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the old dark house sub genre that dominated the early rarely fails to disappoint when we re view the to day here is one that provides so very many suspicious characters you have to wonder how they will be able to tie up all the loose ends in the 6 reel running time br br the crooked circle is a gang of and thieves who have decided to take revenge on who has sent one of their ranks to prison they decide he must die that very night meanwhile the own group the club is determined to protect him at all costs this does not sit well with thelma irene fiancée of club member brand ben late of the mega budgeted angels 1930 who wants him to quit the club and stop his own life brand promises to after saving the life everyone heads off to newly purchased mansion on long island to the assassin br br the colonel might be the new owner of melody but it's an old dark house complete with eccentric like raymond as a local and maybe even a ghost top billed is nora the who expects to see a spirit around every corner throw in a cop james who is certain brand is a criminal and we have a picture which is packed with action and surprises br br you will notice right away that the script writer was at a loss to come up with too much dialog because a lot of characters repeat the same lines over and over c henry gordon a which movies of that time were loaded with says evil is on the way many times and i lost count of how often ms says something always happens to somebody there are many suspects and two characters mr as the stereotype dumb cop and as mr pal who serve as comedy relief the house itself is appropriately spooky looking in fact i think the same set was used in the phantom 1931 with lots of secret and music coming out of empty rooms but somehow you never really get a feeling of danger maybe it's because no one in the movie and i do mean no one is entirely what they seem to be it all comes out right in the end though but to go into any more detail would spoil it for you br br watch carefully for robert from white zombie and frank best remembered as capt from king kong to pop up among the suspects br br the crooked circle is a fun film some aspects of the plot are predictable and then again several others are not i suspect you will enjoy it | positive |
the laura appeared briefly in an erotic scene from the french 2 this amazing woman did not go and was soon cast as the lead in this all new italian series where she is the a beautiful who travels the world experiencing all the mysterious that the world had to offer in this first installment mae jordan is sent to africa to photograph the people as well as the stunning landscape and wild exotic animals much like sylvia character has not come into her own when it comes to being open and comfortable with her own sexuality this first film is basically about how she becomes the that most exploitation cinema fans are familiar with filled with gorgeous cinematography beautiful people and an 70's score from the legendary this one is sure to please those who enjoy the more story driven style of the original french should definitely like this as well the main story here being an interesting cat and mouse tale of a playboy who comes to the realization that he has fallen in love with a woman who is the female version of him sexy fun and totally entertaining throughout a soap opera to be sure but one with enough skin and general eye candy to keep the male viewers entertained for some reason this is the hardest one in the series to find on dvd there has never been a legitimate dvd for this which is very strange the that sometimes appear online will have to do until someone gives this diamond of a film a proper release | positive |
virtual sexuality proves that britain can produce romantic comedies as vapid as those from america the only differences are an ending that ties up the loose bits differently than an american film would and a cameo by ram john which is always welcome that's enough to make this a watcher on a cold night | negative |
am a hardcore horror thriller fan when i was for good horror flick to scare me on my weekend night grabbed with blood movie poster added to average ratings in imdb but i was wrong after this crap no characterisation sick dialogues with sexy babes boobs i got the feel of porno certainly and the which so called main theme or suspense of the story sucks big time and here comes the clown funny mask to scare think users rated this movie went nuts it deserves 1 out of 10 i give 2 for bare boobs babes n soundtrack it has | negative |
had an unconvincing plot the screenplay required too much in suspension of disbelief the plot went at a pace it started off in an interesting setting but soon onto the of melodrama that lacked logic or intelligence what were the critics thinking this one is overrated even to be described as a loser even catherine who in the of and belle managed to be simply annoying br br we rented this movie at the same time as we rented another film we watched this one first and found it to be so bad that we sent the other one back unseen at the same time | negative |
great movie in a style being billed as the but then so was twin town although this is streets ahead br br takes in a weekend in the life of good debut movie from and some great performances in the cast br br go see then go | positive |
review is of the original 1950's version not the restored 1980's one in a land where the king likes no one and no one likes the king a and a from two nearby paintings come to life and run off a portrait of the king who loves the kills the real king and takes his place a huge bird the of the title acts as a hero of sorts and helps out our two lovers br br this is a strange strange movie no surreal very very very surreal br br the style of the background is very european while the characters are meet warner but early arty warner of the non major characters they move in both realistic and cartoon like manners br br this is an odd movie and it takes a bit to get into it but peter ustinov as the bird is a riot his kids and the puppy are wonderful there are cops in rubber and a bear design that makes you smile br br and there is deep philosophy in the film about the existence of a world out there out beyond a metropolis city br br this is a really neat movie there is something just so odd and unique about it that you if you stay with it for the whole ride its not perfect but what the hell br br this is a movie to search out if your local bargain dvd bin has the version paired with alice in paris buy it it should run you under ten bucks probably around five and the price is absolutely worth it especially when you realize it comes with two full length cartoons two short cartoons and several neat commercials and other fun things | positive |
the diary of anne frank is the second best selling book in the world and for good reason nonetheless sitting through this documentary about her life which fills in some of the details where the diary left off i thought just another documentary about anne frank i found it to be competent but not extraordinary that was my attitude because i was already well aware of the story of anne frank most of what the documentary had to tell me wasn't news to me br br everything changed though when i got to the end of the documentary when i saw the motion picture footage of anne frank the emotional impact of seeing this footage only a second or so long made everything that came before it a thousand times more real but not just everything that was in the documentary everything i had previously known about anne frank suddenly became more real to me more personal i'd always been moved by her story but when i saw that footage what i felt was stronger and deeper and more profound than any other film experience of my life i knew beforehand that this documentary contained live footage of anne frank and i'd even seen the footage in a movie review on television but seeing it in the context of the documentary was a completely different experience it's not likely that my mentioning it here will spoil it for anyone br br i realize now that many people still don't know the story of anne frank it's at times to be witness to this kind of ignorance i think to myself how could someone not know the story of anne frank this being the case though anne frank remembered along with reading her diary is the best place to start it's a story that everyone should know | positive |
ok i'm italian but there aren't so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for 3 4 of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it's the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i'd like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it's only a great theater italian actor called toni yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it's too slow it's so boring so many but i think that this its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films | positive |
it's a soap opera drawing upon an applied idea a movie about human suffering and death is not necessarily a good movie i didn't get any emotion from it the ideas are not at all new the tension lacks it becomes tedious towards the second half but towards the end i think it becomes quite interesting in a way i mean you have this middle aged bald guy who gets more women than don juan he doesn't seem to suffer as much as you would expect from someone completely for over 28 years he has no issues with god and one would probably expect that too the people around him seem to be the perfect slaves i can't get out of my mind cries and similar to this one in many respects which simply bursts with emotions and not all of them etc this movie is the perfect recipe for who look for some emotional thrill but don't expect to be blown away the movie is worth seeing among all the cynicism we get today for its sincere intention to present a modern issue without any desire to the viewer doesn't rub your face in it and he doesn't take sides he doesn't want to make us fanatics for a particular idea still i have no clue as to why this movie was so highly regarded | positive |
this movie is funny in more ways than one it's got action it's got humour it's got attitude it's got all girl army of kung fu and that's just what the movie offers as a film it's also badly acted by some the makes more than one cameo appearance and some punches miss by feet but when you make a movie this cool who's got time to pay attention to those details this movie rocks rent it tonight if you can find it i had to buy it to see it but i don't regret it | positive |
this movie is one of the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i waste my time on this i watched this movie completely as i took it a punishment for me i wonder how could make such a movie it doesn't have any it feels he just shoot scenes and then joined them in some editing music is of course good but the film doesn't need so many songs looks fake and i wonder what role does has in the movie bobby is good at least he can act needs to take some acting lessons rather than taking off his shirts in almost all the scenes the end was the most pathetic br br i watched boom boom after watching 300 the movie you guys can really imagine what i felt about this bollywood movie br br i really respect bollywood but please directors and producers get real not everything is fantasy | negative |
first i would like to admit that was not my cup of tea this movie was evidently not targeted toward the masses it's the type that critics would enjoy watching the hype and publicity were quite misleading br br i was expecting something very dramatic like understanding that the story and time period demand it i found the movie extremely slow paced br br i'm a die hard fan and i regret to say that i thought she was miscast the role of required an actress who can portray herself as not innocent and naive everyone else gave a good performance depiction of the human condition does come across the celluloid to give the movie an interesting theme | negative |
wound up falling into the same category as many promising television productions that could have been a really great classic only to become a sad joke br br i really like kevin and his supporting cast but i didn't care for the direction the show took since their movie either i believe the show would have had a much more successful run if they had kept the same format they did for the movies br br i watched in the beginning and lost interest along the way i did encounter the odd episode afterwards but my attention span towards it was lucky to make it to commercial break | negative |
with all the potential for a good movie in its gorgeous settings cast and cinematography this film's script pace and wooden performances produced only a major disappointment with decent direction editing and musical score this could have been a good movie perhaps a dark version of blake instead of a version of ron | negative |
i agree with what so many others have said about the shallow and offensive nature of this film's examination of racism it is to me that so many people seem to have been fooled by its i want to comment on the matt dillon character as an example of what's most about this movie here we have a man who with the film's underlying message that we're all a little racist effectively rapes a woman in public her husband and deliberately him to make a move that as he well knows will lead to his arrest or even death he does all this after pulling the couple over without any legal cause but because as we come to understand they are black and wealthy and he is a hurt little boy who is now the police and can therefore do as he this behavior is not a little racist this behavior is evil it is disturbing to me that this extreme of racism is held up next to another character's behavior her paranoid stereotypes about gang violence to illustrate that everybody's a little racist later we're fed some tripe about poor old dad and how black folks drove him into the poor house is this supposed to explain or worse excuse this behavior and is character meant to redeem himself by committing the utterly and unbelievable laughably act of saving the woman he sexually the very night before please the fact that so many people seem to feel some kind of self admiration for this film makes me feel sad about the of our understanding of racism and our apparent lack of commitment to and ending it | negative |
it has been a long time since i have been to a movie as lame and boring as this one it is one thing to have a slow pace where characters are being developed in a way or some aspect of the movie clearly is enhanced by such pacing such as in translation however there is a difference between slow progression and outright as happened in this one i guess from the look on helen face she must have been by the disappearance of her husband surprise surprise what a creative moment the meeting of the mistress and wife was sarcasm and what a great way that the whole story fell apart at the end truly a masterpiece | negative |
well in to 2002 i've got some catching up to do and looking back on a year best in show no great storyline little action just a of magnificent characters particular reference to fred and jim as a pair of tv well done well worth the effort br br ron viewed | positive |
im usually of movies around the 6 10 mark on imdb id like to think people know what they are talking about and know what they like i guess the trick with reviewing is to take an approach of hey if i liked types of movies like these would i give it a higher score than i am about to give it now since i don't like these types of movies then again people judge differently more value on acting or perhaps story or directing anyway landing the plane here i had rented this movie out before and hadn't had time to watch it this morning i did br br wow see this movie i am personally interested in the have read a bit about near death experiences so automatically i was hooked i am unsure about some of the comments here saying that a quality cast here was wasted i disagree the acting here was superb from all i think this is the only time i didn't mind julia roberts it was good to see sutherland currently at the time of this review serving a jail sentence for and kevin bacon sporting an interesting hair style br br overall i liked the direction the atmosphere the acting and the story line most of all particularly the idea of and to quote nelson wright everything we does matters so true br br 10 10 | positive |
bar seems to be trying to be about the stereotypical bar tender and lay shrink serving up of wisdom followed by example vignettes played out by the cast however this turkey is a mess with a script full of simple minded cliched nonsense hard to follow jerky flow unsatisfying and not worth the time d | negative |
a rather mild horror movie if not for a couple of sex scenes it could easily have been a tv movie plot holes abound one example why would there be a secret passage from the 18th century leading from the upper floor of a house that was burned to the ground and a new building put 200 years later cardboard acting characters doing things that anyone with an iq bigger than their shoe size wouldn't do br br it's got a few fun moments but overall it's a sub par film that managed to get roy because his bills were due if you're looking for an extremely formulaic predictable film that might provide a few laughs it might be worth watching if not then this one's not for you | negative |
no i'm not a radical bashing the and genre i just find it really boring and pointless my god i was made to watch this for from some stupid punk and my my even an mst3k movie has a storyline not to mention that this crap is what's giving anime a bad name world wide watch out sailor moon sadly people don't realize that not all anime or any other asian style is sleazy porn death to the stereotype br br starts casting | negative |
i'm a fan of this generally excellent though sometimes rather dull show but season 3 has taken some terrible plot directions the episode hero is an example of what i mean br br the story as it eventually is that the deliberately allow a pilot captured several years earlier during a black mission to escape steal a ship and get back to galactica the plan is that when gets back he will figure out that left him to his fate and be so that he will kill which he very nearly does br br now the problem is this the set it up so that thinks he has escaped by himself this means that gets off the ship with no assistance so he kills a and walks out of his holding cell that much we see then we must suppose that he walks to the flight manages to get into a fighter ship and learn how to operate it takes off and flies back to galactica just like that br br now managed to get one of them working in season one which was barely believable in itself but she only had to fly it visually out of before making contact with galactica has to programme his ship so that it makes several jumps through and manages to catch up with galactica somewhere thousands of light years away in an unknown direction how does he manage to programme a ship that contains completely alien technology connect to their computers by touch there are no visual or and having managed that feat how does he then know where galactica is bearing in mind that galactica took off some 3 years before and is trying ever since to the it does not leave behind even allowing for the suspension of disbelief that must apply to any sci fi show this episode still absolutely no sense whatsoever | negative |
this movie totally sucked don't even rent it you'll hate it the plot didn't make sense the characters sucked and why was that penguin trying to get the anyway if that girl penguin would only like him because he has a pretty than the relationship would not be based on love only on money i very much disliked this movie hate is such a strong word and cant fly even if they believe than they can do it they cant p s i am not who you think i am | negative |
we saw la last night the chicago international film festival we were both immensely moved by it this is a haunting tale of loneliness missed connection in which the longing for conflicts with our fear of revealing too much about ourselves to another the three leads as as flavia as are all excellent and the dynamic between them is very surprising br br after all the movies which older women it's wonderful to see flavia who is a law professor at a university in rome presented as beautiful sensual as well as seductive powerful we're to believe that when a younger woman enters 'the mix ' the older woman will become jealous of the younger woman the man will leave the older woman for the younger woman etc etc in this film however emotional truth is considerably more complex highly recommended | positive |
taking into consideration the chan films that would follow this isn't bad plenty of stereotypes beginning with the black man in the beginning and when the police captain orders that every in town by rounded up a parade of stereotypical characters enter the scene including of the three stooges charlie seems to move quickly around the city going from to the w village in a flash the ending is silly an obvious toy airplane is used as it climbs through the sky and then nose ed wood couldn't have done it better the final scene is absurd as the murderer will obviously himself in his attempt to quiet the one person who knows his identity overall it is worth watching | positive |
was one of the first comic books to a change in the genre in spite of being a very well made superhero comic book this is the first series ever that added a real psychological depth to the main character had complex moral issue round characters and also social and political issues in other words was the comic coming of age this tv series lacks all of those it's just a straightforward good buy bad guy tv series suffering from obvious that make the action scene moderately exciting is about as convincing as the cardboard rocks in star trek nicholas is way too old for the role at that point in time i think he was well into his thirties spider man was really teenager at the time for some reason the writers also changed names and deleted important characters from the comic book which again just resulted in the tension between characters basically disappearing | negative |
basic structure of a story beginning middle end br br sometimes this structure is played with and we get or and the story plays backwards sometimes it's just not linear a la pulp fiction regardless they all have a beginning middle and end br br this is the first film i have ever seen that doesn't have an end br br beginning girl's best friend is br br middle girl needs to cope without best friend br br end non existent br br not that having an end would've saved this film but at least it would have been complete br br it's an exercise in we get a party mix of characters and they all turn out to be boring vain vapid and of people br br and here's the action within this film nothing happens nothing at all happens barton tries to talk with a english accent a lot and brad receives a blow job from some old guy end of movie br br by the time the credits rolled i had a horrible feeling that many prisoners must feel periods of time those precious minutes of our life have just been wasted br br the only passable point and that is a very only is brad he acts well i tend to like but no luck here due to good work in other films i will forgive barton this travesty but i hope all cast members were slapped in the face for their involvement br br please i you avoid don't fool yourself into thinking i'll make up my own mind my sister told me to never see this and i ignored her wanting to make up my own mind that was a bad decision br br i have never hated a film there are many i don't like but i have never hated a film until i saw this | negative |
one of the few reasons to make these films is to give some actors a chance to hopefully star in better films if they're acting is any good the only good thing in this movie is the acting the three female leads are better than most horror films like this there's 2 scenes that may cause an unexpected jump br br young small children are use to crawl through holes and lay dynamite to explode mines when one does collapse causing a cave in all the children die becoming zombies the adults in the mine stay dead no reasons are given as why the children become flesh when still alive they looked terrified before the cave in innocent so they must become at any adult which exploited them he mines only reason that come to mind br br a mother and her 2 daughters move into a house near the mine along with a land who wants to build a resort and another of those creepy people who seem to know exactly what's going on yet no one believes him br br nothing new here you're usual clichés predictable a lot of for this film very few | negative |
this is a story about a journey made by a man who once had a dream and guts donald was an english businessman and amateur sailor who in the sunday times golden globe race a single handed round the world race br br i was very intrigued by the story after listening to a radio interview from the producer john who is also the producer of touching the void one of the first documentaries that made a commercial success in 2003 i had gone to the cinema with great hope and not much previous knowledge on the historic event and i'm that it didn't let me down for minutes i was led through a haunting story and came out with much to think about br br without any this film made great use of the limited audio and video archive footage they found and turned it into a compelling story which allowed the audience to understand from a personal level the story itself as people who had direct to the events including his wife and his son and the eventual winner also the only one who made it back out of the 9 robin knox gave their own accounts of what happened almost 40 years ago br br that he kept during the days at sea are so haunting that it made it much easier for me to come to understand what being in total isolation can do to a man while body was never found the other whose just weeks before claiming the prize for passage committed suicide three years later after attempts at properly a br br everything could take its especially the sea br br the director louise was also at the q a session after the showing together with producer john i had no idea that it's a female director and that just came as a very nice surprise the film is getting a limited release in the uk a couple of days in certain cinemas catch it in cinema while you can unless you have a state of the art sound system that can recreate the sound of the bashing southern ocean then i'm sure they'll soon have it on dvds too | positive |
some movies are not for everyone this accurately describes movie shame at only 18 i still have what i guess you could call a minor form of add and well i watch movies to be entertained shame was a movie with a very interesting premise of trying to convey the effect of war on the common people it however fell short of this for me i don't know if it was the subtitles black and white filming length of the movie or the fact that it took two hours out of my studying for a huge chemistry test but i did not enjoy it i understand it is considered a great movie and very important in the history of cinema however i think as my teacher pointed out not everyone has liked or likes it i guess i just wish it finished all of its many side plots maybe the translation lost something but i felt there were little off shoots that never met a conclusion you would meet characters and never see them again or really understand why they were included in the movie my overall recommendation for this movie is that it's worth seeing but only to form your own opinion on it whether or not you like or dislike it it is necessary to respect the point that it is trying to convey | negative |
spanish director luis career almost 50 years from to 1977 arguably his best films were those he made during his in mexico from the late forties to the early 60s there he had to deal with very cheap budgets and work in an industry interested mainly in commercial movies to audiences yet he somehow managed to make interesting thought provoking movies that have stand the test of time this movie is based on a novel by spanish author and the adaptation is quite faithful even if the setting is now early 20th century mexico instead of early 20th century spain the protagonist is a priest who tries to live a life that is as faithful as it can be to the one by christ the question many would ask is whether such would be possible without in the and mockery of your fellow human beings as it happens he suffers a lot of yet he remains stubborn until the controversial final shot to this objective i think wanted to show as a somewhat ridiculous figure but perhaps inadvertently his at least to this viewer comes out as admirable in any case a great film | positive |
if there's one cartoon that helped to put on the map more than any other it's this tale of a little boy who only speaks in sound effects has kept its charm for the last years besides the effects loved the music the abstract animation and backgrounds the narration by marvin miller pretty much everything and it won the oscar for best animated short of 1950 glad to have seen it on youtube after reading about this dr seuss story for so many years and rocky and creator bill scott also contributed how awesome hope to see the subsequent shorts made in the series if not on youtube then maybe in a dvd collection now i guess i'll watch another short there | positive |
saw the movie today and thought it was a good effort good messages for kids a bit predictable the book was better gave more plot details about the environment and how the kids the conspiracy i think humor comes across better in the book than the movie but there were lots of funny moments in the movie as well it is probably a bit too slow paced for kids under 6 of age loved the casting of jimmy as the science teacher and those baby were adorable i wonder how they managed to film them the movie showed a lot of florida at it's best made it look very appealing am i imagining it or did the author carl make a brief appearance | positive |
i first remember into this from the brothers and jim back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the 90's their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst3k complete with host br br capt frank played by the stone faced dead pan leslie is a process created first from the of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think meets the show boiled in a full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is 3 times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot for now save it for later frank is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police a k a ask johnny the old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt notice he's a captain here has it along with his partner and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of 6 golden episodes br br the show is a treasure of hilarious dialog and quote most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as 90 minute of the best gags from this series think of monty and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane 1 2 naked gun 1 2 3 or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why 2 words no o j | positive |
this is a movie about the music that is currently being played in was the center of the two old world the empire and the empire today it is a of almost 10 million so it is to no ones surprise that a lot of music is being played in with a great variety of voices styles and influences from everywhere on the globe it is turkish music of course and i was fascinated by turkish music ever since i bought my first record long time ago the movie features different singers and bands spoken comments from the musicians nicely illustrate the music being played and the social context in modern turkey for my perspective the most interesting comments were from furthermore the movies shows urban scenery mainly from which is very pleasant to watch br br crossing the bridge is listed as a documentary and it includes music from e g and other important topics are such as turkish jazz music or music of the and br br this movie is strongly recommended for lovers of the music and culture of turkey the the eastern and the middle east it may also be worthwhile for those with a keen interest in the global effects of musical styles such as rock and roll or hip hop | positive |
this is an exceptional film it is part comedy part drama part suspense the dialog is exquisite most of the actors and actresses were very famous in their time and for good reason you will probably recognize someone even if you don't usually watch older movies they are also each in a role that particularly suits their talents br br one to make on another users comment is that two people not one are announced to die in the accident maybe the unlucky two are a reflection of what the writer considers important in life the movie is too engaging to worry about who it is until it happens br br the story is ahead of its time but it does not lose the quality of an older movie time and effort was spent the view and the soundtrack something modern movie makers tend to forget | positive |
being from the buffalo area i was well aware of the movie having read many in local i was most impressed with the movie especially its clever plot the acting and the local scenes nice to see so many older quality stars in the various roles i feel that especially those of us over 50 will find the movie excellent and you can leave the theater feeling that your time was well spent | positive |
oz is the tv show which is non stop its a show which is not aimed at a large audience but a specific one as its themes are very adult it obviously did not achieve mainstream success as this was an but had much fame with its audience and many famous actors either guest starred or became part of the show br br oz is a series of fictional stories based on a prison located somewhere in the new york state there are many different ethnic groups which play a somewhat equal role in being represented these groups are the muslims italians irish christians gays and others some have some form of with each other such as the and whilst the are the of numerous groups such as the muslims and the br br in its official name there is a policy that not too many members from any one ethnic group may be allowed it is the maximum security prison and the regular prison where sometimes prisoners are sent to or from in the show is called general population or gen pop the main character of the show is hill who also the story before and after the main segments crossed between a documentary type and a one hill is bound to wheelchair usage as a consequence of his unknown past he is part of the others group which features individuals which don't fit into the other prison gangs br br of the many groups it is the smaller ones which are able to keep themselves avoided by trouble most of the times as the larger ones are busy in conflict with one another are few of the most noteworthy characters are as follows 1 ryan is in charge of his fellow and somehow always gets himself involved in lethal activity for the weakest link 2 is the watched latino who has constant struggles with with his popularity within his own gang and with others 3 simon is the who was the former leader of the gang hes also very physically quite large and solid these two reasons are why he is one of the most powerful inmates inside of oz 4 said is the muslim and black who is a very defined in his opinions and desires he fights for the rights of his people on many levels through the show from his own muslim group to his wider black group and even fighting for all the groups against the rules of authority he character seems in some ways identical to x the famous black rights fighter who was also muslim br br all in all for its genre oz is possibly the greatest fictional prison show or show based on ethnic relations if it doesn't sound as if your own type of series it probably shouldn't be tried out but if it does interest then it is definitely worth viewing the biggest problem with the show is how it is some may feel wrong viewing a lot of this kind of material argue on whether it is or not but in the end it is just a reflection of the society of the world we live in today this means that it is as an and an of the world than an | positive |
one of the worst movies i have ever seen seagal has been acting in several entertaining action movies but this time this movie really sucks just stupid killing and really stupid storyline in addition looks fat and old | negative |
i only heard about driving lessons through the and to be honest i didn't know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he's definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve is played by the fabulous julie i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend 2 hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with | positive |
an incomprehensible script when it shouldn't have been on a rather voice over br br the animation however show real talent br br quite visually impressive | negative |
yes the votes are in this film may very well be the plan 9 from outer space for our generation but whereas ed film for all its flaws a certain charm despite it all this film the word to the degree in fact i'd suggest to the of the english to this movie as a key example defining the that word in the next update to the br br top is a performer of such abysmal ability that normally rational people that i know once they hear his name become homicidal dedicated to wanting to kill mr top as soon as possible indeed if one goes to amazon com and look at reviews for movie and other performance dvd one will find several that could be as death to mr top br br one other curious fact about this film i recall that mike nelson the head writer for 3000 in his book mega cheese about movies good and bad said he saw this film and shortly couldn't recall a thing about it including the title obviously mike was suffering a classic reaction to trauma viewing this atrocity was so soul numbing mike nelson had to block it from his mind evidently in a later chapter in his book mike nelson had his of this film from the review he offers mike nelson was definitely not grateful for the memory br br the only comment i offer about the film and it is not a spoiler it's simply god's honest truth it's not funny none of it is not even a of it is funny | negative |
this movie was a waste of time it looks nice pretty settings nicely acted appears earnest and seems to be leading somewhere so you stay tuned awaiting a meaningful payoff it doesn't happen br br it surprised me that so much effort could be put into a movie it was clearly very done and have an outcome that seems nothing short of a b movie br br save your precious time and see a good french film like les funny jean de or of the spring i can't recall the language in europa europa but that's another great film heavy but very worth viewing br br this film appears to promise a lot but delivers nothing | negative |
this is not a good movie at all i cannot believe that after fifty years this movie gets the national award when there have been such gems from cinema that have been so ignored this is a very overrated movie that got very very lucky it was given the national award the popular opinion and now is going to represent india before the international audience anyone with even a understanding of good quality cinema will know very well that this will not even be nominated at the oscars br br i cannot understand where to start there are just so many things that are wrong and lacking in this movie that it amazing it even got considered for the national award that this movie is awarded as the best movie to come out this year goes to show the biased judgment of people who hold the of indian cinema and the understanding of the people who appreciate this movie br br the topic chosen is great it is important that such movies be made but only by people who are able to handle them does not measure up to the task not even close his direction is confused there is no clear thought process he tries but is not able to explore the depth of the characters especially the grandfather he is not able to show the initial horror anxiety and then hopeless and yet the courage of the grandfather he wastes our time in the hospital when we should have been shown the time pair spend together he is trying to in everything without any he does not understand his subject properly and that really counts against him br br however the cast does not help either worst job she is a terrible actor and a terrible choice for this or any sensible acting job how did she get extremely lucky and or extremely influential and or extremely pitiful casting having said that she goes out of her way to do an even terrible job in this movie her act of the should have gone to the more responsible actor did not understand it work under constant emotional stress and yet it is important for them to project a calm strong exterior as this is to the patients seems even more scared and in need of support than the people she is working for br br second worst i have never seen a more wooden face in film industry it is abound and everywhere in today's hindi cinema though he is the producer and so he chose himself no second thought no consideration any good actor would have jumped to play this role even if he had to pay the to do it but would not let anyone else do it over ambitious and he contributes to bring down the movie more than everyone else combined his acting lacks research and even the basic acting skills my choice for this role would be br br the music is uninspired the movie is technically lacking it could well have been an project job br br on the up side brilliant performance by it is amazing that such a young boy could give such a respectable performance he put many of today's actors to shame unintentionally maybe but he brought his own innocence to his character and that made it a memorable performance also really gave a very believable performance really put in all his efforts and it shows the script too is well written br br cannot be a valid argument to praise this movie lack of dogs all of the movies and hindi movies all the money and the rest are left to fight for the it is a sorry state of affairs but yet not reason enough to praise any immature movie that comes out was brilliant movie and it too was made on a budget also lacked technically but it was well and well made it was abound in details and supported by wonderful performances by everyone and that made it rich cinema why did it not receive the it so very deserved only proves my point of biased judgment br br lack of research and not of is what makes such a bad movie | negative |
it actually pains me to say it but this movie was horrible on every level the blame does not lie entirely with van damme as you can see he tried his best but let's face it he's almost fifty how much more can you ask of him i find it so hard to believe that the same people who put together 2 arguably the best western martial arts movie in years created this everything from the plot to the dialog to the editing to the overall acting was just horribly put together and in many cases outright boring and nonsensical scott who's fight scenes seemed more like a reel was also terribly underused and not even the main villain which is such a shame because 1 he is more than capable of playing that role and 2 the actual main villain was not only not at all but also quite annoying again not van damme i will always be a fan but avoid this one | negative |
i have read the other user comments and i am happy someone has compared it to the original by kamal called released in 2004 br br the original had a tight story and no as described above about the indian not having proper records or even bad shoots and br br the story is great and a one and well described by others but sadly taking credit for it as his own story is a sad thing and amounts to nothing other than br br i guess he has been affected by so called inspired syndrome br br he must at least give credit where it is due br br i liked some of his older movies but now i suspect if any of them were originals after all br br here is a link in imdb for the original masterpiece http www imdb com title comment i recommend everyone to see the original even with subtitles if needed to know what class direction and class acting is all about | negative |
the idea that anyone could of such a trite cliché yet comical movie is shocking the final 20 minutes of this film are comical glory with six men digging enough in 10 minutes to light the with for a while a supposed perfectly lands the in a leading one to question the of calling this movie crash landing br br some of the dialogue was equivalent to in my ears while the only aspect that saved this movie for a 1 was the of attractive women filling the screen a large portion of the time not exactly a for this pathetic excuse of a movie but my mute button finally received a br br view at your own risk 2 out of 10 | negative |
having not read the original book or seen the earlier film and indeed knowing nothing about the storyline of either of those or the current film i came to this film with an open mind br br it's really difficult to know where to start a comment on the film because the whole thing seems so confused it seems like there is a point or a message or something in the film but what that is remains completely obscure br br the effects were fantastic and very well judged the idea was set up really well with the motivation for time travel clearly made out however it was downhill from here br br all of the time travel seems to have only the connection to the quest that was set out at the start there are some nice ideas but they seem to be isolated that really do not flow and make the film seem disjointed and lost at one point one wonders whether the main story in the film is the fate of the moon br br when arrives in a d the film becomes very frustrating as he seems to be unable to discover anything of importance about the and while it seems clear that there is something to find out what it is remains annoyingly this is quite an odd change from the previous time travel instances and one wonders why all of this has suddenly been abandoned for what seems like a completely new story so many things happen that there should be an explanation for but there is no discovery i really really wanted to know what the film was getting at what there was to but to no having read a summary of what happens in the book at this point it seems like there has been a very half hearted attempt to render this in the film but it has been so and down that the meaning and context is completely lost br br just as we hope that we are finally to discover where this is all leading the film suddenly takes another significant change in direction and becomes a mindless action film without any real action it is as if by this point the director has simply given up bothering to put any meaning into the film by now countless significant things are happening without any explanation fails to take the opportunity to return to the past on two occasions for no reason and then suddenly loses all interest in time travel for no reason the film comes to an abrupt end as decides to stay with the br br in summary after a good start the film is very disappointing too much time is spent on adventures before arriving with the however the worst part of the film is what i think is the most important part the setting up of the situation with the the whole point is completely missed and this the rest of the film after this the film concentrates too much on effects and action and all attempts to return to the meaning and core of the film seem forced and out of place with so many things happening without explanation the film just seems to get lost and lose direction however the finale where decides he is no longer bothered about time travel is the most inexplicable of all br br ultimately the whole film seemed like a collection of incidents the meaning and context was lost although the hole where it should have been was very obvious what was so frustrating about it all though was that there was clearly so much potential here it wasn't by any means a bad film it just so easily could have been so much better the start was very promising the time travelling looked fantastic and would have worked had it not gone off on and experience with the could so easily have worked had a few more of the right questions been asked and had there not been such a temptation to dumb down and i just wish i had a time machine so that i could travel back in time and advise against the mistakes that were made | negative |
this is a pretty faithful adaptation of novel black rain like the book it is very moving and thought provoking the story revolves around a attempts to see their niece successfully married they are having trouble finding because of a that she suffers from radiation sickness after walking through on the day of the bombing well filmed well acted moving tragic horrifying and funny | positive |
my companions were to find that this movie was a documentary it was so funny it seemed scripted yet it gives a stirring picture of real life in the indie film life we felt moved to purchase and wanted to meet mark and mike as college students this film gave us a much needed glimpse of real life | positive |
i don't understand jokes i do believe this is my problem with modern cinema or those films that are made with millions of dollars in hopes that it will become the next greatest sensation isn't it odd people just don't laugh as much anymore and i do believe one of the to that problem is the film showtime there was absolutely nothing from the beginning to the end of the credits with all of the between murphy and de niro with russo as eye candy with even standard clichés which make the general population with pre laughter there was nothing in this film that made me laugh there weren't the overbearing physical jokes or the mental vocal jokes at all throughout this of a film from the beginning i didn't buy the match up of de niro and murphy as anything more than hollywood excitement throughout the commentary the director vividly talks about the and laughter going on during the shoot where was it in the film this falls to either two problems the director really doesn't have a sense of comedy or the editor didn't understand the value of the film either way they both doomed the entire hour and a half spent on the hollywood nightmare showtime br br outside of finding no reason to laugh there was no reason to follow these characters through any moment of the film there was a glimpse of humor with de desire to pick up as a but the director had to write on the machine so audiences would understand who does that but that was dropped and never developed there was the idea that murphy was an actor but outside of that one opening monologue nobody would have understood that he a room in a house in which he can afford on a police this just didn't even for hollywood standards there was a bad guy who wanted a big gun but the gun was never developed nor was there any true test of the weapons
even at the end it became a bigger joke to laugh at an accent than remember the guns where was the television show in this russo had to get from this random guy at the beginning but there were no consequences there was nothing in the middle of this film outside of further questions and meaningless random characters were introduced forgotten re introduced and forgotten all over again the director and producer laughed at this while we the viewer must suffer through inside jokes and cliché stereotypes br br was there a love interest in this film was there a truly sinister bad guy that went apart from the comic duo to bring true evil to the screen were there any pop culture references that didn't come back to robert de niro was there random chaos throughout this film if you need the answers to these obviously you won't find them in showtime the fact that i am this review with question upon question only means that this sub par actually well below sub sub sub par filled no or anything of value to the cinematic world sure it had big names and one really neat explosion but there was nothing of substance to this at all it was almost as if the director said prior to the shoot that he wanted clichés but not regular clichés go with the bad ones the plot had no linear structure the jokes were boring the characters were drab and underdeveloped this ranks below even the best of buddy cop films i like to give films the benefit of the doubt but nothing worked in this film not even shatner could save this film and he even tried hard br br overall i cannot nor will i suggest this film to anyone with a pulse the commentary only the pathetic nature of the film with obvious flaws horrid jokes and creators questioning the of their work if creators can't stand behind showtime why should we i didn't want a lethal weapon when i watched this but i did want something like that i understand there was some form of criticism of reality television and the corrupt nature of the media but that message didn't make it off the page in fact i believe i saw media leave the theater first when i watched this shame carries its heavy hand with this film and i cannot blame it murphy used to be a big star comedy was his middle name see coming to america but lately he seems to have lost his edge de niro obviously wants to get away from an image that him but making these sort of films is only going to set him back further one of these films is equal to one scorsese picture br br skip this one i promise it will make your final cinematic days worthwhile oh and if you laughed at any of the jokes in this film i am truly sorry br br grade out of | negative |
co scripted by william h macy from arguably donald e best and hardest to find novel a travesty very faithful to the story the movie stars macy as a hapless man who gets in way too far over his head after attempting to cover up an accidental death adam arkin and james in good supporting roles the strength of the movie is in the intricate twist after twist storyline and in the acting particularly by macy who and delightfully breaks through the 4th wall here and gets away with it every time a good storyline with much dark humor this one engaged me enough that i've watched it three times in the week since it came out prepare to your critical and a loud | positive |
i watch this movie at the start of every summer and it never to me here the jokes are packed in near every line of dialogue giving you more bang than the average simpsons episode some of the jokes fall flat or will only a slight chuckle but others will leave you rolling and then there are those that stick in your brain the audience is now deaf br br the video knows it's a video and makes no about being anything else it's easy to sit back and let the of humor begin a good mix of slapstick pop culture and tongue in cheek comedy there's something for everybody i was in sixth grade when i first saw this video and i have to admit i still find it as hilarious now that i've started college br br this is a good movie to watch over the summer much in the way you might watch it's a wonderful life at christmas or ten at more than that it's just funny as hell | positive |
well sadly i can't help but feeling a little bit disappointed after my much much much anticipated viewing of just before dawn jeff is a terrific filmmaker and he can undoubtedly do great things with a tiny budget but i nevertheless expected to see a far more sadistic and gruesome early 80's slasher but actually i'm beginning to think that isn't the one to blame for this but we are it's more than obvious that intended to make his take on the backwoods slasher look like deliverance and absolutely not like friday the 13th which immensely the sub genre one year earlier the horror and constant sensation of menace doesn't mainly come from the demented with their but from the genuinely ominous and isolated where this movie was shot in case the film seems slow and this is only because takes his time to introduce the dark woods and eerie mountains as extra characters in his film we hardly ever see the killers in person but there always appears to be someone from behind the trees or from underneath the mountain bearing this in mind just before dawn becomes a highly admirable horror effort and actually a lot better than its contemporary blood colleagues amidst a nearly endless selection of gory and sickening slashers successfully puts the emphasis back on tension and character development the plot revolves on five twenty something friends heading for a camping vacation in the woods where one of them owns a small piece of land the woods are deserted and naturally the ignore forest ranger george kennedy advise to return back to civilization shortly after they brutally encounter an family of which the twin sons have murderous all five main characters are surprisingly likable and convincing no irritating stereotypes for which you don't feel sympathy anyway like girls or football as a result of this natural character you automatically cheer for them even when they eventually almost turn into themselves the sublime camera work supplies the film with an at times unbearable tension level and brad chilling electronic score only adds to this effect just before dawn is a fine slice of early 80's horror as long as you don't desire blood to from your tv set | positive |
just what is the point of this film it starts off as one film then changes track cheating us of a resolution to that film and ends as another movie which is nothing but a pale pale imitation of so many other schlock horror flicks you've ever seen the overall impression is confusion in every respect and a great deal of screenplay by tarantino direction by rodriguez two guys who have previously shown talent but who now seem to believe their own hype and assume that whatever they do must be good merely because they did it but it doesn't quite work that way you're only good while you continue doing good things there are so many questions to ask just what are george clooney and harvey keitel doing getting involved in such pointless dreck clooney initially makes an intriguing bad guy utterly ruthless and efficient and it would have been interesting to see where that was going but of course we never do and the clooney of the vampire film changes into a completely different character that's not clever or witty that's just bad bad work keitel looks thoroughly ill at ease throughout and no wonder did no one in the studio take a look at the script before this project was given the go ahead tarantino is utterly unpleasant as a murderous sexual and why did he as writer assume we would find the rape gruesome murder and of an hostage funny on every level except the technical this film stinks avoid | negative |
is betty a kansas waitress who wants to be a nurse who is with a soap opera actor greg kinnear and who is married to del a cheating stupid male who's trying to sell some stolen drugs unfortunately for him he gets brutally murdered instead while betty secretly watches it leaves her unhinged believing that kinnear is really the character he plays dr david and that she is his ex fiancée she heads for la to find her lost love not knowing the stolen drugs are in her pursuing her are charlie and wesley morgan freeman and chris rock respectively the hit men who inadvertently killed del before they found out where the drugs were hidden they pursue her across the country while charlie gradually falls in love with his image of her br br and in la things get totally bizarre as no one realizes that betty is alternately funny and touching this movie is almost perfect stop reading and go see it | positive |
shakespeare could be considered the first classic of the our gang era by now hal roach studios began to hit their in making talking pictures and shakespeare is the happy result br br the gang is appearing in a version of produced by kennedy the wife the kids don't find the play very fun to be in and are distracted by people in the theatre and cannot remember their lines among the funniest bits are kennedy the cop as the giant who pulls off his makeup to fight an man in a bull costume and the terrible dancing girl played by director bob daughter br br several mention that shakespeare has the first pie fight in a this may be true seeing as they tried different with the film during the fight buster keaton's brother harry is at the receiving end of one of the very funny and an early gang classic 9 out of 10 | positive |
on first trip to hollywood he got his first leading man role in this b picture love affair the first thing you ought to realize is that this film has absolutely nothing to do with the classic love affair later in the decade with charles boyer and irene dunne or the two remakes that followed it's not half as good any of those films br br in fact is second billed to dorothy as a spoiled who finds out she's been living her lifestyle courtesy of her late father's best friend and financial hale hamilton it comes as quite a shock to she considers a show business career as a way for an br br bogart is a test pilot who is also an engineer and he's an ultimate airplane and is looking for is willing to do it besides she likes what she sees in br br considering the cynical roles that bogart later made a it's a bit to see him as this highly moral and self righteous character in love affair the part doesn't wear well on him br br love affair is your average b program second feature nothing terribly special about it | negative |
i agree that this movie is about sex without any seduction or love in fact it makes sex seem so boring and makes me wonder why bother i actually don't think at all this remotely speaks of how canadian indian second generations feel about sex at any rate did you know the first hotel drunk idea was copied from a korean movie made in 2001 or that korean film was actually brilliant as comedy but at the same time the audience to reflect on the complexity of man woman relationships and man woman difference in experience and thinking i mean most of the n hotel drunk segment was take by take can't bollywood movie makers try to make originals only please seriously i never enjoyed a hindi flick that is a the ones i enjoy have always spoken indian feelings through indian cultural means | negative |
as several posters have hinted this is a sorry star wars ripoff now if you're going to rip off star wars at least do it right battlestar galactica did and there were a few other space operas that didn't do a bad job of it but this is definitely not one of them david the juvenile lead actually isn't too bad though he goes overboard on the cute factor every so often vince hasn't improved much as an actor since his ben days if anything he's even more wooden than he was ten the other performances are nothing to write home about either even worse are the special effects the best you can say about them is that they're lousy it's obvious that the aliens are simply actors wearing rubber masks with a little or on them and the battle scenes between and the aliens are poorly staged and badly shot a very weak effort from roger corman skip it | negative |
15 park well the name initially being an address from new york and film being set in however as the story unfolds one realize the thin line that director tries to walk between relationships social cause and of course the world of i would say is one director who has so much more to say and has so less time at well no doubt she has managed to make a good movie in a way she makes us realize that probably each one of us is looking for our own park its an search within each of one of us br br the performance from is a treat to watch her screen presence brings whole lot of life into the scene indeed it was surprising to see her in such a powerful act after long because i expected it to be all the way makes you feel skin deep of an elder sister who is running the whole show for a rather unfortunate family and during this time she almost forgets to live her own life she all her ambitions and desires with 18 year younger sister who is more like a daughter to her and an aging mother played by veteran as for the leading actress from guide that's how i can recall her instantly there is hardly anything to say except few lines and tear drops here and there ever plays another pivotal role in the film he shows the emotions of a middle age man with on his face to near perfection this man really me with the variety of work he has done from a musician in beats to a liberal muslim in mr mrs and so many he is one versatile i really wish if he had some more shots in the first part of the movie as well the cameo in the movie is by shah remember and wedding she looks really beautiful and depicts the role of a mother of 2 kids with real ease she gives you a glimpse of today's indian woman who is modern in approach but still conventional when it comes to her husband's prior relationships br br the focus of camera has been portrayed by she and her world the of 15 park she has really worked hard for the character but there are times when she is not able to relate with the audience the accident of her life tries to rope in sympathy and it has been only partially successful br br the movie tries to address quite a few things in one go starting from the unique world of a disabled person to the status of a female even in today's modern india and also the twisted relationships in a family and i believe has succeeded to certain extent the of while she works as a journalist in a rural eastern state really gives us all a naked picture of the country we are so proud of br br well after i finished 15 park there was a sense of within me i wanted more out of this movie to me emotionally it has been a commendable effort on the part of director except few must watch for all those who like to see a different cinema something with a strong purpose | positive |
i loved this program and for years searched for it on video i've a great many folks in my attempts to get a copy to no br br i do however have the second half of the program i would be willing to share my half with anyone who can give me a copy of the first half of this show i'd offer to provide copies of what i have to anyone but it's just only part of the program so it's just not an adequate representation of the show br br there are a few folks selling this on ebay for some incredible cost and that's not fair not to mention blatant br br please send any to com | positive |
wife norma as kitty brown waits on husband rod la as bob brown hand and foot while making him breakfast in bed and helping him dress for a sunday golf outing ms suggests joining mr la for the day noting how the two see each other but la puts her off saying her presence affects his game then unexpectedly meets the real reason for her husband's frequent his pretty blonde mistress br br three years later is a glamorous and while in paris she has struck up a friendship with wealthy older marie as as mrs ms invites to her long island home to with some friends and ask a favor is worried about her relationship with a suave man she wants young sally as to marry raymond as bruce instead aware of asks her to lure the man away from ms is stunned to discover the man is la her ex husband br br and make this a cute entertaining play they are in top form giving guaranteed to be popular performances with enthusiasm and the story is silly and predictable yet in a way which helps the humorous situation and the ending is quite clever in fact the comic let us be gay may have aged better than larger produced and more serious the which was released around the same time the cast uniformly fine la is better than his film with but his role is not at all endearing gilbert as and davis as wallace are funny supporting br br those not familiar with norma may not realize it is she who appears as the wife in the opening scenes this is as kitty before her make over watch the close ups of with light natural make up for a good look at an beautiful woman br br let us be gay 1930 robert z leonard norma marie rod la | positive |
i always wanted to see this film and when i finally got to i knew i was in for a nice surprise when john name appeared on the screen known mostly for his epic films he directed the first conan and wrote apocalypse now put together in the classic hollywood structure this one fits nicely with his br br i also can't express how perfect the timing was considering that is once again experiencing an by monks and students against the military run government which is the very same one there has been a change of since but it's essentially the same depicted in the movie from 1988 now more than ever this film needs to be aired on television caught it on because of recent events | positive |
just watched this movie over the weekend and i must say i thoroughly enjoyed it the 2 american actors are excellent as usual michael and john it is obvious that the director was influenced by 2 great films of the past directed by italians primarily he was influenced by and his film it is the story of 2 young men who meet by chance and become friends one is and the other is they enjoy the whole day together and by the end of the day the shy one learns that there is more to life than his usual routine the same thing happens to albert de unfortunately has a very similar ending and this apparently influenced the director of on the run because he uses the same technique but with a twist i had expected something but was surprised to see that it turned out to be the opposite if you watch both movies you will understand the other film that influenced the director is after hours directed by the great italian american scorsese i highly recommend all 3 movies | positive |
without doubt this is the worst movie i've ever seen br br poor acting poor script poor direction and poor production br br why did they even bother this entire movie was total nonsense suspension of disbelief can only carry so far but this pushes the limits completely br br for a movie with no humour content the audience laughed often | negative |
if you want to waste a small portion of your life sit in front of this predictable zombie film it fails at the first post by not being scary or funny it is a dull grey movie that i guess went straight to video hammy and tongue in cheek acting leave a sour taste in the mouth if you want to watch a poor but still watchable recent zombie film watch diary of the dead poor special effects school level script zombie films work if they have a moral point or even a political point this movie has nothing there is no worthy point that this is as thrilling and convincing as a convention no sorry watching the convention would be a better example of a zombie movie | negative |
it's important to keep in mind the real meaning of the phrase inspired by a true story when watching pride it's sort of like you could save up to 50 which can quite literally be translated to you can't save more than 50 it all sounds great until you realize that the lower part of up to is zero similarly inspired by a true story means that someone heard a story and it made them think of this one the only is that the real story and the one you're about to see are not the same thing br br there is a real jim that began the swim team at the philadelphia department of recreation in the early 1970s but i have a feeling that the real jim must not have been able to some feelings of disappointment at the way the movie turned out clearly it takes wild liberties with the story of his life and i just picture him to the strange looks of his friends who wonder why the movie is so much different than the man they know br br at any rate one thing that he will surely be proud of is that he is portrayed by howard one of our finest actors who starred alongside mac who despite the lack of an original and powerful story still gives a heartfelt and moving performance br br the movie takes place in 1970s philadelphia a time and place where racism was the norm not the exception and the educated and professional jim who is also an accomplished is having trouble finding a worthwhile teaching position until finally to a falling apart recreation center which he is assigned the task of cleaning up before its we can certainly understand his feeling of br br when we first meet the man mac he is a who sits in his office surrounded by of junk that touch the ceiling and watching daytime tv on an old dusty television set needless to say when jim shows up to start cleaning the place up and it out is not exactly friendly with him he knew his center was being closed and all his anger about that transferred quite smoothly onto jim br br given his past as a college jim takes a special interest in the pool which he and fills and brings to top shape a group of black teenagers who play basketball just outside the center take interest in the pool when their basketball is taken away and the heat remains and soon the group have a developing swim team on their hands which they enter into a swim meet to call them of course would be something of an understatement they're trained and have no idea how to behave at a swim meet br br that doesn't matter of course the movie is your standard underdog sports story so the first athletic outing is totally as anything other than a learning experience a to drive their much harder and much more focused training that will lead up to the final athletic outing the one that matters by now the only thing a sports movie has going for it is that the protagonist s do not have to win at the film's climax we only have to understand the meaning and significance of their effort br br sadly the movie has all of the character development of an old seagal movie the good guys are the good guys because they're just supposed to be and the bad guys are the nasty white who laugh and and make racist jokes at our team oh and there's one scene where one of the white guys kicks one of the black guys underwater while in the middle of a race i didn't know it was really possible to kick someone underwater like that but you get the idea of how deep the character development is br br we understand that this is the group of kids that jim turned from kids hanging out on the streets doing nothing with their lives and into an organized and team of but other than that we don't really get to know anything about who they are br br but the biggest problem is that the only real statements that the movie makes are that effort and organization lead to success and racism is bad both of these are so obvious that when a movie is made with them alone it ends up feeling empty and unnecessary racism was so much more powerful in america in the 1970s that it feels like an enormous loss that the movie dealt directly with that issue but didn't really say anything about it it's sort of a feel good movie but when it's over and you realize how much it should have said is much bigger than what it said the feel good sensation turns into a sad disappointment | negative |
this is a movie that really makes you think about your life our culture family and actions i will not give the plot in this post i think others have beat me to it already i hope that despite reading opinions on this site you will take the chance and see this movie for yourself i went to see this movie with my husband and a friend and i must say after the movie was over there was total silence in the theater after a few minutes i looked behind me and everyone in the theater was staring at the screen lost in thought this will make you delve deep into your psychological to several things br br how much does society influence my life and the lives of my generation br br how long does someone have to pay for mistakes that they have made br br if there is a second chance given is it ever realized br br is it better to live in a box or to not live at all br br my questions are not intended to show my or of actions i do not want my opinion of them to in any way what you will take away from this film so i am not giving it see it for yourself i am still lost in thought attempting to answer my many questions from the film i enjoyed it greatly and hope that you will too this film is not trying to answer questions any action or promote any punishment this movie is trying to make us all our lives and take off the rose colored glasses that most of us view the world through br br great movie 9 out of 10 stars | positive |
i really don't have any complaints about this movie except for the disturbing scenes with the body i fell upon it while switching around the tv one night the acting was actually amazing i didn't expect it to be better than it appeared i thought who looks the same since 1986 which is a very good thing acting was really great and played his character perfectly this movie is a hidden gem its a fresh of reality to the '80s compared to the other teen movies done by the brat pack even though i do like those alot too all in all i give it thumbs up | positive |
the show was amazing and very professional madonna is a non stop dancing and singing for 2 hours the opening was pretty good when she came out of the disco ball and also jump was a really good performance the entire show was full of energy so it's kind of hard to say which were the highlights because every song had something special and unique i saw live couple of her previous drowned world and tour they were good but you can't compare with this one the dancers were fantastic the lights and the whole show were just perfect madonna still looks very good if you haven't seen it yet i highly recommend you to see it you'll enjoy the show from the beginning to the end madonna is still the dancing queen | positive |
this is horrific no really this is bar none the absolute worst worst i hesitate to even call it a movie it is a ninety minute visual root the plot is practically non existent a mad scientist who looks like the from 'the a woman in his secret lab a lawn chair in what i think may be a garage via an of within hours she a full grown monster who then goes on a rampage thats the whole movie the death scenes these are poorly set up take forever and the acting how can you mess up screaming the victims stand there while the freak advances on them and proceeds to them for about three days the sets are cheesy the lighting for most of the movie consists of a single yes a big the sound quality is poor only about 40 words of dialogue for the entire movie and the acting is described as wooden footage is shamelessly recycled to pad out the movie and the special effects would make any bbc sci fi production shake their head and they didn't even try the is some in a 3 halloween rubber mask with a few slapped on in its encounter with the lone cop of the movie the cop fires invisible bullets that apparently travel so slow the monster can dodge them at five don't see this movie no really thats not a dare don't see this movie the director should be shot the writer should be to a giant rock where his will be every morning by ed wood enough and there could be a sequel don't let it happen | negative |
two popular actors are paired in showtime like de niro and murphy playing a police and an actor although they share the most screen time together they do not reach their expected performances such films like this meet the parents dr and nutty professor the film starts interestingly but becomes a thin ordinary comedy which is quite disappointing it feels like especially de niro doesn't enjoy being in showtime thats a shame because he really shows his feelings thats what i think unfortunately if the idea had been used cleverly this could have been a more interesting piece of work and could be followed with a sequel like any other popular hollywood movie well i don't think there would be a sequel to this at least casting de niro and again out of | negative |
i went straight to the big screen to view this this is the only flick that i know of that has directed but boy was it intense this movie was a total mind and one of the best special effects flick of this kind br br the characters were vibrant and and nothing short of beings created in your own mind or nightmare this movie is scary and interesting and totally bombs the senses with fear and this movie to no other i have seen except for the level of being beautifully odd in that respect it is a fairly large step above a clockwork orange ' definitely see this movie on the big screen and don't wait for it to come out on tape it won't be half as good on tape br br this movie is not for the easily freaked out it will mess with your mind and leave you with images that take a while to forget but for those who like to be freaked out enjoy | positive |
enjoyed http my wife didn't so i watched it in bits over a few days br br reviewers mainly confused most agree it's but not of what br br that most people don't wish to escape and it's essentially forbidden goes with most of those br br so presumably you're supposed to project your favourite prejudice fear onto it br br so i'd say it's about an a life a live of colour literally in the film in the interpretation | positive |
a 10 year old kid fed up with his parents arguing decides to hot wire a car and go on a surreal journey across america to find cards which is a gas station card game that if he can find to spell out he has a chance to win 500 million dollars he meets many bizarre characters along the way no one can make an cult joe previous after hours achieved that by sheer merit an amazing director but it wasn't instant this movie on the other hand is just bizarre just to be bizarre no rhyme or reason to any of it the plot is incidental at best and seems to exist just to showcase various cameos it's just not a fun film nor a thoughtful one it's way too slapped together i've heard many comparisons between this and david lynch films that's damn near as even lynch's film worst in quotes as he doesn't have an bad films really is still miles above this dreck br br eye candy king is topless very briefly br br dvd extras trailer for joe | negative |
great movie i thought it would never be as good as it was great special effects great story big laughs it didn't take itself seriously which is why i think it worked so well even the acting was surprisingly good overall a very funny and sometimes chilling story | positive |
this is a decent movie although little bit short in time for me it packs a lot of action and emotions in that time frame matt dillon and the other main character does a great job in this movie the emotions and intensity were convincing and tense throughout the movie it is not typical fancy expensive hollywood cgi action movie but it was a very satisfying movie indeed for the price my evening was great because of this movie this movie is straight traditional action movie with great acting story and directing i would recommend this movie the character development of the characters were good and makes you believe that were are actually seeing a real event taking place because this movie i believe was made with cheaper budget the acting and quality were much higher | positive |
this movie was definitely on the boring side the acting was decent and the film looks pretty nice the soundtrack is definitely for fans of kenny g and michael speaking of the soundtrack i found it very ironic that a film about telling the truth and not stealing decided to use a song in it's titles that was a blatant ripoff of paul simon's you can call me al except that they don't acknowledge it at all isn't there something a little there the scene that the main kid was in where he was a game show host was my favorite 10 lines i have to write ten lines about this movie to be included what a ripoff i don't think it's too fair to force people to write more than they would just to get it included | negative |
the beatles had just done mystery tour ' there was the general feel that performance peace and drugs went together naturally in la there was a film that knew something was up nicholson was in several of these gangs br br before he decided to seriously become an actor before rider ' before ' before for night ' there were several experiments with what to do about this an important one is ' this is another br br jack writes he plays with narrative self reference film reference performance self loathing the pain of creation all on the of safe you must see this if only to know something about jack br br certain actors act by digging into themselves it is a common technique some dig deep but after a while they become boring because they are incredibly shallow people there isn't just enough stuff in there to sustain a career think of deniro and hackman br br others are pretty interesting people who seem to become more interesting over time when they dig into the barrel they put stuff back in because of the pain of the digging think sean penn and jack at the bottom of jack's barrel at the end of the thread he as the base of every character is this experimental writer filmmaker br br who cares if it is a bad movie it is bad because it took risks watch when a tear is wiped from cheek by the director it is a loving goof on the whole brando thing something that i heard marlon laughed about that is one of the moments in hollywood film history br br there's another reason to watch this music in film is has a strong root in dance revolution in film often relies on music whole cultures are thus swept along br br an in how now dance is toni basil she was as influential in pop choreography as the beatles were in music she was already well into her career when called upon to work on this but this is one of her earliest screen appearances you can see her work throughout and she herself in the pretty cool segment over one of better songs followed by the frank cameo would reference this scene in his special years later br br a third reason to watch is early about 6 1 2 minutes in the film a character named kisses each monkey in a long continuous shot and then she is credited as i j but is really lover at the time and partner red hair psychedelic demeanor lovely that scene says it all for me about how jack feels about the boys br br ted's 3 of 3 worth watching | positive |
this is the worst movie i've ever seen boring illogical terrible don't waste even a minute in your life to watch this crap i hope the directors won't make any other movie because this movie them the movie seems to be created in one or two days with some friends of the directors if we can use this word for these 2 guys they use only camera in hand many scenes are in darkness and nothing can be seen lots of scenes 80 of the movie are with conversation only there are movies like vampire vs zombies which you can laugh on but this one is simply bad no point to making such movies please stop jason and shannon don't make more movies | negative |
this is a masterful piece of film making with many themes and occasionally over in this and all study of the self indulgent wartime years that span the of london and the of a the between friendship lust and love dedication to art and experience versus practical concerns jealousy rivalry and versus and self sacrifice and more a mature subtle script that suggests and occasionally brings into dramatic focus the underlying tensions is well served by perfect performances apart from the odd inappropriate smiling that knightley is prone to though perhaps under direction this time as the other characters themselves often mention it but above all the exquisite visual composition of each moment with inventive and elegant use of close up camera angle and lighting including faux home movie footage is a wonder and joy to behold it's as continuously beautiful to look at as a but the relationships here are more convincing and the narrative more engaging than some of that work a very rare type of film these days it holds the attention and the emotions without artistic integrity and to manipulative superficial | positive |
i was very surprised to learn that goldie hawn won an oscar for this film she seemed very lifeless and completely by the year old bergman in the scenes where they are side by side if it had been written today i think that bergman and the young man would have wound up together ingrid is so much than goldie and the two self absorbed characters played by matthau and hawn would be left out in the cold but it was written at the end of 60's and feels like or in the park however one liners innocence and classy performance make this quite pleasant to watch | positive |
i loved this it starts out as a fairly normal slightly french art movie and then all of a sudden halfway through it's turned on it's head this part is brilliant as you realise you have been watching 2 plots not one sadly the ending doesn't make much sense which is a great shame oh yes and it's brilliantly filmed | positive |
the movie adaptation of heart of darkness is disappointing both as a movie and as a representation of joseph classic story br br there are several small differences between the book and movie but that's expected in any book to movie transition dies in a different location the manager does not on his voyage mistress spends much more time with him than in the story the real issue is the amount of footage that's put into the movie but has no basis in the actual story for some reason the director finds the need to spice up a few of the scenes adding drama or actions that seldom make any sense and are always to the story some examples that come to mind are mistress beating over the head and knocking him out nothing happens while he's unconscious and didn't even the attack a couple hours pass and he wakes up total waste of time has a pet monkey which for some random reason he kills on a also when leaves station he makes the noble decision to leave behind all the priceless he had for no real reason at all one other flaw is character john is a terrible choice to play the man who is described as tall and inspirational a man with a commanding presence he practically all of his lines which in a more capable actor's hands could have been very thought provoking i can't remove the image of john playing a mentally disabled in of mice and men when i'm watching him the role of over all i would rate the movie at 3 out of 10 stars it's a good movie if you've read the book and want to see it in movie form perhaps to help you visual the scenes but as a source of entertainment i would never recommend it | negative |
this is simply a good fashioned western not overly complex or long it doesn't itself in thinking that it was made but for entertainment still it is one of those westerns you can watch once and be done with without returning it features former partners randolph scott and glenn ford whose friendship is strong despite the fact that ford's rogers has been part of bank robbing he even steals scott's sheriff steve horse without knowing it his good friend for which he is in red valley is under heavy for a bank robbing that ended with several dead claire portrays a friend of who gives he and buddy williams a place to stay for the time being desires to go straight but finds that hard when jack lester bernard and his bad bunch want to rob red bank it is actually jack who is behind the murders but troubled past is hard to get away from he and will be charged with the murders they didn't commit the robbery was one didn't commit and it will be who must somehow save the day before lester gets away with murder there are sub plots which include falling in love with alison evelyn the irony of the story is that father uncle willie is actually in with stanley porter hall in a planned united with lester to steal the town of red will uncle willie and scheme will uncle willie be able to go through it without his conscience always bothering him this film has a terrific and a dandy of a climactic shootout columbia couldn't have picked a better genre to begin the process as this film has some fine shots as men give chase on and such don't expect to get your blown off but the film is simple and well paced | positive |
i believe that this is one of elizabeth best performances in a movie and i have seen most of her movies i saw this for the first time on television when i was around and i was so scared i watch this movie every now and then and i still enjoy it very much i know that these days that this movie would probably not scare people too much that just goes to show that the public movie and television audience has seen too much graphic violence in the last thirty years or so i love movies that do not show the graphic details you let your imagination do the work for you the cast in this movie was top notch jess who played the sister in the story was very good even though her part was rather small she also played in a terrific made for television thriller around the same time called you'll never see me again with david i got the biggest kick out of performance as the was so good as a lady with a very bad george who played the husband was quite effective this story obviously had a lot of so called mistakes in the plot but i love the movie anyway i highly recommend this movie to people who love a good thriller without graphic violence i gave this movie a vote of seven | positive |
this is a pretty pointless remake starting with the opening title shots of the original was a real mistake as it reminds the viewer of what a great little period piece that was the new version that follows is an exercise in br br brian plays a photographer who returns to a semi abandoned desert town populated by a of underdeveloped clichéd stock characters the sucking doll the old the crippled vet and his asian wife etc br br character witnesses the crashing of into a and shortly after strange things start to happen as pieces of weird blue rock are scattered around the starts to rise all the water in the area people start to act things explode character gets in and out of his car more often than is possible in one movie the film develops no sense of place no character development no humour no tension everything that made the jack original a creepy little cold war paranoia classic has been abandoned it just runs through its minimal and then just ends br br the special effects aren't very special the interior of the ship looks like bits of film wrapped round some which were then in front of the camera to frame some of the most uninspired and clumsy wire work ever put onto the screen the script is repetitive everyone says everything at least twice gets to say let's get out of here at least three times during the movie twice in one scene loads of things are left unexplained at the end why do the aliens need all the heat and water for example not that anyone watching would care if the film makers didn't care why should we br br the acting is adequate better than the script which at times has an under quality deserves though often the actors look like they just want to get the thing over with as quickly as possible a notable example of this is when elizabeth the token moment of frustrated despair hands to face gesture before following son outside to watch him do angry teenager something off a table gesture br br continuity errors include the on the back of appearing and disappearing a double action of the gas in the exploding car a towns person being in two places simultaneously once in the alien shot then immediately afterwards in a reaction shot elizabeth appearing to shut a car door twice you can tell i was can't you the movie commits that greatest of errors it's boring | negative |
todd is in my opinion one of a few perfect musicals like my fair lady and west side story it has a wonderful intelligent score it offers the two leads and several supporting characters interesting roles it has a timeless theme revenge it has a good deal of humor and is just as powerful when presented simply or on a grand scale br br todd tells the story of a simply man during the industrial period in england it shows to man how in own words there are two kinds of men there's the one staying put in his proper place and the one with his foot in the other one's face in an effort to correct the wrong that was done to him mr todd devices a plan to seek revenge with the help of mrs who owns a meat pie shop under mr they set out to have those above serve those down below br br i was fortunate enough to have seen the original broadway version eight times six with and lansbury the other two with and i saw the revival with bob and beth and several other concert versions br br while the technical aspects in this production are lacking to say the least i believe that this filmed production version is the best lansbury and were the two best in these roles and they have a wonderful time playing off of each other br br very good supporting work by ken and edmund although and as the young lovers have absolutely no chemistry and are basically unwatchable br br 9 out of 10 | positive |
there is a version of that is shown with a live orchestra chorus and the movie if it's ever performed within a day's travel of you see done that way the city did it with the choir one of the finest anywhere a couple of years ago i think i cried through the whole thing it was one of the most emotionally powerful movie experiences of my life i'm listening to on the radio right now and it still tears me up there are movies that i love and classical music pieces i love but there is no combination i can think of that comes close to the impact of performed in real time | positive |
combines humor military comedy and teen movie although it is somehow typically german movie like sentimental i think it's a great and very funny movie you will not only laugh in but also get a bit of an insight in the eastern germany armed forces of the late and how the young as well as the professional soldiers experienced the fall of the berlin wall and the end of the german republic br br you will enjoy if you liked another movie directed by but not necessarily if you enjoyed good bye which is much more serious and less obviously funny br br the acting is acceptable but watch for former boy band singer kim frank who has only two facial expressions natural and shocked eyed | positive |
my wife and i never got into the movie we thought it was way to and to many subtitles i understood they needed them for vietnam but took to long to get out of asia she wanted it off i said it's going to get better it never did yes they had a tough time trying to get to america but i wanted to see him looking and finding his dad not at the end but a relationship did i mention it was i love to watch a movie to feel good not sad at the end i know they don't make many good movies now days i think action movies are the only ones to watch i have been renting a lot from netflix and now blockbuster maybe 20 are worth seeing i don't realism or facts just a movie thats fun and makes you feel good gary | negative |
well it wasn't a complete waste was as usual very good in the movie the whole vs german thing was kind of strange because i remember seeing at the beginning of the movie bother to go back and check the central theme is about the serial killings with the whole gang loosely woven in never saw a movie where the characters looked italian supposed to be taking english american accent and with german words the climax was the most intriguing part and there are parts of it that still did not make sense to me in any case if you have nothing else better to do you can watch this movie | negative |
this movie is a classic kids now will love it and people like me who were kids when it first came out still watch it for its nostalgic value as well as for its humor and great story it introduces kids to different cultures and them to adventure it's not just a cartoon it's a masterpiece i love it | positive |
just awful it's almost unbelievable that with characters and situations provided by such a plodding could result but that's television for you filler between commercials the first warning sounds from the of the period re creation which screams in type and cars and and jazz played with all the attention paid to pointless arty detail the important matters get ignored br br like narrative clarity or or competent writing and acting the plot sets one of hamilton so whether he's called ham or we think of or dash investigating a bogus diamond thus is introduced the young woman who supposedly carries the curse the and talentless nancy who went back to where she she belongs to a religious cult led by jean simmons and seems addicted to drugs as well there's also a mysterious drug which into rooms br br but enough the writing is never more pedestrian than when it reaches for the poetic or high and the cast it the only way they know how by overacting simmons gets treated like minor from old hollywood but the dame treatment doesn't wash hector for some reason enjoys second billing after coburn for a part other familiar faces drift through doing little good for their br br the actors aren't even photographed to look good jason miller is an fright but extreme close ups of coburn are too coburn probably this role because with mustache he bears a strong resemblance to he needed more than that nobody has given him the hint as to how to play his character or of the story's tone or of how the different of the plot together they don't at least not in this telling so he flashes his big cat grin whether called for or not br br the curse is available on in a variety of for those enough to see for themselves the is the cut of all | negative |
there needs to be a 0 10 option for like this br br it was painful to watch but strangely compelling all the same compelling because it seemed unbelievable that a movie could actually suck this much i kept thinking it must get better it got worse and worse br br how on earth were people into producing such a piece of junk i'll never know the most surprising thing of all though is all these reviews i see of people actually loving the movie yes the acting was good but the movie was very very very bad worst movie ever | negative |
jaded offers a premise with potential as it looks at the rape of a woman by two other women and ask the question when is rape not rape unfortunately the flick seems to suffer from bad direction as it through legal while trying to some kind of story with a handful of foul mouthed and poorly portrayed characters only to end abruptly jaded is lame stuff only for the eyed couch in the mood for some dark drama | negative |
when i first viewed this movie i didn't know the title of it i realized it had chevy chase in it with the same name he had in so i had an idea this was 2 at the end of the movie when i did find out it was 2 i was disappointed they could have done better dan i thought was bad the whole story was bad call this movie by another title but don't call it 2 you give that great movie a bad name jackie daughter when i first saw her looked like his wife how old is this girl how about making this movie a little believable i thought chevy chase was good | negative |
american made final entry in the blood island series of horror films concerns reed hadley of a fictional country he dies of cancer yet it's figured out how to bring him back put his brain into a body the mad doctor in charge kent taylor puts it in a highly unlikely body the giant named john bloom a doctor friend of the tries to matters and put an end to the mad plans br br film making partners samuel m producer and al director several actors they've worked with before including taylor sexy wife and they tried to go for the feel of the previous blood island entries but one can tell this was made while not necessarily a good film it's got a bunch of amusing elements to add up to an trashy whole a dwarf gory a rather unconvincing makeup job on bloom the political intrigue subplot full of etc the narrative is actually pretty coherent with plot twists thrown in here and there i think it could have been a bit some scenes drag but it's got its fun moments and an ending people might not expect br br for this kind of thing the acting isn't too bad both taylor and are fun the latter seems to be having quite a good time in his role is appealing enough and williams is o k in the heroic role in any event it's nice to see all of these familiar faces in one of these films br br absolutely nothing special but as a trashy b horror i use the word loosely none of this is exactly scary film it certainly br br 7 10 | positive |