Americans have clean hands and the Egyptians are a bad lot anyway so let them harm their own Oh and the goody had to be an American with a conscience indeed many Americans have them but here the concept was misplaced Yes we all know it is called Extraordinary Rendition and it began in Clintons time and it is now used for reasons well beyond control Otherwise it was very hackneyed and nervous about really condemning the US for being party to torture as if the makers were afraid to go the whole way for fear of being slanged as unpatriotic or whatever take a look at the message board Anyone apologising gets a faceful of heavy verbal artillery Torture is a terrible thing whether one is guilty or not in the 18th Century FrederickII King of Prussia abolished it for convicted murderers though I must say a life sentence for a child molester is far less than what I want to see All right what about torture This film did not really bring out its horror and hopelessness enough When you are under torturenow come the capitals for emphasis I am not shouting YOU WILL SAY ANYTHING EVEN IF IT IS NOT TRUE EVEN IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE THE THING YOU ARE ACCUSED OF IN THE VAIN HOPE THAT IF YOU SAY AMEN TO WHATEVER THEY ARE PEDDLING IT WILL STOP IT DOES NOT BUT YOU NEVER LEARN AND YOU KEEP ON SAYING THAT YOU DID WHATEVER IT IS THEY SAY YOU DID THO YOU DIDNT Another thing the film did not bring out enough was that TORTURE IS EXCEEDINGLY INDESCRIBABLY HUMILIATING AND THAT FEELING STAYS WITH YOU YOUR WHOLE LIFE It somehow changes people inside How do I know all that Dont ask Reedit two things the Arabic that was used in the film was not the Egyptian dialect Its sort of worse than setting a film in New Zealand with locals as the characters and everyone has American accents Also the dreadful little preacher who was inciting his ignorant audience to violence was telling them things unknown to that religion which should have been brought out Nor was it anywhere explained that any nincompoop can become a mullahimam he doesnt need any special qualifications and that is a hiatus which needs to be put right many are acceptable because of their fundamentalist views and tne USAs great ally Saudi Arabia finances so many of them Many thanks for this space

I remember watching the BSG pilot I can describe that night exactly I remember what chair I sat in That show was magic It came alive I enjoyed the first two years of BSG I enjoyed parts of the third year even and I watched every episode of the fourth year totally faithfully in great hopes that it would somehow turn around Well it didnt I watched the Caprica pilot and was enthralled There was hope for something good here Then I started watching the regular episodes and they are getting more and more boring Its too obvious too predictable It reminds me of the droll political correctness of his last failed show Virtuality Much of his line work on DS9 was good When he focused on BSG in an organized way it was good This was especially true early on when they more or less followed the pattern of episodes set by the first BSG series When they departed from that after meeting up with Admiral Cain and the Pegasus it all went to pot It was like he wrote the rest of the show without knowing where he was going Maybe it will improve Maybe it was just a few weak initial episodes But I am very very nervous

First i will say that i am going to be as subjective as I can There will be some potential spoilers ahead so beware I hardly ever review movies but this one in particular i felt i had to review This movie Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children based off the ultra popular rpg Final Fantasy VII for the ps1 has been in the works for quite some time After the years of hype and the dozens of trailers none of which i ever saw i had only seen stills this movie got the legions of fans really excited about seeing their favorite characters on the big screen I myself had played and completed the game a few times like any good fan and being such a movie freak i was pretty excited myself So i had thought to myself WHAT COULD GO WRONG Well the movie started out OK in the first 20 minutes but then things get out of hand as the movie progressed Without a doubt this is the best looking CGI animation around but that wont help a weak plot undeveloped charactersand over indulgent action scenes Here is the story basically These three silver haired nancy boys in leather who have nothing to do with the game are supposedly clones of Sephiroth hes the villain of the game who had supposedly murdered all his supposed clonesare trying to kidnap all the children for some reason that was not really explained all that well probably to make an army of kids They also center some of the story on some kid named Denzel i dont know who this kid is or what his point is he just seems depressed all the time So the sephiroth clones also are involved in some kind of scheme involving some disease called geostigma that only affects the children this disease seems to cause boredom and small amounts of skin discoloration So now Cloud must save the day from these guys Apparently Cloud and his fellow team mates have learned the ability of flight i felt a little insulted that these characters where flying around a city fighting a dragon and landing on there feet all the time Maybe if the movie wasnt so over the top then the view relax into it and then they can be amazed by something incredible The real problem of this movie is logic Now i know what you are gonna say But its called Final FANTASY it should have those ideas in it well that is a foolish way to think the game based itself in some kind of reality and the movie should follow through in that CONTEXT Context and logic in this movie is inconsistent i could explain it all but if i did i would end up writing the screenplay Also some scenes in this movie were extremely contrived and trite like when all of the characters from the game show up just in the nick of time for their obligatory screen time so as not to upset the fans They show up do there bit and pretty much have no point in the story If this is too long here is the simpler review the pros the first 20 minutes topnotch cgi animation decent action scenes visually stunning the cons illogical over indulgent action unbalanced action leaves the viewer jaded at the climax weak plot super human charactersno suspense the jrock soundtrackscore what happened to the orchestra Horrible ending BIG TIME SPOILER Now the ending of this movie really disappointed me they could have had gone the really cool and sweet ending where cloud dies and meets up with aeris in the after life but after the great battle at the end cloud gets shot in the back the kinda wound where the bullet blast out through the chest then cloud has his 100th flashback in the movie and then wakes up in a pool of lifestream now i remember the lifestream in the game but it did not have resurrecting properties if it did they could have brought aeris back to life thus making a completely different story so cloud is brought back to life and everyone has a party and dives into the pool and we have a ultra cheezy hallmark lifetime type moment not that the movie doesnt have its moments its is worth seeing for its visuals but thats all other than that its not really a good movie it is strictly for blinded fans of the game not for people who care about plot and character and story telling

I must say one big reason why I thought the AristoCats was so great is because I love catsI love catswhich probably gave this film a big score from mebut not only thatit was definitely a good movie as welland I love where they make the setting of the film take placeThis is one of my favorite animal filmsalthough its animatedand I really love how the actorsactresses didnt sound so unprofessional behind the animals voicesTo me this film seems like a classicbut I guess to IMDb its notbecause it hasyes I THINK too low of a ratingYou take a peek at all the other ORIGINAL Disney films and they have a much higher rating than thisbut nonetheless AristoCats is one of the best animation movies there is and I could enjoy it over and over again

This film is absolutely horrific One of the worst movies Ive ever seen The story does nearly not exist the characters are full of stereotypes and the SpecialFX only make you laugh The only remarkable thing about this movie is the guest appearance of the Rapper Coolio as some kind of police officer If this film was supposed to be a comedy I didnt quite get the point If you want to watch this movie please get yourself drunk first and then prepare for some good laughsespecially when the first SpecialFX appear on the screen But if you like trash movies made on the cheap this film is a mustsee for you

Fool for Love is one of the several now forgotten films Robert Altman directed throughout the 1980s This one a screen adaptation of a Sam Shepard play that features Shepard in the lead role just simply isnt very good Altman made many notverygood films over the course of his fascinating career and many times the fault was his But here I think the fault lies with Shepard for writing such a flimsy play Altmans direction is assured the performances are ok given what the actors have to work with but this inconsequential screenplay goes nowhere and takes its time getting there Shepard is Eddie a stuntman who has a lovehate relationship with May Kim Basinger The two fight endlessly over the course of an evening spent in some dusty motel in the middle of nowhere while a mysterious man Harry Dean Stanton who may be either a figurative or literal father to both Eddie and May quietly observes Randy Quaid rounds out the fourperson cast as a gentleman caller The only dramatic hook in the entire plot is the suggestion that Eddies and Mays relationship is incestuous However this hook feels more like a gimmick than anything The screenplay doesnt explore their relationship in any detail and it doesnt use their relationship to explore any more universal themes Shepard and Basigner create eccentric mannered characters who grow irritating within the first five minutes Stanton and Quaid have little to do but provide reaction shots The last half hour or so of the film is especially bad when Eddies and Mays back stories begin to play out in flashback over monotone somnolent voice over Chalk this up to another of Altmans experiments gone awry Grade C

Watching this little movie is a sheer delight from start to finish The story is always entertaining the tension never loosing up The whole cast is wonderful The teaming of Walken and Bracco works to perfection it is almost like an echo of a classic screwball romance Bracco is very sexy and really funny as the scam artist who fights for her independence For some reason they gave Walken a very strange make up and the weirdest haircut I can imagine its sort of a parody of the one Burt Lancaster had in Elmer Gantry For me it added to the pleasure Its the first movie I saw Miguel Ferrer in probably one of the most underappreciated movie actors of his generation Hes very good in a small role as Braccos pimp Even the Jamaican thugs are a sight to behold I can highly recommend this movie

Cinderella I hadnt watched this film for about five years the last time i saw it The magic remains There is something that definitely contains that storybook feel the songs entertain and the secondary characters all please The villains in the form of step sisters are perfectly evil and vile Then there is the most magical of all Disney the mice making the dress and well you know the rest To sum up the four of the Disney princess movies are all great but this is a charming magical experience watch and enjoy Oh and of course Cinderella is wonderful as the main character in the movie If you think about it Disney movies can really lost their charm With Elene Wood and others the movie has such a feel to it you simply cant help but smile They say the moral of this story is that dreams come true Of course in the real world some are believers others are hopers In this film its even more the magical when her rainbow comes smiling And of course the rest isCinderella

Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen Pathetic in almost every way I threw the DVD straight in the bin I didnt even think it was fair to give it to the local thrift shop The effects are beyond a joke The dam control room looks like cardboard The water looks way out of scale with the backgrounds nothing works Then there is the limp plot about as much depth as a Scooby Doo cartoon I couldnt wait for them all to drown

Every time this film is on the BBC somebody in the Radio Times says how it is a satire against the post war world of rationing and the welfare state I do not think this is the point of the film at all The film parodies the spivssmall time criminals who ran the blackmarket and the housewives league who campaigned against government restrictions but were really a Tory front organisation Yes of course the film sends up the politicalsocial situation but in the end the people realise that they need all the controls to ensure a fair societythey want to be British and muddle through rather than foreign But I dont think they go back to being exactly like they were before

I was so looking forward to seeing this at the film festival in Sydney I left the theater like many others before the end credits because I couldnt sit through it any longer It was badly shot the sound sucks and the acting was worse than an episode of The Love Boat Now I know why this film hasnt been able to find an American distribution company to release it in the United States This screams of a low budget high school production

This was actually my favorite series of Scooby Doo when I was younger I thought each episode had more of an edge to it and the villains had a lot of creative thought put into them and even very scary and believable as well Some of the best episodes were I Left My Neck In San Francisco Twenty Thousand Screams Under The Sea The Ghoul The Bat And The Ugly and When You Wish Upon A Star Creature If you have never seen these episodes please do This series was a bit of a mixed bag though as there were other episodes which didnt seem to have the same kind of edge to them such as Rocky Mountain YIIII and The Ransom Of Scooby Chief As like the series before it it was very well put together interesting storyline and brilliantly drawn As everyone says though it would have been so much better without Scrappy Doo The character was tiresome and distracting to the story that was being told

I hope she can keep acting and directing Shes surely up to the task and could easily develop that visionary streak into a long career of unconventional and rare works of art Her work has a rare kind of generosity and her timing is spoton Oy Im kvell

Recap Ron is about to marry Mel They are deeply and love and certain they are perfect for each other even though they met just a few months ago Todd Rons brother in law to be is not so happy He is afraid the marriage is a threat to his cushy job in the family business and decides to arrange Rons bachelor party But his real plan is to put Ron in a compromising situation get evidence and break Ron and Mel up Comments Supposed to be a sequel to a comedy classic but it isnt funny at all It is mostly a pubertal show and a juvenile excuse to show scantily clad women Actually in a way it is almost impressive have many you can put in there because they are everywhere Unfortunately that is also one of the signs of a movie that cant support itself It simply isnt good enough It has three redeeming points though or actually three actors that is worth a better script than this It is lead actor Josh Cooke who actually manages to give an impression of some common sense Sara Foster I know has more talent than to do movies like this and Emanuelle Vaugier seem to have a lot more talent than this movie What is suspiciously absent are good jokes Actually bad jokes are rather scarce too It just isnt funny 310

I saw Borderline several years ago on AMC Ive been looking for it ever since It was haunting visual textural sensual This movie took me somewhere like a dream and I didnt care where I will never forget the curtain blowing in the breeze I still remember the way it made me tilt my head I remember my facial expression when I saw it I didnt know what had happened when the movie was over but I find life is that way It didnt bother me The unfairness of the ultimate rejection of an innocent character strikes me as sadly real I loved the faces the way the camera dwelt upon them The camera gazed at the set with the unfocused eyes of a daydreamer Borderline was real to me in a way movies arent It was exactly the lack of explanation color sharpness that made it enter my consciousness like a thief in the night I love this movie Someday I will own it

I disliked this movie for numerous reasons Within the first ten minutes of the film I grew extremely disappointed and came to the conclusion that if this movie was going to salvage itself for me at least that it was going to have to pull itself out of the enormous hole it had dug Unfortunately that did not occur The two draws of the movie for me were to see Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman I dont know enough about Lindsey Lohans work to have been interested in what she would bring to the film Afterward I just felt disappointed in and for all three of them even though there were moments in each of their performances I imagine that for each of them to find their moments was a very difficult task given the fact that there was an amazing lack of character development and uninspired dialog Although the plot is an interesting one the movie on the whole is so poorly written directed and edited that anybodys performance as an actor would suffer and be tainted by it The disrespectful way in which it dealt with sexual abuse and the trite and insulting viewpoint of smalltown America I think were the two main reasons why this film failed in hitting its mark As one reviewer has noted and I would agree the movie is almost impossible to market given its finished form I suspect that or at least hope that for the actors sakes anyway there are some real gems on the cutting room floor Sad for us but if thats true then the actors can take solace in that and feel somewhat good about lending their talents and time to such a flop Oh yeah and another thingI wished for just once I could go see an American movie which included the sadly disappearing but wonderfully bucolic settings such as the one in this film where the main characters werent absentmindedly andor disrespectfully littering the country side with pop cans smashed CDs and other such trash

This film is pure distilled unadulterated boredom I knew nothing of it before I entered the dark room took my seat I was seduced by the mysterious and suspenseful blurb on the poster I suppose Also Lena Headey is nice and unconventionally sexy and Richard Jenkins is always a reliable guy to have around so the cast seemed reasonable It may have been his name above the title that convinced me to go with this instead of whatever else was on I shouldve gone to see Valkyrie for the second time instead The thin plot revolves around Headleys Gina McVey her boyfriend her father her sister and her sisters husband who for some reason are being stalked in a very louche and unenthusiastic manner by their evil doppelgangers who emerge from mirrors that mysteriously smash There could be a great film behind this idea not exactly an original idea mind you but still and in fact if the filmmakers had shorn away all the supporting cast and simply stuck to Headeys characters story The Broken couldve made a reasonable 20minute short As it is it is desperately unmotivated and boring and terribly inconsistent For instance in one scene a mirror smashes on its own in a room housing all the main characters they look puzzled but quickly forget about it In another scene a mirror smashes in an empty room and a doppelganger is visible as she steps out of the shards left hanging on the wall So why did the first mirror smash if no creepy crawly was to come crawling out Just for a little thrill There are far too many scenes of the characters in the dimlylit London flats peering around corners cos they thought they heard something but seeing nothing there and moving on We begin to wonder why doesnt this malevolent doppelgang actually ever want to try to scare them Scare the characters and you have a chance of scaring the audience But we the audience will need to start threatening each other in the darkness of the theater if we want to have any thrills during The Broken By the way once weve spent time with these evil doubles we are totally bemused as to why anyone should be expected to be frightened of them they just stand around blank looks on their faces perhaps totally harmless after killing their others There are some nice moods and touches throughout and I dare say director Sean Ellis could fashion a genuinely stylish and suspenseful mystery movie if he was to hire an imaginative screenwriter next time

Unless you are between the ages of 10 and 14 except for the R rating there are very few things to like here One or two lines from Kenan Thompson David Koechner we really should see him more and Sam Jackson are humorous and Julianna Margulies is as good as she can be considering her surroundings but sadly thats it Poor plot Poor acting Worse writing and delivery The special effects are dismal As much as the entire situation is an odd and awful joke the significant individual embedded situations are all equally terrible If we consider the action portions well there are unbelievable action sequences in some films that make you giddy and there are some that make you groan This movie only contains the latter kind This leaves little left Im so glad I did not pay for this Despite any hype I can read and think so as I sat down to watch I did not expect anything good I had no expectations but was somewhat worried going in Yet like a train wreck one cannot merely look away And even with no expectations I was let down Bad Not even so bad its good material Im very tolerant of bad movies but this makes Six String Samurai which I liked Oscar worthy No this piece of over CGId rubbish is in the same company as Battlefield Earth Little Man and Gigli How this is currently rated a 72 completely mystifies me Brainwashing or somehow stacking the voting system is all that I can think of as answers I could go on and on but suffice to say that tonight I witnessed a train wreck I need to go wash my eyes 1 of 10

I absolutely LOVED this Soap It has been one of my favorite Will highly recommend I just love Brazilian soaps they deal with real life events Im really sad that the soap ended but Im sure Ill be able to find it somewhere For those of you who have not seen it please see it I loved the characters the plot and how things turned out in the end for the villains The only thing I would have changed is the end for Xica and her long life love I cant wait to see it again and highly recommend it Xica has been by far the best soap I have ever seen Forget everything else GO XICA Hope you all like it as well

I think this movie was made as good as it could have been With only 4 months and a 52000 budget Im surprised this wasnt worse If you are not to care about the CG or special effects this movie is great Okay the movie is not that well made Im sure it could have been but you try to do better in only 4 months but the story is good and the movie is rather exciting DOnt trust me when I say that this movie is good cause I also find the 1933 King Kong to be good I must confess that I didnt watch the complete movie either I might have fast forwarded some minutes here and there

In Black Snake Moan writerdirector Craig Brewer is so obsessed with heavy symbolism that part of me felt like dismissing the entire film as pretentiousa sweltering Southern parable with some ohsorisky subject matter The movie also contains a heavy spiritual subtext where religion is being hauled into the pictureagain this is integrated without subtlety After the darker opening scenes the film increasingly blunts its edge until the entire production comes off with the artificial quality of a stage play and Ill admit the last 15 minutes go way too far into Happy Ending territory for my liking And thats not to mention the archival footage of musician Son House ruminating on love and death and heavily foreshadowing things to come of course Yet in a strange way these demerits are also qualities of Black Snake Moan the tale of aging Lazarus Samuel L Jackson recently dumped by his wife for his brother no less who comes across neardeath nympho Rae Christina Ricci easily giving the hottest portrayal of trailer trash on celluloid ever nursing the girl back to health he chains her to his radiator to overcome her demons and hopefully redeem his own fallen self While there is a definite prurient appeal in watching Ricci fall out of her skimpy outfits her performance is risky and maturenot a trace of Wednesday Addams to be found and she easily holds her own with Jackson who personifies the blues in his portrait of a flawed Godfearing man While heavyhanded the scene where Lazarus sings Rae a song in the midst of a lightning stormblackout is compelling as is a scene inside a jumping blues club that makes you wish you were there The setting is strong and a case can be made for the literal symbolism the chain the radiator the strange blurry man who haunts Raes libido being a deliberate outgrowth of superstition and spirituality And it is the conviction with which this spirituality is played that lends Black Snake Moan much of its strengththe committed performances of Jackson and Ricci make this a film that goes from wrenching to uplifting with well seamless grace While Justin Timberlakes jealous lover is a plot contrivance I could have done without neither he nor the sledgehammer subtlety can keep this from being a fascinatingly meditative film

Mario Van Peebles pops up for less than a five second cameo Glenn Plummer shows up a little longer but its a ladies show all the way Stacey Dash and Lisa Raye have been in better projects Bobby Brown leers and mugs through his little time on screen This is how it was pitchedFive tough women shootin and lovin in the Wild Wild West Four black and one Asian Oh and Lil Kim is a tough talking heartbreaker and Marie Matiko can bring in the pacific rim market We can shoot it for less than 15 million Straight to video and well double but more likely triple our dollars Greenlight that puppy You got it boss

A very slick modern keeping it sensually hip revamp on the Dracula story although staying with the traditional customs with quite an interesting if not fully grasped back story of the prince of darkness The first time I tried watching it I could only make it halfway through before losing interest Again it gets off to a good start especially the scenes with the thieves and then their encounters with Dracula but then for me it got less involving when it hits New Orleans to focus on Van Helsings daughter A great place to set it but never took advantage of its settings despite etching a paradise in damn where Dracula could flourish Produced by Wes Carven and yeah they throw that name out there but written directed by Patrick Lussier Artistically it had its moments with few dreamlike visuals but some kinetic editing and cheap jolts dont help The messy script does get considerably silly Lussier does a polished job that remains rather glassy inserting a lot of blood the makeup is suitably achieved and a lot of Virgin advertising No I dont mean virgins its the music company as it does get in numerous shots and Helsings daughter works there too Oh that wasnt obvious planting The soundtrack is an amusing choice of rock tunes Now the performances are all over the shop but there are few familiar faces to spot Danny Masterson Sean Patrick Thomas Nathan Fillion Shane West and Lochlyn Munro Gerard Butler as Dracula just didnt come off as not much of a presence was formed He was simply outshined by the succulent ladies of the night Jennifer Esposito Colleen Fitzpatrick and Jeri Ryan as Draculas brides The likes of Jonny Lee Millar and Justine Waddell are respectably okay Christopher Plummer gives out a grizzled turn as Van Helsing and Omar Epps has fun with his role

I may have seen worse films than this but I if I have I dont remember Or possibly blocked them out Who knowsif I was to undergo hypnotherapy I may remember them along maybe with been abducted by aliens as a child or other traumas If so I would happily exchange those memories for the ones I have of watching this film I should give the film some credit It did produce an emotional response I actually started to become angry at scenes that spoofed other films and TV programs that this travesty was dirtying them by association I am terrified that I may be unable to watch films like Dr Strangelove again without this film flitting across my minds eye

Okay truthfully I saw the previews for this movie and thought to myself what are the producers thinking Hutton Jolie and DUCHOVNY How could the monotoned actor possibly compete with Jolies natural power on the screen But surprisingly the two had the kind of chemistry that showed intense caring without a kiss Even Davids humor matched up to Jolies spark and fire As for Hutton he played the psycho very well contrasting with Davids calm delivery of life threatening situations Overall I was very impressed with the writing and character development I gave it 8 stars

I watched a made for television film about the destruction at Waco Texas It was obviously heavily slanted toward the claim that David Koresh was a murderous child raping cult leader hellbent on killing as many cops as he wanted and taking his people to the heavens on a blood stained stairway The film was little more than propaganda further detailing what we had already read in the newspapers I am more and more sure of that since I watched the great documentary Waco The Rules of Engagment Not that every assertion made in this film should be taken as Gods truth but it tells the whole story rather than regurgitating only what law enforcement decided to tell For those who have forgot Koresh was the spiritual leader of the religious movement named The Branch Davidians Charges of drug use kidnapping illegal weapon ownership and statutory rape among others Im sure raised the suspicions of the local police then later federal law enforcement While attempting to serve a search warrant the ATF Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and the clan participated in a shoot out that left deceased and wounded on both sides It was then that the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI got involved Communications between the two were spirited but eventually broke down The FBI prepared for an invasion by assaulting the building with flashbang grenades and gas When the building burnt to the ground killing many within including Koresh the FBI refused to admit responsibility saying the cult inside must have set it on fire themselves This hearkened images of Jim Jones and other violent religious organizations The picture puts on many masks to tell its story It begins with a sampling of the congressional hearings perhaps the truth as far as the record is concerned anyway What is eyeopening is how partisan the politicians remained even in a difficult and serious situation as this The Democrats were concerned in nothing more than defending every single action taken by law enforcement It was the Republicans that seemed open to the other side It is impossible to relate all of the new information and analysis provided by this documentary Additionally a list would take away from the film opening up as it goes along One example would be the heartbreaking fact that children died within the compound The filmmakers probably side more with the Davidians in general but stay relatively open to either side In this instance the feds seem at fault for mishandling a situation that involves innocent children But on the other hand the parents also need to shoulder some of the blame for leaving their kids in this harmful situation when they could have released them to any number of local authorities Probably the most damning new information comes late in the film and involves the FBIs claim they did not fire upon the building This is left up to interpretation and I will not reveal any more than to say it is disturbing and shocking what can and cannot be told The federal officers are not held in a critical or corrupt light any more than Koresh The largest condemnation seems to be leveled on the media unwilling to tell both sides of a story This element seems prevalent in recent documentaries duly so I believe It is time for the media to return to telling news stories and leave this relentless pursuit of what will draw the biggest audience and ratings It is hard to mess up a documentary In most cases switching on a camera and editing together interesting pieces of life is common and tells a terrific story What few can do is shed such new light on a subject that the way you think about it is forever altered Waco is that kind of film 5 out of

This is a story of the Winchester Rifle Model 1873 The Gun That Won The West To cowman outlaw peace officer or soldier the Winchester 73 was a treasured possession An Indian would sell his soul to own one Winchester 73 is the first collaboration between director Anthony Mann and actor James Stewart a duo that would go on to create a run of superior Westerns that added a new psychological depth to the genre The story sees Stewart as Lin McAdam pursuing the man who killed his father Riding into Dodge City with his trusty friend Johnny Williams Millard Mitchell Lin runs into Dutch Henry Brown Stephen McNally the man he wants But with Wyatt Earp Will Geer having taken all the guns from those entering the town both men are unable to have the shootout that they are ready for The men instead square up in a competition to win a Winchester 73 rifle a competition that Lin eventually wins But before he can leave town with the magnificent prize Dutch ambushes him steals the rifle and skips town fast As Lin sets off in hate filled pursuit of both man and rifle the rifle will changed hands a number of times with each time adding another dimension as the day of reckoning for all approaches Very much a benchmark for what became known as the socalled psychological Western Winchester 73 is basically a story of a decent man driven to borderline insanity by an event in his past Tho shot in black and white the only one of the duos Westerns that was the landscapes are still breathtaking feasts for the eyes The tone is set with the opening scene as Lin and Johnny on horseback and in silhouette amble over a hillside as they make their way to Dodge City Its just the starting point that would see Mann use his vistas as a way of running concurrent with his characters emotional states Stewart gives one of his finest and most intense performances as McAdam proving once and for all that he was one of Americas finest and most versatile actors The support cast isnt too bad either Shelley Winters is excellent as the sole female in amongst the machismo while Mitchell McNally Geer and the always great Dan Duryea add further class to proceedings Theres even bit parts for Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson in here tho the latter playing an Indian brave is a stretch too far Originally the film was a project for Fritz Lang who even had the script ready to run But Lang walked away from it something that proved to be a blessing for Western fans For as great as a director that Lang was with Mann directing and with a new script from Borden Chase Robert Richards in hands it set the wheels in motion to alter the course of the genre Not only with the further efforts that Mann Stewart produced but also in who they influenced The likes of Budd Boetticher Nicholas Ray and Sam Fuller were all taking notes and gleefully for the Western purists they followed suit and carried the psychological torch still further A big hit at the box office back on release Winchester 73 is a magnificent film that still packs a punch in the modern age 9510

This is a movie that demonstrates that mood and music and texture arent enough to make a good film Sure the viewer is treated to numerous fine scenes of Los Angeles in the thirtiesI especially liked the view of the trolley approaching the tunnel and the tram rising up the hillsidebut in a sense this fine cinematography is selfdefeating because it creates a mood that somethings going to happenand nothing does The script too keeps feinting toward some plot or action or traumaand time after time not delivering Not even delivering the I assume theme of the movie the characters essential misfit The lead actors both too pretty for their roles didnt convey any repression or agony and the script didnt expose us to any Now Donald Sutherland Thats another story His character was so well fashioned so perfectly played that I wanted the camera to follow him

I bought the DVD a long time ago and finally got around to watching itI really enjoyed watching this film as you dont get the chance to see many of the more serious better quality bollywood films like this Very well done and but I would say you need to pay attention to what is going on as it is easy to get lost When you start watching the movie dont do anything else I would actually advise people to read all the reviews hereincluding the ones with spoilers before watching the movie Raima Sen gave her first great performance that I have seen Aishwarya was easily at her best All performances were strong directing and cinematographygo watch it

The atmosphere in this show is great Theres plenty of excellent buildup but thats where this show fails Theres way to much build up for nothing You will constantly see a creepy set up that makes it feel likes something really freaky is coming right out of the corner and thennothing Over and over again nothing You hear plenty of stories of people talking about freaky events but you see none They show up at these peoples doors talk about their deep and emotional pasts set up lame equipment and find nothing there is nothing on this show thats leads me to believe in anything paranormal I laugh every time they need to exercise a horrible spirit that we as an audience have seen nothing of They get rid of the spirit that never was and everything is put in a neat little package A show that looked so freaky and had such great potential leads up to one thingNothing

John Carradine John Ireland and Faith Domergue who as players all saw better days in better films got together for this Grade G horror film about life imitating art in a mysterious mansion For Carradine it was in those last two decades of his career that he appeared in anything on the theory it was better to keep working no matter what you did and get those paychecks coming in With that magnificent sonorous voice of his Carradine was always in great demand for horror pictures and the man did not discriminate in the least in what he appeared in He plays the caretaker of an old Gothic mansion who movie director John Ireland has rented for his latest low budget slasher film Its even got a graveyard but with a missing occupant Faith Domergue is Irelands aging star and Carole Wells is the young ingenue In the last twenty minutes or so most of the cast winds up dead that arent dead already The script is so incoherent Im still trying to figure out the point I wont waste any more gray matter on it

I guess by the time I saw this episode I had seen enough Twilight Zones to have it figured out ahead of time There is this odd assemblage of characters who find themselves at the bottom of a cylinder They are fine until an overzealous soldier shows up in their midst It is his prime directive to escape and so he garners the forces and puts them to work to reach the top of the cylinder There is much discussion about purpose and reason and speculation on their pasts but no one can remember anything They represent different jobs a piper a ballerina a clown a man in a tattered hat Why are they there It leads to an adventure and is resolved at the end but I guess I had a pretty good idea before it all happened

I remember seeing this film in the theater and liking it I happened to stumble upon it on fear net last month and watched it again and found it better with age First of all for those of you who describe this as 80s cheese if you objectively compare it with the horror flicks of the past 2 decades it compares quite well if stacked up against films in its unique horror sub genre which I would term actionhorror as opposed to psychological horror such as The Shining or the exorcist Furthermore for its budget this film really delivers the goods or in this instance bad The film actually has some character development and gives enough of a history of the infamous hull house to get the atmosphere right before the characters set foot in the front door The film also has several hilarious one liners and gives the appropriate mood that a creepy horror flick should have If you compare NOD to contemporary big budget horror films such as I am legend The Vincent Price version was much better this film really stands out Modern horror flicks have become almost completely dominated by CGI Most have no plot or character devel at all and are completely predictable The special effects dominate these movies from start to finish and the characters are 24k plastic If this is 80s horror cheese Ill take it over 95 of current entries in the genre On a closing note seeing NOD again made me remember the beautiful Jill Terashita and wonder why I have not seen her in more films horror or otherwise Jill on the odd chance that you read this I think you are gorgeous and should have been in more films Lastly if you like action horror flicks you will probably like this one a lot

I liked HalfLife I am still its fan It was frightening intelligent and challenging I dont tell any news it is one the best FPS ever made Maybe Im too hardcore HalfLife fan but the so called HalfLife 2 is not HalfLife 2 And I have a question is THIS the next chapter of HalfLife Maybe the creators Valve thinks so but I dont Where are the intelligent enemies Where is the frightening atmosphere Nowhere I believe they wanted to make a bit different HalfLife instead of another research station story but they didnt just made a very different one they made something that has to do with HalfLife like for example Quake does to Doom The entire game so unsightly and unreal that its almost forlorn Though the physics are truly great and there were a few good level to play the idea to make a revolutionary physicdriven gameplay has utterly failed When you get the Gravitygun that can move objects you can expect with rights to use it as a weapon that would turn the schematic FPS gameplay upside down The truth is you cant use Gravitygun as a real weapon Why Because the best you can do is throwing boxes and barrels that dont do much damage If you want to keep an object in front of you to protect it can fall from about 3 shots If you want to throw an exploding barrel to your enemy it can explode in your own hand The gravitygun doesnt work as a weapon The best usage is solving some physicpuzzles I ask Valve Why The truth is you must use your boring schematic FPS weapons to the endexcept for last level Weapons are not that made original Halflife a classic If Gravitygun would be always like at the last level a real weapon Id admire what Valve did But not this This is disappointing So if you want HalfLife then you are searching at the wrong place Maybe you will enjoy it but I repeat it is everything but not HalfLife and even not a faithful continuation of that This is the greatest disappointment of all time Valve have shown they can make awful games too They have managed that

Its just when a band tours and only has one original member Its not the same as the classic line up All new actors playing the main roles of Rag Scotty etc with Ashby as virtually the only returning face from the first movie And he was of only minor note of the first flick serving as the only redeemable group of the three guys that Scotty was trying to assist in meeting females The film is poorly written featuring the dumbest dialog this side of Armageddon Even for a TA movie this one is a turkey Not even die hard low budget 80s films fans would want to sit through this movie which has no plot and plenty of bad acting This film would have been better off never being released Just plain bad

Ive only seen this film once when it was shown on tv but I can still remember it 15 years later so that must say something about it I thought it was an intelligent look into schooling friendship bullying and the influence it can have leading into adult life The title really refers to how being good or bad at sports can either make you the lowest of the low or you will be tolerated by the cliques within school and even later on into adulthood if youre good at it this is set in a private school in England but it could be anywhere The main character is bad at games seeks revenge in later life which all culminates in a climactic confrontation on a cricket pitch I must admit I was gutted by the ending it was powerful and saddening

I have seen this film more then once Actually El Padrino was one of the best feature films that I have seen in a great deal of time There was a big cast Jennifer Tilly Faye Duanway Brad Dourif and Damian Chapa who really shined like a real star in this part of Kilo I heard this film was shot for under two million dollars I have seen films shot for 33 million that cant compare to the quality and production value Damian Chapa why are you not getting offers and more film work EXCELLENT JOB I cant wait to see the sequel and I hope it has the same action Jennifer Tilly has made a cult classic character with Sabeva Damian Chapa moves coolly in every scene much like the movie stars of the 40s and 50s So sick of seeing these non charismatic actors like Ben Stiller getting all of these films when there is talent like this that have something to show a great film GO GO GO KICK SOME BUT IN SALES EL PADRINO

I believe Shakespeare explained what I just read beautifully Me thinks he the lady doth protest too much The whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself He sites profane literature writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible a number of times however I can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible Anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesnt make it true Customs change word definitions change over time look at English German where it is very obviously a common root nothing stays the same its always growing and changing The bible has many different translations but the King James version is the one Ive found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research In the King James version you will notice there are certain words written in italics These words have been added by the translators and can be dropped the mean of the entire verse changes Writings from around the time of Christ were written without spaces without punctuation without paragraphs without numeric verses These writings look like one long word the translators added all of the above For example how would you read this GODISNOWHERE do you read it as God is nowhere or do you read it as God is now here Same string of letters two entirely different meanings This is why many biblical researchers use a Lexicon to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original Arabic Greek or Hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written Its also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove God exists but you can not prove He doesnt exist In the end I just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty Talk about ego Putting soapbox away God Bless Maegi

While the film has one redeeming feature namely some striking shots eg the shot of the sheep hanging from the tree the scene of the funeral procession on the raft or the scene of the boats leaving the village which seemed influenced by the scene when the warships approach in the fantastic Fellini Satyricon these were more photographic than cinematographic and would have been better appreciated hung on a wall in an art gallery than embedded in a painfully slowpaced film that comes in at a whopping 162 minutes and suffers from terrible dialogue extremely poor character development overacting uninspired symbolism and heavy stylisation This is the first film I have seen by Angelopoulos and his reputation having preceded him I expected a lot better but can honestly say that this is one of the worst films Ive ever seen and I wont go out of my way to watch any of the directors other work in the future The four friends I went to see it with agree

I caught this film under the title of What Lies Above on Lifetime movie network last night and just had to comment on it Designed as a resourcefulwomaninperil action adventure yarn it is so unintentionally funny thanks in large part to Marc Singers scenerychewing hammy performancethat I thought I was watching a cross between Cliffhanger and Home Alone 5 Heroine Nicole Eggert makes her devious but dumb as dirt male pursuers look like the Three Stooges succumbing to her ridiculous makeshift booby traps somehow she manages to devise a swinging battering ram with rope and a log in a matter of minutes which temporarily takes out one of the knuckleheads who want to kill her Worth watching for a hearty laugh

Okay so i found out about this movie and I watched the preview read almost all the reviews and was having a hard time debating whether I should watch it or not Before i even watched the movie i was emotionally weird on it i was so unsure if i was going to watch this and be disturbed for like a long time So i choose to risk it and watched it and heres what i thought The beginning started off fine for me It seemed to be heading in a decent direction Got past the rape scene and i couldnt figure why people were so disturbed or bored by the movie Dont get me wrong the rape scene was just as sad and scary but it didnt really bother me to a dramatic point Then as the middle came in i understood the boring stuff that was going on There was like 5 minutes shots of nothing but people walking around saying or showing nothing its one thing to have a shot where a person is showing some kind of emotion but this movie didnt have that It had about 3 of these pointless scenes where you see the main character Maya kind of get out of control but it didnt show it right making me want to fast forward Then when she engaged in the hardcore partying it wasnt so boring but still a little dull Oh and as a note Rosario Dawson still did a great job Okay moving on so finally after an hour of pointlessness to the middle the revenge comes to Mayas attention Thats where it got disturbing I didnt feel bad for him or nothing he got what he deserved but the whole scene was really disturbing and i just felt all eck after it I cant really tell you whether or not to watch this movie because its soi dont know i cant find a word to sum it up But if you choose to watch it just dont be unsuprised

Insignificance is a far from great film from a stage play directed by Nic Roeg In the scheme of Roegs films this is above the level of most of his postDont Look Now work which is characterised by judicious use of Theresa Russell as lead actress Shes actually very good here and far from the problem in other Roeg films like Bad Timing and Cold Heaven As the Actress who is Marilyn Monroe Russell is very effective portraying her as a thoroughly depressive but likeable siren She plays well alongside Michael Emil as Einstein who is excellent to say the least He looks the part admirably and while Theresa Russell doesnt look exactly like Monroe she certainly is attractive enough to make the part ring true Other players are adequate if not quite as arresting as Emil and Russell are A pretty workable intelligent script is directed well by Roeg but certainly not brilliantly like Walkabout or Performance As in other later Roeg films he tends to rely too much on vague insubstantial flashbacks that add very little to the film In many ways the film would have worked better as a shorter say 60 minutes more modest piece Still a quite acceptable passable film At times quite excellent but somewhat lacking overall Rating 12

Sex Lives of the Potato Men is about the sex lives of several men involved in delivering potatoes So there are no surprises there It is in fact pretty much what you might expect from the title that is its a quirky comedy involving sex and potato men At times the film works Its an edgy sometimes uncomfortable comedy about the lives of some rather unimportant and rather average men who are having problems of various sorts with women Where the film clearly does not work and why it failed at the box office is that the quirky uncomfortable parts are perhaps just a shade too quirky and uncomfortable Instead of laughing during the scene of a man suspended from a basement ceiling masturbating over another man while he makes love to his wife I think most of us just kind of groan awkwardly and wonder what Andy Humphries was thinking Well perhaps we are shown what he was thinking all too clearly

Who wrote this flick An uninspired 15 yearold Could have been written by one of the kids who did the Columbine shooting Totally nonsensical not funny all boooooooriiing Plus this the French do not put their flag everywhere You do not walk into a French bank and see the tricolore flag displayed like that Even on Bastille day I have nothing against the blood bath thing Its just that none of this is either credible or funny Or parodic or anything like that Ok those who liked this flick will tell you I must be some type of fascist so forget about my comment

Its strange what fate does to some people While looking in the discount bin at a DVD retailer I came across a copy of Deadly Instincts Being a collector of any film that is either scifi horror or featuring alien monsters I decided to buy it not to mention the fact that it cost five dollars a bargain believe me After viewing it I came to the opinion that it was nothing special But after doing some research on the Internet I discovered that the film was actually called Breeders was a remake of the Tim Kincaid horror flick that menaced video stores in the mid1980s Which Ive already seen My appreciation of Deadly Instincts grew following that discovery A meteorite crashes on the lawn next to a private girls college The sole teacher there Ashley played by Todd Jensen thats right the guy who gets turned into a cyborg in the cult flick CYBORG COP four years earlier notices that some of the students are beginning to disappear while encountering a blackhaired woman with a scarred face wearing a kinky leather outfit His investigation reveals that an alien creature had hitched a ride on the meteorite had come to Earth to breed using the local womenfolk Along with a local detective who believes him to be responsible for the disappearances Ashley tries to stop the monster The original BREEDERS directed by Tim Kincaid who would leave the genre to make gay porn was a scifi horror film which was actually a thinlyveiled softcore porn film designed to take skin flicks to genre fans It is in my belief one of the worst films made in the 1980s Why anyone would want to remake it is quite a mystery This remake is actually a better effort than its lowbudget source The film which takes the basic concept of an alien monster trying to interbreed with human women eliminates any pornographic elements In fact the film is actually very tame There are no sex scenes no nudity even during the shower scene swearing violence are kept to a minimal level there is no gore which may cheat gorehounds This makes the remake a film safe for the whole family that is if the kids arent scared by alien monsters which brings me to the films M 15 rating which seems a bit much Tameness of subject matter aside the film does have some faults The script while featuring some good characterizations has a number of holes so big you can crash a meteor through What Youre mad at me for that Come on this review needed a bad pun so it will remain interesting Anyway the films setting is one problem the script failed to fix the film is set in Boston but the buildings dont look like they belong in Boston Something about the architecture aint right Another thing is the college itself with a rather large building housing about twenty students all female of course only having one class art The only teacher there has a relationship with a student so does the janitor which somehow escapes the attention of the principal Not to mention the cops who are so onedimensional stupid that the real Boston PD would have a good case if they ever decided to sue Oh the meteor… well the chance that a meteor which is sent from Saturn check the opening credits reaches Earth with no onboard propulsion is astronomical That doesnt include the chances that any passengers in the meteor will survive the landing As far as the acting goes Todd Jensen gives a dependable performance as the heroic teacher while the late Kadamba Simmons who was murdered by her boyfriend shortly before the film came out cuts a striking figure in that leather outfit as well as proving she can act The visual effects are runofthemill with credits due to the filmmakers for bringing us a coollooking monster

Neil Simon had a knack for dialog and nowhere is this more evident than the lines he gives WALTER MATTHAU and JACK LEMMON as opposite types in THE ODD COUPLEa mixture of comedy and sadness that depends entirely on the believability of two such mismatched friends sharing an apartment Lemmon is neatnik Felix Ungar bent on suicide after the divorce from his wife and reluctantly agreeing to share an apartment with Oscar Madison Matthau with somewhat disastrous results Seems that everything Felix says and does drives Oscar up the wall and neither one can stand the others ways with Oscar being the messiest male imaginable and Felix the exact opposite Funniest scene for me was when the giggling Pigeon sisters in the apartment above visit them on a dinner date The priceless interaction between Lemmon Matthau and Carole Shelley and Monica Evans is enough to put you in stitches The talented Pigeon sisters are the gals who did the voices for the Gabble Sisters a pair of geese in Disneys THE ARISTOCATS and heretheir comic timing on top of Lemmons sad story of despair is enough to spin the film into hilaritywhere it remains much of the time If youre a Neil Simon fan and have enjoyed other screen treatments of his work this one is not to be missed Matthau and Lemmon are perfectly cast even though they considered exchanging roles before filming began and of course its easy to see why it became a toprated TV show later on Summing up Top Simon comedy not to be missed

San Franpyscho 1 out of 10 So you want to make a serial killer movie But your budget is nonexistent your camera equipment is elderly and your stars are Joe Estevez Martin Sheens younger brother and a staple in really bad movies and Todd Bridges from Different Strokes There are probably ways to pull of at least a watchable film The Quiroz brothers have no clue First of all much of the cast seems to have been chosen in a desperate attempt to make Bridges and Estevez look like Oscar caliber thespians Really how hard is it to play a priest or an overbearing mother Certainly a city the size of San Francisco has a few professional actors willing to work for a few bucks and a screen credit Clearly Chris Angelo and Bonnie Steiger who play these roles have other talents such as landscaper or waitress they ought to be fine tuning Joe Rosete as the killer yes the serial killer is simply known as The Killer is also pretty awful in a mentally ill method kind of way but I am almost willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as his character is written with zero style or personality A boring almost laughable serial killer is a problem for a serial killer movie In addition the Quiroz brothers seem to have originally planned this as an ABC Family movie of the week There is no nudity or violence to speak of and the R rating clearly is for the adult style pacing This move meanders like an 85 year old woman driving with wraparound sunglasses and her turn signal on The only occasional horror comes from lighting Estevezs face with a glare that makes it look like his lower jaw was removed I wasnt expecting a great film when I rented San Franpyscho but I wasnt expecting mind numbing boredom either

I really liked the idea of traveling between dimensions and I even liked the WadeQuinn tension in early episodes Some of the worlds they created gave the main characters extremely interesting backdrops for their stories However as the show went on there were more silly disputes among the friends and less of a true bond There was less wonder and excitement when they were involved in other worlds and more condescension And every world had one of the characters falling in love The writing just got boring and everything was way too over the top Too bad it wouldve been nice to have a closely knit band of friends a la Star Wars traveling to different dimensions on TV for several years rather than a tired band of knit pickers

I can remember reading that Darwin had a pivotal experience in the Galapagos islands seeing the vast range of animal life there and intern penned his theory of evolution Not according to this movieit was inspired by the British countryside OK and as John Cleese would sayRight I also did not think that Darwin was a man suffering from deep personal conflict and someone who suffered dark reveries and flights of anguish According to this film he was It is sad that he apparently lost one of his daughters to illness but I dont think him losing a family member would have impacted on the mans scientific abilities very much Well not according toyou get the picture I think there is nothing worse than when science gets turned into fable and to an extent this film comes off as trying to debunk evolutionary theory by saying it came from a man who was emotionally unstable which to me is just plain gross I think Charles Darwin was the soul of scientific enquiry cool and calm and always thinking logically This film seeks to dramatize the undramatic and sensationalize clear headed scientific exploration It is like a Canterbury Tale I would not recommend it

Råzone is an awful movie It is so simple It seems they tried to make a movie to show the reel life Just like Zappa did many years ago But unfortunately Denmark lacks good young actors Leon are by many still the little girl in krummernes Jul and Laura is simply not good enough to play such an important role several times in the movie she plays with out soul and this is destroying the movie Even though i consider it a movie you ought to see I do not agree that the youth are behaving like this but i think it can show how it can end if you are letting your child down Also it is important to support danish movies and new companies like Film folket all in all I think people should see Råzone Not because it is a great film but because it is a movies which is dealing with important themes I also think it is important to point out that there are some violent scenes in it and actually it is in these scenes Laura is acting best like the ending where she is holding the gun

For the first forty minutes or so Luna is a real pleasure to watch The characters and their situation are interesting and the photography and locations are beautiful to look at Then Jill Clayburgh discovers her son Matthew Barry is using heroin and the movie starts to unravel and then becomes outright laughable in its sickness Clayburgh asks him why and when he started using the drug and she nor the audience ever get a straight answer which would be a bit helpful He mentions not caring about anything but thats not right because we see clearly in the amazing early scenes that he has a good deal of interest in his mothers singing baseball sex and apparently cared enough to turn down marijuana This movie is for people who think junior gets into hard drugs because mom and dad were workaholics who missed his piano recital I think such a dangerous and emotionally volatile drug like heroin was chosen as some sort of intellectual catalyst for the later scenes of incest Theres a lot of discussion about the mothers love for the son but its really about Bernardo Bertolucci being pretentious Luna would have been great as a quaint little family drama How old was Matthew Barry in this movie I was more concerned over the bizarre things he had to do as an actor for this film than for anything his character was going through out of

After seeing a heavily censored version of this movie on television years ago I was curious to see the unedited version I was surprised that it was more believable and well acted than I remembered but one thing really stood out I think other reviewers have mentioned this also namely what exactly is the nature and motivation of the Chris Sarandon character Has he raped other victims before Is he completely psychotic or an average sociopath How did he expect to get away with his attack on the younger sister Is this character at all credible or is it just a matter of more background being necessary He seems almost simultaneously to be an uncomfortably believable character and too crazy to actually be able to hold on to a teaching job that puts him in contact with young vulnerable girls This seems to to be the biggest complaint of viewers in general It has nothing to do with his performance which is terrifyingly convincingThe movie occupies an uneasy position between sheer exploitation and a half way serious treatment of the subject without quite settling into either mode Not the worst movie ever made but not all that good either

beyond the fact crazy people exist and there are religious nuts out there The characters basically make no sense most of the time The film has no real beginning middle or ending nor is anything ever explained much The film opens with a young man with the unlikely name of Hazel Motes apparently returning from a stint in the army He hitches a ride to a two story house that is in extreme disrepair windows boarded over He goes in the house walks around and finally writes a note that he leaves there This scene comes to nothing and we learn nothing further about the house or its history It is never explained exactly whose house this is or where the people have gone but we are given the impression Hazel has probably lived there at one time Hazel decides to go to a city Why we dont know Once he arrives in this city he writes down a name address that he sees on a bathroom wall and goes to visit this woman who is a surprisingly fat hooker He sees her for awhile and then he apparently isnt seeing her anymore Like everything else in this movie it comes to nothing and serves no purpose A young man named Enoch tries to befriend him but Hazel really isnt interested although they keep crossing paths Enoch is about as crazy as you can get One of his habits is to go to the zoo and stand in front of the cage where the chimps are and talk at them insultingly We never really know why Enoch behaves as he does or why Hazel behaves as he does beyond the fact Hazel had an overdose of old time scary fundamentalist religion via his grandfather Enoch later becomes enthralled with a man who dresses in a gorilla suit and manages to get the gorilla suit from him and then runs around in it Hazel who is wound rather tight and seems to be in a constant borderline rage does a bit of street preaching I got the impression he was trying to free himself from the untruths of the religion that had been drilled into him He has several encounters with a preacher and his daughter although their interactions never really make any particular point and there is no plot line Eventually Hazel succumbs to complete religious fervor and begins selfharming It is a very odd film Interesting in its oddness but other than that it has absolutely nothing going for it The cast does an outstanding jobbut this film completely fails to deliver either a point of view or a storyline The film also has the characters tossing around the N word from time to time with no connection to the rest of the dialog 2 stars

This had all the makings of a very good film good actors Robert Loggia Ellen Parker a good plot mysterious missile from space threatens to burn up the planet and lots of stock footage if the Air Force had film of jets firing rockets it was used Unfortunately it is ruined by too much melodrama and an impossible timeline The movie concerns a missile from space that is attacked by the Soviets and inadvertently diverted into a low atmospheric orbit At under five miles and at a speed in excess of 4000 miles it emits an exhaust of a million degrees burning up everything on the ground including glaciers Distant Early Warning DEW line bases and Eskimos Every attempt at destroying the missile fails The first flaws in this film appear early on While we dont expect much from lowbudget films some things cant be forgotten like a little research For instance both the Soviets and the US fire antiballistic missiles that home in on the missile with unerring accuracy However the first successful ABM tests werent done until March of 1961 by the Russians There is too much melodrama Dr Loring Loggia and his assistant Joan Woods Ellen Parker play their romance with about as much wood as a log cabin Parkers character cries and boohoos at Loggias sacrifice like she was at a screen test Loggia is about as heroic as a bored businessman A scientist Phillip Pine hams it up so much he makes William Shatner look like a thespian A bus driver continually spits out endoftheworld crap in scene after scene The only good actor is the film narrator played by veteran character actor Lawrence Dobkins Naked City All of this could be overlooked if it wasnt for the timeline After the missiles info is sent to DC the Pentagon brings in a group of scientists A general Larry Kerr announces that the missile will hit New York City in 63 minutes After this there are discussions by scientists and there is a deadly lull as word is sought from ambassadors to see if the missile is an attack from the Russians and if a response is necessary The film shows the military being fully scrambled Civil Defense people leave work and go to their stations Eight million people scramble to fallout shelters while school buses pick up millions of kids and we get to see the whitest New York City Ive ever seen though watching 50s scifi films made it seems like this was the standard The press is kept in the dark for tens of minutes Then incredibly a man at the Pentagon announces that the missile will hit Ottawa Canada in 51 minutes All of the aforementioned action happened in 12 minutes Then to add fuel to the fire Loggia somehow thinks of a way to stop the alien missile He slowly produces a caseload of plutonium loads it in a jeep and takes it from DC to a distant missile base to put it atop a missile Along the way he is knocked off the road by a wild driver breaks down and then is carjacked He finally gets the plutonium back and drives to the base to arm the missile Again all this in the same 63minute time frame The movie also irks the viewer by making it seem as if Ottawa might be saved only to show men women and children get roasted The missile is then said to have five minutes to reach New York Loggia is still driving to the base 4 more miles to go He gets to the base and arms the missile a twominute countdown is then announced All within five minutes The boroughs of New York should have been at least scorched By the way the missile is destroyed if you havent guessed The ABM warhead destroys it with a massive plutoniumbased nuclear blast Five seconds later the blast dissipates and all is clear Yeah they caused a nuclear blast equivalent to 100 Hiroshimas on the outskirts of New York City and nothing happens The film had all the elements necessary to be a good B film but wasted them Loggia played his character so lamely you didnt care that he sacrificed himself in the end You didnt care about the other characters not even the smarmy scientist played by Pine The tension that should have moved the film along just wasnt physically possible in the timeline allowed it still wouldnt be today not even with Jack Bauer This film is very difficult to find As far as I know it hasnt been reissued on any medium and for good reason I dont know if the film meant to be or if it was standard practice but theres a scene where the government sends all of the best scientists military men and businessmen into deep shelters saying theyre too valuable to lose There isnt a single woman or minority in the bunch Hari Rhodes is the only black man in the film and he gets a brief bit playing a piano It was worse than 27 Days where an alien gives five Earthlings the chance to either save or destroy the planet and he doesnt include any blacks or Hispanics I saw this on a special Scifi night on Turner Classic Movies and I dont expect it to show up again If you do find a copy of this somewhere you might want to put it up on Amazoncom

I have to agree with MR Caruso Jr Lanzas was the finest voice god had to offer if only he could have found the courage to go for broke leave Hollywood and head for the opera he could have been the American Caruso everyone says he could have been but in any case he is a fantastic introduction to the art form no bones about it and if thats the way its gonna be so be it see the film youll see why Mr Lanza still come up in discussion even in my house Someone says Pavarotti i say MARIO LANZAAs for the film itself when will it be on DVD they must have it restored and VHS isnt good enough but this should also be the only Lanza film put on DVD the others are down right bad and boring

When this movie was first shown on television I had high hopes that we would finally have a decent movie about World War I as experienced by American soldiers Unfortunately this is not it It should have been a good movie about WWI Even though it was made for television it is obvious that a real effort was made to use appropriate equipment and props But the writing and directing are badly lacking even though the makers of this movie obviously borrowed freely from quite a few well made war movies War movie clichés abound such as the arrogant general who apparently does not care a flip about the lives of his men When will Hollywood realize that even though there have been plenty of bad generals most combat unit generals have seen plenty of combat themselves and are not naive about what the average grunt experiences The first part of this movie appeared to be Paths of Glory with American uniforms Except that Paths of Glory was emotionally gripping Later on there was Chamberlains charge except uphill from Gettysburg and even the capture of the American soldier by a ring of enemy soldiers from The Thin Red Line But in The Thin Red Line the soldier was alone when captured In this movie a ring forms around the new prisoner in the middle of a battle If this movie used a military adviser they ignored him Even though the actors and I never could forget they were actors while watching mouthed military tactics I didnt see very much of it The American soldiers would stand up to be shot while the Germans attacked And the infamous Storm Troopers who were apparently blind appeared to use no tactics whatsoever in their attack In the real war the tactics were what made storm troopers so effective But the silliest scene was the attack of the German Flamethrowers In this scene the German flamethrower operators walked in a broad line towards the defending Americans If that had been real they would never have gotten close enough to use their flamethrowers before they had all been dropped by the defenders bullets Okay so most war movies are unrealistic when it comes to the tactics shown But it is still disappointing But what really turned me off to this flick was the typical antiwar antimilitary angle that movie makers seem to think is important True war is hell But most American soldiers even though they grumble and gripe tend to believe in what they are doing and can be rather gungho about it My Grandfather served in World War I And even though he died four years before I was born I have been told how proud he was of his service

I generally find Loretta Young hard to take too concerned with her looks and too ladylike in all the wrong ways But in this lyrical Frank Borzage romance and even though shes playing a lowselfesteem patsy who puts up with entirely too much bullying from paramour Spencer Tracy shes direct and honest and irresistible Its an odd little movie played mostly in a oneroom shack in a Hooverville unusually upfront about the Depression yet romantic and idealized Tracy playing a blustery hardtotake regular guy who would be an awful chauvinist and bully by todays standards softens his characters hard edge and almost makes him appealing Theres good supporting work from Marjorie Rambeau and Glenda Farrell who never got as far as she should have and Jo Swerlings screenplay is modest and efficient But the real heroes are Borzage who always liked to dramatize true love in lyrical closeup and Young You sort of want to slap her and tell her character to wise up shes too good for this guy but shes so dewy and persuasive you contentedly watch their story play out to a satisfying conclusion

1 is being pretty generous here I really enjoyed BOOGEYMAN even though it is not really the BOOGEYMAN promoted on the DVD cover and we all know it It creeped me out But this film it is something else For being directed by a guy who has been around a long time and directed a lot of movies it looks like it was shot on a VHS camcorder by a 10 year old The story and acting are atrocious David Hess you have let me down too After playing one of the most menacing villains in film history you have resorted to this The story and acting may have been able to be forgiven however if anyone had taken the time to make the video look somewhat professional There are a LOT of shot on video films out there that dont look like it or at least arent so obvious that it detracts your attention from the film I cant say it is the worst movie ever because I couldnt make it through the entire film but it is certainly close

In the process of trying to establish the audiences empathy with Jake Roedel Tobey Maguire the filmmakers slander the North and the Jayhawkers Missouri never withdrew from the Union and the Union Army was not an invading force The Southerners fought for States Rights the right to own slaves elect crooked legislatures and judges and employ a political spoils system Theres nothing noble in that The Missourians could have easily traveled east and joined the Confederate Army It seems to me that the story has nothing to do with ambiguity When Jake leaves the Bushwhackers its not because he saw error in his way he certainly doesnt give himself over to the virtue of the cause of abolition

The great cinematic musicals were made between 1950 and 1970 This twenty year spell can be rightly labelled the Golden Era of the genre There were musicals prior to that and there have been musicals since but the true classics seem invariably to have been made during that period Singin In The Rain An American In Paris The Band Wagon Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Oklahoma South Pacific The King And I and many more stand tall as much cherished products of the age Perhaps the last great musical of the Golden Era is Carol Reeds 1968 Oliver Freely adapted from Dickens novel this vibrant musical is a film version of a successful stage production It is a magnificent film winner of six Oscars including the Best Picture award Orphan Oliver Twist Mark Lester lives a miserable existence in a workhouse his mother having died moments after giving birth to him Following an incident one mealtime he is booted out of the workhouse and ends up employed at a funeral parlour But Oliver doesnt settle particularly well into his new job and escapes after a few troubled days He makes the long journey to London where he hopes to seek his fortune Oliver is taken under the wing of a child pickpocket called the Artful Dodger Jack Wild who in turn works for Fagin Ron Moody an elderly crook in charge of a gang of childthieves Despite the unlawful nature of the job Oliver finds good friends among his new family He also makes the acquaintance of Nancy Shani Wallis girlfriend of the cruellest and most feared thief of them all the menacing Bill Sikes Oliver Reed After many adventures Oliver discovers his true ancestry and finds that he is actually from a rich and welltodo background But his chances of being reunited with his real family are jeopardised when Bill Sikes forcibly exploits Oliver making him an accomplice in some particularly risky and ambitious robberies Oliver is a brilliantly assembled film consistently pleasing to the eye and excellently acted by its talented cast Moody recreates his stage role with considerable verve stealing the film from the youngsters with his energetic performance as Fagin Lester and Wild do well too as the young pickpockets while Wallis enthusiastically fleshes out the Nancy role and Reed generates genuine despicableness as Sikes The musical numbers are staged with incredible precision and sense of spectacle Onna Whites Oscarwinning choreography helps make the songanddance set pieces so memorable but the lively performers and the skillful direction of Carol Reed also play their part The unforgettable tunes include Food Glorious Food Consider Yourself Youve Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two Id Do Anything and OomPahPah all immensely catchy songs conveyed via very well put together sequences The film is a thoroughly entertaining experience and never really loses momentum over its entire 153 minute duration Sit back and enjoy

This movie has one of the cheesiest plots I have seen For me thats what makes it so awesome Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis are very good at what they achieved in the original Munsters series While there was less slapstick they still worked wonderfully together comedically I wish Yvonne De Carlo as Lily would have had more plot involvement She showed that she could do comedy in the original series but it was mostly wasted in this movie This movie also stars the great Sid Caesar but sadly he doesnt have any interaction with Gwynne and Lewis I think some better work could have come out of that

As a big fan of the original film its hard to watch this show The garish set decor and harshly lighted sets rob any style from this remake The mood is never there Instead it has the look and feel of so many television movies of the Seventies Crenna is not a bad choice as Walter Neff but his snappy wardrobe and swank apartment dont fit the mood of the original or make him an interesting characterHe does his best to make it work but Samantha Egger is a really bad choice The English accent and California looks cant hold a candle to Barbara Stanwicks velvet voice and sex appeal Lee JCobb tries mightily to fashion Barton Keyesbut even his performance is just gruff without style It feels like the TV movie it was and again reminds me of what a remarkable film the original still is

All the ingredients of lowbrow bmovie cult cinema Topless and bottomless girls kungfu kicking chefs slave traders evil Germans with mustaches Cameron Mitchell and swordwielding zombies And of course the breasts of Camille Keaton whos best known display occurs in the feminist exploitation classic I Spit on Your Grave We also must mention the hooters of jewel Shepard who play a hooker in the recent film The Cooler Lots of blood and action with knives and swords and martial arts among topless dancers in a bar in a whorehouse and on a boat load of martial artists heading to some zombie island where bad martial artists go to die or something like that Tops and bottoms come off easily and frequently as travelers are well lubricated thanks to the boat owner Then disaster strikes as their boat is destroyed and they land on the zombie island where mas monks sacrifice young girls to the dead martial artists to bring them back to life Just when you thought it had everything there are piranhas in the water Yum Yum A big fat German for dinner Just the thing for your next zombie fest

The commercials for RAT RACE made it look too juvenile for me to enjoy but since my boyfriend adores this movie and the soundtrack I finally relented and watched it with him tonight I make him watch David Lynch films and all sorts of obscure indie stuff I recently forced URBANIA on him so I felt I owed him an innocuous Hollywood product I didnt want to hurt his feelings so I saved my bitching for yalls Yeah RAT RACE has its moments but a great deal of it irritated me Lets start at the beginning RAT RACE was marketed as a family film so I was a little surprised to discover that the first scene centered around a porno movie I can hear it now Mommy what does AFRO WHORES mean This scene has no purpose in this movie other than to cram some naughtiness into a PG13 movie And while were still on the segments in the casino its pretty convenient that all the characters happened to play within the same time frame the slots that held the gold coins What would have happened if they didnt Would those millionaire gamblers just sit around and wait And how did they get those gold coins in the slots in the first place But Im belaboring a plot point thats necessary for the movie to exist so Ill press on About Whoopi and her longlost daughter theyre meeting for the very first time yet throughout their whole ordeal they dont discuss with each other anything about themselves Why make their relationship such a presumably complicated one Couldnt they have just been say a mother and daughter on vacation together Why the business concerning a longago adoption And why portray the daughter as a hard driving career woman chained to her cell phone who never again needs contact with her business Did the screenplay just forget about this subplot and character trait This illustrates the main weakness of this movie the characters are inconsistent and interchangeable its exhausting when everyone is equally zany and with no identifying traits And another thing the events arent plausible Oh sure the characters can do some quirky things but the characters themselves have to be believable Take THE NAKED GUN another Jerry Zucker movie for example Frank Drebin has some pretty exaggerated moments but everything he does is in theory possible in his world Jane is also funny but its a different kind of funny which makes all the difference A character in RAT RACE defying natural laws by leaping onto a speeding train destroys any plausibility the movie may have these clearly arent real people so why should I care about them Another problem I have with RAT RACE is a moral one The characters obtain their modes of transport almost totally by theft I know I know this is just a silly comedy and the same actions didnt bother me fifteen years ago when I saw MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY but theres a lot of lawbreaking in RAT RACE and it bothers me now And I wont delve into the whole airportsabotage sequence other than to wonder if the screenwriters didnt consider the reallife implications of such an action was that scene funny before 911 Ill skip over the distasteful bits concerning the heart the drugging of ones family and the Nazis whose buildup and payoff worked better in an episode of Seinfeld and move on to complain about the acting Rowan Atkinson started out annoying and ended insufferable I dont know when I liked a comical character less And the three Oscar winners need new agents Whoopi came off best but she didnt have much to work with loved the copper perm and purple lipstick though Kathy Bates part was shrill but mercifully brief Cuba wasoh man Cuba babe please fire your agent Following INSTINCT and CHILL FACTOR this is your third strike be glad I havent seen PEARL HARBOR or SNOW DOGS its time to give your 97 Best Supporting Actor Oscar back to its rightful owner Edward Norton for PRIMAL FEAR An actor of your stature has no business running halfnaked through the desert and being checked out by a transvestite Lucille Ball impersonator Do you even read the scripts to your movies anymore or are you reaching into a bag and pulling your next project out at random Theres other small points that bother me how did Grisham and the hooker get to the loot so fast but basically RAT RACE amounts to little more than your basic batch of character types being hindered by arbitrary obstacles on their way to a rather underwhelming and inexplicable ending They give the money to charity What kind of ending is that Yeah its the noble thing to do Never mind the probability of crosspromotionlicensing whores Smash Mouth do they ever say no to selling out putting on a benefit concert in the middle of the New Mexico desert but who would honestly do such a thing Yes they say its the journey not the destination that makes a trip worthwhile but theres no journey without a destination If there was ever an example of a wrong happy ending this would be it What a bummer end to a movie that despite my nitpicking here I did enjoy parts of I confess to enjoying the bit with the cow and some of the Lucy stuff along with the character with the tongue piercing at first I thought his indecipherable speech would run me up a wall but he grew to be my favorite But as far as my boyfriend knows I found RAT RACE quite funny and charming

Although the recent retelling of part of Homers epic Troy with Brad Pitt was entertaining once Iphigenia with the incandescent Irene Pappas is breathtaking Unfolding in a natural setting with Greek actors speaking their own language lends such authenticity A chance encounter with this film on one of DirecTVs many movie channels kept me interested in spite of my concentration problems There is no glitter or bling in this movie just a fabulously rich story impeccably told by actors so real one feels they are eavesdropping on a real family in turmoil I think even Homer if he really existed would be proud of this telling JLH

Maybe its because I looked up the history of the Irish troubles in the 1920s and then the sad Civil War that engulfed the Free State after the signing of the treaty before watching this movie Anyway the sudden turn at the end brought tears to my eyes Victor McLaglen isnt as famous today as he was back then and he should be better remembered In this film I think hes playing himself as he would have been without his innate talent and brains For example the scenes where his buddy in the crowd is challenging men to fight with him is probably quite reminiscent of what McLaglen actually did in earlier years when he was a worldclass bareknuckles boxer John Ford is partly responsible for that the IMDb trivia section shows how he tricked McLaglen into getting a really bad hangover for the trial scene This director also could bring out a lot in his actors even without such tricks Mostly though McLaglen is firmly in control especially when his character is almost totally blotto which is difficult for an actor to do believably and he also plays Gypo Nolan with a depth and emotional power that is surprising for someone who has only seen McLaglen later in his career in The Quiet Man I especially like the contrast between this role as an IRA man and the much more obviously controlled performance he gave as the IRA man Denis Hogan in Hangmans House In The Quiet Man of course McLaglen is a country squire at odds with the local IRA Victor McLaglen was big and bully in the oldfashioned sense of the word but he was a good actor too and capable of wide range and fine nuances of performance that we just wouldnt expect of a such a man today Its a rather sad comment on our own set of expectations and prejudices Ford as usual packs a lot into a little bit of film All the characters are excellent though the Commandants mostly American accent is distracting NOTE There be spoilers ahead Knowing that Gypo once drew the short straw and was ordered to kill a man but let him talk his way out of it instead we really empathize with the man who draws the short straw for executing Gypo and the humanity he shows most notably when they go to take Gypo in Marys room John Ford really shows his genius here taking what could have been a gruesome and yet expected outcome to the whole story and instead using it to set up a totally unexpected and yet very satisfying ending that makes us think not just of Gypo and the other characters but of poor Ireland during that tortured time

I thought the movie was actually pretty good I enjoyed the acting and it moved along well The director seemed to really grasp the story he was trying to tell I have to see the big budget one coming out today obviously they had a lot more money to throw at it but was very watchable When you see a movie like this for a small budget you have to take that in to account when you are viewing it There were some things that could of been better but most are budget related The acting was pretty good the FX and stunts were well done A couple of standouts were the guy who played the camera asst and the boy who played the child These kind of films have kept LA working and this is one that turned out OK

This is not an entirely bad movie The plot new house built next door seems to be haunted is not bad the mood is creepy enough and the acting is okay The big problem I had is that being familiar with Lara Flynn Boyle from Twin Peaks and other shows I couldnt get over how different she looks with her apparently new big lips I kept staring at them They look so out of place on her face They make her look completely different and not better MarkPaul Gosselaar the actor who plays Kim the architect who designs and pours his heart and soul into the house does a fine job And Lara as Col is also quite good but those lips as the owner of the house next door Her husband Walker Colin Ferguson is appropriately wooden The various characters who live in the house were also fine I particularly liked Pie Charlotte Sullivan and her husband Buddy Stephen Amell the first people to move into the house The attempt to involve us in the overall neighborhood vibe fails unfortunately as the other neighbors are not particularly likable For some reason the director was unable to make the haunted house particularly ominous Other movies such as Amityville Horror The Legend of Hell House manage to achieve that spooky feel but it just doesnt happen here The closest is when Col paints a depiction of the house Another thing that didnt work for me is the plot twist that occurs with Kim the architect Initially he appears to be a victim of the house like the others it has sucked him dry of inspiration but later he seems to have joined forces with it in evil Overall not a bad movie for horror fans if you can take your eyes off those big lips

This show was incredible Ive seen all three and this is the best This movie has suspensea bit of romancestunts that will blow your mind GO BOBBIE great characters and amazing locations Where was this filmed Will there be more I really liked the story line with her brother Looking forward to Chameleon 4 and to see how the world is saved yet again

I saw this film without knowing much about it at all The split screen device was immediately irritating and things didnt improve for me after the title sequence had finished The plot characters and dialogue were all extremely cliched poor guy from abusive family gets thrown out of home wants to get out of his lot reinvents himself changes his voice dresses in others clothes is adopted by a gay man who he proceeds to disgard on his way up to becoming part of an international set of drug taking British aristocrats The estate of Patricia Highsmith talented mr ripley should be suing the makers of this film The triple screen to me together with the over 120 min duration emphasises the almost non existent editing Cant decide which image works and is the most powerful why not show three and hope you get it right with one of them This gimmick removed any connection or interest I had with any of the characters Important dialogue was repeated 3 times across each screen as if to say this is an important moving deep moment ok Dont waste your time

It was on at 730am too close to school to see very often The animation computer graphics were spectacular for the time The idea of cowboys ordinary people casually throwing around space vehicles robots was amazing Maybe it inspired Treasure Planet Unfortunately its really boring in the DVD format The shows are all basically identical When viewing nonsequential episodes on a DVD youre stoned by disk 3 By todays standards the animation is spotty We dont notice the computer graphics anymore and focus on how corny the characters are instead The bright spots are the heroine characters They were a lot more believable took themselves more seriously than modern heroines and werent corny They actually saved men

I wont bore you with any synopsis chances are you already know them And hopefully you are already familiar with Park ChanWooks work I STRONGLY disagree with some of the other commentators in saying that Park has not moved on from the vengeance trilogy blah blah blah Because you know what He HAS The vengeance trilogy were different from each other in style to begin with how can you even compare the sombreness and subtlety of Sympathy For Mr Vengeance with the frantic and extravagance of Oldboy Park ChanWook has incredible style but his movies dont all share the SAME style That has been true and remains true with the release of Thirst Thirst is an incredible picture it literally has EVERYTHING you want in a movie Jawdropping violence tasteful gore great humour incredible suspense and even very realistic sex scenes The story is so crazy that at no point can you guess what will happen next Im so happy to say that Park is back in top form with this fantastic darkcomicvampirelovestory Watch it as soon as you can

Lauren Bacall and Charles Boyer do not provide the right chemistry here in this 1945 film There is a good story here about the Axis trying to obtain coal to use for the upcoming war Unfortunately this part of the story is not emphasized Instead we deal with a supposedly bungling Boyer By the way Bacall is as British as Vladimir Putin The real acting kudos goes to veteran Oscar winner Katina Paxinou As was the case with her memorable Pilar in the 1943 Oscar winner For Whom the Bell Tolls Paxinou again plays a Spanish revolutionary but this time she is a doublecrossing counterspy for the proFranco group She is quite a vicious character hereespecially when she throws a 14 year old child out the window She believed that Boyer had given the child important material to hide

Unique movie about confused woman Lindsay Crouse who gets involved with sharp con men Joe Mantegna gives an Oscarcaliber performance as the slickest of the group Absolutely enchanting first hour as Mantegna shows Crouse the ropes of his con games Story line unravels a bit later on but still stands as a unique portrayal of an innocent caught up in a dark world Definitely worth a shot

Thank God this wasnt based on a true story because what a story it is Populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds Before The Devil is a mesmerizing jawdropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes is even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it werent carried out with such magnificent overwhelming conviction by its stars The excellent script by Kelly Masterson and superb direction by none other than Sidney Lumet doesnt hurt either The main dysfunction here is of a family nature with the two majorly screwed up brothers brilliant portrayals from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke deciding to rob their own parents jewelry store an attempt that goes pathetically awry The story is told with timeshifts which are noted on screen such as Charlie Two Days Before The Robbery so no one should be confused some people have said they didnt like this device but I thought it worked perfectly adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks between them you couldnt make a decent poker hand to save your life Throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the brothers is a drug addict married to Gina Marisa Tomei also excellent who is having an affair with the other brother toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father a wrenching performance from Albert Finney who has apparently caused him serious past pain and youve got a ShakespeareanGreek tragedy on your hands Proceed with caution

Thank God for the Internet Movie Database When I first got this movie I watched it every night just before before bed and was getting something different out of it every time But no matter how I sliced it it came up disturbing The black and white and all the twitching really freaked me You stare at the screen unsure of what you are looking at and just when you think you got it it becomes clear and its something completely different The imagery is VERY disturbing twitching and straight razors do not sit well with me in any movie Still everytime I watched it I was interpreting it somewhat differently there is no dialogue ya know so I decided to check the IMdB for the plot summary Boy that throws me for a loop I had no idea that was supposed to be God Now Im going to watch it with this in mind and see what happens

Though I saw this movie about 4 years ago long before I started commenting on IMDb I decided to review it now which is unusual for me since before now I often reviewed something just after seeing it What can I say Well the best performance is that of the late Peter Boyle as the title character who after finding out about a mans killing the drugdealing boyfriend of his daughter wants to bond with him even though hes a Madison Avenue executive who has nothing in common with the very lowerclass conservative Joe In fact there are plenty of funny scenes of Joe at this guys party making smart alecky remarks there Oh and it should be noted that the actress that plays the daughter who theyre looking for after she disappeared from the hospital after overdosing on some drugs is none other than Susan Sarandon making her film debut This was a pretty hardhitting movie for the time it was made late 60searly 70s and was compelling work from scripter Norman Wexler later of Saturday Night Fever and director John G Avildsen later to do Save the Tiger Rocky and The Karate Kid Certainly the ending packs a wallop even today after all these years Highly recommended for anyone curious about the counterculture of that time PS Among the cultural artifacts seen here are a Raggedy Ann doll a box of Ritz crackers a bottle of Heinz ketchup and unique for the era a Nixon poster asking Would you buy a used car from this man

I have seen already fantastic stories but the premises of this one are so unbelievable that it comes very close to being ridiculous A rich and young guy undergoes a heart transplant the day after his marriage and he is somehow witnessing his own surgery and the plot of his surgeons to kill him Even if there is a medical explanation to such a phenomenon what next happens is a mixture of dialog among say souls maybe and real life where the dedicated mother will do everything to save the life of her son There is no shade of suspense or thrill just a combination of a bad and simplistic plot with a series of coincidences that can never happen in life This is not to say that the film is completely lacking quality actually first time director Joby Harold does a decent job in directing a good team of actors that includes Hayden Christensen at his first major role after having taken off the Anakin Skywalker costume fabulous Jessica Alba and supergifted Lena Olin All would have deserved a better story

This movie is an alltime favorite of mine Im sorry that IMDb is not more positive about it I hope that doesnt keep those who have not experienced it from watching it Ive always loved this movie I watch it about once a year and am always pleased anew with the film and especially the stellar performances by entire cast Ive always wondered whether Jean Stapleton actually did the ending dance with Travolta If anyone knows this piece of trivia please leave a comment Thanks and ENJOY

Im not prone to ranting and my expectations were low to start with but how did this seem like a good idea Just because you have a camera some big ugly friends for actors and delusions of talent does not mean that you should go out and make a film This should have been the cinematic equivalent of singing in the shower ie it should never have seen the light of day However somehow this rubbish found a distributor to help it escape the confines of a 3 by 4 foot cubicle It goes from bad to worse Talk about low budget one torture scene consists of a guy getting a mug of coffee thrown over him while hes tied to a chair Evidently this is very painful because the big baby proceeds to scream in agonymaybe he ordered decaf The acting is worse than wooden I could possibly watch a tree for 30 seconds before becoming completely bored if you can look at this rubbish for that long youre a better man than I and the fight scenes would be at home on a kindergarten play yard Do not touch this movie unless you enjoy pain in which case you should try spilling lukewarm coffee over yourself Id like to say its so bad its good but really this is just awful

OK well i found this movie in my dads old pile of movies and it looked pretty good from the cover but the movie actually sucked OK the first story with the swimmer was pretty good but it took a while to get into then the one with the boy was completely retarded It wasnt even scary His dream sounds like a little kids bedtime story Then the news girls one was completely retarded too Im sure someones going to call up the news guy and ask him to go out with you But that one ended cool where she stabbed him and she was in the hospital and she saw him on tv and he said all that junk to her Next was that pretty gay story about the guy who brought back the dead peopleOMG its so stupid Im not even going to say any more about itThe last one was the best It wasnt that scary but the idea of the story was pretty cooluh yeah the girl gets possessed and she kills all her classmates or something Then when theyre all done telling their dreams to each other the losers get on the bus TO HELL AHAHAHAH and they see all the people from their dreams on the busHa The End

The cars in this movie are awesome The acting in this movie is awful The plot and driving scenes dont make much sense and are equally bad If you get really bothered by movies where someone shifts and suddenly goes ridiculously faster save yourself the trouble and money Good movie for racing fans Well there is a part where they make the mistake of referring to a NASCAR driver as a rally car driver If you cant tell the difference go watch it youll have a blast It really comes down to this there are really really really nice cars in this movie they are driven horribly and are completely unrealistic The acting is horrible mainly because of the extremely bad plot If you want to see hot girls turn on mtv or vh1 instead I am disappointed that such nice cars would be represented in such a bad movie If the class of the cars were to match that of the movie they should be racing with rusted bicycles

Even in her glasses wearing geek mode Kathy Ireland is very easy on the eyes but her acting is not easy to watch Most of the actors in the film either take it way over the top beyond campy fun or act slightly embarrassed at being there The effects and soundtrack are nothing special and fairly low budget The plot line REALLY stretches ones ability to suspend disbelief Catch this one to laugh at if it comes on a premium movie channel or network Saturday afternoon TV but DO NOT waist money on this thing One worthy mention for trivia purposes is that one of the underground mobsters is played by Deep Roy Deep is now famous for playing and doing it well all the Oompa Loompas in Burtons Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Now this is the sort of film we used to get weekly Nowadays it is rare to see a drama that depends on the cast talking to each other There are no explosions car chases or any chasesthere are implied sexual situationsThis is not film for the younger crowd It is for those that appreciate people talking to each otherThey do argue a lot as we have married couple having mid life problems Emily Watson Tom Wilkinson are seemingly a very happy middle aged loving man wife Now living in this same small London suburb handsome Rupert Everett returns home to visit his wealthy father He of course meets Emily Watson It would be easy for anyone to be smitten by Emily I say no more except that as the credits begin there is a fatal accidentthe rest of the film is about the repercussions of this accident all the lies the various characters tell The acting by this trio the others is excellent Julien Fellows wrote the screenplay based on a novel by Nigel Balchin He also directed this was his first directorial attempt he did very well The entire production is first rate The film had a few month theatrical run in late 2005 is under 80 theatres This to me is a shame Stupid comedies open on at least 2000 screens but real good drams as this many others open in only a few By the way there are some very funny lines regarding certain situations Ratings 12 out of 4 95 points out of 100 IMDb 9 out of 10

Not to be mistaken as the highly touted Samuel L Jackson vehicle SNAKES ON A PLANE SNAKES ON A TRAIN is low budget features no actorsto speak of but some pretty decent visual effects An attractive young womanJulia Rayanne Ruizdoes not want to marry someonelses choice for her husband so she is put under a powerful Mayan curse that has snakes hatching inside her body slowly devouring from the inside out Her only hope for survival is a shaman who lives across the border in Texas Time is running out for her and she is put on a train from El Paso to Los Angeles Before long the snakes are leaving her pain wrecked body and rapidly growing in size The passengers aboard the train are now trapped and soon to be snacks for the snakes The finale sequence is no doubt the best of this 91 minute flick Also receiving acting credit are Alby Castro Al Galvez and Giovanni Bejarno

Scott Henderson Alan Curtis meets a mystery woman Fay Helm in a bar and invites her to see a show with him She agrees on condition that they dont swap any information about each other not even names Sometimes these are the best kind of dates However when he returns to his apartment Inspector Burgess Thomas Gomez and his team are waiting for him Scotts wife has been murdered His alibi is the mystery woman but noone can remember seeing her and as a result of this Scott is sentenced to die for the murder of his wife His secretary Kansas Ella Raines is not convinced of his guilt and sets out to find the woman who can save him from the death penalty This is a good film and the viewer is 100 behind the attempts of Kansas to get to the truth We follow her through some memorable scenes eg her pursuit of Mac the bartender Andrew Tombes at night and the claustrophobic venue where Cliff the drummer Elisha Cook Jr takes her to hang out drink and dance while he jams with his friends This is such a blatant depiction of sexual desire that it is a standout part of the film as everyone sweats intensely and rhythmically for the duration of the scene Ella Raines is good in the female lead role and Thomas Gomez makes a likable policeman Alan Curtis started well as the confused innocent man but once he is arrested his performance took a left turn as he became thoroughly unpleasant to Kansas for no reason God knows why she stuck by him The film doesnt keep you guessing as to who the murderer is as we know from about halfway through the film but this doesnt matter In fact it adds to the tension and dramatic development of the story as we will Kansas to discover what is going on and then to get the hell out Its a good film with some great scenes but although Elisha Cook Jr has a memorable role I just never like him in anything that I see him in someone hand me a necktie

The film Soultaker is essentially an older form Final Destination in which several car wrecked teens have their souls separated from their bodies and must cheat death who is chasing them The film has its moments and its concepts the idea of disoriented souls being separated from their bodies is a pretty nifty idea If this movie were remade with a few good actorsactresses and some awesome special effects it could turn out to be extremely awesome As for the actual film I recommend watching the MST3K version the pure version might be too boring to sit through unless you love bad movies staring Martin Sheens brother

Return To the Lost World was filmed backtoback with the 1992 version of The Lost World In this sequel the same five people lead by Challenger return to the plateau where a group has started drilling for oil which is threatening to destroy the land Gomez has something to do with this They manage to defeat the drillers and the plateau is saved much to the delight of the natives Like in The Lost World what few dinosaurs we see are made of rubber and these include a TRex and Ankylosaurus John RyhsDavies and David Warner reprise their roles as Challenger and Summerlee and three of the other actors are also back Despite reading several bad reviews of this and those cheap looking rubber dinosaurs I enjoyed Return to the Lost World Rating 3 stars out of 5

I dont agree with one of the reviewers who compared this film to the American International Pictures Basil Deardon has directed a brutally realistic film with an honest attempt to portray the rise of juvenile delinquency in post war England but without the sentimentality of Blackboard Jungle The cinematography was excellent as it really captured the scariness and isolation of the huge housing estate The estate looked like an old prison Stanley Baker was excellent as the hardened detective reassigned to the juvenile division Urgent urgent Larceny five iced lollies He finds he is the butt of many jokes David McCallum showed that he was one of Britains top young talents of the fifties He had a very different role in another Stanley Baker film Hell Drivers His portrayal of Johnny and the fanatical following he inspired was very frightening Ann Heywood was also very good as the cynical Cathie I wouldnt say there was a romantic subplot in it Detective Jack Truman is investigating a string of arson attacks by someone labeled the Firefly Just as he finds evidence which could lead to a breakthrough he is assigned to the Juvenile Division he is pretty disgusted at what he feels is not proper police work Amid all the heckling he gets his first call out the 6 year old Murphy twins are working a scam at the local lolly shops Taking the twins home he meets their brother the charismatic Johnny and their embittered sister Cathie He starts to appreciate how life on the ghastly housing estates can turn young kids into criminals As he gets more involved with the family he realises there is a strong link between the fires Johnny and a frightened Chinese youth who works for a laundry The local priest Peter Cushing in an unusual role away from the Hammer horrors explains that when Johnny was younger he had rescued some people from a burning building and had been hailed a hero He wanted to recapture the feeling of importance and being useful and felt he could by lighting fires The school siege was filmed in a very real way and the viewer felt the childrens fear the teacher thinking only of her own safety runs off and locks them in the room with the frightened gunman I thought it was a really excellent film that tried to show some of the social problems Britain experienced after the war Highly Recommended

I just saw this early this morning on the Fox channel quite by accident my dog woke me up I had seen it years ago and thought I remembered it fairly well As a kid I had enjoyed it But now As another poster commented several of the reels were out of order and while it was disorienting at first and bizarre it seemed to fit the production what was just awful became surreal and amusing Musical numbers for what I think was the big fundraiser showyoure in show business Im in show business most of the kids are in show business lets put on a showcome out of nowhere BEFORE all the talk about putting on a show and then fade without applause to totally unrelated straight scenes The leading mans girlfriend shows up spits out lines and lines of dialogue then disappears I was half awake and loved every insane minute of it

An excellent movie about two cops loving the same woman One of the cop Périer killed her but all the evidences seems to incriminate the other Montand The unlucky Montand doesnt know who is the other lover that could have killed her and Périer doesnt know either that Montand had an affair with the girl Montand must absolutely find the killerand what a great ending Highly recommended

Mad Dog TimeTrigger Happy whatever you wanna call itsimply doesnt hit the mark Maybe its just me maybe i just dont like Gangster comedies as i thought Oscar Johney Dangerously and Mafia also sucked Its probably more witty sharp wordplay than all out Comedy only its not as witty and sharp as it or the other reviewers Make it out to be The Rick Mick Vic Thing was old to begin with making it a running gag was at times painful to watch There wasnt enough Changes of Location or Feel for the period they were supposed to be in The Majority of the film was either set in Dreyfuss Club or a variety of Offices dim rooms what was with that Sit down Gun stand off thing Goldblum kept winning The supporting cast was on Paper excellent great to see Silva Dragobut characters were killed off before they had time to develop and Richard Pryors cameo was a Joke The Romance and Love element of the film also bogged it down 410 I dont think ill return to it anytime soon

I was a fan of the AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON movie and so was curious whether a 16year later sequel could be done with French language and local recast major supporting and minor characters Tonight I watched the edited for FOX Network version that was some sort of curious hybrid of several hyperactive sequels The screenwriters and directors pay homage to certain of the key plot concepts Tourist gets wolf bite full moon comes out boy meets girl boy becomes beast boy dies heroic death after help from ghost victim For me the oddest aspect of this formula teen horror special effectride was the casting of the school teacherlove interest of the TV comedy ED as one of the werewolfs clueless victims who is more or less totally unsympathetic in the scripted lines they handed her I havent seen another horrorflick that this movie is sequelling a vampire fighting flick titled BLADE but I guess that parts of its plotline must explain how villain werewolves theyre spoofish are threatening the good werewolf pair during a long part of the movie There is also a final conflict in a Paris subway train a la SPEED This 1997 studio product is an odd hybrid of a film since considerable technical effects are shown for scary purposes but the authentic terrors of the original have been completely undermined in my opinion Such an odd rewrite of the werewolf legend and moviemythology My suggestion to those considering this at the video store go for a classic top of the line Thriller instead Alfred Hitchcocks PSYCHO

The opening scene of the beach at Fircombe while amusing in itself unfortunately provides a suitable metaphor for the film insipid and washed out It is actually not as corny as most of the others in the Carry On series but maybe because of that doesnt really deliver much fun Its a fair bet that the title will appeal to fans of the Benny Hill show but those looking for attractive females in bikinis and miniskirts while they will see some in this will probably enjoy some of the other titles in the series such as Carry On Abroad or Carry On Up the Jungle more The emergence of early 1970s feminism is used as a plot device which seems rather selfdefeating

The box to this movie totally misrepresents itself The cover shows a view of legs panties in a short skirt The title is Tart The synopsis on the back of the box made it seem as though Cat the main character was an outcast who became one of the popular students but that popularity lead to a bizarre lifestyle that she could not escape from Everything that the box built this movie up to was a horrible lie I expected a sort of crappy directtovideo version of Heathers targeted at the teenagers of today Let me tell you what Tart was really about Yes this really is the plot so if you dont want to know what happens stop reading We have one unlikable boring rich girl This unlikable girls best friend is a skank The skank gets expelled from school so the unlikable girl befriends some British girl This leads to the unlikable girl dating this boring guy who the box refers to as the most popular boy in school If that guy was the most popular guy in their school I wish I would have gone to that high school because I could have kicked the crap out of him Anyway as any movie will tell you the most popular guy in school is invariably a murderer or drug addict or thief or in this case all of the above Anyway everyone ends up disliking the unlikable main character because she is Jewish Then the most popular guy in school beats her best friend the skank to death with a rock because the skank caught the most popular boy in a homosexual act The unlikable girls stoic mother and hypochondriac younger brother are there for her at the end Oh and the entire movie is about snotty rich kids and their horrible parents too Gee what is wrong with that That sounds like a fantastic movie Well thats what I thought But you see there are NO likeable characters in this movie The main character is boring The filmmakers made her average while during the film she keeps spouting off about what a freak she is The skank is not skanky enough and has little screen time The popular guy is nothing to write home about The popular girls are just your runofthemill rich girls There are no moral lessons Cat the boring main character is not a freak does not ever become one of the truly popular girls and worst of all after all the crap she goes through she thinks she is still too good to befriend the only nice girl the dorky girl To be honest I have no idea why the movie is called Tart I kept asking whos the tart Is she the tart Are they all tarts At 94 minutes theoretically this is not a long movie But after actually watching this awful waste of a VHS tape and not knowing who the tart was I was surprised that the movie was only an hour and a half The movie felt like it was two hours and some change After a while I was hoping the movie would be about pop tarts At least when you look at a box of pop tarts you know what to expect