In this notebook, you'll implement a recurrent neural network that performs sentiment analysis. Using an RNN rather than a feedfoward network is more accurate since we can include information about the sequence of words. Here we'll use a dataset of movie reviews, accompanied by labels.
The architecture for this network is shown below.
Here, we'll pass in words to an embedding layer. We need an embedding layer because we have tens of thousands of words, so we'll need a more efficient representation for our input data than one-hot encoded vectors. You should have seen this before from the word2vec lesson. You can actually train up an embedding with word2vec and use it here. But it's good enough to just have an embedding layer and let the network learn the embedding table on it's own.
From the embedding layer, the new representations will be passed to LSTM cells. These will add recurrent connections to the network so we can include information about the sequence of words in the data. Finally, the LSTM cells will go to a sigmoid output layer here. We're using the sigmoid because we're trying to predict if this text has positive or negative sentiment. The output layer will just be a single unit then, with a sigmoid activation function.
We don't care about the sigmoid outputs except for the very last one, we can ignore the rest. We'll calculate the cost from the output of the last step and the training label.
In [17]:
import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf
In [18]:
with open('../sentiment-network/reviews.txt', 'r') as f:
reviews = f.read()
with open('../sentiment-network/labels.txt', 'r') as f:
labels = f.read()
In [9]:
reviews[:2000]
Out[9]:
['bromwell high is a cartoon comedy it ran at the same time as some other programs about school life such as teachers my years in the teaching profession lead me to believe that bromwell high s satire is much closer to reality than is teachers the scramble to survive financially the insightful students who can see right through their pathetic teachers pomp the pettiness of the whole situation all remind me of the schools i knew and their students when i saw the episode in which a student repeatedly tried to burn down the school i immediately recalled at high a classic line inspector i m here to sack one of your teachers student welcome to bromwell high i expect that many adults of my age think that bromwell high is far fetched what a pity that it isn t ',
'story of a man who has unnatural feelings for a pig starts out with a opening scene that is a terrific example of absurd comedy a formal orchestra audience is turned into an insane violent mob by the crazy chantings of it s singers unfortunately it stays absurd the whole time with no general narrative eventually making it just too off putting even those from the era should be turned off the cryptic dialogue would make shakespeare seem easy to a third grader on a technical level it s better than you might think with some good cinematography by future great vilmos zsigmond future stars sally kirkland and frederic forrest can be seen briefly ',
'homelessness or houselessness as george carlin stated has been an issue for years but never a plan to help those on the street that were once considered human who did everything from going to school work or vote for the matter most people think of the homeless as just a lost cause while worrying about things such as racism the war on iraq pressuring kids to succeed technology the elections inflation or worrying if they ll be next to end up on the streets br br but what if you were given a bet to live on the streets for a month without the luxuries you once had from a home the entertainment sets a bathroom pictures on the wall a computer and everything you once treasure to see what it s like to be homeless that is goddard bolt s lesson br br mel brooks who directs who stars as bolt plays a rich man who has everything in the world until deciding to make a bet with a sissy rival jeffery tambor to see if he can live in the streets for thirty days without the luxuries if bolt succeeds he can do what he wants with a future project of making more buildings the bet s on where bolt is thrown on the street with a bracelet on his leg to monitor his every move where he can t step off the sidewalk he s given the nickname pepto by a vagrant after it s written on his forehead where bolt meets other characters including a woman by the name of molly lesley ann warren an ex dancer who got divorce before losing her home and her pals sailor howard morris and fumes teddy wilson who are already used to the streets they re survivors bolt isn t he s not used to reaching mutual agreements like he once did when being rich where it s fight or flight kill or be killed br br while the love connection between molly and bolt wasn t necessary to plot i found life stinks to be one of mel brooks observant films where prior to being a comedy it shows a tender side compared to his slapstick work such as blazing saddles young frankenstein or spaceballs for the matter to show what it s like having something valuable before losing it the next day or on the other hand making a stupid bet like all rich people do when they don t know what to do with their money maybe they should give it to the homeless instead of using it like monopoly money br br or maybe this film will inspire you to help others ',
'airport starts as a brand new luxury plane is loaded up with valuable paintings such belonging to rich businessman philip stevens james stewart who is flying them a bunch of vip s to his estate in preparation of it being opened to the public as a museum also on board is stevens daughter julie kathleen quinlan her son the luxury jetliner takes off as planned but mid air the plane is hi jacked by the co pilot chambers robert foxworth his two accomplice s banker monte markham wilson michael pataki who knock the passengers crew out with sleeping gas they plan to steal the valuable cargo land on a disused plane strip on an isolated island but while making his descent chambers almost hits an oil rig in the ocean loses control of the plane sending it crashing into the sea where it sinks to the bottom right bang in the middle of the bermuda triangle with air in short supply water leaking in having flown over miles off course the problems mount for the survivor s as they await help with time fast running out br br also known under the slightly different tile airport this second sequel to the smash hit disaster thriller airport was directed by jerry jameson while once again like it s predecessors i can t say airport is any sort of forgotten classic it is entertaining although not necessarily for the right reasons out of the three airport films i have seen so far i actually liked this one the best just it has my favourite plot of the three with a nice mid air hi jacking then the crashing didn t he see the oil rig sinking of the maybe the makers were trying to cross the original airport with another popular disaster flick of the period the poseidon adventure submerged is where it stays until the end with a stark dilemma facing those trapped inside either suffocate when the air runs out or drown as the floods or if any of the doors are opened it s a decent idea that could have made for a great little disaster flick but bad unsympathetic character s dull dialogue lethargic set pieces a real lack of danger or suspense or tension means this is a missed opportunity while the rather sluggish plot keeps one entertained for odd minutes not that much happens after the plane sinks there s not as much urgency as i thought there should have been even when the navy become involved things don t pick up that much with a few shots of huge ships helicopters flying about but there s just something lacking here george kennedy as the jinxed airline worker joe patroni is back but only gets a couple of scenes barely even says anything preferring to just look worried in the background br br the home video theatrical version of airport run minutes while the us tv versions add an extra hour of footage including a new opening credits sequence many more scenes with george kennedy as patroni flashbacks to flesh out character s longer rescue scenes the discovery or another couple of dead bodies including the navigator while i would like to see this extra footage i am not sure i could sit through a near three hour cut of airport as expected the film has dated badly with horrible fashions interior design choices i will say no more other than the toy plane model effects aren t great either along with the other two airport sequels this takes pride of place in the razzie award s hall of shame although i can think of lots of worse films than this so i reckon that s a little harsh the action scenes are a little dull unfortunately the pace is slow not much excitement or tension is generated which is a shame as i reckon this could have been a pretty good film if made properly br br the production values are alright if nothing spectacular the acting isn t great two time oscar winner jack lemmon has said since it was a mistake to star in this one time oscar winner james stewart looks old frail also one time oscar winner lee grant looks drunk while sir christopher lee is given little to do there are plenty of other familiar faces to look out for too br br airport is the most disaster orientated of the three airport films so far i liked the ideas behind it even if they were a bit silly the production bland direction doesn t help though a film about a sunken plane just shouldn t be this boring or lethargic followed by the concorde airport ',
'brilliant over acting by lesley ann warren best dramatic hobo lady i have ever seen and love scenes in clothes warehouse are second to none the corn on face is a classic as good as anything in blazing saddles the take on lawyers is also superb after being accused of being a turncoat selling out his boss and being dishonest the lawyer of pepto bolt shrugs indifferently i m a lawyer he says three funny words jeffrey tambor a favorite from the later larry sanders show is fantastic here too as a mad millionaire who wants to crush the ghetto his character is more malevolent than usual the hospital scene and the scene where the homeless invade a demolition site are all time classics look for the legs scene and the two big diggers fighting one bleeds this movie gets better each time i see it which is quite often ',
'this film lacked something i couldn t put my finger on at first charisma on the part of the leading actress this inevitably translated to lack of chemistry when she shared the screen with her leading man even the romantic scenes came across as being merely the actors at play it could very well have been the director who miscalculated what he needed from the actors i just don t know br br but could it have been the screenplay just exactly who was the chef in love with he seemed more enamored of his culinary skills and restaurant and ultimately of himself and his youthful exploits than of anybody or anything else he never convinced me he was in love with the princess br br i was disappointed in this movie but don t forget it was nominated for an oscar so judge for yourself ',
'this is easily the most underrated film inn the brooks cannon sure its flawed it does not give a realistic view of homelessness unlike say how citizen kane gave a realistic view of lounge singers or titanic gave a realistic view of italians you idiots many of the jokes fall flat but still this film is very lovable in a way many comedies are not and to pull that off in a story about some of the most traditionally reviled members of society is truly impressive its not the fisher king but its not crap either my only complaint is that brooks should have cast someone else in the lead i love mel as a director and writer not so much as a lead ',
'sorry everyone i know this is supposed to be an art film but wow they should have handed out guns at the screening so people could blow their brains out and not watch although the scene design and photographic direction was excellent this story is too painful to watch the absence of a sound track was brutal the loooonnnnng shots were too long how long can you watch two people just sitting there and talking especially when the dialogue is two people complaining i really had a hard time just getting through this film the performances were excellent but how much of that dark sombre uninspired stuff can you take the only thing i liked was maureen stapleton and her red dress and dancing scene otherwise this was a ripoff of bergman and i m no fan f his either i think anyone who says they enjoyed hours of this is well lying ',
'this is not the typical mel brooks film it was much less slapstick than most of his movies and actually had a plot that was followable leslie ann warren made the movie she is such a fantastic under rated actress there were some moments that could have been fleshed out a bit more and some scenes that could probably have been cut to make the room to do so but all in all this is worth the price to rent and see it the acting was good overall brooks himself did a good job without his characteristic speaking to directly to the audience again warren was the best actor in the movie but fume and sailor both played their parts well ',
'when i was little my parents took me along to the theater to see interiors it was one of many movies i watched with my parents but this was the only one we walked out of since then i had never seen interiors until just recently and i could have lived out the rest of my life without it what a pretentious ponderous and painfully boring piece of s wine and cheese tripe woody allen is one of my favorite directors but interiors is by far the worst piece of crap of his career in the unmistakable style of ingmar berman allen gives us a dark angular muted insight in to the lives of a family wrought by the psychological damage caused by divorce estrangement career love non love halitosis whatever the film intentionally has no comic relief no music and is drenched in shadowy pathos this film style can be best defined as expressionist in nature using an improvisational method of dialogue to illicit a more pronounced depth of meaning and truth but woody allen is no ingmar bergman the film is painfully slow and dull but beyond that i simply had no connection with or sympathy for any of the characters instead i felt only contempt for this parade of shuffling whining nicotine stained martyrs in a perpetual quest for identity amid a backdrop of cosmopolitan affluence and baked brie intelligentsia the story looms like a fart in the room everyone speaks in affected platitudes and elevated language between cigarettes everyone is lost and struggling desperate to find direction or understanding or whatever and it just goes on and on to the point where you just want to slap all of them it s never about resolution it s only about interminable introspective babble it is nothing more than a psychological drama taken to an extreme beyond the audience s ability to connect woody allen chose to make characters so immersed in themselves we feel left out and for that reason i found this movie painfully self indulgent and spiritually draining i see what he was going for but his insistence on promoting his message through prozac prose and distorted film techniques jettisons it past the point of relevance i highly recommend this one if you re feeling a little too happy and need something to remind you of death otherwise let s just pretend this film never happened ',
'this isn t the comedic robin williams nor is it the quirky insane robin williams of recent thriller fame this is a hybrid of the classic drama without over dramatization mixed with robin s new love of the thriller but this isn t a thriller per se this is more a mystery suspense vehicle through which williams attempts to locate a sick boy and his keeper br br also starring sandra oh and rory culkin this suspense drama plays pretty much like a news report until william s character gets close to achieving his goal br br i must say that i was highly entertained though this movie fails to teach guide inspect or amuse it felt more like i was watching a guy williams as he was actually performing the actions from a third person perspective in other words it felt real and i was able to subscribe to the premise of the story br br all in all it s worth a watch though it s definitely not friday saturday night fare br br it rates a from br br the fiend ',
' it appears that many critics find the idea of a woody allen drama unpalatable and for good reason they are unbearably wooden and pretentious imitations of bergman and let s not kid ourselves critics were mostly supportive of allen s bergman pretensions allen s whining accusations to the contrary notwithstanding what i don t get is this why was allen generally applauded for his originality in imitating bergman but the contemporaneous brian depalma was excoriated for ripping off hitchcock in his suspense horror films in robin wood s view it s a strange form of cultural snobbery i would have to agree with that ',
'yes its an art to successfully make a slow paced thriller br br the story unfolds in nice volumes while you don t even notice it happening br br fine performance by robin williams the sexuality angles in the film can seem unnecessary and can probably affect how much you enjoy the film however the core plot is very engaging the movie doesn t rush onto you and still grips you enough to keep you wondering the direction is good use of lights to achieve desired affects of suspense and unexpectedness is good br br very nice time watch if you are looking to lay back and hear a thrilling short story ',
'the second attempt by a new york intellectual in less than years to make a swedish film the first being susan sontag s brother carl which was made in sweden with swedish actors no less the results oscar wilde said it best in reference to dickens the old curiosity shop one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh out loud at the death of little nell pretty much the same thing here interiors is chock full of solemnly intoned howlers i m afraid of my anger looking into the middle distance i don t like who i m becoming the directorial quotations to use a polite term from bergman are close to parody the incredibly self involved family keep reminding us of how brilliant and talented they are to the point of strangulation i read a poem of yours the other day it was in i don t know the new yorker oh that was an old poem i reworked it far from not caring about these people however i found them quite hilarious much of the dialog is exactly like the funny stuff from allen s earlier films only he s directed his actors to play the lines straight having not cast himself in the movie he has poor mary beth hurt copy all of his thespian tics intonations and neurotic habits turning her into an embarrassing surrogate much like kenneth branagh in celebrity br br the basic plot dysfunctional family with quietly domineering mother seems to be lifted more or less from bergman s winter light the basic family melodrama tricked up with a lot of existential angst it all comes through in the shopworn visual aural tricks the deafening scratching of a pencil on paper the towering surf that dwarfs the people walking on the beach etc etc br br allen s later serious films are less embarrassing but also far less entertaining i ll take interiors woody s rarely made a funnier movie ',
'in this critically acclaimed psychological thriller based on true events gabriel robin williams a celebrated writer and late night talk show host becomes captivated by the harrowing story of a young listener and his adoptive mother toni collette when troubling questions arise about this boy s story however gabriel finds himself drawn into a widening mystery that hides a deadly secret according to film s official synopsis br br you really should stop reading these comments and watch the film now br br the how did he lose his leg ending with ms collette planning her new life should be chopped off and sent to deleted scenes land it s overkill the true nature of her physical and mental ailments should be obvious by the time mr williams returns to new york possibly her blindness could be in question but a revelation could have be made certain in either the highway or video tape scenes the film would benefit from a re editing how about a director s cut br br williams and bobby cannavale as jess don t seem initially believable as a couple a scene or two establishing their relationship might have helped set the stage otherwise the cast is exemplary williams offers an exceptionally strong characterization and not a gay impersonation sandra oh as anna joe morton as ashe and rory culkin pete logand are all perfect br br best of all collette s donna belongs in the creepy hall of fame ms oh is correct in saying collette might be you know like that guy from psycho there have been several years when organizations giving acting awards seemed to reach for women due to a slighter dispersion of roles certainly they could have noticed collette with some award consideration she is that good and director patrick stettner definitely evokes hitchcock he even makes getting a sandwich from a vending machine suspenseful br br finally writers stettner armistead maupin and terry anderson deserve gratitude from flight attendants everywhere br br the night listener patrick stettner robin williams toni collette sandra oh rory culkin ',
'i don t know who to blame the timid writers or the clueless director it seemed to be one of those movies where so much was paid to the stars angie charlie denise rosanna and jon that there wasn t enough left to really make a movie this could have been very entertaining but there was a veil of timidity even cowardice that hung over each scene since it got an r rating anyway why was the ubiquitous bubble bath scene shot with a year old woman and not angie harmon why does sheen sleepwalk through potentially hot relationships with two of the most beautiful and sexy actresses in the world if they were only looking for laughs why not cast whoopi goldberg and judy tenuta instead this was so predictable i was surprised to find that the director wasn t a five year old what a waste not just for the viewers but for the actors as well ',
'the night listener robin williams toni collette bobby cannavale rory culkin joe morton sandra oh john cullum lisa emery becky ann baker dir patrick stettner br br hitchcockian suspenser gives williams a stand out low key performance br br what is it about celebrities and fans what is the near paranoia one associates with the other and why is it almost the norm br br in the latest derange fan scenario based on true events no less williams stars as a talk radio personality named gabriel no one who reads stories he s penned over the airwaves and has accumulated an interesting fan in the form of a young boy named pete logand culkin who has submitted a manuscript about the travails of his troubled youth to no one s editor ashe morton who gives it to no one to read for himself br br no one is naturally disturbed but ultimately intrigued about the nightmarish existence of pete being abducted and sexually abused for years until he was finally rescued by a nurse named donna collette giving an excellent performance who has adopted the boy but her correspondence with no one reveals that pete is dying from aids naturally no one wants to meet the fans but is suddenly in doubt to their possibly devious ulterior motives when the seed is planted by his estranged lover jess cannavale whose sudden departure from their new york city apartment has no one in an emotional tailspin that has only now grown into a tempest in a teacup when he decides to do some investigating into donna and pete s backgrounds discovering some truths that he didn t anticipate br br written by armistead maupin who co wrote the screenplay with his former lover terry anderson and the film s novice director stettner and based on a true story about a fan s hoax found out has some hitchcockian moments that run on full tilt like any good old fashioned pot boiler does it helps that williams gives a stand out low key performance as the conflicted good hearted personality who genuinely wants to believe that his number one fan is in fact real and does love him the one thing that has escaped his own reality and has some unsettling dreadful moments with the creepy collette whose one physical trait i will leave unmentioned but underlines the desperation of her character that can rattle you to the core br br however the film runs out of gas and eventually becomes a bit repetitive and predictable despite a finely directed piece of hoodwink and mystery by stettner it pays to listen to your own inner voice be careful of what you hope for ',
'this film is mediocre at best angie harmon is as funny as a bag of hammers her bitchy demeanor from law and order carries over in a failed attempt at comedy charlie sheen is the only one to come out unscathed in this horrible anti comedy the only positive thing to come out of this mess is charlie and denise s marriage hopefully that effort produces better results ',
'you know robin williams god bless him is constantly shooting himself in the foot lately with all these dumb comedies he has done this decade with perhaps the exception of death to smoochy which bombed when it came out but is now a cult classic the dramas he has made lately have been fantastic especially insomnia and one hour photo the night listener despite mediocre reviews and a quick dvd release is among his best work period br br this is a very chilling story even though it doesn t include a serial killer or anyone that physically dangerous for that matter the concept of the film is based on an actual case of fraud that still has yet to be officially confirmed in high school i read an autobiography by a child named anthony godby johnson who suffered horrific abuse and eventually contracted aids as a result i was moved by the story until i read reports online that johnson may not actually exist when i saw this movie the confused feelings that robin williams so brilliantly portrayed resurfaced in my mind br br toni collette probably gives her best dramatic performance too as the ultimately sociopathic caretaker her role was a far cry from those she had in movies like little miss sunshine there were even times she looked into the camera where i thought she was staring right at me it takes a good actress to play that sort of role and it s this understated yet well reviewed role that makes toni collette probably one of the best actresses of this generation not to have even been nominated for an academy award as of it s incredible that there is at least one woman in this world who is like this and it s scary too br br this is a good dark film that i highly recommend be prepared to be unsettled though because this movie leaves you with a strange feeling at the end ',
'the film is bad there is no other way to say it the story is weak and outdated especially for this country i don t think most people know what a walker is or will really care i felt as if i was watching a movie from the s the subject was just not believable for the year even being set in dc i think this rang true for everyone else who watched it too as the applause were low and quick at the end most didn t stay for the qa either br br i don t think schrader really thought the film out ahead of time many of the scenes seemed to be cut short as if they were never finished or he just didn t know how to finish them he jumped from one scene to the next and you had to try and figure out or guess what was going on i really didn t get woody s carter private life or boyfriend either what were all the artistic male bondage and torture pictures from iraq prisons about what was he thinking i think it was his very poor attempt at trying to create this dark private subculture life for woody s character car it didn t work it didn t even seem to make sense really br br the only good thing about this film was woody harrelson he played his character car flawlessly you really did get a great sense of what a walker may have been like say twenty years ago he was great and most likely will never get recognized for it br br as for lauren lily and kristin boring br br don t see it it is painful unless you are a true harrelson fan ',
'when i first read armistead maupins story i was taken in by the human drama displayed by gabriel no one and those he cares about and loves that being said we have now been given the film version of an excellent story and are expected to see past the gloss of hollywood br br writer armistead maupin and director patrick stettner have truly succeeded br br with just the right amount of restraint robin williams captures the fragile essence of gabriel and lets us see his struggle with issues of trust both in his personnel life jess and the world around him donna br br as we are introduced to the players in this drama we are reminded that nothing is ever as it seems and that the smallest event can change our lives irrevocably the request to review a book written by a young man turns into a life changing event that helps gabriel find the strength within himself to carry on and move forward br br it s to bad that most people will avoid this film i only say that because the average american will probably think robin williams in a serious role that didn t work before please give this movie a chance robin williams touches the darkness we all must find and go through in ourselves to be better people like his movie one hour photo he has stepped up as an actor and made another quality piece of art br br oh and before i forget i believe bobby cannavale as jess steals every scene he is in he has the s leading man looks and screen presence it s this hacks opinion he could carry his own movie right now br br s ',
'this film is one giant pant load paul schrader is utterly lost in his own bad screenplay and his directing is about as comatose as it can be without his actually having been sleepwalking during the process br br the worst though is woody harrelson whom i ordinarily like when he s properly cast he plays the walker a homosexual man in d c who plays social companion to the bored wives of the washington elite he couldn t have been more one dimensional if he had been cut out of a magazine and bounced around in front of the camera on a popsicle stick his southern accent is that off the rack version that decrescendos from the beginning to the end of every line he delivers as though the heat and humidity of the south is still draining him of every ounce of energy he has it is monotonous but his is not the worst accent in the movie his boyfriend played by moritz bleibtreau attempts to affect some kind of a mid east accent that is so clumsy he can barely deliver the bad lines written for him he is incapable of rolling his r s in spite of the fact that in real life he is german and speaks several languages one of them being italian that s kind of a good reason to cast someone else don t ya think br br from the story to the screenplay to the directing to the camera work to the performances by the leads this movie is bad from beginning to end the only tolerable moments in this film came from three supporting actresses lily tomlin lauren bacall and kristin scott thomas only these three managed to make it through this movie with their dignity in tact in fact all three are excellent in spite of being trapped in a really bad film ufortunately no one could ever be good enough to redeem this endless series of flaws if you like these three actresses watch them in something else this movie is not worth your time ',
'i liked the film some of the action scenes were very interesting tense and well done i especially liked the opening scene which had a semi truck in it a very tense action scene that seemed well done br br some of the transitional scenes were filmed in interesting ways such as time lapse photography unusual colors or interesting angles also the film is funny is several parts i also liked how the evil guy was portrayed too i d give the film an out of ',
'the plot for descent if it actually can be called a plot has two noteworthy events one near the beginning one at the end together these events make up maybe of the total movie time everything and i mean everything in between is basically the director s desperate effort to fill in the minutes i like disturbing movies i like dark movies and i don t get troubled by gritty scenes but if you expect me to sit through minutes of hazy dark literally scenes with no storyline you have another thing coming rosario dawson one of my favorite actresses is completely wasted here and no she doesn t get naked not even in the nc version which i saw br br if you have a couple of hours to throw away and want to watch descent take a nap instead you ll probably have more interesting dreams ',
'there are many illnesses born in the mind of man which have been given life in modern times constant vigilance or accrued information in the realm of pyschosis have kept psychologists counselors and psychiatrists busy with enough work to last them decades occasionally some of these mental phenomenon are discover by those with no knowledge of their remedy or even of their existence that is the premise of the film entitled the night listner it tells the story of a popular radio host called gabriel noon robin williams who spends his evenings enthralling his audiences with vivid stories about gay lifestyles perhaps its because his show is losing it s authentic veneer which causes noon to admit he is no longer himself feeling abandoned by both his lover jess bobby cannavale and his and best friend joe morton he seeks shelter in his deepening despair and isolation it is here a mysterious voice in the night asks him for help noon needs to feel useful and reaches out to the desperate voice which belongs to a year old boy called peter rory culkin in reading the boy s harrowing manuscript which depicts the early life and sexual abuse at the hands of his brutal parents noon is captivated and wants to help however things are not what they seem and noon soon finds himself en wrapped in an elusive and bizarre tale torn right out of a medical nightmare this movie is pure robin williams and were it not for toni collette who plays donna d logand sandra oh as anna and john cullum as pop this might be comical instead this may prove to be one of william s more serious performances ',
'plot is not worth discussion even if it hints at corruption murder power and the rest of thriller related topics characters are interesting though sometimes not realistic but interesting nevertheless br br development is slow like tea drinking ceremony visuals not stunning but good enough to ease the eye strain good movie to watch after dinner before going to bed nothing shocking too much nothing overexciting movie sitcom style br br i liked woody excellent performance had to fight the plot inadequacy and did the job pretty good the rest are bearable though very predictable the whole is watchable and better than most tv shows ',
'i enjoyed the night listener very much it s one of the better movies of the summer br br robin williams gives one of his best performances in fact the entire cast was very good all played just the right notes for their characters not too much and not too little sandra oh adds a wonderful comic touch toni collette is great as the mom and never goes over the top everyone is very believable br br it s a short movie just under an hour and a half i noticed the general release version is nine minutes shorter than the sundance version i wonder if some of the more disturbing images were cut from the movie br br the director told a story and did it in straightforward fashion which is a refreshing change from many directors these days who seem to think their job is to impress the audience rather than tell a story and tell it well br br do not be sucker punched by the previews and ads it is not a hitchcockian thriller see the night listener because you want to see a good story told well if you go expecting hitchcock you will be disappointed br br my only complaint with the movie was the ending the director could have left a little more to the audience s imagination but this is a minor quibble ',
'this film is about a male escort getting involved in a murder investigation that happened in the circle of powerful men s wives br br i thought the walker would be thrilling and engaging but i was so wrong the pacing is painfully and excruciatingly slow that even after minutes of the film nothing happens much seriously the first hour could be condensed into ten minutes that s how slow it is br br the fact that it lacks any thrills or action scenes aggravates the boredom it s almost shocking that even argument scenes are so plain and devoid of emotion maybe it is because of the stiff upper lip of the higher social class br br it s sad that the walker becomes such a boring mess despite such a strong cast blame it on the poor plot and even worse pacing ',
'the night listener is probably not one of william s best roles but he makes a very interesting character in a somewhat odd but very different movie i can guarantee you that you have never seen this kind of movie before some people maybe won t like the slow pacing of this movie but i think it s the great plus of the movie it is definitely one of the top movies that have come out the year it has a intriguing performance in a movie with a great content dramatic feeling this is no americanized movie neither is it a predictable movie you just feel that it is a movie that has secrets which you have a hard time to determine what the outcome of it may be this is no excellent movie that has everything but hell it s a damn good and very original movie ',
'this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom br br the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not nothing is of any interest the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful i just sat in utter amazement during this movie thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining br br the producers of this movie were very clever they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy are they in for a horrible time br br if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning ',
'like one of the previous commenters said this had the foundations of a great movie but something happened on the way to delivery such a waste because collette s performance was eerie and williams was believable i just kept waiting for it to get better i don t think it was bad editing or needed another director it could have just been the film it came across as a canadian movie something like the first few seasons of x files not cheap just hokey also it needed a little more suspense something that makes you jump off your seat the movie reached that moment then faded away kind of like a false climax i can see how being too suspenseful would have taken away from the reality of the story but i thought that part was reached when gabriel was in the hospital looking for the boy this movie needs to have a director s cut that tries to fix these problems ',
'a worn out plot of a man who takes the rap for a woman in a murder case the equally worn out plot of an outsider on the inside who eventually is shut out br br with such an outstanding case one would think the film would rise above its hackneyed origins but scene after scene drones by with no change in intensity no character arcs and inexplicable behavior br br the homosexuality theme was completely unnecessary or on the other hand completely unexplored it seemed to be included only to titillate the viewers when will hollywood learn that having gay characters does not automatically make a more compelling picture br br a regrettably dreadful movie when will lauren bacall pick a good one i expected better of her and kristin scott thomas this one is definitely one to miss ',
'the night listener held my attention with robin williams shining as a new york city radio host who becomes enamored with his friendship with a year old boy rory culkin who is very ill williams has never met the boy in person as they have only been in contact by talking on the telephone however williams ex boyfriend nice job from bobby cannavale raises doubt about the boy which prompts williams to arrange a meeting with him in person what follows makes a permanent impact on williams in a way he does not expect i will leave it at that toni collette also stars br br i enjoyed this film with toni collette giving a memorable portrayal of culkin s adoptive mother sandra oh also starred as williams friend the night listener is inspired by actual events and it has a somber almost creepy silence throughout at times it is predictable no thanks to some of the reviews i read before seeing the movie and just due to logic but i liked it anyway i enjoy williams in roles like this more so than his comedic characters so that was an added bonus for me recommended ',
'i saw this movie at a drive in in until howard the duck i considered this the worst movie i had ever seen this movie tried to combine all the genera in one comedy horror teenage angst and the hot rod that must have sired my mother the car maybe it deserves a second viewing to see if it is an accurate reflection of it s time ',
'popular radio storyteller gabriel no one robin williams scraggy and speaking in hushed hypnotic tones becomes acquainted and friends with a fourteen year old boy from wisconsin named pete logand rory culkin who has written a book detailing sexual abuse from his parents to boot pete has aids and this compels gabriel further still since his partner jess bobby cannavale good happens to be a survivor of hiv himself br br he also acquaints himself with pete s guardian a woman named donna toni collette brilliant and when gabriel decides he wants to meet and talk to the two of them in person and goes to wisconsin he discovers some secrets he was naturally not prepared to find br br based on real events that happened to armistead maupin who co wrote the screenplay with terry anderson and directed by patrick stetner this film moves a lot faster min maybe a few minutes longer than one might think a movie of this genre would run that s good in that it keeps the action and storyline lean and clear it s bad in that it leaves various holes in the plot and doesn t sew up any of the plot openings or back story i d rather not go into any great detail except to say that if you are not familiar with mr maupin s works or his personal story you feel a little bit out of the loop here still the performances by williams i would ve loved to heard more of his narration personally collette cannavale culkin and much of the supporting cast the waitress at the restaurant collete s donna frequents does a great job with what small part she has are top notch and the mood established here namely the chilly lonely dark exteriors of wisconsin and new york give a terrific framing for this story it may have ends that don t tie together particularly well but it s still a compelling enough story to stick with ',
'ghost of dragstrip hollow is a typical s teens in turmoil movie it is not a horror or science fiction movie plot concerns a group of teens who are about to get kicked out of their hot rod club because they cannot meet the rent once kicked out they decide to try an old haunted house the only saving grace for the film is that the ghost paul blaisdell in the she creature suit turns out to be an out of work movie monster played by blaisdell ',
'if there is one thing to recommend about this film is that it is intriguing the premise certainly draws the audience in because it is a mystery and throughout the film there are hints that there is something dark lurking about however there is not much tension and williams mild mannered portrayal doesn t do much to makes us relate to his obsession with the boy br br collete fares much better as the woman whose true nature and intentions are not very clear the production felt rushed and holes are apparent it certainly feels like a preview for a much more complete and better effort the book is probably better br br one thing is certain taupin must have written something truly good to have inspired at least one commendable effort ',
' ghost of dragstrip hollow was one of the many s movies about hot rodding teens encountering the supernatural in this case the teens can t pay the rent for their hangout and get evicted with nowhere else to go they decide on an apparently haunted house as you may have guessed once they arrive some weird things start happening and there s a twist at the end br br there s nothing in this movie that you haven t seen in other movies but it s nice entertainment nonetheless my favorite character was the foul mouthed parrot well let me rephrase that he didn t talk like a character in a quentin tarantino movie but he said things that we don t expect out of a bird the movie s pure hokum but harmless ',
'i absolutely loved this film i do not at all relate to all the other comments i have read about it i was completely enthralled through every second br br i found the story gripping the acting intense and the direction spot on i would literally jump every time the phone would ring close to the end of the movie even though there was nothing scary about the story itself i was soundly on edge through the whole movie and for the rest of my evening br br i found that there were so many perfect choices made the casting the script the little bits of humor sprinkled in it there were so many points where the film could ve gone for the cheap thrill but it never did and that for me put this movie above so many of the mediocre thrillers that have come out lately and for the last number of years ',
' ghost of dragstrip hollow appears to take place in a spotless netherworld an era long gone by where the biggest sin a kid could commit would be in defying the law and getting a traffic ticket it opens with a young female auto fanatic getting the business from her arch rival who pressures her into a car race that s about it for the drag racing this b flick is mostly concerned with rock n roll man the folks at american international were obviously fond of decent square teens who liked to party and yet didn t mind an adult chaperone there are a few amusing double entendres and fruity exchanges necking kid we thought we d come out for some fresh air dad where did you think you d find it down her throat but the ghost is a little late in arriving brief at minutes the movie cheats us with a climactic car race that actually takes place off screen and a pre scooby doo styled unmasking which makes no sense however for nostalgia buffs some mindless fun from ',
'this night listener is better than people are generally saying it has weaknesses and it seems to be having a genre identity crisis no doubt but i think its creepy atmosphere and intriguing performances make up for this the whole thing feels like one of those fireside this happened to a friend of a friend of mine ghost stories one big complaint about the movie is the pacing but the slow and sometimes awkward pacing is deliberate everything that unfolds in this movie is kept well within the realm of possibility and real life just sort of plods alongno so there are no flashy endings or earth shattering revelations no showdown scenes thank heaven you have to get into the zone when watching this movie forget your reservations and your expectations of what makes a conventionally good movie williams isn t terrific but he easily meets the needs of the story plus his character is supposed to be somewhat generic no one as he is the everyman the avatar by which we ourselves enter the story toni collette s performance should be nominated for an oscar even if she maybe shouldn t win it give it a shot for quality and content alone the night listener is surely in the top twenty percent of movies coming out these days ',
'the characters are unlikeable and the script is awful it s a waste of the talents of deneuve and auteuil ',
'when it comes to movies i can be pretty picky and i ll complain about anything and everything that is done wrong while every movie has its flaws the night listener had an exceptionally low count br br if you read the last review it was hard since half of it was written in caps and it contained no actual information about the movie you may have been led to believe that this movie was not too well done unfortunately if you read more than lines into that same review you discovered the poster s reason for disdain he she does not like the fact that the director is gay or that the production team smokes crack apparently br br so despite the fact that i have never written a review before i thought this movie deserved one based on its merits not the sexual orientation of its director let s go over a quick checklist first great plot absolutely i won t give a shred of it away but the plot is highly compelling and definitely not what one would expect based on the commercials this is a thriller not a horror and it should be approached as such the story really will amaze you even more so because it s true and the plot did stay quite faithful to the actual events br br wonderful acting oh yes robin williams long ago broke free from the chains of the comedy type cast and he has since flourished in serious roles for which many people would have wrote him off just a decade ago he once again achieves high form in his role in the night listener playing a radio host who becomes increasingly troubled by and entangled in a case of well i ll let you see for yourself br br excellent direction certainly now unlike the other poster to which i referred i actually know something about direction i ve been sutdying the art of direction at school now for years of course i really don t think that makes a lick of difference the only thing that matters is if you like the direction but i thought i should simply establish once again that i m basing my opinions here on something both substantial and relevant for example not the sexual orientation of the director or the alleged drug habits of the production team lol br br patrick stettner s direction was moody and dark and he allowed the angles and lighting to help create those so sought after feelings of tension and release rather than the messy fast paced camera work and quick cuts we re so often subjected to today some people can truly show you a story through their camera while other s feel as if they have to make the story with the camera i really appreciate when someone these days has the courage to just use the camera as its supposed to be utilized which is as an eyeball through which we all see br br lighting cinematography and editing great all around i ve already wrote so much and i could go on about these last three things for another ten paragraphs so i ll just wrap it up br br in short go see this movie don t listen to people who have alterior motives for trashing it especially if they re so stupid that they unknowingly reveal that motive of the way through their post enjoy the show ben ',
'kareena kapoor in a bikini hmmmmmmmm br br akshay kumar br br anil kapoor br br maybe saif br br kareena kapoor in a bikini br br good banner br br kareena kapoor in a bikini br br not one good reason not to see this movie br br or so i thought didnt these people make jbj br br why o why did i forget that br br for all the criticism the first half of the movie isn t that bad br br there is some intrigue and you feel a sort of irritation mixed with excitement that i felt when seeing guy ritchie movies like lock stock and snatch br br kareena kapoor is sizzling in a very skinny model sort of way br br akshay kumar is akshay kumar as only he can be br br anil kapoor is annoying but kind of funny you almost forget that most of the time you cannot understand him br br saif is sidey ala main khiladi once again br br there is the occasional laugh and a few chuckles and a few goosebumps during the kareena saif love story kareena in the rain behind me on my bike hmmmmmmm br br but mostly this half promises more than it delivers br br which makes the second half all the more unbearable br br there was almost a cheer when the interval came not only because because of the wet kareena because of what people thought were the things to come br br instead we were treated to mind numbing torture which is difficult to put in words br br saif suddenly seam like a comic sidekick br br suddenly the sexy kareena looks anorexic you realise that the second last floor is now empty and her face looks to big for her body only girls can notice this and make other guys notice the second last floor was my observation br br anil kapoor and his sidekicks get on your nerves br br akshay kumar is the only one who carries off the madness to some extent but even he become intolerable after a while br br all the while you are subjected to one absurdity after the other br br why what when where what have i done to deserve this br br a collective gasp went trough the audience before every song in the second half which were ordinary even without the movie around it br br cannot relieve the trauma anymore br br conclusion br br this movie starts of as a buzz which you feel could even turn out to a high but ends up slowly moving towards a headache and then rapidly turns into a full blown migraine attack br br please don t watch this movie for any reason other than academic interest br br s cast akshay kumar first half br br s what when how who to much confusion need a book to fill this br br s cast the whole second half need many pages to fill this br br total im trying to avoid the s and s too not seem to extreme but make no mistake this movie is unwatchable no matter how decent the first half is ',
'somewhat funny and well paced action thriller that has jamie foxx as a hapless fast talking hoodlum who is chosen by an overly demanding u s treasury agent david morse to be released on the streets of new york to find a picky computer thief hacker doug hutchinson who stole forty two million dollars from the treasury and left two guards shot dead br br bait marks the sophomore feature for antoine fuqua the replacement killers and he handles the task fairly well even though it doesn t top his first movie what the two films have in common is the action sequences which are flat out excellent br br foxx is pretty good here although his character is annoying in the beginning but throughout the film i began to catch on hutchinson is marvelous as the mastermind who can be ruthless as john malkovich and patient as the late laurence olivier was in marathon man morse is okay as the agent who comes up with the ingenious plan to get whoever did it at all cost ',
'i rented this on dvd and i kind of feel bad since dawson and lugacy are so earnest about it in the dvd comments it s not a bad movie exactly but it s one of those films that desperately wants to be a deep comment on human nature while not realizing that its story is practically a genre plus it is a little simplistic about the issue in a lot of ways and the characters behavior often strains belief i d say its a film that you would get something out of if you don t have a lot of film tv literature life behind you to be honest i ve seen almost exactly the same story in horror comics even otherwise its point has been made before and more artfully and that gets to the big problem which is that it really doesn t have much of cinematic interest to it besides the point it ends up being a fairly bland movie overall that invests everything in the idea that the basic story will be shocking and compelling and it doesn t really pay off ',
'the legendary boris karloff ended his illustrious career by making four cheapie fright flick clunkers in mexico this is the token moody period gothic horror entry from the bunch karloff gives a typically spry and dignified performance as matthias morteval an elderly eccentric patriarch who invites several of his petty greedy and backbiting no count relatives to his creepy rundown castle for the reading of a will pretty soon the hateful guests are getting bumped off by lethal life sized toy people who populate the place onetime mexican sex symbol andres garcia of tintorera infamy portrays the dashing police officer hero and julissa looks absolutely ravishing as the sole likable female character the clunky plodding non direction trite by the numbers script ugly washed out cinematography ridiculous murder set pieces a gross fat slob gets blasted right in the face by a miniature cannon overwrought string score morbid gloom doom atmosphere largely lousy acting karloff notably excepted cheesy mild gore poor dubbing and rousing fiery conclusion all lend this enjoyably awful lemon a certain endearingly cruddy and hence oddly amusing ratty charm a real campy hoot ',
'vijay krishna acharya s tashan is a over hyped stylized product sure its a one of the most stylish films but when it comes to content even the masses will reject this one why the films script is as amateur as a year old baby script is king without a good script even the greatest director of all time cannot do anything tashan is produced by the most successful production banner yash raj films and mega stars appearing in it but nothing on earth can save you if you script is bland thumbs down br br performances anil kapoor is a veteran actor but how could he okay a role like this akshay kumar is great actor in fact he s the sole saving grace kareena kapoor has never looked so hot she looks stunning and leaves you all stand up saif ali khan doesn t get his due in here sanjay mishra manoj phawa and yashpal sharma are wasted br br tashan is a boring film the films failure at the box office should you keep away ',
'this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem is actually quite creepy from beginning to end it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests he dies early in the film or does he and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences i won t go into too much detail here but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries br br watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room br br dan basinger ',
'the worst movie i have seen since tera jadoo chal gaya there is no story no humor no nothing the action sequences seem more like a series of haphazard akshay kumar thumbs up advertisements stitched together heavily influenced from the matrix and kung fu hustle but very poorly executed br br i did not go a lot of expectations but watching this movie is an exasperating experience which makes you wonder what were these guys thinking br br the only thing you might remember after watching it is an anorexic kareena in a bikini br br the reason why i did not give a rating of is that every time i think i have seen the worst bollywood proves me wrong ',
'aro tolbukhin burnt alive seven people in a mission in guatemala in the s also he declared that he had murdered another people he used to kill pregnant women and then he set them on fire br br this movie is a documentary that portraits the personality of aro through several interviews with people that got to know him and through some scenes played by actors based on real facts br br aro tolbukhin is a serious work so analytical it s not morbid at all such a horrifying testimony about how some childhood trauma can turn a man into a monster br br my rate ',
'summer season is here when the choices in the cinemas are limited to what s the hottest movie of the week given of the screens dedicated to screening it ok so i may exaggerate on the percentage but you get my drift besides stuff from hollywood bollywood too have their own share of highly anticipated blockbusters and from some of the trailers shown i m hyped to watch them too tashan was billed as one of the most highly anticipated for but i was quite surprised at the lower than low turnout at the cinemas when i watched jodha akbar it was a full house but it wasn t for tashan br br after watching it i knew why it was entertaining but it was fundamentally weak just like it s literal english title which means style tashan is all style but little substance not that it doesn t have the usual star power but scenes felt forced and some bordered on a tad ridiculous even for bollywood standards i must say which is quite surprising given that tashan is directed and written by vijay krishna acharya who wrote dhoom and dhoom both of which i enjoyed tremendously br br in his rookie directorial outing with tashan while you can t fault his direction you d probably scratch your head over the plot which was clunky at best it tried to force too many things into the story though credit be given where it allowed you some avenue to question character motivation but that came a little too late and only toward the finale which left you guessing for just a moment before it latched into full blown action mimicking many a thai action movie with hong kong s wirework and hollywood s ludicrous firearms and gunplay with zero recoil and in a bid to include everything including the kitchen sink you have an assortment of vehicles appearing and the one that took the cake in a dhoom homage was the jetski boat in the middle of nowhere br br at best tashan can be enjoyed as unintentional comedy and this is attributed to how the cast hammed up with their characters saif ali khan plays jimmy cliff a call center executive who gives english tuition only as a platform for fishing out new girlfriend material his playboy ways gets junked aside when he meets with pooja singh kareena kapoor who s not exactly who she seems the meek and sweet natured hottie she engages jimmy s services for her boss mobster bhaiyyaji anil kapoor who probably gets most of the laughs as he speaks broken english and phrases must like how an ah beng does it and to complete the quartet akshay kumar plays bachchan pandey an illiterate gangster for hire who got engaged by bhaiyyaji to hunt down jimmy and pooja when they escape with money stolen from bahiyyaji s business br br so begins a road trip of sorts with friends who turned enemies and enemies whom you know will become friends as the road trip wears on jimmy cliff is probably the most implausible of all because he goes from zero to hero executing moves that would shame rambo in absolutely no time which is quite out of character kareena kapoor amps up the sex factor as she uses her charms to guile both men and has plenty of opportunity to do so given the much touted bikini scenes and other costumes that boast of plunging necklines or hemlines way above the knee every character has a backstory created and i thought akshay kumar s bachchan pandey was probably the best the most touching and the most fun of the lot even though his character seemed a lot like a non green incredible hulk with his gravity defying leaps and power packing punches his wounds also heal automatically which impressively puts wolverine to shame and the best part is his theme song which is damn alpha male and played in ra ra mode each time he takes on adversaries br br but sad to say that s the only tune that is memorable something that cheers bachchan pandey bachchan pandey for most bollywood movies i watch i will usually be able to despite the obvious language gaps emerge from screenings humming a tune or two i wasn t able to do that after tashan because the songs unfortunately just weren t catchy at all usually the song dance routine works well into the storyline without any necessity to bring the characters out of the current scene or location that i enjoy versus plucking them out and plonking them into extreme settings high atop a mountain or atop jagged rocks on the beach front br br tashan probably didn t take itself too seriously but coming from vijay krishna acharya s story you probably wanted something a little more decent rather than the ridiculous and for continuity to be a little more careful as well billed as a blockbuster now i can start to understand why the crowds have already shunned this one despite akshay kumr stealing the show tashan could have been better on the whole ',
'after seeing several movies of villaronga i had a pretty clear opinion about him he concentrates too much on the personal aspect of the characters forgetting about a rhythm of the movie that is why though having good critics his movies never caught the broad audience attention in aro he follows the same line but really improved on the rhythm especially in the end of the movie frankly speaking i slept through the first part cause though the first part gives necessary information it is really slow nevertheless the second part is absolutely marvelous and makes the whole movie the best movie ever made by villaronga br br recommended ',
'shame on yash raj films and aditya chopra who seems to have lost their intelligence over the years and providing steady fare of tripe in this piece of cinematic crap thats not even worth you tube standards i was gritting my teeth throughout the whole flick start to finish with the schizophrenic direction plot line that never quite materialized and on the last scene i just felt ashamed that my country and its crorepati film makers can throw away crores on such stupidity shame on the actors for taking this work and even commenting on it as some piece of work they can own up to saif ali khan completely disappointed in your choice of film kareen shows enough skin for the puberty stricken and akshay comes up as the dim wit anil another retard with a pubescent fascination for english his cronies were commendable in their acting and with the bizarre cinematography scattered in the last minutes it was enough to pop a blood vessel don t waste any brain cells energy or your money to go see this go see rent amu with konkana sensharma instead a beautiful piece of independent film thats ever come out of india intelligent poignant and a wonderful story tale that will touch everyone with intelligent actors and gave me hope that all is not lost in indian cinema making ',
'there s so many things to fall for in aro tolbukhin en la mente del asesino inside the killer s mind that it s very hard to talk about it without giving any kind of warning let s just say that this movie is like an exercise in cinema but really really great done its made with super black and white shots milimeters color interviews flashbacks aro tolbukhin its like a movie made a documental or viceversa which most peculiar aspect relays on the doubt that leaves you wondering did he really ever existed the movie follows the later life of an hungarian sailor that arrived in guatemala worked in a religious mission and then killed some people an act for which he got caught and death penalty sentenced the movie starts because some french documentalists got interested in this character so they interview him prior to his death nowadays some more people got involved and make a deeper research of the character the one we are witness of the movie br br for the main part in the history we are guided by a semi slow phase to go look inside aros mind mainly in order to decode why he did what he has done nevertheless the important thing is that the filmmakers never gives us a sided point of view they left the judging for all of us and even as we may understand his actions we clearly never justify them so the first half is based upon recollecting information later things turn into aro s childhood giving the movie such an incredible new force even tough never got weak or boring br br i don t mean and don t want to spoil anything so the only thing left to say is that if by any chance you get this movie near you believe me the trip to see it is more than worthy ',
'first lesson that some film makers particularly those inspired by hollywood need to know just style does not sell i guess tashan when translated will mean style second if you are hell bent on selling style that does not spare you from having a decent story br br tashan has some story which could have sufficed with some better director but it is not slick for example all three saif kareena and akshay are narrators at different points in the story but this setup is not utilized to properly there could have been a better mix and match of their narrations actions sequences are from the seventies br br cheoreography of the film is awful i think vaibhavi merchant just sleep walked through this film vishal shekhar have put up a good score but it does not belong to this film why is there a sufi song dil haara in tashan why is the cool hinglish song dil dance maare not on anil kapoor when he is the one who is english crazy br br akshay kumar is the saving grace of the film but he is in his stereotyped self you won t mind missing this film ',
'this has got to be a unique twists of two genres of ever seen the giant monster movie genre with the living mummy movie genre this unique blend makes for a unique and compelling story the casts is outstanding including tom bosley who as far as i know never has been in a horror movie before ever the effects are impressive and the idea of a giant mummy filled with smaller mummies is a cool one my one complaint i just wish we saw more of the giant mummy but other then that i think they did a great job the dialog the characters and the story was perfect the acting was wonderful this has got to be the best movie to come out of the sci fi channel you heard me the best movie to come out of the sci fi channel i give the fallen ones out of ',
'if this is a product from one of the biggest production houses of indian film industry yash raj then i am afraid it is a very long ahead for us to reach the right standards br br if you can go wrong to this length with such an enormous star cast of anil akshay saif and kareena then movie making is still to be studied much harder by everyone associated with this film the film lacks in almost all departments except cinematography and akshay kumar he has a few good dialogues to render but that alone cannot make you enjoy a flick with huge expectations br br the first scene of a car going down into a river from the mountain has very cheap graphics like that of a cartoon film that itself was a clear indicator of the director s vision every actor who otherwise is an asset to a movie is simply wasted anil kapoor s gimmick of attempting good english falls flat most of the times and saif will surely hit himself thinking why he signed this movie br br in short it s the biggest waste of resourses after jhoom barabar jhoom i would say that even aaja nachle was a better enjoyable movie than this br br one cannot understand how and why this kind of script was written and approved the most unwanted was the flashback sequence of akshay s love story after the faulty script the weakest point of the movie is its music vishal shekhar have given just some filler tunes to each song the songs start off very well and suddenly the tunes drop drastically only one song falak tak chal is somehow good of all in the lot an opportunity wasted by vishal shekhar br br regarding the continuity intelligence of the makers just sample this akshay and saif are on the road in the hilly area of a foreign location probably ladakh in the next scene they are searching for kareena in haridwar and then back in the hills with kareena in the dicky of their car i am still thinking who wrote this br br if you manage to sit till the last then the climax is too long with silly and unnecessary stunts you can see all the heroes walking through the storm of bullets not hurt as if they are god are we still seeing a movie with all these technical heights achieved so no more words on this pathetic and downgrade movie but a sincere request to senior actors from their fan br br dear anil kapoor akshay kumar if possible please ask for a preview of your movies after their first copy is out as artists of such stature you have certain responsibilities towards your fans and viewers people still clap for you as you enter the screen in your first scenes respectively i think this kind of movie should not see the daylight as it hampers the reputation of all associated with the movie the actors and the production house both ',
'without kirsten miller this project needn t have been completed however with the awe inspiring beauty and talent that is miss miller i would definitely recommend it it looked as if the other actors were only playing to her strong performance wagner s dismal attempt to honor this film was a bit disappointing but his few scenes didn t detract from being entertained mostly my criticisms are with the writing and plot line the group of talent assembled did a heroic job of salvaging what should have been a disaster the charismatic miller delivery and timing were impeccable and believable she plays that fine line between assertive and bossy but never offensive she is in fact the structural engineer she claims to be i wish i had seen this on the big screen but alas i was fortunate to rent it before it was lost ',
'i had some expectation for the movie since it had a nice star cast and it is the return of the duo of akshay and saif well i was hesitant to watch the movie because this was done by the same man who wrote the story for dhoom franchise because i hated dhoom but if dhoom is compared to tashan i would say dhoom is very realistic br br when i saw the credits at the beginning i felt nice because it was put up in a nice way well the very first scene itself pised me off then the major drawback of the movie is the action sequences me and my friends were laughing our guts off watching this crappy fights it was like akshay against some thugs and all and the thugs even got machine guns phew you got to see this to understand how bad the action sequences are br br the other thing about the movie is the far too predictable story it reminded me of some of the early s movies br br well the only thing the movie is worth is of sexy kareena who looked really hot in this one and for that i give a rating of out of br br guys please please don t see this one thinking that it is a real gangster movie well you can watch this to have some laughs at the terrible fight scenes br br thats all ',
'sure titanic was a good movie the first time you see it but you really should see it a second time and your opinion of the film will definetly change the first time you see the movie you see the underlying love story and think ooh how romantic the second time and i am not the only one to think this it is just annoying and you just sit there watching the movie thinking when is this dn ship going to sink and even this is not as impressive when you see it several times the acting in this film is not bad but definetly not great either was i glad dicaprio did not win an oscar for that film i mean who does he think he is anthony hopkins or denzel washington he does half good movie and won t do a film for less than million and then everyone is suprised that there are hardly any films with him in it but enough about in my eyes the worst character of the film kate winslet s performance on the other hand was wonderful i also tink that the director is very talented to put a film of such a magnitude together there is one lesson to be learned about this movie there are too many love stories as it is filmmakers shouldn t try to add a crummy romance in to every single movie out of a possible i give this film a mere ',
'the action in this movie beats sunny bhai in gadar akshay kumar possess the superpowers of leonidus in neo in matrix along with spiderman and superman it is hilarious except for the typical akshay kumar and anil kapoor comedy i cannot see anything positive in this film the story looks like the writer told his yr old son to write the movie is so unreal that anil kapoors long range shooting with a shotgun is the least most mistake by the director except for the directors tashan to make this movie there is no other tashan i regret wasting my money on this movie and i would not recommend it to anybody is the least i can give on imdb or i would give it a zero ',
'when i saw this movie i was stunned by what a great movie it was this is the only movie i think i would ever give a star rating i am sure this movie will always be in my top br br the acting is superb leonardo dicaprio and kate winslett are at their best i don t think anyone could have a better job than kate br br if it is a rainy day and you can t decide what to rent well this is the one you will love all the acting special effects and much much more br br if you have not seen this movie go rent or buy it now you won t regret it br br ',
'i had a lot of expectations from this movie and more so since it was a yashraj film br br jimmy operates a call centre and one day he is invited by pooja singh to teach her boss lakhan singh english the two fall in love and decide to run away but pooja tells jimmy that she can t do this as she owes a debt to lakhan singh who is also known as bhaiyyaji but they decide and steal money from him and its only then that jimmy finds out that bhaiyyaji lakhan singh is a don in the meantime bhaiyyaji hires a man bachchan pandey to track down jimmy and pooja br br starring saif ali khan kareena kapoor anil kapoor and akshaye kumar the movie is directed by first time director viay krishna acharya and is produced by both aditya chopra and yash chopra br br tashan has to be one of the worse films that i have ever watched yes the scenery is good and kareena kapoor and her much publicised weight loss looks good but plot is extremely thin on story and at times makes no sense from one scene to the other hence why i have said at the beginning that i had expected more from this film as it was a yashraj production with reference to songs unfortunately there is not one song that i can remember now br br there are moments where one can laugh and that is mainly thanks to akshaye kumar and saif could have definitely done better while kareena kapoor played her part well but this cannot be said for anil kapoor it did not suit him at all as a villain lastly never mind aditya chopra who in the past has produced and directed good films such as mohabbatein what was yash chopra doing by producing such a trash movie br br conclusion bad movie not worth wasting your time and that is my first and last impression ',
'why do people bitch about this movie and not about awful movies like the godfather titanic is the greatest movie of the st century with great acting directing effects music and generally everything this movie is always dumped by all because one day some one said they didn t like it any more so most of the world decided to agree there is nothing wrong with this movie all i can say is that this movie not only being the most heavily oscar awarded movie of all time the most money ever made ever and sadly one of the most underrated movies i ve ever seen apart from that it is truly the best movie of all time the only movies that come close to being like all the star wars and the lord of the rings trilogy or anything by the masters hitchcock or spielberg or tim burton these are all good movies and directors but none match up to james cameron s masterpiece titanic ',
'i had no idea what the film is about before i saw it because tashan only had teaser trailers while it was being promoted so i asked my friends if they knew anything about it and they said that it is the directorial debut of vijay krishna acharya who wrote the screenplays for dhoom and saif ali khan s son ibrahim makes his debut in the film by playing him as a child in his flashback br br after watching it i understood that why their wasn t a proper trailer because there wasn t anything in the film to show the story was extremely dum and even a year old child can come up with a better story line there was hardly any action and the camera shook at every possible angle there is and it s difficult to figure out that who is killing who also the action was daft unrealistic e g man with a handgun managed to kill about men with machine guns br br while i was watching tashan it reminded me of films br br sin city during the opening credits br br koyla anil kapoor s terrible english like amrish puri in koyla br br jhoom barabar jhoom the outrageously ridiculous jokes that are not even a jot funny br br i also heard the budget is crores which is the same amount as dhoom and i don t know where all the money went to anyway if you did not like dhoom then there is absolutely no chance that you will like tashan race was hot on heels and that is a million times better br br the only good songs are dil haara challiya and both songs are shot in greece at good locations but what is the use of it in a rubbish film even anil kapoor s terrible english couldn t save this discomfiture ',
'just two comments seven years apart hardly evidence of the film s relentless pulling power as has been mentioned the low budget telemovie status of gantry row is a mitigating factor in its limited appeal having said that however the thing is not without merit either as entertainment or as a fright outing per se br br true the plot at its most basic is a re working of the amityville horror only without much horror more a case of intrigue gibney might have made a more worthwhile impression if she had played halifax investigating a couple of seemingly unconnected murders with the house as the main suspect the script is better than average and the production overall of a high standard it just fails to engage the viewer particularly at key moments br br having picked the dvd up for a mere last week at my regular video store i cannot begrudge the expenditure would be an acceptable price for the film just don t expect fireworks ',
'i don t want to go too far into detail because i can t really justify wasting much time on reviewing this film but i had to give an alternate opinion to hopefully help people avoid the movie the animation is crud and the story alternates between boring pointless to extremely irritating the humor was completely lost on the audience and yes ghost in the shell fans this is not an action sci fi or anything like that its an attempt at slapstick comedy and the humor just did not work after being translated it was a total chore to watch this movie and horrible way for me to kick off the film fest especially considering how excited i was and how open i was for anything i wasn t expecting a ghost in the shell sequel but i was expecting something entertaining and it simply didn t achieve this yaaawwnnn rent kino s journey instead ',
'what s inexplicable firstly the hatred towards this movie it may not be the greatest movie of all time but gimme a break it got oscars for a reason it made eighteen hundred million dollars for a reason it s a damn good movie which brings to the other inexplicable aspect of it i have no idea whatsoever why this movie left such an impression on me when i saw it in theaters i ve rewatched it on tv and video and it had none of the impact it had when i saw it on the big screen twice or maybe three times actually but that might be it the appeal of it it s a movie yes capital m there it s an epic it s a spectacle in the order of gone with the wind or ben hur now ben hur and gone with the wind seem kinda hokey to me with the hammy acting and excessive melodrama not that titanic has none of that well the acting was actually very good the melodrama was quite heavy handed at times br br but the reason titanic works is that it s such an emotional ride i usually enjoy movies that stimulate the mind or give me a visual thrill this movie isn t exactly dumb but it s not cerebral at all the visual thrills are simply means to an end to fuel the emotions of the audience i didn t cry when bambi s mom died i don t react to tearjerkers but this is a tearjerker to the power of ten million an emotional rollercoaster that if it were a regular one would make buzz aldrin scream like a little girl and i m sure that if you see it on video and have decided that you hate it and have a ready supply of cynicism then you can thoroughly dislike this movie but if you let that disbelief suspend just a bit if you give this epic melodrama the benefit of the doubt you ll enjoy it completely and look at the top ten grossing films of all time is a single one of them bad is a single one of them worth a score of out of no not even the phantom menace and this movie made billion dollars worldwide it can t be bad not possible br br p s how can anyone even consider comparing this to spiderman spiderman was a fun movie but it was a total kneejerk that caused it to gross as much as it did it simply wasn t anything all that special no one will remember it in years but i m pretty sure titanic will be remembered ',
'tashan the title itself explains the nature of the movie br br this type of movies are actually made for flop what a shame that yash raj films produces such movies those are worthless than c grade movies or even some c grade movies have better and pleasing story than tashan the much hyped and over confidently promoted tashan poorly bombed at the box office which it certainly deserved br br in my view this is the worst movie ever made from honourable yash raj films banner how come they handled such a heavy project to new vijay krishna acharya who has no actual sense of making action flick he tried to imitate sanjay gadhvi s ways of making like dhoom but he suffered at last the action scenes are more like than comics or cartoon movies made for exhausting the audiences br br the story also loses in its meaning and substances to tenderly win the audiences hearts in most scenes anil kapoor reminds me of southern tamil star rajnikant in his body languages and wordly expressions i am not a fan of neither saif nor akshay but the award of kareena should have finally gone to saif s hand instead of akshay just from the starting point i expected of it but at the end it displeased me with the climax truth saif is the main behind the whole adventure while akshay joins in the midst in any movie the final should be judged with the whole characters of the entire story and the award or say reward should be given to the one who deserves credit and tashan loses in this way and unexpectedly failed to become a hit br br akshay s has nothing new to show off his comedian talent here but still reminds of his previous movies he seriously need to form a new image to his fans that would impress them again and again in between saif did a great job in race and now he returned again in his hilarious nature through this movie but he has fully developed himself in the acting field and last but not the least about kareena she looks really hot with bikini dress of which some complain as she became too lean but i myself don t think so instead she became slim yes slim it is a good factor for a female to attract the major people or say male beside them it is nice that saif s son ibrahim appears in the beginning last as young saif i hope now he too will lean forward in target of making acting as his career br br those who like this tashan they are either mentally immatured or still want to go back to childhood or say want to be admitted in an asylum thumbs down to debutante director vijay krishna acharya who mishandled the project offered by yash raj films in future he should experiment and study the script minimum of years before going into practical directions br br sorry i don t like to rate good stars to this type of junk movies ',
'previously i wrote that i loved titanic cried at its ending many times over and i m a guy in his s i also wondered about why this great movie which won so many awards and was applauded by so many critics was given only a rating by imdb com users br br well i looked at the breakdown of the user ratings while of all votes gave it a rating gave it a rating these of these irrational imdb users in effect pulled the overall rating down to br br in my previous comments i blamed this very unusual voting pattern a sudden surge in ratings with a high rating dropping only gradually and then suddenly reversing course and jumping at the rating level on only one thing hatred for leonardo dicaprio believe me i ve tuned into enough chat rooms to see the banter by young people young men mostly who defame him left and right they absolutely hate the man and they will have no part in giving him any credit in titanic to answer one other user i am not talking about someone who just really doesn t like the movie that much and gave it a or a etc everyone has and is entitled to his her own taste but no one can convince me that the imdb rating of only overall for titanic pulled to that level by an inordinate number of ridiculous ratings is a fair reflection of the overall motion picture br br let me demonstrate my point by comparing the imdb user voting pattern of titanic to randomly chosen box office and critical bombs there are many more but these will prove my point heaven s gate was pulled from the theaters quickly after a very poor box office showing and imdb voters ratings were ratings and ratings overall rating of big top pee wee got ratings and ratings overall rating of cat people got ratings and ratings overall rating of blind date got ratings and ratings overall rating of jumpin jack flash got ratings and ratings overall rating of what do all of these films have in common with titanic all of the percentages of their ratings are lower than titanic and none of these stinkers ever was nominated for a single award again titanic got ratings compare that to the other movies i just mentioned br br can there be any explanation other than the hatred of leo factor br br ',
'i just saw the movie in theater the movie has very few good points to talk about kareena s beauty and a couple of songs may be thats it the movie is a complete disappointment in all areas anyone associated with the movie will be disappointed even mumbai indians too just now chennai has made it to semi final br br but the worst i feel about the movie is the action scenes now days bollywood is trying to copy action scenes from hollywood but they forget that hollywood directors takes a lot effect to make it look like real but unfortunately bollywood directors do not have that much of time they spend their time on songs and publicity of the movie now such too stupid action scenes may work in south as the audience just pay to watch their favorite actor killing bunch of people but in bollywood this is certainly not going to work all the action scenes i wish i could have forwarded at the end even some chinese people appear from nowhere to beat akshay kumar this is height of stupidity audience is not paying to watch such stupidity i think bollywood now should forget about the action movies they cant make it the last good action i have seen was from ghatak and khiladiyon ka khialdi the current scene in bollywood is really sad for action movie fans like me does these people see their movie after completion can t they figure out that the slow motion action which is done using ropes is too unrealistic and childish better not to have action scenes if you cant handle it i just want to go back to amitabh s era where movie like zanjeer and deewar were having thrilling action scenes the sound effect was not very effective in those days but visually it is much better than current era scenes br br this movie now should open the eyes of the bollywood movie directors please don t make any more action movies until you acquire the art of making it realistic ',
'i loved this movie since i was and i saw it on the opening day it was so touching and beautiful i strongly recommend seeing for all it s a movie to watch with your family by far br br my mpaa rating pg for thematic elements prolonged scenes of disastor nudity sexuality and some language ',
'the storyline was okay akshay kumar was good as always and that was the only good thing about the movie kareena kapoor looked bad there was so hue and cry over her size zero but she did not looked good leaner i don t know why the hell did anil kapoor accepted such a bad role there was nothing much to do for him in the movie just because it is a yashraj film does not means that an actor should accept the role however bad it is said ali khan was alright i think that it is high time that indian directors and producers start thinking of indian customers as intelligent lot what are we fools what do they think they will show men taking on a swat squad to teeters and we will believe them is the indian police so stupid that they are trying to nab some criminals they take an entire squad of policemen and no one was there to surround the palace the action was crap and i have never seen such bad action akshay kumar was between a circle of policemen all shooting at him and he shooting back at them none of the policemen s bullet touched him but he killed all the policemen crap crap br br i think the fight director who thought of this scene should take retirement br br i strongly recommend not to see this movie ',
'the movie titanic makes it much more then just a night to remember it re writes a tragic history event that will always be talked about and will never been forgotten why so criticised i have no idea could will they ever make a movie like titanic that is so moving and touching every time you watch it could they ever replace such an epic masterpiece it will be almost impossible br br the director no doubt had the major impact on the film a simple disaster film boring to watch converted to an unbelievable romance yes i m not the romance type either but that should not bother you because you will never see a romance like this guaranteed everything to the amazing effects to the music to the sublime acting br br the movie creates an amazing visual and a wonderful feeling everything looks very real and live the legend herself titanic is shown brilliantly in all classes too looks too accommodation the acting was the real effect dicaprio and winslet are simply the best at playing there roles no one could have done better they are partly the reason why the film is so great br br i guess it s not too much to talk about the plot is simple the acting is brilliant based on a true story probably more then half of the consumers that watch the film will share tears thanks to un imaginable ending which can never be forgotten well if you haven t seen this film your missing out on something hesterical and a film to idolise for hollywood could it get better no not at all the most moving film of all time don t listen to people see for yourself then you will understand a landmark don t be surprised if you cry too ',
'i was very displeased with this move everything was terrible from the start the comedy was unhumorous the action overdone the songs unmelodious even the storyline was weightless from a writer who has written successful scripts like guru and dhoom i had high expectations the actors worked way too hard and did not help the film at all of course kareena rocked the screen in a bikini but for two seconds i think hindi stunt directors should research how action movies are done they tend to exaggerate way too much in chinese films this style works because that is their signature piece but hindi cinema s signature are the songs a good action movie should last no more than two hours and cannot look unrealistic but in the future i m sure these action movies will get much sharper also to be noted comedy and action films do not mix unless done properly good luck next time ',
'i had few problems with this film and i have heard a lot of criticisms saying it is overlong and overrated true it is over three hours long but i was amazed that it goes by so quickly i don t think it is overrated at all i think the imdb rating is perfectly decent the film looks sumptuous with gorgeous costumes and excellent effects and the direction from james cameron rarely slips from focus leonardo dicaprio gives one of his best performances as jack and kate winslet is lovely as rose david warner a great actor steals every scene he s in the story is very rich in detail and is hot on character development obvious with the love story which is very moving when it needs to be though in the first bit of the movie it is a little slow the last hour is extremely riveting and i will confess that i was on the edge of my seat when the titanic sank i will also say that the last five minutes were very moving the music score by james horner was lovely though i never was a huge fan of the song my heart will go on the miniseries was good but suffered from undeveloped scenarios and some historical inaccuracies overall i give titanic an bethany cox ',
'if there is one film which is the worst of this year it s tashan the first promo gave an indication that the film will be a boring dhoom style film and well i knew first only it would be a bad film whatever it maybe because of it being a yashraj film or maybe seeing the cheesy promo but this film gave me a shock it was even worst then dhoom and what i expected first saif s introduction which is boring then saif kareena meet kareena is so artificial and then anil kapoor oh god what he is doing in such a weird film what kinda role it is what acting is he doing his first scene is alright but then his act gets repetitive and he overacts then came akshay who provided some nice scenes but then the film became more boring and with all the outdated stuff childhood romance overdose of childish rajnikant style action scenes and all boring scenes the ending is another joke br br vijay krishna acharya would have got films more to direct if this film had worked thats the strategy of yashraj only money nothing else so vijay is another addition to their list of crap filmmakers music vishal shekhar is ordinary br br performances akshay kumar comes in the film as a whiff of fresh air he actually provides some engaging moments saif ali khan is irritating kareena is equally bad anil kapoor hams outrageously and spoils the show even more rest are okay ',
'i think james cameron might be becoming my favorite director because this is my second review of his movies anyway everyone remembers the rms titanic it was big fast and unsinkable until april it was all over the news and one of the biggest tragedies ever well james cameron decided to make a movie out of it but star two fictional characters to be in the spotlight instead of the ship well onto the main review but let me remind you that this is all opinion and zero fact and the only fact that will be present is an event from the film br br so our two main characters are jack leonardo dicaprio and rose kate winslet they re not annoying too much but watch this and you ll find out why they could become annoying http tinyurl com ojhoyn the main villain i guess is bad luck fate hand of god no blasphemy intended or just plain caledon hockley billy zane combine all of the above and what do you get oh yes we get a love story on a sinking boat the supporting characters are the following my personal favorite mr andrews victor garber idk he was so nice lovejoy david warner murdoch ewan stewart lightoller jonathan phillips captain smith bernard hill molly brown kathy bates and many more we also got the present day treasure hunter brock lovett bill paxton they add something to the story something good the action in here is awesome especially in the second half the drama as also good in the end you can have your eyes dropping rainstorms or silent tears the story is simple and it works a treasure hunter seeks the heart of the ocean and instead finds a drawing of a woman wearing the said diamond she calls and tells her tale on the rms titanic two lovers separated by social class and ultimately the fate of the ship everything about the story works and there are very few flaws i give titanic an awesome ',
'absolutely awful movie utter waste of time br br background music is so loud that you cannot understand speech well if you really listen closely whatever they speak is actually unintelligible br br camera work is bad editing is not present background score gives a headache action is shoddy dialogs are unintelligible acting is abysmal and well kareena used to look like a wrestler now she looks like a starved wrestler hell you can slim down but you cannot gain grace br br after spending three hours watching a movie i want to like it but this movie would not even allow me that pleasure br br please if you want to torture yourself go ahead watch this ',
'titanic is a long but well made tragic adventure love story that takes place during the ill fated voyage on the unsinkable ship writer director james cameron has done a great job of making this movie about a fictional love story between two very different people and combining that with the real event of the titanic that sunk after hitting an iceberg on april claiming thousands of lives who perished in the icy freeing waters of the north atlantic the two leads in the film are great in their roles including leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet they make for a good on screen couple dicpario and winslet also had genuine chemistry together which made the romance that eventually blossoms between them that much more believable they both showed real talent when this one came out and both of them have continued to show just that in their most recently films as well the rest of the supporting cast including billy zane kathy bates frances fisher jonathan hyde and bill paxton in a small role are equally impressive as their characters who help bring them to life in this film the love story the action suspense and the special effects are magnificent done especially for that time the horror of the situation the characters were in felt so real because it really happened making you want most of them to survive this life and death situation the pacing was a little slow at times and it was a little long but the rest of the movie made up for it s few flaws titanic makes for a great date movie which is sure to make some girls cry almost every time they watch it the fact that this really happened definitely added to the movie making you feel sorry for all the lives lost when the titanic sunk into the atlantic after hitting an iceberg overall titanic is a tragic heartbreaking story about two people who fall in love while on the ill fated ship thats brought to life by the exceptional performances from the cast especially dicaprio and winslet who definitely make this movie worth the time to watch ',
'sometime i fail to understand what do the directors think when they make a movie i had had a trauma after watching welcome and thought that they wont do it again but after loads of amazing promos tashan finally ended as heart attack br br such amazing songs in promo dil haara chhaliya and tashan mein and what u get in the movie zero story predictable plot plenty of akshay kumar stunts and nothing interesting apart from watching kareena after her major weight loss br br music wise another major disaster in the music album they have spent time on giving pathetic small dialogs of these jokers and they haven t thought of giving the background song of the scenes when akshay kumar is doing stunts that song is such nice quite comparable to tashan mein and that is not taken in the music album if you plan to watch this movie i would say watch it to listen to that background song which goes something like bachchan bachchan pandey br br overall very disappointed even with the way bhaiyyaji has made attempt to speak bad english br br go away man i need to puke ',
'the ship may have sunk but the movie didn t director james cameron from the terminator did it again with this amazing picture one of my favorite scenes is the dinner table scene in which rose s family and friends meet jack after he saves her rose has a look on her face that every woman should have when you meet the one i hope i have that look when i am in the room with my future husband br br jack and rose have a connection that is movie stuff but it s good movie stuff we have the greedy mom and all her elite stuck up associates who live off of their husbands wealth rose almost commits suicide but the gilbert grape star rescues her i really liked the hanging over the boat scene it was a good risk br br the movie is long but it s fantastic good story good flow good actors go see it twice if you want its worth it ',
'i had never thought the standard of yashraj films would ever degrade to such an extent the film has a nonsense storyline which catches no interest br br saif has over acted kareena has improved her figure but is not a good actress anyway akshay is good anil is also good may i say the role wasn t good br br great deal of cheapness is filled in wondered if that was supposed to be the comedy part of the movie just because last few movies were flops does that mean yashraj films should make this kind of rubbish it has a history of so many good films br br overall i was totally disappointed with the movie ',
'titanic has to be one of my all time favorite movies it has its problems what movies don t but still it s enjoyable br br when i stumble across someone who asks me why i like titanic i suppose my first reaction is wait a minute you don t i know so many people who don t like this movie and i m not saying i don t see why the love story is too cheesy well yes but isn t it enjoyable and moving all right the love story between jack and rose is very unrealistic everyone knows that love like this doesn t actually exist but this is a movie doesn t everyone enjoy watching a beautiful story that lets us slip slightly into fantasy for a while the next complaint dicaprio and winslet are terrible actors well ok in this movie i agree that they do not perform to their full potentials however i think it s unfair to say that they are terrible actors i personally think they are both very talented actors who unfortunately are very famous for a movie that they are not amazing in but the roles they are given are simple and the characters seem real enough that you can care about them quite a bit but i agree with many people that they did not do as well as could have been expected br br and finally if one is going to complain that they don t like this movie because they hate romance or because they hate history or tragic movies then i m sorry but why on earth did they go and see a movie that is so clearly all of these things it s like people who complain the dark knight is a bad movie because they hate action movies simply for being a movie not because you dislike the genre this is a good movie br br well deserving of its oscars in particular best cinematography which i find to be the best i ve ever seen in a movie save maybe the lord of the rings trilogy br br i know some of the writing fails such as the constant screaming of each other s names throughout the movie the flashback portion of the story can be quite weak at times but overall it s an amazing achievement in making the titanic look so real and the sinking feel so epic br br i understand why a lot of people dislike this movie but for the most part it boils down to them disliking the fundamental idea such as it being a love story rather than them thinking the movie in and of itself is poorly constructed br br i can tell you that i have read more than five books about the titanic including memoirs form the day it happened and this movie is extremely historically accurate save just a few faults the only main ones i can find is that the piping should be threaded copper not steel and the iceberg looks fairly unrealistic as is the scene where they hit it br br i give this movie not because i like romance movies but simply because it s an outstanding cinematic achievement that leaves one feeling horrified by the realistic adaptation of events ',
'the film lacks style i mean original style everything looks copied including action first appearances in the movie songs dialog delivery etc etc yes there the goof ups were original like in the beginning a car is shown with number up number and few seconds later it starts falling down a hill with number mh that was one in many goof ups of the movie anything good in the movie yes for kareena fans if there are any kareena in bikini for akshay fans his dialogs and action stunts thats it nothing else so watch it on your own risk and don t blame the director or actors director is already insane and actors i pity them ',
'titanic is a classic i was really surprised that this movie didn t have a solid ten overall in the imdb user rankings maybe it s just cool to not give titanic credit nowadays but when it was first made it was really something when the movie came out people flocked to the theaters when it came out on video my sister and i would watch it twice a day for a month it was safe to say we were obsessed and for good reason some of the disaster scenes were hard to forgot like the frozen baby or the guy who committed suicide after killing someone in the unruly crowd many people died on that ship and to convey that on film with the immediacy and emotion it needed is a hard challenge that james cameron stepped up to and let s not forget the amazing romance between jack and rose whether or not their relationship was a figment of someone s imagination it was lovely they barely knew each other but they would die for each other they trusted each other they sure as hell are giving romeo and juliet a run for their money i ll never let go jack titanic is a great film down to it s very core it is a powerful story told through brilliant acting excellent cinematography beautiful music and a crew full of hard and dedicated workers it really blows my mind when someone says they hate this movie ',
'this movie is horrible the acting is a waste basket no crying no action hopeless songs though the scenery is great i have always wanted to go to greece br br anyway as for saif you d expect a great performance but even he let down the people br br akshay kumar recognized as the pimp of bollywood and the voice of singhs he was sensational in this movie for only this performance filmfare should introduce another award the toiletries award for the worst performance by the way the trophy should be a toilet seat br br kareena kapoor she first of all is not comparable to her sister karisma in acting in looks or in body she now wants to prove to herself that she surpasses her she comes into this movie wearing bikini s and tank tops and short shorts i really wonder why saif ali khan is letting his wife to be dress like that but she must ve impressed some people dressing like that and if you ask how then consider every man is having an erection watching this movie they are dreaming of having kareena kapoor in bed naked with a condom including me personally i think that she dressed like a whore but i really liked it br br i am forced to give it a but i d really give this movie a an unachieved film ',
'another aussie masterpiece this delves into the world of the unknown and the supernatural and it does very well it doesn t resort to the big special effects overkill like american flicks it focuses more on emotional impact a relatively simple plot that rebecca gibney co bring to life it follows the story of a couple who buy an old house that was supposedly home to a very old woman who never went outside and whose husband disappeared in mysterious circumstances a century ago strange things begin to happen in the house and john adam begins to turn into the man who disappeared who was actually a mass murderer highly recommended ',
'ok i am not japanese i do know a little about japanese culture and a little less about japanese pop culture other than that i am spanish i eat paella and i like black humor br br good with that point set i can comment on the movie i have no idea on how it is enjoyable to the japanese audiences mamoru oshii is quite a good director despite the overly pedantic postmodern stuff in the style of talking head and even that was curious and somehow interesting and i am surprised he came up with this it may just be one of those lost in translation cases i am afraid it is but as a european viewer watching the film with subtext overloaded english subtitles i just thought it was horrible the jokes seemed bad the script was overcooked i mean give the audience a break and shut up a little you damn narrator to the point of almost making my head explode over an overkill of fast paced speaking and absurd action br br however i thought the animation was really cool the idea is great and it is well exploited in those animated scenes however the eye candy finishes as soon as the characters are left aside to start with an endless not funny at all mumbo jumbo speech over still pictures it just makes you want to fast forward to the next cut out hysterical characters scene br br i read mamoru oshii is actually planning on a sequel for this the idea was good but horribly exploited maybe the second part will bring up the good parts of this first one and actually make an interesting movie or maybe it will be more and more over narrated scenes but hell if you thought talking head was dense amazing lifes of fast food gifters will give cause you a stroke br br of course all this comment is based on the experiences of someone who is european probably this is totally useless to japanese people maybe it was a really funny film lost in cultural frontiers and translation maybe ',
'for me personally this film goes down in my top four of all time no exceptions james cameron has proved himself time and time again that he is a master storyteller through films such as aliens the abyss and both terminators it is clear that he was a brilliant and confidant director as far as action and science fiction goes he sees a story and adds a strange quality to the film but titanic is so much different to his other strokes of brilliance the film is exceptionally moving and allows room for surprises plot development and interesting character developments in a story that everyone knows the story of the famed voyager sinking on her maiden voyage is legend so the challenge was for cameron to make a truthful interesting and entertaining film about it the acting is wonderful as leonardo dicaprio who plays jack and kate winslet who plays rose became superstars overnight with the release of this film and in most films i get annoyed when the supporting characters aren t given a lot to do but in this film it is more purposeful because as an elderly rose gloria stuart tells her story it is quickly apparent that it is rose s and jack s story alone no one else emotionally it is entirely satisfying and can leave no dry eye in a theater or home the music has become iconic and legendary it is composer james horner s finest soundtrack ever and evokes so much from the film and the audience the song after so long has become annoying but i still appreciate it for the phenomenon it is and this film is only one problem the usual james cameron problem is the dialogue which is memorable but in a bad way as in how cheesy it is at points but all that aside james cameron has delivered a masterpiece and a romantic epic that sweeps you away on a journey of a lifetime my heart won t go on from this one ',
' for this movie defines a new low in bollywood and has set the standard against which all cp must now be compared br br first off the beginning did have elements of style and if handled well could have become a cult classic a la pulp fiction or a desi desperado but the plot was there one begins to meander and at one point completely loses it br br throw in a deranged don with an obsession for english a call center smart alec a femme fa tale who can don a bikini and a saree with the same aplomb a levitating gravity defying hit man and a cop with a hundred or was it a thousand black cat commandos on their trail good ingredients in competent hands but this is where i would like to ask the director sir what were you smoking br br im sure this movie would be remembered in the annals of bollywood film making for what must never be done insult the intelligence of the most brain dead of movie goers br br possibly the only redeeming feature in this desi matrix plus desperado plus grindhouse caper is the music watch the videos hear the airplay and you wont be disappointed vishal shekhar come up with some eminently hummable tunes br br how i wish the director had spent the money in creating some more eye candy br br as i sign off i want to really badly know how does akshay s bullet wound vanish in a microsecond what were you editors doing tashan maybe ',
'back in do i remember that year clinton bans cloning research the unfortunate death of princess diana the marlins won the world series and a woman gave birth to septuplets this was also the big year in the release of titanic one of the biggest films of all time a tale about the ship of dreams about a boy and a girl who fall in love but are torn apart by their social class and at the height of their emotional commitment the ship meets with disaster i don t think anybody could have expected titanic to be as huge as it was the movie was bigger than life and had millions of fans of them being teenage girls i was years old at the time and of course saw the movie multiple times it was the film that made me believe that the love that jack and rose shared was so real and beautiful at the time i felt that titanic could do no wrong of course i grew up and didn t watch the film since i was a couple years ago i saw the film on dvd for and figured that it was a good price and to see what i thought about the movie now was it worth the hype was it really the best movie of all time was that leonardo s real nose ok i know that s silly to say but i did re watch the film being completely honest here titanic is a great movie best movie of all time no just depends on your idea of a good movie but titanic delivered in romance humor disaster emotions and never let us go on this maiden voyage br br the film starts with brock lovett and his team exploring the wreck of the rms titanic searching for a necklace set with a valuable blue diamond called the heart of the ocean unsuccessful they instead discover a drawing of a young woman reclining nude wearing the heart of the ocean dated the day the titanic sank year old rose dawson calvert learns of the drawing and contacts lovett to inform him she is the woman in the drawing she and her granddaughter elizabeth lizzy calvert visit lovett and his skeptical team on his salvage ship when asked if she knew the whereabouts of the necklace rose calvert recalls her memories aboard the titanic revealing for the first time that she was rose dewitt bukater in the upper class year old rose boards the ship with her fianc cal hockley and her mother ruth dewitt bukater both of whom stress the importance of rose s engagement to cal since the marriage will mean the eradication of the dewitt bukater debts while they have the outward appearance of the upper class rose and her mother are financially broke distraught and frustrated by her engagement to the controlling cal and the pressure her mother is putting on her to go through with the marriage rose attempts suicide by jumping from the stern before she leaps a drifter and artist named jack dawson intervenes jack and rose strike up a tentative friendship as she thanks him for saving her life and he shares stories of his adventures traveling and sketching their bond deepens when they leave a stuffy first class formal dinner of the rapport building wealthy for a much livelier gathering of irish dance music and beer in third class but after cal s servant informs him of rose s whereabouts rose is forbidden from seeing jack again however after witnessing a woman encouraging her seven year old daughter to behave like a proper lady at tea rose defies him and her mother asking jack to sketch her nude and wearing only the heart of the ocean an engagement present from cal after a beautiful moment together in the very first backseat fun time they go to the deck of the ship br br they then witness the ship s fatal collision with an iceberg after overhearing the ship s lookouts discussing how serious the collision is rose tells jack they should warn her mother and cal meanwhile cal discovers rose s nude drawing and her taunting note in his safe so he frames jack for stealing the heart of the ocean by having lovejoy plant it in jack s pocket upon learning cal intends to leave jack to die below deck rose runs away from him and her mother to rescue him jack and rose return to the top deck cal and jack though enemies both want rose safe so they persuade her to board a lifeboat but after realizing that she cannot leave jack rose jumps back on the ship and reunites with jack in the ship s first class staircase jack and rose return to the top deck the lifeboats have gone and the ship finally goes down into the freezing atlantic taking jack and rose down br br so does titanic live up to it s hype i still say that this is a great movie to watch i think that there were and still are quite a few haters that for some reason just want to trash the movie because it had won a ton of awards and everyone was in love with the movie but it has great acting amazing effects a well written story and still looks flawless love it or hate it you have to admit this movie didn t get a lot of hype just because of leo s baby face or kate s amazing ability to cry on sight this film is something special it will always hold a special place in my heart it has too seeing that i saw this film times in the theater when it was released but all that aside i do recommend this movie it s a great one and sure to go down in the classics one day br br ',
'the sight of kareena kapoor in a two piece bikini is about the only thing that wakes you up from your sleep while watching tashan the mega disappointing mind numbing new film at the cinemas this weekend bad films are bad films and we see some every week but tashan is not just a bad film it s a terrible film terrible because it takes its audience for granted terrible also because the filmmakers expect to get away without a plot or any common sense only because they ve got big movie stars onboard written and directed by vijay krishna acharya tashan is what you d describe as a road movie but one that s going in all the wrong directions saif ali khan stars as jimmy cliff a call centre executive who s hired to teach english to bhaiyyaji that s anil kapoor playing an ambitious up gangster desperate to go cool jimmy s got his eye on pooja the gangster s pretty young assistant played by kareena kapoor who uses jimmy to swindle her boss of crore rupees determined to recover his money and also to punish both jimmy and pooja bhaiyyaji recruits his most trusted henchman to do the job so you have akshay kumar as bachchan pandey the gangster s faithful aide from kanpur who tracks down the culprits and recovers the stolen money that s hidden across the length and breadth of the country much like those bad eighties potboilers tashan too is held together by a threadbare script centred on a vendetta plot but the treatment s so over the top so indulgent that it fails to establish any connect instead of a coherent screenplay or a traditional three act structure you get a handful of set pieces around which most of the scenes are loosely constructed that garish item song in the desert the bullet dodging action scene at a rajasthani fort kareeena s bikini moment even that ridiculous climatic action scene complete with shaolin monks a water scooter zipping through a dirty naala and believe it or not even a dhanno style horse driven tonga in all fairness not all these set pieces are badly done the item song in the desert is quite neat actually but very little of it makes any sense in the larger picture because you re just going from one piece to another without any help from the script really little do you expect in a seemingly fast paced road movie to find a sickeningly sentimental flashback track about childhood sweethearts you see the problem with tashan is nobody associated with this film knew what film they were making what s more i don t think they cared either the film reeks of arrogance arbitrarily packing in elements of every genre without actually bothering to stop and see if the mix does work tashan is like an overcooked stew there are films that kill you softly and then there s tashan a film that kills you with excess packaged snazzily with glossy finish camera work exotic locations and fancy costumes every frame of the film probably cost lakhs to put together but it still feels like a hollow piece in the end because the story doesn t hold borrowing narrative from tarantino and style from stephen chow doesn t help either because they don t blend with the film s wafer thin plot one may have complained a little less if the characters were more engaging but anil kapoor s grating hinglish dialogue makes you want to slit your wrists and saif ali khan fumbles through the film foolishly unable to find his feet kareena kapoor meanwhile queen of over the top delivery does a decent job but of course if tashan is salvaged to some extent it s thanks to akshay kumar s irresistible presence and his spontaneous approach to the character you cringe when he s cupping his crotch repeatedly and you scowl when he delivers those double meaning dialogues but not for a moment can you take your eyes off the screen when he s up there despite some good music from vishal shekhar the songs seem like they re only prolonging your misery well that s because tashan is a test of your patience in case you didn t know tashan means style i m sorry to say this film has none ',
'james cameron s titanic is essentially a romantic adventure with visual grandeur and magnificence a timeless tragic love story set against the background of this major historical event it s an astonishing movie that exemplifies hope love and humanity br br leonardo dicaprio is terrific on screen with big charisma conveying passion trust insouciance and ingenuity he s a free spirited wanderer with artistic pretensions and a zest for life br br kate winslet is absolutely lovely as the confused upper class teen engaged to a nasty rich guy who finds herself one night plunged to the depths of despair br br billy zane is an arrogant racist abusive and ultra rich who would lie cheat steal bribe with money or even use an innocent young child to escape defeat he keeps a carat blue diamond worn by louis xvi br br kathy bates is the legendary unsinkable molly brown the richest woman in denver who is a lot less uptight than the other rich folk on the ship br br frances fisheris is the impecunious cold snobbish mother who deathly afraid of losing her social stature forces her daughter to become engaged to marry a rich supercilious snob br br victor garber is the master shipbuilder the real life character who attempts to fix time to measure it in a sense to make it into history br br jonathan hyde is the white star chairman who wants the titanic to break the trans atlantic speed record in spite of warnings that icebergs may have floated into the hazardous northern crossing br br bill paxton is the opportunistic undersea explorer in search for a very rare diamond called the heart of the ocean br br gloria stuart is the year old woman who reveals a never before told love story the nightmare the horror and the shock are imprinted upon her deeply lined face br br titanic is loaded with luminous photography and sweeping visuals as the footage of the shipwrecked ocean liner lying motionless on the ocean floor the incredible transformation of the bow of the sunken titanic that takes the viewer back to revealing the meticulously re created interiors the first sight of the titanic steamed steadily toward her date with destiny the titanic leaving the southampton dock and some dolphins appear jumping racing along in front of the luxurious ship decaprio and winslet flying at the ship s front rail in a gorgeous magic moment the intertwining of past and present as jack was drawing rose on his paper the camera zooms closely on young rose s eye only to transform its shape into gloria stuart s aged eye br br chilling scenes titanic s inevitable collision with destiny james cameronin one of the most terrifying sequences ever put on film takes us down with the titanic finally leaving us floundering in the icy water screaming for help that never comes br br winner of academy awards including best picture james cameron s titanic is a gigantic epic where you don t just watch the film you experience it the visual effects are amazing like no other film s the decor is overwhelming james horner s music intensifies the emotions the whole movie is hunting and involving filled with a wide range of deep feelings br br it s truly a moving tribute to those who lost their lives on that unfortunate ship ',
'such a long awaited movie but it has disappointed me and my friends who had gone to see the movie on the first day from the trailers it looked like a action movie but it turned out to be a out out comedy a bad comedy but one thing that deserves appreciation is the acting by these professional actors they ve done their part of the movie very well good acting but i don t think that can save the movie india has been shot beautifully kerala rajasthan ladakh were all saturated with color alright nevertheless the way the intrinsic beauty of these places was shot made me want to find out exactly where those places were and when i could go there br br action sequences were shot very shabbily no one could make out head tail of the stunts they ve used akki akshay kumar very well but could ve been done much much better br br animation is the worst i ve seen in recent movies s movies had better animation scenes i guess initial scene where the car is falling off flying should be better word the road into lake br br and the movies name has been mentioned nearly every to mins just to make sure audiences don t forget the movie name i guess ',
'this movie re wrote film history in every way no one cares what anyone thinks about this movie because it transcends criticism every flaw in the movie is easily overcome by the many amazing things the movie has going for it it is an extremely beautiful movie and i doubt many of us will see anything like it again i ve seen it more times than i care to count and i still become transfixed every time with a feeling which is hard to describe one for the ages ',
'i would have liked to write about the story but there wasn t any i would have liked to quote a couple of hard hitting dialogs from the movie but hinglish is only funny for like minutes after that its overkill i would have liked to swoon over the keep u guessing suspense but it was as predictable as um mm a yash raj movie i would have liked to talk of the edge of the seat action but i don t like cartoons much br br sigh br br all in all this movie is perfect for people attempting suicide i promise it ll push you over the edge sado masochists this movie is way more effective than the barbed wire that silas guy in the da vinci code wore people researching alternative ways to spread terrorism i swear the audience leaving the hall seemed to be in a mood to kill someone movie piraters more power to them if any movies deserves to not have the audience spending money to watch this is it barnacles most types of plankton green algae because almost all other living things would require an iq factor somewhat greater than what the movie offers afterthought the director of the movie obviously is a species of his own and i hope to god that he is the only one of his kind one is enough br br things that could have made this a better movie a story a choreographer a screenplay writer a stunt coordinator a story did i already say that a director preferably one who is not mentally challenged although even one who was challenged could have done a better job anil kapoorbubonic plague avoid at all costs a statutory warning watching yash raj movies is injurious to your mental health br br things i liked about the movie kareena kapoor for obvious reasons the english sub titles mera dil kho gaya becomes my heart is in a void chaliya chaliya chaliya turns into im a flirt im a lover im a vagabond priceless br br in short tashan to me is like the opposite of a rubrics cube the cube is supposed to increase the iq of the player tashan promises to lower your iq and that in a mere hours woot br br sigh but thats just me i could be wrong you ve been warned anyways ',
'titanic directed by james cameron presents a fictional love story on the historical setting of the titanic the plot is simple noncomplicated or not for those who love plots that twist and turn and keep you in suspense the end of the movie can be figured out within minutes of the start of the film but the love story is an interesting one however kate winslett is wonderful as rose an aristocratic young lady betrothed by cal billy zane early on the voyage rose meets jack leonardo dicaprio a lower class artist on his way to america after winning his ticket aboard titanic in a poker game if he wants something he goes and gets it unlike the upper class who are so concerned with their social worries the two fall in love and the audience sees the sinking of the titanic primarily through their eyes br br the movie begins in modern times with the exploration of the wreck by a group searching for treasures that sunk with the titanic which has recently occurred one of the survivors of the titanic rose dewitt bukater who had heard of the exploration of the wreck on television and is flown to the boat where the search is being led from to tell of what she remembers to help the search she gets to telling her memory of the one and only voyage of the titanic with this the scene shifts to southhampton ireland where the titanic set sail from on april as all the passengers are boarding after another stop on the irish coast titanic went out to see on its maiden voyage across the atlantic bound for new york historically the first few days of the voyage went by uneventful but the fictional plot of the story is developed during this time as rose sees the hopeless entrapement of an engagement that she is in to the wealthy cal hockley and falls in love with third class passenger jack dawson captain smith alledgedly as shown in the movie was urged by the white star line director to increase the speed of the ship so they would make the newspaper headlines and receive extra publicity by arriving in new york on thursday night and not on friday morning as planned smith then ordered the fateful decision going against his thirty two years of experience to stretch the titanic s legs out to full speed the titanic had reports that the waters in the atlantic they were sailing in were full of icebergs but they ignored these warnings and proceeded at full speed as shown in the movie on april at an iceberg was sighted they attempted to shut off the engines and turn the ship out of the path of the iceberg but there was not enough time and the ship hit the iceberg on the starboard side as depicted in the film the portrayal of the many small holes in the side of the ship and not one large gash along the side is accurate the crew of titanic sent out distress calls and set off distress rockets as shown until when the lights finally failed the lights of the california were spotted six miles away but they failed to realize what was going on and did not respond to titanic s many pleas for help the california had tried earlier in the day to warn titanic of the severe ice that had caused them to stop their trip but titanic had brushed them off causing the california to turn off its radio and leave the titanic on its own the first class women and children were the first as depicted to be put into the twenty lifeboats that were on the ship overwhelmingly the third class passengers suffered the most amount of deaths of any class and the crew was hit hard in this tragedy too the word of white star line employees and first class passengers was believed over that of second and third class passengers when authorities were trying to gain information of the sinking also the metal that was used to build the titanic has been found in recent years under conditions of severe cold which were experienced the night titanic sank to be extremely brittle overall the basic plot is very accurate in its portayal of the events and the times at which these events took place on the titanic br br many of the characters in the story were not real and created simply for the purpose of the movie or as composite characters to represent possible characteristics and ideas of people on the ship the core group of rose jack cal and rose s mother all were fictional characters added into the story as they represent different groups of people from the time yet many characters such as the unsinkable molly brown captain edward smith the ship designer thomas andrew the white star line representative bruce ismay and all of the titanic s officers were real the maiden voyage was going to be captain edward smith s last voyage anyway as he planned to retire afterwards he had been a part of the white star line since where he worked his way up to his status as the millionaire s captain when the titanic sunk the portrayals of the officers is accurate as only four survived the tragedy except for the officer who threatened to kill all of the passengers of the ship with his pistol he is on record as acting heroicly and was misportrayed to the point that james cameron apologized and evoked a monument in his honor in the officer s former canadian hometown as shown in the movie there was a language problem between the crew and many of the lower class passengers from non english speaking nations in addition officer lowe was the only officer who came back in the lifeboat as depicted the old people shown in their bed as the water came in their room were based on the strauss not wanting to leave her husband s side mrs strauss refused to get in her lifeboat and died with her husband on the titanic furthermore mr goggenheim who was shown sipping his brandy and smoking a cigar reportedly did go out like this dressed in his best the richest man on the ship john jacob astor who owned most of manhattan died nonetheless as well but his much younger wife was saved in a lifeboat in addition molly brown was saved and later had medals made up for the crew of the carpethia that picked the survivors of titanic up from the water her ticket on the titanic had cost over four thousand dollars and by the end of her life she ended up broke all of the interiors of the ship were masterfully replacated down to the last pieces of china and silverware the gymnasium which is hardly seen is recreated perfectly with all of the machines reproduced to match those seen in old photographs the wonderful outfits and costuming were an excellent re creation of the post victorian era of the rich at this time practically ruled everything as the women s suffrage movement had not quite gotten moving yet women during this time often married for financial security as rose was considering doing and normally took a back seast status to their husbands as cal wished for rose to do the rich did not take well to new money such as molly brown as depicted everything of the time was very formal women had to be escorted to dinner by a male figure as seen with in the dining scenes smoking was not very common among women of the time but holders of cigarettes which were just coming in at the time were used as seen with rose in the movie men of the time generally smoked cigars not cigarettes women were constained physically by their corsets and socially by society although james cameron had no background in historical films he brought in experts of titanic coupled with two years spent cross referencing the history of the titanic and few liberties were taken the beautiful cinematography and special effects also helped to make the film even more breathtaking br br a recognizable message can be seen in the movie titanic as the people on the ship had about three hours to contemplate their demise the director james cameron shows the various reactions to this time of crisis in people s lives everyone reacts differently and he gets you to think of how you might have reacted had you been in that situation on the titanic on that fateful night in addition this film is a reflection of the s when it was produced as it gives a look into the wreck of the titanic only in the past fifteen years has the site of the actual titanic been found and explored this movie was able to give us a deeper look into a disaster that many would not have viewed however the moral question of whether people today should be taking treasures from the wreck of an underwater graveyard is posed there have been attempts to stop treasure seeking missions such as the one portrayed in titanic but all have failed as it stands today anyone can make a voyage to the titanic and take whatever valuables they as portrayed in the film showing the general values of our time on this matter br br technically the film is very well done to get footage of the wreck at the bottom of the ocean it took twelve dives to get all of the footage needed for the movie in addition a special camera had to be created to withstand the intense pressure at the bottom of the ocean cameron did not plan on using the probe to go as far inside titanic as anyone has in the years since the ship sunk but it worked out that this provided an unique perspective into the ship furthermore throughout the film fade ins and outs from the wreck of titanic to the scene of titanic during its actual voyage this shift between the modern scene to the past scene during the voyage works as an excellent transition that makes the story easy to follow in aclear manner at the very beginning of the movie a septune recreation is used to recreate the scene when the actual people left the european coast on titanic giving it distinction from the rest of the events of the film br br titanic plays almost like a historical biography and is like a work of art a true epic like most history novels we know the ending but it doesn t take away from the wonderful treats that can be found in this picture certain aspects of this film are academy award material including costuming sound cintematography and editing if you like interesting characters that will give you an insight into the life of characters in the early s and how they face disaster then this movie definitely is for you br br ',
'this is the biggest flop of i don know what director has is his mind of creating such a big disaster the songs have been added without situations the story have been stretched to fill the hrs gap and most disgusting are the action stunts performed by the actors it s like everyone are having superpowers they can run in between the bullets are fire and nothing happens to them and one person fighting with people only the best performance was by anil kapoor man he is all time at his best playing the role of villain with a comic act speaking hinglish akki is also done a good job but the movieee just forget it ',
'i find it so amazing that even after all these years we are still talking about this movie obviously this movie wasn t that bad or else people wouldn t even bother to talk about it i personally enjoyed this film immensly and still do i guess this film isn t for everyone but it certainly did touch the hearts of many br br as for those that think that this film is overrated or over hyped well we only have the movie going public to thank for that lol you see it s not critics article writers that make a film huge or a hit with the general movie going public people make the film a huge success with titanic everyone was in awe let s face it a film like this had never been made before at least not with the type of special effects needed to really capture the essence of the ship actually sinking this film is so accurate that even james cameron timed the actual sinking of the ship in the film with the real sinking that fateful day in april even the silverware for goodness sakes matched br br give this movie a break you guys the critics thought this movie would sink big time when this movie actually came out and people started hearing by word of mouth which is the best form of advertisement mind you that this was a good decent movie worth seeing then everyone started flocking to the theaters in droves to see this movie not once not twice but maybe times and more so i really wouldn t say that this movie was overhyped at least not like the buildup for the matrix reloaded or the hulk is being overhyped ha critics didn t even think that titanic would make enough money to cover cameron s gigantic film budget that it took to make this mammoth of a film however the films money took care of that million budget and much more br br personally i love this film however this film might not be for everyone don t say that this film sucks just because of romance though that is the most sexist thing i ve ever heard disliking a movie just because it has romance in it the story was sweet the dialogue could have been better but let s face it the real star of the movie wasn t leo or kate it was that gigantic ship i think all of the actors including dicaprio and winslet did a fine job it s not thier best work i ve seen much better work from both of them but it wasn t the worst i ve seen on screen before give them a break br br ',
'all the world said that the film tashan would be a good movie with great pleasure but this is not the case vijay krishna acharya made a serious mistake to take as an actress kareena kapoor she was unbearable throughout the film her tom boy look does not really goes well even the film the story of the film is not making sense at all everyone said that the quetin taratino of india is vijay but its not at all quetin the talent anil kapoor was involved in this stupid movie anil is an actor of large caliber and this film is not akshay kumar has also been a victim of this film as all is saif the style and the phoormola is not really good in this film i was disappointed ',
'i avoided watching this film for the longest time long before it was even released i had dismissed it as an over hyped over blown overly romanticized piece of hollywood schmaltz and i wanted nothing to do with it i never watched it in the theatre i shook my head in disbelief at the academy awards even though i had never seen it then i was asked to be a judge at a high school public speaking contest one of the girls spoke about this movie it was so great she said you really felt like you were on the ship nonsense i thought i shared my feelings with my fellow judges one looked at me and said you might be right but if she liked the movie that much maybe she ll want to learn more about the real titanic the movie must have done something right to get her so interested well maybe thought i then it finally appeared on pay tv ok i thought i ll give it a look see i didn t want to like it and i didn t i loved it what a great movie br br where to start first the directing my high school public speaking contestant was right james cameron does a superb job of creating an almost you are there type of atmosphere the gaiety of life aboard the most elegant ship in the world the nonchalance as news of the iceberg first spreads then the rising sense of panic you don t just watch it you really do feel it then the performances the lead performances from kate winslet as rose and leonardo dicaprio as jack are excellent winslet s being the superior i thought but both were good they had their rich girl poor boy characters down to a perfect t i thought in my opinion though stealing the show was frances fisher as rose s mother she was perfect as the snobby aristocrat and you could feel the fear and loathing she felt every time she looked at jack then the details i m no expert on the sinking of the titanic but i have a reasonable general knowledge and this film does a super job of recreating the historical details accurately and then weaving them seamlessly around the fictional romance very impressive indeed then the song who can watch this movie and not be taken with celine dion s performance of my heart goes on br br problems well the romance was perhaps too contrived in the sense that i just don t accept that jack could have moved so effortlessly from steerage to first class i know he was invited the first time but he seems to keep getting into first class without being stopped until he s been there for a while the realities of the separation of the social classes were much more realistically portrayed i thought when the steerage passengers were going to be left locked down there after the ship hit the iceberg while the first class folks got to enjoy half empty lifeboats br br a minor quibble though this is truly an excellent movie my only regret is not seeing it in the theatre where i think it would have been so much more impressive br br ',
'i wasn t terribly impressed with dante s st season offering in homecoming it wasn t much of a horror story but rather a smart political statement with the undead screwfly situation is the story of a virus unleashed on the world that causes men s sexual drive to replaced with murderous tendencies toward women the episode starts out all right with a short film explaining the way the screw fly was killed of by scientists then there is short scene where a man is arrested when females bodies are discovered in his home i assume this is supposed to show the beginning of the outbreak but is unclear because this is never revisited the episode go ons for a while introducing characters blah blah blah it seems cool and mysterious but the episode stars to get worse and worse as it lurches forward until its sad and unsatisfying end the worst episode well except for chocolate ',
'to all the miserable people who have done everything from complain about the dialogue the budget the this and the that who wants to hear it if you missed the point of this beyond beautiful movie that s your loss the rest of us who deeply love this movie do not care what you think i am a thirthysomething guy who has seen thousands of movies in my life and this one stands in its own entity in my book it was not supposed to be a documentary or a completely factual account of what happened that night it is the most amazing love story ever attempted i know that it is the cynical s and the millennium has everyone in a tizzy but come on someone on this comments board complained that it made too much money how lame is that it made bundles of money in every civilized country on the planet and is the top grossing film in the planet i will gladly side with the majority this time around okay cynics time to crawl back under your rock i am done ',
'i ve now written reviews for several of the moh episodes and this is among the worst an interesting premise at the beginning is completely abandoned by the time the credits roll if watching people things they never would in real life amuses you let s check out the basement then this is your show except it s not amusing or entertaining it s just annoying br br the extent of the virus is never ever showed i can very much overlook the fact that it affects men only as the resulting situation is very very frightening but then things deteriorate as daughter lets obviously deranged dad into the home and ultimately dies at his hands the woman flees north and runs into a few tens situations then some sort of spirit or alien or something appears and saves her things that make you go huh or something then she is huddling for warmth the end br br awful these directors are mailing this tripe in ',
'every once in a while the conversation will turn to favorite movies i ll mention titanic and at least a couple people will snicker i pay them no mind because i know that five years ago these same people were moved to tears by that very movie and they re too embarrassed now to admit it br br i just rewatched titanic for the first time in a long time expecting to simply enjoy the story again i was surprised to find that the movie has lost none of its power over these five years i cried again in all the same places it brought me back to when i can remember how a movie that no one thought would break even became the most popular movie of all time a movie that burst into the public consciousness like no other movie i can recall yes even more than star wars and today many people won t even admit they enjoyed it folks let s get something straight you don t look cool when you badmouth this film you look like an out of touch cynic br br no movie is perfect and this one has a few faults some of the dialogue falls flat and some of the plot surrounding the two lovers comes together a little too neatly however none of this is so distracting that it ruins the film br br leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet are wonderful leo is one of the fine actors of his generation wait til you see him in gangs of new york before you call him nothing more than a pretty boy kate winslet was so strong in this film the movie really was hers and she held it together beautifully br br james cameron managed what many believed was impossible by recreating a completely believable titanic the sinking scenes were horrific just as they were that night how anyone can say the effects were bad is beyond me i was utterly transfixed br br this film is one memorable scene after another titanic leaving port in southampton rose and jack at the bow flying iceberg right ahead the screws hanging unbelievably out of the ocean the screams of the doomed after she went down and that ending that brought even the burliest man in the theater to tears br br the music which has also been a victim of the film s success was a key ingredient james horner s score was simply perfect and the love theme was beautiful and tragic too bad celine dion s pop song version had to destroy this great bit of music for so many br br i confess i am a titanic buff as such i relished the opportunity to see the ship as we never got to see it in all its beauty perhaps watching it sink affected me more than some because i ve had such an interest in the ship all my life however i doubt many of those i saw crying were titanic buffs i applaud cameron for bringing this story to the masses in a way that never demeaned the tragedy the film was made with such humanity br br another reviewer said it better than i ever could open up your hearts to titanic and you will not be disappointed ',
'masters of horror the screwfly solution starts as america is being infected by an airborne virus that affects the male population when aroused men indiscriminately kill any woman in sight apparently in the name of god scientist alan jasn priestley is brought in by the government knows more than most senses the situation may have gone too far already so he tells his wife anne kerry norton to take their teenage daughter amy brenna o brien try to survive as the future of the human race may depend on them br br this canadian american co production was episode from season of the masters of horrror tv series directed by joe dante i thought the screwfly solution was pretty bad i personally think the script by sam hamm sucks it takes itself far too seriously i don t really understand why it s part of the masters of horror series the horror that the filmmakers are going for in the screwfly solution is in the actual story itself themes ideas it brings up rather than on screen visual horror particularly the tenuous ecological message it sees intent on ramming down our throats whenever it s gets the chance during it s short odd minute running time which i felt itself was a problem as the thing just finishes out of what could easily be interpreted as necessity rather than any meaningful attempt to wrap things up i wasn t happy with the inconsistencies with the story either if men only kill when sexually aroused why does the flight attendant casually break that woman s neck on the plane was he sexually aroused i think not why does every bloke then think he s killing in the name of god i just can t see every single bloke on earth suddenly knowing the bible starting to believe in god i just found the notion ridiculous the show also states clearly that there s nothing religious about what s going on so what s the deal with everyone thinking they have a divine to murder any woman they see then there s the fact people get turned on by different things what about gays for instance will they kill guys instead of women i know there s a brief scene which makes a joke out of the gay issue but it s conveniently brushed to one side then there s the thing which annoyed me the most the fact that presumably every bloke on earth has turned psycho killed all the women they go about their everyday business like nothing ever happened it just felt so stupid the plotting is rubbish to round things off there s a ending which looks like it was taken from a rejected episode of the x files with a bright neon alien br br director dante on this showing definitely doesn t qualify as a master of horror as far a i m concerned the story is badly paced it s just so stupid considering it s played deadly straight instead of trying to make a proper horror show he turns in more of a thriller with it s deadly virus on the loose situation the subsequent mother daughter on the run because of it there s very little here in the way of what i would call effective horror even less gore there s a scene when a woman is stabbed with a broken bottle a brief scene after when a guy stabs his own groin with said bottle another woman is stabbed in the stomach but nothing else to write home about br br technically like the other episodes it s really good it doesn t have the look of a cheap tv series the special effects are great as usual it s well made the acting is alright but no one really stood out br br the screwfly solution is easily the worst masters of horror episode i ve seen but bear in mind i haven t seen all of them yet as a stand alone piece of entertainment it did nothing for me as a show made by a so called master of horror it disappoints me even more ',
'i am not a parent neither am i a male but i was able to identify with every character s heartaches and pains br br this is a movie teenagers should watch maybe that way they will start appreciating the value of family again i m sorry for those that don t understand the value of love family and friendship br br it was very interesting to watch patrick duffy in a different role than that of bobby ewing and it is great to see a year old ben affleck giving his best in a moving and sincere performance he showed at an early age that he is capable of heartfelt drama he should be offered more serious roles note hollywoodland his first serious role in years and he went out and won best actor at the venice festival in br br this movie can be appreciated by people of all ages maybe shouldn t be watched by children under because they might get scared that the same may happen to their families but i recommend it to the entire family br br i bought this movie on dvd and have watched it with friends many times because it portrays the values that are important in life ',
'i love the frequently misnomered masters of horror series horror fans live in a constant lack of nourishment projects like this and the similar greenlight project with gave us feast like it or lump it are breeding grounds for wonderful thought bubbles in the minds of directors with a horror bent to develop and bring to maturation food for we who love to dine on horror br br this one began with a kernel of really kool idea and ran right off the edge of where in the world am i going with this br br i don t know how to spoil the spoiled but spoiler ahead all of a sudden no there was that light drifting across the night sky earlier we have long haired luminescent aliens huh huh brain drilling males and yeah i get it but well the worst curse of storytelling a rousing and promising set up without a rewarding denouement br br cue to storytellers your build up has to have a payoff that exceeds build up not the other way around storytelling math br br end of spoilers big oops ',
'after a brief prologue showing a masked man stalking and then slashing the throat of an older gentleman on a deserted urban turn of the century australian street we meet julie rebecca gibney and peter john adam as they go out house hunting they manage to get a loan for a fixer upper on a posh sydney street but it turns out that physical disrepair is not the only problem with their new home it just may be haunted br br gantry row combines a memorable if somewhat clichd story with good to average direction by catherine millar into a slightly above average shocker br br the biggest flaws seem partially due to budget but not wholly excusable to that hurdle a crucial problem occurs at the beginning of the film the opening thriller scene features some wonky editing freeze frames and series of stills are used to cover up the fact that there s not much action suspense should be created from staging not fancy fix it in the mix techniques there is great atmosphere in the scene from the location the lighting the fog and such but the camera should be slowly following the killer and the victim cutting back and forth from one to the other as we track down the street showing their increasing proximity the tracking and the cuts need to be slow the attack needed to be longer clearer and better blocked as it stands the scene has a strong made for television feel and a low budget one at that br br after this scene we move to the present and the flow of the film greatly improves the story has a lot of similarities to the amityville horror though the budget forces a much subtler approach millar and scriptwriter tony morphett effectively create a lot of slyly creepy scenarios often dramatic in nature instead of special effects oriented such as the mysterious man who arrives to take away the old slabs of iron which had been bizarrely affixed to an interior wall br br for some horror fans the first section of the film might be a little heavy on realist drama at least the first half hour of the film is primarily about julie and peter trying to arrange financing for the house and then trying to settle in but morphett writes fine intelligent dialogue the material is done well enough that it s often as suspenseful as the more traditional thriller aspects that arise later especially if you ve gone through similar travails while trying to buy your own house br br once they get settled and things begin to get weirder even though the special effects often leave much to be desired the ideas are good the performances help create tension there isn t an abundance of death and destruction in the film there s more of an abundance of home repair nightmares but neither menace is really the point br br the point is human relationships there are a number of character arcs that are very interesting the house exists more as a metaphor and a catalyst for stress in a romantic relationship that can make it go sour and possibly destroy it that it s in a posh neighborhood and that the relationship is between two successful yuppies shows that these problems do not only afflict those who can place blame with some external woe such as money or health problems peter s character evolves from a striving corporate employee with normal work based friendships to someone with more desperation as he becomes subversive scheming to attain something more liberating and meaningful at the same time we learn just how shallow those professional friendships can be julie goes through an almost literal nervous breakdown but finally finds liberation when she liberates herself from her failing romantic relationship br br although gantry row never quite transcends its made for television clunkiness as a tv movie this is a pretty good one with admirable ambitions anyone fond of haunted house films psycho films or horror thrillers with a bit more metaphorical depth should find plenty to enjoy it certainly isn t worth spending for a dvd that was the price my local pbs station was asking for a copy of the film after they showed it factoring in shipping and handling but it s worth a rental and it s definitely worth watching for free ',
'jewish newspaper reporter justin timberlake as joshua josh pollack is puzzled when a courtroom defendant whispers thank you to testifying officer ll cool j as rafe deed as he leaves the witness stand in the opening sequences of this film you are given the explanation you will see mr cool j s devilish detective partner dylan mcdermott as frances laz lazerov decide not to murder damien dante wayans as isaiah charles the cops in the city of edison are so corrupt they shoot their suspects steal their money and snort their dope whether he s out to impress his girlfriend herein called pussy or win a pulitzer the city s corruption does not sit well with the noble mr timberlake br br timberlake decides to investigate the corruption which reaches both unexpected scope and life threatening levels of danger writer director david j burke keeps the film above water but just barely ll cool j beats timberlake in the pop star to movie star sweepstakes aka the rapper to actor progression mr mcdermott has fun with his role lending gravitas to the proceedings are sagely supporting actors morgan freeman as moses ashford and kevin spacey as levon wallace f r a t means first response assault and tactical but it s more important to know that edison force stars justin timberlake and ll cool j not morgan freeman and kevin spacey who seems lost br br edison david j burke justin timberlake ll cool j morgan freeman dylan mcdermott ',
'daniell steel s daddy what a refreshing story this movie glorified the importance of the family and the importance of parents in the lives of their children how rare is that in these times of heather has two mommies or what ever you fill in the blanks it is easy to see why this theme is not for everyone with the father s roles being prominent i was hoping this would be another daniell steel saga how disappointing to have it end every character was important and did a fabulous job carrying their role i would have loved to see each character develop over the years i loved this movie it is one i will defiantly watch every time it s on good story good acting and i hope this isn t a spoiler but no obtrusive sex or bad language yes it touched my heart warning get the kleenex ready what i find sad is that this side of family life is rarely depicted today in our entertainment be it television or movie s daniell if your listening you go girl give us more ',
'a huge disappointment from writer hamm and director dante their previous collaboration on the first season s homecoming was twisted and darkly hilarious in all the right ways this poor handling of an intriguing premise left me bewildered the supposed payoff showing generic aliens extracting something from the brains of the infected psychopaths was completely unsatisfying and explained nothing if the point of the story was an extraterrestrial cleaning of the planet of it s human infestation why did they go about it in such a gratuitously sadistic and misogynistic fashion why not just unleash a completely lethal virus a la stephen king s the stand instead of having the male population butcher the females i kept hoping the episode would improve as i kept watching but it just got more pretentious and preposterous the religious subtext simply seemed forced but it was clear sam hamm must have thought it was profound by the weight he gave it i like a lot of both dante and hamm s work but this was just unwatchable ',
'family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about one man daddy has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kids grow up one all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances yes i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent this true to life is one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too are parents a must see for those who care about their families ',
'i gave this stars because it has a lot of interesting themes many here have already mentioned from the domestic violence to sexuality and many of the taboos therein outside of the gore i really would not call this horror so much as i would science fiction br br it s bleak depressing and hopeless while i don t mind a less than cheery ending i m really very tired of the humans suck clich that s central to every movie i know you can t get a liberal arts degree today without bowing to the alter of self hatred as a member of the human race but how s bout as a writer director we pretend we are different than everyone else in the pack and notice that the aliens killing the human race are evil right now if you are reading this and believe that humanity deserves to die just go out find a lake and swim til your arms are tired this way you won t be around to direct the next film or write the next book telling me i deserve to die for being alive it s silly not thoughtful and boring ',
'it s heart warming to see a movie that doesn t bash males in this one the wife mother leaves her family to get in touch with herself or pursue her libido the father stays with and nurtures the kids letting neither his work nor his love life interfere with his love of and responsibility to them ',
'warner bros made many potboilers in the s and most of them are fast paced economical and very entertaining i really love how the studio exploited the less glamorous elements of our daily life this is one of warner s few hard edged melodramas that simply doesn t work edward g robinson plays a ruthless editor of newspaper who resurrects the year old story of a murderess with tragic consequences robinson gives a lively performance but he is surrounded by actors that don t cut the mustard h b warner aline macmahon and boris karloff are good but the bad acting of frances starr and anthony bushell in the second leads really hurts the movie starr is particularly bad during her big dramatic scene near the end of the movie in addition the moralistic tone of the film seems ridiculous in the context of pre code hollywood leroy s direction is full of innovative visual touches but he cannot overcome the bad acting and the unintentionally funny situations sol polito s camera work is strong somehow this piece of dreck got an oscar nomination for best picture in a year that gave us m dracula and frankenstein ',
'i must admit when i read the description of the genre on netflix as steamy romance i was a little bit skeptical steamy in a movie from i was prepared for disappointment and when i realized it was shot entirely in black white i knew my erotic hopes were dashed br br boy was i wrong not only does this film have all of the elements of a steamy romance the discovery of first love fear of the secret being found out a sudden unexpected end but at times this movie was downright erotic you will soon forget that it is shot in black white the cinematography deserves every accolade it has received over the years and the performances from the two stars essy persson and anna gael are intense and memorable ok so they re both in their mid twenties trying to play school girls it s do you really expect teenagers from the s to be able to effectively explore a lesbian love story like this many adult women were still trying to come to grips with their sexuality back then anyone looking for real teens here is expecting too much br br i think this movie was way ahead of its time the level of eroticism was an unexpected pleasure yet it still managed to leave a lot to the imagination opting instead to give us poetic descriptions to add to what we were shown br br i have no doubt lesbians will identify with the characters here as for you straight guys who love watching lesbians in action although it won t be all you expect i don t think you ll be too too disappointed ',
'a little girl s dead body is found stripped of all possible means of identification when it is discovered that one leg is longer than the other it is assumed to be the body of a couple s missing daughter after this trauma the couple separates and the mother becomes addicted to tranquilizers and leads a miserable existence all of this changes when one day many years later she receives a phone call from her daughter with the help of an ex cop and a reporter she sets out on a journey to determine if her daughter is indeed alive los sin nombre is a mess plot wise moves at an achingly slow pace and is completely unscary the saving grace is emma vilarasau who does an outstanding job as the desperate mother the best part of the movie is the ending but i m not sure it is worth enduring the rest of the film beware of the english subtitles on the recent r release they aren t very accurate ',
'this is a film not porn br br this is a wonderful film full of tender moments and memories a beautiful piece of work excellent for intelligent viewers only br br if you are a film lover a romantic a person who has loved deeply this is your film br br it has a beautiful surreal quality fine acting and directing watching this film made me remember my first love br br thi is a film for those who want to reflect on life love and the meaning of loss br br highly recommended for all film lovers ',
'i m not alone in admiring the first superman movie a film that richard donner executed masterfully i am also not alone in scorning richard lester s superman which brings us to the richard donner cut of the same movie sadly it is still an absolute abomination br br superman s world is one where suspension of disbelief is required in strong doses but superman stretches things too far it doesn t matter who directed superman because the script insults the intelligence of a first grader in a sense there is no plot because the characters have zero motivation to act the way they do unlike the original superman with or without his powers superman s strength or lack thereof is handled in the least believable manner there is too much to criticize so i will not bother i condemn this movie perhaps the slapstick in the lester version is more appropriate to the moronic script this movie is based on super duper bad ',
'it was a serious attempt to show the developing sexuality of two schoolgirls and did not try to exploit its fact even by today s standards the film is interesting and provocative br br therese and isabelle are both attending the same girl s school therese is energetic intelligent and becomes a mentor for the innocent naive sweet isabelle she guides her through a number of exotic experiences including a trip through an exclusive brothel into her first lesbian liaison and indirectly into her first heterosexual experience br br the film does not exploit any sex nor is there an abundance of nudity the imagery is effective but sometimes the camera lingers too long and the story goes slowly br br the director radley metzger went on to make a number of explicit erotic films under the name of henry paris he always has extremely detailed stories good acting and very high standards of cinematography br br artistically however this is perhaps his most complete his later attempts supplied for entertainment whereas therese and isabelle was a study into the nature of youthful eroticism ',
'i grew up on the superman ii theatrical version s t and as a kid i loved it more than part i since not only did it contain more superman and three superman type villains it started off with a bang the best clark kent to superman transformations and rescue scenes kids no longer had to impatiently wait for superman to appear on screen as in part i now as an adult i can see how the mighty had fallen with s t see my review i ve always heard of the back story on how they prematurely and unjustifiably fired the original s director richard donner from part ii it must have been a rarity back then to film two separate movies simultaneously now it s common back to the future and matrix for example unfortunately after finally seeing the richard donner cut or s rd i still can t fully recommend it gone was the great superman change scene the entire paris rescue as was the wonderful recap of part i in s t s opening in fact they all but wrote the words previously on superman in s rd the special effects weren t great in either part i or s t but s rd they were mostly downright laughable such as lois falling from the daily planet window i will admit some new scenes worked and some they took out were welcomed departures such as any scene in the honeymoon suite overall if you grew up on s t as i did and loved it as a child not nitpicking as i do as an adult you should absolutely see s rd as it s almost a brand new childhood experience with dozens of new scenes spoiler alert unfortunately the worst change comes last gone was also the weird amnesia kiss from s t replaced with the exact same ending as i this is not only a lazy unoriginal copout it doesn t make sense on why clark would go back to that diner if those events never actually happened and will he continue to turn back time for every confrontation ',
'we watched this in my women s health issues class to point out how women are treated inferior to men in many societies and i absolutely loved this movie i plan on trying to get a copy of it myself to watch the story is very touching and i would recommend it to anyone i am a fan of different cultures and this movie was just what i needed this is a movie for the whole family despite its rating this is a movie i will show to my children the professor of our class meant for the movie to primarily be a too to educate about women but this movie was more than that it is one of those movies that will forever stick out in my mind and will be a favorite ',
'so we get so see added footage of brando interesting but not exactly oscar worthy stuff susannah york was hardly a slouch new scene where lois finds out clark is superman is slightly unbelievable in that he doesn t notice that there are blanks coming out of the gun instead of real bullets real bullets would have penetrated his clothes and then bounced off him onto the floor but forget that let s listen to donner make fun of lester s version that made more logical sense the president talks of the zod defacing the washington monument when it was originally mount rushmore tweaking that scene made that line quite absurd superman s freedom of the press line sounded silly compared to care to step outside which was delivered better and had a fitting connection to clark s earlier scene in the truck stop then there is the ending with the turn back the world to go back in time effect it turned back everything in the whole movie and made you wonder where exactly the rocket aimed for hackensack n j ever went since it doesn t free zod and company any more ',
'i was going to bed with my gf last night and while she was brushing her teeth i flipped channels until i came across this chinese movie called the king of masks at first i thought it was going to be a kung fu movie so i started watching it and then it immediately captured me in and i had to finish it br br the little girl in the movie was absolutely adorble she was such a great actor for being so little maybe the fact it was in chinese so the english was dubbed made it harder for me to tell but she really seemed to be in character perfectly i felt so bad for the girl as she kept trying to please her boss but everything just turned out rotten lol even when she brings him another grandson just so he can pass on his art it turns out that kid was kidnapped so he gets arrested and has days to live lol whatever she touches in an effort to be nice to her grandpa just backfires br br in the end he sees how much love is in her and teaches her the art of masks which is just so heartwarming after all the mishaps in the movie br br definitely a gem and totally original br br scott ',
'superman ii the richard donner cut should be a fan s dream come true at long last footage only seen in photos and scenes that only existed on the printed page would finally come to life a director that was unable to complete his vision would have the opportunity to have his vision restored it seems like a winning situation and then you start watching this assembly of footage and you realize this esoteric dream is a very real nightmare of sloppiness and incompetence while it s entirely possible that no movie could compete with the finished perfect version each of us has imagined over the years it really should have been a thrill to finally see this project and it is only a very few times br br you know things are shaky when the very first bit of text on screen looks like home brew computer graphics but then we start seeing new footage alternates from superman the movie for the trial and that first bit of hesitation fades away hey this is pretty neat things are alright for these few fleeting moments until we see footage from stm intermixed with new effects for this project and it doesn t convince at all and from this point on it never ever lets up it s probably not right to judge a movie because of bad visual effects but when this is supposedly the direct follow up to a movie whose tag line was you ll believe a man can fly it s difficult to believe anything shown on screen here the best effects in this are from the original productions br br another issue with this re cut a lot of it just doesn t make sense the only reason any of it really works is because we ve all seen the theatrical version of superman ii a movie that does make sense lester s superman ii fills in the holes of this assembly part of this could be because donner didn t get to complete shooting the other part could be because the makers of this project were intent on using as little lester material as possible what we end up with is an assembly of footage that makes superman iv look airtight and coherent br br after viewing this one gets the sense that while lester was faithful and comfortable using donner material michael thau and his team were extremely disrespectful towards anything filmed by lester the best scenes in the donner cut are the ones lifted relatively intact from the released version of superman ii that includes the moon sequence and the diner sequence not ironically both were filmed by donner but anything else from that movie filmed by lester is re edited in such a hasty fashion that it now makes lester seem like a ham fisted know nothing while lester honored the donner material lester here is thrown under the bus br br so is there anything good in this release well marlon brando is in it and that s neat to see in fact watching any of the material shot by donner is neat since it was all filmed at the same time as superman the movie but that only highlights the problems of this release any of the major scenes really just lois jumping and scenes with marlon brando would have been better served as completed scenes in a deleted scenes section instead they are shoe horned into a nonsensical narrative with inferior performances many alternate takes from familiar scenes are used sloppy edits and bad decisions br br watch the opening scene at the daily planet why are we looking at jackie cooper s back as he calls for lois and clark at the end why do we have lois walking into her dark apartment only to have that followed by jackie cooper walking into a dark bathroom turning the lights on i was initially confused by this because i expected to see lois the entire assembly is filled with questionable choices like this br br battle scenes are a mess too with no geography between cuts it s just random action of course the major action scenes were shot by lester and his material is only used as a bridge to the next set of donner outtakes or alternates they should have used more of lester s footage but probably had too much pride to admit that br br the sloppiness extends to the military missile as well as noted elsewhere the missile shown in the donner cut bears the designation xk while we all know it s the xk a blind man in stm knows that the producers of this assembly who tried so hard to honor the original film dropped the ball less than five minutes in and that mistake is indicative of the quality of the entire production for all the supposed care that was put into this the final product has an air of shoddiness to it that is inescapable br br the entire affair would probably be easier to digest if warner s didn t make this a separate release here in the states as it is we re expected to pay for what is essentially a bonus disc of deleted scenes with a play all option it s really only worth one viewing so that we can finally see the legendary cut scenes but after that initial viewing i expect that this will be an excellent magnet for dust and little else i know after my experience of watching this i had new respect for lester s version it s by no means perfect but lester realized the deficiencies that were in the script that stand out here in bold relief he managed to make a movie that has entertained for many years and will continue to do so while this new re cut will most likely only be remembered as a footnote in that films history ',
'i admit to being somewhat jaded about the movie genre of a young child softening the heart of his her reluctant guardian i ve seen enough of them baby boom kolya about a boy mostly martha and to some extent whale rider to expect to be bored by the formula what held my attention in the king of masks was the grimness of the setting small town china in the s extreme poverty was the norm and girl children were considered so worthless to poor parents that they killed them at birth or gave them to whomever would take them on the black market when wang discovers his purchased grandson whom he s nicknamed doggie is a granddaughter he initially casts her out even though she s showed great promise as street performing heir even after he reluctantly takes her back he s not too upset when she s kidnapped the film is gritty then showing the lengths to which a young street smart girl had to go to survive in that society br br the two lead performances are believable and beguiling in their societal context in a western society one would expect at least a hint of resentment from wang at not having achieved more material success wang so thoroughly accepts his station as a celebrated artist with low societal status though that i did too while doggie exhibits a level of precociousness and cunning that would be suspect in a modern suburban child it s completely believable in the context of a kid constantly in survival mode in a society that treats poor girls like garbage and after learning that her previous seven owners have physically and mentally abused her her fierce attachment to wang makes perfect sense br br the peek at small town life in a foreign country the naturalness of the two lead actors the surprising plot twists and of course the heartwarming resolution all contribute to a very watchable film ',
'i was fascinated as to how truly bad this movie was was the viewer supposed to learn something or reflect on anything here what was up with the pumpkins was i supposed to be impressed with the motel shots does it matter that there are some garbage bags on a rooftop across the street of a hotel why does the narrator unsuccessfully mock the people he interviews it is so obvious that he edited out the really informative parts of his interviews to achieve mockery the best part of the movie was the interview with the film professor who tells us how bad this movie will be even before it is finished br br i am truly amazed i believe that the creator is struggling to become an intellectual or is trying to impress the intellectual community ',
'this movie is the best film ever i can t remember the last time a movie has drawn tears out of me with a tear in my eye i admire this movie it has all the elements that a good movie must have excellent dialogues music acting story plot a story of friendship courage kindliness and loyalty between a street performing who famous to the king of masks and a little girl that sold as a boy in serf bazaar little girl liked to be his granddaughter and king of masks liked a grandson they were not conventional in real every scene they were together was priceless the camera work is flawless and grips you the acting is inspired xu zhu was excellent as the king of masks renying zhou doggie looks pretty and played her character very well zhigang zhao as liang sao lang was great he played his helpful and kindhearted character extremely well if you have t this movie try it once do watch it ',
'i was expecting a documentary that focused on the tobacco industry in north carolina instead i watched a man who rues the fact that his great grandfather lost his tobacco empire to the duke family and this went on and on if mr mcelwee s family had prevailed over the dukes i doubt that mr mcelwee would have any problems with the death toll caused by tobacco related diseases i grew up near the area where mr mcelwee s family began it tobacco business i expected more than mcewee s continual focus on his family i learned very little about the history of tobacco in the nc economy and the ramifications to the state s economy by tighter regulation of tobacco the countless references to the movie bright leaves are out of place so what if gary cooper played mr mcelwee s great grandfather does the viewer gain any understanding of the role of tobacco in the north carolina economy by the showing of old film clips of a fictionalized film i didn t ',
'verhoeven s movie was utter and complete garbage he s a disgusting hack of a director and should be ashamed by his own admission he read chapters of the book got bored and decided to make the whole thing up from scratch br br heinlein would have never supported that trash if he d been alive to see it it basically steals the name mocks politics of the book which is a good portion of it and throws in some ta so the average idiot american moviegoer doesn t get bored br br this anime isn t perfect but it s at least mostly accurate as best i can tell ',
'when you go at an open air cinema under the greek summer night you usually don t care what the movie is edison started really good with some good effort from the singers who want to be actors and a once again great morgan freeman but in a movie there is usually a good start to catch audience done a bit boring yet story filling middle of the movie that is more about characters and less about action done and the third part is something really good so that you can remember the movie when you see elite police officers packed with weapons that can demolish a building shoot at a guy behind a car fail to hit him even once while he kills all but and then the guy takes out a flame thrower to kill the rest you realise that the greek summer sky filled with stars is way too good to be distracted by a movie like this ',
'wang bianlian is an old street performer who is known as a king of masks for his mastery of sichuan change art liang is a famous opera performer of sichuan art and respects wang as an artist and as a person liang is worried that a precious art shouldn t die with wang and so he sows the seed of an heir in to wang s mind the film is about prejudices male domination state of art values and most importantly warmth br br i can t recommend this film enough the whole film is in loops everything has a significance its a long story which has been edited so well that the length of the film is just minutes a total satisfaction for five minutes it is an artistic film next five minutes its a sad film next five minutes its a thriller it just keeps changing its mood like its protagonist changes his face last scene on the rope is phenomenal story and script is flawless actors are brilliant both the protagonists are artists you can tell the way they have performed very impressive it was not even nominated for oscars that year english patient got the best film oscar and in the foreign film category kolya won kolya was just ok and about english patient the lesser said the better watch it ',
'the author sets out on a journey of discovery of his roots in the southern tobacco industry because he believes that the completely and deservedly forgotten movie bright leaf is about an ancestor of his its not and he in fact discovers nothing of even mild interest in this absolutely silly and self indulgent glorified home movie suitable for screening at the director s drunken family reunions but certainly not for commercial or even non commercial release a good reminder of why most independent films are not picked up by major studios because they are boring irrelevant and of no interest to anyone but the director and his her immediate circles avoid at all costs ',
'one of the most heart warming foreign films i ve ever seen br br the young girl is an amazing talent stellar performances by her doggie the old man the king of masks and liang the living boddhisatva br br spoiler the deplorable treatment of children especially females is disturbing br br loved the music the original chinese dialog heightens the emotional intensity of the performances and the story br br this is a must see enjoyable family film although not for very young children would have rated the dvd release even higher if the soundtrack had been transferred better onto the dvd and the transfer had included the widescreen version ',
' the curse of frankenstein sticks faithfully to mary shelley s story for one word of the title which wouldn t be so bad if the changes were any good at all the tragedy of the creature destroying frankenstein s family has been completely excised and replaced with nothing the heart and moral centre of the story is gone it doesn t help that this frankenstein is a conniving devious murderer he deserves everything he gets the plot is basically a shallow checklist of frankenstein clichs even taken on its own terms this is rubbish a bland rambling film featuring a shite looking creature with a pudding bowl haircut as it s the first of hammer s horror films directed by terence fisher and starring peter cushing and christopher lee its place in horror history is secure but it s crap ',
'wow what a wonderful film the script is nearly perfect it appears this is the only film written by minglun wei i hope he has more stories in him br br the acting is sublime renying zhou as doggie was amazing very natural talent and xu zhu was a delight very believable as the jaded old traditionalist br br the soundtrack was very effective guiding without being overwhelming br br if only more movies like this were made whether in hollywood or hong kong a family friendly well acted well written well directed near perfect gem ',
'nintendo you ers how could you do this to me i can t believe it this movie is actually worse than the first one i went to see this at the theatre with my brother because my mother forced me to tag along oh god where do i even begin the plot sucked the voice acting sucked the animation sucked the ending really sucked if you liked this movie you suck too and to futuramafan who said this was the greatest movie ever you are a tool plain and simple this isn t a movie for anyone but crack addled ten year olds with game boys who think pikachu is god i m still cry to this day thinking about that horrible turd of a movie and then there was pikachu s adventure don t even get me started on that horrible mess of a film it is in all truth one of the most boring experiences of my entire life don t go watch this at any costs br br bottom line go out find every copy of this movie that you can and burn it burn them all and then proceed to rent a good movie like aliens or bowling for columbine or even back to the future ',
'the filming is pleasant and the environment is keenly realistic i liked that it boldly redresses conceptions of the many difficult moral and social morays of the s chinese mainland countryside as well as more basic human questions i felt i could get a real sense of the times recreated even in splendid shots of traditional chinese theatre and in purist depictions of street living it seemed worthwhile to experience the interwoven role which buddhism plays is probably the most true to form both in its menial and in its philosophic aspect perhaps the most effective that i ve seen in chinese film casting is great images are memorable acting is solid enough thematically puerile but still rich enough to compliment the vehicle of its expression ',
'now i have never ever seen a bad movie in all my years but what is with songs in the movie what physiological meaning does it have wow some demented pokmon shows up and they multiply i can get a seizure from this animie is pointless the makers of it are pointless its a big marketing scheme look just cut down on songs and they will get a good rating i reckon that this movie would have been fine if they put out a message you must see all the pokmon episodes to understand whats going on and it is not a film it is just an animation it should be on video br br ps i ll give it a because i just got bucks i could not give it a half because there s no halves ',
'the king of masks is a beautifully told story that pits the familial gender preference towards males against human preference for love and companionship set in s china during a time of floods we meet wang an elderly street performer whose talents are magical and capture the awe of all who witness him when a famous operatic performer sees and then befriends wang he invites wang to join their troupe however we learn that wang s family tradition allows him only to pass his secrets to a son learning that wang is childless wang is encouraged to find an heir before the magic is lost forever taking the advice to heart wang purchases an year old to fulfill his legacy he would teach his new son doggie the ancient art of silk masks soon wang discovers a fact about doggie that threatens the rare and dying art br br together wang and doggie create a bond and experience the range of emotions that invariably accompany it the story is absorbing the setting is serene and the costuming simple summarily it is an international award winning art film which can t help but to move and inspire ',
'pokemon the movie was a terrible film unlike the first one this is not a good film at all the graphics were decent but the story was flat and no real drama was built up in it in the first one the interaction between the characters were decent the subtraction of brock and addition of tracey was bad tracey really doesn t have much to say or do and unlike brock offers no comic relief the only good points is you get to see misty actually get jelous over ash and her early brooding over being called his girlfriend was entertaining overall this film isn t worth renting and the short movie before didn t do anything for me or my wife and we do consider ourselves pokemon fans oh well maybe the next one will be better cant ge t much worse ',
'this is a superb movie suitable for all but the very youngest though accessibility for younger people was marred at least in the print which i saw by the use of some unfortunate choice of english sub titling for much of the film it is almost impossible to guess in which time period it is set there is no modern technology shown not even the ubiquitous chinese bicycle just a drab almost monochrome everyday life against which is contrasted the dazzling display of the sezuan opera and of celebratory fireworks even when a group of soldiers refer to their imminent departure for a theatre of war this could still be any time in the past years br br but then we briefly see a motor car late s early s style and we realise that we are watching a china on the verge of huge upheavals and that much of the world we are seeing is about to be swept away in the cataclysm of world war and the communist revolution br br which makes the central character s desire to adhere to old customs and traditions all the more poignant br br but the film also raises issues which are of vital importance even today both within china and in other parts of the world the inequality between boys and girls men and women the trade for various purposes in young children corruption in society injustice the importance of friendship br br maybe i m reading too much into this film but i don t think so i also think that it is a scandal that films of this calibre are often not shown in the united kingdom whilst dross is passed off as quality material br br but don t get me started on that ',
'much worse than the original it was actually painful to sit through and it barely held my six year old s interest br br introduction of some new pokemon is marginally interesting but storyline is extra thin dialogue is still bad and music is mediocre watch the television show instead it s much better ',
'king of masks bian lian in china is a shockingly beautiful and profoundly touching film winner of awards from around the world this film based on a true story centers on wang bianlian a street performer in s china who is growing older but has no heir to pass on his art of face change opera he has a unique talent of quickly changing masks in performance and no one knows how he does it he has a longing desire to have a grandson as his art is a family heirloom that can only be passed on to a male heir we then go to the streets and see that people are selling their children because they can t afford to take care of them some are even begging to take their daughters for free because daughters are not worth much in this society wang bianlian s story goes on from there br br the film was so astonishingly good the acting was amazing and the issues were so weighty and well addressed there is the gender inequality and the depressing fact that in this time and place no one wants a little girl also interesting to note is that the famed opera actor who always plays a woman and is known as the living bodhisattva is a man who dresses as a woman and while he is famous and well respected he regards himself as something low a half woman as we go further into the film the face the issues of human slave trade and its demand and thus the lack of a possible solution for it the brutality and corruption of the military and police and the helplessness and lack of power any individual can face due to unfortunate events or even good intentions br br this is definitely one of the best movies i have ever seen in my life and xu zhu the actor who plays wang bianlian presents yet another beautiful performance ',
'i recently watched this again and there s another version which is shorter i get the feeling they are the same movie but i would like to know the difference br br one is japanese and no pikachu short is all i can come up with ohtherwise why vote for the same movie twice br br prof ivy was rather boring she sounded as if she was almost asleep no expression at all with the few lines she had br br this was enjoyable enough but there wasn t much to it at all br br a collector whos after lugia he has no plan to destroy the world and the usual characters who try to stop him because trying to capture lugia causes a lot of destruction br br the pokemon movies that follow are slightly better deoxys poke is great with no almost here ',
'this is how movies are supposed to be made a fascinating setting characters about whom you come to care deeply writing and editing that move the plot efficiently and build suspense this is a wonderful film deeply moving without being sentimental highly recommended ',
'i figured that it s about time i let this one out pokmon fans are suffering in america these days why because we rely on kids wb and kids entertainment to provide us with our beloved series and movies as far as the series goes they do a pretty good job in bringing the fun and magic of the japanese versions to television so what is their problem when it comes to the movies honestly now i have seen all three pokmon movies in japanese and i will definitely be seeing the fourth one they are excellent movies they are all enjoyable and fun to watch and after seeing pokmon in theaters i can t help but wonder how these american producers read the japanese scripts the way it appears it seems that they read and see something that says insert empty moral here in big bold faced letters it definitely appears that way as they used the same wonderful dubbing methods they used on msb extreme sarcasm there and created this crap br br possible spoilers from here on br br well i guess i should first talk about pikachu s rescue adventure my first gripe with this came with no narration i guess they got enough bad comments on the pokdex narration that plagued pikachu s vacation and instead of going with a caring gentle woman s voice as appeared in pikachu no natsu yasumi and pikachu tankentai they just cut the narration all together this wouldn t have been a problem except for one thing did anyone really understand why the exeggcute didn t let togepi go until the end possibly the fans but i m sure not the parents then there s the theme song i couldn t help but roll my eyes at this one the japanese theme song was tankentai wo tsukurou and was sung by japanese children it was fun and enjoyable this one nauseating now one of my favorite parts of the short was the dancing kireihana nice music fun to watch that s changed with the bellossom the music sucked for one but on top of that they had all the pokmon talk during the music which turned out to be jumpy annoying and just unnecessary oh and then there s the poliwhirl who thinks he s a poliwrath you d think that guys that work with these characters constantly would at least learn what they are basically not much could save this little ill fated dub which is very unfortunate considering its potential but i haven t touched on the worst of it yet br br you d think that the warning signs would ve been apparent to me when i received my issue of nintendo power for some unfathomable reason i had been placing some faith in kids and the wb my thoughts were well they screwed up on the first movie but the second is different as far as the theme goes so they should do well that in mind i just didn t pay attention to the warning signs i encountered in the theaters when the trailers said you will believe that one person can make all the difference with the way they said that at every turn i was hoping that this would not turn into a moral fest like msb did at the end of the english version then comes nintendo power in which i see all my fears realized in the words the main feature the power of one at that point i became a bit more uneasy the power of one not a good sign however i still kept some of my false faith big mistake br br sitting in the theater i was literally getting stomach cramps watching another movie which i loved in japanese being turned into complete and utter junk i hear comments that say it was better because the moral was more subtle i can see a point in that since they didn t pander this thing repeating it over and over like in msb however it did more damage than anything else in this movie first of all the legend that was read throughout was changed a bit to read the world turns to ash ah hah so ash is the chosen one whatever in the japanese version the inhabitants of arshia needed a pokmon trainer to carry out their traditional ceremony this time he s the chosen one a greater way that this did damage was to lugia lugia was one of the coolest characters in a pokmon movie when the movie was about lugia in this one lugia is forced to take a back seat to ash in the scene where they re flying back to the main island lugia and ash are discussing the conditions of lugia s existence not that ash is going to make all the difference overall in this category ash wasn t really the one person that would make the difference since he was helped by many along the way br br a lot of the other stuff is kind of nit picking furura s flute song wasn t nearly as sweet and enjoyable as the japanese one jirarudan s speech to them saying his collection started with a mew card ugh even worse misty s outrage originally concerned the way moltres and zapdos were being held why didn t you put them in pokballs when you caught them this is like caging them to be displayed much different from whining about him thinking pokmon are things to be collected like stamps if there were any real redeeming values in this they came from team rocket some pretty funny lines not really to make me laugh out loud but more to make me giggle and slightly ease the pains in my stomach well that was officially the last american pokmon movie i m going to see i ve imported the third one and find it very enjoyable i would rather not see another japanese movie be ruined in the same fashion as the first two i ll be importing the fourth one as well forget you kids wb and kids you have forsaken me for the last time ',
'this movie was excellent a sad truth to how culture tends to clash with the sexes this is just one big warm fuzzy type of movie you have the master who is steeped in tradition and kind hearted in his own way doggie despite being a girl thing to win his affections and you top it off with one cute monkey with a thousand facial expressions this equals on big happy movie in the end this movie does a good job at showing how steeped in tradition one can be so steeped that they are willing to die without sharing their secrets you see sides to a culture never seen before which helps enhance the drama that unfolds near the end of the picture the cinema photography is excellent in particular the opening parade sequence with all the sparkers bound to be in oscar contention for best foreign film ',
'a cowboy sympathetic to the plight of a nearby indian tribe is wrongly accused in the rape and murder of the chief s daughter leading to much hate and violence br br this crackpot nudie feature is fun to look at though thoroughly impossible to defend on any artistic level the terrible costumes and the fact that all the indians are obviously white makes this look more like a live action cartoon than the serious production that it s press materials pretends it to be br br in short the plentiful nudity the real reason for watching this is good everything else is not there s definitely better examples of both genres br br more interesting is that the ramrodder was filmed at the infamous spahn movie ranch and features not one but two members of the manson family catherine share and bobby beausoleil who was probably already in the can for murder at the time this hit the soda stained screens of the pussycat theater ',
'this movie is worth seeing for the visual beauty and moving acting alone but there also is an interesting cultural subtext of alienation women and performers both brought together in a supporting role of a transvestite opera star are both doomed to be relegated to subserviant roles in china this makes the unlikely bonding between an aged street performer and a young girl even stronger as a triumph over the native culture br br the only problem i had with this movie was the tendency of the soundtrack to swell up with emotion rendered unnecessary by the actors performance br br a welcome alternative to unsatisfying summer action movies ',
'this is an awful film yea the girls are pretty but its not very good the plot having a cowboy get involved with an indian maiden would be interesting if the sex didn t get in the way well okay it might be interesting but its not because its so badly paced and and only partly acted i can only imagine what the close ups of the dancing tushes looked like on a big screen probably more laughable then they do on tv i won t even mention the topless knife fight between two women who are tied together and spend the whole thing chest to chest never read about that in the old west this is a film that requires liberal use of fast forward br br i like schlock films but this is ridiculous there is a reason that i don t go for this sort of films and that they tend not be very good the plot taking a back seat to breasts the original nudie cuties as they are called were originally nudist films or films where there was no touching but as the adult industry began to grow the film makers either tried to be clever or tried to exploit something else in order to put butts in seats the clever ones were very few which only left hacks who were of limited talent the comedies often came off best with the humor approaching the first grade level infantile but harmlessly fun something that could rarely be said about any other genre cross dressed as a nudie br br the ramrodder looks good and has a couple of nice pieces but its done in by being neither western nor sex film br br i need not watch this again br br of interest to probably no one the rapist and killer in the film was played by bobby beausoleil a member of the manson family who was arrested for murdering a school teacher not long after filming wrapped br br obviously these sort of things will ruin some peoples lives ',
'robert a heinlein s classic novel starship troopers has been messed around with in recent years in everything to paul verhoeven s film to a tv series to a number of games but none of these so to speak has really captured the spirit of his novel the games are usually unrelated the tv series was more of a spin off and the less said about verhoeven s film the better little do most know however that in japan an animated adaptation had already been done released the year of heinlein s death and believe it or not despite its differences this part animated series is plot wise the most faithful adaptation of heinlein s classic br br the most obvious plus to this series is the presence of the powered armor exoskeletons something we were deprived of in verhoeven s film like the book the series focuses more on the characters and their relationships than on action and space travel though we see a fair amount of each while events happen differently than in the book the feel of the book s plot is present rico and carmen have a romantic entanglement but it s only slightly more touched upon than in the book while some may believe the dialogue and character interaction to be a bit inferior to the book it gets a bit of the anime treatment but what did you expect but it s far superior to the film heinlein s political views are merely excised as opposed to the film where they are reversed the big payoff of the series however is the climatic battle on klendathu between the troopers and the bugs aliens which features the kind of action from the powered armor suits we would have like to have seen in a film version br br overall i enjoyed this series because i wanted to see a vision closer to that of heinlein and i think they did pretty well with this if you can find this series give it a look ',
'ok so i hear about this new justin timberlake movie coming out which features some pretty big names i mean great actors like the freeman aka morgan freeman an asset to hollywood however completely wasted in this film then we got kevin spacey who i ve been a great fan of ever since i watched american beauty and the usual suspects both of these great actors probably signed on to the movie thinking it was going to be a great movie as i did when i heard the story then enter a fresh faced justin timberlake i say fresh faced because this is his first movie and those rotten tomatoes haven t hit him yet well the reason for that i might add is because no one will ever see this movie or even bother reading this review the movie is so terrible that when i got into the first minutes of it the characters were so one dimensional that it makes some bible characters look like the don corleone they got the one liners and sound bite worthy stuff the token troubled black guy ll cool j who is with a gorgeous woman who he otherwise would not even belong with in real life the captain is this short whiny guy who speaks in such a high tone and what crappy movie would be complete without the hero becoming richer because of an experience oh and lots of gun fire i mean a whole lot spoiler not the kind of gun fire that leaves everyone in the police force who s crooked dead and the hero prevails they got flame throwers and rocket launchers really no kidding br br bottom line if you want to see edison its because you are a great fan of one of the actors or a great fan of justin timberlake to all the year old girls out there enjoy i wish i had more hands because then i would have more thumbs because this movie is so terrible because then i could give it so many thumbs down that thumbs down would no longer mean anything because this movie is so terrible because it sucks so badly that it made me laugh out of frustration about the story line because it just would not end because the firing and yelling just kept happening br br may gd have mercy on us all and save us from these terrible movies well it could be worst another rnb terrible actor turned singer turned terrible actor is usher hehe check out in the mix lol or even get rich or die trying now the special thing about that movie is that its got year old men playing or even younger teens i could go on with these ',
'as i was watching this film on video last night i kept getting these tingles that told me this one will endure i ve a feeling i ll be watching this again and again for years to come br br it s got all the timeless qualities you could ask for in a story film and even though some cultural references are obscure for me a western viewer at the core this is a universal tale ',
'roy rogers stars as jesse james and his look alike gambler man clint burns george gabby hayes is mr rogers s ex pal sheriff gabby gale storm jane fillmore and sally payne polly morgan are a noteworthy team as two reporters on the lookout for stories about the elusive outlaw hero br br of course mistaken identity impersonation is a plot development since rogers essays a dual role rogers is charming as usual but there is nothing really elevating this his performance above the ordinary any potential to deliver a memorable jekyll hyde performance is done in by poor material the better pair to watch are ms storm and ms paye as the st louis journal reporters they are the film s highlight the songs are fine though badly synched br br jesse james at bay joseph kane roy rogers george gabby hayes gale storm ',
'when tradition dictates that an artist must pass his great skills and magic on to an heir the aging and very proud street performer known to all as the king of masks becomes desperate for a young man apprentice to adopt and cultivate br br his warmth and humanity tho find him paying a few dollars for a little person displaced by china s devastating natural disasters in this case massive flooding in the s br br he takes his new year old companion onto his straw houseboat to live with his prized and beautiful monkey general only to discover that the he child is a she child br br his life is instantly transformed as the love he feels for this little slave girl becomes entwined in the stupifying tradition that requires him to pass his art on only to a young man br br there are many stories inside this one many people are touched and the culture of china opens itself for our western eye to observe thousands of years of heritage boil down into a teacup of drama and few will leave this dvd behind with a dry eye br br the technical transfer itself is not that great as i found the sound levels all over the meter and could actually see the video transfer lines in several parts of the movie highly recommended stars ',
'i saw this film at its premier at sundance br br since american beauty is a movie that had something to say i had hopes for towelhead unfortunately it was a disappointment in fact of countless movies i ve seen in almost a dozen sundance festivals towelhead is the only sundance movie i ve ever wanted to walk out early from br br the worst problem with towelhead is that it so obviously originates with a collection of provocative concepts concerning cultural stereotypes rather than with an organic human drama the screenplay derives from the novel of the same name by alicia erian the famous edith wharton quote comes to mind i have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author s political views that observation is especially devastating for towelhead because its political views are so stale and simplistic if there ever was a time when towelhead s white male villains condescending portrayals of blacks ironic treatments of foreign cultures etc were fresh it s long past br br for a more detailed review please look up any of the many professional reviews available online almost all rate this movie poorly and expose the shallow and manipulative tissue it is based on br br on the other hand the amateur reviewers seem more easily bamboozled as you read through the reviews in this and similar sites you ll frequently come across superlatives stunning breathtaking profound shocking it embarrasses me to read them but it does not surprise me indeed i ve encountered many people who seem to regard any book or movie dealing with racial cultural gender or sexual issues as deeply moving thought provoking full of profound insight if you are such a person by all means rent towelhead and be moved by it on the other hand if you set your standards higher you can safely pass on this one ',
'an unexpected pleasure as i had heard nothing about this film br br shameful since it warrants having a wider audience br br a wonderfully humane story with a social message gently told although admittedly predictable in its resolution solidly acted by the principals beautifully photographed with muted colors floating against grey that captures the nostalgic tone of the film br br my recent foray into chinese film shower the road home not one less has been an exciting one that i hope to continue exploring china and its people is an amazing canvas for film makers the king of masks can be highly recommended as a starting point for anyone similarly interested in recent chinese film br br ',
'unfortunately i made a mistake and i paid euros at the movie theater to watch this shallow meaningless movie my points br br film is based on things br br ethnical point of view as it happens on most of the american films the writer thinks itself as an expert after learning or things about the asian culture but unfortunately it is not enough knowing kunefe and names of other foods doesn t make a person understand a culture for example shaving is the sign of clean life in asia but everyone was trying the girl to stop that lebanese people are christian ok they got that and their cultural forms and beliefs and approaches are completely different from other arabic countries the main difference between eastern and western culture is we don t make ethnocentrism so we don t judge people after their first question about our life as the father figure did in all of the film br br sexual revolution of a girl there is nothing much to say about this show me girls which had these on their sexual awakening than i will say that i am wrong br br i wrote this comment because the producers are promoting the film in the black humor genre please watch dr strangelove and understand the meaning of black humor a black humor has to reflect the truth and has to focus the audience to the funny parts of it where is the truth where is the meaning about the movie ',
'one of the great things about many of the superb chinese movies you can find if you are lucky in the video stores is they are very accurate retellings of actual true stories farewell my concubine the emperor and the assassin and this movie are perfect examples the film makers take a true story and work hard to accurately create a movie without compromising the facts for dramatic or commercial convenience the hallmark of much hollywood and especially disney films br br in this story we follow the later years of an famous local street performer dubbed the king of masks for his mastery of sichuan change art along an having lost his only son many years earlier he searches to find a male heir to carry on his rare and dying art in a society that forbids females to have such work master wang is sold a son by a slave trader all is well as he joyfully prepares to pass down his art but the son eventually is found out to be a girl from there the story get very interesting with a good performance by master liang of the sichuan opera a regional operatic style related to peking opera fans of farewell my concubine should look carefully at master liang s portrayal of a male playing the female role in chinese opera it may help them come to understand that the players of these female roles were probably not homosexuals or castrati but people who have be so psychologically conditioned as to be totally unaware of their own sexuality ',
'hollywood s misguided obsession with sequels has resulted in more misfires than hits for every godfather ii there are dozens of more american graffiti s stayin alives and grease s while the original grease is not a great film the adaptation of the long running broadway hit does have songs evocative of the s energetic choreography and an appealing cast when paramount began work on a follow up the producers came up nearly empty on every aspect that made the original a blockbuster br br fortunately for moviegoers michelle pfeiffer survived this experience and evidently learned to read scripts before signing contracts her talent and beauty were already evident herein and pfeiffer does seem to express embarrassment at the humiliating dance routines and tuneless songs that she is forced to perform maxwell caulfield however lacks even the skill to express embarrassment and his emotions run the gamut from numb to catatonic what romantic interest beyond hormones could the cool sassy pfeiffer have in the deadpan caulfield that dull mystery will linger long after the ludicrous luau finale fades into a bad memory only cameos by veterans such as eve arden connie stevens and sid caesar have any wit although lorna luft does rise slightly above the lame material br br reviewers have complained that because grease is always compared to the original the movie comes up lacking however even taken on its own terms the film is a clunker after a frenetic opening number which evidently exhausted the entire cast the energy dissipates with few exceptions the original songs bear little resemblance to the early s and the only nostalgia evoked is for our miss brooks and sid caesar s comedy hour the jokes fall flat and the choreography in a film directed by choreographer patricia birch is clumsy to be polite however worse films have been inflicted on audiences and inept sequels will be made as long as producers seek to milk a quick buck from rehashing blockbusters unfortunately grease is not even unintentionally funny instead the film holds the viewer s attention like a bad train wreck just when all the bodies seem to have been recovered the next scene plunges into even worse carnage ',
'quote by nicolas martin nicmart from houston tx fine film but dvd reformatted for tv april this is a charming and emotive film on the other hand the dvd i purchased has been reformatted to fit your tv by the clods at columbia tristar there is no excuse for not providing the film in widescreen format except that hollywood treats all films like the moronic disposable trash that it is so used to producing what a shame br br what a criminal shame indeed however there is another version out though see here for details http www dvdbeaver com film dvdcompare kingofmasks htm br br wonderful performances by the two main actors the king and doggie btw ',
'the first part of grease with john travolta and olivia newton john is one of the best movie for teens this one is a very bad copy the change is only in the sex in the first one the good one was sandy here it s michael i prefer to watch the first grease ',
' masks is a moving film that works on many levels at its simplest it is the haunting story of a street performer who bonds with a young child while trying to pass along his creative art masks to the next generation although at times the story makes the old man into a job it is so well crafted written acted directed wonderful production values it is easy to move beyond his plight and if you hang with it the film is ultimately very sweet and uplifting kudos all around this is a wonderful film for children as well as adults the trick is how to get americans who may not like foreign language films to see it ',
'i m sorry but even tj hooker s adrian zmed couldn t save this sequel i went through half the movie thinking that this was a spoof of the original then came that wild and wacky motorcycle scene notice that this is the only movie that patricia birch directs and i sadly realized they were trying to be serious i did get a kick out of the fact that the opposing gang having lost their wheels due to their gambling habits in the original grease were forced to use motorcycles in the second movie being shamed by that putz character carrington i d hate to see what they would resort to later maybe mopeds br br i also never bought the hackneyed theme hunky australian boy can t fit into outsiders dominated school ergo goes for tough guy with stupid biker helmet look it was disney story gone horribly awry br br so it looks like you can ruin a good thing by placing a bubble gum smacking michelle pfeiffer in a musical the only thing i took away from this movie was an idea of how many points out of ten to give it ',
'beautiful and touching movie rich colors great settings good acting and one of the most charming movies i have seen in a while i never saw such an interesting setting when i was in china my wife liked it so much she asked me to log on and rate it so other would enjoy too ',
'the tenuous connection between this film and the first grease is established right at the beginning of the film when didi conn one of four cast members repeating their roles approaches young maxwell caulfield who is a british exchange student although in the previous film olivia newton st john s foreign speech pattern is not explained it s explained here caulfield is her cousin what s conn still doing in school i guess she just likes hanging around rydell high even though now she s a beautician br br caulfield s a smart kid so of course the hood types led by adrian zmed have him labeled as a nerd and that s especially bad when zmed s girl friend decides she likes caulfield but being a nerd just isn t going to cut it br br that s when caulfield decides to put on a modern day zorro act he gets a junked bicycle and puts it back together and teaches himself to ride he gets himself a leather biker outfit with a set of goggles to hide his face if getting michelle pheiffer is not in the cards caulfield won t have any trouble making friends at any gay male leather bar the way he s outfitted br br grease introduced michelle pheiffer and maxwell caulfield and started them on the successful career paths both have enjoyed if you saw the first grease film a much better film than you definitely have an idea how this film will turn out br br in addition to conn eve arden sid caesar and dody goodman all faculty members from the original grease return in their roles the music score isn t remotely as good as the songs that come from the original br br it s not that grease is bad it s just not all that great ',
'this is probably my favorite movie of all time it is perfection in its storytelling it will break your heart not because it s over sentimental but because you will truly feel every emotion these characters go through you feel for doggie because of the hopeless situation that existed for young girls in china at that time ',
'well at least my theater group did lol so of course i remember watching grease since i was a little girl while it was never my favorite musical or story it does still hold a little special place in my heart since it s still a lot of fun to watch i heard horrible things about grease and that s why i decided to never watch it but my boyfriend said that it really wasn t all that bad and my friend agreed so i decided to give it a shot but i called them up and just laughed first off the plot is totally stolen from the first one and it wasn t really clever not to mention they just used the same characters but with different names and actors tell me how did the pink ladies and t birds continue years on after the former gangs left not to mention the creator face motor cycle enemy gee what a striking resemblance to the guys in the first film as well as these t birds were just stupid and ridiculous br br another year at rydell and the music and dancing hasn t stopped but when a new student who is sandy s cousin comes into the scene he is love struck by a pink lady stephanie but she must stick to the code where only pink ladies must stick with the t birds so the new student decides to train as a t bird to win her heart so he dresses up as a rebel motor cycle bandit who can ride well and defeat the evil bikers from easily kicking the t bird s butts but will he tell stephanie who he really is or will she find out on her own well find out for yourself br br grease is like a silly tv show of some sort that didn t work the gang didn t click as well as the first grease did not to mention frenchy coming back was a bit silly and unbelievable because i thought that she graduated from rydell but apparently she didn t the songs were not really that catchy i m glad that michelle was able to bounce back so fast but that s probably because she was the only one with talent in this silly little sequel i wouldn t really recommend this film other than if you are curious but i warned you this is just a pathetic attempt at more money from the famous musical br br ',
'it s a tale that could have taken place anywhere really given the right circumstances street entertainer catching the attention of famous opera star and friendship ensuing the aging entertainer finds buys a male child to pass his art to from there we follow them through the rigors of their challenging but free life along the river traveling town to town he performs and has some degree of notoriety despite the times and the influences the man is kind and good br br overall the performances are first rate especially xu zhu who portrays the street performer the child renying zhou is beautiful and downright strong and withstands the overt prejudices well the two protagonists along with supporting help from the kind opera singer master liang an interestingly androgynous zhao zhigang paint a very interesting tale of forgiveness sadness and love some have mentioned this film s remote similarities to ba wang bie ji farewell my concubine yet this film can t stand easily on its own any resemblance is remote at best br br my only qualm with the king of masks is the ending it was weak cliche and about as subtle as a sledgehammer the audience was already wrapped up in the story what was the needless manipulation for what a shame to bring a fine motion picture that far only to surrender to emotional and corny pathos like that it frankly made this film good instead of the classic it should ve been that aside the king of masks is still very well worth your time i was happy to see the shaw brothers are still producing good films highly recommended ',
'boy girl love affair sequel with songs only this time she s the punkette and he s the straight arrow movie buffs out there actually like this movie it has fans i must say the mind reels grease is a truly lame enterprise that doesn t even have the courage moxy or sheer gall to take the memory of its predecessor down in flames like jaws or exorcist ii no it whimpers along in slow motion and often just plays dead it looks and feels cheap with a large cast lost amidst messy direction and unfocused handling this was the first time a substantial audience got a glimpse of michelle pfeiffer and although she doesn t embarrass herself it s a role worth forgetting a misfire on the lowest of levels no stars from ',
'i enjoyed the cinematographic recreation of china in the s in this beautiful film the story is simple an older male performer wants to pass on his art to a young man although he has no living children the faces of the actors are marvelous to see the story reveals the devotion and gratitude of children to those who treat them well and their longing to be treated well the operas in the film remind me of farewell my concubine which was more sophisticated and intricate the story here reminds me of a dickens tale of days when children were almost chattel the plot is a bit predictable and a bit too sentimental for me but well worth the time to view for the heroism humanity and history portrayed ',
'when i was grease was like crack it was a classless shameful euphoric and powerfully addictive experience my sister and i would watch it rewind it and watch it over again and again and again until we passed out or became too confused and hostile to stand one another so if you are an year old girl and you reviewed this film as brilliant or fun or better than the original grease you have your fledgling adolescent hormones to blame and you can rest assured that this unyielding fixation with utter rubbish will pass br br if however you are not a little girl you have absolutely no excuse to suggest that grease was anything but an inane artless slipshod embarrassment for all who participated in its production distribution and or consumption br br for the sake of criticism i will dignify the film now by explaining why it blows br br in a well executed musical the songs should advance the narrative or develop the characters in grease with a few debatable exceptions to the music is obscenely pointless most of the songs appear to relate gimped innuendo about sex in an excessive and general way score tonight reproduction do it for our country and prowlin without making one concrete statement about any of the film s characters or themes plus all of the music is uncomfortably stupid and no one in the cast demonstrates even the crudest semblance of an ability to sing or dance br br the t birds should be badass and if not at least somewhat likable but instead each of them is an annoying wussy dufus loser in the end when johnny nogerelli offers michael the sacred t bird jacket and initiates him into the gang michael should kick it to the ground spit on it and duck away to fervently scrub any part of his body that was touched by it but of course he accepts it as if it is gold because despite the fact that they are a bunch of bumbling meatheads there is no greater honor than to be one with the t birds br br since michael is beautiful smart kind resourceful and above average in everyway his musical impotence notwithstanding it is feasible that stephanie would ultimately embrace him when he reveals himself to be the man behind the mask stephanie on the other hand is a slovenly slack jawed bubble gum smacking dirty sweatshirt wearing gracelessly rude and trashy dingbat so aside from being pretty i guess she harbors no likable characteristics thus audiences are given no justification whatsoever for the depth of michael s attraction to her br br i could go on and on but i didn t want to mention the gross inferiority to its predecessor since there are apparently so many cranks out there who seem to feel that such a comparison is unfair i will say this though to those of you who think you want to revisit this mess for old time s sake grease is an experience akin to re living your first kiss only you are now and kissing a snot nosed year old kid with acne and slobby braces the magic is gone and you are left feeling dirty and disturbed trust me ',
'ok let s get this clear i m really not into sci fi but for some reason i love stargate sg br br jack o neil takes his team sg through a stargate a round device that creates a wormhole it gives you the ability to travel to distant worlds it might sound like your usual sci fi series but it s not the plot is set today not in some distant millennium like many other sci fi series i find that great it gives you things happenings and such you can relate to and you can jump into the series at any time without having to learn many new terms and names of all the gadgets they have some of course but thanks to o neil who likes to keep a simple terminology there s not many br br the series has a nice blending of action humor and drama if you enjoy loads of special effects you re not going to find it here they don t use many bad ones but a limited amount of well made special effects ',
'i found it very very difficulty to watch this after the initial minutes of the film i managed to stomach minutes before switching it off in disgust and watching monster house instead which by the way is great fun br br the story has massive holes in it the plot line is hugely over stated and dull the acting is awful especially from justin timberlake who should really stick to what he is good at looking daft and singing like a castrato morgan freeman looked incredibly uncomfortable especially when made to dance around to rock music for no apparent reason half way through the film after him and timberlake meet freeman and timberlake s characters seem to be supposed to have some sort of father son relationship of sorts or something which simply isn t evident at all apart from the fact that though freeman s character seems to have nothing but contempt for the ignorant and rather stupid character of timberlake he never the less pulls out all the stops to help him uncover a completely ridiculous cover up br br it would take some incredible suspension of disbelief to give any credit to the story line which is simply absurd and blown out of all proportion br br don t watch this film it is a pure waste of time ',
'in the rapid economic development of s in china there is a resurgence of traditional chinese culture partially due to the rise of nationalism accompanied by the increase in wealth and more importantly due to the sense of spiritual belonging after the collapse of the old socialist ideology in the post cultural revolutionary era br br however the resurgence of chinese traditional culture namely the confucianism was not without disasters because chinese are adopted the entire tradition without eliminating the bad part and the discrimination against girls demonstrated in this film is an excellent example br br moreover not only the part that should be discarded were inherited the good part that was supposed to be inherited such as the traditional opera and its technique such as changing face was ignored in the resurgence and facing extinction br br the director used this film to criticize the problem of re embracing tradition by contemporary china and this is the deeper meaning behind the movie ',
'i had to do a search on the actresses to find the board of this film because the title is now an unexpected love it s not really worth looking for but i was unfamiliar with both leads and wondered why they were headlining a lesbian flick on lifetime everything s pretty restrained and you don t really get an idea of who these characters are so as a viewer i wasn t able to become emotionally invested in the storyline i guess i m not the target audience for this but i m not sure who is everything s muted and soft focus and earth tones nothing s very interesting i had a prurient interest in seeing two women make out but it s handled so discreetly that i was disappointed rent personal best instead ',
'this is a beautiful rich and very well executed film with a rich and meaningful story basically it tells how an old master story teller needs to find a male heir to carry on his craft but ends up not getting what he expected in his very male dominated world the characters must then deal with their situation and the old master must grapple with the conflict between his desire for a companion and heir and his and society s traditional notions br br the story is fun emotional and complex the exploration of the characters their lives and emotions is rich and compelling the character development is strong while the characters are complex and not one dimensional at all the film expertly conveys the old man s emotions and his desire to find an heir and compellingly shows how he and the kid handle the situation there is also humour sometimes quite subtle at appropriate points the film also examines the good and bad of traditional chinese culture creating further interest and depth to the film br br the directing acting and scenery are all outstanding added to the other strengths this creates rich and convincing visual images and compelling real characters as a result the film evokes strong empathy for and feelings about the characters br br some have claimed that the ending weakens the film but i do not necessarily agree perhaps it could have been stronger with a different ending but any improvement in the overall film would have been rather small ',
'i ve read some of the comments about this film and can only surmise that some people are easily entertained this movie is nothing it s so badly written directed and acted that it barely makes an impression the characters speak in cliche ridden dialogue and the situations are completely implausible while that might make this campy and fun it doesn t because everything is so lifeless the film becomes dull it s as if lee rose decided to write a drama about a woman struggling with her sexuality but then she either wasn t allowed by studio execs to give the story some true to life gusto or didn t have the cojones this movie could go in the enyclopedia as the standard issue bad lifetime tv movie ',
'the movie is truly poignant unique and uplifting the story is universal in that it s a battle between good evil and the world between the most important thing is that its rating is wrong misleading and a travesty blockbuster has it rated as though it were an x rated movie the truth is is that it is closer to g than pg and should be seen by children who can read the clear and simple sub titles ',
'i laughed all the way through this rotten movie it s so unbelievable a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage has a breakdown in front of a real estate office what happens the office manager comes outside and offers her a job hilarious next thing you know the two women are going at it yep they re lesbians nothing rings true in this lifetime for women with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i don t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn t take it doesn t help there s a wealthy distant mother who disapproves of her daughter s new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film gets made in which there s a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids sheesh no cliche is left unturned ',
'the fact that this film was put out on dvd still formatted to tv and with a fuzzy picture really annoyed a lot of film purists and rightly so this deserves a lot better treatment br br the story is about a street performer who needs a son to pass on his craft the rules of the day and winds up with a little girl instead not the conventional way and the problems that ensue afterward the old man had bought the kid at a slave auction and soon discovers the kid is not a boy which he obviously thought was the case br br the old man bianlian wang xu zhu is kind of funny looking with a missing front tooth and an infectious grin the little girl doggie zhou renying is a cutie the rest of the story is how the two manage after that i usually like a nice sentimental ending but this gets a bit carried away in the final minutes br br overall it s involving story complete with drama suspense humor and sadness just don t expect a good quality picture for the money you are spending on the dvd until it comes out on widescreen rent it ',
'they changed the title of this atrocity to an unexpected love the only thing worse is the film itself the script contains dialogue that would be laughed out of a third grade play recital at one point when the wife leaves the husband a bad cover of all by myself plays over the soundtrack no kidding the actors try but are defeated by the inept unbelievably terrible script direction is staggeringly bad no wonder lifetime has such a bad reputation how do things like this get made i m turning off the television before it s over ',
'this spectacular film is one of the most amazing movies i have ever seen it shows a china i had never seen or imagined and i believe it shows s china in the most real light ever seen in a movie it is absolutely heart breaking in so many situations seeing how hard life was for the characters and yet the story and the ending are incredibly joyful you truly see the depths and heigths of human existence in this film the actors are all perfect such that you feel like you have really entered a different world br br i simply can not recommend this movie highly enough it may just change you forever once you have seen it ',
'this movie was okay but it certainly defeats the claim that homosexuals are born that way especially when a woman can exit out of an unhappy marriage and just fall into the arms of another woman it almost seems as if kate s gender preferences turned on and off like a switch making this film seem a little simplistic br br also as is common with films that are trying to push an agenda it was unfortunate that those characters in the film who had questions or disapproval over the gay lifestyle were labeled as bigots and there was no happy medium it was either kate s friends and relatives totally embraced her or they totally shunned her this is not typical of interactions between gay and non gay relatives and friends it is usually a mixture of emotions and values that come into play it is possible to love people and treat them with respect while not necessarily condoning the choices they make sadly the movie showed none of these types of interactions for a movie trying to portray tolerance and acceptance it struck me as very intolerant movie then at the end kate apparently decides after all these years she wants to be with mac and everything is hunky dory is that what being gay is really all about come on ',
'i just saw this movie today with my children son and daughter at the rd annual roger ebert overlooked film festival after the film the children in the audience were allowed to ask questions to the director tian ming wu he through a translator told several stories about his life and the making of the film br br all tangents aside both of my children really enjoyed this movie of course i had to paraphrase many of the subtitles for my daughter but much of the film is visually self explanatory br br i won t give anything away but the bottom line is that this film is so much better than of the hollywood crap especially children s films out there br br cheers br br p s there is a real original king of masks who can could do masks at once the actor in the movie trained and learned to do up to masks at a time then they would cut and change to new masks ',
'why do all movies on lifetime have such anemic titles an unexpected love ooh how provocative this much i know would have been better the film is nothing special real people don t really talk like these characters do and the situations are really hackneyed the straight woman who turns lesbian seemed more butch than the lesbian character if you wanna watch two hot women kiss in a very discreet fashion you might enjoy this although it seems like it was written by someone who doesn t really get out in the world to observe people why am i wasting my time writing about it ',
'this is a lot of silliness about a woman from london who marries a tea planter from ceylon whom she barely knows it s full of cliches and the liz taylor character is not believable it has a marvelous set some exotic location footage it shows taylor at the height of her beauty she looks stunning ',
'i remember watching this film in the eighties as a teenager but i wanted to see it again because traci lords is now earning a living as a serious actor what the hell was going on in the eighties this is a really bad film with bad taste and bad actors definitely a waste of money ',
'fabulous costumes by edith head who painted them on liz taylor at her finest br br the sfx are very good for a movie of its age and the stunt doubles actually looked like the actors even down to body type a rarity in movies of this vintage br br a cozy movie with splendid panoramas even when chopped down to pan and scan ',
'this is probably the first entry in the lance o leary nurse keat detective series in subsequent o leary films he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee br br a group of relatives all played by well known character actors gathers in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who goes into a coma br br while they wait for him to recover all sorts of mysterious goings on happen including a couple of murders br br a creepy film worth seeing ',
'elephant walk starring an early peter finch as lord of the manor in some god forsaken plantation where there is always the danger of elephants or mad englishmen staying out in the midday sun and going berserk well eventually they do after the typhoid or cholera outbreak of course and much mayhem ensues taylor replaced an ailing vivien leigh in this pot boiler adventure flick when the elephants storm the house and trap liz on the grand staircase i still get goose bumps thank goodness dana andrews is around to save the day one of my favorite guilty pleasures in color too ',
'i am an actor producer director and what i am about to say are facts this project was the worst film in movie making history from producer to director and the edit of this so called film is a joke and i mean a big joke why would blockbuster released such crap i take my work very serious and this film is an insult to my profession was the director trying to make a bad movie i don t think so i seen bad zombie movies but this takes the cake the coffie and everything on the damn table this movie sucks i really hate to talk bad about other filmmakers because i am one myself but please consider in taking up a different profession i respect the fact that you completed a movie but i have to ask you were you smoking crack i mean the makeup on your girls the scary zombies what were you thinking to the whole nation if i could have voted zero i would have worst film in movie making history ',
' or type on a computer keyboard they d probably give this eponymous film a rating of after all no elephants are shown being killed during the movie it is not even implied that any are hurt to the contrary the master of elephant walk john wiley peter finch complains that he cannot shoot any of the pachyderms no matter how menacing without a permit from the government and his tone suggests such permits are not within the realm of probability furthermore the elements conspire in the form of an unusual drought and a human cholera epidemic to leave the wiley plantation house vulnerable to total destruction by the elephant people as the natives dub them to close the story if you happen to see the current release earth you ll detect the elephant people are faring less well today ',
'german filmmaker ulli lommel has managed a task many horror fans thought was impossible he s unseated fellow teuton uwe boll for the crown of director of the worst horror film ever made br br lommel is truly the ed wood of the new millennium this film is as shoddy and laughable as the best worst of ew i am both proud and embarrassed to say that i watched it in toto morbidly fascinated to see just low the bar could be set the answer is subterranean lommel dug a pit and buried it br br the fun begins with the cast of international nobodies only someone who has lived in los angeles where every auto mechanic doctor and mailman is an actor or screenwriter waiting to be discovered could easily understand how lommel managed to find so many wannabe actors willing to spew his ridiculous dialog with a straight face br br the main character a villainous beat cop is played by a german actor with a thick german accent aside from being a serial killer he is also the oldest beat cop in la despite the fact that he stops innocent women drivers and takes them into custody then drags them into his home which inexplicably is the top floor of a furniture warehouse and does all this in plain sight of his rookie partners the lapd refuses to investigate going so far as to physically attack one of his accusers in a ninja style raid on his apartment br br the sets are excruciatingly bad the production designer s budget apparently included just enough money for a can of paint enough to paint precinct on a cardboard wall br br since the actors were obviously unpaid non professionals a sad assortment of european emigres possibly deportees if they acted in their native lands bimbos mimbos and desperate middle aged women and since little if any money was spent on sets special efx locations or other production value it is only fair to mention that they did spring for a few genuine looking police uniforms sadly they couldn t afford a police car the uniformed cops cruise the streets in a shiny new mercury rental br br more than half of the story focuses on the dirty deeds of our deranged german lapd officer and the futile efforts of two young rookies to stop him one of these young actors is especially pitiable because he s the only actor in this whole mess with even a vague shot at a real career in the movies the other fits right in with a rockabilly hairdo and tortured brando posing that needs to be seen to be appreciated br br the latter part of the film is where the title gets its zombie as the victims of our killer are resurrected after he murders a girl who had just visited some voodoo priestesses to have a protective spell put on her don t ask why a girl from romania would resort to voodooism in anticipation of being murdered just accept lommel s logic and enjoy the absurd ride br br after much prolonged hand clawing out of straw covered roadside graves the zombie girls manage to make their appearance they look exactly as they did before death maybe even prettier with black glamor make up generously airbrushed around their eyes looking nothing like zombies they look more like high fashion models ready for the runway br br at this point in the movie lommel borrows a creative note from his lauded countryman boll and injects large doses of cheesy euro trash techno into the soundtrack we re talking prehistoric electronic bumblebee noise stuff they might have played in an ibiza disco when lommel was still young enough to shake his booty br br unlike other zombies lommel s girls speak and function as normal er i mean as they did before becoming zombified this gives our auteur ample opportunities to shower us with more of his golden dialog yes a golden shower it is br br i won t spoil anything by revealing the shock ending all i can say is it s perfectly in tune with the rest of this masterpiece the spirit of ed wood lives on or should i say his geist ',
'i got in to this excellent program in about season and since then i have seen all the episodes got all the episodes on dvd and keeps getting better and better with the seasons of and it now may not have richard dean anderson now but the addition of ben browder and claudie black it has still given the show more strength and original still even after seasons sadly now the sci fi channel got rid of this amazing show with no hope relay for a season there are making two direct to dvd movie and hopefully more atlantis is still going strong on its th seasons and there is a third spin off in the works the stargate franchise is nowhere near dead this tv show is a must see for all sci fi fans and people of genres because this has such a wide range of things to appeal to all ages and all types of people watch it ',
'the plot of edison was decent but one actor in particular ruined the entire film justin timberlake ruined the film with every line he uttered during the movie he is by far one of the worst actors i have ever seen and should face the same fate as the entire f r a t squad br br whether it was an emotional scene an action scene or even a silent scene justin timberlake managed to ruin it br br do not waste your time watching this film don t even bother downloading it midget porn would be a much better choice br br and justin if you re reading this stick to music even though you re no good at that you ve done a wonderful job tricking people into thinking you can actually sing ',
'i was prepared for a turgid talky soap opera cum travelogue but was pleased to find a fast paced script an underlying moral excellent portrayals from all the actors especially peter finch amazing special effects suspense and beautiful cinematography there s even a shot of the majestic stone buddhas recently destroyed by the taliban not to mention elizabeth taylor at her most gloriously beautiful and sympathetic before she gave in to the gaspy hysterics that marred her later work all the supporting players round it out and i do wonder who trained all those elephants br br speaking of the stone buddha sequence you really can discern that it s vivien leigh in the long shots her shape and the way she moves is distinct from taylor s the only thing marring that sequence are the poorly done process shots where the background moves by much too fast for horses at a walk br br if you want a thought provoking film that is beautiful to watch and never boring spend a few hours with elephant walk ',
'this movie is a joke i mean a ha ha funny joke why because the only redeeming thing about it was the good laugh i got at the sheer ridiculousness of nonsensical inane plot and horrible acting wow br br within this movie there are so many unanswered questions for example why do these women become zombies and how why are there four black women who are zombie s caretakers and what is their purpose since when does people make up a nation of zombies and is smeared black eye mascara scary to anyone anywhere even a year old br br and lastly why was this movie made at all why why why no answer that s what i thought br br on the demand channel they actually issued this comment after the synopsis of the movie we apologize for this movie in advance lol at least they had the decency to do this much ',
'i watched elephant walk for the first time in about years and was struck by how similar the story line is to the greatly superior rebecca as others have said you have the sweet young thing swept off her feet by the alternately charming and brooding lord of the manor only to find her marriage threatened by the inescapable memory of a larger than life yet deeply flawed relative you have the stern and disapproving servant a crisis that will either bind the couple together or tear them irreparably apart climaxed by the fiery destruction of the lavish homestead br br meanwhile elephant walk also owes some of its creepy jungle atmosphere to the letter the bette davis love triangle set on a singapore rubber plantation rather than a sri lankan tea plantation br br maltin gives elephant walk just two stars and imdb readers aren t much kinder but i enjoyed it despite its predictability elizabeth taylor never looked lovelier and peter finch does a credible job as the basically good man unable to shake off the influence of his overbearing father dana andrews a favorite in laura and the best year of our lives is wasted as elizabeth s frustrated admirer the real star is the bungalow one of the most beautiful interior sets in movie history ',
'i cannot believe that this movie was ever created i think at points the director is trying to make it an artistic piece but this just makes it worse the zombies look like they applied too much eye makeup the zombies are only in the movie for a few minutes finally there are maybe five or six zombies total definitely not a nation the best part of the movie if there is one is definitely the credits because the painful experience was finally finished again to reiterate other user comments the voodoo priestesses are strange and do not make much sense in the whole movie also there is a scene with a snake and a romanian girl that just does not make sense at all it is never explained ',
'the scintillating elizabeth taylor stars in this lesser known classic as a young girl from london who falls in love with a tea plantation owner from british ceylon current day sri lanka upon arrival she instantly feels out of place and is forced to adapt to the new culture as well as be in constant awareness of the angry elephant herd william dieterle who also directed the life of emile zola and portrait of jennie does a masterful job of bringing a somewhat dark and almost eerie undertone to this romance and the setting is one of the most beautiful i ve seen with the black and white themed mansion and the gorgeous island scenery ',
'seriously crappy movie br br first off the movie starts with a cop and his partner parked outside of a warehouse furniture store the bad cop takes a girl which they had pulled over into the warehouse s attic while the newbie cop sits outside and ponders what could be happening up there the bad cop eventually returns with a heavy duffel bag and the newbie cop doesn t think there are any problems but he still wonders what was in the bag so he asks gets a bullshit response and then he thinks everything is ok for now br br the bad cop repeats this process and even once with a tit scene made it slightly better but eventually people start to catch on which took awhile considering how fing obvious it was one girl gets a voodoo curse placed on her just in case she dies like ya do now the bad cop eventually kills this magically protected bitch and then he gets rid of the duffel bagged body br br since she had the oogey boogey magic put on her she comes back with lots of eye shadow on which is supposed to indicate that she may be a zombie also the magic curse causes all of the other girls to become eye shadow monsters some of the girls meet up with a dude who is apparently a currency specialist and he offers them a ride they look normal to him apparently but when the girls see other people such as the one girls husband he freaks out because she is hideous some people freak out but others don t even notice massive plot hole br br so to wrap it up the eye shadow monsters kill the bad cop who in turn ends up becoming a zombie in the last scene it was as though they were trying to prep us for a sequel like anyone would want to see part of this cow dropping ',
'a beautiful shopgirl in london is swept off her feet by a millionaire tea plantation owner and soon finds herself married and living with him at his villa in british ceylon although based upon the book by robert standish this initial set up is highly reminiscent of hitchock s rebecca with leading lady elizabeth taylor clashing with the imposing chief of staff at the mansion and almost immediately her own husband who is still under the thumb of his deceased but dominant father taylor a last minute substitute for an ailing vivien leigh looks creamy smooth in her high fashion wardrobe and her performance is quite strong however once husband peter finch starts drinking heavily and barking orders at her one might think her dedication to him rather masochistic this feeling hampers the ending as well still the film offers a heady lot for soap buffs romantic drama a bit of travelogue interpretive dance an elephant stampede and a perfectly timed outbreak of cholera from ',
'i cant believe blockbuster carries this movie it was so bad i was totally fooled by the box art don t be fooled its not worth your time i promise you i don t know if the positive reviews for this flick were a joke or what i am so disappointed br br the description on the back of the box doesn t even match the girl that has the voodoo done on her is a stripper the synopsis on the back says she is only did the people writing the description for the film even bother to watch it those positive reviews had to be a joke they just had to be if anyone actually liked this flick then i ve lost all faith in humanity br br and don t even get me started on the story compared to the title or the fact that the entire movie was done all in locations or that the cops didn t even have close to real uniforms why would i even say that who cares about the cops uniforms compared to the rest of the movie the uniforms were spot on br br this movie is an insult to the zombie genre and all of its fans ',
'elephant walk may not be the acme of literature or of film but it is great entertainment in the quasi melodramatic mode it is the story of love both genuine and illicit as well as overweening ambition devotion and the arrogance of personal tyranny a previous reviewer john mankin questions why the central focus of the film the mansion called elephant walk should have been built by the former owner the governor the late tom wiley right across the elephants traditional path to the major source of water the river to miss this point is to essentially miss the point of the whole center of the film the hubris of man that his son played by peter finch should become enthralled by the super image and enigma of his revered father is not unexpected since the son was without a mother growing up in a foreign jungle with only his father and his father s rowdy boys club as his role models the point of the father was that he was a self made man who would tame nature to his liking and that liking was not just a tea plantation upon the lands the elephants once dominated but also that he would dominate even the large bull elephant that led the herd and thus he would dominate his son and all around him and so we join the tale after the elephants have been denied the crucial dry season access to their pathway to water who could know that this dry season would last so long and what the elephants would do in desperation to get water this is the nexus of the film what will animals do to get water what will humans do to get power or love ceylon today s sri lanka is the huge island off the coast of india where the plantation is located and one quickly learns that it is the real scenery of the story not just the expenses of miss taylor were it not for this exotic location much of the film was shot in ceylon and the magnificent bungalow this would have been just another potboiler one must recognize the atmosphere created here as integral to the time and place as it illuminates the latter day wealth and power attained by the english immigrant conquerors that were part and parcel of the british raj it is only such wealth gained by the use of virtual slave labor that one could build so magnificent a residence of ebony teak and marble not to be overlooked are the wonderfully carved jalees grille work window and doorway borders evidently specified by art directors j mcmillan johnson and hal pereira and obviously made by the cheaper labor on the island such craftsmanship reveals the careful attention to detail that these men sought br br for those immune to the blandishments of time place and architecture there is always the allure of miss taylor as she marries a man she doesn t really know and is tacitly wooed by a another man against the background described and under the overarching tyranny of the legacy of a man deceased as i said it is not great literature nor even great film but it is great spectacle long before that term was debased by the special effects extravaganzas of today br br this is one of those films made to be seen on the giant screen of an outdoor drive in not on the home tv so arrange the largest screen to see it on to fully appreciate its fine camera work and scope ',
'mt little sister and i are self proclaimed horror movie buffs we have seen just about everything especially zombie flicks now we have seen a lot of good zombie movies and a lot of bad ones this by far is the worst movie i have ever seen in my entire life not only was the acting horrible but the special effects graphics and ever zombie make up was the worst i have seen if you can even call it make up black eye shadow around the eyes this is totally proof that you should never judge a book by it s cover cause the cover to the movie is the only sweet thing about do your selves a favor and do not watch this movie i was so adamant about this movie i went as far as putting a sticky note on the inside of the movie before i returned it to movie saying this movie sucks don t waste your time return now hahahhaa i don t want anyone else to waste a good movie night on this pos movie i don t even know how it got the ratings that it did t should be in the negative ',
'my parents took me to this movie when i was nine years old i have never forgotten it i had never before seen anything as beautiful as elizabeth taylor she was twenty two when she made elephant walk remember i m nine so the feelings aren t sexual i just couldn t see anything else on the screen i just wanted to sit at her feet like a puppy and stare up at her she has begun to show her age she s almost seventy four but i still believe her to be one of the most beautiful and breathtaking women to ever have lived br br i have seen the movie several times since and it is a sappy melodrama what saves it is of course miss taylor s beauty magnificent scenery the very impressive elephant stampede and a well made point on human arrogance in the face of nature br br all in all a well spent couple of hours watching the movie channel or a rented video ',
'someone actually gave this movie stars there s a very high chance they need immediate professional help as anyone who doesn t spend seconds to see if you can award no stars is quite literally scary br br this film is well i guess it s pretty much some kind of attempt at a horrible porn snuff movie with no porn or no real horrible bits apart from the acting plot story sets dialogue and sound i wrongly assumed it was about zombies br br watching it is actually quite scary in fairness you re terrified someone will come over and you ll never be able to describe what it is and they ll go away thinking you re a freak that watches home made amateur torture videos or something along those lines br br i m so taken aback i m writing this review on my mobile so i don t forget to attempt to bring the rating down further than the current to save others from the same horrible fate that i just suffered br br i worst film i ve ever seen and i can say with hand on heart it will never never be topped ',
'robert standish s novel is about a triangular romantic situation on a ceylonese tea plantation so the events of the ceylon backgrounds and pictorial beauty are rewarding points to william dieterle s film br br the story is about a rich powerful planter peter finch who brings a charming and tender beauty elizabeth taylor into the jungle as his bride the plantation of course is endangered by some kind of wild life for this reason taylor elegant as never in dazzling costumes finds herself in a strange atmosphere the echo determination of a ghost the bad temper of a husband obsessed by the memory of his autocratic father a highly dangerous disease and the fury of wild animals br br in her confusion boredom and annoyance elizabeth taylor looks to a friendly face a pretentious foreman dana andrews who admires her beauty but tries to conquer her love br br with echoes of jane eyre the mysterious yorkshire mansion with a brooding master and rebecca the innocent young second wife hunted by the image of the glamorous first wife elephant walk is a menace melodrama with a wide view of a huge tropical bungalow exotic dances with rage excessively colorful stampeding big bull elephants amazing mansion set on fire all in the company of an exquisite creature with an unquestioned beauty and talent br br the movie gave liz a change of scenery and allowed her more creative energy and self respect than most of her other willful debutante rebels the wife here has a sharp tongue and a strong will and so taylor plays her movie star heroine with more spirit than she was given credit for ',
'this film has to be the worst i have ever seen the title of the film deceives the audience into thinking there maybe hope the story line of the film is laughable at best with the acting so poor you just have to cringe the title zombie nation implies a hoard of zombies when in fact there are six in total this cannot be categorised as a horror film due to the introduction of cheesy s music when the zombies attack the zombies actually talk and act like human beings in the film with the only difference being the make up which looks like something out a la roux video if you ever get the chance to buy this film then do so then burn the copy ',
'one of the first ova s original video animation i ever bought this still has to be one of my favourite anime titles a cyberpunk sci fi action comedy set against an unlikely for a comedy that is background of near future pollution in a dystopian society br br the heroes of dominion are the tank police formed with a if we can t beat crime we ll get bigger guns philosophy and who are like the name suggests patrolling the city in tanks instead of patrol cars and who are actually far more dangerous than any criminals they are trying to catch most if not all of these cops are borderline psychopaths and neurotics giving new meaning to the phrase loose cannons br br equally colourful and amusing are their adversaries terrorist buaku and his hench wo men the twin cat sisters whose existence always seems to involve giving the tank police a hard time br br the animation is not state of the art but it s very nice otherwise the colourful palette and cartoonish look of the characters and mecha fit nicely with the comedic atmosphere of dominion br br the english dubbing is again lots of fun the soundtrack of the english version is also very good i wonder if they ever made a soundtrack album of that br br anyway dominion tank police is great it s japanese cyberpunk sf with lots of comedy filled with completely over the top characters and situations making sure that it never takes itself seriously highly recommended ',
'i stopped by bb and picked up zombie flicks to watch over the weekend now i understand that the effects will be cheesy the acting will be sub par and the sets will be suspect so i m not expecting much but it should at least have a story stories don t cost a thing except time apparently they didn t have any time either br br zombie nation had zombies that appeared near the end of the movie that all looked like new wave hookers the picture of the zombie on the front cover never appears in the movie it was absolutely agonizing to watch and had nothing to offer the genre br br the running time is only minutes but it felt like hours according to my wife who could only hear the movie since she was on the computer in another room it sounded like zombie porn which if you think about sounds kinda gross but it wasn t even that good br br the only suggestion i can make is that maybe the writer tried to do too many things and ended up with an incoherent mess br br it ended up being a free rental and i still feel ripped off i rated it a out of because imdb won t allow me to use decimals ',
'dominion tank police is without a shell of a doubt one of the most amazing shows ever produced but not just in the field of animation while the first part acts and mostly consists of action and fun the second part is more serious and one should not treat the second part in the exact same way as first part the subtleties are truly out of this world and the characterization is beyond brilliant you must have an extra degree of intelligence to appreciate the intricacies of the second part acts and i do have some complaints though in the first part the tank bonaparte quite literally jumps over a tank shell and it did not make any sense at all one might also question the plausibility of bonaparte jumping on the wing of helicopter gunship even though it was cool buaku rules ',
'not worth the video rental or the time or the occasional efforts br br makeup that a child can do acting was over done poor directing editing was very choppy many things made no sense or just seemed gratuitous sound was badly dubbed music was highly inappropriate casting was extremely off must have been on crack zombies that talk let alone drive dance work just pisses me off and the bad guy holy crap as horribly casted as he was he was the best looking zombie of all which doesn t say much br br the cover art was good but very deceiving as was the main menu of the dvd great artwork and music br br don t bother ',
'the anime that got me hooked on anime br br set in the year hey that s not too far away now the earth is now poison gas wasteland of pollution and violence seeing as how crimes are happening ever seconds are so and committed by thieves who have the fire power of third world terrorists the government of the fictional new port city form the tank police to deal with the problem cops with tanks oh the insanity br br the heroes of this series include the new recruit leona ozaki a red haired japanese woman yeah i know they never match their distinctly japanese names with a japanese appearance who has just been drafted into the tank police and is quickly partnered with blond blue eyed nice guy al leona is new at using tanks and unfortunately she destroys the favorite tank of tank police commander charles britain also known as brenten a big guy who looks like tom selleck on steroids and sporting a pair of nifty sunglasses a big revolver and a bad temper britain didn t like having leona join the tank police in the first place and her wrecking his tiger special a giant green monster tank doesn t exactly endear her to him nor is he fond of her taking the remains of his giant tank and using it to build a mini tank that she nicknames bonaparte and he is soon pushing to have her transferred to child welfare where the boys are more your size as he puts it there s also specs the bifocal genius bible quoting god fearing chaplain purple mo hawked mohican and the pot bellied chief who s right on the edge thanks to the mayor always yelling at him about the tank police antics seeing as how the tank cops often destroy half the city while chasing the bad guys and use extreme violence to capture them they re not very well liked by the people br br the villains are a cyborg named buaku who s got a mysterious past that s connected with a project known as green peace his gang and his two sexy cat cyborg sidekicks anna uni puma in the first installment these guys are being paid to steal urine samples from a hospital treating people who haven t been infected by the poison gas clouds and in the nd they re hired to steal a painting that is of a naked buaku the story however was uncompleted in the anime and was finished up in a cult comic manga book that s very hard to find br br all sorts of chaos and mayhem ensue in this black comic venture that examines how far people want their police to go in order to catch criminals and what happens when the fine line between good guys and bad guys starts to get blurred this is the kind of thing that if you were going to make a movie of it you d better go get quentin tarantino uneven in places but still a lot of fun br br followed by new dominion tank police ',
'thank god i didn t waste my money renting it but i downloaded it this happens to be the worst movie i have ever seen in my whole life fg visual effects unnecessary gore and nudity far apart from other zombie movies like night of the living dead and others there are lots of loop holes and mistakes in the movie ok if you get time after reading this comment please check out the director s ulli lommel profile after seeing that i got a self explanation why the movie is like this i mean every movie directed by ulli lommel gets a rating between and and now am not willing to search what kinda movies these are directed by him but i can finish all this by saying one strong sentence even for fun or time pass or even at an extreme bored situation please do not watch this movie ',
'fact stargate sg is a cheesy sci fi tv series br br there s no escaping facts how much you try to excuse yourself or explain it stargate sg remains a cheesy sci fi tv series br br stargate sg does borrow and steal ideas briskly special fx aren t nearly as impressive as they could have been and the action isn t going to blow you out of the chair or couch for that matter either br br but and this is where i really think stargate sg deserves all the credit it can get for each and every episode or stolen idea i think you can count at least one cheesy sci fi movie that s actually worse than a one hour tv episode br br in fact some episodes actually could probably have been minutes long and still have been better than most movies br br and being able to keep that quality throughout the show and keep delivering and pushing the storyline further is what makes stargate sg special br br i am very picky with my selections i follow perhaps one or two tv series at most and i hold pretty high standards which made me even more surprised when i found myself caught br br so for those who decide to brush of stargate sg as yet another tacky sci fi show don t stick with it and you ll see what i m talking about ',
' review may contain some spoilers i ll make this review short and sweet i bought this movie from best buy because it sounded interested and had some top actors in it like kevin spacey and morgan freeman how bad could it be right well it s pretty bad justin timberlake plays pollack a wannabe journalist who stumbles across a case that may lead to corrupt cops at edison s police force ll cool j is deed a cop within the force on a special force team called f r a t first response assault tactics he s teamed with an on the edge bad cop named lazerov dylan mcdermott in the opening scene we see lazerov deed taking on some bank robbers but at night they are busting a couple of guys doing drugs i don t want to give to much away but things turn bad for the guys doing the drugs pollack who works for ashford morgan freeman goes to a trial involving deeds lazerov he suspect foul play and with the help of ashford does some investigate that turns ugly wallace kevin spacey who is all within the f r a t team joins with ashford to try to bring the corrupt cops to justice br br you can tell from the beginning that freeman and spacey s performance are pretty lackluster the only person that give a all out performance is dylan mcdermott he is a complete nut case in this movie and made a believer out of me ll cool j is terrible in this film he says every line the same way and shows pretty much the same emotion he was much better in movies like deep blue sea any given sunday the film starts off with some nice action but then drags it feet through the rest of the film the ending is far from satisfying br br don t waste your time with this film i m putting it on ebay this weekend ',
'scott bartlett s offon is nine minutes of pure craziness it is a full frontal assault of psychedelic pulsating epilepsy inducing flashing lights and colours and the first true merging of film and video in avante garde cinema there s no story to speak of but bartlett uses images of nature particularly the human face and form to provoke a sequence of emotional reactions integrating these biological phenomena into the highly industrial form of modern technology in a sense the film represents the merging of humanity into his tools his machinery his technology this theme connects loosely with the subplot of hal in stanley kubrick s a space odyssey and indeed bartlett s opening sequence of images flashing colours before a close up human eye recalls dave bowman s journey through the stargate the visuals are richly coloured a confronting blend of sharp vivid photography and increasingly grainy video as though we re sitting too close to a television screen as a matter of fact the end product was recorded from a tv monitor br br there appears to be some confusion about the film s release date imdb lists the film as a release but both the national film registry and the national film preservation foundation give as the correct year perhaps this disparity reflects the time between the film s completion and its first public screening either way the visuals are distinctly ahead of their time occasionally reminiscent of a s music video and some brisk techno music wouldn t have gone amiss either offon captures grainy fragmented images presenting life from the warped perspective of a computer processing too much information i had a thought and please don t laugh at this free thinking interpretation that an extraterrestrial civilisation capturing earth s television signals might very well receive such a disjointed alien documentation of human life a bizarre montage of only vaguely familiar imagery that couldn t possibly make any coherent sense perhaps this is where mankind with all his technology is eventually heading towards an irreversible merging of film and video of purity and artificiality ',
'ok its not the best film i ve ever seen but at the same time i ve been able to sit and watch it twice story line was pretty awful and during the first part of the first short story i wondered what the hell i was watching but at the same time it was so awful i loved it cheap laughs all the way br br and jebidia deserves an oscar for his role in this movie the only thing that let him down was half way through he stopped his silly name calling br br overall the film was pretty perfetic but if your after cheap laughs and you see it in pound land go by it ',
'i stumbled across this act i by pure dumb luck and this was more than a decade ago this was nt even what the cover label on the tape mentioned it amazed me it intimidated me it shocked me i eventually forgot about and almost a decade later i happened to think about it again then went and bought both acts they were even better than i had experienced at first br br my only complaint is that while the tank police keep on going on and on about being at war with crime warranting tanks and heavy artillery it would seem as though they are really having a hard time with criminals that is either never shown or is simply a lie as they appear to be taking it easy most of the time if that bit about being in a state of war was really propaganda it certainly has not been shown as such br br i don t think the original japanese version could have been any where as good as the americanized version of this but regarding the story there has certainly been some proper explanations lost in translation but it can be excused ',
'usually i support independent art and i try to be very comprehensive and tolerant i tend to support everybody because their efforts are worth br br but this movie just moves away from all comprehension and tolerance limits br br imagine the following situation br br think about the really worst horror movie you have ever seen in your life so far br br think about some great attractive art for that movie s dvd box and a promising plot br br voil you got zombie nation br br see it only if you really don t have anything else better to do anything is better ',
'dominion tank police is an exercise in contradictive film making the storyline across the parts blends mindless action slap stick humor touching humanity and thought provoking philosophical questions it s hard to believe that there was only one director as the style changes from episode to episode a must see movie for anyone who likes anime ',
'notice i have given this star if the option been given i would have given this zero as i put this dvd into my tv and sat down on my couch i was expecting some of the worst film making at its finest i looked this movie up on imdb and saw that it was the worst rated movie so i guess i came into it critical of every mistake but it didn t prepare me for the crap that was about to spew from my television screen br br the box makes this movie out to look well ok at best do not let that fool you this movie needs to be banned from all shelves around the world br br the best way i can describe this movie is like porn but without any sex scenes in it the acting if you can call it that the plot so many holes must look like swiss cheese and the special effects really are just terrible br br please do not be like me and rent this movie because you think it will be funny to watch br br in the end i m not saying i can make a better movie than this but i am thinking it ',
'i have to start saying it has been a long time since i have seen it but have seen it or more times a wonderful little romp that was clearly inspired by the musical comedy pairings of new or fading stars with musical groups of prominence kay kyser s mysteries would be a good example br br having spike jones unleashed is the best part of the show as he and his band play many tunes and are a part of the action doing a fine job of support hugh o brien plays the face buddy hackett the part rumor has it that was offered to lou costello and thus abbott and costello replacing the leads don t know if that was true br br all in all a pleasant movie but important to have that much spike jones and his band on film for history wish that it was released as i haven t seen or heard of it now in two decades hope it is not lost ',
'if ever there was a film that deserved a big fat zero rating it s this pile of crap i love zombie films and even bad ones usually have something going for them but not this atrocity i actually began to feel angry watching this film because it s so insultingly poor i can t believe the people responsible for it would actually think this was acceptable br br there s no plot and the non plot is cut with scenes of sadism and spanking the people don t react act or in any way resemble human beings the entire movie is also shot in two rooms scantily decorated to vaguely resemble the places they are supposed to be the whole thing is one pointless mess it doesn t go anywhere and when the zombies finally turn up they look rubbish and don t do very much br br i could make a better film than this so could you and so could someone who had never seen a movie before it s pitiful and without doubt the worst movie of all time br br honestly the very worst movie of all time you ll note by the way that the only positive reviews give this a and urge you to buy the dvd i can t imagine anyone neutral genuinely thinking this is a good film it s terrible br br and that s generous ',
'i ve spent years looking for a copy of this film mm dvd vhs so i could show it to my kids the movie is funny and spike and the members of his band show why they were the best musicians in the business they had to be that good to play that demented i like it and recommend it for movie lovers of all ages br br the movie is about a turn of the century firehouse with a crew of misfits that are firemen and the department band when not fighting the fires there s the usual running gags plus the mayhem of spike jones and his orchestra also comedy relief provided by comedian buddy hackett and straight man hugh o brien ',
'this movie had me going the title was perhaps the greatest idea that i heard i thought it was an independent movie about a zombie outbreak and their quest to take over the us and a group of lone survivors band together and plan to take out the zombies dead wrong it s about a psycho cop with a weakness for killing his female arrests gets what s coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge as you can see there is nothing about the nation nor a county involved where to begin with the severity this cinematic disaster caused our nation br br first off the zombie women look like victoria secret models with dark eyeliner and a pale face what are zombies but mindless debatable intelligent cannibalistic killing machines that eat as a result of their primitive most basic needs these zombie women walk like streetwalkers and runway models they talk as if they are in a poor film noir movie and not do they act like real zombies sure the eating and killing is there but where is the mindlessness and the horrible disfigurement although it is a very interesting concept and perhaps a great satire on the zombie genre it makes fun of that genre and asks the question why can t zombies be beautiful vixen killing machines i would say that this movie would be considered a really bad indie movie that was produced and made by garage junkies i would not recommend this movie to anybody that loves zombie genres too much it s an insult and as for scarynot even ',
'the performance by om puri smita patil and sadashiv amrapurkar and the whole chemistry comes off nicely along with the minimalist approach to story telling and direction by govind nihlani the dialogues by vijay tendulkar is also great br br i have not seen another movie like this it is one whole each piece so nicely fit in the plot you cannot not be impressed by this movie br br amrish puri comes off as the bossy husband and baap of om puri om puri is the young man caught between his sense of duty and his inability to fight the system sadhashiv as rama shetty gives just about the right touch to the movie with his smiling and soft speaking villain the first meeting of anand velankar with rama shetty s at sadhashiv s place is absoulely stunning smita patil does not play a main role but her part is also not distracting from the main plot br br and to add to this all kafi inamdar plays the role of a cop who has come to terms with the system and its workings saying right things in the right places and knowing how to keep himself away from trouble he is also the guru of om puri and helps him whenever he gets into trouble br br the movie not only brings to focus the difficulties faced by a police officer trying to do his duty but also the other side of brutalities in police custody om puri captures hopelessness and the burning desire to break free in this exceptional performance in ardh satya br br a treat to all avid fans of indian cinema ',
'i only watched the first minutes of this and what i saw was a total piece of crap the scenes i saw were as bad as an ed wood movie no it was a hundred times worse ed wood has the reputation of being the worst director ever but that s not true the idiot who directed this junk is the worst director ever br br the american cop has a german accent the police station was a desk in a warehouse with a sign police station hanging on the wall there is a fist fight where the punches clearly miss by about ten feet br br this cop pulls women over cuffs them and leads them to a warehouse he tells his cop partner to wait in the car then he comes out of the warehouse carrying a duffel bag the cop partner thinks maybe something is not right that his partner might be a bad cop who is murdering these women but he isn t sure if that is what s happening because he s a moron the dialog is totally stupid the acting is awful and the characters act in the stupidest manner i have ever seen on screen it is totally obvious to the cop s partner that he is illegally abducting these women and he is slapping them and taking them into a warehouse and returning to the car with a duffel bag with a body in it and yet the partner who is there all along doesn t know what is happening br br the director of this film is a total hack i stopped the movie at minutes because i couldn t take it anymore it has to be one of the worst movies i have ever started to watch and i won t waste anymore time on it writing this review br br absolutely worthless ',
'directed by govind nihalani this is definite cop film of indian cinema may be the first one which portrayed the stark reality of corruption in the police force politics with no holds barred how it effects on a young cop a man forced to join a career of a cop by his cop father agreed that we grew up watching lot of good cop bad cop hindi films but this is different today s generation which grown up watching dark realistic films like satya company may be consider it inferior product in comparison but look at the time of its making the film was made absolutely off beat tone in the time when people didn t pay much attention to such kind of cinema yet it becomes a most sought after cop film in class mass audience when it released for om puri its first breakthrough in mainstream hindi cinema he delivered a class performance as inspector velankar its more than cop character he internalized a lot which is something original in acting watch his scenes with his father whom he hates smita whom he loves smita patil maintained the dignity of her character to the expected level my god what a natural expressions she carried shafi inamdar was truly a discovery for me he s a brilliant character actor if given a chance here in some of the scenes he outsmarted even om the movie is also a debut of a promising villain on indian screen sadashiv amrapurkar as rama shetty it s another story that he didn t get such a meaty role almost forgotten today as one of the loud villain of dharmendra s b grade action films watch the scene where om st time becomes a rebel for his father played by amrish puri next both are sharing wine together how inner truth started revealing for both the character with confronting feelings of love hate for each other two faces of indian police force masculinity impotency and in between lies half truth ardh satya kudos to nihalani s touch the film won national awards as best hindi feature film best actor om puri filmfare awards in best film best director best supporting actor categories br br recommended to all who are interested in nostalgia of serious hindi films br br ratings ',
'zombie nation r br br hey i was bored i looked in my comcastic little box to find a movie to watch zombie nation hey i love zombie movies says the filmmaker has some sort of cult following in the description funny how it doesn t warn me not to watch this film i could ve used that advice br br zombie nation is just like troll in that it s completely misnamed it has little if anything depending on your point of view to do with zombies and takes place all within one city this film revolves around a crooked cop who acts as badly as possible he has to be trying to suck this much while he arrests women for trivial bullshit and then kills them yup he s a serial killer cop not only is this film flawed in thinking that it s a zombie flick it also gets its serial killer facts completely wrong serial killers enjoy killing they live for it and they get down and personal with it this guy knocks out the women and injects them with some poison he doesn t even have sex with the corpse or dismember it talk about boring eventually one of the whopping five women he kills has voodoo protection done to her and for no apparent reason all five come back to life and head off to kill this guy they were all buried or tossed into the ocean but you wouldn t know it buy the sharp clean clothes they re all wearing the women then act very poorly and take their revenge oh yay br br this film was crap in every category crap acting crap writing crappier sets and crappier make up effects the women don t look zombie like unless you count really dark make up around the eyes to be the de facto definition of what makes a zombie they can all talk behave think and act perfectly human the gore is weak compared to even many pg films and the nudity is beyond brief you see glimpse of breasts in the opening sequence then the exact same breasts later go figure guess only one actress was willing to go topless for this trite the police station is so badly constructed that you can see where they stopped painting the walls of the warehouse they re obviously filming in you can see the pipes and the bad lighting and the overly sparse set up and even unless you are blind you can see the director failing steer clear it s a waste of time br br ',
'after aakrosh this was the second film for govind nihalani as a director till this movie was made there was no audience for documentaries in india this movie proved a point that a documentary can fulfil the requirements of a commercial film without diluting its essence it was one of the successful movies in the year in which it was released this movie contested against the big banners of the bollywood like coolie betaab hero in br br smithapatel in this movie acted more like a conscience of the hero whenever he drifted away or lost his composure she was there to remind him she was not like an usual heroine to do the usual stuff of running around the trees and shrubs at one time she even gave up her love when the hero s ruthlessness touched the roof top br br there was another character in this movie which was played by om puri contemporary naseeruddin shah he played as an inspector turned alcoholic character the role conveyed the message of the end result of a honest cop who rubbed the wrong side of the system which also gave the viewers a chance to forecast the hero s ending br br in his debut film sadashiv amrapurkar captivated the audience with his cameo role which ultimately won him the best supporting actor by the filmfare the cop in the movie was not a complete straight forward personality he was able to adjust to the system to an extent the anger which left half handedly continued in govind nihalani s other film drohkaal even after two decades this movie is remembered just because of the director and the entire crew each one played their part par excellence ',
'yeah i m sure it really could be a nation if four of them all stood at the four corners of the world and the other two cloned themselves a few billion times man i am really glad that i saw this movie on fear net instead of renting it i m a big fan of the george romero movies and i m pretty sure that if he saw this movie he d probably throw up while laughing too hard i mean what was with the raccoon girls posing as zombies and walking around like charlie s devils it really helped too that the music composer chose the crappy fashion show music for when the zombies walked up to their killer especially the part where they go into the warehouse posing as the furniture shop police station apartment flat whatever room it was with the gong in the background and the live woman was arguing about the closed furniture shop i couldn t even tell what nationality the killer was and the fact that his accent indicated some multiple nations didn t help either oh well what can i expect from a movie where they throw in a random fight scene for no good reason in a warehouse where they apparently ship boxes of air around the world so for all of those who worship mystery science theater or if you just like reaming on bad c movies c for craptastic then this is the movie for you or not ',
' ardh satya is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema directed by the great director govind nihalani this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india br br the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the s unlike any police of other cities in india mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment br br amongst various police officers colleagues the film describes the story of anand velankar a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family his father is a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father s ideologies incidences of his father s atrocities on his mother anand s approach towards immediate action against crime is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations as he cannot achieve the desired job satisfaction resulting from the frustrations his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms bars also turning him to an alcoholic br br the spirit within him is still alive as he constantly fights the system he is aware of the system of the metro where the police politicians are a inertly associated by far end his compromise towards unethical practice is negative finally he gets suspended br br the direction is a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty s house to arrest him followed by short conversation which is fantastic at many scenes the film has hair raising moments br br the practical approach of script is a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today those aspects are dealt brilliantly br br finally the films belongs to the one man show om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly ',
'last weekend i bought this zombie movie from the bargain bin and watched it with some friends thinking it was going to be a budget version of land of the dead br br boy was i wrong br br it seems as if they spent a good portion of their budget on the cover art which is very misleading to fans of the zombie genre br br we watched up to the point where the zombie chicks come alive and get in the car with some yuppie who is out in the middle of nowhere talking business on a cell phone they actually speak to the guy before one of the girls kills him but once they started driving the car i couldn t suspend my disbelief anymore br br some people actually consider this a so bad it s good movie they are liars i didn t finish the movie but one of the other reviews mention that they actually somehow become police officers at the end of the movie which makes me glad to not have watched it all the way through br br this is even worse than zombiez do not watch ',
'an absolute classic the direction is flawless the acting is just superb words fall short for this great work the most definitive movie on mumbai police this movie has stood the test of times br br om puri gives a stellar performance smita patil no less all the actors have done their best and the movie races on thrilling you at every moment this movie shakes your whole being badly and forces you to rethink about many issues that confront our society br br this is the story of a cop om puri who starts out in his career as a honest man but ultimately degenerates into a killer the first attempt in bollywood to get behind the scenes and expose the depressing truth about mumbai cops kudos to nihalani br br after this movie a slew of bollywood movies got released that exposed the criminal politician police nexus thus this movie was truly a trend setter this trend dominated the hindi movie scene for more than a decade br br this movie was a moderate box office hit br br a must see for discerning movie fans ',
'german filmmaker ulli lommel has managed a task many horror fans thought was impossible he s unseated fellow teuton uwe boll for the crown of director of the worst horror film ever made br br lommel is truly the ed wood of the new millennium this film is as shoddy and laughable as the best worst of ew i am both proud and embarrassed to say that i watched it in toto morbidly fascinated to see just low the bar could be set the answer is subterranean lommel dug a pit and buried it br br the fun begins with the cast of international nobodies only someone who has lived in los angeles where every auto mechanic doctor and mailman is an actor or screenwriter waiting to be discovered could easily understand how lommel managed to find so many wannabe actors willing to spew his ridiculous dialog with a straight face br br the main character a villainous beat cop is played by a german actor with a thick german accent aside from being a serial killer he is also the oldest beat cop in la despite the fact that he stops innocent women drivers and takes them into custody then drags them into his home which inexplicably is the top floor of a furniture warehouse and does all this in plain sight of his rookie partners the lapd refuses to investigate going so far as to physically attack one of his accusers in a ninja style raid on his apartment br br the sets are excruciatingly bad the production designer s budget apparently included just enough money for a can of paint enough to paint precinct on a cardboard wall br br since the actors were obviously unpaid non professionals a sad assortment of european emigres possibly deportees if they acted in their native lands bimbos mimbos and desperate middle aged women and since little if any money was spent on sets special efx locations or other production value it is only fair to mention that they did spring for a few genuine looking police uniforms sadly they couldn t afford a police car the uniformed cops cruise the streets in a shiny new mercury rental br br more than half of the story focuses on the dirty deeds of our deranged german lapd officer and the futile efforts of two young rookies to stop him one of these young actors is especially pitiable because he s the only actor in this whole mess with even a vague shot at a real career in the movies the other fits right in with a rockabilly hairdo and tortured brando posing that needs to be seen to be appreciated br br the latter part of the film is where the title gets its zombie as the victims of our killer are resurrected after he murders a girl who had just visited some voodoo priestesses to have a protective spell put on her don t ask why a girl from romania would resort to voodooism in anticipation of being murdered just accept lommel s logic and enjoy the absurd ride br br after much prolonged hand clawing out of straw covered roadside graves the zombie girls manage to make their appearance they look exactly as they did before death maybe even prettier with black glamor make up generously airbrushed around their eyes looking nothing like zombies they look more like high fashion models ready for the runway br br at this point in the movie lommel borrows a creative note from his lauded countryman boll and injects large doses of cheesy euro trash techno into the soundtrack we re talking prehistoric electronic bumblebee noise stuff they might have played in an ibiza disco when lommel was still young enough to shake his booty br br unlike other zombies lommel s girls speak and function as normal er i mean as they did before becoming zombified this gives our auteur ample opportunities to shower us with more of his golden dialog yes a golden shower it is br br i won t spoil anything by revealing the shock ending all i can say is it s perfectly in tune with the rest of this masterpiece the spirit of ed wood lives on or should i say his geist ',
'govind nihalani s directorial venture of vijay tendulkar s novel is brilliant om puri plays an inspector velankar who is forced to protect underworld don rama shetty played brilliantly by sadahiv amrapurkar this is govind nihlan s most talked about movie this is a very good and a classic film smita patil plays the female lead opposite om puri naseeruddin shah is brilliant in a cameo role although sadashiv amrapurkar has only scenes in the movie he dominates the movie this was sadashiv amrapurkars acting debut om puri won a national award for this film for the best actor filmfare award winner for best film story supporting actor sadashiv amrapurkar ',
'btk killer green river killer zodiac killer the man keeps putting out absolute garbage and the ironic thing is he loves his crap br br i ve never seen a ulli lommel film but i was so amazed on how everyone thinks his stuff is so awful like the movies i said in the beginning don t even equal a six when added together after reading the comments i was curious to see how bad this guy really is he is the worst out there br br the credits wouldn t end as the pathetic movie started and quickly i noticed that the audio was incredibly badly dubbed in the acting was incredibly awful and same to the camera shots the editing is easily the worst this movie made no sense and i unbearably couldn t take it anymore as it wouldn t end and i was only minutes in the movie i couldn t take it anymore i wasted minutes of my life br br do not watch this crap ',
'i love this show br br every time i watch an episode i repeat that line and remind myself how good of a show this is i am a huge sci fi fan and this show has grounds to be the most important science fiction show in the history of film tv there are so many theories in this show about the universe i could start a religion its amazing season after season the show gets better and better br br i ve been a fan of macgyver since i was now and i find it so ironic that my favorite tv shows of all time star richard dean anderson its also interesting how each character is practically the opposite of the other br br back when i first saw stargate the movie i instantly liked it and considered it one of my favorite sci fi flicks then hearing a tv show would spin from it i got really excited but didn t get showtime till the fifth season was almost over br br though i m disappointed to hear that roland emmerich and dean devlin wanted to do a trilogy of movies but the studio optioned the series instead br br id say though that it turned out just fine maybe even better br br this show is amazing and i hope it never dies atlantis here we come ',
'i rented this movie last week i saw kevin spacey and morgan freeman were on it so it seemed promising and it was until justin timberlake came on scene he is a really bad actor and shouldn t be allowed to make a movie ever again i mean he is one of the most boring uninspired actors i ve ever seen he puts absolutely no emotion to any of his lines whatsoever why the hell was he cast for the role of josh pollack i think matt damon would have been a better choice br br kevin spacey was another big disappointment his character is so dull it seems like a bad mix of his character in american beauty and john doe in se en it might sound cool but believe me it s not br br now dylan mcdermott s acting is very good it s about one of the very few good things about this movie he is just inspired br br morgan freeman is good but nothing special he has some really cool lines though br br about the story although it was a bit obvious and exaggerated at times it was good i was expecting a big twist when lazerov dylan mcdermott was killed but nothing really happened ',
'any story comprises a premise characters and conflict characters plotting their own play promises triumph and a militant character readily lends oneself to this ardh satya s premise is summarized by the poem of the same name scripted by dilip chitre the line goes ek palde mein napunsaktha doosre palde mein paurush aur teek tarazu ke kaante par ardh satya a rough translation the delicate balance of right wrong commonly seen on the busts of blind justice in the courts has powerlessness on one plate and prowess on another is the needle on the center a half truth br br the poem is recited midway in the film by smita patil to om puri at a resturant it makes a deep impact on the protagonist lays the foundation for much of the later events that follow at the end of the film om puri ends up in exactly the same situation described so aptly in the poem br br the film tries mighty hard to do a one up on the poem however chitre s words are too powerful and at best the film matches up to the poem in every aspect br br ',
'this movie was by far the worst movie that i have ever seen in my entire life i m not even kidding it was poorly made and the actors couldn t act it was a waste of my time and money it looked like a movie that my friends and i could have put together on our own the case the movie came in is definitely a disguise nothing in the movie looks like the zombie on the front of the case it appears that the director or make up artist has just put black eye liner under someones eyes an called them a zombie the credits at the beginning of the movie take up almost minutes of the movie which watching the credits was the best part of the movie this was honestly an awful movie and i couldn t believe how badly it was put together scenes jumped from one thing to the other and sometimes u were like whats going on the audio was awful and the action shots looked like a couple of teen s joking around making a fake fight scene br br if you are considering renting or buying this movie i would advise you to at least watch the trailer for it because it show s how awful it truly is i wish i would have watched it before i rented it ',
'the haunted world of edward d wood jr isn t a particularly good documentary aesthetically it s lackluster and cheap looking the people in it go off on tangents which make it very unfocused and in cohesive but this adds to it s charm i say this because it s a documentary about an oddball that made oddball pictures and surrounded himself with fellow oddballs and as such there s really no other way to document the life and career of the man and his crew of misfits there are some glimpses of insight into both the genius and the ineptness of wood and the portrayal of both qualities is a credit to the genuineness of the documentary overall it s worth a watch for the wood fan and those of cinema in general but don t expect brilliance here expect a documentary made after wood s own heart ',
'horrible acting bad story line cheesy makeup and this is just the tip of the iceberg i have never seen a worse movie in my life minutes in i decided to fast forward to see if anything redeeming would happen it didn t aside from a nice breast shot the movie apparently was filmed in some furniture warehouse and the same warehouse was used for at least of the sets you even see this same red chair in several different locations if you are going to make a film at least rent an office building and an apartment not some warehouse which will echo all your actor s dialog note to producers renting a small office space and an apartment for a month is much cheaper than an entire warehouse and both are quite a bit more versatile and believable if you spend your money to rent this people i hope you got it with a return guarantee you will be demanding your money back i only spent to rent this tonight and i feel ripped off ',
'i originally caught this back in in its one week run at a movie theatre i was under impressed by it and my feelings haven t much changed br br documentary about the infamous edward d wood jr covering his life and movies there are interviews with people who worked with him or knew him they include vampira dolores fuller bela lugosi jr loretta king gregory walcott and paul marco interviews are mixed with clips from the movies or some bizarre recreations it is interesting somewhat but was this really needed i ve seen all of wood s films and they re just terrible wood had ambitions but not a bit of talent to carry them out i wouldn t say he was the worst director ever but he s down there do we really need a docu on a very mediocre film maker i do like the fact that they didn t try to make wood out to be some sort of saint more than a few of those interviewed especially lugosi jr pretty much hated the man and it comes through loud and clear also they totally ignore his films in the adult film industry in the s and s still it s of interest if you re a wood fan the best interviews are with vampira who tears wood apart and dolores fuller a long time girlfriend ',
'every year i watch hundreds of films including many low budget amateurish straight to dvd abominations that nobody in their right mind would ever want to see i have seen thousands of films in my time many excellent many forgettable zombie nation i will remember forever as one of the most hopelessly laughable horror films i have ever seen in fact i still haven t recovered from the experience of watching it br br the day after it seems like some kind of weird dream did i really see what i thought i saw why do the police work out of a warehouse did the voodoo priestesses really recommend that the zombies eat cheeseburgers is it safe is it safe is it safe br br i wouldn t recommend zombie nation if you want to see a good film and neither would i recommend it as so bad its good however if you are entertained by the prospect of watching probably the most indefensibly abysmal film ever this is for you now whenever anyone asks me what the worst film i have ever seen is i will say zombie nation br br seriously i think it s a greater crime to make a boring film than a bad one and ulli lommel deserves credit for producing a film that actually stuns you with its ineptitude he really is the ed wood jr of the digital age and i for one can t wait to see if he makes another film as consistently ridiculous as this one ',
'i loved this film not being a swooning ed wood jr fan i prefer to appreciate his boundless enthusiasm and acknowledge his shortcomings his movies are fun but his personal story is one racked with pain i hoped and was delighted to find that this film would be about understanding his turbulent life rather than simply heaping him with posthumous praise from beginning to end this film evolves from a documentary into a mythology leaving the cast and the viewer unexpectedly connected to each other and to ed wood jr br br what we get are people who knew ed wood the best talking about him from all perspectives positive and negative and showing us their character as much as ed s we get insight into ed s personal and professional life from his romances to his drinking to his sexuality to his friends to his enemies and even to his film making br br the film itself is shot in a low budget way that seems done out of respect for ed as if using the techniques of most theatrically released movies from would be disrespectful sort of like wearing a nicer suit than the president the set designer uses a sense of humor and also a great deal of insight when matching each cast member with their background br br fans will be excited to hear personal testimony regarding ed wood controversies and new comers will be amazed that this man was real the dvd is full of impossible to find gems crossroads of lorado and photo galleries but the real treasure of this film is the surprisingly engaging and interconnected story br br ed wood had a habit of defining people through their association with him for better or worse to the point where one woman will go down in history as swimming pool owner for once letting him and his friends be baptized in her pool this ability to define a person s legacy comes through universally as the most amazing effect of the film is to not only give a well rounded idea of the man that was ed wood jr but also to give a comprehensive view of the community that he created somehow without ever having more that one cast member being interviewed on screen at a time the connection that ed wood created amongst the various people in his life becomes clear and the viewer is left with great sense of involvement br br even the title hints at the b list horror genre but by the end we see that even this is a kindness what begins as unrelated stories by random people ends with the conclusion that all of the cast will be forever weaved into an unpredictably cohesive fabric that history will bring into haunting unity with wood s legend br br in many ways a living contradiction ed wood jr could not be condensed to a single viewpoint this collaborative effort is the closest to knowing him that we can ever get being itself a juxtaposition of themes it is at once respectful provocative thoughtful gripping fun sad kind and fulfilling ',
'i ve discovered that this film gets rented based off of the packaging the zombie on the front of the dvd looks cool and scary then you get to the movie and it s women with raccoon masks on zero special effects and even the fight scenes you can see them miss punches by feet the funny thing is that lommel acts in the movie briefly himself and is worse than the rest of the crap actors in the movie the only thing i can think is that lommel is just trying to make such a bad film that people dub it a cult classic however i can t possibly imagine anyone thinking this is anything but one of the worst movies ever made the real horror in this film is how bad it is i m embarrassed i rented it and vow never to see another lommel film again ',
' the haunted world of edward d wood jr is the definitive documentary on the life of the man who brought us such movies as glen or glenda bride of the monster and of course plan from outer space this exquisite film far exceeds where other documentaries such as look back in angora and the plan companion failed it rounds up his surviving entourage many of whom have passed away since filming and gives an honest examination of ed wood and his work nostalgic in the fact that it looks back at the darker corner of yesteryear hollywood sentimental in its treatment of the director down to the haunting music this documentary is an absolute must see for anyone who loves the director who so failed in his day the entire two hours of the film lovingly and retrospectively pieces together ed s life and untimely death for the viewer best watched at am while wearing an angora sweater ',
'this is one of the worst films ever i like cheesy movies but this is simply awful where are the images in the film that are on the box i think more money was spent on the dvd box illustrations than on the entire film br br why would a company release a dvd that the cover is so misleading i feel like such an idiot for renting this movie based strictly on the box as much as i explore imdb i should have done a little research and made a list prior to visiting my local video rental store i have no one to blame except myself i want my money and time back br br do not watch this movie br br even if curiosity is motivating you stick cocktail umbrellas in your eyes instead it will be much more enjoyable you have been warned ',
'this film deals with the atrocity in derry years ago which is commonly known as bloody sunday br br the film is well researched acted and directed it is as close to the truth as we will get until the outcome of the saville enquiry the film puts the atrocity into context of the time it also shows the savagery of the soldiers on the day of the atrocity the disgraceful white wash that was the widgery tribunal is also dealt with br br overall this is an excellent drama which is moving and shocking when the saville report comes out watch this film again to see how close to the truth it is ',
'i have made it my personal mission to go after those responsible for this film i even got the rental company to give me my money back because i argued that they perpetrated false advertising br br it s not enough that the movie itself is a p o s but the cover art is what sold me i ve done better make up effects on my children at halloween than what the movie actually depicts versus the cover art can you say raccoon eyes br br i m not going to waste more of my time by going into the full details but come on the movie s main character is an l a cop who was born and raised in alabama but has a german accent it s beyond insulting ',
'an excellent and accurate film mcgovern takes great pains to research and document his writing and it pays off he is not afraid to tell the truth even though it might draw unfavourable reviews and comments from some who like stories to be clean and sweet and glossy br br once again mcgovern brings in christopher eccleston though not in as high a profile a role as he played in hillsborough i found this movie as accurate well acted and well presented as hillsborough and i applaud mcgovern for his poignant unapologetic writing well done and my hat is off to the writer the actors the production crew a great film ',
'i honestly want the last minuets of my life back br br the only person that is fit to watch this movie is helen keller i kept saying to myself this has to get better this has to get better br br then the zombies finally showed up and they had some raccoon paint on there eyes br br they talked like regular people br br one drove a car br br some voodoo woman asked what one of the zombies wanted and the zombie said i want to dance br br that was it out came the movie i couldn t take it any longer can i sue for a hour of my life ',
'the story of a drifter his sheep ranch boss and the boss s daughter is not for all tastes but it s still very intriguing it takes place in the beautiful country of new zealand amongst the scenery we ve come to know so well through other films from this region br br this movie was the first time i had ever seen the excellent mary regan and i ve been a fan of hers ever since the cast also contains bruno lawrence who is probably best remembered by american audiences from the film smash palace terence cooper takes a turn as the ranch owner who pays a little too much of the wrong sort of attention to his daughter regan br br sharply acted with unforgettably shattering performances from all of its leads i first saw this movie in extremely edited form on late night television here in america but believe you me the unexpurgated version is not to be missed ',
'wow i went to the video store tonight because i was in the mood for a bad b horror movie and i found this gem i looked at the cover and i thought it looked like just the movie for my mood i brought it home and put it on br br this movie was not the b horror movie that i had in mind this was much worse i wanted a bad movie but what i got i didn t know that crap like this existed amongst man this movie seemed like a year old wrote and directed it and that is being nice about it br br i am an aspiring director and this movie made me so mad that someone out there is actually paying this guy to direct movies he needs to work at a garbage dump shoveling crap where he belongs br br if you are thinking about renting this or buying it i will tell you the same thing that i would tell someone getting ready to commit suicide don t do it it s not worth it i really have nothing nice to say about this movie don t do it ',
'i really like miikes movies about yakuza this one i saw about years ago and it really fued my head never before seen such a sick and twisted thing the story is good and the actors do their thing very well i haven t seen the uk or japan version but i have to say that i believe that the german dvd is a bit censored if you haven t seen the movie already and live in germany maybe you better look out for a dvd from the nederlands or austria the i on dvd contains a lot of very hard and nasty scenes but at the showdown i felt that something was missing about one or two very short scenes br br all in all a good perverted movie with crazy characters and a high level of violence that s what i like miike for ',
'acclaimed director mervyn leroy puts drama on film that competes with the best of soap operas high drama is found in the loves and infidelities in new york s social set oh yes don t forget jealousy can bring about tainted hearts and murder the all star cast features barbara stanwyck van heflin james mason ava gardner cyd charisse and nancy davis ',
'anyone new to the incredibly prolific takashi miike s work might want to think twice about making this startling film their first experience of this truly maverick director in keeping with miike s working practice of taking any work that comes his way and then grafting his own sensibilities onto the script this is at heart a fairly basic yakuza thriller with a morally ambiguous cop chasing a gang which his lawyer brother has fallen in with what takes the movie out of the realms of the same old same old however is the utterly unflinching attitude so some of the most sudden and horrific violence seen in today s cinema and this isn t that nice cool clean violence so beloved of us cinema this stuff is nasty painful and hurts that said the pace is breakneck the characters are unusual without being just being burdened with stock eccentricities miike s sense of humour reveals itself and the most unexpected moments and his camera is never quite where you expect it to be making it hard to look away from the screen whatever he might be showing you it doesn t have the ohmigod ending of dead or alive but if you re not squeamish now s the time to get on board the miike bandwagon before he ends up on some hollywood studio s new john woo shopping list ',
'the animation in this re imagining of peter the wolf is excellent but at minutes the film is sleep inducing they should have called it peter the snails because everything moves at a snail s pace i couldn t even watch the film in one sitting i had to watch it minutes at a time and it was pure torture br br save yourself minutes do not watch this film and you will thank me br br i can only guess that the oscar nominating committee only watched the first few minutes of the nominees unfortunately to vote for the winner in the best animated short short category the voters will have to sit through the whole thing i already feel sorry for them and must predict that there s no way this film will come close to winning ',
'i love jack s jokes like the clich is or over the top clich guy black oily skin kinda spooky he is just hilarious daniel s starting to catch up on him to good thing jack s not on the team anymore in a way or else it would have been sarcasm mania i just love all the plots season a little less i have to admit the characters are great the actors are great i m starting to pick up facial expressions and more from jack daniel and teal c it just all theoretically possible and exciting oops their i go again sorry i m also starting to pick up traits from carter and all of this is driving my parents nutz well to conclude i think it s good for another three seasons or so especially if they keep on packing the episodes with all this humor drama action and so forth ',
'll cool j morgan freeman dylan mcdermott kevin spacey john heard cary elwes roslyn sanchez justin timberlake wait a minute justin timberlake and he s the star i should have known better than to rent edison force in fact i did know better but in a moment of absolute weakness i rented this stv when you have big names like freeman and spacey in an stv you know it s one of two things an indie or a dog as in sat on a shelf which this did and with good reason the plot as such involves a squad of corrupt killer cops a la magnum force and journalist timberlake is the only one brave enough to uncover them he is targeted for his efforts or maybe i should say for his horrible acting i turned it off after one of the bad guys was shot through the forehead and still had the forethought to turn to his shooter and smile before collapsing just awful the real tipoff to how bad this flick is to see freeman on the cover and throughout the movie sporting an unruly beard looking like nothing so much as a hobo you just know the director was not in control freeman is clearly slumming ',
'the movie starts something like a less hyper kinetic more pastiche dead or alive strange underground activities are done while bodies are discovered by police officers but when a police officer is killed one tatsuhito gets involved and when he discovers that his brother shihito is also involved things get bloody quite fast br br an earlier work of miike s shinjuku triad society is still filled with his usual in the ol ultraviolence and sadistic sex acts though it s not one of his more eclectic or flamboyant pieces rather it s a pretty well crafted bit of pulp fiction as tatsuhito digs his way through the underground a maze that leads him to a gay triad leader who sells illegally gained body organs from taiwan and keeps an almost brothel of young boys one in particular the character who kills the cop at the beginning tatsuhito s brother is getting involved with said society so tatsuhito himself is forced to become a dirty cop and use similarly violent and sadistic tactics to penetrate into this sordid realm br br what s mainly interesting about this little bit of work is the relationship tatsuhito has with his nemesis wang tatsuhito is a japanese born in china later moved back into japan and alienated for it wang is a chinese who felt alienated in china so killed his father and developed a crime wing in japan wang also is a surprisingly shakespearian character which is weird enough as it is much less that you actually begin to feel sorry for him by the time his ultimate showdown with tatsuhito comes to be and tatsuhito himself is a similarly tragic figure when he s forced to contend with his lack of ability to control his brother while it would be rude to state that miike s movies are successful mostly on their shock value it is true that sometimes it s easy to lose track of how well miike can create bitter dis impassioned characters br br polarisdib ',
'this hitchcock movie bears little similarity to his later suspense films and seems much more like a very old fashioned morality tale a young couple receives an inheritance that they believe will make them happy they spend the money traveling about the world and living a very hedonistic existence however after a while the excitement begins to wane and the couple become dissipated and pointless in their existence however out of no where when they are on a luxury cruise the ship sinks and they lose everything and end up much happier in the end because they now appreciate life what an odd silly and preachy film personally i d like to inherit all that money and find out if it makes me miserable br br the production values are relatively poor compared to later productions a rough film with poor sound quality and rather amateurish acting ',
'while not as wild and way out as some of takashi miike s later films this is a very good crime drama br br the basic story is the story of a cop of japanese cop with chinese parents trying to take down an up and coming chinese mobster complicating things is that his younger brother is acting as the lawyer for the villain and his gang the film is actually much more complicated than that with several complications which both keep things interesting and distract things from the central narrative thrust its this complication and loss of way about an hour into the film that makes this less than a great film it is a very very good one this is definitely worth seeing especially if you don t mind a no frantic pace br br a word of warning the violence when it happens is explosive and nasty there are also semi graphic depictions of gay sex if thats not your cup of tea proceed with caution br br or out of ',
'bored londoners henry kendall and joan barry as fred and emily hill receive an advance on an inheritance they use the money go traveling their lives become more exciting as they begin relationships with exotic betty amann for mr kendall and lonely percy marmont for ms barry but they remain as boring as they were before arguably bored director alfred hitchcock tries to liven up the well titled as quoted in the film from shakespeare s the tempest rich and strange by ordering up some camera trickery an opening homage to king vidor s the crowd is the highlight the low point may be the couple dining on chinese prepared cat br br rich and strange alfred hitchcock henry kendall joan barry percy marmont elsie randolph ',
'i found this a bit hard to follow to the extent that it seemed to dip in the middle while i tried to make head or tail of who was fighting who and why one of the problems is the cultural language one here we have a chinese taiwanese japanese problem of which we know little and because we are simply reading english subtitles inevitably loose some of the subtleties another problem is that there seem to be just too many only half explained twists and coincidences nevertheless it seems unlikely that there is a wholly bad miiki film and this certainly is not that plenty of stylish and bone crunching violence a window upon some less than orthodox sexual goings on plus the family aspect all in all a decent ride but maybe checking out the storyline might actually be helpful before watching this one ',
'yet another early film from alfred hitchcock which seems to have been done out of contractual obligation as with juno and the paycock you can tell that hitchcock had little interest in this movie there is almost no style or craft to it at all the story revolves around fred and emily a young married couple who come into some money and go on a cruise which proves to be a test of their marriage emily is given a chance at a new life with a good hearted wealthy man who falls in love with her but chooses to take the high road and stay with her husband this might seem more believable if fred weren t made out to be a completely insensitive pompous ass who jumps at the first opportunity he sees to leave his wife for another woman the couple ends up staying together but the movie lacks any real reconciliation scene the third act goes in a completely different direction with the couple stranded on an abandoned ship and rescued by an asian fishing boat joan barry does give a very stirring performance as the faithful wife of an unfaithful husband that s about all you can say for this one ',
'shinjuku triad society chinese mafia wars is unlikely to get distribution in the west outside film festivals why could your censors stomach a film where policemen anally rape male and female suspects to get them to talk and the victims enjoy it or see an old lady have her eye torn out of her skull these are just a few of the shocks in store for viewers of this ultraviolent cops and gangsters story it makes clockwork orange which was banned for years in the uk look like a disney cartoon br br should you see this film yes it is fantastic and essential viewing for fans of asian cinema the shocking moments are there to illustrate what goers on in the world of these characters if you like this make sure you catch dead or alive which is very similar barring the insane ending in doa of course great for japan that they have a talent like miike working at the same time as takeshi kitano the best chance of seeing this film outside a takashi miike retrospective at a film festival is on dvd if i haven t put you off try hunting for a hong kong version on the web as i m sure it will come out in that country ',
'i imagine when hitchcock scholars and experts find themselves together the talk is not of the master s great films like north by northwest or strangers on a train but a lesser known effort like this one from obscure and seriously flawed which showcases the great director in fledgling form br br emily and fred hill joan barry and harry kendall are a middle class london couple scrimping to stay ahead he begrudges their lot she accepts it change comes in the form of a letter from an uncle saying he will set them up so they can enjoy a life of globetrotting luxury they make plans for a world cruise but their problems have only begun br br just ask richard hannay roger o thornhill or marion crane well marion s indisposed at the moment but you get the idea travel and hitchcock go together like moths and candlelight setting one up for a perilous journey at best this is perhaps hitchcock s earliest foray into this theme and not his most successful or memorable hitchcock tries to mix comedy with another element in this case domestic drama rather than suspense but the two do not cohere at least not here br br the hills are a dull flat couple with no chemistry or personality when they find themselves at the folies bergre in the form of cross cutting with footage that looks ten years older than the rest of this film they are abashed at the outfits of the female performers the curtain s gone up too soon gasps emily they aren t dressed br br when the hills drift away from each other on an ocean cruise it seems a mercy killing more than a tragic thing even if the people they partner off with are drips too emily s man gordon percy marmont carries around photographs of himself sitting next to empty chairs which he suggests be filled by emily fred s girl the princess betty amann has clara bow s eyes and wallace beery s five o clock shadow there s also an obnoxious fellow passenger a dowdy spinster whom hitchcock always introduces with a cartoonish horn cue subtlety was still to come br br everything is shot in an abrupt manner with confusing blocking and strained dialogue hitchcock tries for some early comedy with fred and his umbrella that doesn t come off and kendall seems to aim for laughs while berry plays for tears when fred and emily break off they are seen being jostled on a pair of wedged together rickshaws one of many clunky attempts at symbolism br br emily s the only vaguely sympathetic character in part because she really cares about her husband and agonizes over her affair with gordon but mostly because she s among the first of hitchcock s many magnetic blondes her platinum ringlets whipping around her face like a botticelli aboard the open deck of a chinese junk near the film s conclusion br br matters conclude with a dangerous situation as set piece for the protagonists to come to grips with and presumably repair their relationship only they aren t active participants in the resolution and except for the fate of a friendly cat nothing about the ending resonates br br at least you get some enjoyable views of london in the early s and a chance to see hitchcock when he was still working for food rich and strange is hitchcock paying his dues and learning his trade one for scholars but not casual film goers ',
'shinjuku triad society albeit from perfect is a fiercely compelling film for what it tries to depict in its uber conventional realm it s a yakuza triad picture involving cops versus japanese or chinese gangsters mostly chinese as the title suggests but already even in his first technical debut takashi miike is already establishing many aspects to films that he would make from here on in social issues like black market trading of precious goods in this case human organs usually from children nostalgia for childhood and one s roots which was especially prevalent in dead or alive thumbing of the nose at taboos like gay sex and satirical rape violence towards women blood curdling violence it s certainly not as surreal as some of miike s most recent films but this is expected as he s trying out things that he s just starting to learn following a track record of straight to video programmers it s got all of those qualities and it s also like the films that would follow from it equally savage and heartfelt crazy in spots and sardonic in its drama and solid for genre fans br br the story concerns two brothers one a chinese orphan raised in japan tatsuhito kiriya kippei shiina pretty decent as a eastwood esquire anti hero hero who s become a detective and another who s become a gangster or a would be one the main arch likely takeover gang comes from wang a definite pun on what the gang represents during its spare time played by tomorowo taguchi as a typical wacko with real terror in his eyes and his partner karino takeshi caesar who s threatening even when just repeating a commandment over and over to a woman who s just had her eye plugged out following a sour deal who are the ruthless kind to pop up almost organically in a miike movie there s some intrigue involving the organ trading scheme with the gangsters which kiriya almost becomes a victim of and the gang s penchant for gay sex at least with one little puppet of sorts who does whatever the main gangsters want it all leads up to vengeance and redemption qualities that miike and his writer are trying to emulate from shakespeare hence the macbeth bit with wang washing his bloody hangs over and over after some gay sex saying it won t come off br br if it doesn t add up to the same emotional level of impact that a great shakespeare play would have it s par for the course of a film like this miike s goals are met though just met in his low scale ambitions a gangster picture with some added levels of harsh familial trouble the main tension between the brothers comes out of profession and duty to parents notes on the crueler aspects of underworld crime and what the realm of unrepentant sex with both sexes brings out psychologically in the characters at the same time shinjuku triad society also contains more than a few moments of classic biting black comedy from the miike oeuvre some of it just has to be taken with a grain of salt for what the director does in his outrageousness like the bit at the beginning with the chair smashing over the face or the randomness of the interrogation as it goes into a very twisted area there s even a laugh out loud line from the young sex slave after finishing an act on one of the bosses thank you mr weeny burger miike and his writer don t have enough here to make the film a full on dark comedy like ichi or of course visitor q but there s enough to bring some appropriate levity to the darker aspects to the story and characters br br as the first entry of the black society trilogy as it s called i was quite impressed and it s a fine quasi calling card from one of the craziest new artists in contemporary cinema ',
'there is no suspense in this serial when one episode ends the acting is so shoddy the effects are so poor and the script is so awful that the last thing on your mind is how batman and robin will save the day no in fact the last thing on your mind is watching the next episode this show is so boring that i can t see how it ever got made let alone released on dvd obviously the effects are not up to par with contemporary batman films but even the script is awful an incoherent babbling mess about some evil professor and a ray gun or something like that i am not quite sure because it is too awful to follow watch the s version or the s versions or even batman begins just anything over this version ',
'this movie is the first of miikes triad society trilogy and the trilogy kicks of to a great start the movies in the trilogy are only connected thematically and these themes are actually apparent in all his films if you look close enough shinjuku triad society is about a cop trying to prevent his kid brother from getting too involved with a rather extreme gang of outsiders struggling their way to the top of tokyos yakuza the kid brother is a lawyer and the triad gang is becoming increasingly in need of one as the movie progresses the movie takes place in a very harsh environment and is therefore pretty violent and tough miike has done worse but since this is a serious movie it hits you very hard as usual there is also a lot of perverted sex mostly homosexual in this one the movie is in many ways a typical gangster movie but with a great drive and true grittiness if you ve only seen miikes far out movies ichi the killer fudoh etc this is worth checking out since it is sort of a compromise between his aggressive over the top style displayed in those movies and his more serious side as seen in the other films of the trilogy and as always with miike there are at least two scenes in this that you ll never forget see it and figure out which ones for yourself br br ',
' this would have been what you got br br words alone cannot describe how bad this is if you re having trouble sleeping pop this in and i guarantee you ll be out in fifteen minutes br br robert lowery was a pretty good actor in the s but he s phoning it in here in an interview johnny duncan robin said that in one scene he and batman had to run from the car to the house and that lowery was doubled over out of camera range because his girdle was too tight duncan himself looks more like a motorcycle hood than a boy wonder in fact he s more like a guy in his thirties waiting for lowery to kick off so he can wear the big cape br br driving a batmobile that looks like it rolled off honest al s used car lot at below sticker price the dynamic duo don t put a lot of effort into hiding the fact that it s bruce wayne s car they re driving in fact it s noted by several characters throughout the serial br br the acting is wooden the sets are cheap the dialogue is horrendous and if there was even a script they were following i m sure it read along the lines of batman says something here because it certainly seems like they re making it up as it goes along br br batman s utility belt is made out of thin fabric with no apparent pouches to hold his gadgets in one scene when batman needs a full size blow torch the producers just tuck one in as the scene starts never to be seen again his cowl is so bad he can t even see out of it and his ears look more like flopsy mopsy the disgruntled easter rabbit than they do anything batlike br br in one scene i am not making this up batman substitutes counterfiet radioactive money that will burst into flames the second it is exposed to air as a payoff to some hoods it s radioactive so he can trace it the reason it s so highly flammable isn t explained well unfortunately the thugs open the package in a cardboard warehouse we know it s a cardboard warehouse because batman sneaks in and pushes these boxes that look to weigh about six ounces on the hoods to knock them out and soon the whole place burns to the ground thanks batman br br in another scene after the batmobile is disabled batman flags down a passing motorist in the middle of nowhere and takes his car leaving the man to fend for himself and telling him not to worry because if batman smashes up the car the police will surely buy him another one yes you guessed it said car careens off a cliff within a few short seconds not that it matters much to the motorist who has probably died from exposure trying to hoof his way back to gotham city br br there is a tired subplot with lois lane clone vicki vale who is convinced bruce wayne is batman she must have noticed the batmobile parked outside of bruce s house or maybe she saw batman and robin running up the walk in the clearly densely populated suburban neighborhood br br everything about this serial is bad and all but the youngest in the audience will want to hurl toast at the screen if you re looking for bad cinema you could not hit a better mark if you want entertainment try the burton batman films the adam west batman tv series or the earlier lewis wilson batman serial ',
'a lot has been said about shinjuku triad society as the first true miike film and i thought this sort of description might have been a clich but like all clichs it is based on the truth all the miike trademarks are here the violence the black humour the homosexuality the taboo testing and the difficult to like central character shinjuku is however one of miike s most perfectly formed films he says in an interview that if he made it again it would be different but not necessarily better i think what he means is that the film possesses a truly captivating energy and raw edge which seems so fresh that although he might be able to capture a more visually or technically complex movie he could not replicate or better the purity of this film br br as you might expect the violence is utterly visceral gushing blood and gritty beatings are supplemented by a fantastic scene in which a woman has a chair smashed over her face only a miike film could let you get away with a sentence like that the film has a fantastic pace unlike dead or alive which begins and ends strongly and dips in the middle dead or alive also deals with similar issues miike is clearly concerned about the relations between the japanese and chinese in the postwar period and this emotive subject is handled well here the central character really coming to life when you begin to understand his past br br i cannot sing shinjuku s praises enough i do not want to give away too much this is miike before he began to use cgi to animate his films and is almost reminiscent of something like kitano s sonatine the central characters are superbly realized and the final twist guarantees that as soon as the film has finished you ll be popping it back on again to work it all out ',
'granting the budget and time constraints of serial production batman and robin nonetheless earns a place near the bottom of any cliffhanger list utterly lacking the style imagination and atmosphere of its predecessor batman br br the producer sam katzman was known as king of the quickies and like his director spencer bennett seemed more concerned with speed and efficiency than with generating excitement unfortunately this team also produced the two superman serials starring kirk alyn with their tacky flying animation canned music and dull supporting players the opening of each chapter offers a taste of things to come thoroughly inane titles robin rescues batman batman vs wizard mechanical music droning on and our two heroes stumbling toward the camera looking all around either confused or having trouble seeing through their cheap halloween masks batman s cowl with its devil s horns and eagle s beak fits so poorly that the stuntman has to adjust it during the fight scenes his utility belt is a crumpled strip of cloth with no compartments from which he still manages to pull a blowtorch and an oxygen tube at critical moments br br in any case the lead players are miscast robert lowery displays little charm or individual flair as bruce wayne and does not cut a particularly dynamic figure as batman he creates the impression that he d rather be somewhere anywhere else john duncan as robin has considerable difficulty handling his limited dialogue he is too old for the part with an even older stuntman filling in for him out of costume lowery and duncan are as exciting as tired businessmen ambling out for a drink without one ounce of the chemistry evident between lewis wilson and douglas croft in the serial br br although serials were not known for character development the earlier batman managed to present a more energetic cast this one offers a group going through the motions not that the filmmakers provide much support not one of the hoodlums stands out and they are led by one of the most boring villains ever the wizard great name actually they are led by someone sporting a curtain a shawl and a sack over his head with a dubbed voice that desperately tries to sound menacing the prime suspects an eccentric professor a radio broadcaster are simply annoying br br even the established comic book regulars are superfluous it is hard to discern much romance between vicki vale and bruce wayne despite the perils she faces vicki displays virtually no emotion commissioner gordon is none too bright unlike in the previous serial alfred the butler is a mere walk on whose most important line is mr wayne s residence they are props for a drawn out gimmick laden incoherent plot further saddled with uninspired repetitive music and amateurish production design the wayne manor exterior resembles a suburban middle class home in any sitcom the interiors those of a cheap roadside motel the batcave is an office desperately in need of refurbishing the costumes are kept rolled up in a filing cabinet br br pity that the filmmakers couldn t invest more effort into creating a thrilling adventure while the availability of the two serials on dvd is a plus for any serious batfan one should not be fooled by the excellent illustrations on the box they capture more of the authentic mood of the comic book than all chapters of batman and robin combined br br now for the good news this is not the version ',
'this was the beginning of it all granted this is not friends at its best but this was the show s pilot let s not forget and not a bad one at that we re introduced to the gang and central perk where our story begins even from this first episode we get a sign of the ross rachel relationship that will come over the next ten years when ross says i just want to be married again and rachel storms in with a wedding dress on probably not intentional as at the time the writers were going for a monica joey relationship but fits nicely now when looking back something else in this episode rachel is introduced to chandler as if the two have never met before but in later episodes the so called flashbacks this is contradicted as the two have met on three previous occasions nevertheless the point is this a fine start to a great show this episode may not be the usual friends as we are accustomed to them with the cast still a bit inexperienced but over the next few episodes we see why the show came to be what it was keep watching first season is a blast ',
'this show made me feel physically sick and totally detached from british society as a whole it was programmes such as this and blue peter that pretended that there were are no class divisions in britain they d always say things like go into your loft and you may find this or go into your back garden tonight and what about us scummy working class kids who never never had a loft and a back garden which was nothing more than a meter square of balcony on the th floor of a council block public service broadcasting yeah right and on top of that it was awfully depressing to see those stupid middle class up their own backside kids mess about with bits of old plastic having fun do me a favour and why don t you go and slit your wrists or do a coke overdose on mama and papa s money you make me sick ',
'here it is the first ever episode of friends where we get introduced to control freak monica gellar courtney cox newly divorced ross gellar david schimmer hippy pheobe buffay lisa kudrow unknown actor and ladies man matt le blanc and very sarcastic chandler bing matthew perry this is how the scene starts off until we introduced to the th and final friend spoilt kid rachel green jennifer aniston br br the episode is better than most people give credit for like any new sitcom the first episode isn t always fantastic the acting in this episode isn t great because the cast cannot identify and arnt really believable in their new characters apart from kudrow and perry who shine br br matt le blanc man his acting was down right dreadful because until later he gets more confident but i think he tries to be funny but at most fails br br david schimmer why does he over pronounce every word he cannot speak normally but he became one of the funniest characters in later seasons but he isn t confident and i cannot sympathise with him jennifer aniston looks hot and does a good job as rachel green but we only see the real rachel later in the st season courtney cox looks quite anorexic in this episode its worrying she looks totally different now more healthily she acting is a little sketchy but everyones is in this minute pilot lisa kudrow and matthew perry i m doing these two together because their comic timing and acting quality was superb and for lisa this was one of her first roles and she is so natural as pheobe pheebs and matthew perry is just matthew perry playing himself basically the episode quality does improve later such as the sets they looks dark and creepy in this episode and makes them seem unfriendly the acting is ok the characters gain confidence with each new scene and i am proud this is the pilot i hope we see the friends reunite cause they will always be there for us ',
'he was my hero for all time until he went along with if you can call it a movie i went to the show to watch it and come out and not just asking for me money back but asked for double the money thats how bad my hero s acting and the hole thing was i can t believe that steven segal s career has hit so low that he has been reduced to making th rate films with th rate secondary actors i watched this moving expecting to see him beet the crap out of some people the way he usually does when he is reduced to using a single judo chop between the shoulder blades to take out an opponent and the guy falls like a ton of bricks something is wrong br br the plot is unbelievable as a movie and even if you excuse the visuals and had read this story as a novel you d be left wondering why you had even picked up the book br br steven segal goes through the motions and seems as if he is only doing this because he is under obligation he shows no effort and no enthusiasm and in some scenes he doesn t show up at all br br i hate to repeat other peoples comments but the use of stock footage for cut scenes and for visuals of the aircrafts in flight is pathetic the condition of those scenes chopped in is shaky and scenes themselves seemed to have deteriorated over time the zappruder film showing president john f kennedy being assassinated is steadier and cleaner br br my honest opinion is to tell you not to waste your time seeing this movie it is not up to the standards of his work in the glimmer man or exit wounds i read one review that said the movie had a million dollar budget segal being paid of that and that the movie still came in under budget i must concur br br it is no wonder that this is a direct to dvd movie as no conscientious theater owner would play this movie ',
'and that s how the greatest comedy of tv started it has been years since the very first episode but it has continued with the same spirit till the very last season because that s where friends is based on quotes extraordinary situations are taking place among six friends who will never leave from our hearts let s say a big thanks to rachel ross monica joey chandler and phoebe in our first meet we see how rachel dumps a guy in the church how understand monica s search for the perfect guy there is no perfect guy why all you women are obsessed with that and how your marriage can be ruined when the partner of your life discovers that she s a lesbian till we meet joey phoebe and chandler in the next episodes enjoy friends ',
'i can barely find the words to express how utterly utterly awful this film is i was sold on the promise of action with segal and stealth aircraft which normally make for an entertaining action movie i can honestly say i d rather gouge my eyes out with a cocktail stick than have to see this film again the acting was so awful that it was almost funny the story was insanely weak with plot holes so cavernously wide you could fly an f through them the script was so poor if i found out that a year old wrote it i shouldn t be in the least surprised the direction and production is so amateur i wouldn t even hire these people to shoot my worst enemies wedding video utter utter drivel those responsible for making this movie have cheapened the art and they should be ashamed of themselves steven segal should never ever show his face in public again i can t imagine what made him agree to star in this the worst film i have seen in my entire life ',
'stargate sg is a spin off of sorts from the movie stargate i am so glad that they decided to expand on the subject the show gets it rolling from the very first episode a retired jack o neill has to go through the gate once more to meet with his old companion dr daniel jackson through the first two episodes we meet samantha carter a very intelligent individual who lets no one walk over her and there is teal c a quiet compassionate warrior who defies his false god and joins the team br br the main bad guys are called the gouald they are parasites who can get inserted into one s brain thus controlling them and doing evil deeds any gouald who has a massive amount of power is often deemed as a system lord the warriors behind the gouald are called jaffa who house the parasitic gouald in their bodies until the gouald can get inserted in a person s brain br br through the episodes we mostly get to see sg the exploratory team comprised of jack daniel teal c and sam go through the wormhole that instantly transports them to other planets this device is called the stargate and they encounter new cultures or bad guys some episodes are on world meaning that they do not go through the stargate once in the episode and rather deal with pressing issues on earth br br through the years you start to see a decline in the sg team as close knit and more character building story lines this in turn means even more on world episodes which is perfectly understandable br br my rating while most of this show is good there are some instances of story lines not always getting wrapped up and less of an emphasis on gate travel these last few years but still top notch science fiction ',
'how can there be that many corrupt cops without any one of them slipping up with enough cops to run a mini war that include such weapons as flamethrowers you would think they would have been caught before someone writing for a weekly coupon newspaper overheard someone saying thanks to a corrupt cop br br you will never get your ish minutes back life is too precious to rent this movie br br i feel bad for the big named actors that made the mistake of making this movie br br if you like justin timberlake feel free to rent this movie he does have a very major part in it so fans might enjoy seeing him br br however i believe most of his fans are young girls who may be turned off by the violence in this movie ',
'the pilot is extremely well done it lays out how the characters bond in future episodes i don t think anyone could have created a better pilot for this show it displays remarkable creativity on the writers part although not everything was straightened out because it was the very first episode a lot of events that happen in future seasons were demonstrated in the pilot an example would be ross and rachels future relationship even though the nervousness of a first episode appeared it was overcome by an amazing plot and outstanding cast choice br br bravo br br a great start to an unbeatable comedy ',
'i own almost every seagal movie yes even ones like this that are low budget and i must say this may be the worst not only of his movies but of all movies ever made the only highlight of this film and only reason i gave it stars instead of is that a it is seagal and b seagal does have some sweet action sequences specifically in the store and also when ever else he takes out an entire army with a knife next time give me minutes of seagal killing people and don t even bother with a story line because the storyline not only stunk but so did the acting the fact that f s and f s somehow changed into f s and also the fact that the stealth was as fast as an f also the stealth never had to refuel and since when is afghanistan considered hostile territory from an air force stand point last i checked afghanistan has no air force we usa control the skies also this top secret mission was played through speakers to all the crew in the room yet the admiral still whispers to the other guy that it is secret also how did seagal go from the bottom of the truck to the top please tell us why they jailed him since when are air force pilots great commandos unless they are owen wilson and since when are their drunks in arab countries considering muslims don t drink alcohol also on top of that since when do arabs listen to orders from females like the in charge the highlight of the film was definitely seagal killing people in the store and the other people he killed with a knife as well as the very brief and totally random lesbian scene that came out of nowhere ',
'in the very first episode of friends which aired sept the one where monica gets a roommate there is a song playing as rachel sits in the window towards the end of the show the line that plays is if you ever need holding does anyone know the artist singing or the title of the song it is seems as if it is a great song i would love to get a copy of it thanks for the assistance i am looking for the album cd it is on so i can purchase it br br i have the shows which are available for purchase and enjoy this show over and over again it just seemed to be believable thanks for the hours of entertainment you have provided over the years ',
'well i can once and for all put an end to the question what is the worst movie ever made ever it is flight of fury starring and co written by steven seagal sure there are lots of famously bad movies but this one takes the cake in that it takes itself so seriously br br it is a romanian made film that speaks to just how far romania has to go to catch up with bollywood it also speaks to just how utterly devoid of intellect and talent steven seagal has become this movie is so bad that you literally feel violated after watching it and need to crouch in the corner of the shower and cry knowing that nothing will make you feel clean again br br it was released only on video i can t imagine why and i suspect the workers that had to make the dvd s had to wear protective gear and receive regular counseling ',
'in this first episode of friends we are introduced to the main characters of the series monica geller phoebe buffay chandler bing ross geller joey tribbiani and eventually rachel green br br we discover that rachel a rich girl that is monica s friend from high school times left her fianc barry at the altar since she discovered she didn t love him she also decides to live with monica and become independent from her father getting a new job as a waitress in central perk br br ross for the other hand discovered his wife is a lesbian and lost her for susan her partner we see him moving to a new apartment during the episode br br monica in this episode makes out and eventually sleeps with paul the wine guy who gave her the excuse of being impotent since he divorced his wife but in reality he was just deceiving her br br ps i just loooove joey s and chandler s haircuts in this first season ',
'star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br the american military has just launched a major new stealth fighter plane that can evade detection unlike any other a renegade pilot steve touissant steals it and plots to hold the us government to ransom with it so they are forced to send in their best man john sands seagal who else to stop him in exchange for his freedom from a detention centre where his mind was to be wiped of all the incriminating information he s learned over the years br br i skipped attack force because i could tell from the cover and all the post production tampering that had occurred that it would be crap and when all the negative reviews and low user rating came pouring in it just confirmed what i thought but i decided to give fof a go because shadow man by the same director wasn t bad and what the hell seagal was my favourite action star once and maybe just maybe he could make a great film again oh what a fool i was br br dubbing horrendous stock footage of aerial stealth fighter jets awful camera work cheap production values risible unconvincing fight scenes that have become seagal s trademark and a boring sleep inducing plot that doesn t go anywhere br br thankfully his next film once upon a time in the hood which i ll be skipping apparently marks the end of his contract with sony meaning no more of these awful european lensed action films and his next film prince of pistols might mark a return to theatres hell he s done it before and stallone will have managed to do it before him rocky balboa br br this isn t a flight of fury it isn t even a flight of fun it s a flight that fails to even take off the ground ',
'why did it sound like the husband kept calling her appy it ruined a great episode and so i can only give it a proper grammar and pronunciation are essential to a film br br it was very hellraiser what with all the skin ripping though i dunno how anyone can survive without skin the skin is a vital organ to the body the biggest organ actually and without we would die the more a horror film is true the more creepy it can be and more entertaining br br i do admit though that the stories from the great horror directors are very disappointing and very mediocre br br come on yankies get your english up to par ',
'unless you are mentally ill or the most die hard segal fan you will tire of this horrendous excuse for a film in under minutes br br the plot even for a seagal film the plot is just stupid i mean its not just bad its barely coherent br br the acting unbelievably wooden literally seen better acting in porno s ironically this film tries to cash in on this audience which a lesbian love scene which is utterly cringe worthy br br special effects wouldn t look out of place in a s sword and sorcery flick br br unless you suffer from insomnia and have exhausted all other cures don t make the same mistake as i did and buy this dvd as you will be asking for that hour and a half of your life back ',
'masters of horror right to die starts late one night as married couple abby julia anderson ciff addison martin donovan are driving home however while talking cliff is distracted crashes into a tree that has fallen across the road cliff s airbag works ok he walks away with minor injuries unfortunately for abby hers didn t she ended up as toast when she was thrown from the car doused in petrol which set alight burning her entire body abby s life is saved just she is taken to hospital where she is on life support seriously injured horribly disfigured from the burns cliff decides that she should die his selfish lawyer ira corbin bersen thinks they should let abby die sue the car manufacturer get rich while abby s mum pam linda sorenson wants to blame cliff get rich save abby however abby has other plans of her own br br this american canadian co production was directed by rob schmidt whose only horror film previously was wrong turn which on it s own hardly qualifies him to direct a masters of horror episode was episode from season of the masters of horror tv series while i didn t think right to die was the best masters of horror episode i ve seen i thought it was a decent enough effort all the same still doesn t come close to being as bad as the screwfly solution the script by john esposito has a neat central idea that isn t anything new but it uses it effectively enough although i d say it s a bit uneven the first minutes of this focuses on the horror element of the story but then it goes into a lull for odd minutes as it becomes a drama as the legal wrangling over abby s life the affair cliff is having take center stage before it gets back on track it a deliciously gory twisted climax that may not be for the faint of heart the character s are a bit clichd the weak man the bent lawyer the protective mum the young tart who has sex to get what she wants but they all serve their purpose well enough the dialogue is ok the story moves along at a nice pace overall i liked right to die apart from a few minutes here there where it loses it s focus a bit i wasn t that keen on the ambiguous ending br br director schmidt does a good job there are some effective scenes this tries to alternate between low key spooky atmosphere out and out blood gore there are some fantastic special make up effects as usual there s shots of abby where she has had all of the skin burned off her body the image of her bandaged head with her teeth showing because she has no lips left is pretty gross images make up effects that reminded me of similar scenes in hellraiser it s sequels then there s the main course at the end where cliff literally skins someone complete with close ups of scalpels slicing skin open him peeling it off the muscle putting it into a cooler box very messy there are also various assorted body parts there s some nudity here as well with at least a couple of pretty ladies getting naked br br technically right to die is excellent the special effects are brilliant as most masters of horror episodes it doesn t look like a cheap made for tv show which basically if the truth be told it is the acting was fine but there s no big names in this one br br right to die is another enjoyable somewhat twisted masters of horror episode that most horror fans should definitely check out if not just for the terrific skinning scene well worth a watch for those with the stomach ',
'steven seagal movies have never been oscar material but with each passing release they get worse and worse br br this one starts with seagal getting picked up by the fbi because he killed a few people in self defence he s active military so is saved from jail to rescue a stolen stealth plane that will be used by the clich evil english villain that hollywood is so obsessed with including these days br br suffice to say the film has terrible dialog that is almost always delivered with a hefty topping of cheese and lack of acting talent the story isn t interesting and there are segments of it which make absolutely no sense and do not add anything to the story characters of movie as a whole such as the lesbian interaction between the two main females in the cast which is there purely for titilation to get viewers and yet isn t even titilating just confusing as it makes no sense as to why it happened when it didn t need to br br in short a terrible script with bad dialog delivered by sub par actors boring and at times badly choreographed action scenes and non relevant parts that only serve to achieve the near impossible and make the movie even worse br br save minutes of your life and give this miss even if you are seagal s most ardent fan ',
'what starts out as a very predictable and somewhat drab affair is in the end quite hilarious and entertaining right to die is not very suspenseful but it more than makes up for that with some outlandish set pieces and over the top gore br br spoilers here br br top credits also go to the dead on performance from martin donovan as one of the most despicable characters ever to grace the screen playing the character in a great aloof fashion you nearly feel bad for the guy in the end when his grand plan ultimately fails corbin bernsen also chews up the scenery playing a not so good guy who gets his just desserts br br end of spoiler br br as a revenge from the dead flick right to die benefits heavily from it s performers and is more than an ok way to spend less than an hour ',
'i just watched this movie on starz let me go through a few things i thought could have been improved the acting writing directing special effects camera crew sound and lighting it also seemed as though the writers had no idea anything that had to do with the movie apparently back in when the dollar was stronger you could buy a super advanced stealth bomber that could go completely invisible for million now a days those things cost about billion and they cant go invisible apparently you can fly from the us to the middle east in an hour there was a completely random lesbian scene which i didn t mind but it seemed like a lame attempt to get more guys to see it the camera would randomly zoom in on actors and skip to random scenes oh yeah since its a steven segal movie its predictable as hell all in all i rank it right up there with snakes on a plane ',
'this is one of the best episode from the second season of moh i think mick garris has a problem with women he kill em all they are often the victims screwfly solution pro life valerie on the stairs i don t remember the argento s episode in season etc obviously imprint i think he enjoys to watch women been burn torture mutilated and i don t know never least right to die is one of the best with good turns and graphic scenes and suspense specially with the photos from the cell scene wonderful the acting is like the entire series regular i could be worst like pro life or we scream for ice cream also i think the plot it could be made for a movie and not just for an episode the ideology of the series is horrible killing and terminating women mutilating animals and on and on the first season it was better than the second one with episodes like cigarrette burns the best of all homecoming the most funny imprint really shocking ',
'nobody could like this movie for its merit but if you have a sense of humor and enjoy schlock movies for their mst quality then this is for you it ranks up there with road house for its preposterous characters sets and story line the bad writing really cracked me up i want you to dust those guys off instead of dust those guys f s take off from the carrier but when they get into formation they re f s without a hint of anger or skepticism segal goes back to work for the general who only minutes before was overseeing a covert mind wipe on seagal segal runs out of bullets and resorts to a knife to kill the guards so naturally the guards all drop their guns and fight with knives too the hand grenade is a dud but explodes anyway the little stealth fighter can fly all the way from california to afganistan without refueling then segal flies it back to california the long way i e by way of europe even though there s a carrier giving him air support minutes away in the arabian sea the cic in the carrier consists of black pcs flat screen tvs and pictures of gauges and maps on the walls what a hoot ',
'i m not entirely sure rob schmidt qualifies as a master in the genre of horror since he previously just directed one horror film called wrong turn and that one was actually just was slightly above mediocre but fact is that he made with right to die one of the best and creepiest episodes of the entire second season of the masters of horror franchise there was a similar underdog story in season one when william malone made on of the best episodes with the fair haired child even though his other long feature films fear dot com and house on haunted hill sucked pretty badly br br the story of right to die cleverly picks in on the nowadays piping hot social debate of euthanasia but thankfully also features multiple old fashioned horror themes like ghostly vengeance murderous conspiracies pitch black humor and comic book styled violence whilst driving home late one night and discussing the husband s continuous adultery the addison couple are involved in a terrible car accident cliff walks away from the wreck unharmed but his wife abby is fully burned and needs to be kept alive artificially whilst cliff and his sleazy attorney corbin bernsen of the dentist want to plug the plug on her and sue the car constructor abbey s mum sets up a giant media campaign to keep her daughter alive as a vegetable and blame everything on cliff meanwhile abbey s hateful spirit comes back for revenge and kills someone in cliff s surrounding whenever she has a near fatal experience with the medical devices after a few victims cliff realizes it might be safer for him to keep his wife alive if he wants to remain alive as well right to die is a stupendous episode and exactly the type of stuff i always hoped to see from a tv series concept like masters of horror it s violent and gory with a sick twisted sense of humor and loads of sleaze sequences the euthanasia theme and the whole obligatory media circus that surrounds it is processed into the script very well yet without unnecessarily reverting to political standpoints or morality lessons the atmosphere is suspenseful and the killing sequences are suitably nasty and unsettling actresses julia anderson and robin sydney both have pretty face and impressively voluptuous racks which is always a welcome plus and corbin bernsen is finally offered the chance again to depict a mean spirited and egocentric bastard great moh episode definitely one of the highlights of both seasons ',
'first of all f is not high tech any more and it is not a fighter aircraft br br secondly the f s and f s cannot change their appearances they are not transformers br br thirdly the f has only one m cannon not two br br last but not the least at the end of the film seagle selected sidewinder missile but somehow when he pulled the trigger the actual missile fired turned out to be a maverick as i have the experience of seeing f s and f s being mysteriously transformed into f s this small transformation of missiles is not a big surprise to me however there is still one question i have to ask how did they manage to use an air to ground missile to shoot down a flying f br br when students hand in really bad work teachers assign s now i think for the sake of properly marking this film imdb should seriously consider adding a option otherwise it is not fair for those who receive out of ',
'well its about time i had really given up any and all hope that there was going to be a standout episode among this season s entries while there have still been far too many drab to hohum entries at least this episode turned out well its rather funny that director rob schmidt who only has the not bad wrong turn to his credit and writer john esposito whose only scripting chores to date have included tale of the mummy and graveyard shift should be the ones to give us the best written and most thought provoking episode of the season in right to die we are treated to the story of cliff and abbey at the start of the episode the couple are having a conversation abbey has caught cliff cheating and he is desperately trying to win her back while they speak they find themselves in a car accident where cliff is left with only scratches and bruises but abbey is thrown from the car and catches on fire when a spark ignites and gasoline that had dripped onto her catches her on fire and this is just the setup people once in the hospital cliff must decide whether or not abbey should live in this state with no skin and only nerve reflexes there s also a side effect too every time she flatlines abbey goes a walking as a ghost and causes trouble for all sorts of people hands down this is the best episode of the season and certainly ranks as one of the top episodes ever from the gruesome effects to the taut script which threw in a few twists i never saw coming and suspense so palpable you can almost touch it right to die should have the right to go on living forever ',
'over the years i ve seen a bunch of these straight to video segal movies and every one holds the same amount of entertainment unfortanetley the entertainment level is at a low sure the action sequences were amusing but that was pretty much it seagal was really in his prime when he did movies like under siege under siege and executive decision at least on the action standpoint but during the past ten years these types of movies that star segal really do not meet his past qualifications br br on the more positive side the movie did make good use of time like some of the action sequences and use of wit just when the movie seemed to just drag on a pretty cool action scene brought it up out of the gutter i honestly believe that more of segal s movies would do better if he wasn t the only one that fans recognize in the movie supporting actors and actresses are a very important thing and if his current movies had this known supporting actors and actresses maybe the movie will get more popular results ',
'a man and his wife get in a horrible car accident when the wife is left in a persistent vegetative state the man must choose between pulling the plug and letting her live the decision is made even harder when he realizes her ghost wants to extract revenge on him and those around him br br this comes to us from director rob schmidt who made wrong turn a film i have not seen with only one horror film under his belt and not a particularly notorious one at that i was a bit reluctant to watch this episode expecting schmidt to be a master of horror in only the most liberal sense my apologies to him for my underestimation as of episode in a episode season this was actually the best one yet br br the issue of the right to die is dealt with and covered in enough detail to be a solid plot device however this is only the foundation on which the story revolves once the horror elements show up the film goes from decent to spectacular great acting great plot great dialogue great suspense i was a little creeped out at times which is good and most of all the gore is in extreme abundance i read a review of this episode prior to watching it where the reviewer said there is a strong hint of hellraiser in this through the first part of the show i had no idea what they were talking about then there is a bit later where some images do remind me of hellraiser however i in no way wish to say that this takes away from the film i can see no other way to create the effect that was created and in my opinion this looks remarkably better than hellraiser br br some plot twists show up later on and might invite the viewer to give the film a second look i didn t watch it a second time but i think the beginning would make more sense if i had not that it s confusing the subplot with the dental hygienist is also nice and i found myself going back and forth about whether i disliked the main character for his relationship with her or if i felt bad for him he s somewhat of an anti hero to the whole story if you will i feel inclined to cheer for him as the protagonist but he s completely unlovable br br while the stuart gordon episode may be better and i m excited about the washingtonians episode i think i could safely bet that this is the key episode of the season and by far the saving grace of what was otherwise lackluster and routine when legends like john carpenter let me down again i get a bit worried about the genre s future but then a fresh face like rob schmidt comes along and gives me hope this one is a keeper and please bring schmidt back for season ',
'you ve gotta hand it to steven seagal whatever his other faults may be he does have good taste in women if you pick a seagal movie chances are there will be one or more very beautiful women in it and usually they do not function as mere eye candy they get involved in the action and fight shoot guns kill with knives etc flight of fury offers the duo of ciera payton who has a very sexy face with luscious lips to match angelina jolie s and katie jones and finds time to get them involved in both a catfight and a little lesbian fondling and if it seems like i m spending a little too much time talking about them it s because the rest of the movie although passable is so unexciting that it s hard to find much else to talk about ironically the weakest aspect is probably seagal himself who looks as if he can t even be bothered to try to pretend to care this being a military type actioner there is very little fighting in it and he doesn t fit into his role a stealth fighter pilot the best in the world of course very well which may explain his almost offensive sleepwalking ',
'stargate sg follows and expands upon the egyptian mythologies presented in stargate in the stargate universe humans were enslaved and transported to habitable planets by the goa uld such as ra and apophis for millennia the goa uld harvested humanity heavily influencing and spreading human cultures as a result earth cultures such as those of the aztecs mayans britons the norse mongols greeks and romans are found throughout the known habitable planets of the galaxy many well known mythical locations such as avalon camelot and atlantis are found or have at one time existed br br presently the earth stargate found at a dig site near giza in is housed in a top secret u s military base known as the sgc stargate command underneath cheyenne mountain col jack o neill anderson dr daniel jackson shanks capt samantha carter tapping and teal c judge compose the original sg team a few characters join and or leave the team in later seasons along with other sg teams they venture to distant planets exploring the galaxy and searching for defenses from the goa uld in the forms of technology and alliances with friendly advanced races br br the parasitic goa uld use advanced technology to cast themselves as egyptian gods and are bent on galactic conquest and eternal worship throughout the first eight seasons the goa uld are the primary antagonists they are a race of highly intelligent ruthless snake like alien parasites capable of invading and controlling the bodies of other species including humans the original arch enemy from this race was the system lord apophis peter williams other system lords such as baal and anubis play pivotal roles in the later seasons in the ninth season a new villain emerges the ori the ori are advanced beings with unfathomable technology from another galaxy also bent on galactic conquest and eternal worship the introduction of the ori accompanies a departure from the primary focus on egyptian mythology into an exploration of the arthurian mythology surrounding the ori their followers and their enemiesthe ancients ',
'if you watched this movie you know why i said jesus jesus jesus hehehe every time they said jesus jesus jesus i laughed thinking jesus jesus jesus why did i rent this movie i cannot believe how oscar winners like freeman and spacey appeared here in the background while timberlake and ll cool j grabbed the screen wtf is timberlake dreaful acting i think someone like joshua jackson could have done a much better job this job was perfect for joshua jackson and believe me i am not a big fun of him but i really prefer an actor not this android called timberlake and his girlfriend was shallow hollow and annoying as hell i was happy when they both were popped in the street br br the story was ok and i think dylan mc dermott did his bad guy role very well the movie was entertaining but i think timberlake ruined it all it would have been much enjoyable without him br br by the way the music was ok but suddenly every time the music appeared the movie turned into a mtv video clip with flashes low motion and things like that something misplaced for this cops movie i thought maybe they wanted to make a mtv video clip for timberlake ',
'fans of the hbo series tales from the crypt are going to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on will recognize this one right off the bat br br underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he takes the latter approach and it definitely works br br donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of making up and she s horribly burned in a fire he s reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen looking the worse for wear these days br br but abbey s never been one to give up without a fight and that s where the ec theme of the episode comes in cuckolded husbands and wives have always been the genre s favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigans and this case is definitely no exception if anything the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere br br and that s not to mention that john esposito s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist you don t realize as you re watching that you only know half the story until close to the end think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas and you re there br br not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed as with most moh episodes this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply ',
'this movie should have never been made br br what a shame of the budget br br please hire convincing actors and make a proper movie very thin plot and unconvincing lines almost hilarious and that is a shame for an action movie br br definitely not worth watching br br they keep replaying the same shots of an stealth airplane flying away you have seen it ones and that was not worth re running or times br br it is time for steven seagal to retire from movie making br br his movies are getting worser every time br br black dawn and submerged were already bad but this movie is even worse ',
'i was all ready to pan this episode seeing that this master really doesn t have any horror films under his belt but this is easily the best episode of the season br br the acting was good i don t know how he wrangled it but we ve got some real talent in this episode and while you could see things coming from a mile away plot wise at least it was entertaining and managed to keep me engaged for the full mins something that has been lacking up to this point in the series br br i especially liked the bit at the end not a twist per say but just a funny little bit where he becomes as ever the hen pecked hubby br br really good effort like i ve said in other reviews these are not true masters doing a lot of these episodes but they may someday end up being masters in the future ',
'steven seagal mr personality himself this time is the united states greatest stealth pilot who is promised a pardon from the military who attempted to swipe his memory at the beginning of the movie for which he escaped base later caught after interrupting a gang of robbers in a shootout at a gas station if he is able to successfully infiltrate a northern afghanistan terrorist base operated by a group called black sunday who have commandeered an air force stealth fighter thanks to an american traitor along with a fellow pilot who admired the traitor jannick mark bazeley john sands seagal will fly into enemy territory receiving help from his arab lover jessica ciera payton and a freedom fighter rojar alki david once they are on ground jannick is kidnapped by black sunday leaders stone vincenzo nicoli and his female enforcer eliana katie jones and sands must figure out how to not only re take command of the kidnapped stealth fighter but rescue him as well and maybe sands can get revenge on the traitor he trained rather steve toussaint in the process sands has hours until a general s navy pilots bomb the entire area on board the stealth black sunday equipped a biochemical bomb hoping to detonate it on the united states br br seagal gets a chance to shoot afghans when he isn t slicing their throats with knives the film is mostly machine guns firing and bodies dropping dead the setting of afghanistan doesn t hold up to scrutiny nor does how easily seagal and co are able to move about the area undetected so easily and the plot itself is nothing to write home about the movie is edited fast the camera a bit too jerky seagal isn t as active a hero as he once was and his action scenes are tightly edited where we have a hard time seeing him taking out his foes unlike the good old days one of seagal s poorest efforts and he s as understated as ever not a compliment even more disappointing is the fact that seagal never fights in hand to hand combat with the film s chief villains tis a shame he doesn t even snap a wrist or crack a neck in any visible way sure we see a slight resemblance of some tool getting tossed around but it s not as clear a picture as i enjoy because the filmmakers have such fast edits and dizzying close ups ',
'maybe it s just because i have an intense fear of hospitals and medical stuff but this one got under my skin pardon the pun this piece is brave not afraid to go over the top and as satisfying as they come in terms of revenge movies not only did i find myself feeling lots of hatred for the screwer and lots of sympathy towards the screwee i felt myself cringe and feel pangs of disgust at certain junctures which is really a rare and delightful thing for a somewhat jaded horror viewer like myself some parts are very reminiscant of hellraiser but come off as tribute rather than imitation it s a heavy handed piece that does not offer the viewer much to consider but i enjoy being assaulted by a film once and awhile this piece brings it and doesn t appologize i liked this one a lot do not watch whilst eating pudding ',
'flight of fury starts as general tom barnes angus macinnes organises an unofficial test flight of the x a new stealth fighter jet with the ability to literally turn invisible general barnes gives his top pilot colonel ratcher steve toussaint the job everything goes well until the x disappears even more literally than barnes wanted as ratcher flies it to northern afghanistan delivers it to a terrorist group known as the black sunday lead by peter stone vincenzo nicoli who plans to use the x to fly into us airspace undetected drop some bombs which will kills lots of people general barnes is worried by the loss of his plane sends in one man army john sands co writer executive producer steven seagal to get it back kill all the bad guy s in the process br br this american british romanian co production was directed by michael keusch was the third film in which he directed seagal after the equally awful shadow man attack force luckily someone decided the partnership wasn t working an unsuspecting public have thankfully been spared any further collaboration s between the two apparently flight of fury is an almost scene for scene word for word remake of black thunder starring michael dudikoff with many of the same character s even sharing the same name so exactly the same dialogue could be used without the makers even having to change things like names although i must admit i have never seen black thunder therefore cannot compare the two flight of fury is a terrible film the poorly made written waste of time that seagal specialises in these days it s boring even though it s not that slow the character s are poor it s full of clichs things happen at random the plot is poor the reasoning behind events are none existent it s a very lazy production overall as it never once convinces the viewer that they are anywhere near afghanistan or that proper military procedures are being followed the action scenes are lame there s no real excitement in it the villains are boring as are the heroes it s right down there with the worst seagal has made br br flight of fury seems to be made up largely of stock footage which isn t even matched up that well the background can change peoples clothes change the area changes the sky the quality of film changes very abruptly as it s all too obvious we are watching clips from other better films spliced in hell seagal never even goes anywhere near a plane in this the action scenes consist of shoot outs so badly edited it s hard to tell who is who of course seagal breaking peoples arms the whole production feels very cheap shoddy br br the imdb reckons this had a budget of about which i think is total rubbish i mean if so where did all the money go although set in afghanistan which is a war torn arid desert flight of fury looks like it was filmed down my local woods it was actually shot in romania the romanian countryside does not make a convincing afghanistan the acting is terrible as one would expect seagal looks dubbed again br br flight of fury is a terrible action film that is boring amateurish is an almost scene for scene remake of another film anyway another really lazy poorly produced action thriller from seagal why do i even bother any more ',
'this was a superb episode one of the best of both seasons down right horror for a change with a story that is way way above the average moh episodes if there is such a thing a man s wife is almost burned to death in a tragic car wreck in which he was driving his airbag worked her s didn t she is burned beyond recognition great makeup btw and not given much of a chance to live without a full skin graft but even in a coma she keeps dying but brought back by modern technology and when she does die for a few minutes her ghost appears as a very vengeful spirit carnage of course ensues and also some extremely gory killings and also some extremely sexy scenes what more could you ask for you might ask well not much because this baby has it all and a very satirical ending that should leave a smile on most viewers faces i just loved rob schmidt s wrong turn direction too he has a great knack for horror excellent episode this is one i m buying for sure ',
'flight of fury takes the mantle of being the very worst steven seagal flick i ve ever seen up to now br br it s a dreadful bore with no action scenes of any interest seagal isn t really trying in this he s fat and his voice is dubbed once more br br the co stars fare no better being a rather sorry load of rd raters br br the direction by keusch is very poor and it comes as no surprise that he s also responsible for another couple of seagal stinkers shadow man attack force the screenplay co written by seagal himself is laughably inept br br according to imdb m was spent on this boring load of old tosh if these figures are correct i sense a big tax fiddle as nowhere near that amount was spent br br flight of fury is actually a shot for shot remake of the michael dudikoff flick black thunder which has to be better than this tripe br br this has no redeeming qualities whatsoever give it a miss out of ',
'but the fun is in the journey br br i found this movie to be extremely enjoyable not only are both leads extremely easy on the eyes the humor from the supporting cast and the jokes actually made me laugh out loud several times br br yes it s predictable and yes it s a clich romantic comedy but the point is that it s a sweet story the message about finding your one true love also rings true in many ways br br the dialog is dead on and the acting is well done on all parts and over the top for comic effect the bulgari scene is worth it s weight in gold the actress there deserves honorable mention for those that panned it for being predictable if you want a film with twists and turns that keep you guessing then you want a thriller this is a romantic comedy it touched my heart and made me realize that i was lucky enough to find my true love in life and it has been worth every effort along the way br br great date movie great movie for a happy cry ',
'as steven segal movies go this one is bottom of the barrel his best was just fodder for bored teenagers this one tips the scales then falls off the characters are all cardboard the story is double lame i can t spoil it by telling you the ending you already know how all steven segal movies end if you have seen one here goes he is a super dooper government agent who know too much to turn loose so they decide instead of killing him to dope his brain until he don t remember squat he escapes of course gets arrested and is located by his old general who needs his one man in a million experience to get back a stealth plane that has been handed over to a terrorist gang in afghanastan by a rogue air force pilot who surprise surprise segal trained all the heroes except segal s character and his dusky girlfriend die heroically and steve baby save the whole world in one swell foop or fell swoop whatever made with some surplus air force and navy flying film and a lot of boom booms get some popeye cartoons instead ',
'this is a really old fashion charming movie the locations are great and the situation is one of those old time preston sturgess movies fi you want to watch a movie that doesn t demand much other then to sit back and relax then this is it the acting is good and i really liked michael rispoli he was in rounders too and while you were sleeping the rest of the cast is fun it s just what happens when two people about to get married meet the one that they really love on the weekend that they are planning their own weddings i know sounds kooky but it is and that s what makes it fun to watch it will make your girl friend either hug you or leave you but at least you ll know ',
'steven seagal appears to be sleepwalking through a dreadful movie shot almost entirely in close up to disguise the complete lack of budget and resources to pick on the technical flaws silver f a s and f s take of from a carrier for an air strike and miraculously become camouflaged f s for the actual strike would give this movie more credibility than it deserves suffice it to say that the most interesting thing in the movie is the credit titles which fade on and then disappear in a lightning wipe which presumably is available to all users of final cut pro putting all your creativity into your own credit puts michael keusch in the same category as marcel mandu ',
'as we all know a romantic comedy is the genre with the ending already known the two leads always have to get together late in the third act i was trying to figure out how this will wrap up and how they will end up together a clue was given right from the start but you ll never realize it until the end it s a simple hook but it works it had to be you cover a lot of the usual ground but takes a fresh spin when ever possible i liked all the ny characters and i loved the locations it s a postcard of ny also it was nice to watch a film and not find anything offensive in it so if you like a good old fashion romantic movie then this is for you ',
' flight of fury is a shockingly dire but worst of all boring action film i don t expect a lot from a seagal film all i expect is to be moderately entertained for or so minutes with some mindless action unfortunately this doesn t even achieve that low expectation the action scenes are few and far between the plot which is totally irrelevant in these films is needlessly complicated and confusing with huge plot holes throughout the acting is truly abysmal bordering on embarrassing with seagal and his whispering one expression performance being the best among the sorry lot of rd raters i find it hard to believe that anything close to m was spent on this dire mess unless m of that was seagal s salary i somehow doubt it the one moment of any interest to straight guys or gay girls is that out of seemingly nowhere two hot chicks end up in a lesbian sex scene of sorts complete with huge baps on display other than that it s mediocre stuff which is no different to many of the michael dudikoff b movies i ve endured br br ',
'does anyone know the exact quote about time and love by george ede aka father fitzpatrick in the move it had to be you he was talking to charlie and annna in the church as they were leaving if not i will have to rent the movie this was a great movie i also loved serendipity great love story for the soul br br i met my one true love my soulmate and although i had the experience to meet him when i had least expecting it i wasn t ready for that kind of emotional relationship br br altho we did marry i wasn t mature enough to give as much as i thought i would i got complacent and took his love for granted and he withstood it for years br br he finally left with resentment but we are still hurt and angry in disbelief about the way it turned out i had some very hard lessons to learn and we have now been apart years br br this movie meant a lot because i am still waiting on reconciling with my one and only true love i can now appreciate that distinct feeling inside of me and the quote of father fitzpatrick rang true for me br br i know when he has healed enough to trust me again we will remarry br br don t ever get complacent and take true love for granted it has been the hardest lesson of my life br br also the music in this movie is outstanding and meaningful this movie is deep and spiritually uplifting true love is worth waiting for if it is meant to be it will no matter what it will happen nothing is impossible even when it s the second time around thanks ',
'i usually don t comment anything i read the others opinions but this this one i have to comment i was convinced do watch this movie by worlds like action f and other hi tech stuff but by only few first minutes and i changed my mind lousy acting lousy script and a big science fiction br br it s one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br simply don t bother br br and one more thing before any movie i usually check user comments and rating on this site points and i give this movie a try now i m wondering who rate this movie by giving it more than points ',
'i d have given this film a few stars simply because it was a lifetime presentation actually filmed in the location represented in the story here new york city most on this channel whether set there in rural iowa oregon virginia l a etc are filmed in vancouver ottawa toronto or some other canadian locale br br but if there ever were one deserving the top rating on this site it s this movie certainly not for originality for this story has been done many times in many variations with several very similar to this specific one it s also been done pretty often on the big screen with mega stars past and present from cary grant james garner harrison ford tom hanks et al and deborah kerr doris day meg ryan and many more i can think of at least more just as prominent past to present off the top of my head who could be added now and there are probably many others which could be brought to mind br br not to drone on but my point is that in my opinion this is by far one of the best of this genre i ve seen i caught it by chance on a mid day friday at a time when i had the tv on only because i was taking a couple of hours following a particularly hectic week i d never run across this flick in the years since it was made and while the two leads have done enough to be known to most they were completely unknown to me the only two actors i knew were phyllis newman anna s mother whom i d seen in some things from her younger days and michael rispoli henry charlie s best friend who was outstanding as gramma the menacing juice loan tough street guy from rounders br br the chance meeting and coupling between both leads best friends as a sub story romance with the correlation of their being such to anna and charlie being only revealed to all later is an oft done plot contrivance within the genre but makes no difference to the enjoyment here in fact it enhances it br br checking some other comments i agree completely with those which are the most positive the primary word describing this film is engaging in caps this adjective describes the performers the characters the chemistry between and among all of the characters in whatever combination presented and all of the supporting and even minor roles br br i love films with a harder edge rounders the escapist schwarzenegger stallone fare goodfellows even the classics like casablanca gone with the wind citizen kane but for pure uncomplicated enjoyment this one was outstanding with a bare fraction of their budgets it was equal to the results achieved by you ve got mail and sleepless in seattle and tom hanks and meg ryan couldn t have done better than natasha henstridge and michael vartan here the co stars and support personnel here were equivalent to those in these mega films as well ',
'following the appalling attack force chances were that seagal could only have a step up with flight of fury to out stink attack force would take some doing flight of fury is a marked improvement overall but still in the grand scheme of thinks mediocre mediocrity is seemingly an achievement for seagal these days a sad insight into his movie career s decline where attack force was a hodge podge of plot lines altered drastically from conception to filming to post production flight of fury keeps the plot line more simple someone steals a high tech stealth fighter planning to use it to fire chemical weapons which we later bizarrely discover will destroy the whole world in hrs seagal has to get the plane back it s that simple no annoying sub plots and conspiracies weighing the film down like far too many of his recent works that s not to suddenly say the storytelling is good though it s pretty poor the introduction to side characters is badly done for example br br in filmic terms fof is bad it s badly acted by all involved and seagal looks bored to tears almost he s just got the look of a toddler who s been forced to perform the school nativity against his will and so performs with a constant grimace and air of half assedness can we blame seagal though when the material is so un ambitious and cruddy not really this is the final film of his castel studio s multi picture deal the producers can t be bothered to make anything remotely good promising a or so million dollar budget and after seagal s obligatory million probably pocketing a nice hefty chunk of it themselves if the film was made for the remaining million then i m elvis pressley so in that respect why should seagal put the effort into a film that s already got distribution sorted before it s made fan s though may argue he at least owes them the effort he s seriously looking jaded and the continued use of stand ins and dub overs is further indication of this michael keusch directs with some efficiency while the cinematography is quite good but in all technical areas and as usual with castel a bog standard stunt team there s nothing more than mediocrity and nothing to help the film rise above its material and bored leading man again there s a few action scenes focusing on characters other than seagal which in all truth we don t want to see br br overall the action isn t too bad it s nice and violent and on occasion we re treated to a few vintage nasty seagal beatings but overall nothing special partly due to a poor stunt crew and the lack of time to film anything too complex or exciting for me shadow man was a more enjoyable film because while ignoring the incoherent jumbled plot line there were more vintage seagal moments and more of him in centre stage he never disappeared for long periods during the film seagal disappears bizarrely during one action scene here and re appears after with little explanation there s far too much stock footage used using stock shots isn t an entirely horrendous thing but using it as a crutch is we re treated to countless establishing shots of naval ships all the time which get annoying plus the continuity of the stock footage is all over the place just check the backdrops chopping and changing br br the film is just middle of the road it says it all that the films best scene is a completely needless and gratuitous girl on girl scene with two hot chicks seagal even perks up briefly then too overall this may be one of the better stock footage based actioners out there but that s not saying much at all this will please many fans but they should bear in mind seagal himself would probably want to forget this one s existence ',
'a sweet funny story of people crossing paths as they prepare for their weddings the ex cop writer and the public school teacher fall for each other in this great new york setting even though they are marrying other people maybe a little trite in that the partners are both type a personalities while our protagonists are much more relaxed not anything heavy but it made me smile and hey for the guys sell the natasha henstridge angle and the gals sell them the sappy romance everyone wins ',
'i can t believe that steven segal s career has hit so low that he has been reduced to making th rate films with th rate secondary actors i watched this moving expecting to see him beet the crap out of some people the way he usually does when he is reduced to using a single judo chop between the shoulder blades to take out an opponent and the guy falls like a ton of bricks something is wrong br br the plot is unbelievable as a movie and even if you excuse the visuals and had read this story as a novel you d be left wondering why you had even picked up the book br br steven segal goes through the motions and seems as if he is only doing this because he is under obligation he shows no effort and no enthusiasm and in some scenes he doesn t show up at all br br i hate to repeat other peoples comments but the use of stock footage for cut scenes and for visuals of the aircrafts in flight is pathetic the condition of those scenes chopped in is shaky and scenes themselves seemed to have deteriorated over time the zappruder film showing president john f kennedy being assassinated is steadier and cleaner br br my honest opinion is to tell you not to waste your time seeing this movie it is not up to the standards of his work in the glimmer man or exit wounds i read one review that said the movie had a million dollar budget segal being paid of that and that the movie still came in under budget i must concur br br it is no wonder that this is a direct to dvd movie as no conscientious theatre owner would play this movie ',
'it s amazing that from a good though not wonderful film made back in the early nineties a whole franchise can grow stargate sg is without a doubt a worthy addition to the science fiction genre and has the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with star trek as the kings of sci fi br br following on from the feature film stargate this series sees stargate command a military science organisation figuring out that the stargate system can be used to travel to various planets across the galaxy and beyond and the military sets up a number of teams to explore sg is one such team headed by military veteran colonel jack o neill and includes archaeologist doctor daniel jackson military scientist captain samantha carter and alien teal c who has betrayed his overlord leaders in the hopes of one day freeing his people earth quickly makes an enemy of the goa uld a parasitic race who use humans as hosts and think themselves equal to gods br br the top notch cast have much to be congratulated for in bringing this show to life richard dean anderson is perfect as the cynical and sarcastic o neill who can shift from boyish to deadly in the blink of an eye michael shanks as daniel brings heart and an will of steel to the character who has grown from wide eyed innocence to darker and more hard bitten as the show has progressed amanda tapping as carter has perfected the balance between depicting her character s femininity without comprising the fact she is a strong intelligent military scientist christopher judge is excellent as the aloof teal c who is able to depict the character s emotions with subtlety and don s davis is perfect as the esteemed general hammond who leads with a good balance of fairness and firmness br br almost all the episodes are are involving and portrayed with intelligence reflecting on moral dilemmas as well as the friction between military interests and civilian beliefs often shown through arguments between o neill and jackson guest characters are solidly depicted and story arcs are handled in a manner that doesn t bore viewers sg also excels in humour from o neill s wisecracks to episodes that are just wacky and odd sg has everything from action to drama to romance to suspense to the heartbreaking scenes of death it isn t just an excellent sci fi show but is an excellent show overall ',
'timberlake s performance almost made attack the screen it wasn t all bad i just think the reporters role was wrong for him br br ll cool j played the typical rapper role toughest baddest guy around i don t think the cracked a smile in the whole movie not even when proposed to his girlfriend br br morgan freeman pretty much carried the whole movie he was has some funny scenes which are the high point of the movie br br kevin spacey wasn t good or bad he was just there br br overall it s a dull movie bad plot a lot of bad acting or wrong roles for actors ',
'sure this movie is sappy and sweet and full of clichs but it s entertaining and that s what i watch movies for to be entertained natasha henstridge is stunning even with the short hair her smile is radiant and her beauty can t be disguised as for michael vartan i m sure the women love him the two of them seemed to really like eacb other in this film i don t understand the comments that there was no chemistry between them i guess we see what we want to see br br olivia d abo and michael rigoli were fun to watch even if d abo s british accent did creep into her supposed bronx speech to tell you the truth i hadn t really noticed it until i read these comments but i went back to the dvd and now her dialogue sounds more british than american to me but she was ideal for her role with that one exception br br it s a story of two nice people who are getting married to significant others but who find their soul mates in one another it may be an unlikely story but who says movies are all supposed to play like documentaries it is no more unrealistic than any of the dramas that are screened every hour on the tube that s why we watch them to escape from the humdrum of daily living for a short time and enter the world of the characters on the screen i thought these actors did a good job of it but hey i m a sentimental guy who tears up easily don t get me wrong though it has to be a sentimental scene and this movie had plenty of those br br i give it only because i m saving my for that yet unseen super magnificent movie that i know will come along some day if you see it advertised as coming up on the movie channel or lifetime movies or whatever make a note to watch it i think you ll like it ',
'humphrey bogart clearly did not want to be in this film and be forced to play a part mexican or he would have been suspended believe me he made the wrong choice presumably after the success of dodge city warners tried a follow up with errol flynn and his usual list of buddies like alan hale guinn big boy williams frank mc hugh and the ever present john litel but they made the huge mistake of trying to present miriam hopkins as a love interest for flynn v randolph scott and as a singer to really make things bad because she proved one thing and that is she cannot sing the story was not too bad but with bogie clearly miscast also it turned out to be a poor western that was overlong and on a low budget but in fairness color would not have helped ',
'a beautiful postcard of new york the thing i enjoyed most was being able to watch this with my whole family and not cringe waiting for a stupid toilet humor joke to appear it never did my teenagers liked it too my son for natasha henstridge and my daughter for michael vartan my wife and i commented that we could not remember the last time we could sit with the kids and all enjoy something this film told a story that felt comfortable but not old or done the ending came with a twist which we all liked too if you are not just a cynical person and have are willing to let a story unfold then this is for you as a guy it takes a lot to hold my interest when it comes to romantic movies and this one did i recommend it and we need more of these films to watch ',
'it has been said a city on hill cannot hide itself and virginia city nevada perched on the side of mt davidson at ft west of tahoe is a prime example or in the context of the movie should be virginia city exploded in the american dream as a shower of gold and silver suspiciously the same year the civil war began it was the birthplace of the dean of american letters it was where a young reporter named samuel clemens began using the name mark twain and went on to become america s most famous writer it was also the birthplace of the great hearst fortune and the launching pad of john mackay who became the wealthiest man in america the third wealthiest man in the world hey they should have made the movie about him in the s virginia city was the boomtown of all boomtowns the home of the big bonanza at one time the largest metropolitan area west of st louis and east of san francisco but virginia city the movie misses all that and is more about a hogwash north south duello between the characters played by errol flynn and randolph scott flynn is capt kerry bradford a union officer who is a pow in a concentration camp run by a mean confederate commander named capt vance irby played by scott these two are always getting in each other s way bradford escapes and then tries to stop a shipment of gold bullion being snuck out of vc by who else other than irby hey what s he doing here horrible bogart plays a laughable mexican bandit who can t decide who s side he s on miriam hopkins plays a murky character named julia hayne obviously a historical lunge at the town s first lady julia bulette who in real life a celebrated prostitute she goes to washington and talks honest abe about saving bradford not irby from hanging and blah blah blah go figure they shoulda hung the writer in real life twain reports that on the last day of the war the setting sun caused the american flag atop mt davidson to appear to the puzzled residents to be weirdly on fire kind of like the movie three days later they discovered that on that day the south capitulated one interesting quirk in the film is how sidekicks alan hale and guin williams flick their pistols forward when they shoot like they re fishing or trying to make the bullets go faster not a bad idea for the movie the same kind of goofiness is lathered over sap and corn throughout the movie gosh how could they miss the gold madness profligate wealth gun battles in the silver mines mark twain getting run out of town and beat up after a showdown the crooked railroad the opera house fire artemis ward bulette s huge funeral the chinese tongs the black saloons the auction all this high on a mountain surrounded by desert the truth was unreal did its fabulous wealth actually spark the great american holocaust well if you count this movie it wouldn t be the first debacle to come out of virginia city it s a disappointment for virginia city fans because it misses what made the town a city of illusions where it is said evil seeps out of the ground okay other than that it s a fun movie flynn and the gang are always great no matter what history they re destroying if flynn would just play his rotten self i d double my rating ',
'i have looked forward to seeing this since i first saw it listed in her work finally found it yesterday on lifetime movie channel br br jim larson s comments about it being a sweet funny story of people crossing paths were dead on writers probably shouldn t get a bonus everyone else sro for making the movie br br anybody who appreciates a romantic movie should see it br br natasha s screen presence is so warm and her smile so electric to say nothing of her beauty that anything she is in goes on my favorite list her tv and print interviews that i have seen are just as refreshing and well worth looking for br br god bless her her family and future endeavors br br this movie doesn t seem to available in dvd or video yet but i would be the first to buy it and i think others would too ',
'being a fan of cheesy horror movies i saw this in my video shop and thought i would give it a try now that i ve seen it i wish it upon no living soul on the planet i get my movie rentals for free and i feel that i didn t get my moneys worth i ve seen some bad cheesy horror movies in my time hell i m a fan of them but this was just an insult ',
'i caught this film at a test screening was very surprised to find a really sweet and fun story well acted natasha henstridge is the next julia roberts the male lead was awsome very funny film takes place in the best locations in new york made me want to go there i just saw you ve got mail i thought it had to be you was a much better story fresher br br it was clean and great for whole family i think it will do well audience i saw it with loved it a definite recommend ',
'slashers outta stars br br not really a very good movie but i did like the idea behind it and the the filmmakers did make it look pretty good considering the tiny budget they had to work with the movie is ostensibly an episode of a live japanese reality show that sends several contestants into a sealed off danger zone and has three costumed creeps sent after to them to kill them the survivor if there is one wins fame and fortune everyone else just winds up dead the main drawback to this movie is that the acting is pretty bad none of the real people seem real at all the actors playing the killers are kind of fun because they are portraying cheesy and over the top caricatures of popular modern horror movie types and that s exactly how they would be done if this was an actual show the movie pretends to be done all in one take there is one cameraman who follows the contestants around the danger zone and everything is seen from the point of view of his camera but the lights keep flickering on and off constantly to hide the cuts from one take to another i would imagine ',
'this is the first michael vartan movie i ve seen i haven t seen alias and i was curious to see if the guy can act he sure can and is likable in this movie natasha henstridge is of course gorgeous but she is usually in more physical and action roles so i found her very good and lovable in this different sweet role of a schoolteacher some of the negative comments i read are true the movie is full of clichs and the story doesn t ring true at all also even though every character in the movie remarks how good they look together i don t think there is screen chemistry there however i enjoyed this movie the locales are nice the characters are likable and goodlooking and the supporting actors are pretty good if you are expecting to see a great romance this is not it but if you want to see a pleasant innocent goodlooking movie with likable characters its very good ',
'how can this movie have a this movie was a piece of skunk st first the actors were really bad i mean chainsaw charlie was so retarded because in the very beginning when he pokes his head into the wooden hut that happened to be about oh quarter of an inch thick that really cheap as flimsy piece of wood and he did not even think he could cut threw it second the person who did the set sucks as at supplying things for them to build with the only good thing about this movie is the idea of this t v show bottom line do not waste your hard earned cash on this hunk of st they call a movie br br rating ',
'i just can t understand the negative comments about this film yes it is a typical boy meets girl romance but it is done with such flair and polish that the time just flies by henstridge talk about winning the gene pool lottery is as magnetic and alluring as ever who says the golden age of cinema is dead and vartan holds his own br br there is simmering chemistry between the two leads the film is most alive when they share a scene lots it is done so well that you find yourself willing them to get together br br ignore the negative comments if you are feeling a bit blue watch this flick you will feel so much better if you are already happy then you will be euphoric br br ps i am male from the uk and a hopeless romantic still searching for his princess ',
'i have read several good reviews that have defended and critised the various aspects of this film one thing i see over and over is annoyance with megan the idealistic political scientist trying to change the world i loved her character maybe because i am a year old political science student and i think i m going to change the world too so i relate to megan besides she s cute she s no super model but more of a cute girl next door br br ok so she cried and screamed a lot it s very dramatic and seems overdone but doesn t it fit her character she goes on that show with the intention of sacrificing her life to prove a point she thinks people who enjoy such a show are sick i think she made her argument very well of course being a young naive girl she is terrified of what she is about to face i think her acting accurately portrays a young girl showing moral courage despite her overwhelming fear furthermore i think she maintained a certain dignity throughout the film despite the desperate situation she was in br br as for the movie in general other than megan it was pretty much what i expected it had excellent gore scenes by micro budget standards the plot maybe took a quick thought hardly any contemplation it s basically just a dark humorist senseless slasher film which the name implies i love the sadism of the doctor he kept ripping megan s shirt off not just for the cause of sleaze though largely so but also to torment her before he kills her the chainsaw hick was hilarious for slasher film lovers he was probably the best character br br i give this film out of it had a good setting almost no plot and a mix of good and terrible acting i would recommend it for a cheap thrill but hardly a diamond in the rough that is micro budget horror ',
'this great movie has failed to register a higher rating than why not it is a great portrayal of the life of christ without the ruthless sensationalism of the passion of the christ johnny cash did great things for god which amazingly are shunned and neglected in areas where they should matter most like our churches the film itself took less than a month to film as johnny felt the strong presence of god guiding him through it great credit to everyone involved in this overwhelmingly sincere movie which will always be cherished by its fans at least the billy graham crusade rated it highly enough to use it as a prime source of education for new christians thanks fox for producing it as walk the line proved that it was freakish that this man survived yet alone produced such an underrated masterpiece movies are not canonized through popular vote as this production proves in summary i believe that this film is one of the worlds great documentaries as it is forthright honestly portrayed and a great witness to the christian faith ',
'its spelled s l a s h e r s i was happy when the main character flashed her boobs that was pretty tight before and after that the movie pretty much blows the acting is like e list and it s shown well in the movie not to mention it is so low budget that preacherman and chainsaw charlie are played by the same person the whole movie looks like it was shot with a camcorder instead of half way decent film the only other reason i liked the movie was because chainsaw charlie and doctor ripper were funny they said many stupid things that made me laugh other than that if you see this movie at blockbuster do everyone a favor hide it behind lawnmowerman anybody that thinks this movie is good should be mentally evaluated ',
'this is an entertaining look at the gospel as presented by johnny cash adorned in black of course who sings a lot and narrates a bit also if you like johnny cash this film is quite enjoyable also note the blonde depiction of jesus in this work just for fun try to think of five jewish men who have blonde hair anyway its a fun presentation of the greatest and most important story of all ',
'slashers well if you like horrors its definitely one to see otherwise don t even bother it is completely obvious that this film has an extremely low budget for instance it looks as if the entire film has been shot in a warehouse somewhere and on numerous occasions you will see the mike boom shadow and the camera mans shadow trust me you wont need to look for them also try to ignore the cheesy actors if thats what you call them the basic outline is a few people decide to go on a game show where they have to survive a night in a big maze due to their being killers on the loose and whoever live s at the end gets rich now there is something about this film that keeps you watching and rarely do you find that with a cheap budget horror these days for example when i watched it i thought to my self i would nt mind having a go at this game especially for so anyway i would recommend you watch it and make up your own mind ',
'johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music is great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like i ve been there too and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash s narration is good too br br but br br the actor who played jesus was miscast there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music because it is uncompelling i doubt we ll see this ever widely distributed again br br i d love to buy the cd br br tom paine texas usa ',
'i couldn t help but think of behind the mask the rise of leslie vernon a massively more amazing film when watching this because of the realistic feel to it as well as the great innovative idea this could have been a great film the acting is from some of the actors alright from others it s downright horrible br br that aside the idea is great and the format is great the story is pretty good as well though suffering often from big blows to the logical mind br br nevermind that though right it is a horror movie after all br br i really want to see this remade i really want it to be the fantastic film that it wants to be br br however and you can t really fault the minds behind the movie for this this is obviously built upon a shoe string budget and the fx really hurt the film overall br br great movie if you were to swap out for some better acting and slightly better fx br br whoever wrote it should keep going though great idea here ',
'there are few films or movies i consider favorites over the years the gospel road was one of them i watched this as a young teen and would like the opportunity to watch it again my favorite parts were the fact that br br jesus was blond br br the last supper was a huge meal br br he liked playing with the children br br his death was for all people and for all time br br the movie may not have been theologically sound or high quality acting but it touched my heart at that time besides i am a johnny cash fan and it was a brave venture if it ever comes out on dvd i will purchase it purely for sentimental reasons ',
'more wide eyed hysterical s hyper cheerfulness that gives new meaning to anti social pathological behaviour danza and grayson will leave you begging for mercy br br it s a shame that all the people involved in the making of this movie are now dead or in nursing homes i kinda thought about suing them for torture as this movie started unleashing its shamelessly aggressive operatic assault onto my poor defenseless ear drums i felt instant strong pain envelop my entire being that damn muscular vibrato can shatter soviet tanks into tiny bits nevermind glass br br why didn t you switch the channel if you didn t like it you might ask angrily fair point fair point the answer is that i wanted to but the pain was so sudden and excruciating that i fell to the floor writhing in agony with my last ounces of energy i tried to reach the remote but couldn t br br a silly little fisherman with the questionable talent of singing with an annoying opera voice is discovered by niven who then proceeds to pigmalionize him lanza is in love with asymmetrical grayson but she predictably treats him with contempt until they finally hook up this may seem like a rather thin plot but this noisy movie is so chock full of singing and music that there is barely any dialogue at all this movie is relentless forget about torturing hippies and war prisoners with slayer s reign in blood as in a south park episode whatever little conversation there is amongst the silly adults that infest this strange s musical world it s all infantile as if they were all year olds impersonating grown ups i can only envy people who find movies like this funny it must be great being easy to please what a world of wonder would open up to me if only i could enjoy any silly old gag as hilarious gut busting comedy br br but let s examine this phenomenon the s musical my best guess is that s musicals offered the more day dreaming idealists among us a glimpse into utopia or heaven depending on whether you re church going or lenin s tomb going or at least very cheesy version of these fantasy inspired places ttono is more akin to a representation of hell but that s just me i don t seem to get musicals people talk there is a story but then all of a sudden everyone starts singing for about minutes after which they abruptly calm down and then pretend as if nothing unusual happened when you think about it musicals are stranger than any science fiction film br br worse yet ttono my favourite type of pizza btw is not just a s musical but one with opera squealing opera is proof that there is such a thing as over training a voice to the point where it becomes an ear piercing weapon rather than a means of bringing the listener pleasure the clearest example of this travesty is when lanza and grayson unite their dark side vocal powers for a truly unbearable duet i tried lowering the volume i lowered it from to then from to then i ended up lowering it to a which is usually so low that it s only heard by specially trained dogs and certain types of marsupials and yet i still could hear those two braying like donkeys br br take the scene in the small boat in the river danza starts off with one of his deafening brain killing tunes and then nothing no animals anywhere to be seen even the crocodiles who are mostly deaf have all but left if you look carefully you might even see the trees change colour from green to yellow in a matter of minutes no this was not a continuity error it was plain old torture of the flora and those trees were just matte paintings imagine how real trees would have reacted br br the reason glass breaks when a high c is belched out of the overweight belly of an operatic screamer is not due to any laws of physics relating to waves and frequency but because glass is only human hence can take only so much pain before committing suicide through spontaneous self explosion i can listen to the loudest least friendly death metal band for hours but give me just a minute of a soprano and i get a splitting headache ',
'i wait for each new episode each re run with anticipation the new look of sci fi created by stargate sg is a wonder that i hope will never end to combine the past with the future is a new twist that is fascinating to me season should be a thrill in itself i wish that richard dean anderson would show up more often in the new season as i love his dry wit as much as his temper tantrums in his character as jack o neill the other characters add their own uniqueness to the show that makes it a winner season after season you cancel this program in the next three years and you make a serious mistake also you need a bigger role for the asgard they are just too cool ',
'pathetic worse than a bad made for tv movie i can t believe that spacey and freeman were in this flick for some reason morgan freeman s character is constantly talking about and saying pussy when referring to nsync boy s girlfriend morgan freeman calling women pussy is just awkward what the hell were the people behind this film thinking too many plot holes to imagine combined with the horrid acting confusing camera angles a lame script and cheap background music made this movie absolutely unbearable br br i rented this flop with low expectations but well it really sucked ',
'i went into this film thinking it would be a crappy b rated movie i came out surprised and very amused eva was good but lake bell stole the show she had amazing comedic timing the jokes in this film were surprisingly original and really funny with one or two flat jokes in between the plot was enough to tie it all together a woman eva dies on her wedding day and comes back to haunt the woman that is going out with her was to be husband its sounds far fetched but it actually works quite well br br overall its a worthwhile cinema watch if not get it on dvd when it comes out ',
'a typical lanza flick that had limited audience appeal with a weak story line that was put together simply to justify lanza s mgm contract at the time br br as reported by member lastliberal above grayson could not stand lanza because of his obscene advances towards her off and sometimes on camera in addition his gutter mannerism and the continual smell of alcohol in her face during scenes they did together were intolerable after doing their second and last film together toast of new orleans the normally quiet grayson stormed into louie b mayer s office and told him in no uncertain words that she would never work with lanza again period mayer felt that grayson was much more valuable to mgm then lanza so grayson s statement stuck grayson went on to star in a number of widely received and far more profitable musicals with howard keel and others later in life when asked to compare lanza and keel her reply was that there was no comparison between them and that keel was great to work with and had much more appeal to the real people in the audiences ',
'i took a flyer in renting this movie but i gotta say it was very very good on all fronts script cast director photography and high production values etc proves eva longoria parker is head and shoulders in rom com above bad actors such as kate hudson and jennifer aniston who mug and call it acting who da thunk it br br parker and isla fisher are in a class by themselves in this regard and should try to hold out for projects as good as over her dead body lake bell is excellent too and this is the first time i have seen her and finally paul rudd gets to shine in a really good movie instead of lesser films br br a movie like this never gets its dues from close minded males it s too bad as other imdb reviewers here have noted there is nothing lame about this gem no hack writing or acting br br and its depiction of contemporary l a and california in general makes every scene look bright beautiful clean and otherwise outstanding in every way never before has a movie made l a look so good ah what a little talent and a lot of caring can do for a movie br br i won t divulge the plot but as a long time and hard core atheist i was willing to suspend disbelief and buy into the supernatural theme in order to enjoy an excellent and light hearted piece of entertainment it reminds me very much of the old topper movies which were also so enjoyable br br this movie exposes popular but otherwise hackneyed movies like ghost for the mediocre and overly sentimental crap fests they are we already know the public taste leans heavily toward the mediocre some of us save our praise for the truly worthy however br br if you have enjoyed other overlooked gems such as into the night with michelle pfeiffer jeff goldblum and clu gulager blind date with bruce willis and kim basinger american dreamer with jobeth williams chances are with robert downey jr christopher mcdonald and cybil sheppard making mr right with john malkovich etc you ll enjoy this br br a first rate job all around even if it s kinda hard to believe a straight guy can pretend to be gay for more than five years but even that plot device doesn t detract from the movie s overall excellence ',
'i really didn t expect much from this film seeing as it has people from parkersburg wv which is were i live acting in it this town is dull and so is this film there were a few decent scened in the movie but i was distracted by all the crappy landmarks they made a point to show this movie may have been good if there was actual acting in it but there wasn t any unless you are from parkersburg and are interested in seeing what you see everyday then stay away from this movie the dialog will put you to sleep the acting will bore you to tears and steven soderberg should lose some credibility after shooting crap like this its a predictable movie with no surprises what you see is what you get and that is a minute tour of parkersburg west virginia and belpre ohio without a narrator ',
'ah i loved this movie i think it had it all it made me laugh out loud over a dozen of times yes i am a girl so i m writing this from a girl s perspective i think it s a shame it only scored in rating too many guys voting it was far above other romantic comedies just because i m female i don t enjoy all chic flicks on the contrary i prefer other genres romantic comedies tend to be shallow and not as funny as they meant to be but like i said this movie had it all almost in my opinion great script good one liners fine acting although eva longoria parker s character reminded very much of gabrielle from desperate housewives but so what it was awesome i will keep this film for rainy days days when i feel low and need a few laughs ',
'this film was recommended to me by a friend who lives in california she thought it was wonderful because it was so real just the way people in the ohio valley are i m from the area and i experienced the film as just the way people in california think we are i ve lived in marietta and parkersburg and worked minimum wage jobs there we laughed a lot we bonded with and took breaks with people our own age the young people went out together at night the older people had little free time after work because they were taking care of their families the area is beautiful in the summer and no gloomier in the winter rain than anywhere else br br aside from the if you live in a manufactured home you must be depressed condescension the story lacked any elements of charm mystery or even a sense of dread br br martha s character was the worst drawn it s doubtful that anyone so repressed would have belonged to a church but if she had she probably would have made friends there i ve read reviews that seem to assume martha was jealous of rose because rose was younger prettier and thinner but if this is the case it isn t shown all we actually see is martha learning to dislike rose for reasons that would apply just as much if the three friends had been the same age and gender we see martha feeling left out during smoking sessions left out of the loop when social plans are made used but not appreciated and finally disrespected and hurt br br just one more thing are we supposed to suspect kyle of murder because he had once had a few panic attacks please this takes stigma against mental illness to a new level ',
'this had a good story it had a nice pace and all characters are developed cool br br i ve watched a whole bunch of movies in the last two weeks and this had to be the best one i ve seen in the two weeks br br jason bigg s character was the best though br br even though it was small it was cleverly crafted from the very beginning br br this may be a romantic comedy and i don t like most but the writing direction performing sound design overall in all capacity just was really thought out pretty cool br br this film scored pretty high out of all the movie s i ve seen lately and the rest were big budget or better publicized br br good job in writing ',
'when thinking of the revelation that the main character in bubble comes to at films end i am reminded of last years machinist with christian bale the only difference between the two films is the literal physical weight of the characters br br an understated yet entirely realistic portrayal of small town life the title is cause for contemplation perhaps we the audience are the ones in the bubble as we are given no payoffs in the films slim minute running time audience reactions were often smug and judgmental clearly indicating how detached people can be from seeing any thread of humanity in characters so foreign to themselves these characters are the ones people refer to as those that put george w back in office for a second term br br it s sobering to consider how reality television has spoiled our sense of reality when watching an audience jump to their feet for the exit as soon as the credits role this film has it s merits and is deserving of consideration for the things it doesn t say outright ',
'this is a great film br br i agreed to watch a chick flick and some how ended up with this i had never heard of it or anyone in it excpet mike from friends br br but it is great eva lake and paul give amazing performances the humour is consistently dry and witty br br paul rudd pretty much plays the mike character from friends which works great the other characters are stereotypes and the plot is formulaic i mean we are not talking apocalypse now here but the characters are likable the story is engaging the soundtrack production and direction all work well br br in all a great feel good film that really deserves a lot more credit than it gets br br everyone has their own tastes but i really don t understand the one star reviews for this ',
'i just saw this at the venice film festival and can t quite decide about it we were never allowed to get close enough to any of the characters to care about them maybe that was the point that we are all in a bubble of our own but these people didn t compel me to be concerned about them or shocked at their various fates at a running time of just over an hour the characters weren t very well developed lots of time was devoted to shots of factory equipment forklifts conveyor belts shovels and the slightly creepy looking baby dolls with surprisingly lifelike eyes that most of the characters made for a living were somehow more interesting than the live people an interesting experiment but somehow it never quite came together ',
'actually my vote is a anyway the movie was good it has those funny parts that make it deserve to see it don t misunderstand me is not the funniest movie of the world and its not even original because its a idea that we have seen before in other movies but this one has its own taste a friend of mine told me that this was a film for boyfriends i think that not exactly but who cares also there is another movie that show us almost the same topic chris rock appears in it the name is down to earth men that one its a very funny movie see both if you want and i know that you will agree that mr rock won with his movie i would liked that the protagonist male character were given to ashton kutcher however the film is good ',
'san francisco is a big city with great acting credits in this one the filmmakers made no attempt to use the city they didn t even manage the most basic of realistic details so i would not recommend it to anyone on the basis of being a san francisco movie you will not be thinking oh i ve been there you will be thinking how did a two story firetrap stinky armpit turn into a quiet hotel lobby some of the leads used east coast speech styles and affectations it detracts but the acting was always competent br br the stories seemed to be shot in three distinct styles at least in the beginning the chinatown story was the most effective and interesting the plot is weak ripped scene for scene from classy hong kong action movies the originals had a lot more tension and emotional resonance they were framed and paced better but the acting is fun and we get to see james hong and other luminaries br br the white boy intro was pointless i think the filmmakers didn t know what to do with it so they left it loosely structured and cut it down the father is an odd attempt at a berkeley liberal really folks everyone knows it s not groovy to live in the ghetto but his segments are the most humorous they threw away some good opportunities educated and embittered on the west coast a yuppie jerk here is a different kind of yuppie jerk than they make in new york they are equally intolerable but always distinguishable that would have been interesting this was not br br the hunter s point intro was the most disappointing it was the most derivative of the three and stylistically the most distant from san francisco you ve seen it done before and you ve seen it done better even the video game was better br br despite the generic non locality and aimless script these characters have potential the actors have talent and something interesting starts to force its way around the clumsy direction about ten minutes before the ending good concept placed in the wrong hands br br ps there is a missing minority here see if you can guess which one ',
'i watched this on an hour flight and presumably because of the pressure and the altitude i actually found it mildly entertaining emphasis on the mild br br the actual idea behind the film was brilliant a woman dies her fianc falls in love with someone else she decided to make sure they don t get together but eventually she lets them do it sadly the actual film wasn t as good ok there were a few laughs and the actors all worked well but from the beginning the plot was about as predictable as the destination of the flight i was on i think the whole gay but not gay friend part of the story could have been worked a lot better the talking parrot was a nice idea but to be honest it wasn t really very funny br br in summary the film was more interesting than staring at the seat in front of me but it was a close call ',
'if he wanted to be accurate he should have chosen some frisco natives and not a bunch of ny actors who know nothing about the sucka free not sucker free i ve lived in sf my entire life and folks here do not talk or act the way these actors did everything was over dramatized and the only cat i saw from the bay was jt the bigga figga with his little cameo as a rapper no shock that he was the only one in the film who really dressed like cats out here ie his warriors jersey not once did i notice anyone wearing any giants or ers gear instead he fitted them in some cheesy made up sf or oakland jerseys that aren t even sold around here hp has no bowling alleys black and asian gangbangers do not wear head or wristbands with the colors of africa or china s olympic team nor does every chinese gangster wear a yao ming jersey and try and sound black while shooting hoops further while there now is a significant yuppie community that has invaded the mission all that was shown was some white dude and a self proclaimed west coast boriqua this is not new york puerto ricans here are few and far between and the latinos in the mission are very very different from the one that was shown here who was without a doubt from ny also hp is not the only black neighborhood in the city an accurate depiction would have shown the drama between hp sets in their own hood as well as vs fillmore sunnydale lakeview etc br br this film could ve been much better if lee had done some more homework and had a better storyline to work with ',
'i wasn t a fan of seeing this movie at all but when my gf called me and said she had a free advanced screening pass i tagged along only for the sake of seeing eva longoria and laughing at jason biggs antics br br overall it was actually better then i expected but not by much this was like a hybrid of how to lose a guy in days and just like heaven a typical romantic comedy with its moments i guess the movie was quite short though around min but it was enough to tell the whole story build some character development and have a decent happy ending the whole idea of a ghost haunting its former husband was a interesting plot to follow eva did a good job of keeping up the sarcasm and paul rudd and the rest of the supporting cast especially jason biggs kept the laughs coming at a smooth pace br br overall i liked the movie only because it had a good amount of laughs to keep me going otherwise i would have given this movie a lower rating hey its a chick flick and i m reviewing this movie from a guy s persepctive alright it would be more of a fair fight if females reviewied this movie and gave there thoughts about it ',
'this tv movie goes to show that bad films do exist the only reason i saw this was it was covered on a ktma mst k it s super bowl at the superdome in new orleans however no football is played whatsoever and we see the behind the scenes look at basically nothing with the many stars in this film it made no difference i really don t know why i watched this ',
'look it s eva longoria and paul rudd in a movie about a dead girlfriend haunting the new girlfriend it s gabrielle from desperate housewives and the guy who wore sex panther cologne in anchorman if you are expecting a golden globe nominated movie then you need to rethink how you look at movies however if you are willing to suspend reality for minutes and want to watch a funny movie then you ve come to the right place the characters are all funny they work together very well the real match up is paul rudd and lake bell he s as funny as he was on friends and she was funny and good looking all at the same time i went with my wife she enjoyed it and so did i ',
'superdome is one of those movies that makes you wonder why it was made the whole plot concerns someone trying to sabotage the superbowl and all the attempts made to stop them how tom selleck and donna mills careers managed to survive this is beyond me however the most frustrating thing about it was there was no football in it at all avoid this one if possible ',
'over her dead body was a nice little movie it was decent and entertaining while still being pretty funny there were a few clich s but i found most stuff fresh at first i didn t think it was going to be good at all when it started out if you can get past the first minutes though the movie starts getting more interesting this film wasn t burst out in laughter hilarious and wasn t oh my gosh wonderful it was just a movie that you can sit down and enjoy for how enjoyable it was i don t see how this movie was bad it s rating is just a bit too low i could ve dealt with a but a also giving this movie a is disgraceful it was pretty good and there was nothing horrible enough about it to give it a which is what most people gave it ',
'it s and yes obviously there are too many black players on the teams as well fans will be upset and certainly the seats will be full only less happy there are so many black players on the field this made for tv super bowl movie is watchable it s not much more but it s really surprising the cast of talented actors that make an appearance for the time probably most notably tom selleck unfortunately any goodness selleck brings to the screen is quickly trumped by actors like dick butkus br br it s a silly story about super bowl betting pj jackson is charged by new york read mafia for ensuring the game ends for their favor in this case a bet pj is innocent enough and seems to have a loose grasp by buying off a few people here and there but things seem to fall apart for him another person the unsuspected lainie takes charge for a while the mystery of murders isn t known for certain but is revealed rather plainly at the final murder that lainie is the new antagonist br br it s a bad movie but is watchable the acting is decent and the filming is ok at least there weren t any silly typical s car chases they have their place just not here just keep an open mind about past stereotyping and the cocaine era and you ll survive br br maybe a ',
'i would have given this otherwise terrific series a full vote if claudia black had not continued on in it her inclusion as the silly vela has brought the series down in my estimation to bring her in as a regular at the same time as including ben browder to replace rda was a mistake br br unfortunately we were just reeling from the loss of jack and really didn t need this great series turned into new episodes of farscape br br i was a great fan of the film stargate and when the series was first announced i had reservations that it could live up to the film but after watching the first episode i have to admit i was hooked i have always looked forward to new episodes with great anticipation ',
'the movie itself is not too bad many comments have pointed out the obvious flaws of the script but it is watchable what really gives me the creeps though is that people like justin timberlake even get cast for movies and on top of that for movies like this one i have to admit i had never heard the man s name before watching this but the very instant he appeared i was just plain annoyed the voice is crap the face is a bad rip off of legolas the posture is horrible and he cannot even properly coordinate all three of them said to say i was delighted when he got jumped after leaving the disco because i was hoping from then on it would be morgan freeman and kevin spacey only too bad i was wrong these two and also ll cool j give a very decent performance and they are the main reason i give this a br br i see many upcoming movies with the little timberlake cast and cannot believe it ',
'in complete contrast to the opinions of the other review this film actually was surprisingly good i reluctantly went to see it and expected to be bored by clichs obvious jokes and overacting all of which the trailer had promised br br however after minutes in i found myself genuinely laughing and enjoying the refreshing acting with only one toilet humour gag over her dead body manages to actually come up with realistically funny scenarios and without spoiling anything too much some of the moments involving animals are hilarious br br the staple ingredients of a good film are all there script director and actors and compared some other recent attempts at romantic comedy this film stands tall br br sure you aren t going to learn anything or have a spiritual awakening but if you go with an open mind you will more than likely have a good time ',
'the championship game is only a couple of days away but things in new orleans aren t as they should be from players with marital problems to drug overdoses to gambling problems to a killer on the loose life is getting in the way of what should be a memorable wonderful time can things be put back into order and a killer stopped before the big game is ruined br br despite what you might think when you first read about superdome this is not a football movie in fact football is nothing more than a plot device and an after thought instead superdome is another of those lousy soap opera ish s made for tv movies populated with hollywood has beens and those that never will be the cast sleepwalks its way through the thing with no one really looking good the best or worst example is van johnson in a very small role looking generally lost as to why he s there the plot is dull uninteresting and unbelievable donna mills as a hit man yeah right it s about as believable as the affair she has with the liquor soaked david jansen the movie also lacks any pace trying to get all four or five story lines into the film zaps whatever flow superdome might have had with no drama or suspense in sight superdome ends up being a very poor example of a s made for tv movie the lone highlight for me was the voice over work from the late charlie jones a sportscaster i miss listening to the eloquent way he overstates the intrigue and over hypes the atmosphere in new orleans is pure cheese at its finest br br like most others who have seen superdome i also did so courtesy of mystery science theater it may be one of the ktma public access episodes but it s one of the best examples of the shows early start so even though i ve only rated superdome a i ll give this episode a generous on my mst k rating scale ',
'once when i was in college and we had an international fair the russian section had a soviet era poster saying ne boltay meaning don t gossip i translated it for the generation of tv watchers as don t be gladys kravitz in reference to the nosy neighbor on bewitched br br however when you see the result of gossip in the pvt snafu short rumors you see that it s not quite a laughing matter in this case the perpetually witless soldier overhears something about bombing and immediately assumes that the axis powers have attacked the united states so he tells it to someone who tells someone else who tells someone else and it continues as in the russians are coming the russians are coming the story gets blown more and more out of proportion each time so that when it gets back to snafu well you know what i mean yes it s mostly wwii propaganda complete with a derogatory term for the japanese but i have to say that the pvt snafu shorts were actually quite funny of course since they had dr seuss writing and mel blanc providing the voices it s no surprise that these came out rather cool worth seeing ',
'comparison with american graffiti is inevitable so save your money and time by renting that timeless classic speaking of timeliness there was an episode of cheers where norm and cliff competed on who can find the most anachronism in a movie they would have loved this movie everything from some of the songs and some of the clothing were wrong there were sly reference such as they paved paradise to put up a parking lot the filmmakers hoped to elicit some smiles from us but basically made me groan br br the characters in this movie are incredibly politically and socially astute for teenagers almost as smart as the people who were in their thirties and forties when they wrote the darn movie very little of what the characters said were believable combine the bad writing and bad acting this movie just totally fail although there were two exceptions kelli williams liven things up as the future flower child and despite what another reviewer said rick shroeder was quite good showing that brooding characteristic that would come to full boil in his eventual appearance in n y p d blues ',
'friz freleng s rumours is an excellent private snafu cartoon that warns against spreading panic inducing rumours during wartime produced as were all the snafu shorts to be shown to military audiences as entertaining instructional films rumours is extremely imaginative and crams tons of ideas into its very brief lifespan when snafu starts a rumour about a bombing it escalates into an eventual rumour that america has lost the war this is illustrated brilliantly by way of a long rubbery piece of baloney and several strange fictional creatures who come back to haunt snafu with ever more terrible news about his country s military rumours is inventive fast paced and funny all of which help to overshadow the rather laboured don t badmouth the military message it stands up as one of the best of the private snafu shorts ',
'when i spotted that noah wyle and ricky schroder were in the same movie i was like score i admit i was eager to see the movie and i have to say the first fifteen minutes or so were nostalgic in a way then it went all down hill i didn t expect it to be a dump of politically correct civil rights mumbo jumbo they took every possible controversial topic and threw it into one stupid story i was appalled that noah was involved in anything of the sort especially his role nobody with a fully functional brain would actually accept all that crap about the vietnam war if anyone really wants to know how communism was like sit down and read a book on it and not one that praises it or is against it just the cold hard facts br br i only watched a few scenes here and there only because i wanted to see ricky s body but that was all that interested me everything else about this movie irritated me ',
'rumors is a memorable entry in the wartime series of instructional cartoons starring private snafu the films were aimed at servicemen and were directed animated and scored by some of the top talent from warner bros termite terrace including friz freleng chuck jones and carl stalling the invaluable mel blanc supplied the voice for snafu and the stories and rhyming narration for many of the films was supplied by theodor geisel i e dr seuss the idea was to convey basic concepts with humor and vivid imagery using the character of snafu as a perfect negative example he was the dope the little twerp who would do everything you re not supposed to do according to chuck jones the scripts had to be approved by pentagon officials but army brass also permitted the animators an unusual amount of freedom concerning language and bawdy jokes certainly more than theatrical censorship of the time would allow all for the greater good of course br br as the title would indicate this cartoon is an illustration of the damaging power of rumors the setting is an army camp private snafu sits next to another soldier in the latrine something you won t see in any other hollywood films of the era and their casual conversation starts the ball rolling we observe as an offhand remark about a bombing is misinterpreted then exaggerated then turned into an increasingly frightening rumor that sweeps the camp the imagery is indeed vivid the brain of one anxious soldier is depicted as a percolating pot while the fevered speech of another is rendered as steamy hot air i e balloon juice a soldier shoots his mouth off cannon style and before you know it actual baloney is flying in every direction winged baloney at that panicked soldiers tell each other that the brooklyn bridge has been pulverized coney island wiped out enemy troops have landed on the white house lawn and the japanese are in california the visuals become ever more surreal and nightmarish until at last the camp is quarantined for rumor itis and private snafu has been locked up in a padded cell br br this is a highly effective piece of work the filmmakers dramatized their theme with wit and startling energy and the message is still a valid one in recent years we ve seen that catastrophic events real or imagined can breed all kinds of wild rumors that spread more rapidly than ever thanks to communication advances because the technology has improved the private snafus of our time are able to broadcast their own balloon juice via e mail cellphones and blogging consequently rumors is a rare example of a wartime educational film whose essential message doesn t feel at all dated in fact it may be more timely than ever ',
'no wonder most of the cast wished they never made this movie it s just plain ridiculous and embarrassing to watch bad actors reading cheesy lines while shiny classic showroom cars continuously circle a diner that looks more like a disneyland attraction students fist fight with the deranged principal as he tries to stop them from setting fire to a bronze civil war statue the watts riots with a cast of ugh dermot mulroney tries not to gag while he makes out with a mary hartman look alike with the most annoying smile since mr sardonicus noah wyle reads bob dylan lyrics to the wicked teacher with a swinging pointer and very bad face lift drunken virgin rick schroder sits in a kiddie rocket on his last night before entering the service silly giggling school girls dress up in leopard stretch pants and walk on the set of shindig sing horribly off key and actually make it big in the music business and who wrote this compelling dialog i m going to burkley and wear flowers in my hair i think i found someone to buy stick s woody these people are animals these people are my family as the shirelles sing mama said oh brother what a mess this is like a reefer madness of the s except it s not even funny ',
'this was another world war ii message to the soldiers and to the allies to be careful about spreading rumors these were called instructional cartoons because it was a mixture of serious messages along with a funny looking main character called pvt snafu br br all of us have imaginations along with fears and what have you and that s what happens here as pvt snafu incorrectly adds two and two to something he hears and comes up with five you can start panics and all kinds of disasters if you spread enough rumors and enough people believe them that includes losing confidence in your country and your cause as pointed out here in this cartoon a good way to lose a war is demoralize the enemy that s still being done today br br we lost the war declares one big baloney near the end of this cartoon amazing how some americans still haven t learned this cartoon may be years old but it sure has relevance today as i write this there were two terrorist bombings in europe today and some people still think the war on terror is just a bumper sticker slogan amazing br br the writer the famous dr suess uses analogies of hot air balloon juice here to present the above message with theodore geisel his real name you know the rhymes will be clever br br nothing hilarious here but it wasn t meant to be you have to understand the climate of and the justified paranoia that was out there during world war ii people forget that war could have easily wound up with the other side winning it was a tense time ',
'i saw this back in when it was finally released apparently because orion pictures was in bankruptcy i think the movie had not been released a couple of years earlier br br i have problem remembering details partly because i haven t seen it in a long time but i do remember it as a very dull movie i kept debating whether to walk out of it the store was not at all interesting or engaging was a rd rate america graffiti imitation br br none of the performances make it worth watching either one of the biggest disappointments since a local newspaper reviewer gave it a high rating ',
'though structured totally different from the book by tim krabb who wrote the original the vanishing spoorloos it does have the same overall feel except for that koolhoven s style is less business like and more lyric the beginning is great the middle is fine but the sting is in the end a surprise emotional ending as you could read in several magazines there is some sex in the film but it is done all very beautifully never explicit but with lots of warmth and sometimes even humour it is a shame american films can t be as open an honoust as this one where dutch films tend to go just over the edge when it comes to this subject de grot stays always within the boundaries of good taste de grot tells an amazing story stretched over more than years when you ll leave the cinema you ll be moved what can we ask more of a film anyway this film even gives more ',
'couldn t go to sleep the other night so i got up flipped on the tube this movie was on br br film makers bit off more than they could chew just as ambitious in scope as forrest gump was but gump read like an fairy tale where an extraordinarily lucky man guides us through the era tgmb just relies on tired clichs to tell the story almost like a broadway musical where actors have to ham it up every character s purpose was to fill a silly s archetype br br take how we re introduced to finnegan hugging his black maid receiving a framed picture of mlk criminey talk about heavy handed why not just give him a t shirt saying i heart black people br br sunshine isn t free love groovay man oh no i didn t have my period br br mary beth i want to go to berkeley not square ucla uh excuse me there was nothing square about la in the s rather than take the time to demonstrate what made berkeley unique we just hear this brat whine about not going there br br can t even remember the black kid s name he was just a prop used to show how racially tolerant the other kids are br br thing is period pieces don t have to be this cheesy take dazed confused look how we re introduced to the football hero randall floyd we don t first see him on the football field in fact we never see him play football we re introduced to him in class inviting his nerdish poker buddies to a party br br in dazed feminism isn t a casual by product of some chick getting knocked up it s much more organic more serious than that it s refined in the ladies room over a flip discussion about gilligan s island serious ideas can grow in the most mundane settings but real life is like that br br some of the warm comments here note that the themes in this movie are still relevant i agree which is why i feel so disappointed by this piece of baby boomer pornostalgia ',
'tim krabbe is the praised author of het gouden ei a novel that was put on the screen twice spoorloos and the vanishing one of the dutch writer s more recent works is de grot a psychological thriller about two totally different men egon and axel who meet at a youth camp and surprising enough become friends for dear life egon is a quiet somewhat dull person who spends his time studying and writing geography books axel on the other hand is a charismatic party animal a heavy drinking criminal whose everyday s concern is to get a woman into his bedroom from the moment they meet axel has a strong influence on egon while the latter envies him because he has a good life without really doing anything such as reading thick books like egon ultimately egon is even dragged by egon into illegal practices himself which leads to a fatal drug transport in a distant asian country br br after having read the book last year i was surprised the critics were quite positive about it in my opinion the book suffers especially from the complex structure while krabbe presents the story as an absorbing portrait of an uncommon relationship between two people the plot becomes more of a puzzle the many episodes are not presented chronologically so that two successive scenes are seldom in the same episode because of this the story feels surprisingly remote you often need to know a character s background to really care for him or her another complaint was the fact that the main characters egon and axel are a little stereotypical egon is the dull intellectual while axel is his exact opposite in real life such one dimensional people rarely exist in books and films they always seem to be there taking away a lot of credibility br br despite all this the film was a pleasant surprise being much better than the book the adaptation excels in its beautiful cinematography humour and acting fedja van huet egon is one of the few dutch actors who can make you forget he is acting which is in my opinion the highest an actor can achieve the drawbacks of the film however are the same as the book s mainly because the characters are one dimensional they are so predictable that it becomes annoying guess who wrote the script indeed krabbe himself it is obvious that this talented director that s what the movie makes clear anyway is hampered by a deficient screenplay perhaps koolhoven should just have chosen a better book br br ',
'major league back to the minors br br starring scott bakula eric bruskotter corbin bernsen dennis haysbert jensen daggett written and directed by john warren minutes rated pg for language and some violence br br by blake french br br believe it or not in the new john warren comedy major league back to the minors there is one funny scene it consists of a sequence where an infuriated coach throws a baseball hard into the wall behind him only to have it hit the cement and bounce back and smash him in the face it s not much but with the exception of a few one liners it s all this film has to offer enough said br br this movie is not only structurally impaired characteristically undeveloped predictable and badly written but also just plain bad even non critical audience members will hate this movie with all that they got it is so familiar it just isn t funny br br how many times does the same movie about sports have to be made last years we saw this same material in air bud golden receiver and as bad as that film was this is even worse at least air bud was family oriented major league back to the minors is too vulgar for a wholesome family to view together on a sunday afternoon it is too childish for adults so who is this film for teenagers elderly people who are so desperate for entertainment they would rent something like this br br the film like many others like this has one basic point it tries to make teamwork conquers all yes it does and what a great moral to try to prove too bad we have already seen and excepted it so many times over and over have such little talent and intelligence that their cheerleaders are men in a ballerina costumes where the silly announcers form their own buddy comedy routine muttering one liners to themselves like they suck this kids fast ball is timed with an hour glass this guy dropped out of ball for a while to find something he lost maybe it was his mind somebody needs a nap and ever see a sunset as beautiful as that play where the characters have such little significance to each other that we never know them by name and where the only heartfelt lecture scene about teamwork is so unknowledgeable that it is almost funny br br major league back to the minors is so bad it stalls its trite ending right in the middle of a good closing sequence the good baseball team is on a comeback they are about to win and the power goes out i was thinking for a minute that this piece of trash had come to a conclusion but in reality its false final scene exists only to add minutes to the running time the movie basically consists of a series of unrelated sketches that throw in so many putrid jokes it is are not funny there is another kind of funny line of dialogue that has a coach and a player talking to each other about why a long time outfielder is not wanted in that position any longer the coach s answer you re too old too slow and too fat the player s reaction is to die for but that scene certainly does not make this movie noteworthy of you time and certainly is not worth a cent of your money br br so here is another dreadful entre into this genre of film another that is doomed with its own script which is failed before seen and another which is so familiar it seems like deja vu all over again br br ',
' de grot is a terrific dutch thriller based on the book written by tim krabb another of his books het gouden ei was made into the great dutch mystery thriller called spoorloos the vanishing in this one is not as good as that thriller although much better than the american remake also called the vanishing but there are times it comes close br br especially the opening moments are terrific we see a man later we learn his name is egon wagter fedja van hut coming from a plane in thailand when he picks up his bags it is pretty clear that he is smuggling something across the border these scenes are perfectly directed photographed and acted a kind of suspense is created that you would normally not have in an opening scene like this later we see how egon makes his deal in thailand with a woman both stating that they have never done anything like this br br from this point the movie is constantly flashback and flash forward we see how egon still as a child here played by erik van der horst befriends a guy named axel as a kid played by benja bruijning we learn how they grew up as friends sort of and how axel as an adult played by marcel hensema became a criminal egon in the meanwhile goes to college and settles with a woman around this time he sometimes meets axel but does not really want anything to do with him br br the movie is chronological in a way it shows egon and axel as kids than as students young adults and in their mid thirties but from time to time like i said the movie goes back to when they were kids and jumps forward again every time we see them as kids it explains something that happens when they are adults br br minor spoilers herein br br the title means the cave and it is the cave that gives the movie its happy ending although it is in fact not that happy like the beginning the ending is terrific the middle part of the movie is entertaining and in a way it distracts our attention of the first scenes only to come back at that point in the end it is the editing that gives the movie its happy ending although we can say the dramatic ending is happy in a way as well ',
'this is by far one of the worst movies i have ever seen the poor special effects along with the poor acting are just a few of the things wrong with this film i am fan of the first two major leagues but this one is lame ',
'though structured totally different from the book by tim krabb who wrote the original the vanishing spoorloos it does have the same overall feel except for that koolhoven s style is less business like and more lyric the beginning is great the middle is fine but the sting is in the end a surprise emotional ending as you could read in several magazines there is some sex in the film but it is done all very beautifully never explicit but with lots of warmth and sometimes even humour it is a shame american films can t be as open an honoust as this one where dutch films tend to go just over the edge when it comes to this subject de grot stays always within the boundaries of good taste de grot tells an amazing story stretched over more than years when you ll leave the cinema you ll be moved what can we ask more of a film anyway this film even gives more ',
'how did i ever appreciate this dud of a sequel all it does is throw balls worst of all it doesn t compare to even the first installment of the series the comedy suffers from not being funny where did all the unintentional laughter go enough slapstick on the field action goes on too long bob uecker literally saved this one from a complete nine inning shutout what s next major league return to the little league ehh could be leave this one on the shelf and plan a trip to the all star game this one s had three strikes too many ',
'de grot is a very good film the great plot comes from the novel by tim krabb who also adapted this story for the screen some really top class acting not only by van hut but especially by marcel hensema who mostly did tv work prior to his performance of axel van de graaf the film seems to kick of as a thriller and sets an excellent mood then we start to learn about egon wagter and axel van de graaf and the story is revealed bit by bit in a very compelling flash back structure which adds to the more romantic aspect and the character driven drama of the movie in the end this all culminates into an emotional ending that will grab audiences by their throats make sure you know as little as possible about the plot when you are going to see this movie a must see especially if you liked spoorloos the vanishing s original screen adaptation ',
'this movie is a disgrace to the major league franchise i live in minnesota and even i can t believe they dumped cleveland yes i realize at the time the real indians were pretty good and the twins had taken over their spot at the bottom of the american league but still be consistent anyway i loved the first major league liked the second and always looked forward to the third when the indians would finally go all the way to the series you can t tell me this wasn t the plan after the second film was completed what happened anyways if your a true fan of the original major league do yourself a favor and don t watch this junk ',
'i started watching the show from the first season and at the beginning i was pretty skeptical about it original movie was kind of childish and i was just looking for some sci fi show while waiting for the bsg new season br br but after few episodes i became a fan i ve loved the characters the not so stupid as you think he is jack o neill the not only smart samantha carter the glorious teal c women and kids favorite and brilliant dr daniel jackson br br of course stories sometimes not serious sometimes even ridiculous but mostly it s not about technology or space fighting it s about helping your friend even risking your life for him it s about we don t leave anybody behind struggling to the end when all hope is lost about the free will and all good qualities that makes a human human br br and now it s breaking a record going th season and still doing good ',
'oh dear god this was horrible there is bad then there was this this movie makes no sense at all it runs all over the map and isn t clear about what its saying at all the music seemed like it was trying to be like batman the fact that edison isn t a real city takes away since i live in vancouver watching this movie and recognizing all these places made it unbearable why didn t they make it a real city the only writing that was decent was tilman in which john heard did a fantastic job he was the only actor who played his role realistically and not over the top and campy it was actually a shame to see john heard play such a great bad guy with a lot of screen time and the movie be a washout too bad hopefully someone important will see it and at least give john heard credit where credit is due and hire him as lead bad guy again which is where he should be on the a list ',
'indian directors have it tough they have to compete with movies like laggan where henpecked castrated males defend their village and half of them are certifiable idiots devdas a hapless fedar festooned foreign return drinking to oblivion with characters running in endless corridors oblivious to any one s feelings or sentiments alas they live in an ornate squalor of red tapestry and pageantry but to make a good movie you have to tight rope walk to appease the frontbenchers who are the quentessential gapers who are mesmerized with split skirts and dishum dishum fights preferably involving a nitwit bollywood leading actor who is marginally handsome so you can connect with a director who wants to tell a tale of leonine village head who in own words defending his village this is considered a violent movie or too masculine for a male audience there are very few actors who can convey the anger and pathos like nana patekar narasimhan nana patekar lets you in his courtyard and watch him beret and mock the politician when his loyal admirers burst in laughter with every word of satire thrown at him meanwhile his daughter is bathing his grandson this is as authentic a scene you can get in rural india nana patekar is the essential actor who belongs to the old school of acting which is a disappearing breed in hindi films the violence depicted is an intricate part of storytelling with songdances thrown in for the gawkers without whom movies won t sell a sad but true state of affairs faster this changes better for bollywood all said and done this is one good movie ',
'this movie is a disgrace to the major league franchise i live in minnesota and even i can t believe they dumped cleveland yes i realize at the time the real indians were pretty good and the twins had taken over their spot at the bottom of the american league but still be consistent anyway i loved the first major league liked the second and always looked forward to the third when the indians would finally go all the way to the series you can t tell me this wasn t the plan after the second film was completed what happened anyways if your a true fan of the original major league do yourself a favor and don t watch this junk ',
'i initially bought this dvd because it had srk and aishwarya rai on the cover and i thought hey another film starring aishu and shah rukh little did i know that aishwarya would only appear in an item number in the last quarter of the film in a song which she shares with srk and helps introduce his character who is in the film for about just minutes shakti is a film about a mother s love and endurance it s a film about transformations ignorance coming of age stepping into the know and embracing the harsh realities of life the item number in which srk and aishu appear in has nothing to do with the movie it s actually a dream sequence that occurs while srk s drunken character is knocked unconscious by booze he dreams that aishwarya rai is this sexy street girl who shows up at his favourite hangout spot one day dressed scantily and begins to seduce him the title of the song is ishq kamina loosely translated as love s a bitch and it is just plain smoking hot don t miss it ',
'this movie is so bad it s funny it stars scott backula as some coach but that s not important what is important is the large black fellow who plays st base first off he has to be at least years old yet still plays minor league baseball second he starts out the movie in the outfield despite not being able to walk let alone run coach backula brilliantly moves him to first citing the fact that when he attempts to run he stays in the same place for too long a period of time backula shows more brilliant coaching strategy in the end of the film spoiler he tells his star player downtown to hit a home run clearly downtown viewed this as a good move he hit the home run and won the game for his team a minor league squad playing the twins who were the class of the majors in the movie now if only tony muser manager of the royals would be as smart a coach as backula and tell his players to simply hit a home run in every at bat the royals would never end an inning let alone lose a game ',
'good movie good music good background and an acceptable plot but the main point again as his movies tend to be the man is the best actor in idia and can turn dust into gold nana patekar this may be his second best performance after parinda others may disagree although other movies are not far behind one man that will never ever disappoint you br br good movie although i think shahrukh was a luxury this movie could have done without you can see in his movies others try very hard to reach his heights and act out of their skins but this man is really something elase br br the movie is cool the music and direction is excellent plot a bit thin but the screen play and dialog again very good a must watch ',
'okay just by reading the title you would think that it would be a good movie well at least i did it started out good but became so boring after the first half hour spoiler br br it tells a story about a mother that is so desperate for her daughter to become a cheerleader that she will go to any lengths to get what she wants the only problem is that her daughter s friend is the girl in the way she always wins the competitions therefore pushing the mother further towards eliminating her after talking to a hitman the mother decides that the girl needs to be roughed up a bit so actions are taken but she eventually gets caught br br the cast is awful and the movie drags on too long with nothing happening don t waste your time watching this br br ',
'this is probably karisma at her best apart from zubeidaa nana patekar also gives out his best without even trying the story is very good at times but by the end seems to drag especially when shahrukh comes in the picture what really made me like it were the performances of the leads the dialog delivery as well as the story for what it was it could ve been directed better and edited the supporting case was even great including karima s mother in law even though she just had one shining moment it was great to watch her br br the sets were also pretty good i didn t really like their portrayal of a canadian family but once they step in india it s as real as it gets br br overall i would give it a thumbs up ',
'this is one very dire production the general consensus has always been that while princess margaret may have been spoilt and pampered and may have revelled in the excess of luxury at her disposal she was a very beautiful young woman here was the production s weakest point the actress failed to get that across it also appeared that the production budget couldn t stretch to a hairdresser from the outset the hair on the princess margaret character had a permanent birds nest in disarray look and looked as if she had been dragged through a bush the actor playing the duke of edinburgh appeared to have prepared for his role by watching rory bremner imitate prince charles and was farcical br br the production was a flaw ridden clich ridden embarrassing load of rubbish i think all daily mail readers deserve a free dvd copy for christmas ',
'a strong woman oriented subject after long director krishna vamsi s shakti the power the desi version of the hollywood hit not without my daughter is actress sridevi s first home production a story about a woman s fight against harsh injustice br br the story of the film revolves around nandini karisma kapoor who lives in canada with her two uncles tiku talsania jaspal bhatti there she meets shekhar sanjay kapoor falls in love with him and they soon marry their family is complete when nandini has a boy raja master jai gidwani but their happiness is short lived as the news of shekhar s ailing mother deepti naval makes them leave their perfect life in canada and come to india and that s when the problems start from the moment they reach br br india both are shocked to see the pollution and the vast throngs of people everywhere they take a crowded train to reach shekhar s village and when they finally reach the station they have to catch a long bus drive to his village the filthy sweaty bus combined with the uncertain terrain makes it a never ending drive and unfortunately for them a frenzied mob that beat shekhar out of shape for no fault of his attacks their bus fortunately they get shot dead just in time before they can further harm him after that they drive to the handing havel where shekhar s father narsimha nana patekar lives with his wife deepti naval nandani realized that her father in law is in command as soon as she enters the place but her only solace is her mother in law s warm welcome br br living there nandini learns of her father in laws tyrannical behavior and realizes that ruthless killing is a way of life for him the day she sees her father in law teach her son to throw a bomb she loses it and lashes out against him insisting to shekhar that they move back to canada but terror strikes again when shekhar is murdered one day leaving a broken down nandini alone with her son in this strange land where she is harrowed by a cruel father in law her fight against this man to save her son is what makes up the climax of this emotional heart wrenching film br br what sets apart shakti from most films being made off late is also the rural setting of the movie the only drawback is ismail darbar s music which fails to rise above the script the only saving grace is the sexy item number ishq kameena which has been composed by anu malik another pat for the director comes because he has extracted some splendid performances from his cast karisma kapoor is the life of the film and has given a moving performance as a helpless mother she is sure to win awards for this heated portrayal second is actor nana patekar who is back with a bang with this film his uncouth mannerisms suit him to the hilt and he s shown his versatility once again with this role sanjay kapoor is the surprise packet of the film with a sincere and effective portrayal that stands up against both the other actors deepti naval too is in top form and her pr climax showdown with nana is praiseworthy shahrukh s cameo provides the lighter moments and surely he s been pulled in to get the required star value though his role was not really required he s done it well overall shakti is a far superior film than most churned out these days and the pr release hype is sure to get it a good opening shakti is sure to get the critics and audience thumps up so what if the film needs to be desperately trimmed by at least reels to better the impact shakti still has the power to go on without a hitch ',
'for months i ve been hearing about this little movie and now i ve seen it i find it cute cute how so many fledgling directors make movies where they combine other people s creative ideas in order to make their own one joke premise of a movie troops swingblade any of the million blair witch parodies come to mind if all that these directors want is a foot inside hollywood s door then they re doing the right thing and they should keep it up because combining plot outlines is how hollywood makes films how many times have you heard the phrase it s animal house meets back to the future it s wall street meets dead poet s society or shakespeare in love meets star wars i remember when independent films meant original and daring not safe and predictable ',
'seeing this movie was the most fun i ve had at the cinema in a long time however i am not able to say whether this is a good or a bad film because such simple qualifications simply cannot be applied this picture has everything any movie could ever have it has characteristics of a romantic comedy a political commentary a thriller a drama an action movie a musical and an absurdist self conscious art film it s all in there adding up to a myth br br the basic premise is about an indian couple nandini karishma kapoor and shekhar sanjay kapoor happily living in canada who rush to india to visit the husband s parents after a disturbing news report the rest of the story takes place in india where the couple find themselves in the midst of a plot of fratricidal violence at one point the story borrows from not without my baby but to call shakti a remake of anything would be an injustice br br the ostensible story line takes a backseat to a number of astonishing interruptions including shah rukh khan s dream of aishwarya rai which comes as if out of another movie in fact the two stars are on all the posters but they appear really late in the film and only shah rukh ends up being a real character yet he makes up for it with a spirited and truly unexpected performance br br karishma kapoor is the one with most work to do in this film and she does an admirable job having to link up the film s twists and turns with a show of believable emotion another notable presence is nana patekar who plays narsimha the tyrannical father of the husband shekhar nana patekar dominates every scene he s in with a scary but nuanced character br br the movie is not without its share of realism violence is rampant but truly disturbing in the abuse received by most of the female characters with karishma getting soundly beaten on a number of occasions at times this violence is clearly disturbing but ultimately it becomes surreal as every dramatic sequence is usually followed by such comic and spectacular turns that the overall effect is nothing but cathartic br br i have seen a share of bollywood releases and the mixing of genres and incredible plot resolutions are certainly their norm but shakti raises the bar by absorbing an even greater masala without becoming ridiculous it is a film that achieves the grandeur of a shakespearian tragedy where the audience of the rabble and royalty is equally entertained it is pure gratuitous cinema and the director krishna vamsi must have had a dream of a good time by throwing in every trick in the book perhaps the all important message of violence begetting violence and the inspiring extents of motherly love were not the thoughts on my mind but i came out of watching shakti exhilarated making movies can be the most fun in the world ',
'way back in a certain director had no idea about a galaxy far away or near he was trying to complete a movie with the title thx etc this short is a remanufactured history of a certain george i am sorry it has only cuteness to defend it this is merely an advertising promo for the director actors et al it has little intrinsic artistic value it is a brochure the lead playing george is very fine as is the leia character and the ersatz darth character all else is plain commercial dross what a waste still it got the job done i guess the rest of the movie is merely treading water to kill time i guess a brochure only ',
'okay i know this does nt project india in a good light but the overall theme of the movie is not india it s shakti the power of a warlord and the power of a mother the relationship between nandini and her husband and son swallow you up in their warmth then things go terribly wrong the interaction between nandini and her father in law the power of their dysfunctional relationship and the lives changed by it are the strengths of this movie shah rukh khan s performance seems to be a mere cameo compared to the believable desperation of karisma kapoor it is easy to get caught up in the love violence and redemption of lives in this film and find yourself heaving a sigh of relief and sadness at the climax the musical interludes are strengths believable and well done ',
'where s michael caine when you need him i ve seen most of the many seasons of mst k but this rare pre st season flick episdoe k is easily one of the worst movies ever made three stars lee majors chris makepeace and burgess meredith struggle through the worst batch of cinematography ever delivering lines which must have been written by a secret dick cheney style workgroup composed of exxon and gm lawyers trying to cut funding for mass transit and energy efficiency research looks like it was filmed in almost total darkness possibly on super makes logan s run look like the cinematic sistine chapel crossed with shakespeare i can t imagine watching it without the commentary of crow and servo since it s unwatchable even with it clearly what s needed in hollywood is some sort of k which prevents the need for actors to take on bad movies like this in order to pay for their health care with its rights to pollute and drive theme by the end i m half expecting to see a charlton heston cameo where he delivers his cold dead hands speech lee i could have forgiven you for this in but ',
'well i ll be honest it is not exactly a sholay but you cant get a sholay every week in fact you could see distinct signatures of not without my daughter sally field in this movie however as most inspired movies go this one was a well inspired one well handled and well done nana patekar as usual tends to overdo his hysterics but all others are commendable specially so about dipti naval saw her after a long time but she hasn t lost any of her grace in fact she has performed much better that when i last saw her another one of the bollywood stars that seem to grow more beautiful as they age br br all in all a nice watch ',
'stupid mindless drivel about a jet assembled within hours by mechanics who have never worked on airplanes piloted by burgess meredith chasing a porsche race car which runs on decades old gasoline sludge driven by lee majors with chris makepeace as the runaway techno wiz who can mcgyver spare parts into a radio receiver which can pick up all frequencies simultaneously and who somehow learned how to acquire and use chemicals to make high explosives in a perfectly peaceful society as moronic as it sounds terrible waste of burgess meredith but chris makepeace may at least be forgiven on the grounds that this was only his second film ',
'the beauty of this film is evidenced in the great portrayal of the power of a mother s love the exceptional performances the steady execution and the quite innovative script the film tells the story of an indian woman nandini who lives in canada with her husband shekhar and little kid raja all of a sudden her husband informs her that his family in india of whom she had not even known is in troubles and the couple rush to india when they get into the village nanadini is shocked and terrified to witness a very wild rural culture shekhar s family ruled by his cruel highly cynical and merciless father narasimha lives a poor and highly violent lifestyle which is full of murder and terror and where women are subservient and helpless nandini starts nagging shekhar to return home but he is soon killed by his father s enemies when she wants to leave narasimha refuses to let her take raja back to india here starts the intense struggle which can be called nandini vs narasimha br br india is not presented in a particularly positive light in this film but it only shows a very tiny minority of its rural areas so it may be even correct the portrayal is in my view fair and not one sided because the positive side is also presented to an extent such a horrifying sight could be shown in a film about any country in the world the locations are amazing the music is wonderful and krishna vamshi s direction is aided by very effective cinematography and good editing one thing that must be noted is the very ear pleasing background score by ismail darbar it is beautiful the characters are very well defined though we do get to see both their bright and dark sides in different portions of the film portrayed realistically throughout the film flows well and is an interesting and fairly entertaining watch its dialogues are superb and intelligently written and although the shocking proceedings can be very disturbing at some points a great deal of positive moments manage to relieve the tension br br the film s biggest strength is the performances karisma kapoor is breathtaking and very believable as nandini her ability to strike a balance between vulnerability and unrestrained emotion is simply incredible she displays so much intensity impulsiveness anguish and determination as the mother who wants to get her son back that this little kid seems to be her own son her outbreaks while facing off nana patekar which are like volcanic eruptions show us how the simplest of women can become a tigress when it comes to her child after fiza this is her most powerful performance one of the greatest actors indian cinema has seen nana patekar is indescribable as narasimha he manages to be hateful as narasimha yet admirable as the actor who plays him patekar displays cruelty wittiness and even humanity with total conviction he is outstanding another great performance comes unsurprisingly from india s most underrated actress deepti naval who sensitises her character to perfection sanjay kapoor is just adequate and shahrukh khan provides great comic relief anyway do watch shakti it could have been better but it is definitely a must watch ',
'this juvenile bland flick is strictly for teenagers in old mens bodies desperate to relive their hormonally challenged teenage years how by burning up gas and equating a fast reckless car or plane with freedom br br the plot borrows heavily from mister rogers neighborhood if it were run my an oil conglomerate and logan s run if it were heavily sedated and lacked a clear sense of style br br starring lee majors and burgess meredith this film is set in a post gas crisis world in which an all powerful government doesn t want you to ahem drive your car and burn gas sort of the opposite of today s enron and bush oil grabbing suv pushing government br br this juxtaposition alone makes the film laughable but wait there s more although the film is set in the future we re not shown any signs of future technology beyond a return to bicycles golf carts and horses you will believe that the future looks exactly like today same clothing same suburban houses same green lawns as today and when the film was made there are no solar panels no windmills no concessions to alternate energy br br the acting is flat and flavorless even scenes which could have been gritty or moving buddy flick honor romance horror all fall flatter than a paper doll under a briefcase br br continuity is lacking the jet flown by burgess meredith s character changes colors and configuration from moment to moment as the filmmakers insult our intelligence with unmatched stock footage again and again br br the plot is as moronic and only half as exciting as a dukes of hazzard episode br br even die hard car film and sf fans should avoid this film like month old roadkill unless you enjoy heckling exxon executives trying to make a movie as empty as the hero s gas tank ',
'if any movie stands out extremely with the actors acting skills this is probably the one i ve never seen dialogues be spoken in such a rough way but having a strong feeling the movie was disturbing at moments however the movie was terrible at editing the movie tries to go the commercial way by adding comedy and songs yet they feel out of place like karisma is getting beat up and the same time srk is fighting comically with the police officers the ishq kamina song was very out of place on top of that the movie is overly glossy in the beginning the direction was not bad but certainly nothing one can brag about br br i have to say that the actors were chosen very wisely without them this movie would not have an impact karisma kapoor has given her best role to date and this looks very good on her record after zubeidaa and fiza she looks pretty in the first half and i ve never seen an actress scream of emotion and anger as well as her what is most ironic is this is probably her weakest written role to date nana patekar was excellent as her father in law not much to say about him besides this is a role made for him deepti naval as the mother in law was excellent especially in her final scene though she doesn t have much to say her facial expressions and body language was good the other good performance was the little kid he was adorable and is sure to bring tears to the viewer s eyes the movie was probably saved desperately by their performances sanjay kapoor was all right but he didn t have much to do shahrukh khan was wasted in his bad boyish type role br br one thing that brought the audience to the theater was ishq kamina the song picturization and dancing is perfect for the crude lyrics of the song and boy aish is mad hot however the song belonged to be in another movie only because it came at the worst moment ever people may have come to the movie for aish but they won t brag too much about it after wards hum tum miley was properly paced but seemed to drag as the suspense mood was leaving throughout the movie damroo bhaje was boring and nothing to rave about dil ne pukara is too boring of a song to get the mood of the movie despite the poor editing the performances alone make it a must see ',
'i saw this movie years ago and i was impressed but then again i was only years old i recently re watched it and want that time back this film is pretty bad while i like lee majors chris makepeace watch my bodyguard if you would like to see a good movie that he was in of meatballs also starring bill murray for some laughs and burgess meredith this role does did nothing for their careers br br anyway lee majors character franklyn hart is an ex race car driver who plans on driving his race car which he had in storage across the country to california one problem the government has outlawed all private transportation i thought the concept was ok not the worse i ve heard of but the execution failed horribly ',
'the movie was sub par but this television pilot delivers a great springboard into what has become a sci fi fans ideal program the actors deliver and the special effects for a television series are spectacular having an intelligent interesting script doesn t hurt either br br stargate sg is currently one of my favorite programs ',
'there is an excellent reason edison went straight to video it would have landed in theaters with a crumbling thud the movie lasted entirely too long and was perilously boring just a notch above lowbrow thanks to freeman and spacey who obviously had a spare two weeks before their next films the bad guys are as laughable and action as near non existent as justin timberlake s acting i hate to knock the guy but the sooner he realizes that pop is his forte the better br br the movie isn t all bad just mostly i like the fact that ll cool j was given what appears to be a shot at being leading man he deserves it and unlike his fellow musician and co star he can act kevin spacey is almost always enjoyable as well you can see him gulp several times as he chews the scenery and freeman has the ability to elevate this flick to three stars out of ten he s not that good br br when all is said and done the ultimate error with this movie is that it is a mundane and tiresome piece of pseudo action poppycock that fails to keep anyone awake it also fails to make anyone give a good crap about any of the characters all in all t s just plain boring that being said rent this when you are suffering from insomnia ',
'uneven bollywood drama karisma kapoor is excellent as an indian woman in canada who marries a friend sanjay kapoor has a child and then visits his family in india only to find they are terrorist warlords drama and tragedy ensue and the film becomes a kind of not without my baby styled thriller film is compelling its few song dance numbers are uninteresting and needless the gaity of bollywood song and dance is really out of character for the intensity of this film s drama at least once we ve left the comforting confines of their canadian love nest although one number involving a cameo by the stunning aishwarya rai is enjoyably provocative if ultimately misplaced as well likewise the inclusion of bollywood superstar shahrukh khan as a happy go lucky drifter who helps kapoor in her escape from the clutches of the warlord turns what had been a very serious drama into a silly farce and it only gets back on his feet when his character and his fantasies about rai that generate her cameo dance are dispensed with his throw away comic book dialog and the silliness of his fight scenes detract from the film s primary gripping drama the cast is nicely supported by nana patekar as the warlord and the elegant deepti naval who is outstanding as his long suffering wife who finally choses to stand up against him in one of the film s best scenes ritu shivpuri and rajshree solanki are also very good as sanjay s sisters in india and very pleasing eye candy but sanjay himself overacts terribly especially during obvious ad libs the directorial style of writer director krishna wamsi is sloppy rampant with rough transitions and abrupt cuts although his camera movement is good the musical underscore is also quite effective moody featuring wordless female voice over a small orchestral ensemble too bad little if any of that made it onto shakti s soundtrack cd but bollywood hasn t yet discovered the value of including score along with songs on their soundtrack albums at least not in most cases but shakti is karisma kapoor s film all the way though and the intensity of her performance once the film switches to india contrasts nicely with the gentle romance with which she engaged with sanjay in the initial canadian scenes despite the unevenness of much of the picture karisma s performance completely sells the film and solidifies its otherwise inconsistent measures in a strange way also i found the story to be another take on the ostentation of royalty i d noticed in curse of the golden flower and marie antoinette both of which i d seen just prior although shakti of course is an entirely different kind of film but the focus on a dysfunctional royal family here living in the austerity of terrorism controlled poverty in india rather than the elegance of versailles or the massive megalomania of feudal china s tang dynasty whose self serving seeking of power brings ruin upon many others and forces an uprising of one kind or another provides the film with a notable subtext ',
'after watching this on the mst k episode i have to wonder how many movies this film borrows from it seems to combine elements of logans run farenheight final sacrifice and at least several others at one point i was really expecting cris makepease to call lee majors rowsdower br br i wonder if the director has any clue how many holes there are in the plot like the fact that even though gas is unavailable there is plenty of it in abandoned gas stations and the stations are located close enough together to keep an f race car going all the way across the country ',
'what is contained on this disk is a first rate show by a first rate band this disc is not for the faint of heart the music is incredibly intense and very cool what you will learn when you watch this movie is just why the who was so huge for so long it is true that their records were great but their shows were the top of the heap in when this concert was shot the screaming teenie boppers that threw jelly beans at the beatles were gone and bands and audiences had settled down to long and often amazing displays of musical virtuosity something that few audiences have the intellectual curiosity to pursue in the age of canned music by britney and christina what you especially learn here are the amazing things that can happen when gifted musicians are encouraged to improvise try the concert out it really is amazing ',
'dull flatly directed comedy has zero laughs and wastes a great cast alan alda wore too many hats on this one and it shows newcomer anthony lapaglia provides the only spark of life in this tedium but it s not enough br br one of those scripts that if you were a neophyte and submitted it to an agent or producer would be ripped to shreds and rejected without discussion ',
'this is the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who s next which would provide anthems like baba o reily and wont get fooled again this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the s br br daltrey shows what being a front man is all about entwistle steady as ever br br moon is great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him playing side saddle whilst having a bass drum head replaced br br townsend even looks like he s enjoying himself occasionally br br considering they took to the stage at am no one in the crowd was asleep br br there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one ',
'one of the lamer wedding movies you ll see smacks too too much of its time period so it was out of date before it hit the theaters the ethnic stereotypes are like a henny youngman joke except they just aint in the least bit funny here molly ringwald well what else needs to be said give you a clue to the silliness she destroys a wedding dress because it just won t be me makes it into this rag with straps and puts on a top hat and everyone smiles cutely at her moxy rather than ringwalding her neck its a helluva a cast too check out how heavy ally sheedy is wheeeew ',
'this review is dedicated to the late keith moon and john entwistle br br the original drum and bass br br there seems to be very little early who footage around these days if there is more then lets be aving it now a days it tends to be of a very different kind of who altogether a parody a shadow of their much better years to be fair not one of them has to prove anything to anyone anymore they ve earned their respect and with overtime br br this concert footage for me is one of their best to command an audience of around a plus strong crowed takes skill charisma wit and a whole lot of bloody good music br br we all know of the other acts on the bill the doors their last ever show weeks before jim morrison died moody blues hendrix taste free and many more the point being that whoever were there it was the who that the majority had come to see this show was one year after the great hippie fest of the s woodstock the film and record had come out and so had the who s greatest work to date tommy the ever hungry crowd wanted a taste to be able to experience their own unique event to be able to grove and love in the knowledge that this gig was their own to do this you needed the best of what rock n roll had to throw at the hungrily baited crowd br br at two o clock in the morning in late august the m c announces ladies and gentlemen a small rock n roll band from shepherds bush london the oo br br john entwistle s body suit is of black leather on the front is the out line of a human skeleton from neck to toe roger dressed in his traditional stage outfit of long tassel s and long flowing hair keith in a white t shirt and jeans as pete had his white boiler suit and doc martins that he d preferred to wear br br the who never stopped their onslaught of high energy rock for over two hours performing theirs and other artists greatest tracks such as young man blues shaking all over and then as on queue keith baiting the crowed to shut up it s a bleeding opera with tommy the rock opera the crowed went wild this is what they had come to hear and the who didn t disappoint straight into overture and never coming up for air until the final note of tommy can you hear me amazing br br to capture a show of this magnitude of a band of this stature at their peak at a festival that was to be the last of its kind anywhere in the world was a fantastic piece of cinematic history br br the english dvd only comes in a soundtrack of english linear pcm stereo were as in the states i think you can get it with at least check local press for details on that okay br br the duration of the dvd is minutes with no extras which is a disappointment yes for a slice of rock and festival history this dvd would send you in a nostalgia trip down memory lane the moment you press play for some of the best who concert footage as it was meant to be live raw and in your face br br i would have given this dvd ten if it wasn t for the lack of and some extras would have been nice br br thanks roger pete john and keith ',
'with this film bunuel manipulates the viewer with all of film s might while stating clearly in the film that his work is one of objectivity obviously it is not for one reason many scenes shot by pure chance are obvious set ups when that poor goat accidently falls off the cliff you can actually see the gun smoke on the right of the screen for another his concealing of one important information the hurdes people were the way they were for a specific reason which is just hinted at in the film that is goitre a sickness caused by lack of iodine salt this goitre is the cause of their cretinism and had bunuel only took the time to make his research heck if he checked cretinism in a medical dictionary he d have found goitre he might have ended up telling the truth about these people still doubtfully instead with his film he judges them constantly talking about them as cretins again and again dramatizing the action setting up scenes to create the spectacle all of this very unacceptable for a documentarist which claims to work for an all mighty objectivity bunuel talks all the time in this film not letting one word to the people he is filming he talks for them and even then judges them this piece is flawed to it s roots to it s ideology and it s a real shame it s considered a great film ',
'this would have worked a lot better if it had been made as mitchell in malta at least then we would have been spared the sight of joe don baker running around an otherwise scenic mediterranean locale clad in that ridiculous looking cowboy outfit not to mention acting like an old west gunslinger mitchell being mitchell the film wouldn t have suffered from a lack of gratuitous police brutality either oh well at least the comic comments of mike and the bots made this enjoyable fare as an episode of mst i can t imagine watching it on it s own however ',
'this minute documentary buuel made in the early s about one of spain s poorest regions is in my opinion one of his weakest films first let s admit that years later spain is much richer than it was then and when i say this i fully admit that wealth can bring problems of its own like excessive individualism and consumerism though all in all wealth it s a far better condition than the extreme poverty portrayed here and if poverty receded in spain it was not exactly with the sort of socialism that buuel favored but with western european style capitalism but one of the most shocking things about the movie is this in one scene the narrator chides that in school children are taught the value of pi teaching math to poor people the horror buuel shortsightedness is at its most glaring here not realizing that it is access to the latest knowledge and technology what will help the poor overcome their situation what is he proposing that children are taught exactly what at school doesn t buuel understand that it is the lack of modern technology that has made them poor in comparison with other people ',
'joe don baker is one of a handful of actors who is often better than his material and almost always under appreciated he s been in a ton of films either as a heavy or a hero and has the type of strong solid presence that wallace beery did half a century before him baker can delivery material that would sound ridiculous coming out of another actor and that s what s so great about him he really seems to mean what he s saying regardless of how clich obvious or silly which puts him in a league with tommy lee jones oliver reed and don stroud it s what made the walking tall trilogy work so well and that same magic is here in final justice this was a substantial hit in theaters and on video in the s and it has aged a lot better than many of the perhaps better known action flicks of the era by moving the action from texas to europe there s a real timeless quality that doesn t jar you away from the action on screen to be honest i ve always enjoyed the films of greydon clark who is a no nonsense director in the same vein as s clint eastwood and this is one of his best final justice is one of the lost gems of the late s similar to man on fire in its true grit and violence i suppose if they remake this with the rock a whole new audience will come to love it as much as i do ',
'the writer director of this film obviously doesn t know anything about film i think the dp on this project was tied up and replaced with a monkey because every seen was either too dark or had the hotter hot spots than the sun br br the story was awful the characters were very one dimensional for someone to have said that this film was made for poker fans and not film fans that someone is kidding their self it was probably the writer director no poker fan in this world likes this movie even your money man hates this project to go into a casino and play a few hands doesn t give you the experience to write about poker keep your day job and if it s playing poker then you must be hurt n ',
'kudos to cesar montano for reviving the cebuano movie panaghoy sa suba is very good it has the drama the action the romance and scene that will make you laugh br br while the story is not that original a love triangle or make a four cornered love japanese occupation rebellion american as lord its presentation is something cool especially it uses it original language bisaya for the filipino nipongo for the japanese and english for the american br br this movie will go as one of this year s best pinoy movies br br go watch this ',
'as a poker enthusiast i was looking forward to seeing this movie especially as it had scotty nyugen in it br br basically scotty nyugens short spots in this film are all it has going for it br br the characters are unlikeable and annoying the soundtrack is awful and the plot well there isn t one br br i honestly got a headache and found myself reading the barcode number on the dvd box after twenty minutes i was that bored its actually ashame that nyugen was in this movie as otherwise i wouldn t have wasted buying it off ebay br br take it from me avoid like offsuit dire ',
'well it s been a long year and i m down to reviewing the final film for panaghoy sa suba call of the river placed second in the recent metro manila film festival as expected it didn t do so well at the box office as it was too artsy for the common moviegoers especially since mmff is the season where a lot of families go out to see movies br br it was quite intriguing to see a movie that was not in filipino or english play out in the screen i thought cesar montano did a good job both as a star and director his great vision and creativity really helped this film he was also very effective as the lead star and was able to express a wide range of emotions that was required for the film also performing well was young actress rebecca lusterio she did a great job portraying bikay the younger sister of duroy i hope to see her in many more film projects in the future perhaps venturing into other genres i think that the fact that this film was in her local dialect really helped her br br some of the camera shots in the film were done very well the scenery was made breathtaking even though i feel that if a lesser effort would have looked completely different br br in terms of the story i feel that the writers could have delved further into the lives of the lesser characters in the film i certainly won t be raving about the story of this film ',
'totally ridiculous if you know anything about poker you will find it absolutely appalling but also entertaining because it is so clueless the nerd who made this movie is obviously very religious and knows slightly about the game of poker but i doubt he s ever played above i think he also knows nothing of golf where to start i ve seen better productions in the intro to film class i took freshmen year of film school the actors to watch in this movie are queen momma scotty nguyen and the loser who can never win at poker everyone else is as wooden as they come like bad porn actors br br spoiler the man the movie starts with in the opening sequence is the only reason the film got made he is a railbird who doesn t play poker and never has a line of dialogue but the actor is the man who obviously paid for the movie i can t think of a more useless waste of money than this man shelling out for this pointless production it s fitting that he had such a useless role br br there s very little poker in this movie most of the time is spent on useless side characters whose plots aren t resolved in the slightest queen momma does have a show stealing scene where she throws her loser boyfriend through a window and tries to shoot his brains out also the nameless arabs in the convenience store also give brilliant performances when they debate whether to beat up or kill an older lady who robs them their subtle performances are easily among the film s highlights it makes you wonder why they bothered getting all these white people to play the leads br br in conclusion complete nonsense plan from outer space has slightly more coherency if you play poker though you might want to have a laugh also if you re christian you might enjoy some of the heavy handed religious conversation that pepper the movie like pointless pepper i hate movies made by religious people especially ones who think they know something about things they know nothing about it s sad that jennifer harman and scotty nguyen got involved in this travesty as i can t help but think less of them they must be envious of johnny chan for getting in rounders ',
'i m grateful to cesar montano and his crew in reviving the once moribund visayan film understorey panaghoy is hopefully the forerunner of a resurgence in this vernacular that claims more speakers than tagalog the dialect and lifestyle details are accurately reminiscent of this region of the philippines downside the corny and stilted acting of the american antagonist the other item that i didn t appreciate was the lack of authenticity in the period costume of the same character and above all his bright red kit car that i suppose was meant to pass for a s roadster without those small yet glaring details panaghoy would ve been at least a out of on my rating daghang salamat manoy cesar addendum this film sure beats peque gallaga s oro plata mata which provided a different view of the visayas during the second world war alos there are some parts where the cinematography harks back to spielberg s the color purple and the storyline begins to become reminiscent of noli me tangere ',
'when i first saw this film it was not an impressive one now that i have seen it again with some friends on dvd they had not viewed it on the silver screen my opinion remains the same the subject matter is puerile and the performances are weak ',
'as a kid i loved this game i played it a zillion times during spring with my friend andrew i used to play axel or blaze and he would be adam and no matter how often we played it we never seemed to get bored then streets of rage came out and we quickly forgot that this one even existed br br you play as ex cops axel stone adam or blaze fielding who have quit the force in order to take on the bad guys in their own way there are levels to work thru in a run down and corrupt city led by the evil mr x beating up all the bad guys and the end of level boss is much fun level the bridge was my fave because you could chuck baddies down the holes into the river you even have the chance to become mr x s right hand man at the end of the game at a price this leads to the bad ending in which you become the the boss of the syndicate exactly how this is possible is a mystery since you destroy the syndicate on your way to mr x but never mind br br streets of rage also has truly fantastic music the composer yuzo koshiro did absolute miracles with the limited technology of the sega genesis the main theme level one level and final boss are standout tunes br br as a wii owner i am proud to have this forever on my console but with streets of rage also available it does kind of render the first one somewhat obsolete br br pros br br average graphics but nice backgrounds represented in a comic book like panel progression that fits the tone of the game br br great tunes br br easy to get into and hard to put down br br cons br br vastly inferior to the infinitely more complex streets of rage br br poor enemy ai baddies often walk away from you instead of engaging in combat this is especially infuriating with the level boss br br lack of combo moves br br lack of decent weapons br br bad guy models are repeated far too often br br graphics b sound a gameplay b lasting appeal b ',
'people please don t bother to watch this movie this movie is bad it s totally waste of time i don t see any point here it s a stupid film with lousy plot and the acting is poor i rather get myself beaten than watch this movie ever again ',
'on sunday july the first episode of a new science fiction series called stargate sg was broadcast on showtime a spin off of and sequel to the film stargate starring kurt russell and james spader the series begins approximately one year after the events portrayed in the film for ten seasons it chronicled the adventures and misadventures of an intrepid team of explorers known as sg originally the series starred richard dean anderson as colonel jack o neill two l s michael shanks as dr daniel jackson amanda tapping as captain samantha carter christopher judge as teal c and don s davis as major general george s hammond for ten long years we watched the team battle against the goa uld the replicators the ori and many other aggressors at the same time they forged alliances with the asgard the tok ra the rebel jaffa the nox and the tollan they saved the world no less than eight times over the years and never gave up not until death claimed them and sometimes not even then br br as with all long running series they were numerous cast changes michael shanks left the series in january at the end of its fifth season in order to broaden his horizons as an actor daniel jackson s successor as the team s resident archaeologist geek was jonas quinn an alien from a country called kelowna on the planet langara played by corin nemec however shanks returned at the beginning of the seventh season in june and nemec left at the same time unfortunately he made only one further guest appearance and his character was seldom mentioned afterwards don s davis left the series at the end of the seventh season in march as he felt that it was time for him to go the show s original star and arguably its most popular actor richard dean anderson starred in the series throughout its first eight seasons his participation in the seventh and eight seasons was noticeably less than in the earlier seasons he finally left sg in march in order to spend more time with his then six year old daughter jack o neill was by far my favourite character in the series and truth be told i never enjoyed the last two seasons as much as i did the earlier episodes for that very reason br br the ninth season represented a new era for the programme with the departure of its lead actor and the defeat of the goa uld and the replicators in season eight many fans felt the series should go out on a high regardless the series carried on for a further two years with the ori replacing the goa uld as the series main adversaries three new characters were brought in to fill the gaps as it were and help usher in this re invention ben browder came in as the cocky southern air force pilot lt colonel cameron mitchell the new leader of sg his farscape co star the lovely claudia black began to play a prominent role in the series as the vivacious sexy hilarious and certainly extroverted vala mal doran a former goa uld host and con artist from another planet a recurring guest star during the eighth and ninth seasons she joined the cast full time at the beginning of its tenth and final season rounding off the cast was the legendary beau bridges as major general hank landry the new commander of the sgc and an old friend of jack o neill and general hammond for the last two years they starred alongside the sg faithful michael shanks amanda tapping and christopher judge and became valuable parts of and made equally valuable contributions to the stargate franchise br br alas all good things must come to an end during the initial broadcast of the first several episodes of season ten ratings dropped considerably resulting in cancellation in its august after ten seasons and episodes the dream was finally over on march what began with children of the gods ended with unending the series finale made its world premiere on sky one in britain and ireland before being shown on the sci fi channel in the united states on june br br in the ten years that the series was on the air it amassed legions of fans and even eclipsed the science fiction series star trek in terms of popularity in certain countries it became the second longest running sci fi series in the world second only to doctor who and the longest running american produced sci fi series having surpassed the x files only a few months before it ended br br stargate sg represents the cornerstone of the stargate franchise in its success and popularity led to the production of a spin off series entitled stargate atlantis which was regrettably cancelled after five seasons and episodes in august although plans for another feature film fell through two direct to dvd films stargate the ark of truth and stargate continuum were released in and more are planned for the not too distant future a third live action series stargate universe is also due to premiere at some point next year there was unfortunately an animated series stargate infinity which ran only from to but the less said about that the better despite the end of sg and atlantis as continuing series the future of stargate looks very bright indeed br br in conclusion while stargate has yet to gain the same degree of popular recognition as other major sci fi television franchises such as star trek and doctor who its still relatively new compared to those two sci fi giants and i have every confidence that it will continue for many many years to come ',
'honestly before i watched this movie i had heard many people said this movie was a disgrace i did not believe that since morgan freeman and kevin spacey have taken roles in this movie and watched it by my own apparently they were right i was really disappointed and wondering all the time during the movie why the hell did i watch this movie br br of course i was not expecting much from justin as he really does not belong in the movie theater business but morgan and kevin i could not stop asking myself why the heck they agreed to take part in edison to be honest their roles are rather stupid br br well you might think if the players suck then i should pay more attention to the story it is indeed story is the core of a movie but guys trust me this is not a movie you want to give a credit for its story imagine this a smart ass journalist justin timberlake wrote a story against the system and at the same time learning how to become a real journalist from his boss morgan freeman this all was supported by one agent who still has heart for justice ll cool j and an brilliant investigator kevin spacey at the end they beat the system with a happy ending story br br jeez i could not even carry on with this just recalling the movie is making me sick already my advise guys don t watch this please save your money and time for another movie ',
'imdb lists this as for some reason but the other sources i ve seen including the excellent program notes mark it as doesn t really matter except that it s quite interesting to watch this abstract collage of film and video one of the first art works to merge the two apparently in the context of the star gate sequence in released the same year pure abstraction isn t really my thing but i can take it in small doses and the super saturated optically printed colors and psychedelic feel of this series of flowers rohrschach blots birds etc is pretty compelling and quite beautiful certainly helped paved the way for many other nascent video artists in the s and deserves to be better known ',
'amateur no budget films can be surprisingly good this however is not one of them br br ah another brad sykes atrocity the acting is hideous except for emmy smith who shows some promise the camera direction needs serious reworking and no more hold the camera and run gimmicks either it just doesn t work the special effects are unimaginative there s a problem when the effect can be identified in real time if you re going to rip off an ear please don t let us see the actor s real ear beneath the blood the scenery is bland and boring same as mr sykes other ventures and the music is a cross between cheap motel porn and really bad guitar driven metal see the scenery comment br br did i mention the lack of any real plot or character development apparently the scriptwriter didn t br br whoever is funding this guy please stop i ve seen some of his other home movies which i will not plug and they are just as bad normally a director will grow and learn from his previous efforts not this guy it s one thing to be an amateur filmmaker but anyone can be a hack br br definitely not even a popcorn film of course chewing on popcorn kernels would be less painful than this effort br br award the worst ever military push ups in a film ',
'all i hear about is how poorly the animation is done it may not be up to par with what everyone expects but look at it this way would you expect perfection in hell it is my belief that the animation was made dry and gritty on purpose it was great to see her character transformation in this movie considering it will probably be as close to live action as we will ever get i hope for a sequel very soon if we want live action i think we may be better off with chastity or purgatori i don t think lady death would transfer well to film but be that as it may it is my own personal belief that all the naysayers about this movie are dead wrong no pun intended ',
'an updated version of a theme which has been done before while that in and of itself is not bad this movie doesn t reach the ring like the other inherent and pure evil ones do br br predictable ambitious attempt that falls short of the mark not worth sitting through for the tired contrived ending ',
'it s a very good movie not only for the fans of lady death comics but also for those who like animated movies series of adventure and fantasy br br the film is about a innocent girl who is about killed for something she hadn t done but for be who she is daughter of the ruler of hell lucifer himself br br then she seeks revenge and the rest you better see it from the movie br br i liked the movie a lot the characters are like the original comics form chaos i never had the chance of read the the first parts of the story in comics only the last ones after the passages in the movie so i cannot tell you if the events are exactly like the comics but one way or another it s the story of lady death ',
'this is a typical perfect crime thriller a perfect crime is executed and the investigating police officer ignoring all the clues immediately knows who guilty is the audience has to wait around the whole movie for the guilty to be caught the result is like every single episode of columbo or murder she wrote the director himself refers to the hackney story by showing the police officer watching an episode of matlock this story barely fills up minutes but the director insists on using all minutes filling with every cliche in the book skip this one you are not missing anything ',
'i personally liked this movie and am alarmed at the rating s some people have given it it is a movie based on a comic book and it is animated now if you don t like comic books or animation then of course you won t like this movie so why did you watch and bother to rate it is beyond me though if you are a fan of interesting strong characters and heroic sexy women kicking butt and saving the world hell you will love this movie i thought the story really pulled me in and it was a very cool movie quite anime esque or more like some of the american movies following this new trend of adult animation like titan a e meet s the live action version of punisher in the end i highly recommend this movie the comic buff and super hero fan or anyone with an open enough mind looking for a fun movie ',
'murder by numbers is one of those movies that you expect is made for tv but isn t considering the only actor of any note is bullock although michael pitt seems to be moving onto bigger and better things it isn t a great surprise that this movie quickly fades away from memory to be replaced by more important things like remembering to lock your front door when you go out or putting clothes back on when you come out of the shower br br bullock plays cassie mayweather a cop with personal issues don t they all together with her new partner a wet looking ben chaplin she is called to investigate the murder of a young woman nothing unusual there except that the perps are a couple of teenage students who think they ve planned and executed the perfect murder as the investigation continues a battle of wills emerges between cassie and the main suspect richie haywood ryan gosling br br the crippling issue here is that the two leads are hopeless bullock though she is very nice to look at is about as believable in the role of a hardened cynical cop as rodney dangerfield actually he d be better chaplin for his sins is a complete non entity and i feel sorry that he has to put this film on his cv in his attempt to break into hollywood at least gosling and pitt as the conniving sneering suspects acquit themselves adequately as if dodgy leads weren t bad enough a story that would send anybody to sleep and a highly predictable but illogical ending shoot this film in the head before it has a chance to run br br murder by numbers has absolutely nothing going for it even a pointless nude scene by bullock wouldn t redeem it well just a little but still not enough to save it forgettable predictable and redundant this is one film that isn t going to move the cop genre forward as cassie probably says on her next case there s nothing to see here people move along keep moving ',
'i love the movies and own the comics the comics are different then the movie but still i d give it out of it was awesome if the movies got anymore awesome i would have her babies and i am female read the comics you won t regret it yes in this movie since brian p the artist for her died we don t get nearly as good artistic work i mean seriously don t get me wrong these people did great but different versions for different people different strokes for different folks as the saying goes any guy who doesn t go bonkers over her is insane or does not like women or you know just plan insane if i could count on my fingers how in love and how many times i have read the comics i would run out of fingers for sure but hey there is always toes ',
'well the writing was very sloppy the directing was sloppier and the editing made it worse at least i hope it was the editing the acting wasn t bad but it wasn t that good either pretty much none of the characters were likable at least minutes of that movie was wasted time and the other hour or so was not used anywhere near its full potential it was a great idea but yet another wasted good idea goes by it could have ended different places but it just kept going on to a mostly predictable hollywood ending and what wasn t predictable was done so badly that it didn t matter the ending was not worth watching at all sandra bullock was out of her element and should stay away from these types of movies the movie looked rushed also the movie just wasn t really worth seeing and had i paid for it i would have been very mad maybe i was more disappointed because i expected a really good movie and got a bad one the movie over all was not horrifibly bad but i wouldn t reccomend it i gave it out of b c i liked the idea so much and i did like one character justin i believe the super smart one and it also had some very cheap ways to cover plot holes it was like trying to cover a volcano with cheap masking tape it was not pretty anyway if you see it wait for the theater or video unless you like pretty much every movie you see then i guess you ll like this one ',
'although not the best anime i have ever seen but i enjoyed lady death br br i have never read the comic book and just saw this at the video store and decided to give it a chance br br the animation was ok i got the sense of the s anime from it which is what set it off for me why everyone else hates that is beyond me br br character development was fine i like how they brought the transition from hope to lady death around for you who don t like it obviously wasn t paying attention lucifer tells you how it happens and she used his words br br creamtor was a nice mentor soldier for her his dark bruiting style was perfect for this kind of movie br br i think everyone here who has bashed this needs to take another look at it and reconsider cause everything people have bashed this can be said about everyones favorite anime vampire hunter d ',
'at first the movie seemed to be doing great they had the characters profiles set the plot seemed to be going in the right direction however as the movie progressed it seemed the director focused on the wrong kind of things or just a lot was edited from the movie the characters identities changed for the worse within the movie also there seemed to be a lot of implicit meaning in other words they had things within the movie that didn t seem to fit the movie itself and the title no where in the movie does the title fit the movie i suppose the title works for the previews actors did well with what they had if they had a better director and writer maybe this would have worked out better but it didn t so now there s a new terrible movie coming out this friday my opinion don t waste your time or money ',
'rented this one accidentally it was behind the movie box of what i thought i was renting didn t find out until i got home watched it anyways absolutely fantastic a wonderful movie and one of my top three favorite of all time i recommend it to everyone br br the story is enjoyable and easy to follow this could have been easily messed up but the actors and director do a great job of keeping it together br br the actors themselves are fantastic displaying wonderful character and doing a terrific job br br gotta find a copy somewhere ',
'so i m wondering while watching this film did the producers of this movie get to save money on sandra bullock s wardrobe by dragging out her before clothes from miss congeniality did ms bullock also get to sleepwalk through the role by channeling the before gracie hart as many reviewers have noted before the film is very formulaic add to that the deja vu viewer experiences with the character of cassie maywether as a somewhat darker gracie hart with more back story and it rapidly become a snooze fest br br the two bad boy serial killers have been done before and better in other films as has the good guy partner trying to protect his partner despite the evidence character been seen before in fact none of the characters in the film ever get beyond two dimensions or try to be anything but trite stereotypes br br one last peeve using the term serial killer is false advertising murdering one person even if it s a premeditated murder does not make you a serial killer you may have the potential to become a serial killer but you are not a serial killer or even a spree killer ',
'in my years of attending film festivals i have seen many little films like this that never get theatrical distribution and they end up in the bins at walmart i just found dvd of yank tanks there great doc but how sad for it to end up as a rock bottom remainder br br i loved this film wish i d seen it at the cinema in it s everything i d have preferred that new yorker films had translated the title directly it s good for americans to stretch a little if the film s title helps the us audience to explore random chaos all the better cinema imitates life visa versa br br also i found it distracting that the subtitles put prices in dollars come on the euro is not hard to figure out make the gringo audiences do the math seeing a film especially one shot in paris the viewer should not have the effect spoiled by being reminded i am an american watching a movie and they are translating the euros into dollars for me br br looking forward to seeing more of these actors and more from the writer director as well ',
'from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson s ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully s michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate ',
'this film has renewed my interest in french cinema the story is enchanting the acting is flawless and audrey tautou is absolutely beautiful i imagine that we will be seeing a lot more of her in the states after her upcoming role in amelie ',
'alfred hitchcock invented any kind of thriller you could think ofhe set the standards so high that any director who makes a suspense movie will be fatally compared to him br br the main subject of this bullock vehicle all the ideas almost everything was already in hitchcock s classic rope the two students who commit a gratuitous crime nietsche s philosophy and the clues that the boys disseminate the master was the first to transfer them to the screen and with an eighty minute movie which was a technical riveting tour de force br br murder by numbers does not take place in a single room like the rope mind you and what a supreme originality it pits two cops against the evil youngstersand you would never guess it these two cops are very differentactually bullock plays the part of woman living like a man and her partner chaplin is as shy as a clueless girlie the two boys performances are not really mind boggling not as good as say that of edward norton in primal fear br br well you know rope was so good ',
'seldom do we see such short comments written by imdb filmgoers perhaps it s because this lightweight dark comedy entertains and pleases without depth or are we missing something i d watch it again if i had some incentive br br so what s a happenstance to the french it is le battement d ailes du papillon serendipity fate perhaps it s an event that is the culmination of a series of random happenings we ve all had these it s called life but when looked at in this way you begin to get the feeling that random might be more like fated br br a happenstance in this film might be an occurrence as minor as knocking a few leaves of lettuce off the back of a truck or as major as basing a major life decision on the accuracy of a stranger tossing of a pebble all these incidents cause other events that well you get the picture dominoes multiply those by characters and an average of each and you have to really stretch your imagination to accept the remote chance that this scenario could happen and i think that there s a diagnosis for those who believe that life is like this but then this is the magic world of cinema br br we admit that it is fun to watch the way the writer director weaves together these unrelated events into a story which enmeshes the lives of these french citizens if you have a couple of hours and are looking for a whimsical escape here s the place to do it or if you re recovering from surgery and aren t going anywhere anyway this will engage you while your stitches are healing br br happenstance will not go down as an award winner but it should develop a cult following stranger things have happened br br soren kierkegaard is attributed with the following life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward if you looked at the detail in many of your own life experiences meeting your first love finding the perfect gift your last auto accident you would find a series of seemingly random events leading up to it br br that s the answer i forgot to bring along an existentialist to explain happenstance to me ',
'there s something frustrating about watching a movie like murder by numers because somewhere inside that hollywood formula is a good movie trying to pop out however by the time the credits roll there s no saving it the whole thing is pretty much blown by the cop side of the story where sandra bullock and ben chaplin s homicide detective characters muddle through an awkward sexual affair that becomes more and more trivialized the longer the movie goes on although bullock is strong in her role it s not enough to save the lackluster script and lazy pacing ben chaplin s talents are wasted in a forgettable role he did much better earlier in the year in the underrated birthday girl as well as chris penn who has a role so thanklessly small you feel sorry for a talent like him anyway the plot really isn t even a factor in this movie at all the two teen killers played by ryan gosling and michael pitt are the only real reasons to see this movie their talent and chemistry work pretty good and they play off of each other quite well it s too bad they weren t in a much better all around film barbet schroeder is treading way too safe ground here for such a seasoned filmmaker bottom line it s worth a rent if you re a genre fan but everyone else will live a fulfilled life without ever seeing it except maybe on network tv with convenient commercial breaks ',
' happenstance is the most new york feeling parisian film i ve seen since when the cat s away chacun cherche son chat br br a film from last year released now to capitalize on the attention audrey tatou is getting for amelie its french title is more apt le battement d ailes du papillon the beating of the butterfly s wings as in summarizing chaos theory as a controlling element in our lives br br tatou s gamine ness is less annoying here because she only occasionally flashes that dazzling smile amidst her hapless adventures and because she s part of a large multi ethnic ensemble so large that it took me a long time to sort out the characters especially as some of the cute guys and older women looked alike to me and some of the characters fantasize what they should do such that i wasn t sure if they were doing that or not br br but i loved how urban the coincidences were from immigrants to love nests to crowded subway cars to hanging around cafs br br the subtitles quite annoyingly gave both parts of a dialog at once br br originally written ',
'having been pleasantly surprised by sandra bullock s performance in miss congeniality i decided to give murder by numbers a shot while decent in plucky self effacing roles ms bullock s performance in serious roles see hope floats speed days leave much to be desired her character is at the same time omniscient confused and sexually maladjusted the sub plot of sandra s past comes across as needless filler that does little to develop her already shallow character the two teenage boys gave decent performances although their forensics expertise and catch me if can attitude is belied by stupid errors that scream we did it chris penn as the all too obvious suspect is wasted here as is ben chaplin s token partner love interest character br br spoilers ahead mediocre acting aside the biggest flaws can be traced to a tv of the week plot that never has you totally buying into the murder motives in the first place and as mentioned the stupid errors vomiting up a rare food on the murder scene an all too convenient and framing of the school janitor the two boys hanging out together in public a convenient love interest to cause friction etc etc cause the view to go from being intrigues to being bored and disappointed by the murderers the ending was strictly by the numbers and was probably the most disappointing aspect of the movie using the now cliched tactic of almost showing the climactic scene at the beginning of the film and then filling the audience in how we arrived at that moment the final scenes surprise no one and lacked any of the so called intelligence the film purported to arrive at it s conclusion a somewhat promising concept but poorly executed and weak in nearly every way out of ',
' stargate sg follows the intergalactic explorations of a team named sg through a device called the stargate and all the surprises awaiting on the other side of the wormhole br br having seen this series sporadically for it s first few seasons when it first came out i didn t know how good this series would really be years after i had last seen an episode my old impression was that the series was great but my impression was far from the truth stargate sg is more than just a simple sci fi series it is one of the most well made interesting long running exciting sci fi ever produced and why because it runs on an amazing premise br br this series value far surpasses that of the movie it was based on and i think it is a very good example that television as a medium with a suitable premise is able to provide something that doesn t work on the time restriction of film the sense of familiarity created by a long running series watching the characters and their circumstances progressing with time is stunning and just adds to the ability to suspend disbelief and it s all a result of terrific writing and a lot of dedication by the all crew to the show br br stargate sg kept offering great adventures throughout the years but was never afraid of the challenge of moving the plot and it gave way for some very different time periods of the show br br the first few seasons perhaps up to the th th focused a lot more on the exploration of planets and different situations keeping the episodes fairly unrelated to each other if it were not for the always impending goaul d threat br br from the th to the th there was increasingly more episodes focusing on fighting the goaul d and preventing attacks on earth after this seasons exploration of the planets was almost only an excuse for putting sg in a place of goaul d replicator ori conflicts br br the th season is probably the most mixed one it has a stream of episodes that includes minor earth matters in which the stargate is hardly even mentioned but the last episodes feature some great replicator moments br br the th and th travel together because they have the same new enemy and no jack o neil they are both good continuations although the first few episodes of the th season are a little weak because they seem to be about little more than sg and human jaffa losing battle after battle to the ori br br basically after season exploration was pushed to the background which in many ways was a shame because of the potential and mystery each planet episode presented on the other hand it made for so many great episodes of the ongoing conflicts that the change of nature of the show still worked and shows how great and bold the writers were br br even tough i believe the series have a high quality ending that nicely puts it to rest the feeling i have is that it could go on the people involved were all great professionals and the series narrative had plenty to offer a last season returning to the beginning nature of the series was very doable and would have been most welcome but ultimately things are as they are br br in the end because of the fact that i enjoyed everything it s a little hard to find that it ends the big picture however the one drawn by the work of hundreds of people over the course of years is a sight of beauty and a true testament to the dedication of the crew those outstanding actors and the characters the we will always remember as a collective by the name of sg ',
'lets enter the world of this movie for a second so you can better understand the type of movie we are dealing with here br br edison is one of those really stupid movies where the bad guy and his goons have been letting loose bullets shooting at the good guy behind walls and pillars shouting at them and then finally get to the good guy face to face and instead of killing him instead of wasting this guy that has caused you so much grief instead of just walking up and pop what do you do the bad guy he talks to him he grabs the good guy and talks to him while holding his gun they have nothing to talk about shoot him shoot him now but he talks to him anyway oh another thing at the end a newspaper says pulitzer prize winner story right here or something right above on a front page of a paper when its like the first time the story is printed so how in the heezy did someone win a pulitzer for it that fast yea you know those types of stupid movies yea well that s edison in a nutshell br br you get mr cool morgan freeman and shifty eyed tough kevin spacey who both phone in their roles completely ll cool j who scowls literally every single moment of the movie while proposing to his girlfriend in a damn night club of all places and who s last line duck was something from like a lethal weapon movie that was never made and justin timberlake whining and spewing nonsense every time he talks little cocky bastard the only bright spot was a crazy dylan mcdermott doing his best denzel from training day impression which was pretty entertaining br br oh yea so whats the movie about eh something about scandals involving the city edison s fictional special unit police force called f r a t i swear i m not making this stuff up which was supposed to be a obvious play off of s w a t anyway little journalistic super singer boy justin timberflake smells something foul afoot after a murder involving undercover cops from frat and he goes scurrying off looking for a story gaining his boss freeman trust along the way while they both unravel something even bigger and sinister than what they both thought blah blah blah its like a bootleg pelican brief meets a halfassed training day the pacing was slow and off the script was horrible and the acting was extremely uninspired it jumped everywhere without going anywhere people get put in comas and you forget about them everyone in this movie just didn t think damn what a stupid movie its becoming harder to write any sort of review for it because the movie left my brain the second it ended no lie basically do not waste your time ',
'this isn t exactly a great film but i admire the writers and director for trying something a little different the film s main theme is fate and small seemingly insignificant things that can greatly change the future in some ways this reminds me of the film sliding doors though instead of focusing on one random event seemingly random stuff happens repeatedly and each one helps build to the cute conclusion plus an odd bald guy seems to understand all this and he talks about this during one brief scene like he s some sort of omnipotent being but there s absolutely no explanation of him in the film like the two guys that fight each other in the clock tower in the hudsucker proxy br br the dvd jacket shows just audrey tautou this is capitalize on her success in amelie though she is only one of many actors in the film and there is no one starring role the pace is brisk the acting fine and the conclusion isn t bad at all the only reason i didn t score it higher is that some of the characters were a bit uninteresting and i think the movie could have perhaps been tightened up with a few less subplots ',
'hard to believe that director barbet schroeder once did the majestic and very funny maitresse and now only seems to do by the numbers hollywood thrillers br br this is very lightweight john grisham material crossed with the plot of a tv movie bullock is cass mayweather a feisty and independent crime investigator specialising in serial killers ben chaplin is her reserved police partner sam kennedy and together they make an uncomfortable duo not good when two unbalanced college maladriots gosling and pitt decide to send them on a wild goose chase by planting very clever and misleading forensic evidence at a crime scene br br fair enough but while bullock and chaplin fail to create any sparks we also have to endure a several dull overly melodramatic flashbacks illustrating an important event in cass s history then of course there are the frequent shots of a cliff side log cabin where there s absolutely no doubt the ott ending will be set oooh the atmosphere br br watch any episode of csi instead it s to the point and far more exciting ',
'narratives whether written visual or poetic epics generally try to avoid too may characters readers and viewers after all can be too easily overwhelmed by trying to keep track of who exactly is who this is especially true in film i think simply because we cannot easily go back to refresh our memory in a cinema viewers like myself however don t have that problem because we see all our films on dvd or vhs br br a year ago i was introduced to audrey tautou a french actress whom i first saw in the fabulous destiny of amelie poulain and later in a very long engagement both of which were finely crafted and complex stories with a large cast of characters this earlier offering exceeds the others in both ways more characters and more complexity br br now other directors have used those techniques before robert altman with the player short cuts gosford park and others paul thomas anderson did the same with magnolia stanley kramer did it with a mad mad mad mad world in a comedy of almost epic proportions the difference with this film is first the director lets us see inside the head of some of the characters and second some scenes are repeated as means to refresh the viewer s memory as the story flip flops between different time periods br br the basic the core so to speak story concerns a young woman irene tautou who is told by a fellow commuter on a train that she will meet her true love on that day this occurs in the first few minutes of the film the clever irony at this point is that irene doesn t realize that the young man opposite gilbert robin may be that one true love and nor does he br br they go their separate ways with neither realizing the potential significance of their close encounter however chaos results throughout the rest of the day not only for the two young people but for the rest of the characters who appear in a series of cleverly constructed and interwoven vignettes that all seem to be going nowhere and yet br br if the story were simply that it could tend to be boring and even quite predictable not so the script and the director rip into our expectations with a host of innovative scenes that are all too commonplace but which are turned into believable extraordinary events that allow the two possible lovers to meet again for example the next time some bird poo from the sky drops onto a book or paper of yours consider your alternatives two characters make an obvious choice that must occur before irene and her man of destiny meet again or what about a stone chip flying onto your windscreen consider again what would happen br br all of that is interesting enough what was more interesting for me was assessing each new man who came along and trying to decide whether this guy was the one for irene or whether it was in fact the young man on the train that kept me guessing for a while br br i ll let you think about that should you see this delightful romp br br recommended for all ',
'except for acknowledging some nice cinematography i can hardly say anything positive about this movie the single real issue is the protagonist s dilemma whether to remain with his childhood friends in the world of misery or to leave them and take up his own life abundant emotionally powerful scenes do not go with this plot and because of bad acting they also fail to create the intended atmosphere the director only manages to introduce anthony s dilemma and eventually brings an easy solution the characters do not seem to evolve although it is difficult to speak of any characters perhaps except for sonny beside him actors do not get to play much and when some of them have to they come off as self indulging amateurs i wonder what ruined the movie more the superficial script throwing away all the potential of the plot or the bad acting disturbing any appeal that might be left ',
'this entire movie is worth watching just for the magnificent final moment its the best ending of any movie i ve ever seen perfect beautiful funny simply wonderful br br i found this movie delightful even with it s french taking itself too seriously deep meanings thing going on i loved it it s a great love story and i loved the way algerians were woven in and by the way the music during the final credits is great i want the cd ',
'they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot four young boys playing in grainy slow motion accompanied by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion once they re grown it s easy to spot the writer director among the four he s the quiet contemplative long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only there s no writing or directing talent on display here and if you still can t figure out which one he is here s a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school what looked like a prison was apparently a high school the warden turned out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hitting back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scenes badly out of focus cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience overacting in the extreme and if you don t quite get the self important speeches or the slow motion scenes just listen to the overbearing music it will clue you in and what you re supposed to feel poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies run over puppies chained to a tree rob and steal all the while complaining about their sad sorry lives but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah that s the ticket why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important so interesting that the world can t wait to see it onscreen if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants ',
'this whimsical film had the misfortune of being released at the same time of the highly popular amelie both having the wonderful audrey tautou playing the central role laurent firode the talented director made one of the most enjoyable films that have come out of france in recent memory br br the film deals with chance as its english title indicates the french title makes reference at how butterflies wings can create chaos over the atlantic as they fly as well as hurricanes in the pacific something not to be believed just by looking at these colorful insects from the start the director interlaces all the characters one sees in the film and how each has a connection to the other something that is hard to imagine but in the film s context seems to work well br br a chance meeting at the metro sets the tone for the film irene who is going to work is asked by the woman sitting opposite her to tell her what her zodiac sign is and proceeds to read from her paper irene it seems will cross paths and will find her soul mate that same day after irene leaves the train the quiet young man seated next to the woman tells her he has the same birth date as irene it seems they are destined to one another from the start but alas they will not reconnect until the last frame of the film br br audrey tautou is wonderful as irene faudel who plays younes doesn t have a lot to do until the end but he shows he has a presence and plays well his part the talented young cast makes a valuable contribution to the success of the film which is as light as butterfly wings br br we look forward to future films by laurent firode because he appears to be a director with the heart in the right place and an ear to the way humans are connected ',
'a lot of people seemed to have liked the film so i feel somewhat bad giving it a bad review but after sitting through minutes of it i feel i have to do so where the heck is the plot in this film i must have missed it i was waiting for the storyline to unfold and nothing happened sure the ending was somewhat shocking but they didn t build up to it i forgot who was who half of the time so they didn t really develop the characters the acting was so so most of the time it was believable but i was able to see through it most of the time so without giving anything away i must say that unless you like the actors in the film there is no real reason to watch this movie i could be mistaken but i just didn t understand why there was so little or too much of the film i can t decide which one that would be so i say judge for yourselves i don t even know if renting it would be a good idea the cost and all br br plot characters acting overall i feel like that s too high really i am staying with my vote up at the top ',
'to me this review may contain spoilers but i like watching movies with no idea of what is going to happen so therefore i think many of the other reviews here of this movie contain spoilers br br i just watched this movie again and i must reiterate that it has the best ending to any movie ever ever ever the real translation the beating of the butterfly s wings is oddly not used as the translated title i suppose they thought most americans wouldn t know what chaos theory is except for those who saw or read jurassic park the movie is based on chaos theory and how one small event can affect the outcome of seemingly unrelated events which all lead back to one event the movie is a whirlwind of wondrous cause and effect as we follow the chain of chaos as it intertwines between several characters about in a way the ending seems inevitable despite this but if you think about it it is a perfect ending think to yourself what else needed to be said it is at the same time a very brave ending too bad we have to go overseas for a gem like this one but an ending like this would never come out of hollywood br br ',
'dick foran and peggy moran who were so good together in the mummy s hand return for this very minor universal horror offering but this time instead of having wallace ford as the comedic sidekick babe we get fuzzy knight substituting as a silly buddy named stuff but the results are nowhere near as charming and the scare level is virtually nil br br dick is a businessman who gets the idea of spearheading a treasure hunt on a remote island inside a spooky old castle peggy is one of the gang who comes along for the ride but there is a tall and skinny john carradine lookalike in a black cape and big hat known as the phantom who crashes the party in pursuit of the buried fortune himself br br this phantom is not very mysterious and no effort is made to even try and keep his rather average guy face in the shadows to create any tension or spookiness it s always nice to see perky moran but otherwise you can chalk this up as one of universal s instantly forgettable misfires ',
'most people who chase after movies featuring audrey tautou seem to not understand that amelie was a character it is not really audrey tautou s real life personality hence every movie she partakes in is not going to be amelie part part etc br br now with that said i too picked up this movie simply because audrey was in it yes it s true there is a big gap after the first scene where she isn t seen at all for maybe min but i didn t even miss her because i was having so much fun with the other characters the guy who lies about everything is too funny the guy who justifies people who run out of his cafe and skip out on the bill by finding coupons and such which balance out the loss actually getting into all the characters here could take quite a while but this is one of the best movies i ve seen in a while br br audrey tautou s character irene is not the overdone sugary girl that amelie was in fact as irene her rudeness to a bum asking for change caught me off guard at first in this film irene is a girl with good intentions but over the course of a very awful day her disposition becomes more and more sour and pessimistic br br what makes this film completely great is you have all these really interesting stories and plots building very entertaining to watch great scenery and shots very colorful and never too slow and all of the characters can actually act the best part of the movie comes with about minutes left this is when all of the plots start to mesh together and the ride really picks up and everything ties together and makes sense and the whole butterfly effect blossoms i swear it was the best minutes of film i ve seen in quite a while and the ending it made me think damn i really lucked out finding this movie the ending to this movie is top notch whoever wrote the script for this is brilliant because not only are there all these other subplots going on but to somehow make them all tie in together and in a sensible manner which is the case here but also to make each character feel human and come alive not just some stale persona used as a crutch to build up this whole butterfly effect very impressive br br i highly suggest this movie as it s a great film to watch anytime in any mood with any company or alone ',
'a horribly pointless and worse boring film stranger than fiction has nothing new to say about anything no characters beyond the most unimaginative stereotypes and relies on a clunky central concept that is neither particularly original nor dealt with in a vaguely innovative way br br will ferrell is totally wasted in what he presumably hoped to be his answer to jim carey s truman show and substitutes his usual shouting routine admittedly very funny if you discount talledega nights for well pretty much nothing br br emma thompson is no more than mildly irritating that some reviews i ve read here are talking her up for an oscar nomination is laughable whilst maggie gyllenhaal does a passable job with a very weak script that allows nothing beyond establishing her character as a former law student who dropped out of harvard to become a baker because she liked making people happy please that she ended up falling for ferrell s character is utterly ludicrous br br marc forster s attempts to jazz up the film using computer graphics only serve to highlight the uninspired the material he has to work with br br i had the choice of either going to watch the prestige for the third time or seeing this i wish i d opted for the prestige ',
'the mystery here is why this delightful small comedy has been ignored by most critics and has failed to find the audience it deserves simply showcasing the budding talent of audrey tautou should be enough to generate greater recognition from the cognoscenti br br lacking in pretension and relying on quirky characterizations its rumination on the interconnection of human behavior manages to be both amusing and life affirming and unlike some of its more critically acclaimed competition in the genre such as the taste of others it actually entertains ',
'stranger than fiction angered me so much i signed up on imdb just to write this review stranger than fiction is a surprisingly complex touching and thought provoking movie until the very end once you suspend multiple lapses of logic why didn t will ferrell hear emma thompson s voice years ago when she fist started writing her book the phone rang the phone rang again how could she not know it s him calling etc the movie challenges one s thoughts about mortality fate and sacrifice br br the brief history of literary themes provided by dustin hoffman should especially entertain former english majors and maggie gyllenhaal is always a pleasure even though will ferrell might just as easily be an ax murderer as a bumbling soul her quick trust of him is a mighty big leap of faith br br ah but the ending until the very end i would have given out of stars to this movie the movie as a metaphor for life s journey as a tribute to the notion of writing true as a reminder that great literature is either comedy or tragedy but not both is outstanding the entire movie leads the viewer to understand and accept the moment of will ferrell s fate and no matter how endearing a character he may have become we know full well why we will accept the ending the last act occurs the screen goes white the credits roll a profound and powerful end to an almost perfect film an end that would have been debated for weeks br br no no credits rolled say it isn t so say hollywood didn t tack on another minutes of crap that completely undermined the integrity and heart of the movie dustin hoffman got it right when he said it s no longer a masterpiece it s ok an apt review of the movie except to me it wasn t even ok i was so offended about the betrayal of writing true about the decision to pander the film that i actually burst into angry tears explaining this on the ride home from the movie i don t often cry i could care less about most movies but i am still angry about this one br br my questions for zack helm the writer are this did the original movie end when the screen went white and were you forced by the vapid movie powers that be to tack on an ending unfaithful to the core of the movie or did you tack that maudlin ending on yourself i ve read you re brilliant i hope your original script ended the movie the first time br br i know zack helm will never see this review and i ve been unable to find a contact for him to ask myself but please movie goers am i the only one who feels this way about stranger than fiction one good thing came from me seeing this movie i doubly admire lost in translation now ',
'the fluttering of butterfly wings in the atlantic can unleash a hurricane in the pacific according to this theory somehow related to the chaos theory i m not sure exactly how every action no matter how small or insignificant will start a chain reaction that can lead to big events this small jewel of a film shows us a series of seemingly unrelated characters most of them in paris whose actions will affect each others lives the six degrees of separation theory can be applied as well each story is a facet of the jewel that is this film the acting is finely tuned and nuanced audrey tautou is luminous the stories mesh plausibly the humor is just right and the viewer leaves the theatre nodding in agreement ',
'a badly acted two character comedy drama abruptly transmogrifies into a weren t we awful to the indians polemic with lousy special effects exploitative use of nudity and ugly violence it s as sincere as a politician s handshake as obvious as a car salesman s pitch one of the worst movies in the history of the universe absolute and utter dreck ',
'we have to remember that the s were practically a blank slate when it came to movies hollywood was in transition from patriotic war movies noir two reel oaters etc to movies with a message we had blackboard jungle on the waterfront and so on some folks might think that was an improvement i don t who was the mogul who said if you want to send a message call western union he was right these psychological thrillers are less entertainment than some kind of remote therapy br br this one is a pip it s about three sisters trying to wrest control of their dead father s estate one of them maybe the only one worth redemption enlists the aid of the company pilot to help her keep the rest of the family at bay he s initially in it for the bucks but eventually falls for her meanwhile the rest of the family schemes to sabotage the romance the results are predictable you get a little bit of everything in this movie sexual tension between the sisters a little subtle masochism hereditary insanity if there is such a thing we never get to meet the parents but they must really have been screwed up the cast is practically unknown one or two of the actors sound vaguely familiar the acting is so bad it s hard to believe it was released under the united artists umbrella by a company called bel air productions it was shot in and around la mostly at night and probably without permits the end was so bizarre that i thought it was a joke it was as if they ran out of money and the producer decided to wrap it up in the middle of a scene br br i can t explain it not even to myself but i gave this pile of trash an i m familiar with the term it s so bad it s good but i don t think i ever ran into the phenomenon before well maybe hot rods to hell but this one certainly fits you might want to try this if you love movies that seem like they were made in somebody s basement ',
'spoilers contained br br i d heard from various sources that this film was controversial and that the ending in particular was horrific what i didn t expect was the complete change in tack with about twenty minutes to go what starts off as a typical cowboy indian western suddenly descends into a very dull romantic comedy about honus soldier blue of the title played by peter strauss and cresta candice bergen who escape an onslaught of the cavalry by the cheyenne the majority of the film then focuses on these two mismatched people hence the romantic comedy bit donald pleasance then turns up and abducts them both for no real apparent reason they then escape and both turn up separately at the cavalry base on the eve of an attack on the cheyenne base as cresta used to be married to one of the cheyenne chiefs she escapes the cavalry base and joins up with them so far so ordinary then comes the ending after enduring well over an hour of poor acting involving a cliched will they won t they get together storyline the movie then transforms into over the top exploitation involving among other things a decapitation and a child being shot in the back of the head similarities can be drawn with the wild bunch at this point of the film but the wild bunch kept the same tone throughout and didn t resort to extreme gratuitous violence in some ways soldier blue reminds me of frank perry s last summer which also completely changed tack for a shock ending i didn t hate soldier blue nor find the ending particularly disturbing but just found it to be pretty dull with an unnecessarily violent ending if you want to see a film with a truly disturbing slaughter of the innocents i would recommend elem klimov s come and see ',
'when a rich tycoon is killed in a plane crash his spinster twin sister martha craig madge kennedy doesn t believe he grabbed the controls in a suicide dive even though self snuff runs in the family but his three beautiful daughters couldn t care less the pilot jim norton john bromfield goes to work for valerie craig kathleen hughes who soon coerces him into helping her wrest control of the estate from her troubled sister lorna sara shane and the family lawyer jess barker valerie wants norton to seduce lorna when he s not fending off the advances of another sister the nymphet vicki marla english but her plans are thrown into a tailspin when norton falls for his prey all bets are off as a world of woe including corporate chicanery seductions suicides blackmail a murder plot the mann act double crosses disfigurement and poetic justice befall craig manor an imposing mansion on a bluff overlooking the sea br br this preposterous potboiler would have made a perfect second feature for written on the wind also from douglas sirk s saga of a powerful and powerfully dysfunctional oil clan was said to have inspired the s night time tv serial dallas but the craig s low brow excursion into insanity seems right out of it s sinful sister soap dynasty all three siblings only one of whom is really bad are great beauties but it s kathleen hughes cartoon villainy that stands out valerie is relentless in her quest to inherit the family fortune and her unbridled enthusiasm for evil is one of the movie s many guilty pleasures teenage sister vicki is quite a piece of work as well reminiscent of carmen sternwood in the big sleep when they first meet she pulls the equivalent of trying to sit on norton s lap while he s still standing by coming on to him with the line i graduated summa cum laude from embrace able u whew br br three bad sisters produced by schlockmeister howard w koch is a terrific trash wallow in exploitation excess and the cast is b movie heaven marla she creature english s hunk john revenge of the creature bromfield once married to french sexpot corinne calvet universal starlet sara shane discovered by hedy lamarr jess mr susan hayward barker kathleen it came from outer space hughes and former silent screen star madge kennedy give it all they ve got however much or little that is future eurotrash star brett halsey trumpet of the apocalypse is seen briefly as one of vicki s victims br br b movie rating marla and her body english made marvelous movies three bad sisters was recently seen on the big screen as part of the palm springs film noir festival but the jury s still wiping soap suds out of aw hell it s noir on the noirometer ',
'soldier blue is a movie with pretensions pretensions to be some sort of profound statement on man s inhumanity to man on the white man s exploitation of and brutality towards indigenous peoples a biting unflinching and sardonic commentary on the horrors of vietnam well sorry but it fails miserably to be any of those things what soldier blue actually is is pernicious trite badly made dishonest rubbish br br another reviewer here hit the nail on the head in saying that it appears to be a hybrid of two entirely different movies what it is basically is a lame clichd poorly acted odd couple romance strauss and bergen overcoming their prejudices about the other s lifestyle and falling in love ah bless bookended by two sickening massacres which wouldn t have been out of place in a lucio fulci splatter flick br br there is no excuse for the repulsive prurient gore drenched climax in which cute little native american children are variously shot sliced dismembered and impaled in loving and graphic close up and large breasted native american women are molested raped and strung up no excuse that is except box office the massacre itself whilst repulsive in its misplaced intention is very badly staged and shot a bunch of actors lying around with bright red paint smeared on them intercut with a few special effects sequences of beheading dismemberment dismemberments incidentally which utilised real amputees in their filming now that s what i call exploitation br br forget all the pap you ve heard including the ludicrous commentaries that begin and end the movie about this being a protest an indictment of american brutality towards the native peoples this film doesn t give a stuff about the plight of the cheyenne had it done so it would have featured some involving native american characters would have led us to get to know and to care about the nameless faceless innocents who get slaughtered at the climax instead what we get is the silly white bread romance of bergen and strauss lousy actors both in this at least with plenty of blood guts and severed heads thrown in to attract the curious br br which is a terrible shame because there is a movie to be made about the sand creek massacre about all of the real life massacres the us and britain and all so called civilised nations have participated in over the centuries iraq this just isn t that movie ',
'the first and second seasons started off shakily with good episodes sandwiched in between average ones and at times resorting to clichd stories but once it started to set up the universe in which it exists and started to develop it s characters more it became a lot more fun and entertaining br br the main reason this show succeeds it because of four men richard dean anderson peter deluise joseph malozzie and paul mullie richard s dry sense of humour makes to show so much better peter s directing is excellent and makes any episode so much more entertaining and joe paul never fail to make a funny interesting episode together br br once you understand what the show is about and get to know the characters i doubt you won t like the show for those getting into the show i suggest the episodes the other side a good serious episode and window of opportunity a classic comic relief episode ',
'the movie started off strong ll cool j deed as an undercover police officer with partner sgt lazerov dylan mcdermott from the practice possibly miscast as a bad guy committing robbery and murder deed refuses to kill the drug dealer which sets up the conflict of a dirty cop with a conscience the other big names freeman spacey et al are well cast and the movie shows promise br br the movie begins to fall short as soon as justin timberlake pollack is introduced given the opportunity to make a good movie that people will possibly see repeatedly or one that teenage girls will go and see the once because of timberlake i would choose the former even talented actors have to work hard at their craft timberlake is not talented and no amount of hard work can save him i would have thought he would put on a better show given the fact that he has been acting talented for years everything he did in this film was unconvincing br br just because a singer sells millions of records and sells out stadiums it does not automatically translate that they can act successfully in feature films even hardcore n sync fans will not be able to ignore the obvious lack of acting talent br br that aside there are a few plot holes such as pollack s sudden sniper ability and deadly operation of warehouse machinery this movie had so much promise thoroughly disappointing ',
'that hilarious line is typical of what these naughty sisters say it s funny on its own terms and pretty funny unintentionally too only two of the sisters are really bad boy are they bad too one is given to pinup poses and salacious comments where e er she goes the other is got up to look like marilyn monroe she has those sensual slightly parted lips and not to give anything away she is even more bad than the other br br all three sisters are played by starlets the man who stumbles into their lives is played by john bromfield he had something of a career br br this looks today like possibly the first mainstream soft core porn ever marketed well of course not the first but the raciest at that time br br the girls wear as little as possible and let s not forget about the female audience members bromfield is shown shaving with an electric razor whose fetish was this bare chested he also is shown sopping wet in a swimsuit br br there s a real plot here too the girls family see is cursed they are prone to suicide or dramatic deaths that can be made to seem like suicide br br the movie is not bad i truly don t know where it was shown maybe it was made for drive ins somehow and i could be wrong i felt that the typical male audience was not the primary target here the women are scantily dressed they often resemble lurid covers of mags like police detective or jackets of dime novels br br but the guy seems to be the central focus not everyone in the movie likes him but all the girls love him and i think the audience is meant to also br br it s lots of fun and on its own terms too ',
'first of all this film can be divided into three segments a promising opening with the ambushing of some cavalry by the cheyenne this is followed by what can only be described as a long boring middle section with the totally miscast candice bergen and soldier blue traveling together to reach the safety of an army garrison miss bergen spews forth inappropriate four letter words every time she opens her mouth and looks like she just walked out of a s jack nicholson movie i mean she maintains zero interest with zero believability the third and final section involves the totally gratuitous slaughter of an indian village this is so obviously overdone to lay on the anti war propaganda that it comes across as simply long outrageous and contrived not recommended merk jacobe comment above here s an idea why don t you actually watch the movie you are commenting on instead of chirping your liberal nonsense this is not a political site it is for reviewing films merk ',
'faith and mortality viewed through the lens of an elderly ashkenazi jewish american gentleman and a younger african american jewish gentleman who waver between being at odds with each other and having frank talks about how their lives have unfolded over the years br br mostel s character is a tailor with chronic back problems and a terminally ill wife belafonte s character is a career hustler never settling on a regular job and a fatal car accident leaves him in an odd purgatory he must convince mostel to renew his faith as it has been failing along with his wife s health and his own but belafonte s levine has his own problems still pining for the girlfriend he left behind br br belafonte s character leaves the film before he seemingly should and so the the ending is cryptic and the film suffers somewhat from its ambiguous ending br br this is not a typical hollywood movie on ethnic relations or about a person s crisis of faith it is worth watching more than once and appreciating the excellent performances of the principal actors ',
'when sam peckinpah s superlative the wild bunch opened the door to outrageous displays of graphic cinematic ultra violence it did so with a talented if whisky marinated hand guiding the camera and had a compelling story with characters who had actual depth but in no time flat there were scores of imitators that fell far from the benchmark set by peckinpah s epic and soldier blue definitely falls into that category br br soldier blew er blue tells the story of foul mouthed new yorker cresta lee candice bergen a blonde proto hippie chick who s been rescued from two years of captivity among the cheyenne and is now being sent to a fort where she ll be reunited with the fiance she only wants to marry for his money also on board the wagon she s traveling in is a shipment of government gold cash the cheyenne need to buy guns with so in short order the soldiers are wiped out and cresta flees to the hills accompanied by honus gant peter strauss the lone surviving cavalryman calling gant by the snarky nickname soldier blue cresta demonstrates that her years among the savages was time well spent outstripping gant in survival skills common sense and sheer balls and over their journey toward the fort they must persevere against the elements a band of hostile kiowa an unscrupulous trader played by donald pleasance here giving one of his most ridiculous performances and that s saying something and in the tradition of many previous western set romantic comedies each other br br during the course of their misadventures the two opposites are inevitably and predictably attracted to each other and eventually end up getting it on while gant has a freshly treated bullet wound that went clean through his leg no less in what was surely the only conveniently located cave for at least a twelve mile radius that wasn t filled with rattlesnakes mountain lions or who knows what to say nothing of the cheyenne who could have done something really spiffy with such a primo apartment there i go thinking in nyc real estate terms again br br realizing that their love could never flourish outside of the cave cresta leaves gant and makes it to the fort by herself only to discover that the moron in charge won t spare a couple of men so they can rescue gant the regiment needs all available personnel to launch an attack on the nearby cheyenne village and once cresta gets wind of that she slips past her obnoxiously horny hubby to be and makes a beeline straight to the cheyenne to warn them of what s coming br br what happens next is what gained the film its infamy it turns out that all the wacky misadventures and squabbling were all just a lead in to a hideous reenactment of the sand creek massacre an orgy of rape torture and general sadistic evil perpetrated in the name of keeping the country clean and almost forty years after its release this sequence still disturbs and nauseates for its sheer cruelty children are trampled beneath the hooves of charging horses or impaled on bayonets unarmed people are beheaded a nice effect i have to admit women are stripped and pawed by gangs of slavering brutes then raped and mutilated in one truly sickening instance a naked native woman puts up too much of a fight so her rapist instead decides to cut off her breasts which we thankfully only see the start of before the camera moves on to chronicle some other hideous act and scores of innocent people are shot and dismembered their compone nt parts impaled on pikes and waved about in victorious celebration or kept as the most ghoulish of souvenirs no joke this scene would instantly garner an nc rating if released today to say nothing of possibly spurring native american interest groups to riot in the streets over the incredibly exploitative manner in which the atrocities are depicted br br i m all in favor of westerns that don t shy away from honest portrayals of how the west was won or stolen if truth be told but this film has no idea of what kind of movie it wants to be one minute it s a heavy handed pseudo hippy lecture about how the treatment of the natives was totally effed up well duh then it s a light hearted battle of the sexes farce wherein cresta proves herself five times the man gant is and manages to look hot in her tasty red calico poncho with no undies but that all goes out the window when donald pleasance shows up with an unintentionally hilarious pair of buck toothed dentures and our heroes must figure out how to escape from his murderous clutches in a sub plot that goes nowhere all of which culminates in the aforementioned apocalyptic climax any one of those tacks would have been okay for a coherent film but the end result is a slapdash mess that milked the horrors of its final ten minutes for all they were worth in the film s promotion and poster imagery br br but by trying to be all things to all audiences soldier blue ends up as an incoherent preachy mulligan stew of presumably well intentioned political correctness but if they were going to tell the story of the sand creek massacre wouldn t it have been a good idea to have some indian characters who were more than just walk ons with murphy brown acting as their mouthpiece we get to know absolutely nothing of the people who get wiped out solely for what appears to be a crass ploy to lure gorehound moviegoers into seeing the most savage film in history if you like me were intrigued by the provocative ads and reviews that shower almost endless praise upon it for its daring to tell it like it was take my word for it and let soldier blue slowly fade into cinematic obscurity ',
'the unlikely duo of zero mostel and harry belafonte team up to give us some interesting performances and subject matter in the angel levine it s one interesting twist on the themes from it s a wonderful life br br zero is married to ida kaminsky and the two of them belong to a special class of elderly jewish poor in new york mostel used to be a tailor and proud of his trade but his back and arthritis have prevented him from working kaminsky is mostly bedridden he s reduced to applying for welfare in desperation like jimmy stewart he cries out to god for some help br br now maybe if he had gotten someone like henry travers things might have worked out differently but even stewart had trouble accepting travers but travers had one thing going for him he was over years off this mortal coil and all his ties to earthly things were gone god sent mostel something quite different the recently deceased harry belafonte who should have at least been given some basic training for angels before being given an assignment br br belafonte hasn t accepted he s moved on from life he s still got a lot of issues he also has a wife gloria foster who doesn t know he s passed on hit by a car right at the beginning of the film you put his issues and mostel s issues and you ve got a good conflict starting with the fact that mostel can t believe in a black jew named levine br br this was the farewell performance for polish jewish actress ida kaminsky who got a nomination for best actress in the shop on main street a few years back the other prominent role here is that of irish actor milo o shea playing a nice jewish doctor remembering o shea s brogue from the verdict i was really surprised to see and hear him carry off the part of the doctor br br the angel levine raises some interesting and disturbing questions about faith and race in this society it s brought to you by a stellar cast and of course created by acclaimed writer bernard malamud make sure to catch it when broadcast ',
'other than the great cinematography by the marvelous james wong howe in the battle scenes this film is a true stinker br br this is the second film that i ve seen in recent days directed by alexander korda the first was charles laughton s rembrandt it was so lousy that i shut it off this one i m afraid is not very much better br br flora robson is as ugly as ever as queen elizabeth perhaps her performance as the virgin queen was good for standards but when you compare it to that of a helen mirren it is absolutely no match in robotic fashion robson states her lines her battle message to the english troops is so lackluster in spirit br br even a dashing laurence olivier can t save this utter piece of boredom br br future wife vivien leigh is in a supporting role here and she doesn t really convey anything here to think that scarlett was years later br br it s a shame that history with the spanish armada is made out to be so boring in this film ',
'some spoilers br br i was pleasantly surprised to find the harsh criticisms acting dated dialogue unclear storyline unfounded belafonte is great as a brandoesque menacing swearing spirit who must earn his wings but is realistically ill equipped from his past life to do so he learns too late how empty his hustling materialistic life was without love mostel is likewise great as an anguished man with his dying wife fanny in spite of his prayers for a miracle his bitterness prevents him from accepting or believing in one the two social worlds the characters represent alternately collide and complement the other the result being hilarious and touchingly sad br br the perplexing ending is actually quite consistent with the rest of the film after looking everywhere for belafonte mostel looks up to see a falling feather and he frantically reaches for it as if he s finally willing to believe in angels and miracles but belafonte wasn t allowed to finish his miracle either to restore fanny s health or mostel s faith so he never got his wings the feather floats tauntingly out of mostel s grasp a metaphor for both men s live it s too late and you don t get a second chance like it s a wonderful life this movie is magical wonderful funny but terribly tragic ',
'i remembered the title so well to me it was a flora robson movie with olivier and vivien leigh in supporting roles and it had vincent massey s voice from behind whiskers well flora robson was great her next signature for me would be days at peking the same role but with different sumptuous gowns and the same voice as for the armada it was a subtext i like black and white films was everything done in elizbethan times at night it was talky and difficult to fathom at times i couldn t tell which was the love interest was it the spaniard or was it vivien leigh and i do not believe that elizabeth i would have been the brilliant strategist to recommend that fire ships be sent against the armada apparently it worked for the empire but not for the script this might have been more accurate historically but bette davis had more engaging scripts and i missed daylight ',
' and i do mean it if not literally after all i have not seen every movie ever created at least obviously among the ones the many i know br br the rule of thumb with imdb is this sometimes movies rated very highly for example the piece of kannes kompetition krowned korean kraap called oldboy can be truly bad but rarely a movie worth watching is actually rated under this movie very much worth watching is a disgrace br br true i give it a in protest the movie is not perfect its true rating should be an or a it has some acting flaws belafonte especially the script wanders around sometimes however what we have here is one of the greatest directors of all times the czech jan kadar directing two of the greatest actors of all time the beloved larger than life zero mostel and the sublime ida kaminska in an acting poetic moral tour de force a pair made in heaven it s true that this movie little flaws apart does not pander to the average audiences but those interested in watching an excellent while again not beyond criticism movie of the incomparable director who gave us the shop on the main street the best movie ever about holocaust should not miss this just because some silly imdb rating system decides that american beauty is better than the angel levine br br it isn t ',
'spoilers br br well the one line summary says it all melvilles le samurai is the original and there are elements of leon and they are better much better br br in the samurai alain delon is a lonely warrior professional killer who keeps a bird in cage and is stealing cars for his jobs with so much suspense in these scenes even the end is exactly the same the samurai seeks death in dignity and is getting shot with an empty gun in his hand the world has changed he realizes and there is no place for the samurai in it br br delon is not killing so many people like the ghost dog but i guess jarmusch liked leon very much or even desperado by rodriguez so he added this too and let me guess the girl will become a professional like ghost dog like natalie portman in leon br br so what was jarmusch thinking after all where is the unique the original thought in this movie br br i cant see the point in making carbon celluloid copies br br a rating by macaulay connor ',
'i got a good laugh reading all the idiotic comments for this film br br as it s obvious that those people who criticized the movie never seen it or were stupid enough to pay to see it br br the best reason to watch was on the elvira show a few years back elvira delivered the movie with as many laughs as one can br br it s an ok monster flick compared to the hundreds of horrendous american flicks made way better ',
'now i ll be the first to admit it when i say something that may be blasphemous or unfair so i would like to apologize in advance for my ranting about how much i disliked this movie br br that about sums it up too i disliked this movie to be more specific i disliked the concept of this movie the cinematography was good the mood was nice and the acting was satisfactory br br however the story is fatuous unacurate and misleading it is also offensive br br i am a quarter cree indian and for some reason i feel insulted on a personal level by the nature of whitaker s character first of all he s a black guy and this isn t a racist remark i swear the thought of a white hispanic or even native american swinging a katana on a rooftop offends everything that the katana represents the katana represents the soul of a samurai imbibed with the souls of his ancestors who guide and protect the samurai for ghost dog to use his guns instead of the katana is also an insult to the blade and the souls inside and where the heck did he get a katana anyway it must be one of those replicas which insults the samurai caste even more br br also ghost dog showed no honor near the end of the movie he shoots a bodyguard in the back through a window and then assassinates a man by shooting him in the face through a faucet drain not only is this a cowards way to kill an enemy it s more like a ninjas way silent assassins a group that samurais deny exists but hates none the less br br then he tries to kill his boss when he finds out his boss is a baddie you know what a true samurai does when he learns his master is proven bad or dishonorable he kills himself to prove that he would rather die then lower himself to the level of his doggish master br br everything about the character was a giant contradiction to the real code that all samurai adhere to bushido br br so we have great cinematography good ambiance and so so acting encompassing a satiricle plot and premise which unfortunately is the most important aspect of it making it an unsatisfactory overall film and an insult to everything a honorable bushi samurai holds dear br br bleah ',
'i was around when i saw this movie first it wasn t so special then but a few years later i saw it again and that time it made fun a lot br br i think the best parts of the film are yeti s body language and the special effects also br br if you wanna watch this movie don t wait for a hollywood made blockbuster even this film was made from approx dollars br br i ve a copy of it movie and video version as well but i don t think it had been ever shown in cinemas br br watch it enjoy it yeti for ever ',
' don t bother to watch this film would be better advice if you like marilyn monroe in her other roles this was a huge disappointment considering the great cast not just marilyn br br the story was just nothing certainly nothing like described on the vhs box of course there simply was no suspense precious little excitement and too many dull spots most of them trying to show why nellie monroe was so messed up this was not a good role for monroe even though i didn t need to see this character to know she could act some like it hot alone was good enough evidence for me but this role just didn t fit her and it s no surprise it wasn t one of her more popular films br br it s also too bad a film had the waste of the talents of actors like richard widmark anne bancroft elisha cook jr jeanne cagney donna cocoran and others br br summary it s not entertaining and entertainment is the name of the game ',
'most yeti pictures are fatally undermined by a grave paucity of energy and enthusiasm not so this gloriously bent batty and berserk over the top italian made shot in canada kitsch gut buster it s a wildly ripe and vigorously moronic ghastly marvel which reaches a stunning apotheosis of righteously over baked what the hell s going on crackpot excess and inanity br br a freighter ship crew discovers the body of a foot yeti that resembles a hirsute s disco stud complete with jumbo wavy afro perfectly preserved in a large chunk of ice they dethaw the beast jolt him back to life with electric charges grossly mistreat him and keep the poor hairy goliath in an enormous glass booth before you can say hey the filmmakers are obviously ripping off king kong our titanic abominable snowdude breaks free of his cage grabs the first luscious nubile blonde euro vixen the gorgeous pheonix grant he lays lustful eyes on and storms away with his new lady love the yeti gets recaptured and flown to toronto to be showed off to a gawking audience of course he breaks free again nabs the vixen and goes on the expected stomping around the city rampage br br the sublimely stupid dialogue sample line philosophy has no place in science professor cheesy far from special effects the horrendous transparent blue screen work and cruddy tonka toy miniatures are especially uproarious in their very jaw dropping awfulness clunky mis direction and a heavy handed script that even attempts a clumsily sincere is the yeti a man or a beast ethical debate all combine together to create one of the single most delightfully ridiculous giant monster flicks to ever roar its absurd way across the big screen better still we also have a few funky offbeat touches to add extra shoddy spice to the already succulently schlocky cinematic brew the vixen accidentally brushes against one of the yeti s nipples which causes it to harden and elicits a big leering grin of approval from the lecherous behemoth the vixen nurses the yeti s wounded hand while he makes goo goo eyes at her the yeti smashes windows with his feet while climbing a towering office building and the furry fellow even breaks a man s neck with his toes overall this singularly screwball and shamefully unheralded should be camp classic stands tall as a remarkable monolith of infectiously asinine celluloid lunacy that s eminently worthy of a substantial hardcore underground cult following ',
'this is a well worn story about a man who marries to escape the hangman s noose then sets about taming his reluctant bride it manages to be sexist and racist at exactly the same time we never find out for example why a woman who won the respect of an indian warrior is completely unable to fight back against her erstwhile husband or why the members of her team are so eager to get a real man in the saddle when she seems to have been taking care of things just fine on her own this only made sense in fifties hollywood br br there s a really stupid scene where she horsewhips him and he actually catches the whip the second time then yanks her off her horse never mind that the first time probably would have lost him an eye which would make it pretty hard to grab that whip then he prevails in a fight against her indian bodyguard where he spends the first two thirds of it getting beaten to a pulp that s some second wind later he successfully negotiates with some bloodthirsty indians as they all are in these flicks after they reject her now she s his squaw never mind that he has zero diplomatic skills and she s been negotiating with them for years and the way he keeps rejecting her attempts to seduce him just to keep her keen and keep her from getting a hold on him yeah right like the women are just throwing themselves at him all the way down the trail br br finally neither of the leads is convincing in their roles madison is just a jerk who gets unrealistically lucky fleming flips her hair and scowls a lot but is totally unconvincing as a fiery tomboy the only reason you d root for her is because you want to see madison get tied to a runaway horse and dragged over a cliff before the film s end the way that madison tames fleming is so predictable and has so few obstacles that it will irritate the heck out of you if you see women as anything but blow up dolls even if you do see them as dolls the total lack of suspense will bore you br br total waste of time even the scenery s kinda dull give this one a big miss ',
'being a giant monster fan me seeing yeti was an absolute must especially after hearing so much about it thanks to the good ol bootleg market i was able to find a copy pretty easily and was happily surprised upon watching that this flick was actually dare i say decent br br decent for what it is actually namely a cheesy giant monster flick it kicks in pretty quickly as yeti is found pretty much immediately and we get introduced to various characters they consist of some sleazy ones some good ones and a girl who is pretty much one of the most downright strikingly beautiful girls in any cheesy sci fi film by far br br yeti looks like a long haired guy straight out of the original woodstock concert and really he s not that bad of a dude especially after being introduced to the world in some kind of funky cage like thing godzilla he is not despite his rude awakening he doesn t even rampage actually he rarely destroys anything in the whole picture but kinda just looks puzzled while trying to figure things out yeti seems to understand english pretty nicely my copy was dubbed in english and he knows who the good guys and bad guys are br br however we want to see the giant yeti do his thing and he s pretty much in the whole movie and in typical low budget fashion he seems to change size a lot depending on the scene and there s even a bunch of the fake legs shots of him just standing there br br yes the special effects aren t the greatest but there are definitely some good ones here a scene where yeti smashes through a warehouse is done very well and in another he uses the windows of a building as ladder steps to climb down from the top of it shattering each window with his foot and often shocking the occupants inside in one sequence that really looks much much better than it should in such a bad movie br br yeti never stoops as low as say a p e does actually the only time it even comes close to genuine silliness is when the beautiful girl causes yeti s nipple to become erect and he lifts his eyebrow in an oh yeah baby manner but even this isn t that bad and kinda even gets a laugh out of the viewer br br the movie is pretty long for this kind of thing but surprisingly enough it doesn t get boring the story is actually good and just watching this utterly gorgeous actress on screen will make any male viewer happy br br yeti may not be in the upper echelon of giant monster flicks but it is definitely better than other king kong rip offs like a p e and queen kong by very far ',
'to be honest i had heard this was pretty bad before i decided to watch it but i m never one to let others influence my viewings in fact i m more likely to watch something out of defiance bullwhip had one thing going for me before the viewing anyway the fact that rhonda fleming and those gorgeous eyes was in it had me interested right away the picture isn t very good and is in fact very morally dubious all the characters are corrupt and shifty in one way shape or form all motivated by greed or egocentric victories this is all well and good if the surrounding film can do justice to a bunch of despicable people and create a taut climax shuddering picture sadly it doesn t and as the finale fills your eyes with sugar you can t help shouting out that you have been cheated into watching a pretty bad film nobody in the cast come out with any credit with lead man guy madison painfully wooden in the extreme br br not even the lovely rhonda can make me recommend this to anyone ',
'yeti deserves the star rating because it is the one of the greatest bad movies ever made i saw it at a midnight screening in l a and people were roaring and cheering at the insanity this movie is one of those cinematic trainwrecks where you think it cant get any stranger and then it does the millionaire who funds the project to thaw the yeti looks like chris penn and john goodman both poured into an ill fitting suit the guy playing the scientist is one of the worst actors to ever appear on screen and yes there is a mute boy who sorta kinda looks like a girl and he s mute ever since he survived a plane crash that killed both his parents hmmm maybe therapy for the kid then this hottie italian girl is seen by yeti once he thaws which takes forever and he is instantly in love with her what is one of the most hysterical things about the movie is that this giant yeti makes bedroom eyes at her it s like a large barry white trying to seduce a groupie in fact once the large yeti picks up the hottie and has her against his chest she accidentally touches the yeti s nipple and yes the film takes the time to show his large grey nipple get hard yikes of all yikes plus there s a collie dog in it because the italian producer must have heard that american audiences like dogs and he sorta kinda tried to get a lassie there s also this insane scene where the yeti eats a giant fish keeps the large fishbone and uses it to comb the italian girl s hair gee thanks yeti now my hair is smooth and smells like dead trout you re the best this film is more bizarre than something ed wood could have ever dreamt up if you are a fan of classic cinema crap seek this baby out ',
'i m basing this on my observations of one episode i saw last night i don t think i ll be watching again the acting was totally wooden the plot completely predictable the ending totally unrealistic i mean who would believe a million dollar judgment for the death of a recovering drug addict with terminal cancer the lead actor victor garber seemed so uncomfortable almost embarrassed in his role perhaps he realized how bad the writing was i fully realize that the drama offered this season is pretty poor but they can surely find better writers maybe they are outsourcing the writing to india or china i ll bet we won t be seeing this one next season ',
'stargate is the best show ever all the actors are absolutely perfect for there roles i love the connection between the characters if you have not seen this show i very highly recommend it although this program is compared to star trek a lot of the time it actually can t be because it is completely different i am a star trek fan but i would definitely rate this show well above any of the star treks unfortunately i live in new zealand and we do not get stargate on our tv so if i want to see it i have to buy the dvds and season is not out here yet so i can not see it for quite some time which is highly depressing however this program is very very good and is a must see but be warned it is highly addictive so in summery i love stargate and amanda tapping ',
'beginning with the poster featuring only morgan freeman and kevin spacey the entire movie was a fraud one stereotype after another this movie was about nothing or nothing new at least after minutes you realize that you ve just paid to see justin timberlake and ll cool j recite their way through another cop flick br br basically the story is about the corrupt system in some city all secretly supported by the backbone business and in town under the watchful eye of some hot shot politician the almighty and above the law organization is called frat and guess what they ve got a kick ass loony cop shooting and beating at will suspects girlfriends you name it frat cops are corrupt and greedy so they end up making mistakes that get discovered by a young and talented journalist one hour later after a series of unbelievably bad made shooting scenes and more stereotype lines everything ends happily and we get served the final line you can t beat the system bah don t see this waste of film roll freeman and spacey barely have min altogether ',
'people forget that there have been several king kong ripoffs congo king kong vs godzilla king kong they all ripoff one another but yeti stands on its own it only borrows one element from king kong and that is the animal s attraction with one female br br the yeti myth is based on bigfoot not like king kong and archeologists have been fascinated it at one time they did exist but there is no scientific data to prove it br br this movie is hard to find but its worth watching it the first time i watched it was on elvira s mistress of the dark shows in the early s it sent chills down my spine as a kid especially when the yeti got mad i saw it again around am on abc about to yrs ago seeing it again made me appreciate it more it has some overall good effects for its time and the story involves a mute boy and his dog and an evil businessman person who wants to kill the yeti for his own purposes also the music is pretty cool its very yeti like br br gianfranco parolini and the yetians creates a great monster like atmosphere br br vote and half out of ',
'happened upon a copy of this not mine and if i had spent my own money on this i d be finding those responsible and demanding it back all i can say is this would be a terrible student film any understanding of the medium of film is absent acting is god awful the story would have been rejected from the original twilight zone series as unoriginal and lame and the change in tone of the lead character s reaction to the ghost is laughable br br i can only agree that the glowing reviews of this film are from friends and family i m afraid it s not even entertainingly bad br br amateur in the extreme br br avoid avoid avoid ',
'here s another movie that should be loaded into a satellite fired into space and pointed in the direction of the galaxy andromeda to show distant possible civilizations the best of humanity this movie is so endearingly stupid and revealingly honest in being little more than a rip off of the already bad movie classic king kong from that it not only manages to upstage that film in terms of sheer belly laugh idiotic goofiness but successfully predicted much of peter jackson s miserable computer cartoon bearing the same name as far as a romance between the giant here a yeti and a gorgeous human female antonellina interlenghi of umberto lenzi s city of the living dead who is very easy on the eyes br br the film was made for kids so aside from some innuendo over fish bones and a bizarre nipple tweak to say goodbye you can forget about sex the yeti even has a sort of giant jock strap to cover up his monstrous package the result being even more amusing than anatomical correctness but as a trade off you do get a wacky old scientist two inquisitive kids tony kendall in a rare turn as a duplicitous bastard of a villain a helpful intelligent collie dog who gets to have her own adventure dog adventure movies were big in europe for a while and of course emerges as the hero at the end for saving the yeti who turns out to be the good guy glorious stuff like front end loaders decorated to look like giant ape hands a monster who s size literally changes scale from shot to shot some inappropriately horrible deaths that will make the carnage in godzilla vs the smog monster look tame by comparison crowd reaction shots a plenty made up of either spanish italian or canadian extras depending upon scene you can sort of tell where they were shooting from how the extras are dressed and some of the most enthusiastically staged but inept special effects work ever in a giant monkey movie br br it s here that the film won me over it s enthusiasm just for being made frank kramer is actually the same gianfranco parolini who brought the world sartana in and god s gun the year before this was a very important director in the spaghetti western and action adventure genre film scene from the s s and by the time of yeti he was probably delighted to get the work i would say that this is his most adventuresome movie ever or rather the one he took the most chances with and may have felt more comfortable taking those chances with the film aimed at kids families the movie has a kind of reckless abandon to the way it was made that renders the technical errors or inconsistencies totally meaningless or rather they are part of the fun and if the movie had been played seriously it wouldn t have worked which is exactly why peter jackson s movie sucked br br he forgot to have fun with the material and let it dictate the outcome using his army of stupid power macintosh pod people animators and with all it s faults clunkiness kramer s yeti is actually closer to the spirit of why we watch movies like this which is partly to see actors in ape suits tearing apart miniature sets on sound stages not seamlessly animated vapid hours of nothing other than hard drive space i d rank this up there with king kong versus godzilla and it curse of the great golem as one of the most enjoyably improbable giant rampaging monster movies ever because the movie looks so fake you can get over the story and just have fun watching stuff get wrecked trampled tossed about and smashed knowing that and armed with a fertile energetic enthusiasm for having the chance to make the movie parolini pulled out all the stops and delivers a full bodied adventure that might get a bit rough for some of the small tykes but is the first movie i will ever share with the grandkids someday when their stupid parents leave them with me for a weekend this is stuff for the ages and one of the most telling expressions of humanity to ever be committed to celluloid br br it s about ten minutes too long but who cares you only come around once and i d rather go out with a smile on my face ',
'frankly i m rather incensed that on the basis of the dazzling reviews attributed to steven smith i wasted nearly two hours on his debut offering have they all been written by his pals the action clunks along the music is irritating and over used the script is simply dire and the actors with the exception of the gardener mediocre at best i do think we should support the efforts of a young filmmaker but saying it s brilliant when it s not will surely only encourage him to make the same mistakes again i e continuing to write his own scripts and using the same actors for another venture yes it s his first film low budget etc i get it but it s also out there for members of the public to purchase and it s just not up to scratch ',
'having seen most of ringo lam s films i can say that this is his best film to date and the most unusual it s a ancient china period piece cranked full of kick ass martial arts where the location of an underground lair full of traps and dungeons plays as big a part as any of the characters the action is fantastic the story is tense and entertaining and the set design is truely memorable sadly burning paradise has not been made available on dvd and vhs is next to impossible to get your mitts on even if you near the second biggest china town in north america like i do if you can find it don t pass it up ',
'it s one of those dramas that s so bad that it almost hits the point of being very funny the script is absolutely dire direction appalling lighting purely armature the only thing letting it down from a true so bad it s good feel is that the sound design is only quite bad it adds no suspense to the story although trying hard but doesn t at least destroy any speeches there s continuity problems of seasons of out door shots throughout and finally last but not least the acting is appalling for a professional production it very much has the feel of a university media project you have to feel sorry for the sorry for anyone who had to put their names to this ',
'i have always been keen on watching hong kong movies but all of them failed to meet my expectations until now burning paradise doesn t contain the flat humor most hk movies have nor a second rate story line that has been dragged into the film the story is not complex but there are never scenes that are just there to fill some intelligent space the only truely intelligent martial arts film i have seen is crouching tiger but since hollywood is involved it is no true hk movie for me there are some incredible fight scenes in this movie from the first one which is one of the coolest i have ever seen yet so short to the last main scenes but mind there s also a lot of blood that flows people cut in half decapitated etc the production is pretty good and the special effects show that the fantasy of the writer can be fulfilled even though some shots must be pretty technical notice the sheet of paper that he throws and got pinned into a wall yep it s not tsui hark or john woo that made my favorite hong kong film it s ringo lam and i m sure as hell going to check out more from this director ace ',
'when thinking about captivity many words come to mind among them are uninteresting unentertaining unsuspensful unsexy unfathomable and unwatchable br br i used to hate those movies from the mid to late nineties that were basically ripoffs of scream but these new saw knockoffs are beginning to make those films look like classics they still pander to the same demographic that those other movies were so successful at doing but now they add a new level of degeneracy that make the twelve to fourteen year old girls they re aimed at feel like they re hardcore and hip br br this movie is a load of boring crap what the hell has happened to larry cohen his name hasn t been attached to anything good since even so i was still surprised to see that he had anything to do with something this bad was anyone surprised when the movie s love interest turned out to be one of the psychopaths did anyone not know it when they first saw him only someone who has never before in his or her life ever seen another movie ',
' br br burning paradise is a combination of neo shaw brothers action and ringo lam s urban cynicism when one watches the film they might feel the fight scenes are only mediocre in nature but that doesn t matter it s attitude and atmosphere that counts this great film has both always trying to be different than his contemporaries lam gives us to traditional heroes fong sai yuk and hung shi kwan and puts them in a raiders of the lost ark setting however these are not the light hearted comedic incarnations that you might see in a jet li movie instead these guys fight to the death with brutal results what makes the film even better is that anyone could die at anytime there is no holding back too bad they don t make films like this more often ',
'i ll keep this short thanks to greg for helping me to put this succinctly captivity is about a guy who drugs a girl s drink imprisons and tortures her then poses as a captive to have sex with her that is the single twist and punchline of the film it s torture as slow motion date rape and it s not even a good movie it s not so bad it s good it s just bad br br it should also be mentioned that among critics there is a spoiler code that they dare not break even though some were tempted to on this one because it is so vile why no one had the cojones to step up and say this is garbage and this is why is beyond me br br don t give your money to these poop peddlers ',
'an unusual film from ringo lam and one that s strangely under appreciated the mix of fantasy kung fu with a more realistic depiction of swords and spears being driven thru bodies is startling especially during the first ten minutes a horseback rider get chopped in two and his waist and legs keep riding the horse several horses get chopped up it s very unexpected br br the story is very simple fong and his shaolin brothers are captured by a crazed maniac general and imprisoned in the red lotus temple which seems to be more of a torture chamber then a temple the general has a similarity to kurtz in apocalypse now as he spouts warped philosophy and makes frightening paintings with human blood br br the production is very impressive and the setting is bleak blood is everywhere the action is very well done and mostly coherent unlike many hk action scenes from the time sometimes the movie veers into absurdity or the effects are cheesy but it s never bad enough to ruin the film br br find this one it s one of the best hk kung fu films from the early nineties just remember it s not child friendly ',
'the only reason i give it a is that filmography is so stylized these days such that it has at least something to comment on br br this film is asinine it s like so many other st century grind house fodder the gore is gratuitous and simply revolting i didn t care about any of the characters but i did care that some cretin bothered to pen this crap i d complain about the money i spent but my date and i wisely left after minutes and went to an adjoining theater to watch the adventurous and entertaining live free or die hard which probably got a much higher rating from me simply because i endured the utter poop of captivity for minutes ',
'hello dave burning paradise is a film for anyone who likes jackie chan and indiana jones the films main protagonist is most definitely the bastard son of these two strange fathers as for the other characters well they are familiar transformations of similar action film stereotypes where this film is original is in the blending of the traditional hong kong movie style with the hollywood action adventure sadly this has not been true of the films he has made in hollywood ',
'absolutely fantastic br br now before a legion of cinema purists choke on their latts allow me to elaborate much as i enjoyed it this is quite simply one of the worst films i have ever seen and is certainly the worst film i ve seen at the cinema an impressive claim as i remember seeing daredevil on the big screen the two leads daniel gillies and elisha cuthbert were unconvincing at best and downright awful at worst of course they weren t helped by a script that had as much emotional depth as a daphne celeste single and characterisation that was about as convincing as the oj defence the plot to stretch the term slightly was thin to non existent and the gore scenes whilst undoubtedly brutal were irrelevant and laughably formulaic what plot there is revolves around a twenty something model cuthbert who is abducted imprisoned and subjected to various visceral tortures both psychological and physical the torture scenes feel like disconnected set pieces and the emphasis was laid squarely upon shocking rather than scaring the audience whilst there really are very very few positives to draw from this film its redeeming features are the very flaws that make it such a dreadful film i have never heard a more vocal audience in a cinema within twenty minutes the entire cinema was in stitches and remained that way throughout for my part i came out flushed with laughter buoyed by a film that had ascended to the pinnacle of appalling film making whichever way you look at it this is truly a cinematic achievement and a blueprint for future directorial wannabes detailing minutely how not to make a film br br p s i omitted to mention that i managed to get in to the film free so i can afford to laugh about it i was still tempted to ask for my money back it really was that bad ',
'this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong s new wave that began with tsui hark s zu warriors of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accepted from then on as a given namely the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burning paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance br br it s not that there isn t humor here but it is a purely human humor as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw but this is just as humans are not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time br br when irony is at last introduced into the film it is the nastiest possible emanating from the abbot of red lotus temple who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before he is the very incarnation of milton s satan from paradise lost better to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he can t get to satan s hell soon enough he ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule br br that s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here it s not that the abbot just wants to kill people he wants them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality thus there s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it has become all there is to the universe and the abbot claiming mastery of infinite power is in charge br br of course fortunately the film doesn t end there though there are losses the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there is no doubt that in viewing this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chastened by the experience and somehow better for it over all ',
'the documentary revolves around eva mozes kor a holocaust survivor part of mengele s experiments on twins consisting primarily her version of what happened at auschwitz and a comparison of the emotions of the other survivors of the twin experiments the movie obviously had great reviews it s one of those topics that no one dares to voice a contrary opinion about br br i too for a large part of the movie got sucked into the emotion that the movie maker so obviously wanted the viewer to concentrate on one of the user reviews on imdb by eric monder obviously having nothing critical to say about the issue on a public forum could only find the sweetest nectar in one of the many dramatic sequences as a group of jews argue with kor at a jewish center the meaning of the word forgive is even debated but the isolated and outnumbered kor holds her own but by this time the sappy hold that the movie had on my dormant emotional repertoire had let loose enough that i could see clearly once more after the strong willed eva kor forgives her nazi captors the movie begins to delve into what forgiving is all about at least from the viewpoint of kor the movie goes about following her past her public statement forgiving the nazis and into new territory to me this was the meat of the movie surrounded by inedible fat of her act of forgiveness obviously it was a very sick cow br br on a mission to test her theory of forgiveness in order to heal wounds of the past she makes her way to the promised land to meet with some arabs to discuss with them the issues that they face and to see if dialogue cannot lead to a better understanding of the situation and heavily interspersed with debates and discussions with jews in the us on her act of forgiving the nazis including one at a jewish center in chicago from then on anyone not so teary eyed that they can t see the screen will find it hard pressed to miss the obvious contradiction in her statements br br firstly you immediately notice her body language defensive and unwilling to listen in a room full of arab scholars and teachers her comments about how she feared that they might kidnap her shows how much of a waste of time effort and money the entire act was a rather annoyed dr sami advan professor of education at bethlehem university gets it just right when he tells kor off for a statement she makes about how she would rather be asleep in her apartment br br finally the debate at the jewish center in chicago where she is grilled on the meaning of forgiveness and her right to do so in the wake of those that continue suffering through the trauma of the acts br br i will cut to the chase by the end of the movie i was hoping i hadn t chosen to watch the movie the movie was badly made failing to delve deeper into anything about auschwitz apart from the purely trivial just sufficient to make sure the holocaust is refreshed in the viewers memory and to incite a barrage of tears it showed that kor the subject of the documentary was unable to engage in fair discussion her discussion abilities were limited to parroting her stance on forgiveness at best to a complete unwillingness to listen or participate br br lastly is everyone so retarded today that they can t notice the difference between making peace and forgiving quoting another imdb user i don t see her forgiveness as being weak quite the contrary she just wanted to relieve its hold from her soul she wanted the suffering to be over so she let it go that would be the perfect layman s definition of making peace br br i guess in a world of propaganda blind faith and political correctness there is no room to question those that have gone through more than the human mind can fathom br br p s the dictionary certainly should go into all those books to buy lists everyone keeps making ',
'people expect no less than brilliant when steven spielberg directs a movie and this movie is no exception some movies i love did poorly at the box office but i m glad to say this movie isn t one of them over nine million dollars which i don t think was bad for back then the characters were fun the animation was clear and not fuzzy and the music was modern too which is unusual for an animated movie i didn t think professor screw eyes or his scary cirus was too scary for little kids the targeted audience for this movie but i thought what happened to the creepy professor at the end was a little too dark for a kids movie overall this movie is a fun and enchanting classic that i have loved dearly for years ',
'this movie looked as if it might be good at the beginning but never fleshed out to it s expectations the director is talented and has some good camera angles and artistic ideas typical of the asian directors but doesn t know how to create or tell a good story to go along with it the story was fragmented and seemed to go off in all sorts of different directions throughout the film never finding a solid explainable interesting angle basically the movie never fit the explanation on the press releases the acting was very good however all the actors gave good performances and jude law was outstanding as he is always is it is too bad he chose to do such a weak film ',
'i disagree with anyone who done t like this movie br br i used to love this movie when i was little and i still do it s sweet funny and warms your heart and it proves that love and friendship can never be destroyed br br and even though it didn t have much of a story it was still excellent i give it a and two thumbs up br br oh yeah and it proves that your deepest wish s and dreams can come true tear tear br br i love this movie personally if anyone says it sucked than i will say shame on you because it was a delightful little movie and i m glad that at least some people liked it ',
'jude law gives his all in this beautifully filmed vampire flick which offers little else of value completely lacking in eroticism excitement or leading ladies with appeal one decent fight a few moments of mild suspense and a one note plot br br the movie waxes philisophic in a series of conversations between law s character and a dogged homicide detective well played by timothy spall but despite their best efforts both actors are staked to the cross of the film s banality br br with a lesser actor in the lead role and without the benefit of oliver curtis s cinematography crocodiles would blend into the sea of low budget vampire quickies ',
'this show has been my escape from reality for the past ten years i will sadly miss it although atlantis has filled the hole a small bit br br the last ever episode of sg on television anyway was beautifully done robert wrote something that felt close to reality as though he was trying to explain what it was like on the set of the show everyone working closely together for such a long time there are bound to up s and downs but over the years they ve turned into a family i thought this was a wonderful way to end despite anyone else s criticisms br br sg was something special and time and time again it took me across thresholds of disbelief and amazement the wonderful characters stories directors writers from episode one i was hooked the blend of action science drama and especially comedy worked so well that made me keep wanting more br br there are no real words in which to completely express what this show meant to me i can only thank those who kept the show so fresh and entertaining for so many years it has inspired me to do many things that i thought was impossible br br i look forward to the movies next year and i really hope there will be a number of them i never want the show to die br br stargate sg ',
'll cool j performed much better in this movie that i expected he did a fabulous job acting as a renegade cop within a renegade department from the very beginning he does a great job of building viewer empathy for his character and the predicament he s in he acts as a sort of gentle giant a person whose rough exterior can scare anybody yet whose heart is clearly in the right place from the very start and he does an amazing job he was quite clearly the best character in the movie br br this was certainly a performance that will not win morgan freeman any awards after starring in powerhouse films like the shawshank redemption this film was certainly a step down his role in edison simply did not allow him to show his true talents as an actor and in terms of the conglomeration of characters placed him sadly on a back burner there are so many ways his character moses ashford could have taken a more pivotal role that he didn t was disappointing and a true let down i was hoping to see more from him in this film br br timberlake ought to have stayed in the music industry his portrayal of a young journalist was poorly acted and unpersuasive this movie is a typical action movie that at least initially bears some resemblance to corrupt police affairs la has experienced in the past being an action movie it has its share of shoot em up scenes blood and guts these scenes are typically unrealistic and painfully predictable watching the beginning of the movie there is very little suspense as to what will happen at the end think of what you would typically expect in a good cops bad cops conflict and it bears little resemblance to a real police shoot out br br what irked me most was the way timberlake s character behaved during shoot out scenes he starts out having guns and not using them then when he finally gets around to using one he fires it as if he s been firing a gun his whole life then he runs out of bullets and doesn t have a gun and seconds later without moving or anything suddenly has more fully loaded guns and extra ammo little plot errors like this really ruined the movie for me br br if what you are looking for is a blatantly fictional plot in a fantasy world where everything turns out okay then you ll probably love this movie personally it doesn t matter to me what kind of movie it is as long as it is realistic make me believe that the story is true this story was so obviously fictional in so many aspects that i came away feeling unsatisfied ',
'genre dinosaur animation new york time travel circus br br main characters rex the tyrannosaurus rex elsa the pterodactyl dweeb the parasarolophus ooo the triceratops a boy called louis a girl called cecilia and captain new eyes actors john goodman rex yeardley smith cecilia martin short stubbs the clown felicity kendal elsa etc br br what happens four dinosaurs see above are fed some brain grain cereal and are now cuddly friendly dinosaurs who are going to be nice to children they go into new york with big plans br br my thoughts this is a cute animated film the animation of the dinosaurs when they go cuddly and friendly is a bit floppy and not so good but they look pleasant all the same that way i like the dinosaurs when they are cuddly and friendly they are nice friendly and good i like almost all the characters featured especially elsa and cecilia but of course i like the others as well overall i like this film a lot br br recommended to people who like good children s animated films people who like dinosaurs john goodman and people who think that circuses aren t always what they seem enjoy ',
'i love all types of films especially horror that being said survival does not live up to any of the hype surrounding it br br i can t give it any points on originality there is nothing wrong with exploring the same themes or remaking what others have done it has just become a cop out for indie films to take us on a slasher journey through the woods a crazed killer and as of lately throw in some crazy family on those lines i have to compare it with the likes of texas chainsaw wrong turn though the twist in that one is obvious and others survival falls up way short against comparable films the plot was just not original in any way some films can get by with a weak and way over done plot with superb acting special fx or a slew of other factors survivial doesn t have any of that to bank on if you will note the following the acting in the movie never took off i don t knock or blame the actors for that nor the director the dialogue was at best mediocre and the actors involved never showed not saying didn t have the talent to pull it off i mention standouts the leading man in this film certainly has the look but i seriously thinks he needs to consider more training before he is ready to carry a film the actor who portrayed greg also had potential but we never got to see any of it watch the movie to see why you won t believe it br br the grainy film look ah yes that little tid bit of film making magic designed to take us to the glory days of grindhouse films in today s film making that has become a gimmick it either works or it doesn t in this case it just does not work there are too many other flaws going on so it winds up distracting from the film not adding to it that being said i think they did a good job of adding that grain that is some good quality grain i think with a different script better direction and possibly actors they should try another grindhouse attempt they will probably pull it off br br as far as the tech aspects in my opinion they never quite gelled for me either better care could have been taken with audio sounds like it was fed directly into the camera but there is nothing wrong with that and for being shot on dv it was too soft for my taste br br that is all i have to say about that ',
'i do try not to take imdb ratings to heart but i was flabbergasted when i saw the rating to one of my childhood favourites it doesn t wow me as much at but as a family film this is a sweet and well meaning movie kids will definitely love it and won t mind the flaws and the adults can guess the actor behind each character and admire the subliminal messaging of the film none of the film was preachy in any way in fact it has a great message that added to its sweetness i will admit though that the story is on the thin side and some scenes like screweyes s death which still freaks me out may be a tad on the scary side but the animation is well above average with nice colours and good character animation the music by james horner is very beautiful and the song featured is memorable catchy and amusing i really liked the characters louie is probably the most in depth of them all but the dinosaurs were at least engaging martin short s clown was both hilarious and emphatic the part when he tells screweyes i quit had me in stitches my favourite is screweyes though an effective villain who is crafty and i suppose intelligent if anything though i wish the film kept in the part when he explains how he lost his eye and why he is scared of crows because that way he could ve been more developed in terms of depth the script while not oscar worthy has its funny and heart warming parts and should keep kids and adults entertained the voice acting for me was what made the movie john goodman martin short rhea perlman felicity kendall and yeardley smith all gave solid performances but special mention has to go to kenneth mars for he was absolutely superb as screweyes and almost unrecognisable all in all this is a good movie i don t get the rating honestly i don t sure this film isn t perfect and it is not as good as a dinosaur movie such as land before time but it is good fun bethany cox ',
'this is an incomprehensible horribly low budget piece of awfulness br br i don t even have the vocabulary to say how dire turgid boring confusing and just plain strange this effort is hey what d ya know i do set in a post apocalyptic america some guys meet on a beach and slaughter and chaos ensue it was all so incomprehensible i couldn t make head or tail of any of it br br seriously how this got picked up by national lampoon totally defeats me it really is awful br br and not in a its so bad it s good cult way br br it is just awful awful awful awful br br honestly if you still don t believe me then watch it with every intention of loving it then come back here and tell me what you think even gerbils on acid couldn t hope to understand this br br avoid or even better destroy ',
'i saw this when it first came to video my little sister got it as a gift and i was probably at the time what stood out for me was the lack of mid movie conflict that so many movies have where the main characters get mad at each other because when it comes time to explain themselves they just don t say the one thing that you re shouting at the screen that would make sense of the whole deal that any person of reasonable intellect would know to say this is what i like the most about the movie i guess that the main characters don t do mean things to each other halfway through they don t break up and make up they just grow to like each other more as the movie goes on br br these two kids team up and though they seem at first to be from opposite sides of the track they re not that different loui is actually just some middle class kid that needed to realize how lucky he was to have a loving family and cecelia was an upper class kid that just needed to prove to her family that she existed and they would miss her if she was gone anyway i saw this movie posted on hulu and had to watch it again sure there s plot holes if you analyze the script and no woog and dweeb shouldn t be eating hot dogs since they would have been herbivores in reality br br now what detracts from the film is it s unexpected scariness little kids under the age of would probably be frightened by the scenes with dr screweyes and the addition of him halfway through the movie though it s blatantly obvious in the first scene that he will make an appearance is too abrupt there should be a glimpse of him doing his show earlier in the movie perhaps to show that it s not that scary without the the dinosaurs i guess it just lacked any real present danger for the entire first half of the movie so that it lacks a little continuity when he appears for the second half br br considering the target audience who i m sure can overlook the not so mind blowing animation and dialog issues i think i ll give it a pass on those factors too and just enjoy the story it s a great flick for kid and it does stick in your mind makes you kinda think about how you treat people and it should be revisited every years i think ',
'this movie was made by a bunch of white guys that went to school together well there s nothing wrong with that except it looks like it was made by a bunch of white guys that went to school together percent of the cast are white males about same age it s almost like watching a bunch of guys at boys camp who turned the camera on themselves the movie has no plot it simply repeats the same action of blood bath after blood bath there are some funny scenes and comedic bits but they don t redeem the flat monotony br br the graphic cartoon scenes are used to cover the stuff that was obviously beyond their budget or resources to do and not done very well at that anything that can t be done with white guys running around on the beach covered in blood is done with cheap animation br br i went to see this film after seeing the trailer which makes it look like a tarrentino piece well the trailer scenes are as good as they ever get ther rest of it just repeats the same kind of mundane inane comedy it works at times but it gets boring after the same stuff comes at you over and over it s more like a string of satuday night live skits than a movie it s a hit you over the head with it kind of comedy i can see where the story idea is intriguing but in this film post apocalyptic america is much like medevil england in fact wheatlry says the story ideas came from that era he plans to make a part i guess he thinks he s tarrentino or maybe doing a parody thing br br at the opening in la wheatley mentioned he will bring back pretty much the same cast in part he was asked if he might consider a more diverse cast in the next one to which he replied well yea sure ',
'its great i loved it ha cause i love dinosaurs they r the greatest animals but i loved the show cause it wasn t copied from another show and it was a originals ha it has a good storyline and great for little kids if they like dinosaurs that is i have a few downs too its not all that great cause of the dinosaurs look a little mutated so i should have had but a but right now is a little late for that yay more lines to go it is great for a fantasy show though warning this might spoil a part for u so if u don t want it to be spoiled don t read on plz near the end is kinda weird cause all they need to do is get dang i forgot what it was so nvm guess its not a spoiler so never mind i loved it and its my opinion and sorry for any missed spelled words if any ',
'this is the biggest pile of crap i have ever watched do not rent the makers of this movie should be band from ever making another movie it starts with some what of a plot then fades fast to nothing i think i would rather watch paint dry then to as much as looking at the cover the actors were awful the plot faded fast filming left to much work to be done not one good thing to say about this crap movie if you rent this movie you will waste your money i really enjoy national lampoon movies but this was a waste of time learn to write learn to act learn to produce and learn to direct i feel i should sue these a holes that made this movie for money wasted on rental cost and time lost ',
'i wouldn t call we re back a dinosaur s story simply a kiddie version of jurassic park i found it more interesting than that like the former it calls into question the security of bringing beings from one era into ours but it really opens my eyes when i see who provided the voices john goodman rhea perlman jay leno walter cronkite julia child kenneth mars yeardley smith martin short and larry king to paraphrase that a given actor the cheers woman the tonight show host the most trusted name in news a famous chef the young frankenstein police chief lisa simpson one of the three amigos and the cnn guy br br but i guess that i shouldn t focus only on the cast i thought that this movie had something for both children purely fun and adults natural history true it s escapism but the perceptive kind i would actually say that john goodman doing rex s voice here is sort of a precursor to his voice work in monsters inc worth seeing ',
'i work as a hotel concierge in washington dc and take my word there was nothing remotely accurate about the character played by michael j fox we simply do not walk around with our pockets bursting with theater tickets and bills if i ever let anybody use a room for some afternoon delight time i d be fired on the spot the organization to which i belong les clefs d or has very definite standards of ethics and conduct that we take seriously similarly untrue was the concept at the end of the movie of doug simply removing his gold key emblem and passing it on to some other employee we earn those keys and it is a badge of honor and knowledge to be allowed to wear them there is a whole application and vetting process to joining our organization br br this film does nothing to dispel the unfortunate perception of a concierge as nothing but a money grubbing mercenary in short it does a disservice to our organization i welcome any comments ',
'this was a personal favorite of mine when i was young it had everything that was great with s kids movies lovable dinosaurs cute kids an eccentric villain and a few great songs and not the typical little mermaid beauty and the beast type songs but ones that are atually entertaining i ran into this movie again recently and i still love it as much as ever i recommend that everyone of every age should see this movie and i definitely think that it should be introduced to the younger generations sorry not the most informative i m in kinda a rush just please trust me all who go against this movie are killing their inner child ',
'i expected alot from this movie kinda like lee as a naustradamous like caracter but instead all i got was a waste of time and a boring movie i can t even explain this movie it had wooden acting terrible script from pieces from the bible like hurricanes tidal waves and earthquakes but that was at the end the rest of it i had to wait and hope that something meaningfull would happen but it didn t this movie is about a couple that tries to find out the changes going on in the world like places in china where there was an earthquake and end up at a convent run by eight nuns and a priest the convent end up being the key to the misshappenings the whole movie is missleading and boring one of lees worst ',
'this movie has to be my favorite of all time its not supposed to have a plot because its makers wanted people charlie sheen i think to believe it was a real snuff film this was an exercise in visual effects and doesn t cut away when the action happens like every other film does movies these days are now all about sound effects leaving the visuals to be made by computers cause its easier to deal with cgi blood there still are movie makers who still can t get fake blood to look like the real thing there is no rape scene because that wasn t the point of making the film have you seen the hills have eyes the rape scene was funny instead of shocking although i m sure there are some gonzo porn film makers that have tried to marry porn with horror but since they probably suck at making films they probably wouldn t be able to pull it off the movie baise moi has a disturbing rape scene because the actresses are actually porn stars and they show everything even though the movie overall sucks br br its too bad that a movie can t be made without thinking of the money aspect of it all especially when talking about an ao or nc rating i m sure eli roth has the ability talent to make his hostel film series much much better but he has too tame it down to get an r rating or at least i hope that his movies sucked because of these limitations br br watch traces of death or more than smashed pumpkins if you want no frills real footage accident crime scenes footage don t forget that this movie was made in the fact that this film can still stand up against most crap made these days says a lot about this film that would be like someone saying the bit super mario brothers sucks because the ps has better graphics ',
'end of the world is an uneventful movie which is odd since it is supposed to be about the total destruction of the earth the main character is some kind of scientist i m not exactly sure what kind he has two jobs at a government facility guarded by four security men his first job is monitoring transmissions to and from space although this actually seems more like a hobby he does when not working on job job requires him to put on a protective suit and go into a dark room at least that s the best i can figure apparently the plant is not exactly top secret as the scientist brings his wife there she hangs out they re on their way to a dinner while he discovers a message from space major earth disruption repeated over and over he says something about it being the first message from space he s ever been able to decipher his wife tells him they re going to be late for the dinner party so they leave and go to the party moments later he finds out that china has suffered a major earthquake from there the movie goes nowhere yes christopher lee is in it but that really doesn t help much besides lee gives a lackluster performance along the lines of his appearance in howling ii this movie is boring but it has enough stupid elements that you might want to suffer through it once if you like christopher lee or z grade sci fi plus there s lots of stock footage of the earth being destroyed ',
'this movie is banned in just about every foreign country i can think of the japanese people who star in this must have been really desperate for a job or we re just friends here s the scoop br br three thugs torture the hell out of a helpless woman they use all kinds of things to eventually kill her they burn her kick her spin here around in a chair over times they use sound torture by forcing her to listen to a static sound for over hours it don t sound that bad at all but it can make you go nuts they throw guts probably from an animal at her while shes knocked out and she freaks when she wakes up and who can forget the grande finale the greatest eyeball torture i have ever seen br br if you have not heard of these films and watch one without knowing that it is a simulated snuff film you will think it is just ask charlie sheen this is guaranteed to freak people out and make some sick like i said pure underground check it out if you are a fan of underground horror or foreign gore if your not i highly recommend you read up on the series before watching from the gore shock and creativity aspect it gets a but from the storyline and all that stuff it is a an underground classic br br my final rating is a br br ',
'this is one of the most boring movies i have ever seen its horrible christopher lee is good but he is hardly in it the only the good part is the opening scene br br don t be fooled by the title end of the world is truly a bad movie i stopped watching it close to the end it was so bad only for die hard b movie fans that have the brain to stand this vomit ',
'i first heard of this movie after purchasing the flick snuff i was told that devil s experiment was much better so naturally i went ahead and ordered the guinea pig box set i was really interested to hear that charlie sheen had come out trying to ban either this movie or the second one so my interest was peaked br br devil s experiment is a short film with no story no character development just men torturing a woman for about minutes they torture her in various ways like beating her spinning her in circles over and over again then forcing her to drink alcohol forcing her to listen to hi pitched noise for hours smash her hand with a mallet burning and putting maggots on the burns throwing guts at her and ultimately shoving a sharp needle through her eye br br i must say that a lot of this movie was fake like the beating scenes but then some of it was actually well done as far as grossing you out the scenes in which the woman is being spun around in circles was making me dizzy watching it or the scene in which she is forced to listen to sharp noise for hours is painful to think about the worst is the eye scene i didn t shutter when watching it but simply thought damn that looks pretty good for such a low budget movie i did enjoy the flick but i don t know if i can really recommend this unless you have seen most of what the horror genre has to offer ',
'end of the world looks like a good movie on the box cover but be warned its bad being a big fan of mega star actor christopher lee i was fooled like tentacles a good cast does not mean it ll be a good film the beginning looks promising then it turns to tedium many parts of the movie are too dark to see whats going on the rest of the cast is shown briefly likelew ayres dean jagger and macdonald carey as a security guard i would expect better from charles band who made good fun movies like the re animater and dolls i heard christopher lee was tricked into making this film he was told his co stars were going to be jose ferrer john carridine and dean jagger well dean jagger is there but the other two never made it lucky them if you make a movie about the end of the world use a bigger budget and better storyline dean jagger went on to do two good movies afterwardsalligator and game of death sue lyon lolita is also in the movie minus her lollipop if you are a glutton for punishment then watch end of the world i dare you to say awake during the whole movie out of ',
'this is the first out of the guinea pig series and is one of the more infamous films out of the collection br br it took me a long time to finally man up and get my hands on a copy of this notorious group of films i bought the guinea pig box set and decided to watch the collection in order by release date so i popped this sucker in and sat down br br from what i had read on the internet and realizing the content involved in this film i was expecting to test my nerves in full force this ended up not being the case br br the film focuses on a group of men who kidnap a woman and begin torturing her with the hopes of discovering the human breaking point and how long a human can tolerate pain br br sounds like one sick flick right wrong the film fails to shock this may be because i have become desensitized over the years do to my obsession with horror but i think it is safe to say that any true gorehound could sit through this with ease br br on the other hand an individual who does not have a well knowledge of this type of film will most likely be overwhelmed and disgusted by the images they see on the screen though it failed to shock me the film contains some pretty mean spirited and graphic scenes of violence including the ripping out of fingernails intestines thrown at an unconscious woman and a needle through the eye br br overall i think for majority of the gorehounds on this board that you should just get your hands on a copy of this film for the novelty of it but i suggest that for any new comers to these type of films that you should work your way up to this one ',
'what can i say about this film other than don t see it i waited and waited and waited for someting or anything to happen and it just didn t come watch amazingly as two people walk around while setting the record for most filler screen time in a single movie what are they doing are they solving a mystery are they gathering clues possibly it s just hard to tell at the end of the movie after a lot of radio signals are decoded illegibly on some sort of pet monitor and this guy gives some lectures the plot is finally revealed and tossed aside as quickly as possible some aliens want to get back to their home world utopia and are so happy there that they want to blow up the earth i guess they don t like sharing the wealth my guess is they finished filming and saw their minute work or art garbage and decided that they d let the editing crew turn it into an minute feature film watch at your own peril it s not even funny because it s so bad it s just bad ',
'i haven t always been a fan but the show grew on me it wasn t until after season that i started to see the richness of the show they finally brought daniel jackson s search for his wife to an end and finally most of the go ould system lords were killed by rival lords sg or others br br towards season stargate sg was beginning to become stale with the new writers and the close attention by produer peter deleuise the show became more and more solid br br the characters had become stale as well colonel jack o neill was the stereotypical hero with emotional baggage after his son charlie was killed in a shooting accident with o neill s weapon he had decided to end his own life by going to abydos in order to face off with the go ould ra the character offers little growth for any actor and actor richard dean anderson chose to play him straight raising emotional barriers to protect himself only allowing his close friends in br br amanda tapping joined the cast as captain samantha carter she was a feminist on the edge ready to battle any man who would doubt her ability to do her job though this character had little area to grow tapping has done a great job of concentrating on carter s strengths she has taken the time to get a basic understanding of some of the things carter talks about in order that she can present the character intelligently br br christopher judge joined the cast playing the alien teal c teal c was an alien called the jaffa infant go ould snake like creatures would embed themselves into the jaffa until they had grown to the point when it would be inserted into another life form the jaffa would die teal c was the first prime of apophis army knowing that apophis was not a god like go ould pretend he realized the genocide that their armies had wreaked on the galaxy finally having had enough he and jack o neill freed their team along with quite a few innocent people after arriving on earth he realized that earth was the planet he was looking for who would help him fight the go ould christopher judge has done quite a bit with a limited character teal c is a wise warrior much of which he learned was from his teacher master bra tac the show would not be complete without master bra tac played by tony amandola he is also a rock in the end he became adviser to most of sg especially daniel jackson br br don s davil was there from the beginning playing major general george hammand davis has done an incredible job with hammond making him sympathetic and normal he does his job has a wife sons and daughters and grandchildren you can really say he is the anchor of the base simply i would die for that man if not allowed by his superiors to provide troops to support teams off world he will go himself he doesn t leave anyone behind br br i saved dr daniel jackson for last because this character i believe has grown the most in the ten or eleven years it has been on in choosing shanks i don t think the producer realized how strong shanks would be and now when people talk about jackson they don t talk about spader they talk about shanks in the early years the jackson character came off as a whiner that s why i probably wasn t a fan as the seasons pasted the character became stronger this gave him confidence in the end as of season the jackson character has matured to the point that he has become a self sacrificing hero he still monitors the groups ethics he still is lead at providing information that can move any mission forward acheaology history culture and exploration are part of his very being he is determined though a man of peace he has matured to the point that using his weapons may be the only way to solve a disagreement br br other characters include most recently vala mal doran claudia black and colonel cameron mitchell ben browder new lead of sg both actors come from a series called farscape and why they were put together is any bodies guess i see little difference between mitchell and crichton farscape character black s character is simply off the wall definitely different from her soldier like character arin soon ',
'i saw this movie at the toronto film festival with fairly solid expectations the movie has a great cast and was closing at the festival so it must be good right how wrong i was br br i knew we were in trouble when before the film the director was talking about how when he was directing an episode of wiseguy he met an unknown actor named kevin spacey a director writer of wiseguy making his feature debut blah well the director writer of edison must have some incriminating pictures of kevin spacey killing a homeless man because i cannot see how he along with the other actors in the film would ever agree to be in this disaster br br this movie is absolutely appalling it s a mixture of every cop hard boiled clich ever there is nothing new with edison the acting was bad and the direction was even worse it looked like that aforementioned episode of wiseguy this was the best casted direct to video movie i ve ever seen br br some examples of just bad silly moments in edison morgan freeman dancing around his apartment for no reason to rock and roll music justin timberlake getting creative criticism from his belle while his apartment is surrounded by candles llcoolj driving a vintage firebird guys being shot in the head br br this movie is the opposite of good br br stay away from edison ',
'guinea pig the devil s experiment is without a doubt stars on first view its a raw realistic creepy and disturbing look into the dark side of human nature this movie gets right to the point you may be thinking what point the point is to satisfy fan s of just extreme violence and gore this movie has some gore more or less just torturing a women violently there are really only scene s that could be considered gore i ll tell you one thing though guinea pig the devil s experiment makes hostile look like sesame street if you thought hostile was a crazy brutal disturbing torture flick then you ain t seen the half of it until you ve seen guinea pig the devil s experiment br br movie rating gore br br guinea pig the devil s experiment uncut ',
'dull cheap sci fi thriller made with an almost total lack of conviction a control room full of computers and other devices used to receive and decipher messages from outer space is run by only one man and is very poorly guarded at night and full of campy sound effects christopher lee is not only wasted but he also gives one of his few i m here strictly for the money performances ',
'i am surprised than many viewers hold more respect for the sequel to this brilliant movie i have seen all the guinea pigs and this one is easily the best br br even though ive seen the making of i still have doubts when watching those mins of pure torture its that powerful br br a out of because this movie achieved perfectly what it set out to do be the best fake snuff film ever made ',
'a good deal of running around a badly conceived adversary with very little complexity a scientist who works in communications sending off signals into space and receiving them gets caught up with aliens along with his pretty wife he invades their territory and is given secrets about them he becomes rather traitorous in the process granted he is given little choice anyway there is a scene where he gives them everything they want this is a dull movie with lots of long stretches where little happens the plot isn t technically bad it s just that we are usually following a car a trip through a woods investigating a building this is what editing is all about i suppose the story wouldn t technically support much more not much here ',
'after having watched guinea pig two questions come in mind besides am i really a psychopath to watch that is it a snuff the answer is no although it s the closest thing to a snuff movie i ve ever seen and then where the hell have they found that girl because she gets tortured for min without any reasons given in fact there is nothing else in this movie fingernails teared off beaten with hands feet tools infested by maggots and many more until the final scene i m still not sure how they did that because it belongs to the japonese underground scene it s obvious she didn t get a lot of money so what were her their motivations br br i saw it in japonese without subtitles but it s not a problem no real dialogues the boys are just insulting her in a few scenes i haven t seen yet all the serial but the first guinea pig is not known for being the best one still i ve rated because if the purpose was making people believe this a snuff the issue is quite good ask charlie sheen the actor but i think they could have gone further which they did in the following ones br br another movie i m hiding from my parents br br ',
' a scientist discovers signals from space that appear to carry information concerning a series of seemingly unrelated natural disasters occurring across the globe hoping to discover the source of these signals and who s behind them the scientist and his wife set out on a trek to locate the intended recipient of the signals what the couple eventually discovers is a small remote convent with occupants who are not really who they appear to be according to the dvd sleeve s synopsis br br kirk scott as andrew boran is the scientist who intercepts alien messages on his computer he suspects a series of large earth disruptions may be connected to the weird space static mr scott and pretty blonde wife sue lyon as sylvia boran investigate the mysterious signals from outer space they discover priestly but creepy christopher lee as father pergado and other silliness given that end of the world is remarkably dull br br end of the world john hayes kirk scott sue lyon christopher lee ',
'this movie has no story it s only about a bunch of guys who tortures an innocent young girl to death br br spoilers br br this is what they do they beat her put her in a net and let her hang inside like birdfood spin her around on a chair until she pukes expose her to loud noise pour boiling oil on her put worms in her sores crush her hand with a sledge hammer and finally pokes a needle through her eye br br this movie was so realistic that if i didn t know it was fake i would have thought it was a snuff movie although i was disgusted by this movie i really liked it it scared me i guess it fills some kind of purpose i give it a ',
'christopher lee is one of my favorite actors i m trying to view all of his work he has been known to single handedly save movies with his presence unfortunately this is not one of them this movie suffers from a low budget and it s production values are disturbing please for the love of christopher avoid this film ',
'i have seen the short movie a few years ago after that i watch all sequels the first one is really not the best but it s the most popular one i ve already watch the making of guinea pig it s really great what these guys did also the sequels are excellent in the special effects take your chance to watch it ',
'spoilers br br wow end of the world is a singularly underwhelming cinematic experience br br here is the full story a scientist is getting messages from space a la independence day the messages say stuff like a massive disaster is about to happen and then the scientist hears later on the radio that a huge earthquake just happened in china he starts thinking that the messages have something to do with the disasters around the world so he s trying to figure out who s receiving the messages and who s also sending out messages in space he and his wife eventually figure out that the messages come from a convent they visit it everything looks normal including the priest played by a bored christopher lee but the scientist is adamant and really believes that the messages are coming from and going to that convent so he and his wife secretly go back to the convent where they are caught snooping around by the aliens disguised as priests and nuns they are held against their will and the alien played by lee forces the scientist to get something they need in order for them to return to their planet once the alien get the special element the aliens all depart one by one to their home planet in some sort of tacky looking transporter platform lee being the last alien left tells the couple that the earth will be destroyed because of some sort of hokey decision by the aliens lee walks in the transporter and he s gone the couple looking at the monitors that show stock footage of natural disasters occurring all over the world decide to follow the aliens because earth is doomed the couple doesn t see any point of staying behind so they walk in the transporter and disappear the last shot of the movie is a papier mache planet earth exploding the end br br that s it br br i ve never seen such a dull movie in my life it s the most underwhelming movie i ve ever experienced the scientist and his wife are two of worst heroes or protagonists ever put on screen they don t care about anything they see the earth disasters on the monitors and decide what the heck who needs earth anyway they don t even try to stop them or do something to make things better this kind of story might have worked if the film had an overwhelming sense of doom to everything but the action and atmosphere are nonexistent the actors and the folks behind this dull flick are going through their paces so much so that you can almost feel when they punched their cards when they got off and returned to work i wasn t expecting much with this movie because it is a charles band production but i didn t expect it to be this bad br br christopher lee was once asked what was his worst film he ever made and he mentioned starship invasions well i m sorry chris but starship invasions was actually goofy fun starship invasions is terrible but terribly entertaining end of the world is much much much worst it s beyond dull and inert with no entertainment value whatsoever ',
'this movie is the first of the six infamous guinea pig movies and is one of the best at the same time it looks realistic and unrealistic just knowing that the movie is fake the story is about a woman who got captured and is tortured in a lot of different ways a man in the beginning of the story receives a letter without a return address and it includes a manga video showing the torture the men who capture her are testing the limits of a human before they die some scenes are shocking such as the eyeball scene and others are not shocking like the girl being punched times because you see punches in nearly every movie this movie has a lot of gore so i would recommend this to people or older br br ',
'it s got christopher lee it s got huge banks of s computers that make teletype noises as letters appear on the screen it s got radioactive isotopes that not only glow in the dark but emit pulsing thrumming noises it s got volcanoes evil aliens disguised as nuns tidal waves earthquakes exploding cars exploding coffee machines and as a climax the entire planet blows up how on earth does this film managed to be so incredibly mind numbingly dull the answer my friend is because of this movie is made up of establishing shots most of them involving long tracks pans or zooms in combinations or occasionally all three that do nothing except give the crew something to do there are endless shots of our protagonists driving getting in and out of cars driving again walking around looking at stuff getting in cars and driving i just sat there watching endless parade of nothingness in stupefaction muttering say something please somebody just say something do something anything br br the dialogue when it does come is terrible br br maybe their minutes are measured on a different scale than ours was a typically meaningless line the script culminates in the destruction of the world by stock footage justified in this speech from lee as the head alien br br the planet earth has emitted an over abundance of diseases they are contaminating the universe all the planets light years away from here will suffer unless it is destroyed br br this is is neanderthal sf script writing this is the sort of motivation you find in the sort of s japanese monster suit movies aimed at year olds it is and i collect such things the most god awful line from an english language sf movie since buster crabbe retired it beggars belief that this movie was released in the same year as star wars and close encounters br br lee who always struck me as a smart useful actor with a sure knowledge of his limits delivers his lines as if he is going to kill his agent for getting him into this pile of drek i don t blame him ',
'the first installment of this notorious horror series is presented as if it were a snuff film discovered by the producers and set up like an amateur camcorder tape complete with a digital timer at the bottom of the frame it presents a woman being kidnapped by a gang of black clad men who torture her for several days before finally killing her the hapless victim is beaten savagely and pelted with raw meat before having her fingernails pulled out with pliers her hand smashed with a hammer her eye punctured with a needle and so forth br br in the most nauseating scene the woman s captors burn her with hot water and drop live maggots into the burns the series received a great deal of publicity when american actor charlie sheen believing the series to contain actual murder attempted to ban its distribution in the united states an fbi investigation revealed that the films were only what they appeared to be to most viewers sick re creations using nasty but obvious special effects gruesomely staged by acclaimed japanese comic book artist hideshi hino who also directed the third and fourth episodes this film is a sure way to clear all but the most tolerant of rooms but gorehounds probably won t find anything special ',
'your mind will not be satisfied by this nobudget doomsday thriller but pray who s will a youngish couple spends the actual end of the world in the hidden laboratory of some aliens masquerading as church people br br small apocalyptically themed outing end of the world has the ingenuity and the lack of both brio and style of the purely s similar movies and it s not only that but eotw plays like a hybridnot only doomsday but convent creeps as well the villain of the movie is a wellknown character actor br br this wholly shameless slapdash seems a piece of conventexploitation that significantly s genre which looks today so amusingly outdated anyway the convent s secret laboratory is some nasty piece of futuristic deco christopher lee is the pride of end of the world but the end of the world is not at all his pride ',
'what can i say about this film that hasnt already been said well to tell the truth alot of it looks very fake like some of the slaps and the kicks how charlie sheen though this was real i dont know im sure they would be hitting and kicking her alot harder if it was however the scenes with the pinching and the hot oil look very real and the final needle in the eye scene is amazingly done and is probibly the only thing on film that has ever shocked me ',
'this film had a great cast going for it christopher lee dean jagger macdonald carey lew ayres solid b movie actors all but this downer of a movie didn t use any of them to any sort of advantage with none of their characters even meeting on screen though christopher lee does get to play opposite himself in several scenes br br the motivations for the aliens in this movie seem to change at the drop of a hat first they just want to repair their ship and leave then they turn on the main character by killing most of his friends and not releasing his wife after he gets them the crucial part they need then out of nowhere this peaceful race decides they have to destroy the planet because it causes too many diseases though they do offer the main character and his wife a spot in their society br br most of the film is spent watching the man and wife drive or walk or stand around or sit at desks doing nothing you almost wish they had gotten taken out with the rest of the planet at the end just in vengeance for boring us to death br br unless you really like chris lee or seventies low budget sci fi i d give this one a miss it falls into that narrow range of wasted celluloid between star odyssey and ufo target earth ',
'wow alot of reviews for the devils experiment are here wonderful my name is steve and i run unearthed films we just started releasing the guinea pig films on dvd for north america now before you ask why am i writing a review instead ask why some people bash it i m writing this review because i love the guinea pig films why do i love em it s because they go for the throat and they don t let go i ve seen it all almost every horror film known to man argento fulci bava buttgereit from every underground cult sensation to every hollywood blockbuster i ve seen it all and the films that have stuck in my head over the years was definitely the guinea pig films why because it doesn t try to hide the reason why we watch horror movies in the st place this review is for the devils experiment i find it devoid of story which is fine by me why do i watch horror films so i can see blood and gore and the torture of people the devils experiment not only delivers but that s all it is pure unadulterated violence yeah i like a story but sometimes i just want the gore and the devils experiment delivers ten fold why do people bash it cause they like a story so that the torture and death of a person can be hidden behind a story it make em feel better about themselves we all want blood and gore it s just really hard to justify it if it s not wrapped around a story the guinea pig films have a historical meaning to them and they have created a definitive splash whenever they have been released br br i m thrilled to be able to release one of the most famous horror series in the world maybe i shouldn t have written this review but then again maybe i should my view is biased cause were releasing them but then again it s not i ve always told people to find them and to watch them way before i started unearthed films sure it s exploitive and over the top but isn t that why we watch horror films in the st place the devils experiment is not for everybody it s for thrill seekers and gorehounds only if you think jason movies and freddy krueger movies are awesome then stick to those but if your on the next level and have seen it all then the devils experiment is for you there is a reason why they haven t been released for over years they are wrong disgusting and down right freaky and not something to watch with your mom unless she is totally cool good luck enjoy and never stop living your life ',
'the earth is destined to be no more thanks to father pergado and a bunch of nuns christopher lee who has since said that he was duped in to appearing in this by his producers who told him loads of great actors were involved is father pergado and gets to do his usual serious and scary routine the cast are not too bad though most have now retired from acting the film has terrible sound effects mainly created from pressing keys on an old computer it seems and it ridiculously pondering at times showing a scene of the sky for instance for what feels like hours at a time despite this the story is pretty humorous in a world is doomed sort of way and the production is adequate interestingly one scene features albert band and wife jackie meda band writer frank ray perilli and charles band s assistant bennah burton despite its plodding nature i genuinely wanted to see how it all worked out and thus quite liked it ',
'a lot of people unfairly sh t on this series but several of the guinea pig videos are fairly entertaining devil s experiment in particular has some really fantastic effects work not just the infamous eyeball scene but also a very realistic skin slice on the foot and a hand breaking with a sledgehammer are very realistic especially for the video s vintage and low budget br br let me start at the beginning now for those who don t know this film is an extreme torture fake snuff film that surfaced in japan in the mid s it s plot as it stands is simple a young girl is held by a few men and forced to undergo a series of brutal tortures to see where her breaking point is this entails brutal violence all effectively realistic effects including the ones mentioned in the last paragraph as well as a painful looking application of hot oil to the captive girl s arm and placing of maggots in the subsequent flaky wound br br the least effective sequences are at the very beginning of the video and consist of an unconvincing slap session where three men take turns slapping the hell out of the girl as her head falls about and a second sequence where the three men take turns kicking the girl and pushing her to the ground these two scenes are obviously staged and detract from the realism of the rest of the proceedings br br the actress who plays the victim of the experiment is pretty convincing at being in pain and takes a good amount of abuse and rough stuff on camera her reactions as she has headphones strapped to her head and loud noises are played for hours on end are chilling some of the other abuse she takes is being strung up in a net from a tree during the only times she is given a rest also there is a disturbing scene where the giggling captors through guts at her and one other disgustingly sleazy scene where she is spun in an office chair and forced to drink a bottle of jack daniels till she pukes br br if you haven t seen this series i hope i have helped you decide whether or not you want to give this episode a shot for devil s experiment ',
'i saw this movie in the theater when i was a kid and always remember it as my first experience with getting ripped off by a horrible movie with a good commercial the commercial was great but it i found out later that it had every explosion or special effect in the entire movie about and even some that weren t in the movie there was some sort of plot relating to the aliens but the aliens were never actually shown in the movie as far as i remember it was clearly a case of someone making a buck off a cheap movie designed to scam people i guess my world of innocence ended that day when i found out there were bad people out there who make bad bad movies ',
'my rating refers to the first seasons of stargate sg which are wonderfully fresh creative and addicting when the cast stepped through the gate you never knew what lay on the other side starting around season the show took a different focus still good but different br br the series follows the adventures of a team of humans and one alien who regularly venture into a planetary transport device called the stargate the backstory of the series is based on the characters and events of the movie stargate in which the device is discovered during an archaeological dig in egypt br br the episodes are light innocent and easy to watch and very creative many of the inventive stories could easily have been made into great sci fi movies of their own what happens next was always unpredictable br br the characters on which the show rests are also well defined and brilliantly performed their tone is serious but the dialog is flowered with incredible wit and humor they are simply fun to watch br br starting somewhere around season the series started to evolve into a continuing storyline based on fighting a single foe the goa uld then the ori the plots become more complex a lot more political strategic oriented and interdependent the characters were still as great as ever but the show was different in nature br br one thing that must be mentioned is to watch the episodes that commemorated the th and th episodes they are simply can t miss shows they exhibit the creative and wildly humorous genius that carried the series through seasons br br if you are a sci fi fan watch a few episodes of the first seasons and you ll likely be hooked if you like evolving story lines between two opposing sides you have seasons of shows to look forward to ',
'that is the only question i am left with why did this movie suck so much when it had such a great cast why was the writing so bad it left the audience completely unconnected with the characters why did it not make any sense at all why did the studio take a perfectly good premise and hollywood the hell out of it when all it needed was good smart story telling why i never understand why movies that start out good turn into a pile of crap by the time they re released i hope for the sake of freeman an spacey who are oscar winners that this never is released to the big screens in america br br as someone that holds a bachelors degree in journalism the whole story is just utterly laughable i just think the script had potential but the execution turned it into a clich and an awful one at that just no ',
'the first installment of this notorious horror series presents a woman being kidnapped by a gang of black clad men who torture her for several days before finally killing her she is beaten savagely spun around in the chair endlessly has her finger nails pulled animal guts are thrown at her hot boiling water is poured on her and finally her eyeball is punctured with a needle really sick and nasty scene the makers of this unforgettable torture show tried to make it as real as possible and for me this one is the closest thing to a snuff film you can get without committing murder on tape of course some of the special effects are rather poor but the idea of making a snuff is pretty gruesome i have seen also flowers of flesh and blood which is more gory and sadistic but less disturbing anyway this one is a must see for horror fans ',
'this movie was terrible i rented it not knowing what to expect i watched the st minutes and the movie and knew it was a bomb the acting was bad and there was no plot the monster is soooooo fake it growls and its mouth doesnt move also why would they have a doctor playing a xylophone to kill the monster just plain bad don t even waste your time out of ',
'first off this is not supposed to be a brilliant and thought provoking film like so many other reviewers seem to compare it to the first review says something along the lines of anyone who likes this knows nothing about horror cinema apparently its the other way around if one were to look back after the film it really wasn t meant to be convincing it was a low budget ipecac but really thats all it was aiming for it was meant to blow viewers away with sheer shock value and all the flaws it its visuals were much less noticeable back in the original vhs versions br br i gave this one a high score because it reached its goal and even though it was not downright horrific in non shock sense it did make me slightly sick and thoroughly paranoid pessimistic i didn t trust anyone for about a week because i didn t want to wake up strung up and tortured ',
'wow i just saw this on t v as one of the scary movies they show around halloween was this rated g there wasn t really anything to make this movie scary or worth watching also other people say this is a spoof but i don t think so for a spoof you need something called humor this low budget crap fest didn t have a shred of humor and it didn t make much sense either you basically have a goofy looking monster man in rubber suit coming out of closets killing people i guess since you never see the monster doing violence to anyone or any bloody aftermath the spinning newspaper tells you that people were killed by the monster so i guess that s good enough br br the military tries feebly to kill the monster which isn t much larger than a man they have very bad aim then the military flees wow did this movie make the u s military look pathetic or what the monster while hard to kill doesn t do much besides shuffle around and roar oh and occasionally a second head pops out of its mouth and shrieks it was a slightly interesting yet a total alien ripoff br br what was the deal with the scientist playing the xylophone to attract the monster it was hard to understand a lot of the dialog due to the poor sound quality also why did the monster carry around the main wimpy guy for so long why didn t the monster go into the closet when it had a chance why do i insist on trying to make sense out of the senseless ',
'just the ultimate masterpiece in my opinion every line every phrase every picture is exactly in place and lindsay crouse and joe mantegna are just the cool shrink and the sleazy con man so well cast out of ',
'now i flicked onto this just out of curiosity and had to keep watching in the same way that you watch a car crash br br i appreciate the fact it s a spoof but that should not stop me from criticising the god awful directing acting and dialogue seriously this rated as one of the poorest movies i have seen it looked more like an episode of tales from the cryptkeeper and a poor one at that br br okay a few criticisms when the doctor had his heart attack in front of the monster we never see the monster attack him so we assume its a heart attack the army then launch shells rockets bullets at the monster which was feet from the doctor yet the doctor is not touched by any missile and is still alive the army attack from about yards away and we see a flame thrower being used geez those things have a range of no more than metres when the monster tries to take the professor the soldiers run into the classroom and fire into the ceiling the monster drops the kid and the soldiers don t try to shoot the monster come on the monster looks like it something out of power rangers there is one scene where the five good guys the priest the girl the doctor the reporter and the kid all look shocked and we get reactions along the lines of hand to mouth one after the other so natural the general just runs away time after time the general refuses to try electricity and wouldn t listen the acting is awful did i mention the rubber suit monster that god awful music non stop ',
' house of games is a flawlessly constructed film and one of the few films i have seen that had me gaping at the screen in astonishment at how cleverly and unexpectedly it ends i first saw it on video a few years back after reading roger ebert s review which proclaimed it the best film of i had my doubts mainly because it is not quite as well known as other films from that year boy was i in for a surprise this was one of the smartest most well written movies i had ever seen br br the screenplay is quite a piece of work not only in terms of the plot which twists and turns and pulls the rug out from under you just when you think you have it all figured out but also in terms of character development on my second viewing i began to realize that mamet s screenplay succeeds not only as a clever suspense film but that each plot development contributes to our understanding of the characters and their motivations the climax of the movie is particularly effective because it is absolutely inevitable it stems naturally from what we know about the characters and it is therefore much more than just an arbitrary twist ending the performances by lindsay crouse and joe mantegna also add enormously to the film i cannot picture any other actor besides mantegna playing the role of mike and crouse plays her role with just the right amount of restraint to suggest a repressed criminal mindset their work plus mamet s extraordinary screenplay combine to create one of the greatest films of the s it is truly a must see ',
'yes the southern star features a pretty forgettable title tune sung by that heavy set crooner matt monro it pretty much establishes the tone for this bloated and rather dull feature stunningly miscast with george segal and ursula andress as an adventurous couple in search of a large diamond add in harry andrews with a strange accent no less chasing an ostrich tons of stock footage of wildlife and poorly composed and dull photography by raoul coutard and you end up with a thoroughly unexciting romp through the jungles of senegal ',
'just watched the film for the rd time and enjoyed lindsay crouse and the rest of the cast just as much as before it just keeps getting better and better you simply have to marvel at the carefully measured way of speech the slow deliberate action everything being exactly in place br br truly one of the great ones and definitely my all time favourite ',
'the head of a common new york family jane gail as mary barton works with her younger sister ethel grandin as loma barton at smyrner s candy store after ms grandin is abducted by dealers in the buying and selling of women as prostituted slaves ms gail and her policeman boyfriend matt moore as larry burke must rescue the virtue threatened young woman br br traffic in souls has a reputation that is difficult to support it isn t remarkably well done and it doesn t show anything very unique in having a young woman s virtue threatened by sex traders perhaps it can be supported as a film which dealt with the topic in a greater than customary length claimed to have been ten reels originally the new york city location scenes are the main attraction after all these years the panning of the prisoners behind bars is memorable because nothing else seems able to make the cameras move br br traffic in souls george loane tucker jane gail matt moore ethel grandin ',
'unique movie about confused woman lindsay crouse who gets involved with sharp con men joe mantegna gives an oscar caliber performance as the slickest of the group absolutely enchanting first hour as mantegna shows crouse the ropes of his con games story line unravels a bit later on but still stands as a unique portrayal of an innocent caught up in a dark world definitely worth a shot ',
'kirstie alley looking a bit slimmer but only a bit is in this mess along with a man who is a macguyver lookalike bleached blond hair and all the premise of the movie is about an older woman who cannot get her screenplay produced due to age discrimination so she sends in her younger nephew to pose as the writer not an original idea and not a very good movie with lousy acting inane dialogue and a ridiculous plot there is another plot concerning a writer with a crush or admiration for kirstie s character and why this is included is a mystery the actor who portrays kirstie s brother is so wooden and miscast it was torture to watch their scenes what is there to say about this film avoid it ',
'house of games has a strong story where obsession and illusion play a big part a psychologist offers to help a patient with his gambling debts and gets caught at the game br br have you ever felt fascination for something that was both dangerous and wrong watch what happens if you pursue this urge and go all the way sit on the edge of your chair as tricksters are being tricked and victims turn into perpetrators you re never sure of who is exactly who in this movie br br this is both a quality and a drawback of the script as the movie ends you feel that the story lacks a bit of consistency but all this is largely compensated by the excellent psychological development br br this is definitely one of the best movies about gambling ',
' st watched out of dir jon keeyes over the top rehash of s supposed horror flicks like friday the th versions thru whatever i can t think of much redeeming here except or can i think of anything the story revolves around a bunch of stupid people listening to a radio program one year after some kids were slayed in the woods as an homage to this supposedly but lo and behold one of the stupid people have connections to the actual event because her sister was one of the ones murdered again how stupid is this that she would even be a part of this guess what the murderer is at it again and we re tipped off from the very beginning who it is so there goes any mystery whatsoever and besides all this where are the cops and why doesn t someone call them i can t believe this movie was financed by someone and made you would think that by now the american people would be judged a little higher at least in their movie going experience but not so by this filmmaker ',
'plenty has been written about mamet s the house of games most of it good i decided to revisit the flick to see how it held up after years and was surprised at how much i enjoyed viewing it again the film s success and durability probably has much to do with two principal ingredients which are always fun on film a good story and a good scam mamet manages to bring his signature moodiness and obvious histrionics to the film while scamming us the audience and the mark simultaneously then he explains the art of conning only to do it again etc all the while building the story the house of games now a freebie on cable is worth a look for first timers and an okay rerun for mamet fans b ',
'this piece ain t really worth a comment it s simply the worst horror movie i have ever seen the actors are bad as bad can be and the whole plot is so silly it nearly made me cry shame on you i say ',
'this typical mamet film delivers a quiet evenly paced insight into what makes a confidence man joe mantegna good explored as a psychological study by a noted psychologist lindsay crouse it slowly pulls her into his world with the usual nasty consequences the cast includes a number of the players found is several of mamet s films steven goldstein jack wallace ricky jay andy potok allen soule william h macy and they do their usual good job i loved lindsay crouse in this film and have often wondered why she didn t become a more noted player than she has become perhaps i m not looking in the right places br br the movie proceeds at a slow pace with flat dialog yet it maintains a level of tension throughout which logically leads to the bang up ending you d expect a real let down at the ending but i found it uplifting and satisfying i love this movie ',
'without a doubt this is one of the worst films i ve ever wasted money on the plot is erm sorry did i say there was a plot the scariest moment was when nope can t think of one the best special effect that had me hiding under the bed covers was nope can t think of one for that either you knew who the killer was right from the start there was nothing scary about the whole movie in fact the only two vaguely interesting bits were when you saw the kid sister misty in the shower and when you saw nurse toppan take her top off this film should only be watched to get an idea of how not to make a horror movie ',
'in the spirit of the classic the sting this movie hits where it truly hurts in the heart a prim proper female psychiatrist hungry for adventure meets up with the dirtiest and rottenest of scoundrals the vulnerable doctor falls for the career badman and begs to be involved in his operation while the movie moves kind of slow it s climax and ending are stunning you ll especially enjoy how the doctor forgives herself ',
'this movie is outrageous by outrageous i mean awful i had more fun watching the paint dry at my local hardware store on an august day while suffering from a migraine and heat stroke the acting got progressively worse as the movie advanced and the directors use of euphoric drugs became apparent as the final scenes approached when misty was shot to death she decided that it would be prudent to blink post mordem that was not intelligent truthfully stevie wonder could have caught that with his eyes closed if you are deciding between playing with a nail gun while intoxicated and watching this movie bear in mind that the nail gun will probably give you a better story to tell your friends ',
'i enjoyed this show for two reasons richard dean anderson amanda tapping these two performers carried the show with able support from the regulars and recurring actors the replacement of rda in seasons was enough to take the heart out of the show br br the chemistry between all the main characters is just tremendous you get the feeling that the actors like to pal around after the camera stops rolling this relationship carries over into the program we get to see br br rda gives his o neill character believable personality he never knows when to give the wiseass in him a rest you watch the others roll their eyes in dismay at some of his utterances still they know that he is the man to have around when the situation is perilous br br there is a lot going on between carter and o neill under the surface they manage to keep the lid on but often just barely the episode solitudes in season had some of the best drama ever seen on television the love between the two made the prospect of dying bearable because they faced it together br br carter and jackson often have to smooth over some of the turbulence created by o neill yet o neill s tactical instincts always seem sound he understands what to do without having to think about the matter the team has several times been placed in jeopardy by the others not listening to his orders br br the quality declined markedly in seasons and the original story arc was mostly used up and the new villains never really caught my interest ben browder was far inferior to rda in carrying the show he had his rare moments with claudia black but that was all amanda tapping was phoning in her performances these two seasons you could see her greatly changed appearance after having a baby she was probably thinking more about the child than the show br br the spin off stargate atlantis has a few moments but is mostly a weaker effort the major characters lack the chemistry of the cast of the original the villains wraiths are so improbable as to be ludicrous maybe amanda tapping can breathe some life into the program or it won t last beyond the fourth season br br there has always been a problem for me in the special effects for the show to have spaceships shaped as pyramids is a design monstrosity seldom equaled in sci fi the use of torches for illumination in these ships is just as bad the campy use of decor from ancient egypt concealing ultra modern technology is just as hard to accept br br i wondered about some of the continuity on the show too in the season opener daniel jackson is shot up and his uniform has a gaping hole where he was wounded he crawls into a sarcophagus and it heals his body and restores his uniform like it just came off the rack in the wardrobe closet the episode hathor has a sarcophagus fall into the hands of the sgc yet it is never mentioned again this device could have been used in several later episodes on daniel o neill and dr frasier ',
'wow i do not think i have ever seen a movie with so many great actors that had such a pivotal role so miscast justin timberlake is perhaps the single worst actor to land a bigtime role in a movie with the star power and money behind it that edison had br br his acting was painful to observe the story was ok and all the other characters were played by professional actors heck even ll cool j was fine since he has had numerous small parts to cut his teeth on how the director and movie company figured that timberlake was ready for this role there is no way to comprehend br br his character ruins the entire experience since every time he is on screen you are actually rooting for the corrupt cops to cap his sorry ass and he is supposed to be the hero i would not waste money on this one at the theater or on video maybe if you have hbo and have nothing else to do at am on a saturday night and you are drunk and stoned this may be ok br br watching timberlake in this role was like watching a human kermit the frog act in a hollywood blockbuster just didn t work at all ',
'a film destined to be on late night tv long after the present instant money makers have long been forgotten perhaps a little too subtle for today s youngsters but in time they ll grow into an appreciation of this movie ',
' american nightmare is officially tied in my opinion with it s pat for the worst movie of all time br br seven friends oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of friends gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it s hosted by a guy with a beard that s the most exciting aspect of his show br br chandler monica joey and oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse serial killer is listening br br crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and wait sorry again by making their fears come to life these fears include such stunners as voodoo and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures br br no really br br this movie was in a word rotten crazy nurse s killing spree lacks motivation there s nothing to make the viewer jump the ending blows and again voodoo br br if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones rent american nightmare with them br br if you care for your loved ones even a little bit go to your local blockbuster rent all of the copies of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer ',
'this movie should not be compared to the sting or other caper heist con game films what makes it such a great movie experience is what it has to say about relationships deceit and trust it s also a fairly cutting critique of psychiatry given that the female protagonist is a shrink who is so easily deceived and then acts out in such a primitive manner in the finale has mr mamet had an unfortunate experience in therapy highly hugely recommended ',
'this movie had to be the worst horror movie i have ever seen the acting was terrible horrible and cheesy and talk about a predictable plot i will never watch this movie again nor will i recommend this movie to anyone what a waste of time first as soon as the movie began i realized what i got myself into all they did for this movie was copy scenes from many other horror movies out there and bunched them all into this one movie the prank phone calls halloween night a psycho and one knife its absolutely ridiculous i was not scared at all during the movie which i thought horror movies were supposed to do as for the making of the movie its pretty hilarious how they all talk about how this movie was so great and so scary i mean how do you not realize that the movies is a cheap rip off of scary movie for example at least get some good actors in there and then maybe it would have been pulled off as a good horror movie ',
'ask yourself where she got the gun remember what she was taught about the mark s mindset when the con is over the gun had blanks and it was provided to her from the very beginning br br when the patient comes back at the end she was supposed to see him drive away in the red convertible and lead her to the gang splitting up her thousand br br the patient was in on the con from the beginning br br mantegna does not die in the end the gun had blanks br br there enough spoilers for you there this is why people are giving it such high ratings it s extremely original because of the hidden ending and how it cons most of the audience ',
'when i read the back of the dvd case i thought that it sounded really interesting so i had my mom throw it into the pile of movies in the for dollars section at blockbuster when we got home and popped in the movie twenty minutes into it we found ourselves turning to each other going this sucks let s put in something else i ll admit a few of the lines from the friends at the caf made us smile a little bit but come on at least get some decent actors every once in a while in a movie if the acting is bad and the movie isn t going at a painfully slow pace and actually seems interesting i can gut it out and get a few laughs at how they re over or under doing their lines but i can only take so much crying scenes looked like the actors were having hysterical fits of laughter there was no delivery for their lines amateur doesn t even come close to the acting in this film br br anyone who came on here saying that this film was good had to have been on some really good drugs while they were watching the movie it s the most pointless thing i ve ever had the displeasure of watching do not watch or buy this movie ',
'i m a big fan of films where people get conned and house of games is almost the pinnacle of the films where people get conned genre in short it s an exceptional thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat by providing interesting characters with many levels and never truly revealing what s happening while throwing in many twists and surprises to upset completely what you ve just seen the film cons the audience on many occasions and despite us knowing this it s still difficult to guess where it s going and every twist comes off as a surprise as mentioned i m a big fan of cons in movies and the plot of this one follows a female psychiatrist who receives a patient with a huge debt owed to a fellow gambler she then goes to the gambler in an attempt to help out her patient and on the way gets drawn into the art of reading people in order to pull off a con br br house of games breathes a sleazy atmosphere throughout and david mamet does well in establishing his film s setting in the underground levels of the city the film is well acted also with all concerned bringing life and believability to their characters with the greatest of skill joe mantegna stars as the con man at the heart of the film and although his performance is a little under wrought he s always solid and believable as the villain of the piece lindsay crouse stars alongside him as the psychiatrist seduced by his work and again is believable in her role she may not be the greatest looker but at least she can act the way that the film executes it s plot is the main star of the show however and you will no doubt be amazed on multiple occasions as to how the film constantly manages to amaze and deceive the viewer at times it s almost like we are in the thick of the action and being conned by the con men in the film another thing that s great about this film is the way that it shows the audience how to pull off certain cons which is useful if you re interested in making twenty bucks say all in all house of games is a truly first rate thrill ride ',
'when it comes to horror movies i am more than willing to suspend disbelief ignore sub par production values and overlook plot holes in the interest of a good scare this movies simply has no good scares to offer it can t even be enjoyed as camp bad dialogue bad acting bad direction the kills were predictable and poorly staged the music was annoying the camera work was wretched even the costumes were bad i felt really bad for the actors who were obviously trying but who had to deal with terrible contrived dialogue and an obvious lack of direction i doubt they got any rehearsal either it s embarrassing to watch and so boring than making it through to the contrived surprise ending requires tremendous endurance it s quite easily one of the worst movies i ve ever seen br br i don t normally write reviews but this one was so bad that i felt compelled to warn others this movie is a complete waste of time if you must watch this movie don t miss the making of featurette the writer director seems to be under the impression that making the killer a woman was kind of bold daring move seen it he and the cast spend half an hour deconstructing this film as if it s a new age citizen kane it s like listening to a group of third graders take you behind the scenes of their christmas pageant they truly think they ve created something of substance it s sad really the only reason i gave this movie a is because i think should be reserved for true atrocities like manos hands of fate and space mutiny so american nightmare isn t the worst movie i ve ever seen but i d have to say that it s somewhere in the bottom fifty ',
'spoilers this is a gripping movie about grifters but who is conning who here when does the hunter turn into the prey this gritty dark movie is slow moving and seductive it pulls you in and drags you down the proverbial garden path only to waylay you just as you think you are safe br br it has a riveting script with good acting at least from the leads i didn t notice the background music but it was never jarring so it must have been done right br br i was very surprised that i liked this movie because i don t usually go for this genre but this one sucked me in and kept he hooked until the end ',
'in texas seven friends meet in a bar to celebrate the halloween night before going to a party meanwhile they call the american nightmare pirate radio for fun and confess their innermost fears a serial killer who is listening to their confessions makes their nightmares come true killing each one of them in a sadistic way american nightmare is a weird low budget movie that has a horrible beginning without any previous explanation a woman kills two couples in an isolated camping area as if it were friday th then the story shifts to a bar where seven friends are celebrating halloween from this moment on the story has a great potential and the unknown cast has a very reasonable performance showing also some beautiful breasts and naked bodies as usual in this type of c production however the end of the screenplay does not provide any explanation for the killing instinct and motives for the behavior of the nurse jane toppan giving the sensation that the budget ended before the finalization of the shooting with a better beginning and conclusion this weird story would be a good low budget slasher movie my vote is four br br title brazil agonia agony ',
'get ready for it this is one of my favourite films of all time i am relatively unaware of david mamet s writer and director other works but after having watched this film half a dozen times it s always a joy to watch i can say without hesitation that he is a genius this film is extremely well written and quickly draws you in to its milieu of deceit con artistry and back room hustles the feel of the film is very similar to the sting and it also pays homage to film noir br br it s quite a psychologically complex film and will definitely get you thinking about the various plot twists and motives of the shady characters it is slightly predictable at times but the shocking climax is always exciting to watch br br generally the acting is superb especially joe mantegna but someone who i watched the film with remarked to me that it s not a good idea to have a heroine lindsay crouse who is not only a gambler a smoker and a thief but also sports a bad s hairdo i agree but i think she is nevertheless outstanding in the role br br the less you know about the plot of this film the better just like mamet s most recent film the spanish prisoner because the ending will be even more impressive just sit back and be prepared to be taken for a ride by a movie that comes dangerously close to brilliance ',
'the premise is amazing and the some of the acting notably sally kellerman and anthony rapp is charming but this film is near unwatchable the music sounds as if it comes from some sort of the royalty free online site and the lyrics as if they were written with a rhyming dictionary open on the lap most of the singing is off key i think they may have filmed with the singing accapella and put in the music under it the dialogue is really stupid and trite the movie works best when it is actually talking about the real estate but unfortunately it strays to often into stupid farcical sub plots i found myself checking my watch after ther first twenty minutes and after wondering when is it ever going to end ',
'opening the film with a bach toccata is an aural hint of what is to unfold in this intense drama all the compositional devices bach perfected to keep his listener and the performer intrigued and entertained applies to this film there isn t a mutual tenderness between the two lead characters and the lead female in the final scene i feel is justified in stating she was raped even though her victimizer feels she was forewarned that he was a cad mamet compellingly explores the emotional chasm and differences between the genders but i feel he is clueless about how they actually compliment one another given a healthy sense of humor if mamet ever developed a healthy humorous take on the interaction between the genders i wonder how this work would have ended as it exists it is very somber and mean spirited ',
'so you might be reading some of the comments posted on this film and you might be thinking to yourself huh there were sure a bunch of rave reviews posted on december funny thing is most of these rave reviews sound like they re coming from the same person or at best a small coordinated group of open house groupies the truth my friends is that this film is truly unwatchable just because it s independent doesn t mean it gets a free pass if you re going to make a musical whether on film or on stage whether on broadway or at the local community playhouse you should probably make sure that a your actors can sing b your actors can dance c you have decent sound equipment d you have a well written score and e you have lyrics that are witty and charming even anthony rapp can t save this one it s one of those unfortunate movie going experiences where i actually felt deeply embarrassed for everyone involved ',
'this is very nearly a perfect film the ideas would be repeated by mamet but never told so succinctly this is really about the failure of trust of the human condition the film weaves the idea that we are all criminals no one is innocent is there anyone alive today who hasn t seen this play out in our own society every single day the film is very much structured like a hitchcock thriller except there are no more innocent characters the world is now completely polluted ruined and everyone is participating in the con could anything be more true br br don t miss the soundtrack it is wonderful ',
'i feel totally ripped off someone needs to refund the i spent at blockbuster to rent this homemade mess this is not a musical it is a complete waste of time and my evening what i don t get is why did this get distributed in the first place somebody must have been doing some heavy drugs the night that deal was made i ve seen better films come out of film schools and i have been to film school so i can say that as a fact the quality of this work is also just so very bad to view shot on dv nuff said the songs are not songs but just banter that sounds the same in every section want to see a good musical then don t rent this movie ',
' house of games is definitely not without its flaws plot holes stiff acting final scenes but they do little to detract from the fun of watching a thriller that so methodically messes with your head house of games does almost everything a good thriller is supposed to do of course this is not a huge feat given the fact that we re dealing with the the world of confidence men and the cons they perpetrate so it stands to reason that we never really know what s going on even though we think that we do but that s what makes the film worthwhile for those who are game a film for which repeated viewings are indulgences instead if necessities br br it has a definite hitchcock slant to it the film draws on some similar themes found his effort marnie considered a misfire when released but now regarded as one of the master s more thought provoking works one could easily consider the idea of lindsay crouse s character being the same as tippi hedrin s ten year later perhaps both are strong willed loners both with compulsive behaviors which compel them to walk too close to the shark pool as crouse s repressed up tight character says what s life without adventure put your reality check on a low setting and enjoy swimming with the sharks ',
'the single worst film i ve ever seen in a theater i saw this film at the austin film festival in and it blew my mind that this film was accepted to a festival it was an interesting premise and seemed like it could go somewhere but just fell apart every time it tried to do anything first of all if you re going to do a musical find someone with musical talent the music consisted of cheesy piano playing that sounded like they were playing it on a stereo in the room they were filming the lyrics were terribly written and when they weren t obvious rhymes they were groan inducing rhymes that showed how far they were stretching to try to make this movie work and you d think you d find people who could sing when making a musical right not in this case luckily they were half talking half singing in rhyme most of the time but when they did sing it made me cringe especially when they attempted to sing in harmony and that just addresses the music some of the acting was pretty good but a lot of the dialog was terrible as well as most of the scenes they obviously didn t have enough coverage on the scenes or they just had a bad editor because they consistently jumped the line and used terrible choices while cutting the film at least the director was willing to admit that no one wanted the script until they added the hook of making it a musical i hope the investors make sure someone can write music before making the same mistake again ',
'wealthy psychiatrist lindsay crouse has just published her first novel and is feeling down about her profession feeling that it s hopeless to help her patients a young gambling junkie client asks her to help him pay off his debts if he truly wants to help him get better here she gets involved with joe mantegna to reveal any more of the plot would spoil one hell of a fun movie and house of games may very well be the best con movie i ve seen david mamet wrote and directed this gem that s full of snappy dialogue great one liners and enough twists to keep you guessing til the end crouse is perfect as the uptight psychiatrist needing a change and mantegna tops her as the devilishly sly con man and with the exception of a coincidence in the last quarter of the movie the film is in utter control of it s audience and we are loving the con br br out of ',
'this movie was so terrible it was almost good almost we love musicals but not this one even with the terrible sound quality poor cinematography and many actors who can t sing or dance anthony rapp actually managed to give a good performance especially toward the end the character marjorie a drunk lady was enjoyable to watch too br br the plot is very unexpected and could have been funny without terrible singing and cheezy piano music admittadly some of the songs fantabulous are pretty catchy but not in a good way br br open house is a funny movie to watch simply because it is awful we think it might be a good stage musical with excellent actors ',
'i m not great at writing reviews so i ll just spout my opinions br br i loved this series at first the adventure the action the comedy the drama i thought it was all brilliant anderson tapping shanks judge davis i loved them all davis it seemed was the fifth most important person in the cast not a big deal but when his character general hammond left at the end of the seventh season and anderson s character colonel o neill moved from the field to the office the quality of the series suddenly fell off a cliff i don t know whether it s because hammond was more important that i realized or what but for some reason after the seventh season the series turned to br br the first seven seasons though were awesome the movie stargate seemed mediocre the first time i saw it but it turned out to be even if this wasn t the original intention a brilliant setup to the series i recommend that you watch the movie first then watch the first season of the tv series then watch the movie again you ll have a whole new appreciation of it the second time around believe me and then watch the rest of the tv series br br the last three seasons of the series aren t nearly as good as the first seven but that doesn t mean they aren t good it just means they re a letdown if you ve gotten spoiled by the first seven seasons br br after you have finished this series be sure to watch the spin off series stargate atlantis it is a worthy successor to this brilliant series br br edit on i just found out that don s davis died a few weeks ago it is a great loss ',
'normally i have much better things to do with my time than write reviews but i was so disappointed with this movie that i spent an hour registering with imdb just to get it off my chest br br you would think a movie with names like morgan freeman or kevin spacey would be a bankable bet well this movie was just terrible it is nigh on impossible to suspend disbelief i tried really i wanted to enjoy it but justin timberlake just wouldn t let me br br timberlake should stick to music what a dreadful performance no presence as an actor no character can t blame everything on justin the movie also boast a dreadful plot badly timed editing its definitely an f br br after seeing this i have to wonder what really motivates actors i mean surely morgan actually read the script before taking the part did he not see how poor it was what then could motivate him to take the part money of course acting is at times more about who you are seen with rather than really developing quality work br br ll cool j is a great actor he gets a lot more screen time than freeman or spacey in this movie and really struggles to come to terms with the poor script br br meanwhile the audience goes what the hell is going on here you expect me to believe this crap br br in short apart from justin a great lineup badly executed very disappointing ',
'house of games is spell binding it s so nice to occasionally see films that are perfect tens there are few movies i ve seen that can grip you so quickly from the opening scene this movie just gets you br br i m trying really hard not to give to much away to those who may not yet have seen this but there will be a few spoilers so don t read anymore if you don t want to know br br i would say house of games is not just a superb film but is the best movie about con artists i have ever seen bar none from the moment the movie is over it begs to be replayed br br lindsay crouse as margaret ford is simply perfection from her mannerisms to the inflection of her voice she gets into the role immediately joe mantegna was also wonderful the dialogue in this movie has an unforced almost unscripted quality and these two people communicate as much in a look as they do with their voices i also loved the way the movie was filmed in that grainy surreal type of way it fit perfectly and helped make the film what it was br br there were a few movies i ve seen and loved that this reminded me of including the grifters and the usual suspects but really house of games is completely different in it s way margaret and mike are two of the most absorbing characters i ve seen on the big screen and not only do they have screen chemistry that is strong and palpable from the moment they meet but the buildup that starts from the moment they set eyes on each other is electrifying you know something s going to happen but you have no idea what and just when you think you ve guessed what the something is you realize you haven t even scratched the surface br br house of games is one of those movies that may be lumped in to a certain genre of movie type but is essentially a movie about human nature the character study is not just about the mind of the con artist but the victim as well as the movie moves along and we get to know more and more about the main characters we learn about them not just through what they say but how they say it it is a great character study and is flawless in the way it speeds to it s conclusion br br in closing i d rank this of call it although not my absolute favorite film pretty high on the list most definitely outstanding and would go so far as to say it does rank as one of the best character studies and contains some of the best twists i ve ever seen as well although i love all types and genres of movies when it comes to movies of the human psyche it really doesn t get much better then this see this movie ',
'did heidijean really see this movie a great christmas movie not even close dull bland and completely lacking in imagination and heart i kept watching this movie wondering who the hell thought that carly pope could play the lead in this movie the woman has no detectable personality and gives a completely lackluster performance baransky was great as usual and provided the only modicum of interesting the whole thing probably her involvement was the only reason this project was green lighted to begin with maybe i m expecting too much for a lifetime movie played days from christmas but i sat through this thing thinking that with a different director and a recasting jj with an actress that at least could elicit sympathy this could have been quite a cute little movie ',
'here s my first david mamet directed film fitting since it was his first as well br br the story here is uneven and it moves along like any con movie from the little cons to the big cons to the all encompassing con it s like the grifters but without that film s level of acting in that film john cusack was sort of bland but that was the nature of his character the acting here is very flat i sometimes wondered if the bland acting by crouse was supposed to be some sort of attack on psychoanalysis at least in the beginning it never gets really good but it evolves beyond painfully stiff line reading after about ten minutes early in the film some of lindsay crouse s lines the way she reads them sound as if they re inner monologue or narration which they aren t with the arrival of mantegna things pick up br br the dialogue here isn t as fun as it should be i was expecting crackerjack ring a ding ding lines that roll off the tongue but these ones don t it all sounds very read rather than spoken maybe mamet evolved after this film and loosened up but if not then maybe he should let others direct his words he s far too precious with them here and as a result they lose their rhythmic jazzy quality what s more strange is that other than this the film doesn t look or feel like a play the camera is very cinematic my only problem with glengarry glen ross was that it looked too much like filmed theatre but in that film the actors were not only accomplished but relaxed and free everything flowed br br i wouldn t mind so much if it sounded like movie characters speaking movie lines or even play characters speaking play lines but here it sounds like movie or even book characters speaking play lines it s a weird jumble of theatre and film that just doesn t work that doesn t mean the movie is bad it isn t it s often extremely entertaining the best chunk is in the middle br br it s standard con movie stuff the new guy in this case girl margaret ford lindsay crouse gets involved in the seedy con underworld how she gets involved is she s a psychiatrist and one of her patients billy is a compulsive gambler she wants to help him out with his gambling debt so she walks into the house of games a dingy game room where con men work in a back room i ll admit the setup is pretty improbable were they just expecting crouse to come in were they expecting she d write a cheque was billy in on it one of these questions is definitely answered by the end however br br and from here the cons are start to roll out i found the beginning ones the little learner ones to be the most fun we re getting a lesson in the art of the con as much as crouse is br br we see the ending coming and then we didn t see the second ending coming and then the real ending i didn t see coming but maybe you did the ball just keeps bouncing back and forth and by the last scene in the movie we realize that the second crouse walked into the house of games she found her true calling br br i m going to forgive the annoying opening the improbable bits and the strange line reading because there are many good things here if the first part of the movie seems stagy stick with it after the half hour mark it does really get a momentum going if you want a fun con movie then here she is if you want mamet go watch glengarry glen ross again james foley did him better br br ',
'carly pope plays jj a newly promoted food critic whose flamboyant overbearing mother moves in with her jj aghast at this turn of events then blackmails restaurant owner alex to entertain her mother in exchange for maybe reviewing his dying restaurant alex predictably falls for the daughter while warming to the mother there are numerous problems with this movie the characters are universally dimensional jj is a self serving hateful character her mother superficial and shallow jj s colleagues at the magazine are bitchy and opportunistic the underlying message of an over woman unable to make it on her own without male assistance is bad bad bad the acting is uniformly dull the script uninspired the films only saving grace is the setting of new york city i would so not recommend this film ',
'if your idea of a thriller is car chases explosions and dozens of people being mowed down by gunfire then house of games is definitely not the movie for you if you like and appreciate psychological drama and suspense then by all means see it br br house of games tells the story of an esteemed psychologist and writer dr margaret ford lindsay crouse who tries to help a patient and gets involved in the shadowy world of con men led by the charismatic mike joe mantegna to say anything more about the plot would ruin the suspense frankly i find it hard to believe anyone who says they saw the twists coming just like a clever con artist this movie draws you into its web and lulls your vigilance br br the story is taut and well crafted the dialogue smart and laconic the acting uniformly good mantegna is superbly charismatic some have complained that dr ford is not a very sympathetic character and wondered why mamet would make lindsay crouse look so physically unattractive but dr ford is supposed to be cold and aloof moreover her homeliness is in a way essential to the plot at one point i believe that an injury to her sexual self esteem is a key part of her motivation i ll say no more br br house of games is a dark look at the underside of human nature that concludes on a note of discomforting ambiguity it will hold your attention every second while you are watching and stay with you for a long time afterwards ',
'i wasn t expecting this to be a great movie but neither was i expecting it to be so awful i hated the mother character so much i had to turn the channel i turned it back hoping it was just one part of the movie but no and for the daughter to sit there take being embarrassed or almost done out of a job or driven to madness inside her own home are you kidding me i was raised to respect and even fear my mother but i d put her up fast in the nearest hotel if she proved that annoying in my house i was expected to follow a set of rules in my mother s house after all br br i didn t buy any of it i tried giving it several chances i really did sorry ',
'house of games is a wonderful movie at multiple levels it is a fine mystery and a shocking thriller it is blessed with marvelous performances by lindsay crouse and joe montegna and a strong strong cast of supporting players and it introduces ricky jay card sharp extraordinaire prestidigitator and historian of magic its dialogue written by david mamet is spoken as if in a play of manners and gives the movie in which reality is often in question an extra dimension of unrealness br br on the face of it house of games is a convincing glimpse into the unknown world of cheats and con men diametrically different from the sting which was played merely for glamour and yuks at this level it does succeed admirably br br however you cannot escape the examination at a deeper level of the odyssey of a woman from complacent professional competence to incredible strength and self realization the only movie i know of which treats the theme of emergence of personal strength in a woman in as worthy a way is the underrated private benjamin that thoroughly enjoyable movie unfortunately diffuses its focus hopping among several themes and exploiting the fine performance of goldie hawn to chase after some easy laughs house of games sticks to its business as poe once said of a good short story it drives relentlessly to its conclusion br br there is another strain of movies about women epitomized by thelma and louise a big budget commercial money maker with the despicable theme that women are doomed whether or not they realize their inner strengths what tripe br br as usual you really ought to see this film in a movie theater it should be a natural for film festivals nominate it for one near you if you get the chance br br i bought the original version of house of games and gave it to my year old daughter better she should see it on a tv than not at all ',
'i hate to sound like an old person but frankly i haven t seen too many movies that i like that were made after generally movies just seem to get worse and worse although i quite enjoyed the scott baio vehicle the bread my sweet except for the de rigeur sex scene which added nothing of value to that movie this movie makes the mother a former las vegas chorus girl seem to be incapable of surviving on her own although she is clearly in her s though hinted at being in her s i didn t buy it i m and like all the women i know in their s and s more than capable of surviving on my own as i have been doing since i graduated from high school at got legally emancipated and set off on my own life s journey br br the daughter is not believable in her job role she gets a promotion she doesn t deserve a great opportunity and drops that ball too but when another female employee steps up to the plate and is ready to deliver the writers shoot her down as an opportunist when she was just doing what any career oriented person would do taking advantage of a wide open opportunity created by the lack of self discipline of her coworker a girl who apparently doesn t understand the concept of honoring her promises to her boss in this case br br the daughter grudgingly allows her mother to stay with her on a temporary basis but then treats her mother the woman who gave her life and raised her to adulthood like a pariah apparently the writers of tripe like this do not understand that it is not the common thing for parents to act like children and then be treated as children by their children that is just more of the societal baloney that hollywood keeps trying to force down our throats as though we their public were stupid for desiring to be entertained by their creative offerings br br this is a sad movie with a stupid ending if the young male restauranteur had been real and not a two dimensional tv character he d have stayed with the mother who was not that much older than him and quite attractive but in the end he falls for the daughter a shallow rather uninteresting girl who has that cuteness of youth but in an ordinary bland way the opportunist young woman who worked with this nothing girl was far more attractive physically br br there was no believable reason presented to the audience as to why the restauranteur preferred the daughter who was an uptight selfish self centered btch who treated her mother with unbelievable disrespect to the mother a woman who was kindhearted sweet tempered humorous and had a joie de vivre the daughter could not even begin to comprehend of course the mother had her own flaws she had reacted to her husband s demise by drinking herself into a stupor for a year or two afterwards which supposedly created the rift between her and her smarmy daughter br br regardless of the way the characters were or were not developed this is a baloney movie and a waste of your valuable viewing time unless you actually like baloney where s the mustard ',
'the united states of kiss my ass br br house of games is the directional debut from playwright david mamet and it is an effective and at times surprising psychological thriller it stars lindsay crouse as best selling psychiatrist margaret ford who decides to confront the gambler who has driven one of her patients to contemplate suicide in doing so she leaves the safety and comfort of her somewhat ordinary life behind and travels downtown to visit the lowlife place house of games br br the gambler mike played excellently by joe mantegna turns out to be somewhat sharp and shifty he offers crouse s character a deal if she is willing to sit with him at a game a big money game in the backroom he ll cancel the patients debts the card game ensues and soon the psychiatrist and the gambler are seen to be in a familiar line of work gaining the trust of others and a fascinating relationship begins what makes house of games interesting and an essential view for any film fan is the constant guessing of who is in control is it the psychiatrist or the con man or is it the well known man of great bluffs david mamet br br in house of games the direction is dull and most of the times flat and uninspiring however in every david mamet film it is the story which is central to the whole proceedings not the direction in house of games this shines through in part thanks to the superb performances from the two leads showy and distracting but mainly as is the case with much of mamet s work it is the dialogue which grips you and slowly draws you into the film no one in the house of games says what they mean and conversations become battlegrounds and war of words everyone bluffs and double bluffs which is reminiscent of a poker games natural order this is a running theme throughout the film and is used to great effect at the right moments to create vast amounts of tension house of games can also be viewed as a class war division movie with lindsay crouse we have the middle class well to do educated psychiatrist and joe mantegna is the complete opposite the working class of america earning a living by honest crime br br the film seduces the viewer much like crouse is seduced by mantegna and the end result is ultimately a very satisfying piece of american cinema and the final of the film is definitely something for all to see and watch out for it s stunning br br an extremely enjoyable film experience that is worth repeated viewings ',
'having seen men behind the sun i guess i hoped for an evolution in style technique to match the larger scale of this movie i was also quite interested to see someone make a hard hitting fact based fictionalised account of what happened during this most notorious of japanese atrocities but this is not it this plays like a bottom to mid tier european nazi exploitation movie from the s e g ss experiment camp etc perhaps more like deported women of the special section actually granted it has a greater scope and more people running around but it resorts to the same cheap and cheerless device of lots of hapless non actors limply falling over to the sound of ridiculously fake gunshots spiced up with the occasional poorly executed shock sequence the admittedly horrible documentary footage is roughly spliced in between scenes so hackneyed that even these real images are robbed of much of their power watch channel s the holocaust aired recently still running as of no for a genuinely disturbing documentary on the evils of war featuring excellent in context use of actual footage this is the type of treatment the horror of nanjing deserves not this hackneyed exploitation garbage a better executed exploitation movie minus the disrespectful use of stock footage would have been fine but again this is not even a very good exploitation movie rating as exploitation as a treatment of the subject ',
'david mamet wrote the screenplay and made his directorial debut with house of games a character study fraught with psychological overtones in which a psychiatrist is lured into the dark world of the confidence game margaret ford lindsay crouse has a successful practice and has written a best selling novel driven still she is somewhat discontented with her own personal life there s an emptiness she can neither define nor resolve and it primes her vulnerability when a patient billy hahn steven goldstein confides to her during a session that he owes big money to some gamblers and that they re going to kill him if he doesn t pay she decides to intervene on his behalf this takes her to the house of games a seedy little dive where she meets mike joe mantegna a charismatic con man who wastes no time before enticing her into his world instead of the twenty five large that billy claimed he owed mike shows her his book and it turns out to be eight hundred dollars and mike agrees to wipe the slate clean if she ll agree to do him one simple favor which involves a card game he has going on in the back room in the middle of a big hand mike is going to leave the room for a few minutes while he is gone her job is to watch for the tell of one of the other players by this time not only margaret but the audience as well is hooked the dialogue and mamet s unique style and the precise cadence with which his actors deliver their lines is mesmerizing as mike leads margaret through his compelling surreal realm of existence and introduces her to the intricacies of the con game we are swept right along with her from that first memorable encounter when he demonstrates what a tell is and how it works to the lessons of the short con to the stunning climax of this film mamet keeps the con going with an urgency that is relentless and nothing is what it seems in the end margaret learns some hard lessons about life and human nature and about herself she changes and whether or not it s for the better is open to speculation mantegna is absolutely riveting in this film he lends every nuance possible to a complex character who must be able to lead you willingly into the shadows and does crouse also turns in an outstanding performance here you feel the rigid up tight turmoil roiling beneath that calm self assured exterior and when her experiences with mike induce the change in her she makes you feel how deeply it has penetrated she makes you believe that she is capable of what she does and makes you understand it as well the dynamic supporting cast includes mike nussbaum joey lilia skala dr littauer j t walsh the businessman ricky jay george and william h macy sergeant moran house of games is the quintessential mamet he s written and directed a number of high caliber plays and films since and will no doubt grace us with more in the future but this film will be the one that defines him and you can go to the dictionary and look it up you ll find it under perfection this is one great movie you do not want to miss i rate this one ',
'although i had no earthly idea on what to expect from this movie this sure as hell wasn t what i would have had in mind had anything actually come to mind once i heard of its existence all i knew was that i had to own a movie called please don t eat the babies unfortunately i could only find a copy under its alternate title island fury looking back i guess i could call it a lose lose situation on one hand i still don t get to be known as the guy who owns a movie called please don t eat the babies and on the other hand island fury would ultimately reveal itself to be an awful pointless boring unwatchable piece of garbage yeah definitely lose lose br br i m not even sure what genre they re going for here just early s badness with a flashback that might actually be longer than the non flashback first up two teenage girls are being chased by two bad guys once caught the bad guys bring to our attention that one of the girls have a coin on a string around her neck and somehow these bad guys know of a lot more of these coins hidden on an island somewhere and this is where things start to get weird somehow these guys know of a trip the girls took to some island years earlier when they were only i guess this is supposed to mean that the girls should know exactly where this alleged treasure is so now we re in the past while the girls try to retrace their steps so these bad guys don t kill them although i wouldn t have minded if they had in the flashback the year old counterparts are on a boat trip with their sisters and the sisters boyfriends eventually stopping by an island for some air they get mixed up with some kid and his killer grandparents any potential suspense or reasons to keep on watching never shows up but the flashback was undeniably better than the present which still isn t saying much br br for a while there i had forgotten about the original story at one point i ithought maybe the director had too and when the flashback ended that would be the end which would have worked for me considering this disappointment would have been a half hour shorter this pointless movie within a pointless movie does eventually end and real stuff does happen but it s stupid i guess i didn t exactly expect a movie filled with infants being devoured or anything like that but i did expect some form of outlandish b entertainment mostly just a confusing inept storyline unsure of its genre my advice would be to seek out something worthwhile like attack of the beast creatures if anyone i would only recommend this one to serious b movie collectors who must have them all anyone else interested probably has brain damage what really gets me is that i still have no idea why they called it please don t eat the babies ',
'this movie is amazing while being funny and entertaining it is also profoundly deep and eye opening i will watch it again and again bruce is a guy who is unhappy with his life he has a job and a life but it isn t what he thinks it will take to bring him happiness bruce is bitter unsatisfied and resentful that his life isn t the way he envisions it should be as a result of this state of mind bruce ends up losing his job and blaming god for everything that he thinks is wrong with his life god comes to bruce and grants him godly powers bruce uses these powers to get everything he has always wanted his life is finally exactly what he envisioned it would take to make him happy with one exception in the process of gaining everything he loses the one person who truly loved him as the movie unfolds bruce learns that the real change that needed to occur in his life was not the circumstances but his perception of what was truly there this movie was inspirational and deep if you really pay attention it forces you to look at your life with a deeply humbling respect for the fact that a lot of the time we are so much more blessed than we recognize as my wife says since when does anybody know what it takes to make them happy and my humble addition may we not lose ourselves and those who matter while we try to find out ',
'roommates sugar and bobby lee are abducted by menacing dudes while out shopping one day and taken back to a secluded island that the girls reluctantly tell the thugs that they last visited when they were ten years of age and that a fortune is located on all that just pretty much bookends a movie that is pretty much one long flashback about the girls first visit to the island and subsequent fight with a cannibalistic family br br this one is extremely horribly acted by everyone involved to the point that i started feeling bad for poor hank worden who truly deserved much much better as much as i didn t like barracuda that s on the same dvd i have to admit that this film makes that one look like citizen kane br br eye candy one pair of tits they might belong to kirsten baker br br my grade f br br dark sky dvd extras vintage ads for various drive in food and trailers for bonnie s kids features nudity the centerfold girls part time wife features nudity psychic killer eaten alive the dvd also comes with s barracuda ',
'this is one of those movies that they did too much promoting for if you watch t v then you might as well not watch the movie almost all the funny scenes are spoiled in the previews except one which just happens to be jennifer annisten being the funny one it is typical jim carrey humor and it is really funny just don t go see this movie expecting to be surprised all in all if you like jim carrey or comedies this is a must see otherwise just watch the previews and you ll be just as satisfied ',
'this is available on a drive in double feature from dark sky films and since i just had finished up barracuda i watched this too this is a film that proves to be incredibly ambitious and inept at the same time br br we begin with two young ladies wandering the streets of some foreign town but where exactly are they they stop to look at necklaces from some chinese vendor and try on chinese style clothes at a shop but then we see some aztec dancers and all the while these girls are being followed by two guys who eventually drop whatever stealth they didn t have to chase the girls on a wild run though the town and they finally catch them br br it seems that one of the girls has a coin on a string around her neck and these guys want to find the loot and where did she get it so in flashback we go back to find out and how did they know she had this coin hard to say really br br now back in the day when these two women were years old they were out with their sisters and their sister s boyfriends on a boat and after stopped to get air in their tanks they tow this young boy back to his home dock only to have his grandpa come out invite the young uns up for herbal tea with granny but not everyone has the tea todd has gone back to the boat to check on the young girls and then when they re away from it the boat blows up and when they get back to the house their friends have mysteriously disappeared well it seems as though these kindly folk raise their own vegetables but they wait for the meat to drop by for a spell and serve it herbal tea br br but the girls and todd did leave the island but now they re returning escorted by their captors and they re there to find the treasure despite the fact that no one ever showed the girls where it was before there also seems to be someone else on the island and the thugs mysteriously begin to die one by one and since there s only three it doesn t take long and there s even a sort of happy ending which will leave the viewer every bit as baffled as they were throughout the rest of the film br br the two thugs seem to be speed freaks with anger issues and combined with no acting ability they re borderline hilarious the hillbilly type family is also devoid of acting ability despite the fact that the grandpa is hank worden who appeared in many films and tv shows the action is confusing the locales are even more confusing and the island looks like southern california br br so what the hell is this i m not sure but it certainly is worth seeing once so you can think or say huh out of very bizarre ',
'i absolutely loved this movie it met all expectations and went beyond that i loved the humor and the way the movie wasn t just randomly silly it also had a message jim carrey makes me happy ',
'first of all i just want to say that i love this show but this episode this episode makes a mockery of the entire show br br i don t know what they tried to achieve with this episode but they successfully created the worst episode in the entire series br br there is no story line everything is chaotic and the jokes are crap br br the way they tried to answer some of the remaining questions in the game for example how do the furlings look like by creating that stupid previously on is simply embarrassing br br its clear that the writers are running out of ideas and that is really too bad ',
'wow finally jim carrey has returned from the died this movie had me laughing and crying it also sends a message that we should all know and learn from jeniffer aniston was great she will finally have a hit movie under her belt if you liked liar liar you will love this movie i give it ',
'this really should deserve a o rating or even a negative ten i watched this show for ages and the show jumped the shark around series this episode however is proof that the show has jumped the shark it s writing is lazy absurd self indulgent and not even worthy of rubbish like beavis and butthead br br it is quite possible to be ridiculous and still be fun pirates of the caribbean the mummy count of monte cristo all fun movies that are not to be taken seriously however there is such thing as ridiculous as in this is the worst thing i ve ever seen and indeed this is the worst episode of stargate i ve ever seen it s absolutely dreadful and this coming from someone with a stargate in her basement br br makes me want to sell all of my stargate props most seriously ',
'i have to say from the beginning when i watched the stargate movie movie i wasn t blown away or anything it was like an average sci fi movie with a lot of potential though the movie wasn t as erm amazing as other sci fi movies such as star wars or aliens which if u are a sci fi fanatic u will admit one of those two titles are amazing even though i m not as hardcore sci fi fan as some people i don t remember one line from either of those movies i m not a big fan of wearing star wars t shirts in fact if you saw me i would look like an average person to you ah getting slightly off the point here well my point is that the that you don t have to be a hard core sci fi fan to like this great series which unfortunately ended after amazing seasons with no drop in its quality as it got nearer to its end in br br though i didn t like the movie much i was quite looking forward to the first season in and let me tell you the special effects were only one of the brilliant things about the series the chemistry between the characters just blew me away the special affects were as good if not better than most sci fi shows running today i have to admit that i would never have gone into sci fi if it wasn t for stargate and my dad who actually got me into sci fi when i was like and i m glad he did other wise i wouldn t have seen the brilliant shows like sg which now in my opinion sets the benchmark for nearly all sci fi series and movies basically if a new sci fi series isn t better or as good as sg its not worth watching basically this is the best sci fi show to date and if you don t watch this then you have no idea what you are missing ',
'i don t remember the last time i reacted to a performance as emotionally as i did to justin timberlake s in edison i got so emotional i wanted to scream in anguish destroy the screen readily accept the hopeless cries of nihilism timberlake is horribly miscast in fact casting him is like casting andy dick to play the lead role in patton or nathan lane to play jesus but that is almost beside the point br br timberlake is simply a bad actor and he would be equally terrible in any role i used to have problems with ben affleck s acting talent but timberlake makes affleck look like sir ian mckellen or dame judi dench with his metrosexual lisp read lithp his boyish glances and emotional expressions which derive from something like the clich expressions for actors he poisons the screen upon which he is inflicted mercilessly and no matter how you slice it i do not and will not buy his role as an amateur turned crusader for justice journalist it simply will not fly br br however timberlake alone isn t to blame for his failure director david j burke puts him not only in the essentially primary role but also places him aside morgan freeman kevin spacey john heard dylan mcdermott cary elwes and i m surprised he was as good ll cool j i can imagine one almost physically suffering watching some of this cast interact with timberlake br br there is an upside to this of course the moment any of these actors interact without justin there it feels like a double relief a pleasure if you will freeman and spacey may not have more than minutes of screen time alone together but that ten minutes is blissful in contrast to their scenes with our so called hero dylan mcdermott is also a breath of fresh air br br but enough of timberlake bashing words aren t enough in this particular case to do the trick edison is a very very run of the mill corruption story it s plot ranges from clich to simply preposterous i do however admire the motivation behind making it which i interpret as an homage to films like serpico or donnie brasco or maybe even chinatown don t get me wrong edison is not even in the same ballpark as these films but i can stretch my suspension of disbelief to admire its reason for existence perhaps to justify my sitting through it br br the script in and of itself features some surprisingly bad writing yes it has some decent interchanges but any conversation between piper perabo who is wasted here and timberlake seems like it was lifted straight out of a dawson s creek episode it s your typical far too glib for reality let s impress the audience with how well we articulate and fail dialogue this dialogue mind you is punctuated by great music at the wrong moments sometimes it feels like edison wants to morph into a music video where the emotion of the scene is not communicated through acting but precisely through the badly chosen music and variant film speeds read slow motion br br thinking about it edison is a curiosity it s sure as hell got a cast to kill for but the performances are marred by timberlake who simply doesn t work in film as in most art if one thing is off the whole thing feels off directors must make tough choices david j burke missed the mark here some of the scenes play well in and of themselves but as a whole they don t seem to fit like puzzle pieces from different puzzles forced into one incoherent picture and it s not particularly an exciting puzzle to begin with ',
'bruce almighty is the best jim carrey work since the truman show and was a pleasant surprise after some of his recent hey hollywood look how good i can act box office disappointments it s great to see jim recognizing and embracing his strengths he won t get an academy award but the film itself will last longer than many of the awarded films of the academy he is at the top of his form in this most recent film it s like the return of an old friend br br carrey freeman and aniston all do a great job together comfortable in their comedy roles superb comic timing and obviously having fun together but without the hey mom look how funny i am type of comedy a real surprise was steven carrell as carrey s nemesis carrell of the daily show fame who walked away with some the best and funniest scenes of the film i laughed harder at carell than anyone else in the past three years br br i can foresee the religious nuts in the us will be up in arms over the treatment of god but the bottom line of the film is true to all major theological beliefs we are masses of protoplasms trying to get through our short lives by exercising our free will without married with children t o complain about this will likely become a target of people with misplaced priorities who know the types men adorned in gold watches on sunday morning and late nigh television selling prayers to god and again about of the country will care and of the media will report it br br the bottom line this a purely entertaining film each audience member laughingly wondering what they would do and a feel good feeling at the movie conclusion a walk down any major street in america has to confirm that god has a tremendous sense of humor what better comic genius to remind us of that than jim carry br br thanks again jim it s great to have you back ',
'i bought bloodsuckers on ebay a while ago i watched parts and deemed it just too dumb to review again the excessive amount of watery blood at the beginning is just plain obsolete not to mention the whip around wind sounds my friends and i made a super low budget movie and the effects still exceeded this crap fest br br as for the amount of mistakes in this movie there are way too many to count i knew one of the actors believe it or not he was my theatre teacher ha br br final verdict don t bother with this horror flick br br stars out of a possible ',
'after a slow beginning bruce almighty is a very funny film that had something positive to say it wasn t one of jim carrey s best performances but he was still ok morgan freeman was just right as god jennifer aniston had some good moments i miss steve correll on the daily show br br i like director tom shadyac s choices of movies he also did liar liar patch adams and the nutty professor in all three of those and in bruce almighty he takes a big comedy star and tells a human story with him a director who knows comedy can get the talent he gets and can tell a meaningful and intelligent story with it is hard to find br br my biggest complaint is that they should have used more biblical references i only remember three specific biblical references and they were the three funniest parts of the whole movie my guess is that the first few drafts of the screenplay had more biblical references but they were cut out because the producers were afraid of offending people that s too bad because i thought it was a missed opportunity br br my grade br br out of ',
' minutes and it felt twice that long brief crossing is not brief enough indeed the first minutes or so consist almost entirely of a dialogue more of a monologue really of a woman approaching middle age tediously droning about men disappointment sex aging and her recent breakup to a french teenager she met in the ship s cafeteria br br the tedious monologue continues as they go to duty free shop and to a bar where finally her self involved rant pushes him away the story can t end there of course so she persuades him to listen to her drone on more as she brings him to her cabin br br what little romance sex or for that matter anything at all this film has besides bitter rantings is hardly enough to justify the price of a rental unless you are one of those who love dramas where nothing interesting happens at all yes the ending is very nicely done but it is scant reward to subject yourself to what amounts to a turning your living room into a virtual therapy session with a narcissistic whiner br br of course some people like it i could be wrong ',
'let me start out by saying i m a big carrey fan although i ll admit i haven t seen all of his movies coughthe magesticcough bruce almighty was enjoyable none of the other reviews have really gone into how cheesy it gets towards the end i dont know what the writers were thinking somehow i couldn t help but feel like this movie was a poor attempt at re creating liar liar br br on a positive note the daily show s steve correl is hilarious and so is the rest of the cast see bruce almighty if you re a big jim carrey fan or if you just want to see a light hearted que soft piano music somewhat funny comedy ',
'it has its merit s morvern callar is both the merits and the disappointments she s so enigmatic so original is it her method of dealing with the pain of a lost one that s making her so distant and un relatable or is she as one reviewer called her a revolutionary personally i d call her dysfunctional br br morvern is completely detaching herself disposing of her boyfriend not thinking of informing family or using the money he gave her for a proper funeral she selfishly splashes out on a trip to spain she s seems so devoid of anything relatively human bar greed the only element that enables the audience see the human side of her is her close friend she takes on holiday with her although by the end her friend is dumped and morvern has nothing that ties her down to humanity she may as well have killed herself br br despite managing to make spain look as gloomy and bland as the uk the director s shots were superb the lighting and color made the film visually stunning br br it s really a shame the movie has nothing in it that keeps interest it s little over minutes but feels a lot longer they manage to make morvern seem interesting to grab your attention but do nothing with her only alienate her from you more to the point where you don t care about the characters or the film ',
'bruce almighty will sweep the academy awards with a record oscar wins it will surpass titanic as the highest grossing film of all time jim carrey s illustriousness will be at such a supreme level that he will announce his presidential candidacy for the white house playoffs almighty then these grandeur fantasies would only transpire if the filmmakers carrey included would possess the powers of god that very same premise is the paramount ingredient in carrey s new laugh riot bruce almighty carrey plays bruce nolan a televison reporter who is so utterly obsessed in being the main anchor that he holds god to total culpability for his own contretemps god heavenly played by morgan freeman grants bruce the gift of god his powers in order to challenge him if he can do god s job any better obviously bruce gets carreyed away with his newfound blissful faculties and uses them selfishly carrey is back in his habitual almighty comedic form in bruce almighty jennifer aniston was not mis pittiful as bruce s girlfriend however my premier kudos goes to director tom shadyac for not letting the dog out of the house for and showing us the most hilarious doggoned bathroom scene of all time bruce almighty is not the most in depth carrey film but it is still an almighty chuckling exhibition of carreyism good ',
'my wife and i watch a film every night with no distractions and mostly artsy films that require thought i have tons of patience for films that are slow to blossom my wife has double the attention span that i do all that being said this film is just plain empty and boring it went nowhere never blossomed it started fairly strong with a promising plot then she bakes cookies goes to spain she sulks she stares the credits roll uneven full of holes false starts dead ends we ff d through several extended sequences of her just staring off into space artificial depth was implied when she played with the mud and cried zzzz it s like a beautifully shot chick flick that s pretending to be deep or artsy you never get to know nor understand morvern at all about halfway through you just don t care anymore we just wanted to see at least one of the plot lines develop don t waste your time on this i m shocked it scores so high ',
'jim carrey and morgan freeman along with jennifer aniston combine to make one of the funniest movies so far this season late may and a good improvement on carrey s past crazy and personally forgetable roles in past comedies with a slightly toned down carrey antics yet with just the zap and crackle of his old self carrey powerfully carries this movie to the height of laughter and also some dramatic tearfully somber moments elements of jim s real acting abilities continue to show up in this movie this delightful summer entertainment hits most of the buttons including dramatic elements along with the goofy moments that fit perfectly with this script while still lacking in the superbly polished ensemble of comedy drama bruce almightly deserves credit for being a great date movie along with a solid message and soft spiritual cynicism and parody that maintains its good natured taste eight out of ten stars ',
'nothing happens br br then characters with no personality don t develop br br then the end never comes because there s no beginning and no middle br br there are beautiful shots that are made not beautiful because they aren t even allowed to be because this movie isn t even there there s no is in this movie because there s no plot or characters or themes or ideas or symbolism or discussion or dialog or point there s nothing br br there is a good point it has a good soundtrack but the sound editing is such and the movie proper is such that watching it isn t even worth your time so if you re really interested i d suggest going and buying the soundtrack or something you ll get everything you can from this movie without all the fatigue headache and impatience br br polarisdib ',
'ok so it s not a masterpiece like the godfather but it doesn t have to be the only purpose this movie has is to make the viewer laugh several times if it can make the viewer laugh a bunch of times it has accomplished its purpose i laughed out loud and left with a smile i feel like i got my money s worth ',
'there are a lot of pretentious people out there who will pretend that this is endowed with some kind of beautiful meaning and that ignorant fools like me don t get it obviously this means that we should stick to hollywood dross br br it has every a hem artistic clich in the book i guess it is good that the director is one of the chosen few almost a self parody drowning in its own pretense br br the director of the almost equally embarrassing movie ratcatcher returns with another piece wallowing in artistic nonsense it is difficult to understand and apparently is a study of alienation the best way to describe this film is alienating for its viewers ',
'fairly funny jim carrey vehicle that has him as a news reporter who temporarily gets the power of god and wrecks havoc carrey is back in familiar ground here and looks to be having a good time and jennifer aniston as his put upon girlfriend is also charming and affecting the story is predictible to the extreme but the cast including morgan freeman as god is great and makes the film worth catching grade b ',
'it was probably just my dvd but i would not recommend that anyone try to watch this picture on a dvd br br i had to turn up the volume on my tv to the highest possible level in order to hear about percent of the dialog some of the talking still remained sub audible if you re from scotland you might have a chance albeit a slim one br br peoples voices were drowned out by nearly all ambient sounds including unwrapping a package footsteps even puffing on a cigarette br br with the volume turned up to a level at which voices can be heard i can guarantee that at least one of your neighbors will phone the police when the scene changes to a loud environment such as a disco and that you will injure yourself diving for the remote to turn it back down br br there is art and there is art even in the field of audio mixing but this effort in a time of war would meet international criteria to be classified as an atrocity br br after about a half hour i gave up having seen nothing else redeeming in the picture either ',
'well not actually this movie is very entertaining though went and saw it with the girlfriend last night and had to use the i think there might be something in my eye routine the movie is a great combination of comedy and typical romance jim carey is superb as a down on his luck reporter who is given the power to change himself and the city in which he resides in fact all the characters are great the movie is not overly funny or sappy good flick to go see with the wife br br all in all note i am not an easy grader thats all from bigv over and out ',
'when a movie of a book seems pointless and incomprehensible the cause can invariably be found in the book either it was pointless to start with or the point is one not easily conveyed to film or the movie missed the point which is the most frequent of these results and the easiest to happen especially when the point is one not easily defined the book morvern callar has a point every reader of the book must have felt this and felt as if he had gotten it but i suspect most of them could not state it in words i m not sure i can myself but perhaps it comes to this or something like it things come things go such is life but we carry on or at any rate some of us people like morvern do no doubt a more erudite critic could construct a more adequate definition but the important fact is that there is a point possibly the sum of the entire story is the point and that this would have been the main thing to keep in view and to carry over in adapting the story to film the maker of this film evidently missed the point and doesn t substitute one of her own and so the film is about nothing br br this is not the usual complaint of a book lover that his favorite text has been violated the merit of the book is something i conceded grudgingly in reading it i found it a bloody nuisance and an occasion for kicking the author in the pants and getting him in to finish the job properly the narrative is supposed to be the work of the half educated morvern but that illusion is constantly dispelled by a dozen different types of literary effect as if the author were poking at her with his pen there are inconsistencies of style and tone as if different sections had been composed at different times and any conclusions i could reach about morvern had to remain tentative because it was uncertain which implications the author intended and which he did not for instance despite morvern s own self characterization as a raver am i wrong that in the end she remains essentially a working class scots girl and beneath her wrapping of music downloads not so different from those of generations past in any case despite my irritation at the author i couldn t deny that his book stuck with me and what i couldn t get out of my head was his character s attitude her angle on the world which was almost as vivid as a goya portrait morvern is the kind of person who s always encountering situations at once rather comic and rather horrible occasionally she invites them but more often they land on her like flies so that much of her life consists of a kind of gauche but graceful slogging through unconsciously practical and unconsciously philosophical and that doesn t begin to describe it idiosyncratically enough the complex of incidents and of morvern s responses to them are the substance of the book and its achievement in exposing a cross section of existence it would be difficult to illuminate otherwise for all my dislike of the book i can see this br br the morvern just described is not the morvern of the movie or if it is most of her is kept offscreen an actress who might have been a good fit for the character had she been the right age at the right time is angharad rees from the old tv series poldark samantha morton then would seem like good casting she s rather the same sort of actress and in one of her earlier movies jesus son she played a girl who with a few adjustments could have been turned into this one unfortunately as the film turned out she doesn t have the character from the book to play for one thing the book is one that if it is to be dramatized virtually cries out for monologues by the main character to the audience without her comments her perspective her voice the story loses most of its meaning it has lost more of it in that the adaptor has expurgated it of its comic and horrible elements the most memorable incidents from the book are curtailed before they turn grotty and so morvern s responses whether of amusement or distaste depending on her mood are missing too and the incidents no longer have a reason for being in the story in short the filmmaker chose for some reason to turn a brisk edgy serio comic novel into a genteel art tv film and chose as her typical image one of ms morton languishing in a artistically shaded melancholy as if the outing morvern signs up for were a tour of the stations of the cross this isn t at all what the book or the morvern of the book was about for another thing the morvern of the movie isn t scottish the actress said in an interview she hadn t had time to study up the accent and she ought to be it s important that she her family and her mates are all from a single place and finally the film is missing the end of the story morvern s spending all she has and coming home to icy darkness it s winter the dam has frozen the power has gone out and the pub is dark minus this and minus all of the rest what s left is a failed art film a dead film about a subject whose strength lay precisely in her refusal or native inability ever to give in to being dead ',
'i for one was glad to see jim carrey in a film where being over the top wasn t the goal his character is like all of us wanting more better things to happen to us and expecting god to deliver br br morgan freeman made a great god with a sense of humor and a genuine sense of love for each of us yet ready to take a little vacation when the opportunity presents itself br br i thought jennifer aniston s character was a little too vulnerable and understanding towards carry s basically self centered tv anchorman wanna be but that s the way it was written br br i think the previews ruined several potentially very funny scenes because everyone who saw them knew what was coming before it happened br br i have read a number of the reviews and it seems some people are looking a little too deep this is a summer comedy and is not meant to solve the problems of the world although there are a few messages we could all take to heart br br a funny film ',
'lynne ramsey makes arresting images and samantha morton can summon feeling with a gesture so what a drag to discover their talents wasted on this mannered pretentious lark br br ramsey can t bring callar to life her attempts are too arty and oblique repeatedly her camera lingers on long silent shots of the agonizing actress as if morton s obliterated gaze alone could supply character we are in a blank warholian hell of self indulgence for a film that has minutes to spare on bugs crawling across the floor you might think it could get round to fleshing out its protagonist but how will it do so if she rarely speaks without the novel s interior monologue the celluloid morvern callar is nobody small wonder ramsey has morton undress often br br that said the first ten minutes were so impressively acted shot and edited that my hopes were soaring give the film that much it knows how to make promises if not how to keep any ',
'i am a very big jim carrey fan i laughed my ass off during liar liar and ace ventura i also like him in his serious movies especially truman show this one is a cross between his very funny side and his serious side he is of course very funny in this movie but there are parts that are very serious and he pulls it off with a lot of ease he is truely a multi function actor br br as for the rest of the cast i was happy with jennifer aniston s acting i think she is more than just a couple of nice tits and great ass morgan freeman makes a very cool god as for steven carell his limited scenes are very funny especially in the anchor scene br br overall i would have to rate this a good acting funny script and some very serious situations make this a very good film ',
'i have to admit that i stuck this one out thinking something would have to happen besides the dead body in the first scenes and her disposal of him i was wrong it was a cinema verite of betty hits the beach encased for the first part by mordant morven i really don t care what young lassies from scotland do these days who thy screw what drugs they take visually the stroll through the cabo de gata in andalucia was pleasant and surely the high point for me the nadir was the chop shop for her dead boyfriend as the movie came to a close i had two thoughts that s all there is now i see why her boyfriend killed himself rename it bare bitch boredom or what i did on my trip to spain i m such a sucker for sticking these things out ',
'i would have rated the series a perfect for outstanding and consistently high quality story and character development had it not been for the last episode of season br br the final episode of the th season unending where it would certainly appear that the asgard have been killed off in a very rushed unconvincing and very unceremonious fashion left me in disbelief br br from the extremely rushed end of the series it s obvious that many of the story arcs were originally scheduled to occur over at least one more season my guess would be that they rapidly accelerated these stories to position the stargate sg franchise for the two upcoming direct to dvd moves br br unless the asgard return in a future sg movie with a very good explanation of the apparent extinction i think that the fans have been cheated with a poor clean up of loose ends br br poor end to an otherwise brilliant sci fi series ',
'my dad is a fan of columbo and i had always disliked the show i always state my disdain for the show and tell him how bad it is but he goes on watching it none the less that is his right as an american i guess but my senses were tuned to the series when i found out that spielberg had directed the premier episode it was then that i was thankful that my dad had bought this show that i really can t stand i went through his dvd collection and popped this thing in when i came home for a visit from college my opinion of the series as a whole was not swayed but i did gain respect for spielberg knowing that he started out like most low tier directors and that is making small dribble until the big fish comes along get the pun ha ha like spielberg did it s like jesus before he became a man or thats at least what i think that would feel like any ways if your fan of columbo than you would most likely like this even though it contains little of peter falk i attribute this to the fact this is the start of the series and no one knew where to go with it yet this episode mainly focuses on the culprit of the crime instead of columbo s investigation as many later episodes would do ',
'i first heard about this film about years ago when i was a kid in grade school it just so happened that i was thumbing through the encyclopedias in the classroom one day and under the entry for movies or cinema i don t remember were several stills for different movies from mainstream to experimental and one of them shown on the page was a still for offon it really intrigued me since it stood out the most on the page it was a still from the film of the scene with the eye with other elements superimposed over it br br about or so years later the public library here where i live had available for checkout the whole dvd set of treasures of american film archives released by the national film preservation foundation so when i was reading the notes on the dvd cases for the set i was quite pleasantly surprised to see that offon was on one of the discs after all these years i could finally see the film after viewing it it slightly wasn t was i was expecting it to be it tended to be a more organic looking film not that that s a bad thing but i was expecting it to have a more electronic aesthetic but it was still an impressive film imho considering the techniques scott bartlett used to make the film including hand tinting the film itself and using video equipment for some of the film s scenes filmed off of a video monitor giving it a more distressed lo res look br br don t get me wrong the techniques used in this film were quite ground breaking for that s why it s still one of my favorite short experimental films and a creative inspiration for me as well ',
'my girlfriend once brought around the zombie chronicles for us to watch as a joke little did we realize the joke was on her for paying for it while watching this film i started to come up with things i would rather be doing than watching the zombie chronicles these included br br drinking bleach rubbing sand in my eyes writing a letter to brad sykes and garrett clancy re enacting the american civil war tax returns gcse maths sex with an old lady br br garrett clancy aka sgt ben draper wrote this the guy couldn t even dig a hole properly the best ting he did was kick a door down the best part of the film this was the worst film i have ever seen and i ve seen white noise the light never has a film had so many mistakes in it my girlfriend left it here so now i live with the shame of owning this piece of crap br br news just in owen wilson watched this film and tried to kill himself fact br br do not watch ',
'a very funny movie it was good to see jim carrey back in top form it was definitely worth the price of admission morgan freeman and jennifer aniston both played outstanding supporting roles in this film i think they may have played the dog a bit too much however still a good film to see ',
'i m a fan of arty movies but regretfully i have to report this movie to be pretentious drivel agonisingly slow to develop a non existent plot based on a promising premise the experience is shall we say trying even after bad movies i feel that i learn something or enjoyed some aspect but there there was nothing to appreciate the premise was not uninteresting but the movie starts and ends there the acting was ok though the characters were utterly boring for the protagonist to aim at such an audacious goal she is mightily empty pity i usually enjoy movies that are unformulaic but lack of formula should not be confused with zero content ',
'bruce almighty one of carrey s best pictures since well a long time it contains one of the funniest scenes i have seen for a long time too morgan freeman plays god well and even chips in a few jokes that are surprisingly funny it contains one or two romantic moments that are a bit boring but over all a great movie with some funny scenes the best scene in it is where jim is messing up the anchor man s voice br br my rating ',
'it a bit peculiar that a story that is placed in a part of oslo where a very high percentage of the local residents is from an asian background does not even show one asian or african person not even as an extra that fact probably describes norwegian race relations in general however br br no spoilers only a brief introductory description br br buddy portrays four young people living in a flat share in oslo the protagonist are two young men that don t manage to direct their life in any serious fashion and one might say that the film could be about being indecisive and avoiding responsibility a sort of fear of growing up the narrative plays on typical teenage dreams and fantasies and lifestyle role models quite the clich although the story is mildly funny the acting is good and as a young person one can sort of identify with the characters crazy situations and complicated love affairs i don t find the story or the characters very believable to polished and lacking in depth this film uses all the classic audience pleasing tricks to make an entertaining film that has as much intellectual depth as friends yes that show on tv br br has norwegian film finally found its identity audience pleasers in well known american style br br how about watching lukas moodysson s tillsammans together ',
'this film is the best film jim carrey has ever made carrey did not have his usual face making stuff in this film he was both funny and sad carrey played a reporter named bruce nolan nolan blames god morgan freeman for everything that goes wrong in his life then god comes down from heaven and gives bruce his powers as i said before carrey did an excellent job i also thought that morgan freeman and jennifer aniston were great as supporting actor actress the plot was good because it had many subpoints in the main point this movie can be funny bruce s dog as well as sad the break up the script worked well too i am glad they made a sequel to this film i rate this film a ',
'since rugrats falling from the category of good and funny cartoon series to a mediocre and indeed outright horrible fare for two year olds in the past three or four years obviously the tyrants at klasky csupo should be out of ideas after dumbing down all of the characters adding even stupider new ones replacing some voices though i like nancy cartwright she is not chucky finster and having no sense of continuity ex in a kimi episode i watched the other day tommy and chucky each got a new puppy but it subsequent episode the aforementioned dogs never appear you d think the creators could kill the show for mercy but noooo br br all i will say concerning this special is that it sucks while not as horrible as the kimi episodes everyone is even stupider than they were including grandpa my god he used to be the best character on the show but now he has no real purpose the ending is needlessly fluffy and the only thing different between this and other crappy new episodes is that the kids can interact with adults whoa what fun br br no stars at all for the rugrats all growed up klasky csupo please destroy this show before it gets any worse ',
'bruce almighty is the story of bruce nolan an average man who feels god is messing up his life god confronts him and show bruce the error of his ways of course giving someone god s powers could take a turn for the worse bruce almighty is a good comedy jim carrey is good as always morgan freeman is first rate and seems right at home as god and the cast brings the plot together well the jokes are almost always on target although sometimes they resort a bit too much on carrey s facial expressions i liked the fact that the movie actually portrayed god not only that but also as a black man i thought this quite well especially with the brilliant freeman there are some hilarious scenes the opening cookie scene for instance others miss the target slightly but still a good film out of ',
'comments contain spoilers i was barely holding on to this show as appointment tv when they started the annoying music under every scene when don epps was averaging almost a shooting per case when the very nasally diane farr was obviously pregnant but we weren t to notice and when colby was a fg triple agent but now in tonight s episode david is trapped with a paranoid nut job who is an obvious amateur with a gun in an elevator and he can t disarm him a trained experienced field agent who has been st through the door many times and is experienced in hand to hand fighting can t take out a nut job not when said nut job blinks looks away drops his head closes his eyes not even when he looks up at the fiber optic wire wriggling around the ceiling like a stripper on a pole for seconds br br then the scene came that let me know that as much as i enjoy learning from the chubby frumpish but very charming charles epps and his sexy sidekick love interest amita my friday nights will be better spent otherwise engaged don gives david the distress word that is the code for the st is about to go down david is ready they kill the lights drop the elevator startle the nut job and br br david cannot disarm kill beat into submission the nut job the bad guy ends up with both guns david ends up shot br br i m done hope the numb rs are fun ',
' bruce almighty looks and sounds incredibly stupid especially from the trailers nevertheless i found in it a deeper message that actually made me like this film more bruce jim carrey is angry at god and is given divine powers by him to be god for a week to see if he can do a better job morgan freeman plays a man symbolized here as god and though it isn t his usual type of film or one of his best roles he does excellent with what he is given to work with although crude at times the film does have quite a few laughs from bruce parting his soup in half like the red sea and the customers reactions to him as well as freeman s seemingly laid back and wisecracking image of god it is overly exaggerated at times and there is some crude humor but overall it manages to be somewhat funny there is a decent supporting cast such as jennifer aniston lisa ann walter and steve carrell which always helps the end of the film proves to be very romantic and tear jerking and the message is clear that we should do what god has called us to do and be the miracle the film is far from perfect but still enjoyable and far better than i and many people probably would have expected especially if we see the deeper message of the film br br out of ',
'here let me wave my hands over the keyboard i ll tell you what salad she s going to order over and over works like a charm he s such a genius omg how does he do it my bullshit detector freaks if i even pass this show when i m scanning channels i have to be very careful these days it s useful far too often so i don t need it getting broken on idiotic crap like this careful with that remote is this supposed to be some fascist propaganda to make people believe in some invisible realm of uberman control and mastery or what why does it exist br br this is the most inane show completely unbelievable and contrived and i cannot understand why it s still on the air so may geeks give so much better shows such a hard time sarah connor chronicles true blood but give this nonsensical drivel a pass shows like firefly if there were any like that fall away after a season but mindless stuff like this that makes zero logical sense just keeps marching on yeccch ',
'if you want a serious laugh pain watch this movie and the things bruce inflicts on his fellow newscaster the deleted scenes are priceless i don t know why they didn t include them in the original movie it can t be because of time since the movie is only minutes long morgan freeman is a brilliant actor who has been overlooked for too long jim carrey needs meds ',
'as an engineer i must say this show s first season started out very promising most of the applied mathematics were somewhat plausible and the relationships portrayed between the eppes brothers and father gave the show an interesting edge br br but after the first season the show started degrading heavily most of the mathematics and technology used in crime solving is now utter gibberish and very laughable to all people involved in science technology for real br br the involvement from the actors still feels okay and i can imagine a fair amount of money is still going into producing each episode but in the end this has degraded to a very unpleasantly tasting dish which is a mix of a grade c action thriller and csi style cop show br br if you are gonna watch it go for only the first season and possibly parts of the second thereafter i would not waste my time myself i gave the show up midway through season br br season stars season stars season stars br br let s sum that up to stars since charlie doesn t know his math anymore i won t bother with the correctness of mine either ',
'as someone who lives near buffalo new york this movie scored points with me before i even saw it since the story is based here there are even some bit parts with real life news tv anchor people from buffalo and for once it doesn t knock the area hallelujah br br theology wise puh leeze god is still made to look and think like humans and of course be a bit on the liberal side being the lightweight comedy it is it s nothing that should win any awards but it still is entertaining and is a pleasant way to kill minutes br br there are some laugh out loud slapstick comedy scenes and hopefully audiences from christians to atheists got something out of this besides a few laughs such as what prayer should really be all about kudos to the writers for at least getting that theology correct and giving a good message br br overall it s a good hearted film that should offend very few ',
'after watching a dozen episodes i decided to give up on this show since it depicts in an unrealistic manner what is mathematical modeling in the episodes that charlie would predict the future behavior of individuals using mathematical models i thought that my profession was being joked about i am not a mathematician instead a chemical engineer but i do work a lot with mathematical models so i will try to explain to the layman why what is shown is close to make believe of fairy tales br br first choosing the right model to predict a situation is a demanding task charlie eppes is shown as a genius but even him would have to spend considerable time researching for a suitable model specifically for trying to guess what someone will do or where he will be in the near future individuals are erratic and haphazard there is no modeling for them isaac asimov even wrote about that in the s even if there were a model for specific kind of individual it would be a probabilistic stoichastic one meaning it has good chance of making a wrong prediction br br second supposing the right model for someone or a situation is found the model parameters have to be known these parameters are the constants of the equations such as the gravity acceleration m s and often are not easy to determine again charlie eppes would have to be someone beyond genius to know the right parameters for the model he chooses and after the model and the parameters are chosen they would have to be tested oddly they are not and by miracle they fit exactly the situation that is being predicted br br third a very important aspect of modeling is almost always neglected not only by numbers but also by sci fi movies the computational effort required for solving these models try to make excel solve a complex model with many equations and variables and one will find doing a herculean job even if charlie eppes has the right software to solve his models he might be stuck with hardware that will be dreadfully slow and even with the right software hardware combination the model solution might well take days to be reached he solves them immediately i could use his computer in my research work i would be very glad br br as a drama it is far from being the best show the characters are somewhat stereotyped but not even remotely funny as those in big bang theory are the crimes are dull and the way charlie eppes solves them sometimes make the fbi look pretty incompetent br br for some layman the show might work for others the way things are handled makes it difficult to swallow ',
'i really do not know what people have against this film but it s definitely one of my favourites it s not preachy it s not anchored by it s moral it shouldn t be controversial it s just god any possible god no matter the religion and it s really funny br br jim carry plays bruce nolan a tv reporter usually stuck on the lighter side of the news desperate to prove himself more or less to himself that he can be taken seriously and do a good job in an anchor job this drive is what is slowly driving his beautiful girlfriend grace jennifer aniston away when the final straws are executed he s quick to not laugh but yell in the face of god who in turn gives bruce his powers bruce then makes his life better for himself until he s guilted into helping others where he then continues to miss the point of his powers meanwhile his constant excitement about his own life makes him more selfish leaving his relationship on dangerous ground br br ok that was kinda long but as a plot it works well the step by step fashion in which we meet the challenges of being god is much better than clustering his problems together and is able to hide itself fairly well br br as you probably know from hearing about this movie in the first place carrey s pitch perfect acting stays in character which luckily enough is him and controls and gives atmosphere to the movie scene by scene whether they would admit it or not the role was written or rewritten exclusively for carrey without him the humour would turn flat as humour is half execution and the humour is very good in the first place but without carrey it would kinda feel like a it s a wonderful life wannabe br br jennifer aniston is great and no matter what some may say does not act like the only excuse for the third act at least you don t think that when you see her she gives a heartfelt performance and makes you forget you re watching a movie she and carrey feel very much like a real couple br br the movie feels ggooooodd see the movie to understand has a very nice feeling tackles the idea appropriately and better than expected and overall should never have been called slapped together just to save carrey s career which wasn t goin anywhere ',
'the math aspect to this is merely a gimmick to try to set this tv show apart from the millions of other cop shows the only redeeming aspect to this show is rob morrow although his career must have been undeservedly waning after northern exposure if he signed up for this schlock br br the lame ness of the math aspect to the show is encapsulated in one episode co starring lou diamond phillips which just confirms that this show is the last refuge of the damned in order to catch a fugitive the mathematician uses some theory about bubbles so he gives this long explanation that if we have seen the suspect in places a b and c then we can use bubble theory to calculate where he might be he does this all on a chalkboard or maybe with a stick in the dirt i cant remember br br anyway when you look at the finished product he basically took three spots and picked a point right in the middle and said ok mathematically here s where we are most likely to find the fugitive at which point one other character points out oh that point also happens to be the cabin where the guy used to live is that math its not even connect the fkg dots this show reminds me of the math major i used to work with in banking who had a mathematical analysis he could do to support points that every one else had already agreed on through either less complex analysis or basic common sense br br it just goes to show when you re a hammer everything looks like a nail i can t wait til they stick the numb rs team on osama they ll use calculus call an airstrike in the middle of the mountains and hit osama and not even scratch the five children he uses as human shields cuz hey its all about the numbers br br totally ludicrous tv show ',
'well was morgan freeman any more unusual as god than george burns this film sure was better than that bore oh god i was totally engrossed and lmao all the way through carrey was perfect as the out of sorts anchorman wannabe and aniston carried off her part as the frustrated girlfriend in her usual well played performance i for one don t consider her to be either ugly or untalented i think my favorite scene was when carrey opened up the file cabinet thinking it could never hold his life history see if you can spot the file in the cabinet that holds the events of his bathroom humor i was rolling over this one well written and even better played out this comedy will go down as one of this funnyman s best ',
'this is really really bad lamas shows just how a second rate actor does his job but what makes it worth watching is the scene where oj angrily grabs a fellow cop by the throat as if to kill them while the jukebox plays a song with the lyric i got the evidence on you makes me want to hear the rest of the lyrics attributed to david gregoli and leslie oren but i couldn t find it on itunes talk about seeing into the future too funny for words the rest of the movie is forgettable the score and songs are more interesting than the script ditto the sequel which begs the question of why they would do a sequel at all my understanding was that foreign sales drives a lot of these b movies doesn t say much for the world s viewing habits ',
'now either you like mr carrey s humour or you don t me myself and irene had audiences both walking out in droves and on the other hand cheering and collapsing in puddles of mirth bruce almighty is a bit more mainstream but you have been warned br br if you re not sure watch the trailer i saw the trailer three times and still laughed at the same gags when i saw the film if you don t find the sight of a dog putting the seat down after using the loo funny don t bother with the movie br br carrey a reporter stuck in a rut covering lighter news berates god when the whole of his life seems to be going to pot god takes up the challenge and asks carrey if he can do better carrey gets into the swing of having all of god s powers by making his girlfriend jennifer aniston s breasts bigger getting himself promoted and answering everyone s prayers by single stroke computer commands br br this is not a highbrow movie or even that memorable but it is very well made within it s very limited intent provides almost continuous laughs to carrey fans and even any religious cheesiness is likely to be inoffensive to all but the most narrow minded god squadders and anti god squadders br br on the more thoughtful level the film tempts us to speculate about carrey s own career stuck in his comedy typecasting he has largely failed to make an impression as a serious actor even after winning two golden globes his most accomplished straight role the man on the moon is less well known that his comedy romps or the truman show on which the academy heaped three nominations whilst bypassing carrey ',
' cia codenamealexa is an absolute horrible rip off of luc besson s classic film la femme nikita the film is basically about a woman who is taken in and trained by the cia and is forced to do a secret mission for them pretty much the same story structure of la femme nikita the acting combo of lorenzo lamas and o j simpson is perhaps the worst in cinema history lamas acting is simply a bad steven segal impersonation watching orenthal act in this film is an excruciating experience br br the writing and acting is so poor in this film at times it is laughable there are so many action movie conventions in the film it is ridiculous unnecessary car explosions people flying thru glass windows terrorists bad ponytails etc the musical score resembles david michael frank s score for hard to kill which furthers the steven segal theme of this movie there is plenty of martial arts in the film and it is pretty well done for a low budget american production the mindless action and over the top acting never lets up and i have to admit i was mildly entertained br br lorenzo lamas had the look of an action star back in the early s but he is certainly no action star that is why he is doing soap operas and not action blockbusters my recommendation is that you skip cia codenamealexa and check out la femme nikita instead ',
'i nominate this and babylon as the best television sci fi series made both stand out in my mind because unlike early star trek series there is a consistent evolution of plots and characters if you look at the original star trek and star trektng they were fine shows but there was no overall theme or plot that connected all the episodes in many ways you could usually watch the shows totally out of sequence with no difficulty understanding what is occurring this was less the case with deep space with its giant battles that took up all of the final season and the other trek shows as there was more of a larger story that unified them this coherence seems to have developed as a concept with babylon and saw this to an even greater extent with sg the bottom line is that in many ways this series was like watching a family or a long novel slowly take form sure there were a few throwaway episodes that were not connected to the rest but these were very few and far between and were also usually pretty funny br br and speaking of funny i loved that sg kept the mood light from time to time and wasn t so dreadfully serious in this way i actually enjoyed it more than babylon jack o neill was a great character with his sarcasm and love of homer simpson it s really too bad he slowly faded from the series in later seasons br br to truly appreciate sg you should watch it from the beginning and see how intricately the plots work this coherence gives the show exceptional staying power and if you don t like sg after giving it a fair chance then sci fi is probably not the genre for you ',
'i don t understand how of us receive such a high rating i thought that the first half dragged on and the second half didnt make sense followed by an unresolved climax which was not worth the trouble however i did like jared harris performance of john lennon which was worth the wasted hours ',
'starring jim carrey morgan freeman jennifer anniston i was really quite skeptical the first time i watched this movie i mean what a conceptual nightmare jim carrey playing god nothing is sacred anymore br br well this movie is hardly sacred but it also is not sacrilegious at least not to any great extent yes jim carrey has the powers of god for a while but he is not god confused i ll give you the low down br br jim carrey plays bruce nolan a reporter who is down on his luck and feeling very unsuccessful with his life he lives with his beautiful girlfriend grace anniston and you can tell right off the bat that they love each other but the relationship is on fairly shaky ground br br then bruce gets a shot at anchorman only to have it underhandedly stolen by evan baxter obviously not please bruce shares his thoughts with the world through the television in a way which is comical and definitely worthy of getting him fired br br much complaining and griping about god later bruce gets a page after a while he gets tired of it calling so he responds and goes to the omni presents building heh there he meets god freeman who is the boss electrician and janitor of the building i found this highly amusing god is the boss the holy spirit is the electrician and jesus christ is the janitor think about it boss obvious electrician the guy who keeps everything running janitor the guy who cleans up the mess that the world has left brilliant br br anyway bruce is a little skeptical about having actually met god but when god gives bruce his powers and gives him a shot at playing god he starts to believe a bit wonder why enter the flagrant abuse of powers for personal gain and to abuse the enemies br br since this is hollywood bruce obviously eventually smartens up learns his lesson and starts using his powers for the good of the world in the end he cries out for god to take it away and prays that his will be done not bruce s br br since it is jim carrey the movie is quite amusing and there are definitely some highly entertaining moments in it the movie is not perfect theology but for hollywood it is definitely a good attempt many statements in the film can be quite thought provoking and even challenging and i applaud tom shadyac for his effort in this movie br br so while far from perfect definitely an amusing popcorn movie with a little bit of thought behind it br br bottom line out of worth a view or two ',
'lorenzo lamas stars as some type of cia agent who captures some exotic beauty named alexa kidnaps her daughter and forces her to fight her former employers o j simpson is also on board to provide a dash of acting credibility for the not so talented ensemble i must admit i m not a fan of lorenzo lamas or his movies he stinks however when compared to o j simpson and lamas comatose wife kinmont lamas seems like ah jean claude van damme i only saw cia because of the renewed interest around the o j simpson trial you see because if your parents had cable and the extra channels you couldn t escape this movie in you could go to an amish community and some moron would have this playing in their portable tv the movie itself is a collection of lame action sequences and would be intrigue although the shock value of o j simpson jumping after fireballs and exchanging would be one liners do provide some unintentional humor also where was bobby knight and kobe bryant to make this a complete camp classic br br out of bad ',
'jim carrey is back to much the same role that he played in the mask a timid guy who is trying to get ahead in the world but who seems to be plagued with bad luck even when he tries to help a homeless guy from being harassed by a bunch of hoodlums and of course they have to be mexican obviously his good will towards his fellow man backfires in that case it wasn t too hard to predict that he was about to have a handful of angry hoodlums but i like that the movie suggests that things like that shouldn t be ignored i m reminded of the episode of michael moore s brilliant the awful truth when they had a man lay down on the sidewalk and pretend to be dead and see who would actually stop and make sure he was okay the results were not very promising so it s nice to see someone in the movies setting a good example br br jim carrey plays the part of bruce nolan the nice guy mentioned above whose entire life seems to be falling apart or even better it seems to be breaking up by the blows of bad luck like an asteroid entering the atmosphere a little metaphor that comes up when bruce miraculously finds himself a gigantic news story later in the film bruce is nearly years old and all he has to show for it is a position as a news reporter of the sort that reports on such exciting news as the local bakery that s seeking to bake the world s biggest cookie he s desperate to obtain the job of head anchor at the tv station but he loses his cool on live tv when he hears that the job went to his rival colleague you have to love how they time the revelation of this news to him seconds before his first live report needless to say he loses his temper on live tv in one of the funniest scenes of the entire film br br morgan freeman delivers a fantastic performance as the man himself displaying a god whose infinite wisdom is somewhat reflected through freeman s massive talent as an actor he is the kind of god who takes his job very seriously but in such a way as to advise his followers as well as the viewers of this movie that there are times when you need to slow down and do some manual labor in life i love his line that some of the happiest people in the world come home smelling to high heaven at the end of the day there are a lot of people in the world maybe more than our share in america who are so absorbed by their money and their possessions and their jobs and everything that they completely lost touch with the natural side of themselves as humans br br one of the biggest strengths is that the movie is able to provide great advice to people in general about improving their lives and this message is clear and acceptable regardless of the viewer s religion i for example tend to reject organized religion in all forms and i see god and satan to be metaphors for different aspects of nature and human psychology rather than actual figures who ever lived or continue to live but despite the fact that i don t believe that god exists as an entity overseeing the universe or as a janitor dressed all in white who mops the floors of his downtown office in his spare time i was able to appreciate the messages that were delivered in this movie br br jim carrey s movies display this fantastic evolution that ties them all together and makes the newer ones look even better just because you can see how far he s come if you compare bruce almighty with movies like ace ventura both of which i loved by the way or a lot of what he did before he got into film it s amazing how far he s come he has moved from cheesy tv comedy to cheesy comedic films to comedies that are truly intelligent and meaningful like this film as well as others like the truman show man on the moon and the majestic easily one of his greatest films ever jim carrey has unmistakably moved from the cheesy comedy of his past to become one of the most important comic actors working today br br jennifer aniston also once again provides an excellent addition to the movie as she did in the side splitting office space as bruce s girlfriend who becomes increasingly exasperated by bruce s growing stress about his life as well as his negligence to ask her to marry him there is definitely some low brow comedy in the film that doesn t really fit with the importance of the film s meaning or the quality of the delivery such as the dog reading the newspaper on the toilet and the whole monkey scene but it was definitely pretty nice to see ace ventura s friend spike make a cameo appearance as stephen king very well knows it s always nice to see familiar characters it s almost like seeing family again br br bruce is endowed with the powers of god for a given period of time so that he can understand life a bit better and he says a lot about himself when he uses the powers only for his own purposes rather than to help all of the people who pray to him the thing i love about this is that like i said before religion is absent from my life but i was able to watch this and learn a lot about myself as well by thinking about what kinds of things i would have done had i been endowed with such powers the movie allows us to learn vicariously this way which empowers the message even more br br the scenes that involve the news station are easily the funniest in the entire film such as the scene when bruce loses his temper about the anchor position the jimmy hoffa scene who was conveniently buried with an original birth certificate and a complete set of dental records the scene where bruce s rival colleague is made to go nuts on camera and my favorites the ones at the beginning and the end involving the local bakery s cooking the movie has plenty of time for carrey to deliver some excellent jokes such as when he says to god who reveals that he s the janitor the proprietor the electrician etc that his christmas parties must be real bashes and to be careful about drinking because on of him might need a ride home i also loved the end when he says that behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes a little too true and as gallagher would add behind every great man is also an amazed mother in law br br bruce almighty is one of the more memorable comedies to have come out for quite a while and is probably the only directly religious that i can remember seeing that i am anxious to buy on dvd to add to my personal collection it is a comedy written and performed in good taste but with enough relatively low brow humor to keep the kids entertained this is a meaningful comedy for the whole family which is becoming rarer and rarer these days in a world that is about to be flogged with yet another american pie film and another scary movie which are only scary because of their sheer barbarous idiocy it s nice to see that there are still people making comedies worth watching don t miss this one ',
'spoiler alert in this generic and forgettable action movie lorenzo lamas does his usual tough guy pretty boy act and his future real life ex kathleen kinmont is ass kicking hot chick alexa oj simpson is a detective coasting by on his since vanished genial public persona translation cable tv filler there isn t enough skin to qualify this as a guilty pleasure br br the script has some gaping holes best worst moment in one jarring scene oj s partner expresses his aversion to the morgue oj responds that some of the bodies are pretty hot or words to that effect this vague necrophilia reference is offensive enough but in light of the murders committed shortly after this movie was released it is truly appalling and therefore entertaining in an unintentional horrible way i was so startled that i laughed until champagne came out of my nose now that s a guilty pleasure bc ',
'as long as you go into this movie knowing that it s terrible bad acting bad effects bad story bad everything then you ll love it this is one of my favorite goof on movies watch it as a comedy and have a dozen good laughs ',
'as an impressionable year old i liked the love conquers all philosophy of the s sitcom bridget loves bernie i did understand the controversy which was about the romantic complications between a jewish cab driver david birney and an irish catholic school teacher meredith baxter and both sets of parents harold j stone and bibi osterwald as bernie s parents audra lindley and david doyle as bridget s parents who have issues with the young couple s interfaith marriage br br looking at the show now with years of personal life experiences i am amazed that the show was even a success for one albeit highly rated season created by veteran tv writer bernard slade who a few years after the show s cancellation would write the successful play same time next year bridget loves bernie was a very light superficial comedy that collapsed under its own airy weight br br there was no denying the real life chemistry between birney and baxter but in later years both actors have shown that they are better actors in other projects birney in his short lived role in st elsewhere and baxter in family and family ties here they were trying to breathe life in a show that needed a much gritter comic edge which might have given the complications more depth to a very controversial subject br br the show aired saturday nights between two cbs powerhouses all in the family and mary tyler moore both of those shows were smart funny and had enough of an edge more so on the former that the latter that kept my interest in the situation and the characters bridget loves bernie was not very smart and only had some occasional chuckles br br this was another example of a show that really was not as good as i remembered ',
'china o brien was an attempt to make cynthia rothrock a star in the united states this golden harvet production was helmed by veteran director robert clouse sadly he was either lucky with enter the dragon or he s lost his touch because he s not that great of a director the only reason to watch this movie is to see the fighting skills of ms rothrock and richard norton if this movie was directed by corey yuen or hoi meng it could have been an action classic instead of a cheesy straight to video action flick br br china o brien returns home to help out her dad he s having trouble with the local mob and he needs her help so she returns home and restores order with the help of two unlikely people but will they be enough to topple mister big and his evil cronies br br if you re a big cynthia rothrock fan then this movie s catered for you i only enjoyed the fighting scenes everything else is rubbish why didn t raymond chow shell out a few shekels and hired a top notch action director br br recommended ',
'this film was hard to get a hold of and when i eventually saw it the disappointment was overwhelming i mean this is one of the great stories of the twentieth century an unknown man takes advantage of the unsuspecting airline industry and gets away with millions in ransom without hurting anyone or bungling the attempt with all of this built in interest how could anyone make such a lackluster talk laden flick of this true life event while williams is always interesting the screenwriters assumed that the d b cooper persona was stereotypically heroic like a movie star s what we get is a type without any engaging details or insights into the mind of a person daring enough and clever enough to have pulled it off harrold practically steals the movie with her spunk and pure beauty but the real letdown was in the handling of the plot and the lame direction shame on this film for even existing ',
'this one and her pilgrim soul are two of my favorite episodes in this new version of twilight zone as i mentioned in my comment on the new series there s something lacking in this new series maybe they emphasize too much the lesson that has to be learned it s a little bit more mawkish and sentimental than serling s version however this episode can be considered as quite sentimental too i think the appeal is that no matter what they do the lovers can never unite i remember i wasn t surprised by the korean movie il mare later remade into the lake house i think it s because i saw this episode first so it ruined the impact of the later film ',
'as someone who likes chase scenes and was really intrigued by this fascinating true life tale i was optimistic heading into this film but too many obstacles got into the way of the good story it should have been br br the bad i m a fan of robert duvall and many of the characters he has played but his role here is a dull one as an insurance investigator br br the dialog is insipid and the pretty kathryn harrold is real garbage mouth from what i read there were several directors replacing each other on this film and that s too bad you can tell things aren t right with the story i couldn t get involved with treat williams portrayal of cooper either he should have been fascinating but he wasn t in this movie it s also kind of a sad comment that a guy committing a crime is some sort of folk hero but i admit i wound up rooting for the guy too br br not everything was disappointing i can t complain about the scenery from the lush green forests of oregon to the desert in arizona br br i d like to see this movie re made and done better because it is a one of a kind story ',
'this a good episode of the new twilight zone that actually includes interesting ideas and clever stories i note both of them are based on short stories examination day is set in the future year unknown but at a point where they have cake candles that light themselves huge tv looking phones that double as numerous other entertaining machines and distributed only to those of a certain age and the examination day a point where year olds must undergo a government required iq test the kid is this story dickie jordan david mendenhall is just celebrating his own th birthday and is a smart kid so is calm even eager to take the test that he has seen friends pass easily and knows he will excel at based on his school grades his parents christopher allport and elizabeth norment on the other hand say he shouldn t have used his birthday wish on getting a good score and while their reason includes that they believe he s capable and he should have no need to worry it s pretty obvious they are worried i won t give anything away in the ending but i will say this there s a point where we get a glimpse of what s to come as far ass why the test is such a heavy subject that evening or another his parents ask dickie whether he d prefer to watch tv all night by today s standards we d be pleased he d say he d rather read and not just because there s nothing worth watching but why would his family ask this the flavor of what s encouraged and discouraged in the future reminded me a bit of the atmosphere from harrison bergenon which i hear hasn t received a great adaptation to the screen i only wish they could ve provided an opening and closing narration to make this theme as powerful as the obsolete man was i found it to be better than the short story it was based on i haven t read the one that a message from charity was based on but would like to since it was interesting a year ld boy peter robert duncan mcneill is suffering a fever from unclean water that has always been common in his massachusetts hometown but he is able to see through the eyes of a young puritan woman suffering the same type of fever charity payne kerry noonann who also finds herself able to experience what goes on around him they both recover especially since it s common for that to happen in but the connection doesn t go away charity is curious about the sights and sounds she records of and they each enjoy each other s company especially peter who has promoted grades in school enough to always have felt isolated from other students even at the college he s been staying in one place at things take an unexpected turn though when charity reveals some of these experiences to a friend who take her claims that the colonies will breach from england as a sign of bewitchment added to the fact that she was spared death from the fever not so common in the two try to learn a way to save her the ending is sad but has an interesting final moment that makes it touching both segments of this episode include a lot of pain but both times through a lesson warning that sounds like something rod sterling would ve cooked up and entertainment make cheerful watching as reminders that friendship love and wisdom do a great deal probably of this has no theme but somehow i think it all would have been approved by sterling s crew ',
'i can t believe that people thought this stinking heap of trash was funny shifting the attempts at humor among cruelty disgust and stupidity there s something about mary leaves little reason to stay until the end sure cameron diaz is very pretty but that is never going to be enough to save a movie ben stiller tries hard to work within the plot and is obviously very talented but the movie is a loser br br not once were any of the scenes believable the shots were badly timed and poorly framed the farreley brothers should be kept away from making films at all costs i check imdb to see what they are working on just so i know what to avoid br br the bonus is from the one time i smiled it s not like i m immune to humor or alone in my opinion my wife hated it too the next day we saw rush hour and laughed ourselves silly this movie just stunk ',
'remember these two stories fondly and in the first set in the not too distant future we see a young boy preparing for examination day the state i q test the boy is slightly puzzled as to his parents anxiety as some of his friends have already done it already and eventually goes off to do the test upon arriving he is given an injection and is curious as to why the examiner smiles and tells him that it is just to make sure he tells the truth the boy then asks puzzled again why wouldn t he it is later and the parents are sitting waiting worriedly by the screen when a message appears and declares that the state are sorry but their son s i q level has exceeded the national quotient and ask politely would they like a private burial a corker of a concluding scene a message from charity was a heart warming story about a fluke mental connection between a girl from the past and a guy from the present which pans out into a weird story of witchcraft accusations in the past and delving into the history pages in the present a nice story with a heartwarming conclusion ',
'to be honest at the time i first heard of this show i though it may be a bad idea to make a show that makes muslims use racial jokes on themselves but it is the exact opposite i realized that the show doing that can help people understand that if a muslim uses s a word like this in real life it doesn t mean it is a terrorist thing it also show s how people give the muslims a bad name because they play on their stereotype by watching the show regular people will realize that all though there may be bad muslims out it doesn t mean we are all bad we just try to live day at a time like how hard it was for amair to get on a plane and how he used words like blow up or yaser saying we ll blow away the competition and people took it the wrong way being a muslim i know that stuff like this don t usually happen but they do and many people think bad things about muslims or afghanistan or iraq its not right things are not like that people will see how we are poorly treated by watching this show and it may make them think on how the act i am glad a show like this came on the air there are many shows that piotr muslim people as terrorists many people do find them funny to my opioion it is ok to do it now and then because prety much everything is made fun of who are we to say you can not make fun of that is unfair but it is done to often and really gives muslin people a bad name ',
'you know how star trek fans flocked to all the star trek movies even the really bad ones why to see their heroes in action one more time that s the way i feel about doc savage i am a major fanatic for the character and the prospect of seeing doc and his crew in an adventure was overwhelming and the first minutes of the film only heightened that feeling of anticipation then they decided to crib elements from a number of doc adventures and throw them into this one movie resulting in a somewhat disjointed film there s a lot of promise in here diluted by a number of unfortunate choices the music the camp elements etc but the spirit of doc is there and that s what those of us familiar with doc and his crew respond to so in my long winded way what i m trying to say is that this is not a bad movie it s just not as good as it should have been and anyone who is a fan of superman james bond indiana jones buckaroo banzai and many other characters ought to check this movie out just to become familiar with the hero who provided inspiration for them all ',
'up until this new season i have been a big little mosque fan however the new season had absolutely ruined it br br the new christian vicar has destroyed the entire intent of the show it has always been about living together to overcome prejudice the new vicar ruins that premise and shows christians in a very bad light br br i am neither christian or muslim but loved watching the show and seeing the camaraderie between amar and the reverend not any more br br just cancel it and be done with it it s not worth watching any more br br it might still be saved but a lot of change would need to be made br br bring back the old format ',
'it has said that the movies and baseball both thrived during the great depression it appears that the grim realities of a nation caught up in the aftermath of this economic disaster created a need for occasional relief for the populace a temporary escape could be found in the on going soap opera that is baseball br br likewise an occasional excursion of or hours into the darkened auditoriums of the cinema the presence of a radio in just about everyone s house hold kept depression era america at once attuned to world s events and provided many a drama and especially comedy shows for a pleasant interlude from harsh reality br br the literature of the time also flourished at all levels the juvenile reading habits helped to create the comic book as we know it what with all the fantastic characters and super exciting adventures but the comic book just did not magically appear all fully developed with all the colorful color pages all by itself there were mediums that were ancestral to them obviously the newspaper comic strip was one parent providing the visual narrative method of story telling br br the other direct ancestor was the pulp magazine the inexpensive prose story publications that carried a great deal of stories of the same adventure characters in on going though not necessarily serialized tales the pulp medium had been around for some decades and introduced us to edgar rice borrough s tarzan and johnston mcculley s zorro the s brought forth a bumper crop as feature characters like the shadow the avenger g s battle aces and the spider master of men all found their way to the news stands among many others br br one other was doc savage a full blooded super hero of the written story the covers of the pulps had perhaps the only picture of the hero possessing extraordinary strength super keen senses and a protean genius class intellect doc was the prototype super hero br br he also assembled of his former army buddies into a small free lancing team of adventurers each of them was an expert in a given field so we had a top rated chemist lawyer construction engineer electrical engineer geologist archaeologist paleontologist etc br br the doc savage stories were very popular in the s and s and were published into the middle s then they went into a hiatus for a good years then the brainstorm came about to repackage the old novels in new container the paperback book a fresh look to the cover art was introduced featuring a highly stylized series of paintings of a very muscular doc with a perpetually ripped shirt br br the re introduction proved to be highly successful with the publication of a title a month and for a while more soon there was a rumor of a doc savage movie but when by what producer well the venerable man of bronze was back on the news stands for over years before any real project got put together it was veteran stop action animator and producer of top special effects films geoprge pal who did the film along with warner brothers br br when doc savage man of bronze arrived in the movie houses it boasted of a well casted team of actors albeit a largely no name as far familiarity with the viewers with former tarzan of tv ron ely s nearly perfect casting in the lead up and coming beauty of a starlette pamela hensley in the female lead and veteran character paul wexler as the villainous captain seas no other name would have been recognized and just maybe that was a plus in this case br br the story does a fine job of both getting most of the audience acquainted with the incredible group and at the same time get a plot going use of narration by paul frees and short film clips are the method pursued to move the introduction along to the main body of the story br br from the very start there are hints that this story will go with the same sort of manufactured camp humor as the batman tv series some really great looking early scenes involving doc and the whole crew doing their individual specialties are thrown toward humor by the paul frees narration and the unexpected unlikely outcomes for example an experiment of doc s with a miniature rocket missile turns out to be part of a method of catching fish a small one at that the whole story unfolds like that hitting the viewer with a little camp every so often as to keep reminding us not to take it too seriously we are also puzzled about mr george pal s being the producer his last he who had been so well known for special effects surely a factor that could be put to good use in a sci fi action setting of the pulp character s world br br i can remember seeing it quite vividly mrs ryan deanna was in the hospital just having given birth to our nd child michelle our older girl jennifer was visiting her grandmother so after visiting hours were over in the maternity ward it was straight over to the old marquette theatre rd kedzie here in chicago br br having seen it and being a guy with a good familiarity with doc i was sort of let down by the final product i could accept a little of this camp business but would not have objected if mr pal would have seen fit to let it all hang out and have some real neat dinosaurs and volcanoes to give it all a little more pulp comic serial type excitement br br and yet the cast headed up by mr ely and the others made the whole film likable if not lovable the sets and locations were as far as we can see very much like those of a s serial or adventure flick which would be enjoyable to about anyone br br and maybe that s just what they were trying for with this doc savage man of bronze ',
'who likes awful comedy shows like little mosque on the prairie the only two kinds of people i can think of who watch this are one muslims and self proclaimed liberal defenders of every ethnic group who are so thrilled there is a show about muslims that it doesn t even matter if the show is good or funny at all which it is not two old people and people whose idea of comedy is incredibly predictable badly written stale jokes br br cbc needs to really take a look at what they are doing and who their audience is if they keep only writing comedy for really old people then guess what will happen their audience will die off soon and they will have no audience left i d be curious who even writes for this show do you think it s actually muslims or hip funny young people no i bet it is old white guys who have been writing the same jokes for the same kind of bad cbc shows since the s br br when you look at the cbc comedy shows there are air farce was only finally just taken off the air thank goodness but we still have lame ducks like this hour has minutes and rick mercer that we are paying for not to mention this poor excuse for comedy little mosque on the prairie it is supposed to be offencive and funny only the cbc would think this lame show is at all offencive or funny shame on the cbc for squandering our tax dollars on shows only a few people would bother watching ',
'having read many of the other reviews for this film on the imdb there is ostensibly a consensus amongst purists that this film is nothing like the books upon which it is based upon this point i cannot comment having never actually read any of the protagonists adventures previously however what i can say with certainty is that it strikes me that many of the said reviewers must have surely undergone a sense of humour bypass let s be honest here this film is just so much fun br br ok so i must concede the point that the film apparently is not representative of the character s but let s put this into a clear perspective do the same individuals who are carping on about this film also bemoan the fact that the classic s batman series does not remain faithful to the original dc comic book character or perhaps is there still unrest in same persons that the film version of flash gordon was too much of a departure from the original series br br the point is yes this film is incredibly camp but that s precisely its charm br br former tarzan ron ely plays the eponymous hero in this and bears more than a passing resemblance to gary busey to boot and is backed up by a great supporting cast who all look to be having a ball with their respective roles also look out for a very brief but highly welcome appearance by horror movie favourite michael berryman br br best scene far too many to choose from but check out the hilarious facial expressions adopted by the waiter when savage and his men commit the ultimate faux pas of ordering coke lemonade and milk at a formal occasion also the often noted scene near the end of the film wherein savage tackles his nemesis captain seas utilising various martial arts disciplines which are labelled on screen priceless br br simply put the film doesn t take itself at all seriously and is all the more fun for it great fun from start to finish and you ll be singing the john phillip sousa adapted theme song for days afterwards guaranteed ',
'unlike many i don t find the premise or theme of this show the least bit offensive its execution however is another matter entirely like so many b minus movies all the decent gags appear to have been spliced into the trailers for most of the or so minutes we sit in waning anticipation any morsel of real humor or at least something to keep one from fidgeting with the remote or counting carpet fibers with a couple of exceptions the acting is awful the comical over emoting and gesticulating of some cast members might be well suited to a late night infomercial but not a primetime sitcom even a canadian one notwithstanding the admittedly original cultural angle i cannot help but think this is mainly a misfired shot by the cbc to replicate the success of corner gas unfortunately they got the tone and the script completely wrong for the prairies the final insult is that they apparently couldn t even afford to have the location work done in an actual small town why are they so hard to find in saskatchewan did they think the audience would be fooled by the downtown regina exteriors as a proud canadian i hope this thing goes away soon and that the rest of the world primed by the cbc s publicists quickly forgets this colossal embarrassment of a sitcom ',
'this series is set a year after the mission to abydos in the movie stargate it explains a lot of the stuff that the movie neglected to mention such as how was the stargate activated without a human computer where did the goa uld ra s race come from how many are there br br the first episode has a retired jack o neill spelled with ls recalled to active duty by general george hammond due to an attack by the shut down stargate from apophis a powerful goa uld who killed four men and kidnapped one woman we meet samantha carter a brilliant scientist who claims that she should have gone through the stargate the first time and is determined to go through now we find out that daniel got married on abydos and that there are hundreds of gate addresses that they can dial then daniel s wife gets captured by apophis and becomes his new queen br br it continues in the second episode where general hammond announces the formation of the sgc which includes nine teams in which jack s team will be sg which consists of jack samantha and daniel they go to chulak a goa uld homeworld to rescue daniel s wife and another one captured at abydos named ska ra they get captured and just as apophis gives the order to kill them and many other prisoners a jaffa named teal c first prime of apophis saves them and goes to earth with them where he is made part of sg br br that was only the beginning of the adventure in the course of the show they have gone to the past and future gotten transported to alternate realities swapped bodies grown old met alien races which include a rebel alliance of goa uld called the tok ra in which samantha s dad becomes a member the asgard a cute little race in which we see thor most often he s jack s buddy and avoid global disaster by the skin of their teeth countless times br br the show was recently canceled but lasted ten seasons in season nine a new enemy called the ori came in flaunting brand new powers new dangers and bringing to light new mysteries surrounding the stargate and its creators the ancients season nine and ten also saw the introduction to two new characters ben browder as cameron mitchell the new leader of sg and claudia black as vala maldoran a female human from another world who brings a new sense of fun to the team br br very well produced interesting characters fantastic special effects and a subtle love interest between samantha and jack this one has it all a different way of travelling the galaxy and different kinds of adventures this is one show you don t want to miss unlock the gate and step through you won t regret it ',
'this movie is one long chiche after another first of all though they did their share there is a unwarranted dope scene where john sniffs weed like an idiot the wigs and accents are terrible they sound worse then the old beatle cartoons john is the nasty envious closet homosexual slave to yoko he is portrayed as being in the discredited albert goldman book they even keep spouting song titles in regular conversation it was always just the two of us john would not have been mean to his fans like this either like his death showed us he was too nice if anything the one funny scene is where a dumb beatle fan only recognizes john and asks him to sing paul s yesterday an insulted john says something along the lines of sure and while i croon why don t you get down on your knees put on your wife s wig and lick my liggin that made me laugh for days really this movie is funny in how serious it tries to be while coming off ridiculous john and paul also did not sit pontificating all day they were funny light hearted guys who even during the beatles break up where far more personable then portrayed here forget it ',
'possible spoilers br br i recently watched this movie with my year old son and was pleased to see that he laughed in the right places and was thrilled by the action sequences ron ely is just right as doc cool calm almost always in control and with an occasional twinkle in his eye what more can one ask for i have never read a doc savage book so i don t know if it is faithful to the source but i enjoyed the light tone and derring do many people have compared this movie to raiders of the lost ark which i don t think is fair the difference in budget is astounding raiders must have at least times the budget doc savage does not have the extensive location work that raiders has special effects are also at a minimum but come on people the story is a lot of fun and the humor is just right the sousa music is catchy love that theme song every time i watch the film i end up humming the theme for days the best way to approach this film is to just relax and enjoy highlights include the exciting opening sequence where the fabulous five and doc chase the indian sniper throughout the rooftops of new york and the very funny fight sequence between doc and captain seas not as good is the villain who sleeps in a giant crib really overall a great movie to watch on a rainy day i give it out of br br doc savage doc savage thank the lord he s here ',
'i was really hoping that this would be a funny show given all the hype and the clever preview clips and talk about hype i even heard an interview with the show s creator on the bbc world today a show that is broadcast all over the world br br unfortunately this show doesn t even come close to delivering all of the jokes are obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they are not given any new treatment or twist all of the characters are one dimensional the acting is well mediocre i m being nice it s the classic cbc recipe one that always fails br br if you re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters and if you re white you d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted ignorant or both not that making fun of white people is a problem most of the better comedies are rooted in that it s only a problem when it isn t funny as in this show br br canada is bursting with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producers of this show couldn t find any ',
'most people miss hollywood s point of concept if a hero can stimulate heroic deeds to the mind of a child within the confines of the law then i approve of the lessons being taught by doc savage br br in all times of conflict or war the public and government look for heroes to decorate the motion picture industry brings heroes to the screen for people to identify with such as doc savage james bond superman batman spiderman and others doc savage is remembered by more than one generation as being the best of the best before james bond superman or any of the others all others that follow doc savage are only a part of the character not the man of bronze ',
'this show is terrible the jokes are all terrible and just getting worse and worse i am one of those people who was never a big fan of corner gas but at least i liked it at first until it got into a rut around season two all the jokes had been played out and the characters had nothing to them well at least corner gas was good at first little mosque on the prairie is typically awful bland cbc comedy that had nothing going for it from episode who are the people who are watching this show anyway i am being honest is it old people or maybe just people who actually live on the prairies maybe the jokes are for them and they work there i don t know a single person who likes this show and can t stand it myself the jokes are totally predictable and the characters are even less developed than in corner gas hopefully it won t last much longer because all the success this show has had seems to me to be based entirely on the premise of this show being muslim which is different and could should have led to a great show ',
'the problem is that the movie rode in on the coattails of the s created concept that comic books could only be done as camp i e the s batman show for tv and movie thus you have combat sequences with subtitles come on a cluelessly unromantic doc savage he was uncomfortable around women in the pulps not an idiot monk mayfair in a nightsheet a scene guaranteed to give you nightmares for several nights and the totally hokey ending with the secondary bad guy encased in gold like a herve villechez posing for an oscar statute and when they re not doing booming sousa march scores the tinkly little funny music undercuts much of the drama br br even as such this movie is okay it s fun and when it stays serious it s a very accurate representation of the pulps except for monk as has been mentioned before he s hugely muscled not obese and long tom who is supposed to be a pale scrawny guy with an attitude not paul gleason with an inexplicable scarf br br the green death sequences for instance are remarkably gruesome and not something i d recommend for children but they are very close to the feel of the pulps when the writers and producers get it right they do get it right i ll give them that br br but if the producers had done doc with the loving care and scripting of say reeves first two superman movies think what we might have had then i think the problem is the movie s schizophrenic there s a definite sense of trying to do a s homage but they re also trying to give in to the heroes must be camp attitude that batman created one gets the impression there was a sober pulp style first draft and then someone came in and said hey let s make it funny it worked with the batman show years ago br br but doc lives on thanks to earl macrauch and buckaroo banzai if macrauch ain t doing a homage to doc savage in that movie the man is truly demented so when the series actually gets on tv allegedly mid season in doc savage updated to the s will live once more ',
'if you re looking to be either offended or amused or both you ll probably have to look elsewhere lmotp really isn t even very thought provoking beyond rehashing the usual silly clichs at the end of the second episode i felt a little embarrassed that i actually sat through the contrived mess br br beyond the thinly veiled gimmicky premise thats attracted all the initial attention to it in the first place it s just another lame innocuous and anti septic attempt at commentary and entertainment that the cbc typically excels at producing and once the zomg muslims in rural canada roflmao hype wears out its welcome the show is likely to follow into the ether of cancellation because it s so shallow when judged on its merits alone br br unless you re obsessed with muslim culture in the west and or are easily amused by the most minute idiosyncrasies on the subject i really don t see how lmotp is enjoyable beyond satisfying the curiosity that stemmed from the hype other shows have better addressed the issue of cultural ethnic dichotomy in western multi ethnic societies lmotp will never rank among them in entertainment or insight ',
'this is a very entertaining movie a few of the reviews that i have read on this forum have been written by people who apparently think that the film was an effort at serious drama it was not made that way it is an extremely enjoyable film performed in a tongue in cheek manner all of the actors are obviously having fun while entertaining us the fight sequences are lively brisk and above all not gratuitous the so called green death utilized on a couple of occasions is not as i read in one review gruesome a couple of reviewers were very critical of the martial arts fight between doc and seas near the end of the film hey lighten up again i remind one and all that this is a fun film each phase of this fight was captioned which added to the fun aspect the actors were not trying to emulate bruce lee or jackie chan this is not one of those martial arts films ron ely looks great in this film and is the perfect choice to play doc another nice touch is the unique manner in which the ultimate fate of the bad guy seas is dealt with i promise you that if you don t try to take this film very seriously and simply watch it for the entertainment value you will spend minutes in a most enjoyable manner ',
'i was excited to see a sitcom that would hopefully represent indian candians but i found this show to be not funny at all the producers and cast are probably happy to get both bad and good feed back because as far as they are concerned it s getting talked about i was ready for some stereotyping and have no problem with it because stereotypes exist for a reason they are usually true but there really wasn t anything funny about these stereotypical characters the fresh of the boat dad who doesn t understand his daughter the radical feminist muslim daughter who by the way is a terrible actress and the young modern indian man trying to run his mosque as politically correct as he can he s a pretty good actor i only see him getting better br br it is very contrived and the dialog doesn t flow that well there was so much potential for something like this but sadly i think it failed and don t really care to watch another episode br br i did however enjoy watching a great canadian actress sheila mccarthy again she s always a treat and a natural at everything she does too bad her daughter in the show doesn t have the same acting abilities ',
'outragously entertaining period piece set in the s it is a spin on the classic cliffhanger series as much as raiders of the lost ark only done on a low budget and much campier by director michael anderson the opening scenes laces liberal amount of gothic art nuveau predating batman by two decades starring ron ely tarzan as a perfectly cast hero and the gorgeous pamela hensley as the local latina mona tagging on to our hero on a goldhunt in the non existent latin american country of hidalgo best line our hero to mona holding a fist to her chin just as you expect him to be tender with her and give her a hug mona you re a brick br br paul wexler s ham and cheese blackhat captain seas is a an absolute delight expect a little raiders a dash of batman a little the lost world a little lost horizons and a whole lot of campiness and you ll get it just right watch out for cult favorite michael berryman in a small part as undertaker and enjoy the campy use of john philip sousa s patriotic music a prime candidate for dvd release it is certainly overdue an unmissable treat for the whole family ',
'little mosque is one of the most boring cbc comedies i have ever seen they have a way of producing the easiest comedy programming they can for the oldest most easily offended viewers which for cbc means year old farmers in saskatchewan the jokes are all predictable and so deathly lame i can t believe it the performances are very hammy and over acted but i don t blame the actors since those kind of one dimensional stereotyped characters are probably exactly what the cbc asked for and demanded very lame show with bad jokes they tried to present as controversial well it is less controversial than the other boring cbc comedies like the hour has minutes royal canadian air farce and rick mercer s report ',
'i was brought up on doc savage and was petrified by the green death as a child but even then as now i found it thoroughly entertaining i have made countless friends and colleagues watch this film and have been most amused by the diversity of reactions granted they mostly think i m odd but there you are i don t know what it is about the doc but he always gets the girls has to be the ultimate line when you look at his sad band of men this film is a classic spoof on all the super hero genre and was way before it s time it is not to be taken seriously move over austin powers ron ely is a god it is unfortunate that this film hasn t been released on dvd in the uk i don t think it should be remade and bastardised like i said it s a classic it cannot be done without ron like the italian job without mini s and michael caine i give it ',
'this series just gets worse and worse poorly written and just plain not funny the premise is excellent but the writer s inexperience shines through by trying so hard to offend no one they end up insulting everyone now into the second season the desperate cast have stopped waving their arms about and resorted to that patronizing smug oh silly you style acting that comes with a no laugh script they roll their eyes and shake their heads at each other as if to say aren t we zany isn t this funny well no it s not actually gum disease is less painful no wonder with the exception of corner gas canadians generally avoid canadian tv come on cbc you re suppose to be our leading station showcasing the best of canadian talent pull the plug on this amateurish mess ',
'we so often talk of cinema landmarks kane the godfather a bout de souffle one film however is too often overlooked by serious film critics i am talking of course about the classic doc savage m o b br br this film is not only exciting but also seriously explores the issue of exploitation of the developing nations by us imperialism not to mention kung fu br br it also possessed the greatest soundtrack in film history until of course queen s breathtaking work on flash gordon although a bit of a rarity this film is well worth seeking out it will repay the effort of your search ten fold ',
'once again canadian tv outdoes itself and creates another show that will go unwatched after its premiere episode br br last time i remember sitcoms were supposed to induce a reaction we in the business call laughter how funny is it to beat the stereotype of all white people thinking that all muslims are terrorists ok maybe one joke just to stick it to the masses but not minutes it s called beating a dead horse even snl would know to give up after a commercial break br br also let s have a little conflict in these scripts will she or won t she be able to serve cucumber sandwiches to break the fast on ramadan when will ramadan start ohhhhh this is emmy winning stuff here br br and the characters what characters they are all cardboard cut outs without anything interesting to make us want to follow them from one situation to the next that s the point of the situation comedy we need to have strong interesting dynamic characters so that we are constantly drawn to the tv set each week we have to care about these characters to worry about what trouble they re going to get into next week if i never see these characters it ll be too soon thankfully i can t remember any of their names note to cbc that s not a good sign br br and the acting is so bland it s more so a problem in casting than in the actors none of these people actually embody the characters they play they just seem to act their part as though they were working on a movie of the week sitcoms require actors who live and breathe that character make us fall in love with them where they become inseparable from the character the portray watch any american sitcom and you ll see how easily identifiable characters are part of the problem is that the actors seem to treat this project as though it might be a platform to bigger and better things instead of being their one big character of a lifetime for whom they will spend the next years portraying that level of disinterest in the characters and the project shows but to be honest considering the lame concept and the horrible writing there s not much for the actors to do but say their lines and try not to bump into any furniture as another commenter mentions this seems like a tv movie and not a sitcom br br and the directing or lack there of what can i say canada has so much talent look at what the comedy channel is doing with puppets who kill and punched up look at the trailer park boys not the movie cause it bit the big helium dog look at any american show to see the potentials our talent as that s where many of our stars go to find decent work br br give credit to the cbc they really know how to build publicity for a non event remember the one no well don t even try to learn any characters names in this show as it s sure to go the way of the dodo br br let s all hope for a full blown actra strike so that nothing like this emerges from the ceeb for a good long while ',
'given the title this first follow up to quartet obviously reduces the number of w somerset maugham stories which comprise the film the author still turns up to introduce the episodes but there s no epilogue this time around by the way while the script of the original compendium gave sole credit to r c sheriff here maugham himself also lent a hand in the adaptation as well as noel langley though it s unclear whether they contributed one segment each or else worked in unison as can be expected much of the crew of quartet has been retained for the second installment though this also extends to at least three cast members namely naunton wayne wilfrid hyde white and felix aylmer the last two had bit parts in the episode from quartet entitled the colonel s lady while trio ultimately emerges to be a lesser achievement than its predecessor slightly unbalanced by the third story which takes up more than half the running time it s still done with the utmost care acted with verve by a stellar cast and is solidly enjoyable into the bargain br br the verger tells of a church sexton james hayter for which the story s title is another word who s dismissed after years of service by the new parish priest michael hordern simply because he s illiterate rather than rest on his laurels despite his age he not only takes a wife his landlady played by kathleen harrison but opens a tobacconist shop strategically placed in a lengthy stretch of road where no such service is offered and with business flourishing this is developed into a whole chain the last scene then sees him pay a visit to bank manager felix aylmer who not only is surprised to learn of hayter s lack of education but is prompted to ask him what his other interests were to which the wealthy and respected tobacconist replies with some measure of irony that he had the calling to be a verger br br the second episode mr know all is the shortest but also perhaps the most engaging a voyage at sea is utterly beleaguered by the insufferable presence of a pompous young man nigel patrick british despite his foreign sounding name of kelada who professes to be an authority on virtually every subject under the sun naunton wayne and wilfrid hyde white are the two passengers who have to put up with him the most the latter because he shares a cabin with the man and the former in view of patrick s attentions to his pretty wife anne crawford during a fancy dress party however the passengers decide to enact their revenge on kelada by having one of them impersonate him a jest which he naturally doesn t appreciate still it s here that he contrives to show a decent side to his character told by crawford that the necklace she s wearing is an imitation wayne challenges patrick to name its pricebut the latter realizes immediately that it s the genuine article and that this would compromise crawford s position if he were to tell so kelada allows himself to be publicly ridiculed rather than expose the fact that the woman probably has a secret admirer br br as can also be deduced from the title sanatorium deals with the myriad patients at such a place run by andre morell the protagonist is a new intern roland culver who wistfully observes the various goings on the narrative in fact highlights in particular three separate strands of plot one humorous the feud between two aged scots long resident at the sanatorium played by finlay currie and john laurie one melodramatic the erratic relationship between disgruntled patient raymond huntley and long suffering but devoted wife betty ann davies and one bittersweet the romance between nave but charming jean simmons and dashing cad michael rennie which in spite of having pretty much everything against it including the fact that morell has diagnosed simmons as a lifer while rennie only has a few years left to him leads the couple to the altar ',
'this show is a perfect example of how the cbc should stick to either news sports or satirical sketch comedy as a developer of situation comedy cbc has shown it can combine the pizazz of king of kensington with the belly laughs of the beachcombers it is an embarrassment to great shows like kids in the hall and second city that they have to share their comedic roots with this lame production br br i have to admit that i didn t give this show much of a chance right from when i first heard of its concept to start half of the concept is a direct attempt to rip off one of the few sitcom successes in english canadian history corner gas the rest of the concept the cultural clash is far from being original and is too often used as a crutch for screen writing laziness the selection of the muslim religion as the basis for the fish out of water characters seems to be a desperate attempt to be edgy and topical but comes off as forced some of the jokes that are based around the local s reaction to the newcomers are cringe inducing and thoroughly insulting to the intelligence of everyone involved especially the audience br br this show is a perfect example of how cbc just doesn t get it when it comes to creating canadian content especially when presenting canada as a multicultural environment cultural diversity in canada does not have to be presented in such a heavy handed and forced way it would be a refreshing change to see cbc introduce diversity into a television show without making the show all about said diversity i doubt that cbc has sufficient sitcom talent to pull off something so subtle a comparison could be made to the way diversity is depicted in corner gas i e the aboriginal characters are not set apart by their ethnicity nor is their heritage used to generate story lines more realistically their lives and the other characters lives intertwine in a way that makes ethnicity no more significant than any of their other personal characteristics br br that being said even as a formulaic fish out of water comedy this show fails the acting is weak the comic pacing all over the map and the story premises that i saw were too far beyond the suspension of belief even for a comedy the only saving grace is the talented derek mcgrath who is horribly wasted here i doubt that even the addition of guest stars colin mochrie for example as an anglican archbishop can save this dog i decided to give the show a chance once the cbc s hype had died down but two episodes were all i could stand i could almost feel my braincells shutting themselves down with each failed punchline the time slot would be better served by airing more coronation street air farce re runs or dr who even an infomercial would be an improvement ',
'the makers have chosen the best people for the job and set the scene wonderfully every interior is full of detail that tells you all about the people who live in it whether the period is the s the first story the present ie for the middle story or the s the last costumes and settings are lovingly observed and created i love the fussy costumes of the two old ladies in the sanatorium exquisite lace overlaid by the finest shetland shawls roland culver as ashenden is very appealing but never mind the soppy young lovers it s raymond huntley as the man who resents his wife s health and independence who harrows our emotions he usually played comical pompous types but here he is subtle and convincing and very impressive the china seas great s film starring gable and harlow stole the plot from the mr know all episode and also nicked a story by kipling i wish we saw more of naunton wayne as the jealous husband though he has a good moment looking melancholy in a mexican hat i love that posh bird who plays his wife too ',
'i think the show had a pretty good concept to work with but the execution was poor the script is poor and acting is bad there were many issues that could have been portrayed in a better way like the protest against gay marriage or finding the graveyard the show can t be properly termed as comedy show as it lacks humor miserably i should say this show was barely successful in putting the life of muslim community to some extent br br till now second season is worse than the first one i had my hopes high regarding this show but i was kind of disappointed still i appreciate cbc for putting up such concept in front of the viewers anyway i wish best of luck for the future ',
'trio s vignettes were insightful and quite enjoyable it was curious seeing so many soon to be famous actors when they were very young the performances and attention to detail were wonderful to watch br br observation in film it isn t necessary that source material be in alignment with the contemporary era to be interesting or worthwhile small morality storytelling is quaint or coy only in the eye of the beholder thankfully story content well told can overcome it s time subject or place br br ironically there are quite a few contemporary films today that have not overcome the conventions or cutting edge mores of the present era inserting small morality content occasionally might provide a dimension lacking ',
'i m trying to picture the pitch for dark angel i m thinking matrix i m thinking bladerunner i m thinking that chick that plays faith in angel wearing shiny black leather or some chick just like her leave that one with us only get this we ll do it without any plot dialogue character decent action or budget just some loud bangs and a hot chick in shiny black leather straddling a big throbbing bike fanboys dig loud bangs and hot chicks in shiny black leather straddling big throbbing bikes right br br flashy shallow dreary formulaic passionless tedious dull dumb humourless desultory barely competent live action anime without any action or indeed any life sf just the way joe fanboy likes it in fact ',
'a message movie but a rather good one outstanding cast top to bottom interesting in that bette davis s plot line is essentially back story the extremely negative reviews name throwing at the screenplay playwright associating this somehow with extremely negative comments about angles in america etc etc object to the movie being too preachy about germany in wwii gosh that is just a bit too sophisticated an understanding of morality for me br br theatrical and movie making and acting styles vary over time and of course years later this particular movie would not be made in this way yes casablanca is a better movie i guess but although made in the same year and both having nazis in them casablanca is primarily a love story the love story in this movie takes second seat to the spy plot more of a thriller both have a rather large number of somewhat cheesy accents and wonderful character actors the children are a bit tedious and could have been edited ',
'while i have never been a fan of the original scooby doo due to its horrid production values it appears like shakespeare compared to this pile of crap brought to us by hanna barbera without a doubt scrappy doo is about the most annoying and awful character created for children and this includes the teletubbies as well as tommy the tapeworm whose bright idea was it to create some sort of short mutant dog and enable it to speak and then saddle the scooby doo characters with it whoever it is deserves to die or watch this show i think death is preferable the bottom line is that the little dog is simply unfunny annoying and grates on the nerves and this is only in the better episodes after many years it would have been better to just end the franchise than create this mess i can see why in the live action scooby doo movie they made the villain scrappy doo since practically everyone hates him ',
'this is actually a trilogy of of somerset maugham s short tales the first one is the verger which is about minutes long and very enjoyable after years albert foreman is laid off from his church job because he can t read nor write so what does he do opens a tobacco shop of course br br the second is mr know all which was actually a story i had read for school years ago and instantly forgotten until i heard the familiar introduction another minute one and also very good it worked better on film than in a book for me but then perhaps that s because i was only the last time afterall br br the rd one is nearly a let down almost an hour in length it simply drags it s not all that bad but not as quick and snappy as the last i watched the first quarter hour of it and then skipped forward to the last quarter hour and found that it still made sense and really i hadn t missed a thing br br overall i give them and out of respectively ',
'wow here it finally is the action movie without action in a real low budget setting don t miss the hilarious flying saucers flying by a few times of a future seattle we find a no brain hardbody seeking to avenge her childhood br br there is nothing even remotely original or interesting about the plot and the actors performance is only rivalled in stupidity by the attempts to steal from other movies mainly matrix without having the money to do it right yes we do get to see some running on walls and slow motion shoot outs secs approx but these scenes are about as cool as the stupid hardbody s attempts at making jokes about male incompetence now and then br br and yes we are also served a number of leads that lead absolutely nowhere as if the script was thought out by the previously unseen cast while shooting the scenes br br believe me it is as bad as it possibly can get in fact it doesn t deserve to be taken seriously but perhaps i can make some of you not rent it and save your money ',
'made after quartet was trio continued the quality of the earlier film versions of the short stories by maugham here the three stories are the verger mr know it all and sanitorium the first two are comic the verger is like a prolonged joke but one with a good pay off and the last more serious as health issues are involved again the author introduces the film and the stories br br james hayter soon to have his signature role as samuel pickwick is the hero in the verger he holds this small custodial type job in a church but the new vicar michael hordern is an intellectual snob when he hears hayter has no schooling he fires him hayter has saved some money so he tells his wife kathleen harrison he fancies buying a small news and tobacco shop he has a good eye and his store thrives soon he has a whole chain of stores when his grandchild is christened by hordern the latter is amazed to see how prosperous his ex verger the payoff is when bank manager felix aylmer meets with hayter about diversifying his investments i ll leave it to you to hear the unintentional but ironic coda of the meeting br br according to maugham he met a man like max kelada nigel patrick on a cruise in mr know it all kelada is a splashy friendly and slightly overbearing type from the middle east who is on a business trip regarding jewelry by steamship his state room mate is mr grey the ever quiet and proper wilfred hyde white who is somewhat silently disapproving of max max likes to enliven things and soon is heavily involved in the ship s entertainment at this point the story actually resembles part of the plot of the non maugham story and film china seas as max makes a bet that he can tell a real piece of jewelry from a fake after insisting that a piece of jewelry he spotted is real i won t describe the way max rises to the occasion br br sanitorium is the longest segment roland culver plays ashenden the fictional alter ego of maugham a writer and one time spy as in hitchcock s the secret agent here he has to use a sanitorium for a couple of months for his health he finds a remarkable crew of people including jean simmons as a frail but beautiful young woman finlay currie as an irascible scotsman john laurie as a second irascible scotsman who is at war with currie raymond huntley as a quiet patient who only shows his internal anger at his situation when his wife shows up and michael rennie as a young man who has a serious life threatening illness culver watches as three stories among these characters play out to their conclusions the last dealing with simmons and rennie is ironic but deeply moving br br it was a dandy follow up to the earlier quartet and well worth watching ',
'god i was bored out of my head as i watched this pilot i had been expecting a lot from it as i m a huge fan of james cameron and not just since titanic i might add and his name in the credits i thought would be a guarantee of quality then again he also wrote the leaden strange days but the thing failed miserably at grabbing my attention at any point of its almost two hours of duration in all that time it barely went beyond its two line synopsis and i would be very hard pressed to try to figure out any kind of coherent plot out of all the mess of strands that went nowhere on top of that i don t think the acrobatics outdid even those of any regular a team episode as for alba yes she is gorgeous of course but the fact that she only displays one single facial expression the entire movie pouty and surly makes me also get bored of her gal wit an attitude schtick pretty soon you can count me out of this one mr cameron ',
'wilhelm grimm alexander knox stands trial for nazi crimes three witnesses give evidence father warecki henry travers wilhelm s brother karl erik rolf and wilhelm s former lover marja marsha hunt before wilhelm speaks in his own defense the film ends after the court sums up br br the film is told in three flashback segments as each of the witnesses takes the stand the story is mostly set in a small polish village and memorable scenes include the village reaction to the death of anna shirley mills who wilhelm is accused of raping the treatment of the jewish villagers as they prepare to be moved to concentration camps and the church service where willie grimm richard crane denounces his nazi upbringing whilst mourning for his girlfriend janina dorothy morris marja s daughter after she has been shot at a brothel br br throughout the film knox is unrepentant and is very convincing as a bitter resentful and evil man martha hunt has some powerful moments and matches him with her strength and henry travers is also very good in his role as a priest this film delivers an effective story that stays with you once it has finished ',
'awful simply awful it proves my theory about star power this is supposed to be great tv because the guy who directed battlestar titanica is the same guy who directed this shlop schtock schtick about a chick b o r i n g br br find something a thousand times more interesting to do like watch your tv with no picture and no sound i rated it so high b c there aren t any negative scores in the imdb com rating system br br zaphoid br br ps my theory about star power is the more star power used in a show the weaker the show is it s called an indirect proportionality quality star power less sp makes for better quality etc another way to look at it is more is less br br z ',
'this was a wonderful little american propaganda film that is both highly creative and openly discusses the nazi atrocities before the entire extent of the death camps were revealed while late and into would reveal just how evil and horrific they were this film unlike other hollywood films to date is the most brutally honest film of the era i have seen regarding nazi atrocities br br the film begins in a courtroom in the future after the war is over the film was made in the war ended in may in this fictitious world court a nazi leader is being tried for war crimes wilhelm grimm is totally unrepentant and one by one witnesses are called who reveal grimm s life since in a series of flashbacks at first it appears that the film is going to be sympathetic or explain how grimm was pushed to join the nazis however after a while it becomes very apparent that grimm is just a sadistic monster these episodes are amazingly well done and definitely hold your interest and also make the film seem less like a piece of propaganda but a legitimate drama br br all in all the film does a great job considering the film mostly stars second tier actors there are many compelling scenes and performances especially the very prescient jewish extermination scene towards the end that can t help but bring you close to tears it was also interesting how around the same point in the film there were some super creative scenes that use crosses in a way you might not notice at first overall it s a must see for history lovers and anyone who wants to see a good film br br fyi this is not meant as a serious criticism of the film but hitler was referred to as that paper hanger this is a reference to the myth that hitler had once made money putting up wallpaper this is in fact not true previously he d been a starving artist homeless person and served well in the german army in wwi a horrible person yes but never a paper hanger ',
'what was an exciting and fairly original series by fox has degraded down to meandering tripe during the first season dark angel was on my weekly must see list and not just because of jessica alba br br unfortunately the powers that be over at fox decided that they needed to fine tune the plotline within episodes of the season opener they had totally lost me as a viewer not even to see jessica alba i found the new characters that were added in the second season to be too ridiculous and amateurish the new plotlines were stretching the continuity and credibility of the show too thin on one of the second season episodes they even had max sleeping and dreaming where the first season stated she biologically couldn t sleep br br the moral of the story the one that hollywood never gets if it works don t screw with it br br azjazz ',
'never viewed this film until recently on tcm and found this story concerning poland and a small town which had to suffer with the nazi occupation of the local towns just like many other european cities for example norway the first world war was over and people in this town were still suffering from their lost soldiers and the wounded which war always creates alexander knox wilhelm gimm gorky park returns from the war with a lost leg and was the former school teacher in town he was brought up a german and was not very happy with the polish people and they in turn did not fully accept him either as the hitler party grew to power wilhelm grimm desired to become a nazi in order to return and punish this small polish town for their treatment towards him which was really all in his mind marsha hunt marja pacierkowski chloe s prayer played an outstanding role as a woman who lost her husband and was romantically involved with whilhelm gimm there are many flashbacks and some very real truths about how the nazi destroyed people s families and their entire lives the cattle cars are shown in this picture with jewish people heading to the nazi gas chambers if you have not seen this film and like this subject matter give it some of your time this film is very down to earth for a film and a story you will not forget too quickly ',
'a story of amazing disinterest kills the psychic over and over again the characters and plot are completely uninteresting as is fulci s mad camera work which is usually a redeeming factor in his films and any grasp of suspense is nowhere to be found it s padded out to an insufferable degree by the end you won t be clamoring with excitement but stricken with boredom and like me maybe an uncontrollable urge to fall asleep jennifer o neill s performance deserves occupancy in a better movie fulci gorehounds beware there s just not much going on in the psychic br br ',
'the only reason i give this movie an out of is because there are few movies in my opinion that are perfect this little b picture is a taut story well told i ve always been intrigued by alexander knox but have seen him very few movies here he plays wilhelm grimm a sad little man who turns into a monster he betrays everything and everybody without an ounce of remorse the performance is one of the most chilling performances i ve ever seen since world war actors who played nazis or other evil types in films have occasionally been nominated for oscars i imagine that since this was made during the war the academy felt like honoring a performance like this would have been like honoring evil but knox puts in that kind of performance a man so bitter and consumed by guilt that he thinks nothing of making others suffer i still can t get over it br br marsha hunt who usually plays the filbert gibbet or social butterfly is cast against type in probably the best performance i ve ever seen her give too maybe not oscar worthy but the best of her career nothing against her i have enjoyed her in those slight roles she often played but here she proves she up to the task of heavier drama br br if you like human drama stories or stories about the fates of those who suffered at the hands of the nazis i highly recommend this fine little film ',
'average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which means it s still quite bad by normal standards but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance br br the genre s well known weaknesses are in full gear banal dialogue wooden acting illogical plot points and the finale goes on much too long while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair br br fulci s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing though yellow clues wherever you look br br out of limping killers ',
'this one is tough to watch as an earlier reviewer says that is amazing considering the terrible films that came out right after wwii particularly the liberation of dachau it is clear that as of the middle of the war we knew exactly what was happening to the jews the sequence that shows a transport is vivid almost as if based upon an actual newsreel the nazis liked to record their atrocities knox as the nazi is brilliant he charts the course of a nazi career that charting is particularly telling when contrasted with the reactions of other germans at first laughing at hitler then incredulous and finally helpless that contrast however permits us to believe in the conversion of one young nazi officer to an anti nazi stance that did happen as witness the several attempts against hitler most notably the staffenberg plot which occurred as this film was coming out a strong film effectively using flashbacks accurately predicting the nuremburg trails and others that would occur once the war ended ',
'i was really disappointed in this movie those that voted this thing a have a screw lose the acting was ok kinda wooden and cardboard the ending was sorry i just didn t care for this at all br br no way could i recommend this mess ',
'this movie was extremely funny i would like to own this for my vintage collection of s movie must see again list i know this cast of characters they are people that i have met over the years and that prompt me to search out this comedy unfortunately this was never put to dvd or vhs redd foxx always a clown of comedy pearl baily a great match as his wife witty and sassy norman a son with a secret not sure if he will have a future if it is out dennis dugan crazy funny man miss dobson hooker with a heart and little conscience love lust strange family ties this movie qualifies for a come back encore performance situation comedy with a mix of events as this could and should find its way as a remake i do think finding cast would be extremely difficult maybe impossible except jerry seinfeld playing dennis dugan role this earmarks a couple of seinfeld episodes that also brought me back to norman is that you keeping them in the closest was surely impossible as impossible to reform pretend hooker girl friend and infidelity of a parent this movie was a wild ride advise of a cabbie remind me of episode kramer takes advice of his caddie over his lawyer episode from seinfeld the parents have there jaw dropping moment fun over fun it is screaming bring me back ',
'man the ending of this film is so terribly unwatchable and dated that my entire film aesthetics class laughed like crazy now most of the rest of the film was okay it had a few unintentionally funny scenes but had a few real good camera shots and editing yes alderich is a great director who made flight of the phoenix and whatever happened to baby jane among others the problem isn t with direction acting or anything technical the movie is just destroyed in the third act why the murders twists turns and characters have all been revolving around nuclear material what the heck was the writer smoking when he came up with that the way it just comes out of nowhere may have been the biggest deus ex machina in history for all the complaints about burton s planet of the apes the life of david gale or notorious i think this is the worst ending ever what a let down ',
'norman is that you was this is all third hand so take it with a grain of salt adapted to an african american family from a jewish one when it made the transition off stage and onto screen also it was one of those movies originally filmed in video so the prints from the theater can t have been that great still performances by redd foxx and others were pretty good br br what i wanted to tell you all is that the movie is a period piece it reflected the attitudes in the mid to early s about finding out you have a gay son or daughter in your family for that reason alone it s pretty interesting if not a little hollywood don t believe me check out lines about curtains etc very stereotypical not too deep br br but the movie really shines in a couple of areas there is a side splitting scene when redd foxx is trying to find his wife who s run away with his brother to ensenada in a souped up pinto the phone conversation across the border is really memorable br br but the best scene in the movie is when wayland flowers and madame did his their gay routine that he used to do in gay bars and nightclubs to the best of my knowledge this is the only time that routine was filmed and it s a slightly cleaned up and much shorter version i m told still it s vintage madame and shouldn t be missed people are still stealing lines from wayland the man was truly gifted enjoy the movie ',
'this movie is just plain dumb br br from the casting of ralph meeker as mike hammer to the fatuous climax the film is an exercise in wooden predictability br br mike hammer is one of detective fiction s true sociopaths unlike marlow and spade who put pieces together to solve the mystery hammer breaks things apart to get to the truth this film turns hammer into a boob by surrounding him with bad guys who are well too dumb to get away with anything one is so poorly drawn that he succumbs to a popcorn attack br br other parts of the movie are right out of the three stooges play book velda s dance at the barre for instance or the bad guy who accidentally stabs his boss in the back and the continuity breaks are shameful frau blucher is running down the centerline of the road when the camera is tight on her lower legs but she s way over the side when the camera pulls back for a wider shot the worst break however precedes the popcorn attack the bad guy stalking hammer passes a clock seconds after our hero except the clock shows he was seven minutes behind our guy br br to be fair there were some interesting camera angles and lighting and the grand finale is so bad that it must been seen which is the only reason that it gets two points out of ',
'i saw a trailer for this on afro promo the collection of movie trailers for movies featuring african americans it looked like what it is a highly tendentious wacky comedy in which an uptight black man realizes that his son is gay it would seem that redd foxx s rf wife has left him for his brother who works with him at the store back in phoenix he has taken the bus to visit his son norman is los angeles br br so as rf arrives norman wearing nothing but powder blue bikini shorts gets out of his waterbed to answer the door trying to buy time by making his elderly father take the stairs to what appears to be the th floor norman tries to wake his lover who steadfastly refuses to budge it was just to the point where i wrote why won t he wake up when suddenly he does and me and my friend s jaws dropped for the first of many times as we are presented with our first glimpse of the blue eyed swirl hairdoed garson norman s white live in lover who just had the most faaaaaabulous dream garson is a flaming queen of a type that can only be imagined as emerging from l a he has dresses and a purse and big clunky jewelry and seems to have modeled both his look and persona on carol brady from the brady bunch br br norman orders his lover to find somewhere else to stay during his father s visit garson goes to stay with waylon flowers and madam answers the phone when norman calls br br so rf attempts to reach his wife in mexico while he is on the phone garson comes in to pack his dress and rf confronts him with a burst of s soul music meant to evoke his dawning revelation but sounding more like we re about to hear a very special track by the emotions he realizes that his son is gay br br his first impulse is i ll kill him i ll kill him then rf goes on a long walk wherein he cycles through all of the thoughts a confused parent might have such as maybe we toilet trained him too soon his thoughts are all triggered by something he sees on his walk for instance a burly truck driver appearing just as he is contemplating what makes a real man surprisingly he goes to a bookstore and buys about eight books on homosexuality this it must be said is about eight more books on homosexuality than my parents bought he then goes straight to a park bench and reads them all br br rf then hires audrey a six foot amazon prostitute in this amazing fur thing played by tamara dobson of cleopatra jones he hired her for norman to try out heterosexuality but this pisses norman and he storms out to go stay with his friend melody br br then garson comes over and offers to take rf out for the night he commiserates over the loss of rf s wife and tells the tale of his own mother who harbors an irrational prejudice against pilippinos because she was molested at a luau they attend a long featured performance of wayon and madam which culminates in madam violently bashing her head against the piano until her hair comes loose once more mouths were agape br br so it seems that wouldn t ya just know it rf and garson have a wonderful evening together you see staid traditional older black men just have to see the crappy highly effeminate entertainment of mega queens in order to come around to all the gay world has to offer it s really just that simple this still does not prevent rf from yelling rape when garson wakes him from a bad dream it ends less predictably than you d think br br there was so much that was just off what is the basis of norman and garson s relationship they don t seem to have any rapport and norman has no qualms whatsoever about kicking garson out and even when he comes around to stand up for himself he never defends garson or talks about their relationship there were some kind of sweetly quaint touches like rf going to buy all those books on homosexuality and sitting right down on the park bench to read them i like the idea that a parent would actually try to find something out about homosexuality rather than just run off to get drunk or commiserate with his friends br br other than that it s kind of just what it seems like a little relic of a bygone era an era in which some gay people thought that if uptight straight people just sat down and watched a drag marionette performance we could all learn to love and understand one another and because of the whole naivet of this thing the extreme stereotypes and message laden dialogue just come off as charmingly outdated and provide a great deal of grist for discussion on how things have changed for gays in the past years i guess the only thing that seems offensive is the idea that gays female friends are desperately in love with them and are willing to get them drunk in order to sleep with and by extension convert them br br hey check out cinema de merde my website on bad and cheesy movies with a few good movies thrown in you can find the url in my email address above ',
'how did mike hammer live in a penthouse with a golf bag stashed in the corner next to a big screen cathode ray tube tv and a snazzy fireplace nah he d knock back a bottle of rye and twenty unfiltered camels on the couch or floor of his fly specked office or in the stink of a lousy downtown la flop house wiping the dried red crust and oil smeared mud off his face that s how spillane wrote trash paperbacks for sure but how do you make it worse give some desperate scheming producer a blank check because he thinks any film noir titled crap will sell at the box office add some over the hill hot tomatoes and just generally screw up the story line by some retard drugged out screen writer that s how ',
'say what you will about schmaltz one beauty of this film is that it is not pro american it is a morality about some americans being called to high purpose and how they rose to the occasion it is inspiring because it is about people of noble purpose br br to me the most interesting part of the film is the education of fanny and david farrelly bette davis mother and brother as fanny says we ve been shaken out of the magnolias br br in today s political climate where led by a president who shamelessly lied to us and used to bring out the absolute worst characteristics of human beings we sunk to the level of the murderers to seek blood thirsty vengeance it can t all be blamed on mr bush after all we allowed him to lead us in that direction and even re elected him after his lies had been exposed now with complete justification we americans are reviled throughout the world br br today we watch this film with a new awareness that the rise to power of nazis in germany was not due to a flaw in the german character but a flaw in human beings that allows us to rationalize anything that will justify our committing immoral and heinous acts i m not comparing george bush to adolph hitler but i am pointing out how a leader can whip us up into a frenzy of terror hatred and hyper nationalism to do despicable things br br sadly the blackmailer who will do whatever needs to be done for his own agrandizement no matter how immoral is most like the leaders of our country those who support them and those who have buried their heads so deep in the sand that they can t even be bothered to vote br br a film like watch on the rhine reminds us of what we once aspired to be a force for the betterment of humanity and that we have it in us to once again aspire to lofty goals br br geoff ',
'i grew up on scooby doo where are you and i still love it it is one of my favourite cartoons along with darkwing duck talespin peter pan and the pirates and tom and jerry this show though is good for kids the voices are good don messick and casey kasem are perfect as scooby and shaggy the theme tune is tolerable and it has some nice animation however it is rather disappointing i normally don t mind scrappy but when he appears to be like the main character it gets annoying fast complete with the catchphrase puppy power scrappy is somewhat more annoying than usual also half the gang are missing after the first year somehow it didn t feel like scooby doo and the jokes and the story lines were in general lame and unoriginal very little chasing monsters or unmasking the baddies all in all not as bad as shaggy and scooby dooget a clue but this show is disappointing for the animation voices theme tune and the fact it is nice for kids bethany cox ',
'even though this movie came out a year before i was born it is definetely one of my favorite comedies it stars redd foxx as a father who tries to understand his son s homosexuality like most parents he doesn t know a thing about what it means to be gay and has all of these stereotypical notions of what gay people are like his son norman is now grown up and living on his own when his father ben finds out that his son is gay he pays his son a visit in hopes of changing him the title comes from one of the funniest lines in the movie when ben gets to norman s apartments he runs into a female prostitute and thinks it s his son in drag norman is that you the movie had me laughing from start to finish redd foxx is great although a lot of the content is stereotypical i didn t find anything offensive about the way the material was handled and it even has a good ending highly recommended ',
'this is one of the worst films i ve ever seen i looked into it mainly out of a morbid curiosity since i loved the novel and i wish i hadn t i turned it off after a little less than an hour though i wanted to turn it off after five minutes i wish i had it disregards the novel a lot and changes all sorts of factors unless the film managed to redeem itself in the last or so minutes which would be impossible i would in no way recommend this its an insult to one of the greatest writers of the th century i don t think as many people say that it is that the bell jar is necessarily unfilmable but this particular rendition could have been done without i d almost like to see this one day in the hands of a director and screenwriter who can do it justice ',
'a genuine screaming situation comedy farce of the mid s this film was a huge hit for about minutes and disappeared off the face of the earth i am constantly amazed at some comedy films that are a big release one week and then vanish high anxiety the cheap detective the black bird don t look now we re being shot at and have no profile at all today norman was the comedy of the month in whenever and everyone seemed to see it laugh about it and then never ever mention it ever again famous for being shot on videotape and transferred to film an experiment at the time norman is a raucous politically incorrect closet slamming farce that the farrelly brothers should look at remaking today if they had made it in the first place there would be no complaints about its content and slant either it is very funny and yes very rude and hilariously all wrong just as it should be in fact as a groovy film with all those horror colours and clothes it actually works better today ',
'i rented this movie from the library it s hard to find for good reason purely out of curiosity i m a huge plath fan and this movie was a complete disappointment the bell jar is by far one of the worst movies i ve ever seen the script is horrible not because it strays from the original novel text but because it strays without focus or intent the scenes are ill constructed and don t lead the viewer anywhere what s with the hokey voice over of plath s poetry lady lazarus has little do with greenwood s situation plath s poetry was completely misused marilyn hassett is completely unbelievable as esther greenwood or any year old for that matter partly due to casting she was during filming the age plath was when she died and partly due to the fact that she can t act hassett is all emotion no craft no skill the direction is mediocre the director simply covers what s there which isn t much the only reason i m giving the film a is because isn t an option sorry sylvia you ll have to wait for someone else to adapt your fine work into something more fitting ',
'melvyn douglas once more gives a polished performance in which this time he inhabits the role of a detective who can t place love before duty and adventure and the warmly beautiful joan blondell who far from being illiterate as one reviewer suggested wrote a novel about her early life is as enjoyable as ever as his ever suffering sweetheart it s almost a screwball comedy almost a thin man type movie almost a series i guess that didn t quite make it to a sequel it doesn t quite reach classic status but it has all the ingredients for a fun minutes with an episodic but pacey script fine character actors and direction that keeps it all moving fast enough so that you nearly don t notice that williams douglas isn t exactly columbo when it comes to detecting i wish there were more films like this ',
'jameson parker and marilyn hassett are the screen s most unbelievable couple since john travolta and lily tomlin larry peerce s direction wavers uncontrollably between black farce and roman tragedy robert klein certainly think it s the former and his self centered performance in a minor role underscores the total lack of balance and chemistry between the players in the film normally i don t like to let myself get so ascerbic but the bell jar is one of my all time favorite books and to watch what they did with it makes me literally crazy ',
'the amazing mr williams stars melvyn douglas who did five films in one of which was ninotchka with garbo his co star was joan blondell maxine who also did five films that year three of which they made together douglas is lt williams and he and his co horts are presented with a dead body and they must figure out what really happened viewers will recognize his co workers the actors clarence kolb donald macbride don beddoe always played positions of authority senators bank presidents policemen this who dunnit has a flair of comedy to it the policemen are always throwing jabs at each other and even williams and his girlfriend are battling verbally some fun gags williams even takes the man they arrested along on a date with his girlfriend there s a lot of fun stuff in here so get past the slow beginning and wait for the funnier stuff later on don t want to give away any spoilers so you ll have to catch it on turner classic movies director alexander hall made mostly comedies and was reportedly engaged to lucy at some point ',
'the golden era of disney cartoons was dying by the time the end of the s this show quack pack shouldn t even be considered a ducktales spin off because the show barely had anything to do with ducktales it s about a teen aged huey dewey and louie as they make trouble for their uncle donald and talk in hip hop lingo and they are fully dressed unlike in ducktales i prefer the little adventurous nephews from ducktales there are humans in duckburg and the ducks are the only animals living in duckburg there s no references of scrooge mcduck the stories are repetitive the plot is boring but the animation is good if you want lots of slapstick humor i recommend this to you if you want a better disney show watch darkwing duck or ducktales ',
'melvyn douglas and joan blondell co star in the amazing mr williams a mystery comedy that s quite good although forgotten probably due to the number of incredible films that came out in br br douglas plays a talented police detective married to his job while his girlfriend waits for a wedding that is constantly postponed what happens in this film is no exception he s called to a murder scene just as he s about to walk down the aisle yet again br br both stars were excellent at comedy worked together well and often and help make this battle of the sexes fun edward brophy and donald mcbride are on hand for excellent support br br as you can read in other reviews melvyn douglas doesn t make much of a woman br br entertaining if a little on the long side br br one of the comments here trashed melvyn douglas one of our greatest actors he literally floated effortlessly through dozens of films as the other man and the best friend before coming into his own in films as an old man he wasn t lazy but rather a very hard working actor who made it look easy who had a broadway career simultaneously with his film career he just wasn t cast as a leading man in films or given very challenging roles under the studio system i challenge anyone to see his devastating performances in hud and i never sang for my father and call him lazy or make reference to his smirk ',
'saw this film ran in the wee hours on tcm several problems with the film were apparent from what i saw first the adults did not age when the children did for years several parts of the film had continuity problems for some reason the actor who played the youngest son looked like the oldest when the years passed br br the copy i saw was missing about minutes or so at least a huge gap with black screen appeared it is too bad because even though the script left something to be desired bergman russell both did fine in the film in their roles it is a shame the large chunk is missing but what is here is watchable br br i just wish it was all intact the script makes little sense in that bergman s character is sent away when the kids are small but then brought back to take care of them when they are adults some of the time lines don t make sense either there is a stock market crash that resembles but the kids grow up to fight in world war all the acting by the support folks in this film is fine just wonder what was in the gap of film i could not see as it was missing ',
'the only other review of this movie as of this date really trashes the stars and the movie itself i usually like to read the user comments to give me an idea of what to expect from a movie i don t know much about it s unfortunate when there aren t many comments for a certain tile because when there is only one review and it unreasonably trashes the movie and cast you don t get an idea of what to expect i read the review before watching this title and i don t know where all the venom for this movie and the stars came from douglas and blondell were both very talented and attractive people who usually delivered even when the material was not the greatest i found the movie and the performances fun and enjoyable it isn t one of the great all time classics but a pleasant and funny diversion much more than you can hope for in most newer movies if you are a fan of these stars you will not be disappointed ',
'by columbia was a full fledged major studio and could produce a movie with the same technical polish as mgm paramount or warners that s the best thing that could be said about adam had four sons a leaden soap opera with almost terminally bland performances by ingrid bergman top billed for the first time in an american film and warner baxter bergman plays a frenchwoman this was the era in which hollywood thought one foreign accent was as good as another hired as governess to baxter s four sons and staying on with one interruption caused by the stock market crash of until the boys are grown men serving in world war i just about everyone in the movie is so goody good it s a relief when susan hayward as the villainess enters midway through she s about the only watchable person in the movie even though she s clearly channeling bette davis and vivien leigh it s also the first in her long succession of alcoholic roles but the script remains saccharine and the ending is utterly preposterous no wonder bergman turned down the similarly plotted the valley of decision four years later ',
'what was there about that helped produce so many excellent hollywood films well whatever it was the magic may also be found in this columbia picture it s a long forgotten screwball comedy that turner classic movies has begun to show maltin s movie book does not contain it in nearly every department amazing mr williams is a jewel br br it s the story of a first rate police detective who can never find the time to marry his intended as the wedding bells are about to ring he gets called to the scene of a murder the lady in question has to learn the hard way not only to enjoy the pursuit of criminals but to belong to the police force there are a lot of laughs in the process br br melvyn douglas proved again that he had few peers in light comedy joan blondell was at the peak of her career and is a delight edward brophy and donald mcbride are hilarious br br the film goes on a bit too long but who cares the screwball comedies are always able to entertain and this film belongs right in there with the best ',
'you d think that with ingrid bergman and warner baxter that this film would have been a lot better sadly the film suffers from difficult to believe characters as well as a major plot problem that makes some of the characters seem brain addled br br the film begins with ingrid bergman coming to work for the stoddard family everything is so very peachy and swell the family adores bergman and things couldn t be more perfect well that is until the mother fay wray dies the stock market crashes in wiping out the family s fortune and bergman is forced to go back home to france this portion of the film is a bit sticky sweet but not bad br br later after the family s fortunes have improved bergman returns the four boys are now all grown and there isn t really a conceivable reason why they d hire her once again as a governess but briefly everything is swell once again but when wwi occurs the four all go to war gosh in the midst of this one of the sons david brings home his new wife susan hayward miss hayward s character is as black and white as the others though while they are all good and swell she s obviously a horny she devil to make things worse she comes to live in the family home while david is at war br br now here is where the movie gets really really dumb brain achingly dumb hayward begins an affair with one of david s brothers but when the father sees a silhouette of the lovers bergman enters the room from another entrance and pretends that it was her not hayward with jack why why would any sane person do this to save the butt of an obviously evil and conniving woman this was exactly the sort of excuse bergman needed to get rid of the gutter snipe once and for all this is just a case of lousy writing and made me mad and most likely did the same to the audiences back in br br the rest of the movie consists of failed opportunity after failed opportunity for hayward s evilness to be exposed this just flies against common sense and made the film a silly melodramatic mess as expected however the truth eventually comes out and everyone is swell once again happy to be one big loving wonderful family minus the slut hayward br br the film suffers because of poor writing hayward s affair made no sense at least in how it was handled and having characters who are so gosh darn good or evil with nothing in between sinks this movie to the level of a second rate soap the only thing that saves it at all is the acting they tried as best they could with a turgid script suffice to say that the columbia pictures writers who did this film should have been slapped with a dead chicken ',
'delightful minor film juggling comedy and detective romance and drama genres as nimbly as lt kenny williams melvyn douglas balances his devotion to his girl maxine carroll joan blondell and his duty to the force as an ace detective br br this hodge podge may not appeal to all viewers today but in its day it had something to offer every member of the movie going family and the resolution to the rather tired feeling versus duty plot is original and refreshing and well worth the wait br br the amazing mr williams contains what must be among the most outrageous blind dates in film history and its bright comic repartee sparkles ludicrously frocked melvyn douglas delivers some of the best lines i d walk down main street in a turkish towel before i d let any woman control my life and the effervescent joan blondell lets her barbs fly with typical aplomb good grief you look like my aunt nellie br br the crime solving here is standard fare although a fine cast of character actors helps bring the material to life br br from today s vantage point the amazing mr williams is perhaps most interesting for its insightful commentary on gender as a socially defined construct all the more malleable for its seemingly rigid boundaries while much of the gender commentary takes place in a superficial battle of the sexes at times it is both subtle and penetrating playing out not only in some of the finer details of the film but in the battle of genres that reaches its culmination in the final scene ',
'i just saw adam had four sons for the first time and the thing that struck me was that i believe that the model used was theodore roosevelt and his four sons they were approximately the same ages as the four boys in this film warner baxter in his portrayal of adam stoddard talked about the same values and family tradition that you would have heard from our th president without some of the more boisterous aspects of tr s character br br like tr all of the stoddard sons serve in world war i in this case though the youngest only loses an eye instead of being killed br br but what if a female minx gets into this all male household and disrupts things that s susan hayward s job here in one of her earliest prominent roles hayward is a flirtatious amoral girl who marries one son has an affair with another and starts making a play for the third it s an early forerunner of the kind of a part that later brought her an oscar in i want to live br br i suppose that with as powerful a model of decorum as theodore roosevelt was and warner baxter portrays everyone is afraid to tell father what s going on the sons and also their governess ingrid bergman here s where the plot gets a little silly bergman is introduced to us as a governess hired by baxter and wife fay wray for their kids wray dies and baxter suffers some financial reversals in business bergman has to be let go she goes back to france and years later comes back to the family when the kids are grown up br br i m sorry but i can t believe the kids need a governess now hayward is quite right when she confronts her that it wasn t the kids who brought her back in the normal course of things bergman would have gotten on with her life br br one of the previous reviewers said that a quarter to a third of the film i have was edited out possibly that could be the reason for the many plot holes we have br br it s too bad that ingrid and susan could not have done another film together in the fifties when hayward was at her heights and bergman had just made a comeback br br susan hayward is the main reason to see adam had four sons and i m willing to believe that a good deal of ingrid was left on the cutting room floor ',
'this movie is very good the screenplay is enchanting but meryl streep is most impressive her performance is excellent she brings me to go into the heart of her role ',
'i was very excited to see that they had made a movie out of my favorite book ever i didn t realize it was disney until it was too late i was appalled by the many omissions of crucial parts of the story it was as if someone made a movie out of a th grader s book report on the novel meg did well in school and neither her nor her father wore glasses mrs murray meg s mother was not portrayed as much of a scientist at all they left out her kitchen laboratory and replaced it with the internet and that s just the beginning by halfway through the movie i found myself shouting at the screen much to the dismay of the other people who were watching the movie who hadn t read the book i wish i had more thumbs so i could give four thumbs down for this one the only good thing i can say is that for a person who has not read the book this movie is kinda alright ',
'this is one of those movies that made me feel strongly for the need of making movies at all generally speaking i am a fan of movies based on worthy true stories and this one is great besides meryl s performance which has gained a lot of recognition and praise the movie s greatest asset is the story it is based on the riveting tale of a couple who suffer social and legal torture after having undergone enormous emotional pain at the unexpected and brutal death of their infant child is really an eye opening fable that exposes the inhumane side of fellow humans and uncovers the barbarism of a very refined and lawful society it is interesting to see how people who consider themselves as kind and intelligent people the emotional jury ladies in the movie for example are in reality nothing more than selfish dupes who would for their dogmatic beliefs and prejudices shut their brains to any deliberation and contemplation even in the light of all facts pointing very clearly against their opinions the other face of the so called civilized society that the movie exposes is the apathy to the pain of fellow human beings needless to say this is very general even though this specific tale unfolds in australia that goes as far as becoming a true cruelty must see if you are willing to take something serious and perhaps thought provoking ',
'first of all i am a huge fan of madeleine l engle and was so excited to see that a movie was made for one of my favorite books a wrinkle in time this movie however ruined that excitement for me i am sorry but meg was described in the book as having fizzy curls and glasses and as being considered very uncool in the movie she has straight hair and no glasses and is the sporty type with a deep voice this is not how madeleine l engle pictured meg to be at all in fact meg was based on madeleine s character and depicted the way she felt when she was young this is just one major example how the book and movie are different so i would say if you want to watch it for entertainment purposes watch it but if you are a devoted fan of madeleine l engle and her wrinkle in time series i would suggest skipping this movie ',
'i think this movie was probably a lot more powerful when it first debuted in though nowadays it seems a bit too preachy and static to elevate it to greatness the film is set in just before the entry of the us into the war paul lukas plays the very earnest and decent head of his family he s a german who has spent seven years fighting the nazis and avoiding capture bette davis is his very understanding and long suffering wife who has managed to educate and raise the children without him from time to time as the film begins they are crossing the border from mexico to the usa and for the first time in years they are going to relax and stop running br br the problem for me was that the family was too perfect and too decent making them seem like obvious positive propaganda instead of a real family suffering through real problems while this had a very noble goal at the time it just seems phony today in particular the incredibly odd and extremely scripted dialog used by the children just didn t ring true it sounded more like anti fascism speeches than the voices of real children they were as a result extremely annoying particularly the littlest one who came off at times as a brat about the only ones who sounded real were bette davis and her extended american family as well as the scumbag romanian living with them though he had no discernible accent br br it s really tough to believe that the ultra famous dashiel hammett wrote this dialog as it just doesn t sound true to life the story was based on the play by his lover lillian hellman and the basic story idea and plot is good but the dialog is just bad at times overall an interesting curio and a film with some excellent moments but that s really about all ',
'after the success of scooby doo where are you they decided to give scooby and shaggy their own show but unfortunately they added a new character that spoilt scooby doo success forever they invented a new show with a new title scooby and scrappy doo it was scrappy doo that made this show a complete failure probably for both adults and kids together scrappy was the stupid brave puppy that always looked ready to beat someone up scooby and shaggy were getting scared of the villain and they were also trying to stop him scooby doo doesn t need any little annoying bastard puppy nephews if they wanted scooby doo to be more successful they should have either killed or never thought up scrappy this was just poor maybe your kids will prefer it ',
'i believe they were telling the truth the whole time u cant trust anything in the wild they family went through hell those poor boys too young to understand what was going on around them but still having to deal with the rumours as well as dealing with the lose of their little sister i cant believe this case went on for so long seems like the jury couldn t see the truth even if it bit them on the ass i feel for this family and if i could let them know i hate what has happened to them i would i have no idea what they went through i cant even imagine it after watching this movie i was in tears and had to check on my little girl in bed i think everyone should watch this ',
'we all know that some of the greatest movies of all time were based on books while not particularly accurate adaptations these movies were nonetheless excellent films some great examples are the harry potter series the lord of the rings trilogy and to a lesser extent almost every disney film ever made however i must regretfully announce that a wrinkle in time is not one of those movies not only does it fail to meet some of the most basic expectations of madeleine l engle s fan base it manages to defy the standards of scriptwriting acting special effects and ultimately respect for the audience mind you i m not trying to be mean on the contrary i went into this affair with an open mind i figured that a made for t v movie would make up for its lack of razzle dazzle in its script after all the star wars spin off ewoks was decent if a little silly come to think of it the original star wars was made on a lunch money budget and look where it took george lucas however from the first scene onward disappointment started enveloping me as if i d gotten too close to the black thing while tessering br br the same way greedo shooting first became the symbol of the star wars special edition of a disaster of monumental proportions involving a disgruntled director making several hideous changes to a beloved classic mrs whatsit has officially become my personal symbol for the confusion and stupidity that is a wrinkle in time the reason for this is the fact that she has been mutated beyond belief aside from the slightly controversial decision of casting alfre woodard star trek first contact and radio as our favorite star turned mentor the filmmakers decided it appropriate to introduce her as a crow that s right a crow moreover the heavenly centaurion form of this greatly beloved character has been hacked at by what looks to be a demented eight year old the majestic half man half horse with wings has become a huge human head with a creepy smile mounted awkwardly on the bowlegged body of a horse that happens to be sporting a pair of wings in the middle had i been five this would have psychologically traumatized me for life the worst part is the fact that when it spoke it was shown from behind so as to avoid the responsibility to lip sync resulting in a scene that was spent looking at the back of its head and seeing a single unmoving cheek thus rendering the piece of special effects less believable than e t br br having gotten the most painful part out of the way i must go on to the tear inducing one the characters the acting and the story i personally had always imagined meg to look somewhat similar to moaning myrtle from the harry potter films plain hair glasses and a figure most supermodels would find laughable she was always a slightly anxious humorously pessimistic math genius who quite simply could not have cared less about the imports and exports of nicaragua in the film she is an unpleasant know it all for whom i have no sympathy whatsoever in fact she makes me feel sorry for poor mr jenkins her school principal who continuously has to deal with her calvin the kind intelligent kid who everyone thinks is a jock has becomea jock the irony is horrible as for the memorable happy medium they took the pleasant old woman who liked to look at happy things and replaced her with a being who is above gender and likes to look at funny things such as girls falling off of swings the only three people i can think of who did a decent job are charles wallace mrs whatsit and the man with red eyes nicknamed the dude with red eyes due to his complete reinvention as a character br br the story is a mess a good comparison to this aspect of the movie is harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban which didn t do a good job of retelling the story found in the book yet kept the sole of the original work here the sole of the book is having a pleasant chat with hades down in the underworld apparently unaware that its body is being destroyed as the dark lord complements the sole on how well it showed that truth has to be felt and not seen the flat nosed wookies of ixchel who replace the wondrous beings who hold aunt beast among their ranks tear the spine up as the god of the dead notes how subtle the terror of the earth like camazotz was the torn pages are scattered in the sandstorm and lost in the darkness of the land of evil br br i am very sorry that this film exists i do not believe that the actors were genuinely bad it s the way the characters are written that ruins it a wrinkle in time deserved to be adapted by lawrence kasdan directed by george lucas or steven spielberg enhanced at industrial light and magic scored by john williams given its sound at skywalker sound edited by thx and marketed by twentieth century fox in its current state the film is unworthy to be shown to self respecting people even madeleine l engle thought it was bad the book was good the film was bad and mrs whatsit was ugly br br score if i could br br pros br br they got the names right br br cons br br it had horrible problems with the cliffs notes level of adaptation script acting and special effects not to mention lack of evidence of ever having read the book oh and the main cover poster has a picture of the three main characters riding a flying horse over a castle some might say that this symbolizes high adventure i say it symbolizes the irresponsibility of the cover artist who didn t even bother to photoshop meg s arm on properly ',
'when the chamberlain family is camping near ayers rock australia lindy chamberlain meryl streep sees her baby being dragged out of their tent by a dingo and then begins an ordeal that no one should have to experience for it seems like the dingo story is not believed by the public or the press and the whole thing turns into a circus lindy doesn t help matters either because she won t play to the jury or courtroom she s only herself and she s a tough nut to crack so of course everyone thinks she s guilty because there s a piece of evidence that hasn t come to light sam neill is excellent as michael chamberlain a seventh day adventist pastor who has doubts about his faith and perhaps about his wife it s good or bad to see that people are just as prejudiced and stupid elsewhere as they are in the states too because the australian public doesn t believe the story and the media only fans the flames eventually lindy is found guilty and sent to prison for a life of hard labor but years later a missing piece of evidence shows up and she s freed but not until after the family s life is basically ruined a heart breaking story very well done a bit long but well worth seeing out of ',
'this movie barely followed the story line of the movie all of the fascinating points in the book didn t even exist in the movie they ended up turning it into a cheesy tween disney movie crush story between meg and calvin it was so bad it should have been hillary duff playing the part or one of the likes this movie was nothing more than an insult to the intelligence and mysticism of the book i can t believe disney could even get away with making such a cheap basic rendition if you ve ever read the book i think you would agree it could easily be made into a movie of lord of the rings equivalence this movie should have never been able to use the title of a wrinkle in time poorly done ',
'religious bigotry is rampant everywhere australia is not immune to it br br a dingo snatched a baby and the mother was tried and sent to prison for having killed her own baby i don t mean to spoil the story for you but you need to know the basics before getting knee deep in what caused this woman to find herself inside a prison br br buy or rent the movie and discover how deep seated human hatred of those who are different continues to thrive around the globe br br this is a very moving motion picture with a terrific cast of actors br br both meryl streep with her famous aussie accent and sam neill whose accent is his native born pronunciation are outstanding those with supporting roles are also quite good br br you will remember this movie for many years br br see it ',
'i only recently found out that madeleine l engle s novel had been turned into a tv movie by disney and ordered the dvd the book was a favorite of mine when i was a child and i read it several times br br despite some of the child actors not resembling the characters as described in the novel the murry family is well cast with a likable if too pretty meg at the center and a charles wallace who is convincing as a child prodigy without becoming irritating br br the first half hour is promising enough doing a good job in establishing the relationships between the lead characters and at setting the scene unfortunately as soon as the non human characters appear the adaptation starts to unravel and once the children leave earth the whole thing falls apart alfre woodward is too youthful looking and much too regal as the eccentric mrs whatsit think miriam margolis or joan plowright instead and kate nelligan face is so mask like and inexpressive she must have visited faye dunaway s plastic surgeon in recent years for some reason they make her mrs which look like glinda from the wizard of oz when she should have resembled a benign wicked witch of the west br br in the end what lets this down most badly are the terrible special effects and art direction i understand that this is a tv movie but the cgi looked like something that could have been done years earlier mrs whatsits centaur incarnation is a disaster as is the chewbacca like suit for aunt beast who in the novel is a velvety elegant creature instead of the ungainly big foot like thing shown here i could go on and on nearly every artistic choice is a disaster presumably because there wasn t a large enough budget to do this justice but also because the design work lacks imagination and good judgement br br this really would have needed the sense of wonder spielberg brought to his early films what a shame that with the current popularity of adapting children s literary fantasy series nobody thought of adapting a wrinkle in time and it s sequels for the big screen giving it the scope it deserves ',
'this review contains spoilers for those who are not aware of the details of the true story on which this movie is based br br the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty is a basic entitlement of anyone in a civilised society but according to fred schepisi s partisan but sadly convincing story of a famous australian murder trial it was not granted to lindy chamberlain accused of killing her baby the story suggesting her innocence was unlikely a dingo was alleged to have taken it but those implying her guilt even more so and there was no solid evidence against her but the australian public was transfixed by the possibility of her guilt and the deeply religious chamberlains appeared creepy when appearing in the media and the media themselves of course were anything but innocent in this process so although cleared by an initial inquest they were later prosecuted and convicted although chamberlain was eventually released this shamefully only followed the discovery of new evidence proving their innocence something no defendants should have to produce br br a cry in the dark is well acted throughout especially by meryl streep who puts on a convincing australian accent at least to this pom s ears and manages keep lindy sympathetic to us while still conveying how she managed to become a national hate figure the scenes where she actually gets imprisoned are simple but heartbreaking because we believe in the characters as real br br regardless of the accuracy of its portrayal of this story something i can t comment on the wider theme of this film will ring horribly true to anyone with a passing knowledge of the british popular press and its ruthless habit of appealing directly to their readership s least charitable instincts no legal system will ever be perfect but the current cry against asylum seekers in contemporary british tabloids comes from exactly the same pit of evil as the voices that put lindy chamberlain away i m not a religious man but the bible still contains some killer lines if you ll excuse the pun judge not lest ye be judged is one of them ',
'i have never read the book a wrinkle in time to be perfectly honesty after seeing the movie do i really want to well i shouldn t be reviewing this movie i ll start off with that next i ll say that the tv movie is pretty forgettable do you know why i say that because i forgot what happens in it i told you it was forgettable to be perfectly honest no tv movie will ever be better than merlin br br how do i describe a tv movie i have never written a review for one before well i ll just say that they usually have some celebrities a wrinkle in time includes only one alfre woodard or woodward i am not sure the oscar winner br br the film has cheesy special effects a mildly interesting plot scenes that make you go wtf the movie is incredibly bad and it makes you go wtf what did i expect it s a tv movie they usually aren t good as is this one a wrinkle in time is a waste of time and a big time waster to top it off you ll most likely forget about it the second it s over well maybe not the second it s over but within a few minutes br br a wrinkle in time ',
'a cry in the dark br br a cry in the dark was a film that i anticipated would offer a phenomenal performance from meryl streep and a solid if unremarkable film this assumption came from the fact that aside from streep s best actress nomination the movie received little attention from major awards groups br br little did i anticipate that a cry in the dark would be such a riveting drama well constructed on every level if you ask me this is an under appreciatted classic br br the film opens rather slowly letting the audience settle into the chamberlain s at a relaxed pace and really notice that at the core they are an incredibly loving simple family fred schepisi the director selects random moments to capture of a family on vacation that give a looming sense of the oncoming tragedy while also showing the attentive bliss with which lindy streep and michael sam neill chamberlain care for their children br br while the famous line a dingo took my baby has become somewhat of a punchline these days the movie never even comes close to laughable the actual death of azaria is horrifyingly captured it is subtle and realistic leaving the audience horrified and asking questions br br the majority of the film takes place in courtrooms and focuses on the chamberlain s continuous fight to prove their innocence to the press and the court which suspects lindy of murder br br the fact that it is clear to us from the beginning that they are innocent makes the tense trials all the more gripping as an audience member i was fully invested in the chamberlain s plight and was genuinely angered and hurt and saddened when they were made to look so terrible by the media but at the same the media public opinion is understandable i loved the way the media was by no means made to be sympathetic but they always had valid reasons to hold their views br br the final line of the film is very profound and captures perfectly the central element that makes this film so much different from other courtroom dramas br br in terms of performances the only ones that really matter in this film are those of streep and neill and they deliver in every way for me this ranks as one of if not meryl streep s best performances for all her mastery of different accents which of course are very impressive in their own right streep never loses the central heart and soul of her characters i find this to be one of streep s more subtle performances and she hits it out of the park and neill an actor who has never impressed me beyond being charismatic and appealing in jurassic park is a perfect counterpoint to streep s performance from what i ve seen this is undoubtedly neill s finest work to date it s a shame he wasn t recognized by the academy with a leading actor nomination to match streep s b c the two of them play of each other brilliantly br br more emotionally gripping than most films and also incredibly suspenseful a cry in the dark far exceeded my expectations i highly recommend that people who only know of the movie as the flick where meryl screams the dingo took my baby watch the film and see just how much more there is to a cry in the dark then that one line br br a ',
'i was browsing through netflix and stumbled upon this movie having fond memories of the book as a child i decided to check this out this is a movie that you should really pass on br br it is just not worth seeing it is very boring and uninteresting i feel that it would even be that way to small children it has no magic that the book contains this movie is not horrible but you will just find yourself not caring ten minutes into it br br there are moments that just come off as weird the witch character is not very good the family acts like it is no big deal that these odd things are happening i know this is a kids movie so as an older audience we must not look too deeply in things but the whole movie just feels like it was written and produced by people who have never had any movie making experience before br br the dvd that i had began skipping in the final moments of the film and instead of trying to fix it i just turned it off and sent it back to netflix i really didn t care how it finished skip this film and read the book instead ',
'fascinating movie based on a true story about an australian woman lindy chamberlain meryl streep accused of killing her baby daughter she insists that a dingo took her baby but the story is highly suspicious the film is actually about the media circus that took place around the case the way australians interpreted what was presented in the media and the lynch mob mentality that ultimately led to the woman s conviction based on barely any hard evidence i love films that question the media and also films that take a hard look on how people are railroaded by the justice system i ve always thought that juries ought to be showed angry men before they go through with their duties it s not as has often been said a liberal movie but a clinical look at how we as human beings interpret events based so much on our prejudices and a desire for revenge a cry in the dark is likewise clinical schepisi is careful not to make the film at all melodramatic some may find the film boring or dry but i found it engaging ',
'i have loved this book since my th grade teacher read it to our class many years ago and i have read it to every one of my rd and th grade classes over my past years of teaching supposedly a movie had been made in the past but i d never been able to locate it well my students and i were all so excited when we heard that disney had brought madeline l engle s excellent book to the screen br br as i watched the movie i had the highest of hopes as the film went on i became more and more despondent they had botched it badly never had i been so let down by a favorite book to film adaption i understand that films can t stick strictly to a book but they don t need to change things for the sake of it most if not all of departures from the book were totally unnecessary br br i kept my opinion to myself at first and just listened to my students discuss the movie well it wasn t just me nearly every single one felt the same way cheated out of the great story that madeline l engle had so skillfully created br br why they wondered did aunt beast look like chewbacca from the star wars movie why couldn t calvin s hair have been red why did mrs which not have the proper witch like outfit that was such a clever play on her name basically we all wondered why did nearly every single detail have to be changed br br i have always dreamed of how wonderful a movie this book would make i am still waiting for that movie this one was a wrinkle in time in only the broadest of senses i m going to write to peter jackson and try to convince him to take on the task ',
'in august the disappearance of baby azaria chamberlain and the pursuant trial of her parents lindy and michael for the alleged murder of the child caused an uproar across what was then a very angry nation the media and the public had already tried and convicted the accused couple and were baying for blood what followed was a gross miscarriage of justice br br michael and lindy chamberlain claimed that while camping near ayers rock central australia that a dingo had taken their ten week old daughter from their tent as they were preparing to eat in the barbecue area no one believed them lindy was charged with the murder of her baby and michael as an accessory after the fact the whole country was abuzz with whispers of a ritual killing the chamberlain s trial was over before it began br br lindy never proved her innocence so she was found guilty there was never enough evidence to convict her yet the jury was swayed by public and media pressure how could we as a nation even sit in judgement from where we are how could we possibly presume to know unless there was absolute proof and no reasonable doubt whatsoever the chamberlains should have been acquitted br br fred schepisi s film unequivocally and whole heartedly supports the argument of john bryson s novel that the chamberlains were completely innocent of the charges laid against them that in fact a dingo did take baby azaria on that fateful night at ayers rock br br schepisi has brilliantly captured the mood of a blood thirsty nation hell bent on the truth being brought to light he shows australia in a rather unbecoming light as a people who were totally obsessed with seeing the chamberlains pay his screenplay co written with robert caswell vigorously stirs the emotions and will most certainly find the audience saddened and angered at the travesty of justice which occurred br br the outstanding meryl streep gives an incredible performance as the woman accused of the most dreadful of acts she brings to life most convincingly the tough little aussie who was ready to stand up to the allegations and set the world straight even her accent is almost but not quite spot on a very good effort by the master of that trade sam neill is every bit as good as streep as the at first faithful but then disillusioned michael who cannot comprehend why their world is falling apart and he starts to question his christianity his as was streep s is a showing of great emotional strength that will move you profoundly the entire support cast are also excellent with some of australia s finest actors and actresses playing a part br br technically the film is brilliant too with director of photography ian baker capturing this great land with splendour especially the rock editor jill bilcock keeps the whole movie tense and very emotionally charged while bruce smeaton provides a telling score br br for all aussies this is a must see a shocking look in the mirror if you will at what we as a country did to a family who just wanted justice to be served and the truth to be known as michael chamberlain said i don t think anybody really understands what innocence means to innocent people br br saturday may video br br even on return viewings fred schepisi s account of the travesty of justice that befell the chamberlains who lost baby azaria at ayres rock in is still emotionally powerful and honestly moving br br schepisi and robert caswell have expertly transferred john bryson s novel to the screen telling with simplicity the horrifying story of a vacation gone terribly wrong for michael and lindy chamberlain whose new born daughter azaria was taken form the family tent by a dingo just moments after being put down br br amid media speculation and vicious public rumour lindy was charged with the murder of her baby and michael was charged as an accessory after the fact what followed was little more than trial by media and with the australian people determined she be put away lindy was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour even though the prosecution could present no motive and little other than circumstantial evidence br br meryl streep is in top form as the accused woman who battles australia head on to prove her innocence she is truly awesome and the only thing that fails her is a true blue aussie accent though she does her level best to sound ocker you might wonder why a top australian actress wasn t cast in the role but star power is probably the answer alongside meryl is an equally impressive sam neill outstanding as the husband who sees his world falling apart before his eyes while he feels powerless to do anything about it a strong aussie cast lend compelling support br br editing from jill bilcock is very timely ian baker s cinematography of the rock and other rugged locations is visually brilliant and bruce smeaton s music is perfect for the part truly a must for all conscientious australians br br sunday june video ',
' this may be a bit on the spoilerish side i would like to start by saying i did not watch the entire movie nor could i because it was evident from the first hour that i was going to be incredibly disappointed that of course is the problem with taking what many believe to be an amazing book and turning it into a disney made for tv movie br br a wrinkle in time should have been made into an amazing movie a long time ago it s got a great storyline that could hook children and adults plus it s got built in quality sequels but disney fying was not the way to go the problem with the movie is that all the things they changed to turn it into a visual story dumbed down what was so great about the book it is a complicated and emotional story for kids there was no reason to make charles wallace purely psychic because that was the easiest way of explaining it there was no reason to write a fight between the three mrs w s as added tension there is enough tension in the story without that there was no reason to remove meg s glasses that deprived us of what could ve been a very sweet scene between calvin and meg that happens in the book br br i could nitpick for days about little things but i also think larger things like the art direction was a off take for instance the way they made camazotz look with its strangely darkened skies the creepiness that comes across in the book is that camazotz could be earth it looks like earth it has people on it that look like humans the skies are blue the grass is green and there are children playing but something is a little bit off the directors chose to make camazotz a complete other instead of taking the lesson in the book and applying it to the overall direction of the movie the lesson of course is that camazotz could very well be earth that is if we forget how to love it would ve been much creepier to have a beautiful afternoon as they re walking down the street with the kids bouncing the balls in the same rhythm br br i unfortunately did not watch the end maybe someone can tell me how disney messed up the end as well br br overall an artistic disappointment br br ',
'i found it hard to like anyone in this film the central characters lindy and michael chamberlain whose daughter disappears during a night out in the australian outback are not bad people but then surely not all or even most of the scores of people we see throughout this movie would be bad if we knew them better but though we are as sure as the film wants us to be of the guilt or innocence of the chamberlains from the start of their life s tragic disarray the film takes on a more or less sociological perspective pertaining to gossip news media crowds mobs and assumptions it s not a movie about the degenerate society of australia in particular it s merely an account of a true story that happened there society en masse is much less evolved than the individual feels ensured that we are br br when a warden insists upon killing all of an aborigine s dogs because of the unverified action of a single wild dog when a randomly ruined life spins even further out of control owing to the majority of magazines newspapers and tv programs distorts the tragic truth to a level of drama that provokes its consumers into a frenzy there is no sign of empathy or even any kind of looking outside of one s own unaware perceptions influenced left and right by the vigorous hearsay and vibes of those who surround one s life the reason i appreciate the film is because it turns the focus inside out from the victims to the masses br br the evidence against lindy chamberlain aside suspicion was jet fueled mostly by a virtue of hers to the public eye she did not seem sufficiently distraught by the death of her baby daughter why was she able to keep her cool even a sort of aloofness let alone holding her head up for tv and the press how much of the downward spiral could ve been prevented had she behaved more to the public s liking in the media meryl streep one of if not the greatest actress working today may not give a performance that particularly stands out and frankly neither does any other actor or department of film making but she and the screenwriters do understand lindy what is infuriating is that it s not that difficult apparently she was not naturally prone to showing emotion in public in any case whether or not she is approachable as a lovable character in the immediate sense we are naturally prone to sympathize with her situation br br whether or not her performance is as immediately gratifying as sophie s choice the devil wears prada angels in america or other such work it is a triumph it is difficult enrapture an audience when you purposely deny them insights into yourself she frustrates us because we don t know what she s thinking or feeling it took me awhile to feel endeared toward her but this is the movie s way of suggesting the reaction of the public s attention br br she is married to a pastor and they both practice a religion that is in a small minority and thus misinterpreted by most initially they react to their loss as if to be reconciling themselves to god s will kick starting a rumor mill generating the notion that their daughter s death was some sort of ritual killing on their part whatever happened to the little girl her parents were part of a margin with whom most of the media s intake didn t immediately identify so the first inclination was to go after them like a pack of hungry well br br meryl streep and sam neill are constantly on screen but the australian public plays the real leads here like punctuation for each plot advance director fred schepisi cuts away from restaurant to tennis court to dinner party to saloon to office where the public tries lindy and gets carried away into their own passionate projections br br this golan globus docudrama is not particularly memorable the setting s atmosphere doesn t give a pleasurable enough compensation for the fact that no performance or facet of production stands out but it is very successful as an indictment of the collective conscious of the public ',
'i really didn t like this movie because it didn t really bring across the messages and ideas l engle brought out in her novel we had read the novel in our english class and i absolutely loved it i m afraid i can t say the same for the film there were some serious differences between the novel and the adapted version and it just didn t do any credit to the imaginative genius that is madeleine l engle this is the reason i gave it such a poor rating don t see this movie if you are a big fan of l engle s texts because you will be sorely disappointed however if you are watching the movie for entertainment purposes or educational as was my case then it is an alright movie ',
'i remember seeing this movie shown several years ago on the lifetime tv network and thought it was an interesting story several years later i see it again and fall head over heels in love with this movie the story behind the movie is fascinating in and of itself the cast just makes it that much more appealing meryl streep is definitely at the top of her game in this picture she nails mrs chamberlain s mannerisms the accent and even look she shows the pain hurt surprise and anger that lindy had to endure and in the process it s hard to remember that it isn t lindy in my opinion this performance of meryl s was better than her oscar winning turn in sophie s choice and should have garnered her her third oscar sam neill is perfect as michael chamberlain and for some surprising reason wasn t recognized by the academy with at least a nomination in all this movie only receive one oscar nod streep s for best actress however it did receive several australian oscars and nominations br br definitely a top rate movie it tells a great story and you get great performances from the entire cast ',
'i have read the whole a wrinkle in time book and then saw the movie the movie contained all the elements in the book but since the book was pages and the film was hours it felt really crammed in with too many effects and bad acting br br a wrinkle in time is about a girl named meg charles wallace and calvin must team together to find meg s father and get off the island camazotz br br the beginning of the film is really a stinker the acting is awful the direction is laughable and so far the situations aren t necessary i really was crushed to see the same person madeleine engle that wrote the book and created the movie made a great book and a terrible film the acting is worse than any straight to video acting yes i got to admit there was cool effects but seriously they were all done terribly and not serial in any way possible if you read the book you will be crushed by the movie i wish could give it a but sadly i can only give it a half could have been useful ',
'meryl streep is such a genius well at least as an actress i know she s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents but she nails the accent every time her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring mrs chamberlain as portrayed here was not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just makes streep s work all the more remarkable i think she is worth all or so of her oscar nominations about the film well there were a couple of interesting things i don t know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago but it came through loud and clear yesterday and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues a pretty good film a bit different grade b ',
'the wrinkle in time book series is my favorite series from childhood i have read and re read them more times than i can count over the last years the characters with all their virtues and flaws are near and dear to my heart this adaptation contained very little of the wonderful magical spiritual story that i love so much to say i was disappointed with this film would be a great understatement br br if you have never read the book s i imagine you will enjoy the movie the acting is passable the special effects are well done for a made for tv movie and the story is interesting however if you love the books avoid this movie at all costs br br i found this statement at the wikipedia page of the novel in an interview with newsweek l engle said of the film i expected it to be bad and it is br br i like another reviewer here feel the need to read the book again to dispel this movie from my mind ',
'this movie was nominated for best picture but lost out to casablanca but paul lukas beat out humphrey bogart for best actor i don t see why lucile watson was nominated for best supporting actor i just don t think she did a very good job bette davis and paul lukas and their three kids are leaving mexico and coming into the united states in the first scene of the movie they are going by train to davis s relatives house davis and lukas were in the underground to stop the nazis so they are very tired and need rest but when they arrive home their is a nazi living there and their s not much either can do about it it turns out the nazi only cares about money and is willing to make a deal with lukas their is more to the plot but you can find that out for yourself ',
'horrible acting horrible cast and cheap props would ve been a lot better if was set as an action parody style movie what a waste starting from the name of the movie br br the enemy naming it action movie would ve made it better contributing to the parody effect the cop looking like a year old player the blond girl just having the same blank boring look on her face at all times towards the end of the movie him and her are working together to take down the bad guys and every time they exchange words it just feels like the cheap lines given before a sex scene in a porn movie horrible don t waste your time ',
'this is a docudrama story on the lindy chamberlain case and a look at it s impact on australian society it especially looks at the problem of innuendo gossip and expectation when dealing with real life dramas br br one issue the story deals with is the way it is expected people will all give the same emotional response to similar situations not everyone goes into wild melodramatic hysterics to every major crisis just because the characters in the movies and on tv act in a certain way is no reason to expect real people to do so this is especially apt for journalists and news editors who appear to be looking for the the big sob scene that will pull the ratings it s an issue that has to be constantly addressed br br the leads play the characters with depth personality and sensitivity and they are ably supported by a large cast all playing based on fact individuals some viewers may be surprised to learn that many of the supporting cast in this story are people better known in australia as comic actors it re enforces my idea that comic actors make some of the best supports in dramas because with comedy they know how to establish quick impressions of individuals br br spoiler warning br br i have to say something very personal here in that i am actually an ex adventist who was a practicing member in australia at the time this incident occurred so i have a slightly different impression of the story than most i think it is handled with amazing creativity and personality and emotional heart i think the best scene is the one where the couple are hounded by the new choppers it captured the themes of the story brilliantly br br i once heard fred schepsi say in an interview that he told the actors to play the best case for their character they could while this is especially apt for this story i think it is also a general principle that should apply to all acting as well ',
'i got all excited when i saw the ads for this movie because i recently read the book and really enjoyed it the movie however did not meet my expectations having read the book recently prepared me for big let down as often happens when stories are translated into movies the characters didn t seem to fit very well with the book the direction was weak i had a hard time getting into the characters there wasn t a real connection with the viewer about what was going on the dialog didn t explain adequately what was happening it just seemed slapped together and rushed through all in all i was very disappointed with the movie i suppose if you haven t read the book it might be ok by itself at the very least it might entice you to read the book which you ll probably enjoy more br br ',
'once you pick your jaw up from off the floor from the realization that they somehow managed to put this thing together so fast that it was released the same year the case ended you ll find that it s not half bad the plot is engaging and interesting and the pacing is fast with this covering many situations and thus often jumping swiftly on to the next one after a line or two has been spoken where this really stands out is the acting the performances are excellent neill and streep are both impeccable it s also cool to hear so much australian spoken in a hollywood film and even those who don t come naturally to it at least attempt an accent the cinematography and editing are nice enough but they don t really go beyond the standard stuff this movie s story is compelling and the fact that it is authentic just makes it all the more chilling while i have not read the novel or heard of what happened outside of this picture i understand that it is quite close to the truth there is some moderate to strong language and disturbing content in this it is at times a downright great courtroom drama i recommend this to any fellow fan of such ',
'this abc straight to tv failure does absolutely no justice to the brilliant fantasy novel that is a wrinkle in time ms madeleine l engle brought children and adults alike into a magical fantastical and original world like no author before her this novel the first in her time quartet is a beautiful take on life the universe and time itself yet it is easy for any child or adolescent to understand its unwavering morals are prevalent throughout the book this film adaptation can be seen as nothing but a mockery of ms l engle s work of art honestly what were they thinking the effects look cheap and ridiculous the plot is mushy and uneven the dialogue is far fetched and just about every magical characteristic of the novel has been lost this was a horrible attempt at bringing this book to the screen i sincerely hope that someday an intelligent worthy director guillermo del toro david yates alfonso cuarn makes another attempt at bringing this book to the screen and understands it for what it truly is a masterpiece this adaptation can only be compared to boring fake and cheap motel room art which holds no ground and makes absolutely no impact on its audience ',
'meryl streep is excellent in her nuanced and stoic performance as the infamous lindy chamberlain who was accused and tried for allegedly killing her own baby azaria chamberlain and using her alibi of ravenous dingoes as her defense based on the book evil angels and titled so in its australian release a cry in the dark is an ugly film to watch it presents a scenario that s all too real for us in america the witch hunt against a person deemed an easy target br br lindy chamberlain was this woman being someone who spoke her mind someone who didn t play the sympathy card and someone who was just tough enough to move on with her life despite her horrific ordeal she was labeled as suspect and hated beyond comprehension even when it was clear she didn t kill her own child the media began a tightening noose and a progressive invasion of privacy that soon had the entire nation glued to their sets as they eviscerated this family piece by piece and through it all lindy remained as stoic as ever even when her husband michael was falling apart br br this stance of course is the power of strength as unsympathetic as it may look like and people happen to react strongly to that they want to see a distressed mother cry and weep and occasionally faint at every turn not sit there and look blank people don t understand that not everyone grieves the same way and when someone decides to stand strong they begin speculations meryl streep embodies this tainted woman to the hilt and in doing so creates a cold but not unfeeling woman one that stood by her convictions even if they cost her liberty because of her sam neill is allowed to have his character slowly dissolve into despair someone has to or the chamberlains would be too detached and no one wants to see that except the monster that has at the time of this writing become the news media they ll always eat train wrecks up and feed the mangled manure to the uninformed public ',
'disney what happened i really wish the movie had been set in the s like the book was and i really could have dealt with cheap special effects in order to save the budget for a more accurate adaption i m glad that maybe someone might be influenced to read the books but the man with red eyes interchangeable as it and what s up with the volcanic upheaval where was that in the book peter jackson save us a long time ago i heard that there was european version of this film i sure wish i could id it i can only imagine it might be closer to the real story than this poor adaption this movie needs to be x d ',
'spoilers following i picked up the book evil angels when it first came out knowing nothing of the case just to give the press and the austrialian people a break here i was quite far into it before i began to question the chamberlain s guilt the author obviously intended the reader to understand why the public jumped to the conclusions they did john bryson told the story just as it was presented to the jurors and picked up by the press of the arterial spray the actelone plates dr james cameron s certainty that the collar was cut with scissors that a baby could not be taken whole from her clothes with the buttons still done up bloody hand print etc all quite convincingly after all these were experts in their fields who were testifying with no apparent reason to lie and the fact that the evidence was completely wrong wasn t apparent to me at all it was also highly technical evidence difficult for a layman to understand to this point beyond some hearsay testimony in the trials hardly anyone had ever heard of a dingo attacking a human people didn t believe it was possible the public was suspicious of the seventh day adventists whose origins made them appear to be a cult and all sorts of wild beliefs about them contributed to the appearance of guilt were it not for dedicated selfless lawyers who worked relentlessly to investigate and counter the trial testimony finding azaria s clothes later would not have been enough to get lindy out of jail the book shook me for that reason and i ve been reluctant to come to a conclusion about anyone s guilt ever since excepting oj of course i was thrilled that a movie was going to be made about the case and don t think it could have been done better i ve always liked sam who i could identify with completely and meryl was perfect as always beautiful photography haunting music i think it s not only a very good but a very important movie too bad it didn t receive more publicity at the time it was released ',
'i have grown up pouring over the intertwined stories of the wrinkle in time chronicles my dream was that one day a screenwriter would come across their child sitting in a large sofa reading a winkle in time and would think what an amazing movie this would make sadly enough that screenwriter failed changing characters throwing in lame humor and all out destroying the plot i know that it is a hard task to change a well loved novel into a movie but why can t you stay true to the book why must you change the way characters think and act for those of you who have not read the book pick it up find a soft couch and let your imagination run wild ',
'lindy meryl streep and her husband michael sam neill have just welcomed a baby girl azaria as seventh day adventists they live their beliefs every day and soon have azaria dedicated to god at their church with their two older boys looking on michael gets a vacation and the family decides to head to ayer s rock one of the most impressive tourist spots in all of australia not being wealthy the family camps near the site after a wonderful first day lindy puts baby azaria to sleep in one of the tents suddenly she hears azaria crying as lindy rushes to the tent a dingo dog is just exiting shaking his head the baby is gone and soon so is the dingo although the entire camp looks for the baby she is not found concluding she is dead and that the dingo made off with their beloved child the chamberlains struggle to accept god s decision and go on with their lives but unfortunately the story gets sensational coverage in the news media and soon the tale is circulated that lindy murdered the baby she is subsequently arrested and put on trial how could this happen this is a great depiction of real events that shows how mob rule is not a figment of the imagination the entire country turns against the chamberlains in part because they are seen as odd streep gives her best performance ever as the complex lindy whose own strong willed demeanor works against her every step of the way neill likewise does a wonderful job as the hesitant and confused michael the cast is one of the largest ever with depictions of folks around the country getting their digs into lindy s case the costumes scenery script direction and production are all top of the line if you have never seen or heard of this film remedy that straight away it is not a far cry from reality to say that this cry should be seen by all who care about film and about the misused power of the media ',
'the book is so good that at least the opening of this made for tv movie will move you but then as it diverges more and more from the book taking out all the religion and love and mathematics and putting in cotton candy cliches it becomes boring still from comments i ve heard people who have not read the book tend to like it and if it leads even on child to read a wrinkle in time it will have served its purpose the most embarrassing change is to make the happy medium a clone of mary poppins uncle albert i love to laugh nothing is quite so squirm inducing as characters on the screen laughing hilariously at things that are totally unfunny ',
'this is a true story of an australian couple wha are charged with murder when their infant child disappears meryl streep is excellent as always and manages to hold our interest even though she plays a character who isn t particularly likable br br the media frenzy that surrounded this case in australia is reminiscent of the sam sheppard murder case in ohio during the s these real life situations demonstrate that the media in fact can affect how a criminal case is handled i well remember the cleveland plain dealer running a huge headline stating why isn t sam sheppard in jail the prosecutor eventually succumbed to this relentless pressure and sheppard was tried and convicted only after years in jail was he exonerated br br i love movies which tell a true story do it in an interesting way and make an important point in the process this is one of those movies other good movies which tell the story of innocent persons charged with crimes include hurricane the thin blue line and breaker morant in particular the latter is another australian film which is highly recommended br br ',
'awful this thriller should have buried what a piece of crap terrible writing characters are less than believable horrible schlock stick some b stars in a terribly written pos to try and give it a little credit but it fails miserably if i didn t have to write ten lines about this movie i would have given it a word word review it starts with sh and ends with it br br horrible ending retarded who writes this crap the ending of this film is so contrived weak it s as if they had no idea what to do with this story line or they just ran out of money most likely due to the number of cameos in this movie it s a good thing that these actors are on the way out because this would be a career killer good thing for them that hardly anyone will see it at least no one important like future investors it could have ended a thousand different ways but as it is i feel cheated out of my precious time br br don t bother with this one you will feel like you wasted time you can never get back ',
'an unqualified the level of writing and acting in this australian movie is reminiscent of the very best of old hollywood sam neill and meryl streep are very good together neill matches streep line for line and take for take it is one of the best showcases yet of his prodigious acting talent and he is at his sexy and gorgeous best notwithstanding the intensity of his role this engrossing film is a treat for any movie fan who loves a gripping courtroom drama portrayed in the most human but unsentimental terms the movie which won several top awards in australia boasts not only a superlative cast and director but wonderful and authentic australian locales it proves that people are the same the world over and after all these years people still delight in repeating the famous streep line accent and all a dingo ate moy baby including that imp elaine benis on seinfeld ',
'these were over minutes of semi unexpected boredom first i was wondering how it is possible to produce something like that then reaching th minute i was convincing myself that it s only a few more minutes and i lasted to the very end which i m kinda proud of as i consider watching this movie as a great test for human s patience and crap tolerance was it worth watching at all well as i wrote above if you want to test yourself give it a try and if you re strong willed enough you may even last to the end the movie lacks coherence and characters seem to have no common sense at all all happenings in the movie you can be sure you saw somewhere before and they seem to be put in this movie just to fill the film reel ',
'when i first saw a cry in the dark i had no idea what the plot was but when i saw it i was shocked at what it portrayed when i saw it a second time in an australian cinema class i realized a second point communication issues you see when a dingo snatched lindy chamberlain s meryl streep baby she and her husband michael sam neill were grief stricken but didn t show it as seventh day adventists they believed that god willed this to happen and so they couldn t mourn it but when people all over australia saw their lack of sadness everyone started believing that lindy did it herself br br the point is the wrong message got communicated to the public and it turned people against lindy even though this was a pure accident it still happened it may be one of the biggest disasters resulting from the existence of mass media regardless of any media outlet s political views br br as for the performances streep does a very good job with an australian accent no surprise there and sam neill is equally great you will probably get blown away just by what you see here definitely one of fred schepisi s best movies ever ',
'this movie was poorly written poorly acted and very predictable it was very low budget and i can understand why it was never released and went straight to video it wasn t even campy fun it was just a complete disaster and i wish i could get the hours back the colors were horrible along with the plot which has holes so big in it you could drive a mac truck through them br br the plot itself had the young bride doing things that she absolutely was not physically capable of doing what a stretch skip this movie and watch something better in the horror genre just about any movie comes to mind that is better than this br br ejames ',
'meryl streep was incredible in this film she has an amazing knack for accents and she shows incredible skill in this film overall i really felt for her when lindy was being persecuted she was played realistically too she got cranky upset and unpleasant as the media and the government continued their unrelenting witchhunt i didn t expect much from the film initially but i really got interested in it and the movie is based on a real person and real events it turned out to be better than i had anticipated sam neill was also outstanding this is the best work i ve seen from him and i ve really liked him in other movies the piano for example i gave the film a but if i could rate just the acting i d give the it a and a perfect for streep ',
'this movie is such a bad work nothing seems to even try and be realistic plot is weak acting miserable actors wondering around like in a st year production trying very hard to act with no chance at all from the beginning what a flop what a waste of time money and effort to all concerned including the audience well as in any thriller here too are murders corpses and blood just imagine someone who minutes ago committed a murder with a knife and came out calm and smiling not to mention clean as a whistle as if slashing one s throat is done by a virtual agent also this murder was supposed to be done by a tiny fragile woman on a high strong male and she cut his throat did she ask him politely to bend down for her much more stupidity of that same kind is going on and on leaving the audience wondering if this meant to be a joke which just turned out to be a bad one continuity is another huge problem as for instance the eager hungry groom is lying in bed waiting for his virgin bride to get out of the bathroom and after a long while falls asleep next scene opens with the young couple entering the reception area asking for guidance to scenery spots not a word about last night such a waste of time even to try and write about this low low supposed to be movie ',
' a cry in the dark is a masterful piece of cinema haunting and incredibly though provoking the true story of lindy chamberland who in witnessed a horrific sight seeing her month old baby being brutally taken from their family s tent while camping on the austrailian outback azaria the baby was never seen again and the result of her horrendous disappearance caused a true life frenzy all around the world meryl streep does immaculate justice to the role of lindy as she always does but the one thing that helps a cry in the dark never fall flat is the brilliant direction a truly inspired and accurate outlook on this baffeling case tears are brought to the eyes the concept is nothing less then terrifying and afterwards you are left haunted but also inspired ',
'as a writer i find films this bad making it into production a complete slap in the face talk about insulting i was writing better stories than this in th grade bad acting bad writing bad directing and when added all together the result is complete and total failure br br the only thing this movie manages to accomplish is tricking the unsuspecting consumer into wasting their time who would green light something so poorly written it s not artistic clever smart suspenseful mysterious scary dramatic nothing br br the characters are flat and boring with no development the plot is as recycled as an aluminum can they somehow managed to cast a few very familiar actors who all must be pretty desperate for work or hoping one of these low budget independent movies will turn out to be the next pulp fiction this script should have been used to line a bird cage not a movie br br oh and last but not least a lb woman of course has the strength to kill men and women twice her size without a struggle and in a single blow br br avoid this bomb like it will infect you with an std ',
'watch on the rhine is one of the best anti nazi propaganda films made during world war two paul lukas was certainly deserving of his oscar bette davis shines brilliantly as the great actress and beauty she was i would recommend this film to those interested in that era and of course the fabulous films of the late great ms bette davis ',
'ho hum an inventor s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia d abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins also in the cast aretom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts perry fans will be accepting d abo is wrong for the role but nice to look at ',
'some movies seem to be made before we are ready for them as i watched this film made in in i thought i was watching the o j simpson debacle although i have very different opinions about the innocence of the individuals in each situation br br the australian news media if this movie is to be believed devoured the case of a possible infanticide and truth was left as an afterthought it was scary to see the scenes of invasive swarming media hordes ridiculous accounts of half truths and lies and debates over the supposed merits of the case by persons at all levels of society br br equally appalling is the media s depiction as indifferent and uncomprehending of the technical information in the case i do wish more was made of the issue of religious prejudice in the case the accused are seven day adventists br br today these circuses have become common but that makes the lesson only more important br br streep is excellent as usual and this is the best i ve ever seen sam neill the aussie accents get a bit thick at times but not incomprehensible ',
'i regret every single second of the time i lost while watching this movie really unhappily i always find it hard to switch off a movie once i started watching it especially when it s such a classic or what people use to call a classic i think that this is one of those movies every movie lover should have watched at least one time so that was why i watched it don t get me wrong i like humphrey bogart and his wife lauren bacall both as a couple and as actors but this movie was a big fraud in my opinion no really good plot neither an espionage flick nor a romantic love story well not even a convincing mixture of both of these genres only thing which caused tension was that it was uncertain whether bogey and bacall would stay together in the end or part from one another i think to have and have not is very overrated and bogart was in many better films during the s ',
'this is an extremely powerful based on a true story film that can be infuriating to watch i say that because how brutal a hounding press can be to people in this case an innocent australian couple charged with killing their baby br br meryl streep received a lot of recognition for her performance when this film came out but i thought sam neill was just as good let s just say they both were excellent but the role was little harder for streep because she had to learn an australian accent she learned it so well i had trouble understanding her in parts br br without giving anything away all i can say is this movie will wear you out emotionally ',
'or marlowe at sea yet another ridiculously overrated old film with bogey quite talky too bogey basically plays the same character as in the marlow films always in control of a situation never nervous no matter how dangerous a situation calls women slim and dames and other such nonsense is the only real male i e alpha male in the movie the only other alpha male male being the head of gestapo but he is only a fat alpha male male and naturally every attractive young woman who comes his way cannot resist his charms and wants his penis within hours of their initial introduction the character clichs are all here bogey is supposed to be the same type of cynic about to reform as in casablanca and naturally he often refuses money or other valuables when being offered them but how does that fit in with the tough cynic in him it doesn t so he can t be a cynic hawks wanted it both ways a character who is both the cool lone cynic and yet a well meaning humanitarian i don t think so bacall does her non chalant cool babe routine for the first time and there are plenty of overrated not all too interesting so called sexual innuendo exchanges between her and bogey these dialogues sound silly by today s standards just purse your lips and whistle a load of crap she was when this was made but looks a lot older and is far less attractive than the female stars of the day her bony face with its sharp features is nowhere even close to radiating the kind of feminine beauty of a de havilland the cuteness of a myrna loy let alone the likability of an irene dunne bacall was more suited for playing vampires not femme fatales in real life she is very much like her face a hollywood bitch there is a scene in which bacall breaks into tears very unsuitable for her character there are two or three bad musical numbers but my fast forward button was ready br br if you re interested in reading my biographies of bogart bacall huston and other hollywood personalities contact me by e mail ',
'roll is a wonderful little film toby malone plays an year old kid very well acted by the way who is into soccer malone s cousin takes him out the night before his big game on an adventure with many twists and turns involving two gym bags a drug lord some tough bikers some cops and some prostitutes and the movie keeps us guessing as to which characters are on which side of the law what the contents of either gym bag is and even what gender a key biker is parts of it reminded me of lock stock and two smoking barrels br br for me roll reinforced three opinions that i already held before seeing roll those opinions are i really want to visit australia one day the country and cities are beautiful and it looks like such a cool place for a vacation br br some of the best filmmakers in the are australian the cinematography in roll was especially impressive i loved the stylized colors and lighting in many of the scenes br br australian women are hot ',
'i enjoyed the first reviewer s comment far more than i did the film when i saw it at a second run theatre in the early s i was impressed then by the care taken to create costumes modelled so closely after the tenniel drawings but to me the cast was largely squandered their personalities muffled by the masks while the direction i think of as being unusually static and the photography murky the rating jotted down at the time was a nought which means not worth sitting through even once br br still i too would jump at a chance to have a second look ',
'mat spirogolou s toby malone family know he is a talented footballer and are pleased when he secures an audition to join a big club they hope that when he arrives in the city his cousin will look after him br br but the cousins are like chalk and cheese one a naive farm boy the other a streetwise spendthrift who has managed to get mixed up with drug dealers and gangsters mat is unlikely to have a quiet evening in before his big day br br having missed his cousin george damien robertson on arrival in the city mat encounters further trouble when a young biker takes him for a ride in more ways than one br br toby malone probably better known for his work in theatre puts in a commendable performance as the bucolic teenager there are telltale signs of a low budget but as with so many other low budget movies there s more fun seemingly more spontaneity and more charm than there is to be seen in the average hollywood blockbuster ',
'this is one of those films that i could only sit through once charlotte henry is fine in fact all the actors were fine the problem was in the script the dialog the direction the editing the sets and the special effects granted this was but it really creaked part of the problem is that actors like richard arlen gary cooper w c fields and cary grant are not recognizable there faces cried for a recognition that was not forthcoming the movie just clumped along with no cohesion much of lewis carrols spirit humor and continuity are missing what a pity it s such a great book i would recommend disney s version ',
'i just sat through a very enjoyable fast paced mins of roll br br roll is about a country boy mat toby malone who has dreams of becoming a sports star mat travels to the city and is to be picked up by his cousin george damien robertson well that was the plan anyway george is involved with a gangster tiny john batchelor and is making a delivery for him needless to say mat gets dragged into george s world br br i thought it was great how mat teaches george some morals and respect while george teaches mat how to relax and enjoy life a little toby and damien were well cast together and did an outstanding job br br every character in the movie complimented each other very well the two cops were great david ngoombujarra brought some great comic relief to the movie tiny played a likable gangster that reminded me of one of my favourite characters pando from two hands br br one of the other things that i liked about roll was that it showcased the cities that i grew up and lived in for years perth and fremantle it was good to see sights and landmarks that i grew up with especially the old ferris wheel br br this rocks n rolls ',
'a family moves into a old house in japan but there s a catch it s haunted boo aw didn t mean to make you jump it s only a review settle back down ahem now anyways it s haunted by an old samurai who killed his wife her lover in slow motion this naturally makes a minutes scene stretch out to about or horrid acting horrid story but how bad can it be you ask well it was so bad my brain started to melt leak out through my nose in thoughtful drips it was so bad whenever doug mcclure came on screen i prayed that i had flashbacks of small wonder yes i know doug was in out of this world not small wonder but it s pretty much the same damn show i can hum the small wonder theme better there are movies that are so bad they re good this isn t one of those br br where i saw it showtime beyond br br my grade f br br eye candy mako hattori gets topless susan george gets love scenes one nude one just topless br br ',
'a country boy aussie rules player mat goes to the city the night before an all important afl trial match where he is to be picked up by his cousin and then things go wrong br br his no hoper cousin has become mixed up in a drug deal involving local loan shark drug dealer tiny who looks like any gangster anywhere but is definitively australian needless to say mat becomes enmeshed in the chaos and it isn t long before thoughts of tomorrow s match are shunted to the back of his mind as the night s frantic events unravel br br accomplished western australian professional shakespearean actor toby malone puts in a sterling performance as young naive country boy mat and successfully plays a part well below his age best support comes from john batchelor as tiny and an entertaining role by david ngoombujarra as one of the cops following the events roll is fast paced often funny and a very worthwhile use of an hour ',
'this is a rotten movie the cast seem to know just how bad it was it starts badly and by the end is truly bad the acting is woeful the script could of been written on the spot and although the movie is a horror film it has no scary scenes crap out of ',
'i ve just watched roll and what a pleasure it turned out to be toby malone s performance really stood out i found myself actually caring about what happens to matt throughout the whole of the film which itself is a lot of fun very pacey with a good mix of well rounded characters quite an achievement considering it s short running time there are plenty of good twists throughout as well it will keep you guessing until the end other characters to watch out for are the totally insane tiny and the sneaky attractive jesse it may not have the huge budget of a hollywood blockbuster but don t let that put you off you could do a lot worse than checking this out you won t regret it good fun ',
'i saw this film at a pre release screening at the writers guild theater in beverly hills as i recall the film s producers and director were in attendance presumably to gage our reaction br br many scenes evoked gales of laughter from the audience which would have been fine if it had been a comedy but it was supposed to be a horror film br br if the audience wasn t scared it seems the filmmakers were they delayed release for over a year out of curiosity i saw it again to see if they d re cut it as far as i can tell they hadn t it was the same lousy movie just a year older br br it almost qualifies as so bad it s good but it s slow paced and boring ',
'a film i expected very little from and only watched to pass a quiet hour but what an hour it turned out to be roll is an excellent if none too serious little story of country boy lost in the big city makes good it is funny throughout the characters are endearing and the pace is just right br br toby malone is the true star of the film with his endearing portrayal of matt said country boy and local aussie rules football hero come to the big city to try out for one of the big teams he is supported superbly by john batchelor as local gangster tiny watch out for these two br br highly recommended ',
'aside for being classic in the aspect of its cheesy lines and terrible acting this film should never be watched unless you are looking for a good cure for your insomnia i can t imagine anyone actually thinking this was a good movie ',
'this film is an hour or so of good entertainment and has some genuinely funny moments i loved the character of matt and also tiny they seemed the most engaging and funny characters and certainly the most interesting matt is very good as is his no good cousin and the police woman and the blonde biker woman provide some welcome eye candy i must say i saw striking similarities between matt and another aussie actor eric bana my personal favourite part was the brothel scene loved that overall i liked the film and it ll get about an rating the penalty however i was disappointed in it was a side foot curl rather than the appropriate laces blast br br i am of course kidding ',
'while the premise behind the house where evil dwells may be intriguing the execution is downright pathetic i m not even sure where to begin as i ve got so many problems with this movie i suppose i ll just number a few of them br br the acting when you see that edward albert doug mcclure and susan george and her teeth are the stars of your movie you know you re in trouble not that it matters much to me but these are hardly a list names susan george may have been in a couple of movies i enjoy but i ve never considered her the greatest actress i ve ever seen and in this movie her acting is embarrassing as for the other two the less said the better br br the ghosts the ghosts or spirits or whatever you want to call them reminded me quite a bit of the ghosts in the haunted mansion ride at disney world and they are about as frightening and why did they have to be so obvious subtlety is not a characteristic of the house where evil dwells br br the plot how predictable can one movie be the outcome of this movie is painfully obvious once you meet the three main characters if you couldn t see where this movie was headed after about minutes you need to see more movies br br the convenient priest what are the chances that the haunted house you buy just happens to be across the street from a group of japanese monks not to mention that one of them knows the history of your house and comes over knocks on the door and asks if you need help removing evil spirits absurd is a word that comes to mind br br everything else it s very difficult for me to think of any positives to write about i suppose i ll give it a point for the opening scene and a point for the house s architecture that s a sure sign of a winner noting the architecture as a highlight of any film doesn t say much about the actual movie br br i ll stop you should be able to get the idea from what i ve already mentioned and i haven t even mentioned the annoying little girl or the invasion of the crabs or a multitude of other problems be warned this thing is horrible ',
'plato s run is an entertaining b movie with gary busey it is a fairly unknown film so one i saw it at a car boot i thought this looks entertaining i was right to gary busey plays plato smith a tough mercenary who is framed for the assassination of a powerful cuban crime lord now on the run plato must survive long enough to prove his innocence with the help of his friends played by steve bauer scarface and action star jeff speaksman the expert what i liked about plato s run was the way the film never got boring the plot may have been done before but it was still good the acting was fun to watch and the action was quite fun as well especially the climax gary busey makes a good hero ironic since he normally plays the bad guy and steve bauer is good as plato s sidekick even jeff speaksman makes a good performance and he cant even act well to finish it of plato s run is an enjoyable effort from nu image films and i give it out of ',
'film starts in japan in which a man slashes his wife and her lover to death and the commits suicide it s a very gory bloody sequence then it jumps to present day well to be precise ted edward albert wife laura susan george and their annoying little kid move to japan for hubby s work they rent a house and surprise surprise it just happens to be the house where the murders took place the three dead people are around as ghosts the makeup is hysterically bad and make life hell for the family br br sounds ok but it s really hopeless there s a bloody opening and ending and nothing happens in between there is an attack by giant crabs which is just uproarious they look so fake i swear i saw the strings pulling one along and they re muttering there s a pointless sex sequence in the first minutes probably just to show off george s body another one about minutes later but that was necessary to the plot and a really silly exorcism towards the end the fight scene between albert and doug mcclure must be seen to be believed br br as for acting albert was ok as the husband and mcclure was pretty good as a family friend but george as always is terrific in a lousy film she gives this film a much needed lift but can t save it i m giving this a just for her and the gory opening and closing that aside this is a very boring film ',
' a wrong doer is often a man that has left something undone not always he that has done something emperor marcus aurelius br br the dvd release of watch on the rhine could not come at a better moment it restores to us a major lillian hellman play stirringly adapted to the screen by dashiell hammett hellman scholar bernard f dick s audio commentary affirms his authorship it presents a subtle performance by bette davis who took a subdued secondary role long after she d become the workhorse queen at the warner bros lot equally significantly it reminds us that world war ii had a purpose br br sure you say like we needed that we ve heard cary grant sermonizing in destination tokyo about japanese boys and their bushido knives we ve watched jackboots stomp the living hills in the sound of music we ve toured an england callously occupied by germany in it happened here yet truth to tell we still need the message spread br br i have an year old friend who curses franklin roosevelt regularly he feels that fdr connived the u s into a foreign fight we didn t need and thereby caused the death of his favorite cousin he s encouraged in his demonizing of allied leaders and the trivializing of war two by patrick buchanan br br the political columnist has freshly released a fat book heavy with detailed research which claims that adolf hitler would have posed no further menace to poland europe or the world if only the third reich had been handed the free city of danzig in buchanan holds that if those selfish poles hadn t confronted the nazis drawing in foolishly meddling britain and giddily altruistic france no war would have engulfed the west he believes that without the rigors of total war no one in germany would have built gas chambers to provide a final solution to the jewish problem br br some commenters on this site feel that watch sags under the weight of stale propaganda maybe however neither my friend nor pat buchanan seem to have gotten the film s point some people hurt and kill to grab other people s land goods and liberty such people dominated the axis powers and enough didn t appear in their vocabulary br br paul lukas deserved the oscar he won he and bette davis put convincing passion into their portrayals of refugees who fight oppressors they give emotional punch to the intellectual case for stepping off the sidelines for actively facing down torturers and murderers bernard dick notes that hellman didn t care for lukas as a person since he stayed apolitical of course as a hungarian he had seen first hand bela kun s bloody dictatorship of the proletariat replace an outmoded empire and then topple to admiral horthy s right wing tyranny br br in a marvelous cameo role added to the play by hammett henry daniell sardonically depicts a wehrmacht officer of the class that disdains the brown shirts he serves his phili von ramme would doubtless stand with field marshal rommel in during the plot of july th against hitler in april however he pragmatically abets the nazi cause although he insults herr blecher the butcher and scorns the rumanian aristocrat teck de brancovis for trying to peddle information on an underground leader br br teck a pauper and possible cuckold wishes cash and a visa to return to europe where he can resume the shreds of a life that had come undone with the empire shattering great war and the greater world wide economic depression he has no political convictions no scruples about trading a freedom fighter for his own tomorrow mercury theater graduate george coulouris lends this burnt out case s old world cynicism an edge of desperate menace br br lucille watson gives winsome vitality to the grasping man s hostess a domineering old gal who knows her mind and gets her way but who doesn t adequately appreciate her children and their achievements outside the home she controls she and her pallid office bound son belong to the american version of von ramme s and de brancovis privileged kind however this family hasn t seen ruin and never will they re moneyed people who could silently advance evil simply by not opposing it br br this mother and son might easily make choices which would reflect that complaisance toward national socialism and fascism which flourishes today in my friend and in pundit buchanan watch on the rhine has a manicured period look its dialogue reflects its erudite origins on the stage rather than sounding fresh from the streets yet hellman and hammett s film has gut based power audiences still need to hear and heed its call to arms against grabbers relentlessly on the march ',
'that this poor excuse for an amateur hour showcase was heralded at sundance is a great example of what is wrong with most indie filmmakers these days br br first of all there is such a thing as the art of cinematography just picking up a mm camera and pointing it at whomever has a line does not make for a real movie br br i guess we have to consider ourselves lucky the director didn t pick up someone s camcorder br br second indie films are supposed to be about real people there s nothing real in this film none of the characters come across as being even remotely human br br what they come across as being is figments of the imagination of a writer trying to impress his buddies by showing them how cool and edgy he is br br sorry but this is not good writing or good directing br br what is left is a husk of a bad movie that somehow made its way to sundance hard to believe this was one of the best films submitted br br in any case it made me loose what was left of my respect for the sundance brand ',
'in i had just moved to the us from ceylon i was and had been married for a little over three years and was beginning to come out as a lesbian i saw this movie on an old black and white tv with terrible reception alone and uninterrupted in an awakening that seemed like an echo of the story i was living in a small house in tucson arizona and it was summertime like everyone else here i never forgot the feelings the images of this story called forth and its residue of fragile magic and i have treasured a hope that i would see it again someday i ll keep checking in i also wish that someone would make a movie of shirley verel s the other side of venus it also has some of the same delicacy and persistent poignancy ',
'i don t think anyone sitting down to view this film would be expecting anything remotely appearing like a classic ghost story but you have to ask yourself when it s over if you were ever scared this doesn t really work on that level but the cast does try hard and the film doesn t tack on one of those happy endings story is about an american couple who travel to kyoto japan so that ted fletcher edward albert can write a book and he brings along his wife laura susan george and their daughter amy amy barrett their friend alex curtis doug mcclure who works at the american consulate helps them find a house to live in and he finds one that is haunted about years earlier in the same house a samurai found his wife cheating on him and he kills both of them and then commits suicide their ghosts still inhabit the house and when the fletcher s arrive it doesn t take long before strange things start happening br br spoiler alert br br at times the ghosts inhabit the bodies of the fletcher s and they start to act like the japanese people that they were before and laura starts to flirt with alex which leads to an affair meanwhile ted starts behaving more strict and after he pours soup down the throat of amy he goes to ask a monk for help unfortunately the ghosts get ted laura and alex to play out their death scene like it happened years earlier br br this film was directed by kevin connor who is known as a good television director but he has made horror and science fiction films before and has worked with mcclure on some of them while this never comes close to being scary or developing atmosphere it does have two things in it that i liked first it doesn t have one of those sappy endings where the couple embrace after defeating the demons instead it ends in a very bloody fight where everyone succumbs to the evil of the ghosts secondly it has susan george in the cast i ve always been a fan of hers even though she has appeared in mostly schlock but her performances are always top notch also she usually appears nude which she does here in two separate scenes and while she doesn t have classic features she does have a unique tomboy like look about her and it s one of the reasons why she was so popular but after appearing in silly films such as this i think it led to her getting out of the business or working only sporadically this isn t a bad film but it s never convincing and watching the ghosts scurry around when the monk gives an exorcism is practically worthy of a giggle or two the bottom line is that this is silly and i hope george decides to resume her career ',
'the previous reviewer has said it exactly i saw it once was enchanted saw it a second time when it was re broadcast within a week or two of the first airing i still remember some of the scenes the setting is the opening of the th century the war referred to in the title is world war i one of the scenes was set in a women only section of a public place which was an interesting historical note the moment when one of the women first touches the other is one of my all time great movie moments i don t think of this as a gay movie it s an interesting and tender period love story where the two principals happen to be women i would love to see this movie again i would buy this one if it ever came out on dvd ',
'dull haunted house thriller finds an american family moving into a year old house in japan where a violent murder suicide love triangle occurred br br novel setting is about the only element of interest in this very slow moving horror flick by the director of motel hell the film generates zero suspense and is composed of somewhat choppy scenes that rarely seem to be leading anywhere overall br br one obvious example is a fairly early scene where the male lead visits a temple after realizing that his house is haunted as the monk had earlier warned the monk recounts the history of the house which the viewer is already familiar with from the opening sequence and then the film simply cuts away to something else earlier the monk had offered to help well where is the help the family continues to stay in the haunted house as things get worse and worse and no mention of the monk is made until nearly the very end when he turns up again to do what he should have done an hour earlier try to drive the spirits out of the house although by this time it s difficult for the viewers to care br br there are some probably unintentional campy laughs in seeing the american actors at the end become possessed by the japanese spirits and suddenly start doing bad martial arts i say probably because the scene is more than a little reminiscent of the chainsaw duel from the same director s motel hell which was more obviously meant to be amusing but on the whole this is a forgettable dud ',
'as with all the other reviewers this movie has been a constant in my mind after years i recall going to the library researching all that i could on this story i even wrote to the pbs station for more information despite all this all i was able to find out was that it was a story printed in a newspaper in the early part of the s br br fastward to after years of searching ebay for on a weekly basis and there it was a vhs copy of the movie there was one other bidder but i was determined to win this movie the losing bidder wrote me asking for a copy which i gave her despite owning a copy i still searched and searched finally finding a site that sold a dvd copy of the movie you can find it at http www johntopping com harvey perr war widow war widow html ',
'the film opens with a peaceful shot of a traditional japanese house complete with thatched roof that sits on the side of a small hill and an on screen caption appears that reads kushiata kyoto japan a young japanese trainee samurai named masanori toshiya maruyama walks up the winding path to the house inside waits otami mako hattori with whom he is having an affair behind her husband shugoro s tsuiyuki sasaki as toshiyuki sasaki back who happens to be masanori s teacher shugoro unexpectedly arrives home to find his wife and student having very intimate relations with each other his honour destroyed the enraged samurai brutally murders both otami and masanori before committing suicide over a century later and ted fletcher edward albert arrives in japan on a working holiday with his wife laura susan george and their young daughter amy amy barrett their close friend alex curtis doug mcclure who works for the american consulate helps them out by finding them a place to stay you don t need me to you where he jokingly says it s going so cheap because it s haunted to which both ted and laura laugh off as they obviously don t believe in ghosts at least for the time being that is almost immediately the film goes into clich mode lights turn on and off by themselves laura has an uneasy feeling about the place and a local zen monk henry mitowa gives them an ominous warning for them to leave before it s too late which they ignore of course the spirits of otami masanori and shugoro were doomed for eternity to remain within the walls of the house because of a majyo witches tsuyako olajima curse put upon them but there may be a way they can break the curse unfortunately for the fletcher family it could potentially cost them their marriage daughter and possibly even their very lives br br directed by kevin connor i thought this was a pretty average film ok to watch once if you ve got nothing better to do but after a day or two you ll probably have completely forgotten it nothing sticks in the memory as being particularly bad but on the other hand there s nothing particularly good about the film either the script by robert suhosky from the novel by james hardiman is a little on the dull side and strictly by the numbers a lot of ghostly goings on happen throughout the film but none of it is very interesting or exciting and the flat characters and direction doesn t help things there are couple of silly sequences like the giant plastic crabs that try to get amy and her babysitter noriko mayumi umeda and there is a scene where the zen monk exorcises the house and the ghosts are banished outside unable to get back in however that is until ted simply opens the door and they just walk right back in some exorcism one more thing i think it was a bad idea to have doug mcclure who was when he made this try his hand at kung fu and oriental sword fighting george gets her ample breasts out a couple of times including a very unerotic sex scene with mcclure although great pains and a couple of bed sheets that stick to them like super glue were taken to ensure no below the waist nudity was present apart from a couple of mostly off screen decapitations there s no blood gore or violence to speak about the transparent ghost effects are ok but they ain t going to impress many people these days it s professionally enough made and looks quite nice but the potential in the japanese setting and myths is squandered as this film could have been set in america england or any western country without having to change a thing an ok time waster ',
'i saw this movie in my first year of living in new york i went on to live there for the next years but never saw anything as delicate and beautiful again as this small tv movie it was part of a pbs series as i recall and i ve never forgotten it br br there are no sex scenes to speak of just delicate moving extraordinarily touching moments full of tension and excitement all set within a conservative boston i think world war environment where women played the role of devoted wife awaiting the return of husband from the war and did not seek out a career and financial independence frances lee mccain is superb in the role of career photographer and i have spent the next odd years searching for her in equally challenging roles to no avail br br there has to be a video of this movie sure it should be on dvd but surely at least a video ',
'this can be one of the most enjoyable movies ever if you don t take it seriously it is a bit dated and the effects are lame but it is so enjoyable there are giant crabs that attack a girl oh and the crabs sing japanese it is amazingly bad and the ending which has been telegraphed throughout the entire film is hideously awesome predictable but seeing the final fight will leave you rolling in your seat don t even give this film a chance and you will love it susan george is fun to watch and yes she does appear naked her daughter isn t quite worth putting up with but she does get attacked by giant crabs they are the size of large cats this is a but i love it as a movie my god but for entertainment i give it a did i mention there are giant crabs ',
'almost years later i recall this original pbs film as almost unbearably tender periodically i check here at imdb hoping that someone has had the good sense to purchase the rights and put it on a dvd it s september of and i keep hoping deep sigh br br one of the two lead actors went on to a small career primarily in a prime time evening soap the other frances lee mccain was seen in small roles here and there for a few years but nothing they did before or after ever matched this little movie which was produced as i recall it on a short lived pbs series which showcased original screenplays by new and up and coming playwrights br br i watched it every time it was shown on pbs maybe or times that was before the era of vcrs so i have no record of it except in my mind s eye br br addition to above happy new year ladies this wonderful film is finally available on dvd at ladyslipper org my understanding is that the dvds are burned from the writer s own personal copy ',
' it s this one very cool premise right off the bat br br has an excellent first scene gotta give credit where credit s due br br has solid characters and a decent enough script for a ghost story but here are the things that bothered me whenever the ghosts appeared which i really liked by the way how it was done how it looked the only thing was the ghost s relationship because of the way things went down in the first scene you d think their dynamic would be different br br things slowed down a little too much in the middle i felt and the crab spider scene was just not good but then the ending is actually very good sure the grudge basically told the same story with a polished lens but no samurai s and that s what i liked about this movie comparatively br br please someone one with a tempered style remake this movie br br fans of silent rage would absolutely love this movie ',
'it s been a while since i ve watched this movie and the series but now i m refreshing my memory this was a very funny movie based on the classic series johnny knoxville and seann william scott were hilarious together bo and luke duke help uncle jesse run moonshine in the general lee when boss hogg forces the dukes off their farm bo and luke sneak around hogg s local construction site and find samples of coal they soon realize that boss hogg is gonna strip mine hazzard county unless the dukes can stop him with the help of their beautiful cousin daisy my only two problems with the movie was that burt reynolds wasn t right for the part of boss hogg and sheriff rosco p coltrane was way too serious other than that i highly recommend the dukes of hazzard ',
'at the beginning of the film you might double check the dvd cover and re read the synopsis a couple of times but no worries it s not memoirs of a geisha that you purchased just a movie with an intro that is much more classy and stylish than it has any right to be still the opening is by far the best thing about the entire movie as it shows how in the year a samurai sword master catches his wife committing adultery he decapitates the two lovers before doing some hara kiri ritual suicide through disembowelment cut to present day when the american ambassador in japan welcomes a befriended family and drives them up to the same house where the aforementioned slaughter took place nearly one and a half century ago from then onwards this becomes a seemingly routine haunted house flick yet the utterly retarded and implausible script still makes it somewhat exceptional let s start with the good aspects namely the original japanese setting and the presence of the delicious susan george who is my all time favorite british horror wench well together with britt eckland linda hayden and ingrid pitt the bad aspects simply include that the screenplay is incoherent imbecilic beyond repair and full of supposedly unsettling twists that only evoke laughter the restless spirits of the house soon begin to entertain themselves by perpetrating into the bodies of the new tenants and causing them to do and say all sorts of crazy stuff the spirit of the massacred adulterous woman particularly enjoys squeezing into susan s ravishing booty and transforming her into a lewd seductress in this possessed state she even lures the american ambassador outside to have sex in the garden of a high society diner party full of prominent guests so strictly spoken it s not really evil that dwells in the house just a trio of sleazy ghosts with dirty minds and far too much free time on their long dead hands obviously these scenes are more comical than frightening especially since the light blue and transparent shapes remind you of the cute ghost effects that were later popularized in ghostbusters the house where evil dwells is probably the least scary ghost movie ever throughout most of the running time you ll be wondering whether director kevin connor who nevertheless made the excellent horror films motel hell and from beyond the grave intentionally wanted to make his movie funny and over the top like motel hell maybe but then again everyone in the cast continues to speak his her lines with a straight and sincere face so i guess we are nevertheless supposed to take everything seriously and feel disturbed the house where evil dwells is never suspenseful or even remotely exciting and it doesn t even contain any grisly images apart from the massacre at the beginning i am fully aware of how shallow it sounds but the two scenes in which susan george goes topless are the only true highlights well those and maybe also the invasion of cheesy and ridiculously over sized spiders or are they crabs in the daughter s bedroom how totally random and irrelevant was that if you ever decide to give this movie a chance notwithstanding its bad reputation make sure you leave your common sense and reasoning at the doorstep br br trivia note for horror buffs keep an eye open for the demon mask that was also a pivot piece of scenery in the brilliant japanese horror classic onibaba ',
'what is wrong with you people if you weren t blown away by the action car sequences and jessica simpsons hot body then you are majorly screwed in the head of course the film isn t a masterpiece i don t think it was aiming to be it was fun and funny i never watched the show when i was younger i only recently saw one episode and when i watched the movie i felt it had the same kind of atmosphere the movie seats were practically shaking and the car sequences were good because it didn t bore me and drag out like some of the scenes in fast furious and jessica simpson is plain hot i just wish they had used her more in the action sequences all in all i had a hell of a time watching this and i would go and see it again soon and i will buy it on dvd people enjoy it for what it is ',
'this could have been interesting a japan set haunted house story from the viewpoint of a newly installed american family but falls flat due to an over simplified treatment and the unsuitability of both cast and director br br the film suffers from the same problem i often encounter with the popular modern renaissance of such native fare i e the fact that the spirits demonstrate themselves to be evil for no real reason other than that they re expected to besides it doesn t deliver much in the scares department a giant crab attack is merely silly as generally the ghosts inhabit a specific character and cause him or her to act in a totally uncharacteristic way such as susan george seducing diplomat friend of the family doug mcclure and edward albert force feeding his daughter a bowl of soup br br at one point an old monk turns up at the house to warn albert of the danger if they remain there eventually he s called upon to exorcise the premises however history is bound to repeat itself and tragedy is the only outcome of the tense situation duly created leading to a violent yet unintentionally funny climax in which albert and mcclure possessed by the spirits of their japanese predecessors engage in an impromptu karate duel to the death at the end of the day this emerges an innocuous time waster tolerable at just minutes but in no way essential viewing ',
'having read some of the other comments here i was expecting something truly awful but was pleasantly surprised reality check the original series wasn t that good i think some people remember it with more affection than it deserved but apart from the car chases and daisy duke s legs the scripts were weak and poorly acted the duke boys were too intelligent and posh for backwood hicks the shrunken boss hog was too cretinous to be evil and rosco was just hyper throughout every screen moment it s amazing the series actually lasted as long as it did because it ran out of story lines during the first series br br back to the movie if you watch this film in it s own right not as a direct comparison to however you remember the tv series then it s not bad at all the real star is of course the general lee the car chases and stunts are excellent and that s really what d o h is all about johnny knoxville is his usual eccentric self and along with seann william scott as cousin bo the pair make this film really funny in a hilarious dumb and dumber sort of way the tv series never achieved the lovely jessica simpson is a natch as miss daisy burt reynolds makes a much improved boss hog and m c gainey makes a believably nasty rosco p coltrane the way he always should have been br br if you don t like slapstick humour and crazy car stunts then you wouldn t be watching this film anyway because you should know what to expect otherwise if you want an entertaining car action movie with a few good laughs that s not too taxing on the brain then go see this enjoyable romp with an open mind ',
'giant crabs cursing in japanese what was in that drink a terrible movie but laughable i love the invisible samurai ghosties running around drink much beer before you see this movie ',
'i m a huge fan of the dukes of hazzard tv show and i really enjoyed this flick i enjoyed myself here a lot more than i did with other summer blockbusters br br it s funny hearing people rail against this movie with excuses like lame plot and it s much cruder than the show does anyone remember the crudeness of the humor in the pilot episode daisy makes incest jokes and bo says that luke had probably fathered half the kids in the orphanage the only reason it was cleaned up is because it changed to and earlier time slot br br and as far as the plot goes it was the perfect dukes plot in fact as a remake it probably stays truer to the source material than any tv show that has migrated to the big screen br br while sean william scott and johnny knoxville aren t exactly like their small screen versions they do a great job and work very well together i wasn t too keen on burt s boss hogg though and i would have like a little bit more incompetence from sheriff roscoe in the movie roscoe is a little scary br br and who didn t have a smile on their face as the general lee is racing through the streets of atlanta and the back roads of hazzard br br folks allow yourself to enjoy a movie that is just an excuse for nostalgia bikinis and car chases you won t be sorry it s just a great dumb movie ',
'from reading all of the comments posted here on imdb this movie seems to get ragged on a lot but i didn t think it was that bad i ve seen much worse actually br br the house where evil dwells is a ghost story about a husband and his wife ted and laura fletcher and their daughter amy who move into an old house in japan little do they know a japanese ninja brutally murdered his wife and her lover and then killed himself years earlier with a samurai sword as strange things happen in the house the ghosts of the previous residents begin to possess the bodies of the living and plan on re enacting the bloody murder that took place years back br br i saw this movie and decided to give it a chance from the cover it looked like a decent ghost story it was routine and it was corny but i ve seen worse in my day the ghost sequences were a little over done we get to see the translucent blue tinted figures randomly pop up randomly around the family and take over their bodies to be honest the ghosts in this movie kind of reminded me of the ghosts in the haunted mansion ride at disneyland i may be mistaken but after watching this it seemed to me that the japanese horror film ju on the grudge and the american remake of that film ripped this off a little the old japanese home where a brutal murder took place ghostly activity curses put on the home etc but i may be wrong br br to sum it up this is a pretty corny ghost story don t go out of your way to see it but if you like this kind of thing and it happens to come on tv you can give it a shot ',
'i saw this movie when i was a child it blew me away this was before the days of television so a movie of this magnitude could send a young kid into orbit it so impressed me that i went to see this movie for twelve consecutive days the special effects used at this time were far ahead of its time sabu was a real delight as was rex ingram as the genie i found myself singing i want to be a sailor for months after the film left town i would recommend this movie to any and everyone i forgot to mention conrad veidt who was as villainous a character as you d ever want to meet also june duprez was never lovelier than she was in this picture the color was outstanding give this movie an aaa ',
'director kevin connor and wannabe action hero romantic lead doug mcclure re team in this ghost story set in japan they had been moderately successful together in the s with the likes of the land that time forgot at the earth s core etc without plastic monsters to carry the narrative along though the results are shabby and derivative in the most corny way br br the film begins with a prologue set in the th century with a samurai husband killing his wife and her lover before committing suicide a move forward to the present introduces married couple ted laura visiting japan and moving in to the house where the tragedy took place br br no surprises as to what happens next with the spirits of the dead starting to take over the new inhabitants with family friend alex mcclure assuming the role of the wife s lover br br everything rumbles clumsily along with the elegance and grace of a charging elephant to an inevitable but surprisingly downbeat conclusion main points of interest are two feeble decapitations the omen has a lot to answer for in promoting this as a standard horror set piece and the love making scenes featuring the doe eyed but extremely kinky susan george the first is a long don t look now inspired piece with her hubby complete with piano music the second a much shorter probably at her insistence entanglement with mcclure both looking pretty uncomfortable anyway every cloud has a silver lining and both scenes show of her fantastic knockers so all is not lost br br overall i can t decide whether the house where evil dwells is rubbish watchable rubbish or entertaining in a masochistic kind of way if you re not into the genre there is nothing here at all but for horror fans there is probably enough to provoke the odd rye smile and appreciative nod of respect for effort br br best scene in any other film the big black tree climbing japanese muttering mechanical crabs would have stolen the show they are eclipsed though by the legendary family meal scene where a ghostly head appears in the daughters soup on seeing this apparition she asks what kind of soup it is to be told beef and vegetable before uttering the immortal line ugh there s an awful face in my soup if this wasn t enough the reply is c mon eat your soup for daddy laurel hardy rest in piece ',
'loved the movie i even liked most of the actors in it but for me ms davis very poor attempt at an accent and her stiff acting really makes an otherwise compelling movie very hard to watch seriously if any other modern actor played the same role with the same style as ms davis they would be laughed off the screen br br i really think she phoned this one in now if it had myrna loy or ingrid bergman playing the part of the wife i would have enjoyed it much more br br i guess i just don t get bette davis i ve always thought of her as an actor that plays herself no matter what role she s in the possible exception is now voyager br br i m sure many of the other reviewers will explain in careful and i hope civil detail how i am totally wrong on this but i ll continue to watch the movies she s in because i like the stories writing supporting casts but i ll always be thinking of different actresses that could have done a better job ',
'raising victor vargas is just a bad film no amount of denial or ad dollar supported publicity with change this sad fact br br maybe peter sollett saw he didn t have the money to do the movie he wanted to make and decided to take the easy way out by making a bad film that cynically apes the tenets of current edgy film making maybe he just doesn t know any better it s hard to tell br br what s not hard to tell is the result except for a few viewers who will intellectualize the bad film making into an attempt at pseudo realism few will enjoy it br br i know i didn t br br do yourselves a favor and pass on this film ',
'next to star wars and the wizard of oz this remains one of the greatest fantasy films ever made it s a true shame it s not as well known as the former films maybe because it sticks to a story based on legends rather than contemporary or sci fi settings and that it s british meaning a smaller market for films but its wonderful to know that it s deserved that reputation br br like all great family films one can be a child an adult or even a teenager to enjoy this film i m currently but one must appreciate classic films first i absolutely adore this film it has an extraordinary music score by miklos rozsa perhaps my favorite classic film score that rivals any john williams star wars score a fast but not flashy pace beautiful sets dialog and use of color both the sets and cinematography won oscars and state of the art oscar winning special effects for the time and some are still stunning and of course june duprez s sultry looks as the princess rivals that of catherine zeta jones she even looks like jones in a way br br in conclusion this is one of my all time favorite movie next to the adventures of robin hood and it truly deserves more attention it is a true adventure of enchantment throughout and along with robin hood it s my desert island film that i could watch over and over again without getting annoyed br br stars excellent ',
'i just rented and watched this movie just to see what s all the fuss about so here s what my reactions to it are it s easily seen that this is a low budget film with poor actors the main plot of this movie is about a woman getting revenge on her rapists this concept if done right could easily turn out to be a really provocative film however the movie doesn t shock or disturb me at all it just bored me this movie could be easily shortened to under minutes all lot of scenes are mainly there to fill in time like those scenery scenes and some scenes i described below br br contains spoiler i find the rape scenes quite tame i don t know if i have watched the cut or uncut version if there is actually such a version i also found many plot holes within the already badly written plot here s a list on top of my mind br br why don t the rapists rape jennifer during the night when she walked out her house to find out what those noise are that would be an excellent time br br why don t they just gang rape her instead of delaying some of the rapists the pleasure and lengthening jennifer s ordeal by such a long time it would probably be more shocking and disturbing that way br br i found it really stupid that the rapists left her in the forest and head back to her house maybe to show that these rapists are really imbeciles br br these rapists should at least know that if you want to do a dirty job right they shouldn t send a coward imbecile to do the job br br why didn t jennifer call the police when the rapists finally left which should be the first thing that pops up in most people s mind especially for someone who is a writer br br why didn t these rapists smell danger miles away when they saw jennifer is alive br br i find it really amazing that a slender lady like camille can pull a man up a tree and hang him ends spoiler br br but hey this movie is not without its merits camille keaton is gorgeous and i get to hear one of the funniest line i have recently heard when matthew protest of going back into the house and kills jennifer why me why me i didn t even cm ',
'it is very rare for a film to appeal to viewers of all ages to children for a fine narrative and a wonderful colorful production and to adults for a literate script fine production values good casting acting all bound together with a fine rozsa score two roughly contemporary films accomplish this thief of baghdad and the adventures of robin hood some of the back story on this production is fascinating this production commenced in england in the summer of moved to hollywood and proved a cover for british intelligence efforts the producer alexander korda was subsequently knighted in here is a unique case of the intersection of art commerce and politics by all means secure a good cd of this film for your library ',
'i ve seen the gator bait films and this is almost exactly the same thing as those a woman is sexually assaulted by a group of degenerate men and systematically exacts her vicious revenge on each of them the thing that sets this movie apart from those ones although not very far is that the sexual content is not glorified there is full frontal nudity many times throughout the film but not for a second is it ever sexy some of the rape scenes might seem a little extensive but that s only because the movie is trying to strengthen the audience s need to see this woman seek revenge br br this is a weak film it has no other way to maintain interest other than manipulating our natural desire to see this woman get revenge on her attackers i spit on your grave is not the kind of movie that you expect to deliver a serious moral but i was glad to see that since it contained a significant amount of violence inflicted upon the female lead it was not meant to pass off as a ta film br br b movies are notorious for being driven by nudity and out of control adolescent sexuality and while i spit on you grave is unmistakably a b movie and contains more than its share of nudity the nudity does not drive the plot on the other hand the only thing that drives the plot is an empty necessity for revenge against a group of rapists these men are evolutionary drop outs just like they were in the gator bait films and the biggest challenge for the writers seems to have been to come up with new and exciting ways to kill them but the reason the film can never be anything more than a meaningless b movie is because it does not deliver a message of any kind but instead it simply satisfies the audience s desire to see a bunch of rapists get exactly what they deserve br br the one problem that this leaves is that we have to sit through the sexual attacks oddly the first half of the film is the part that contains the most nudity although not by much but it is by far the most painful to watch we are even let down a little as we watch the woman obtain revenge since a couple of the deaths were so elaborate that they were obviously impossible it seems like pure luck that the guy in the lake at the end felt such an overwhelming desire to hug the motor on the boat and press his genitalia against the propeller staying that way while the woman yells some final words at him and pulls the cord but again this movie satisfies only the desire for revenge that the first half filled us with br br spoilers you know that this is all the movie means to do since it literally ends the minute the last guy is killed the woman does not live happily ever after she doesn t write her book she doesn t leave and never return to that nightmare place she just gets in the boat and motors around the lake while the movie simply stops in its tracks but hey what more did you expect br br oh and did you read the tagline if you decide to waste your time watching this try and find any man getting broken or burned i was really looking forward to those ',
'this is a beautiful movie filled with adventure the genii in the bottle is a classic scene romantic in it s finish all things turn out as they should be i saw this first as a child and have remembered it as a fantasy i wished was true ',
'i m not going to bother with a plot synopsis since you know what the movie is about and there s almost no plot anyway i ve seen several reviewers call isoyg an anti rape film or even a feminist statement and i just have to chime in on the galling hypocrisy of these claims br br first of all what do we see on the cover of this movie that s right a shapely woman s behind whether it was zarchi s attempt to make an anti rape statement and i absolutely don t believe it was is entirely beside the point the film is marketing sex and the titillation of sexual assault and the material is so graphic everything but actual penetration is shown that no one but the hard core exploitation crowd will enjoy it br br the rape s in the film is uncomfortable brutal and hard to watch there s something to be said for presenting a horrible crime in such a brutal light but there was no reason for this scene to go on for seemingly minutes none there was also little character development of the victim and only one of the rapists is slightly developed mere moments before he s murdered so the scene isn t at all engaging on an emotional level really it s just presented for the sake of showing extreme sexual violence and you can tell by the movies isoyg is associated with on imdb caligula cannibal ferox etc that it attracts only the exploitation crowd br br finally a few reviewers have commended zarchi s so called documentary style and lack of a soundtrack but considering how inept everything else in the film is acting script etc i suspect these were financial decisions and the film looks like a documentary because he literally stationed a camera and let his porn caliber actors do their thing br br i m not going to get all up on my high horse talking about the content of isoyg i m all for exploitation horror and love video nasties in fact i m giving this movie three stars only because it truly does push the envelope so much further than some other films however it s also poorly made and after the rape occurs just downright boring for the rest of the film as we watch a bunch of ho hum mostly gore less murders and wait for the credits to roll br br this is probably worth watching once if you re a hardcore s exploitation fan but i m telling you the movie is overall pretty bad and not really worth its notorious reputation ',
'let s cut a long story short i loved every minute of it a lavish fantasy in true arabian nights style there s an evil magician a pretty princess a djinn and everybody lives happily ever after modern hollywoond sure does have one or two things to learn from this classic only quibble the special effects are pretty dated loved sabu with the djinn s foot though ',
'okay you have br br penelope keith as miss herringbone tweed b b e backbone of england she s killed off in the first scene that s right folks this show has no backbone br br peter o toole as ol colonel cricket from the first war and now the emblazered lord of the manor br br joanna lumley as the ensweatered lady of the manor years younger than the colonel and years past her own prime but still glamourous brit spelling not mine enough to have a toy boy on the side it s alright they have col cricket s full knowledge and consent they guy even comes round for christmas still she s considerate of the colonel enough to have said toy boy her own age what a gal br br david mccallum as said toy boy equally as pointlessly glamourous as his squeeze pilcher couldn t come up with any cover for him within the story so she gave him a hush hush job at the circus br br and finally br br susan hampshire as miss polonia teacups venerable headmistress of the venerable girls boarding school serving tea in her office with a dash of deep poignant advice for life in the outside world just before graduation her best bit of advice i ve only been to nancherrow the local stately home of england once i thought it was very beautiful but somehow not part of the real world well we can t say they didn t warn us br br ah susan time was your character would have been running the whole show they don t write em like that any more our loss not yours br br so with a cast and setting like this you have the re makings of brideshead revisited right br br wrong they took these dimensional supporting roles because they paid so well after all acting is one of the oldest temp jobs there is you name another br br first warning sign lots and lots of backlighting they get around it by shooting outdoors hey it s just the sunlight br br second warning sign leading lady cries a lot when not crying her eyes are moist that s the law of romance novels leading lady is dewy eyed br br henceforth leading lady shall be known as l l br br third warning sign l l actually has stars in her eyes when she s in love still i ll give emily mortimer an award just for having to act with that spotlight in her eyes i wonder did they use contacts br br and lastly fourth warning sign no on screen female character is mrs she s either miss or lady br br when all was said and done i still couldn t tell you who was pursuing whom and why i couldn t even tell you what was said and done br br to sum up they all live through world war ii without anything happening to them at all br br ok at the end l l finds she s lost her parents to the japanese prison camps and baby sis comes home catatonic meanwhile there s always a meanwhile some young guy l l had a crush on when i don t know comes home from some wartime tough spot and is found living on the street by lady of the manor must be some street if she s going to find him there both war casualties are whisked away to recover at nancherrow somebody has to be whisked away somewhere in these romance stories br br great drama ',
'a magical journey concocted by alexander korda and michael powell these two titans of the british cinema have mixed some fabulous ingredients to produce a movie masterpiece some of the most ravishing early technicolor a sublime and shimmering miklos rozsa musical score along with the youthful exuberance of sabu the theatrical and malevolent villainy of conrad veidt and the exquisite beauty and voice of june duprez as the princess all work wonderfully well miles malleson who plays duprez father the sultan of basra also wrote the perfect screenplay which is appropriately grandiose don t miss this one since posting the above comments i have obtained the recently released dvd and can honestly say i d never seen the picture properly until viewing this dvd version the clarity and resolution is so precise and the colors are so vivid that i was stunned this amazing classic can be watched time an again and never fails to charm and delight the viewer again a must see ',
'with knightly and o tool as the leads this film had good possibilities and with mccallum as the bad guy after knightly maybe some tension but they threw it all away on silly evening frill and then later on with maudlin war remnants it was of course totally superficial beautiful english country and seaside or not the number one mistake was dumping knightly so early on in the film when she could easily have played someone a couple of years older instead of choosing someone ten years older to play the part they missed all the chances to have great conflict among the cast and instead stupidly pulled at the easy and low cost heartstring elements ',
'a fantastic arabian adventure a former king ahmad and his best friend the thief abu played by sabu of black narcissus search for ahmad s love interest who has been stolen by the new king jaffar conrad veidt there s hardly a down moment here it s always inventing new adventures for the heroes personally i found ahmad and his princess a little boring there s no need to ask why john justin who plays ahmad is listed fourth in the credits conrad veidt always a fun actor makes a great villain and sabu is a lot of fun as the prince of thieves who at one point finds a genie in a bottle i also really loved miles malleson as the sultan of basra the father of the princess he collects amazing toys from around the world jaffar bribes him for his daughter s hand with a mechanical flying horse this probably would count as one of the great children s films of all time but the special effects are horribly dated nowadays kids will certainly deride the superimposed images when abu and the genie are on screen together and the scene with the giant spider looks especially awful although most of the younger generation probably thinks that king kong looks bad at this point in time willis o brien s stop motion animation is a thousand times better than a puppet on a string that doesn t even look remotely like a spider ',
'quite what the producers of this appalling adaptation were trying to do is impossible to fathom br br a group of top quality actors in the main well cast with a couple of notable exceptions who give pretty good performances penelope keith is perfect as aunt louise and equally good is joanna lumley as diana all do well with the scripts they were given br br so much for the good the average would include the sets nancherrow is nothing like the house described in the book although bizarrely the house they use for the dower house looks remarkably like it it is clear then that the dower house is far too big in the later parts the writers decided to bring the entire story back to the uk presumably to save money although with a little imagination i have no doubt they could have recreated ceylon br br now to the bad the screenplay this is such an appallingly bad adaptation is hard to find words to condemn it edward does not die in the battle of britain but survives blinded he makes a brief appearance then commits suicide why loveday has changed from the young woman totally in love with gus to a sensible farmer s wife who can give up the love her life with barely a tear less emotional than brief encounter gus a man besotted and passionately in love is prepared to give up his love without complaint walter mudge in the book turns from a shallow unfaithful husband to a devoted family man jess is made into a psychologically disturbed young woman who won t speak aunt biddy still has a drink problem but now without any justification the dower house is occupied by the army for no obvious reason other than a very short scene with jess who has a fear of armed soldiers whilst miss mortimer s breasts are utterly delightful i could not see how their display on several occasions moved the plot forward the delightfully named nettlebed becomes the mundane dobson the word limit prevents me from continuing the list br br there is a sequel which i lost all interest in watching after this nonsense and i wonder if the changes were made to create the follow on story it is difficult to image that rosamunde pilcher would have approved this grotesque perversion of her book presumably she lost her control when the rights were purchased ',
'this was usually producer alexander korda s advice on set to many of his underlings the film is credited with three directors but in truth alex zoltan korda and william cameron menzies helped out pushing it to six br br for john kobal s book the top movies his survey of film critics saw the thief of bagdad reach th place a closer examination reveals only jose luis guarner john russell taylor and kobal himself actually voted for the picture but their high placings were enough to take it to near the half way mark br br the outbreak of the second world war saw the movie s production shifted around england and america eventually seeing completion in and winning three technical oscars like citizen kane it is in some ways perhaps a film you might admire rather than love br br the special effects outstanding for the time are still reasonable and actually hold up if you squint but it s not so much their effectiveness as the audacity of the inventions among them is an amusing horse constructed out of a kit model which when a key is inserted up it s rear end begins to fly there s also a killer toy of the six armed goddess kali perhaps quite obviously a single woman with two women sitting behind her and a quite horrific looking giant spider also impressing is the climax with its wonderful flying carpet but most memorable has to be rex ingram appearing as in a superb moment of cinematic conceit a djinn genie nearly a thousand feet tall ingram portrays the genie as quite a menacing creature and adds an element of danger to the proceedings and look out for the moment where he s tricked back into his bottle br br john justin does well as the arabic king who for some strange reason has an english accent and a stiff upper lip sabu the astonishingly muscled year old is near namesake abu a likeably cocky thief after they cross paths with the evil jaffer conrad veidt justin finds himself blind and abu is turned into a dog when it seems the rest of the film will be told in flashback through the blind ahmed s justin s perspective we find that halfway through the movie we catch up to the present and the adventure continues in truth the second half is someway the better being full of greater incident and more fantastical in nature br br three small songs pepper the piece though as the film lasts for minutes this feels more like mild flavouring rather than a real ingredient i wouldn t classify this as a musical it s all great fun justin and june duprez are the love interest for the mums and dads veidt is the boo hiss villain and abu is the youthful irrepressible robber it may take a while to get into the somewhat dated mindset and overblown melodrama of s english movies but once you ve sat through the first half an hour or so this film really draws you in quite commendable ',
'being a filmmaker myself and possessing a somewhat dark and subversive sense of humour i thought i was in for a treat when i took home my wrongs not that the dvd cover gives anything away instead opting for the ambiguous quote from controversialist director chris morris a short film including scenes i should have known better really and avoided this insipid and often offensive piece of twoddle br br the scene in the church is repulsive to watch especially since we are all too familiar with morris s warped attitude towards paedophilia from his notorious tv series brass eye and serves no purpose other than to shock how this film is labelled a comedy i will never understand br br the runner s commentary sounds like a novel idea in principle having been a runner myself it s often an interesting and uninhibited perspective on the filmmaking process however this is sadly not the case here instead we are treated to some public schoolboy ranting about dogs on film before concluding that there are no really great movies starring dogs this is all very interesting but not worth a single frame of celluloid br br to say that this film goes nowhere would be an understatement it relies far too heavily upon its heightened style at the expense of plot character and dialogue leaving the viewer strangely perturbed and unfulfilled its over simplified message that man should take responsibility for his actions is both glaringly obvious and poorly illustrated br br the film does have its moments of pseudo kafkaesque surrealism but ultimately it fails to convince to entertain to enlighten and just ends up being irritating if you want to see a really great piece of short filmmaking i strongly recommend franz kafka s it s a wonderful life by peter capaldi ',
'the making of the thief of bagdad is quite a story unto itself almost as wondrous as the tale told in this film alexander korda nearly went broke making this film br br according to the citadel film series book about the great british films adopted son of the united kingdom alexander korda had conceived this film as early as and spent years of planning and preparation but world war ii unfortunately caught up with korda and the mounting expenses of filming a grand spectacle br br budget costs happen in us films too only cecil b demille always had a free hand at paramount after when he returned there but demille nor any of his american contemporaries had to worry about enemy bombs while shooting the film part of the way through the shoot korda transported the whole company to america and shot those sequences with rex ingram as the genie in our grand canyon he certainly wasn t going to get scenery like that in the uk korda also finished the interiors in hollywood all in time for a release on christmas day br br the spectacle of the thing earned the thief of bagdad four academy award nominations and three oscars for best color cinematography best artset direction for a color film and best special effects only miklos rosza s original musical score did not take home a prize in a nominated category korda must have been real happy about deciding to shoot in the grand canyon because it s impossible to get bad color pictures from that place br br the special effects however do not overwhelm the simple story of good triumphing over evil the good is the two young lovers john justin and june duprez and the evil is conrad veidt as the sorcerer who tries to steal both a kingdom and a heart both belonging to duprez this was veidt s career role until casablanca where he played the luftwaffe major stroesser br br of course good gets a little help from an unlikely source beggar boy and thief sabu who may very well have been one of the few who could call himself at the time an international movie star literally rising from poverty working as an elephant stable boy for the maharajah of mysore he was spotted by alexander korda who needed a native lead for one of his jungle features sabu captures all the innocence and mischievousness of youth as he fulfills the arabian nights fantasy of the boy who topples a tyrant not a bad message to be sending out in at that br br the thief of bagdad holds up remarkably well today it s an eternal tale of love romance and adventure in any order you want to put it ',
'simply not the quality i expected from morris love brass eye and blue jam this is very much like a not so bad student film what concerns me in all this is why did it win a bafta morris makes fun of enshrined mediocrity ayn rand in much of his work nathan barley and yet with this piece is urinating down the backs of the talented and telling us its raining br br i just hope as he has chosen a subject i would love to tackle the humanity of terrorism four lions that he isn t going to cock that up wasting the opportunity to make a statement about the farce of mainstream ignorance and opinion on this emotive and heavily spun phenomena ',
'although time has revealed how some of the effects were done this story of love and adventure still is special br br if you ve never seen this film before you ll be shocked at how much has been stolen by later film makers i was watching this with a friend who was amazed at how much disney s aladdin cribbed from the film they loved the movie and enjoyed that it was such a touchstone for so many other films and film makers br br i ve given the film an out of instead of a out of ten which is where a good portion of this film dwells because in the final minutes the film falls apart in the pacing everything is rushed as if they has to suddenly get to the end from the point from the departure of the djinn to the end it appears to be more sketch then finished painting it doesn t kill the film but it does weaken it br br still its required viewing for anyone who loves a good fairy tale or even a great movie ',
'there s nothing wrong with a popcorn movie to keep you off the streets it s just that some are better than others this is very poor the acting is awful the script dire and the special effects overrated br br why does hollywood treat it s audience with such contempt and why have they made a sequel ',
'this was a favorite of my childhood i can remember seeing it on television and thrilling to it each time now that i m grown up and have a kid of my own i wanted to introduce him to this classic movie we watched it last friday and he liked it during abu s fight with the giant spider my son s hand crept over and took hold of mine he was genuinely scared is he gonna beat the spider poppa just watch you ll see he has no historical frame of reference to speak of eight years old so bagdad under the grandson of haroun al raschid might as well be oz under ozma br br i think he especially liked how much of the heroics and derring do were perpetrated by the boy thief and not the grown up king in fact if you deconstruct the film s narrative a bit the king is the thief s sidekick not the hero at all which must be very satisfying to imaginative adventurous young boys br br it s definitely a period piece i suspect that by the time he s eleven or twelve my son will find it corny or whatever word the next generation will be using by then the love story is barely one dimensional as a cynical friend commented why does ahmad love the princess because the narrative demands it the willingness of abu to put himself in jeopardy repeatedly for the clueless love struck deposed king is equally improbable but to quibble about such things while accepting flying mechanical horses fifty foot genies and the temple of the all seeing eye would be fatuous in the extreme the satisfaction of seeing the prophecy fulfilled at the movie s climax is tremendous as is the final shot of abu triumphantly flying away on his stolen magic carpet seeking some fun and adventure at last ',
'one of the major flaws in this film is that while the mocking of pretentious yuppies is satisfying it fails to realize that the movie makers themselves are guilty of being one of those that deserve to be mocked one of the characteristics of these yuppie types is the conceited misunderstanding that they the yuppies are the only ones sophisticated enough to understand art while the movie ignores this characteristic and instead focuses on their misunderstandings of dinning i find it ironic that only people who enjoy this movie boast the same conceited taste in films as the characters do in their choice of dinner if these pompous characters that were in this movie have a video library at home i would bet that american psycho would be one of those movies ',
'i have seen this film several times and watched it today on tcm solely because of geraldine fitzgerald she is a much underrated actress and i have to admit i have had a crush on her since i first saw her probably in wuthering heights or more years ago the real star in this movie however is paul lukas and he deserved all the accolades he got he makes it clear whether we like it or not that the end justifies the means naziism had to be stopped and anything that helped do it was good he gave his children a line about being bad and that they should not be bad but as he said earlier when conversing with adults he would do this sort of thing again without hesitation lukas did give an excellent portrayal of a man caught in this situation and made it clear that what he did was a very hard thing to do br br some people think his victim was a nazi but i don t think so i think he was only after the money his nazi associates knew this and that is why they did not have much use for him br br one interesting point in the film and presumably also in the play is the fact that muller lucas is a german while the anti german hysteria of wwi was not repeated in wwii there was considerable anti german sentiment and some germans were interred similar to what happened in california with people of japanese ancestry it was something of an act of bravery for hellman to write a play about good germans at this time maybe she thought they were the ones who signed the nazi soviet pact after all the us and british air forces were bombing german cities and having no qualms about killing innocent civilians i think however that the dresden bombing and firestorm happened later after watch on the rhine was released br br the title is something of a play on words as the watch is looking west from germany in fact watch am rhein was a german army marching song used in wwii but the nazis had their own marching song that was used as well but muller is a german and he is engaged in his own wach am rhein br br all the other actors did an excellent job here although bodo was too much there are children like him i am surprised he did not give his father s secret away in real life he may very well have done so ',
'this film is one of the most dreadful things i have ever seen br br please do yourselves a favor and avoid this incompetent concoction br br shaking the camera and having your actors adopt scowls does not count as direction which this film needed in droves not that the writing was all the wonderful rather we were left with a bunch of completely artificial characters directed in that most artificial way the pseudo documentary style prized by those who don t know how to direct br br this film gives the impression that it was done cynically to appeal to critics who don t know the first thing about film making which is most of them br br just terrible it says a lot about sundance and what it s become that victor vargas was showcased there ',
'when i read other comment i decided to watch this movie br br first cast specially michael madsen and tamer karadagli good enough br br film very intelligence and interesting because cast have a lot of international specially european actor and actress like from turkey and russsia br br second story is basic and you can guess but if you interesting action good play you ll like in my opinion br br third final chapter is not special or interesting it s regular like other action movies br br finally i recommend to watch this movie and i hope you ll love it enjoy d ',
'without wishing to be a killjoy brad sykes is responsible for at least two of the most dull and clichd films i ve ever seen this being one of them and camp blood being another br br the acting is terrible the print is shoddy and everything about this film screams seriously you could do better yourself maybe this is a challenge to everyone to saturate youtube with our own zombie related crap br br i bought this for but remember you can t put a price on minutes of your life you d do well to avoid this turkey even at a bargain basement price ',
'probably the finest fantasy film ever made sumptuous colour spectacular sets incredible spot on miklos rosza musical score that is perfect for each scene and mood acting is superb as well in what could have been stiff and pretentious in lesser hands but here the poetic dialog is deftly sensitively spoken the humour is subtle and delightful as well br br doubtless spielberg and lucas were enthralled by this one along with the four feathers one of the two finest motion pictures released by alexander korda and london films and one of the finest motion pictures ever made br br a true compelling classic ',
'enough is enough sometimes they just need to stop making movies based on a concept that is long dead the first tremors movie was great the second one was ridiculous the third one was nauseating the tv series was depressingly awful and this movie just drives the stake deeper br br basically another excuse for cheap computer effects and puppetry now we have the series set in the wild west in the s and they fight graboids like a rehash of the first one they have to learn how to beat them all over again mildly entertaining i suppose otherwise this straight to video release just like tremors and is just going way too far oh and i continue to wonder how there is never any record of these events taking place did they just simply forget to record this unprecedented event i think something like this would be history making so our pals in the first film wouldn t be so unprepared br br movies like this that ruin the original just make me crazy avoid this garbage ',
'words can hardly describe it so i ll be brief the thief of bagdad was my favorite movie as a child and it has never ceased to astound or enchant me i loved this film from the first moment i saw it when i was a boy of six who had started reading the arabian nights i remember walking into the tv room in the middle of sabu s battle with the giant spider and being instantly beguiled br br rarely has so much beauty magic and wonder been captured on film sabu and john justin are superb as the dashing heros conrad veidt is throughly delightful as the wicked villain jaffar and rex ingram is a joy to watch as the sardonic genie georges perinal s photography is some of the best use of technicolor one of the three credited directors is michael powell a filmmaker who has been rightfully heralded by the critics but is often overlooked by audiences for his remarkable films including a matter of life and death aka stairway to heaven and the red shoes he is one of the true masters of the camera right up there with david lean akira kurosawa and orson welles br br as with all great works of art the beauty of the thief of bagdad lies in the detail every frame has its own magical charm the story never lags and the characters and their actions are always involving here is a film that will never grow old ',
'dear dear dear dear dear me i had the strength to see it through but why br br the first two films where fun and actually somewhat good but this is so bad we had problems seeing the whole thing this was some kind of tremors for kids i can t believe this movie was made at all seems like the props where taken from some bad western series of some kind for kids and they just did whatever they could with it br br what audience is this movie for i can only think of year olds if you re older than you ll have serious problems with this movie it s not only slow but it s so utterly boring the characters are overacted not just a little either and so stereotyped it s fun for a while but not long enough to not make you want to fling tomatoes at the screen you know everything that is going to happen too cause yes you ve seen it a billion times before in any hero series on tv for kids i picked all the survivors and all the tremor fodder the second the characters got introduced it s so bad so wrong so crap br br but ok we did get a laugh now and then not just at the silly plot holes but some scenes where worth a replay or two or one scene that is where two baby tremors fling themselves at one of the obvious tremor fodder guys it s really a great scene which made us replay it over and over and laugh wholeheartedly still makes me grin when i think about it but that only happened one more time sadly and that s when the badass gunman shows up and overacts his part wonderfully that and one comment they spring from the ground like some demonic trout at this point we where almost crying with laughter but after that nothing could ever top that so it s pretty much downhill from there br br so tops here are demonic trouts and overacting if anybody ever tells you this is a good movie he s either a plant vegetable or someone very evil this movie has got to be the worst of the tremors by far looking forward to seeing tremors it s bound to be box office hit compared to this this goosebumps no i ll leave it at that ',
'i first saw thief as a child which makes me almost as old as the jinn i guess as any kid would be i was delighted with the imagination inventiveness and energy of the film several years later i realized how much of the satire and wit of the script i had missed on that first viewing i have never passed up an opportunity to watch it throughout the intervening years in addition to the script the production transcends the fantasy genre this is korda the storyteller at his very best when you see thief as a child you know that youve had a great time when you see thief as an adult you know that youve seen a masterpiece its as timeless as the story it treats an amazing work br br thomas mccarthy ',
'well tremors i the original started off in and i found the movie quite enjoyable to watch however they proceeded to make tremors ii and iii trust me those movies started going downhill right after they finished the first one i mean ass blasters now only god himself is capable of answering the question why in gods name would they create another one of these dumpster dives of a movie tremors iv cannot be considered a bad movie in fact it cannot be even considered an epitome of a bad movie for it lives up to more than that as i attempted to sit though it i noticed that my eyes started to bleed and i hoped profusely that the little girl from the ring would crawl through the tv and kill me did they really think that dressing the people who had stared in the other movies up as though they we re from the wild west would make the movie with the exact same occurrences any better honestly i would never suggest buying this movie i mean there are cheaper ways to find things that burn well ',
'this is an oriental fantasy about thousand and one arabian nights plenty of incredible adventures fantasy witchery and wizardly the malignant vizier jaffar magnificently played by conrad veidt with powerful magic faculties imprisons the prince ahamad of bagdad attractive john justin who loses his throne then he escapes thanks a little thief named abu sympathetic sabu they arrive basora where ahamad and the princess gorgeous june duprez fall in love but prince and thief are haunted by jaffar ahamd is turned blind and abu is become a dog the story accumulates several fantastic ingredients such as transformation of the starring a flying mechanic horse magic bow flying carpet and of course the colossal genie overacting performed by rex ingram who gives three wishes to sabu the magic eye the figure of goddess kali with several hands among others br br this remarkable picture ranks as one of the finest fantastic films of all time produced by london fim s alexander korda and directed by the definitively credited ludwing berger michael powell and tim whelan with a stunning screenplay by lajos biro and miles malleson also dialogs writer and actor as sultan fond to mechanic games the wwii outbreak caused the paralyzing shooting then the three korda brothers and collaborators traveled usa continuing there the filming in especial on grand cannon colorado the splendid visual and glimmer technicolor cinematography setting and fx provoked the achieving three oscars production design by william cameron menzies and vincent korda cinematography by george perinal and special effects by osmond borradaile though today are dated and is urgent a necessary remastering because the colors are worn out furthermore one nomination for the evocative and oriental musical score by miklos rozsa this vivid tale with immense doses of imagination will like to fantasy fans and cinema classic buffs ',
'just a few words this movie really sucks it s like those tv movies with bad cast and plot it s amazing how they could make this sequel worse than the iii don t waste your time watching this crap even if you like the tremors movies ',
'despite having different directors this fantasy hangs together remarkably well br br it was filmed in england nowhere near morocco in studios and on a few beaches at the outbreak of war everything was moved to america and some scenes were filmed in the grand canyon br br notable for having one of the corniest lyrics in a song i want to be a bandit can t you understand it it remains a favourite of many people ',
'this the direct to video death rattle of the tremors series features sixty inspired seconds sawblade you ll know it when you see it and more tedium and filler than you can shake a stick at tremors was obviously shot on a cripplingly low budget that means they only had enough special effects mojo for three or four minutes of precious worm on human violence tops the lackluster cliche spouting cast and hackneyed writing ensure that the remaining hour and a half of the tremors experience feels at least fifteen thousand years long only hardcore tremors fans will be able to sit through much less enjoy this film if you aren t among them don t bother ',
'this film was one of my childhood favorites and i must say that unlike some other films i liked in that period the thief of bagdad has held on to it s quality while i grew up this is not merely a film to be enjoyed by children it can be watched and enjoyed by adults as well the only drawback there is is that one can not see past the bad effects compared to the effects nowadays like one could when one was a child i remembered nothing of those effects of course it had been about ten years since i d seen this film when i was about eleven years old who then watches effects one only seeks good stories and entertainment and this is exactly what this film provides in my mind this film is one of the first great adventure films of the th century coming to think of it i feel like the indiana jones films are quite a like this film there is comedy romance and adventure all in one which creates a wonderful mixture that will capture you from the beginning until the end and although the film is old and the music and style of the films is clearly not modern it succeeds in not being dusty and old all of that is mainly due to the great story the good directing and the good acting performances of the actors in that department sabu as abu and conrad veidt as jaffar stand out providing the comedic and the chilling elements of the film for the most part great film and although an oldie definitely a goldie i hope someone has the brain and guts to release this one on dvd someday br br out of ',
'the fourth tremors feature goes back in time to the year the legend begins in the small city of perfection which was then rejection nevada as the story begins seventeen miners are killed by the ghastly graboids some of the characters in the present day tremors films have ancestors both figurative and literal in the past most obvious is the ever returning michael gross as hiram gummer unlike his descendant mr gross is inept with firearms so he hires gunslinger billy drago as black hand kelly to shoot em up some dirt dragons br br this one takes some getting used to as it takes place in the distant past it s like a western with miniature versions of the original film s monster graboids these tamer dirt dragons are nowhere near as terrorizing as their tremors counterparts consequently in this film the characters spend an awful lot of time on the ground which would not have happened in the original movie and it was weird to have the citizens give up the fight so quickly when gross temporarily decides to leave town why so helpless why didn t brent roam as juan pedilla immediately rally the people to fight without gross disappointing br br tremors the legend begins s s wilson michael gross brent roam billy drago ',
'abu the thief of bagdad helps king ahmed regain his kingdom from a wicked sorcerer br br as europe was going to war and significant sections of the world was going up in flames sir alexander korda s london films unveiled this lavish escapist fare from the legends of the arabian nights replete with swords sorcery it gave audiences in a short respite from the headlines it also is a fine piece of film making featuring good acting and an intelligent script br br conrad veidt gets top billing and he deserves it playing the evil magician jaffar his saturnine face with its piercing eyes makes one recall the macabre roles he played with such relish during silent days here is a villain worth watching as the boyish thief sabu is perfectly cast in this his third film while not a hero in the typical sense of the word his character is certainly heroic in deed action br br the rest of the cast do fine work john justin is both energetic sensitive as the unenlightened king who must learn about the realities of live the hard way sabu gets a significant part of the action when he s not transformed into a dog but justin is appropriately athletic when needs must lovely june duprez plays the endangered princess of basra coveted by two very different men appearing late in the film massive rex ingram shakes things up as a genie with an attitude br br allan jeayes uses his fine voice to good advantage as the storyteller miles malleson gets another eccentric role as the childlike sultan of basra forever dithering on about his mechanical toys malleson was also responsible for the film s screen play dialogue aged morton selten portrays the benevolent king of legend mary morris later an exceptional stage actress plays the dual roles of jaffar s accomplice and the six armed silver dancer br br the film was begun in britain but wartime difficulties made korda move it to southern california which probably explains the presence of american ingram in the cast the art direction in vibrant technicolor is most attractive especially the fairy tale architecture in blues whites pinks br br br br born sabu dastagir in sabu was employed in the maharaja of mysore s stables when he was discovered by korda s company and set before the cameras his first four films elephant boy the drum the thief of bagdad jungle book were his best and he found himself working out of hollywood when they were completed after distinguished military service in world war ii he resumed his film career but he became endlessly confined for years playing ethnic roles in undistinguished minor films black narcissus being the one great exception his final movie walt disney s a tiger walks was an improvement but it was too late sabu had died of a heart attack in late only years of age ',
'warning this review contains minor spoilers br br well the writers of the first tremors are officially out of ideas i m a big fan of the first movie and the first two sequels are pretty good for straight to video fare tremors the legends begins however is a very dull movie where the heck are the graboids br br due to the relative lack of graboids through the first minutes i m convinced that this entry into the series is suppose to be a character study unfortunately there isn t one interesting character in the movie except for billy drago s character who is given too few lines too little to do and in the end too little screen time what saved the nd and rd movies was the presence of michael gross as burt gummer whenever there wasn t any action on the screen you could rest assured that burt gummer was going to be interesting to listen too and or watch however in this movie gross plays hiram gummer a very poor and boring substitute br br on the plus side when the graboids dirt dragons in this movie are on the screen they do look good but that is about as good as it gets br br i was impressed when i saw that tremors was listed at minutes long pretty good for straight to video but after watching it i m sure that this movie is a good minutes too long there are long stretches of dialogue that is boring and doesn t further the plot any was there a rush to get this movie made i think not more time could have and should have been spent on the script br br i thought i had hit a gold mine when i saw tremors packaged for sale with tremors what luck i thought pay for get for free well after watching tremors i like to think i paid for the original and got this mess for free i can t imagine paying a single dime for tremors for fans of the series it s best to forget that tremors the legend begins even exists br br tremors the legend begins rates a out of ',
'the story line of the thief of bagdad is complex owing to its being told in flashbacks and having three separate and equally important strands woven together the screenplay by lajo biros and the dialogue by miles malleson keep the story moving skillfully at all points the young king ahmad of bagdad is angry at his vizier jaffar for executing a man for having different ideas he discovers while in disguise that people blame him for jaffar s deeds and hate him he is imprisoned by jaffar where he meets abu the young thief the two escape and take a boat to the city of basra there the companions spy when men clear the way so none will see the princess of the city passing by ahmad falls in love with her and visits her in her garden he tells her he has come to her from beyond time and wins a kiss then he is captured when jaffar comes to win the princess of basra for himself ahmad attacks the evil vizier who blinds him and turns abu into a dog jaffar then asks for the princess s hand and he gives the gift of a mechanical flying horse to the sultan of basra the blind ahmad then tells his tale in the marketplace accompanied by abu as his dog the prince has fallen into a sleep and nothing can wake her so jaffar sends his servant halima for ahmad and the dog in hopes the prince can rouse her he does awaken her she boards a ship to find a doctor to cure ahmad but she is captured by jaffar who then throws the dog overboard she then allows jaffar to take her in his arms on his promise to restore ahmad s sight and turn abu back into a thief the princess sees a vision of ahmad he is in a boat jaffar sends a storm to beset him and abu is shipwrecked on a deserted island abu finds a genie or djinn who wants to kill him now that he is free after many centuries spent imprisoned in a bottle abu tricks him into proving he really came from so small a vessel then corks him in again for freeing him he gets three wishes his first is for sausages in the meanwhile the princess pleads with her father to refuse jaffar but jaffar shows the sultan a new mechanical toy one of whose six arms stabs him to death abu makes a second wish to find ahmad the cunning genie flies him to the goddess of the all seeing eye abu has to climb a great web to get to the gem that is the eye battling a giant spider then scaling the goddess s statue abu gazes into the eye and sees ahmad in a canyon he has the genie take him to ahmad ahmad uses the eye to see the princess she smells a flower and forgets everything at once abu wishes they were in bagdad but the genie laughs and leaves jaffar tells the princess that she is in love with him omitting mention of ahmad ahmad tries to fight his way to the princess but jaffar smashes the eye abu finds himself in the land of legend where the old men who rule want to make him their king he steals a bow and a magic carpet and escapes instead to hurry to save ahmad and the princess the thief arrives in time to save the young king from the executioner using his bow from the flying carpet to the wonder of the throng who had come to watch the execution jaffar tries to flee on the mechanical flying horse but another shot from the bow finishes him ahmad is ruler again and plans to wed his princess but when he tries to make abu his vizier the young thief refuses saying that what he wants is adventure not hard work and confinement in a palace however grand it may be this fantastic story was given a sumptuous production by producer alexander korda the production was designed by vincent korda who was also art director while georges perinal did the colorful cinematography the directors credited are ludwig berger and michael powell with tim whelan alexander korda william cameron menzies and zoltan korda participating the extraordinary and numerous costumes designs were the work of john armstrong oliver messel and marcel vertes the production apart from its gorgeous and expensive looking visual splendors i claim is dominated by two other elements the choral music of miklos rozsa and the performance by conrad veidt as the evil jaffar rex ingram plays the genie with a curious accent plus his usual intelligence and power june duprez is lovely and effective as the princess mary morris is a sad and beautiful halima and miles malleson a properly bumbling and avaricious sultan as ahmad john justin appears to do most of what can be done with the part of a young prince in love and then some he is memorably good in his winning role this film has a spaciousness about it that is found i assert in other korda works also its imaginative content stands in contrast to very strong realistic sets costumes and set design elements this is one of the most memorable idea level fantasies of all time worthy to be enjoyed over and over ',
'i found tremors the legend begins to be dull and boring all the action scenes were stupid the so called graboids are reduced to the size of a modern day house cat if not smaller the acting was horrendous and this film was just an unnecessary movie in the tremor saga because even though it tells the story of how the graboids were formed the story is so dumb and useless also if you want to tell a story way back in time make sure you use the same actor michael gross to be someone in the past when he s someone in the present in the other tremor movies geez if you haven t seen this film don t waste your time stick to tremors and for a good time this film however make sure you re remote is sitting right next to you with the stop button working for a quick retreat away from this nonsense ',
'i first saw this movie when i was a little kid and fell in love with it at once the sets are breath taking and some of the script is damn right hilarious you sons of a thousand fleas br br it is always shown on tv late at night or really early in the morning i woke up at about am once and it had just started tv companys need to show a little more respect and put it on prime time sunday so everyone can get a chance to view this fine work br br ',
'if fassbinder has made a worse film i sure don t want to see it anyone who complains that his films are too talky and claustrophobic should be forced to view this to learn to appreciate the more spare style he opted for in excellent films like the bitter tears of petra von kant this film bogs down with so much arty quasi symbolic images it looks like a parody of an art film the scene in the slaughterhouse and the scene where elvira s prostitute friend channel surfs for what seems like ten minutes are just two of the most glaring examples of what makes this film a real test of the viewer s endurance but what really angers me about it are the few scenes which feature just elvira and her ex wife and or her daughter these are the only moments that display any real human emotion and prove that at the core of this horrible film there was an excellent film struggling to free itself what a waste ',
' the movie tells the tale of a prince whose life is wonderful but after an evil wizard tells him to go into town disguised as a beggar the wizard then locks up the prince and soon becomes the shadow ruler of baghdad the jailed prince meets a thief called abu who helps him escape the jail and head to a town called basra where he meets a princess who he falls madly in love with but unbeknown to him the evil wizard jafa is also in love with the princess and tries to convince her father to allow him to marry her jafa soon learns that the prince is trying to win the girls heart so he makes him blind and turns abu into a dog this leads to the prince and abu going off on an adventure to find a way to defeat jafa restore peace to baghdad and marry the princess during their journey they encounter everything from sarcastic genies that takes abu on a flight through the clouds a giant spider that s really hungry and a flying horse that probably gives birth to one of the most beautiful sequence these old eyes of mine have ever seen br br this is a pure fantasy movie from start to finish it has flying horses genies flying carpets and wizards that can actually do magic instead of just hit people with their staffs it doesn t have any cheesy moments and the love story isn t a waste of time the production designs are just stunning in this movie from the palaces to the different dangerous traps that the heroes encounter even though this movie is over years old the production design is far better than most of the crap that gets tacked on in today s cinema the music and songs are also well done anyone who sees it will no doubt hail i want to be a sailor sailing on the seas as one of the great musical moments in movies i m usually not a huge fan of singing in movies since i find them about as enjoyable as doing my taxes but i ll be more than happy to make an exception for this movie br br what sells the movie for me is the sheer fact that you get to see things you don t see in everyday life which is also the same reason why i love stuff like two towers and silent hill way before today s modern fantasy movie came along with their realistic cgi to blow our minds there was this movie which blew your mind without having green screen scattered all over the place one of my favorite shots in two towers is the one where we see the trolls opening the black gates the main appeal of that shot for me was seeing these great fantasy beings doing what is essentially manual labor and that s what i love about the genie and other creatures in the movie they re just there trying to make a living just like everyone else which gives them a real feel even though they re all just fantasy beings br br it s literally impossible to watch this movie and not notice where the makers of aladdin got their inspiration the characters from this movie are pretty much the same characters in that movie from the talkative genie right down to the flying carpet it s not an entirely bad thing in my eyes since it s nice to know that i m not the only one on the planet that has a deep passionate love for this amazing movie i first saw this as a kid in the motherland and thought it was the greatest thing in the world and upon watching it again last week i still think it s amazing that s a true testament that a great movie can withstand the test of time sure the effects look a wee bit outdated and cheesy but it was made way back in the s so give it a break not everything looks outdated though since most of the stuff can still hold its own today when scrutinized under today s standard br br if you ever wanted to see a live action version of aladdin then you should get your wish with this but the angry cynical bunch will probably do good in avoiding this since this won t be their cup of tea ',
'as if the storyline wasn t depressing enough this movie shows cows being butchered graphically in a slaughterhouse for all of five minutes while the protagonist is narrating her early life as a butcher weird stuff then there s the core premise of the hero heroine who goes and cuts his dick off because a he s besot ten with at work says he would have gone with him if he was a girl is this person a psycho a masochist just a doomed queen who takes things too far and what sort of traumatic childhood did he have just that he didn t get adopted and had to live it out with nuns who at first loved him and then later hated him because he was unruly he tries to explain to us the reasons he did what he did but it s really really so hard to empathize such sad and unusual self destruction was it supposed to be funny what was it all about really ',
'outstanding film of with paul lukas giving an oscar calibrated performance as the head of his family bringing them back to america from europe as the nazi menace deepened br br the usual terrific bette davis maintains her reputation here and for a change was not nominated for best actress for this or any film of br br encounting treachery around them lukas successfully deals with the situation he knows he must return to europe on a clandestine mission and return he does br br davis again pulls out all the stops with a katharine hepburn like shedding of tears when they must part resolute she knows that her older son must follow him on his path to liberty br br a wonderful film highlighting american positive propaganda against a wicked foe ',
'i can t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long long time br br in a no budget way it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck br br this film should be avoided at all costs it s one of those festival films that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it different therefore good br br bad film making is not different it s just bad film making ',
'the thief of baghdad is one of my ten all time favorite movies it is exciting without gore it is beautifully filmed and the art direction is flawless the casting couldn t have been better rex ingram made me believe in genies and the epitome of evil is certainly captured by conrad veight as jafar he set the bar very high br br i watch this movie at least twice a year and never tire of it this film is an adventure for all ages no one too old to enjoy it the thief of bahgdad jogs my memories to a more innocent time i was ten years old the first time i saw it and the u s was just about to enter wwii conrad vieght was such a great actor that he was able to continue this underlying evilness a few years later in casablanca and korda teamed up i believe with justin and dupree again in the four feathers great film making ',
'this is a confused and incoherent mess of interminable scenes of boring dialogues and monologues that is no exaggeration you have to make a tremendous effort to even try to become involved with it br br i sincerely thought fassbinder would make something interesting in order to tell why does erwin elvira suicides at the end but instead of this in every scene somebody is trying to explain when he was young this happened and he just came back from casablanca and ordered to cut everything down there etc br br soon in the movie erwin elvira is in a slaughter house talking with a friend prostitute certainly a slaughter house is the best place for a pleasant little chat and while telling her the story of elvira s life fassbinder shows the killing of one cow after the other it is difficult to choose between giving attention to the disturbing images or what the transvestite is saying of course we come to the very forced and coarse symbolism of i have suffered much in my life and am about to die br br in one of the sparse moments where actually happens something erwin elvira encounters a former lover that only after performing a extremely gay choreography with two other guys as if going for the necessary level of homosexuality is that he recognizes elvira br br there are some interesting shots and ideas i must admit such as when the nun tells the story of the young erwin but everything on the movie is wasted due to fassbinder s self indulgence ',
'an utterly beautiful film one of a handful of i saw when young that entranced me then and still do in thief s case the impression actually seems to get better with the passing of time by the s my daughter and i had seen it many times on tv but still went to the pictures when it came to the local art house cinema when it had finished we came out starry eyed with heads full of poetry and miklos rozsa s stirring music wishing it could have lasted a couple of hours longer and thinking what a beautiful world it suddenly was again br br idealistic prince ahmad wants to slum it amongst his people for a while to check things out but evil vizier jaffar takes his chance to imprison him and seize the throne after escaping with a little thief played by sabu ahmad spots a princess and they fall blindingly in love along the way they have many adventures although apparently not enough for sabu and love not only conquers but annihilates everything the special effects must have been mesmerising in but time has taken its toll and lessened their impact especially since digital cartoonery has taken over even live action but they still hold up well compared against films like superman from years later anyway if i m requested to suspend disbelief in gargantuan guffawing genies flying horses and carpets i also suspend disbelief in perfect special effects favourite bits the dreamy scene in the sunlit garden when ahmad reveals himself and adelaide hall s suitably romantic song the stunning colours in the tent in the land of legend in fact the stunning colours throughout sabu and rozsa s triumphant but still wistful finale conrad veidt played the baddie in two of the most incredible movie romances ever this and casablanca and then died john justin and june duprez were great in the leading roles of lovers both of them slightly and refreshingly stilted but the parts didn t call for a huge range of emotions only pure love mattered br br there s a couple of mildly violent images in it but rest assured this is a glorious feelgood experience with a positive message it s only a pity that nowadays little kids don t watch this instead of the porn they prefer one of my top film favourites i can t recommend this too much may it be shown to the end of time ',
'it s funny i ve seen a bunch of fassbinder films and i have found some to be extremely creative and interesting while others are repellent and self indulgent messes like this film for me it ranges from great to crap without much in the middle i know he has a lot of fans among the sophisticated but i can t help but think that a lot of his appeal is pure hype from my point of view and i know i will get a lot of negative ratings for this he made too many movies too quickly and was too self indulgent his gay or gender bending films like this one tend to be really bad sloppily done sometimes quite boring such as querelle and the bitter tears of petra von kant and sometimes just gross like this film couldn t his message about acceptance of a person s gender confusion be handled better than showing him get slapped around or watching cows being gruesomely slaughtered show some sensitivity for the subject matter and make your characters more human and sympathetic then maybe i d care about the films br br i m honestly at the point after watching this film that i might not bother with any more fassbinder films the bad seems to be out weighing the good ',
'the thief of bagdad is a treasure first and foremost it is a good story though my four children s primary exposure to this tale the most famous of the stories of the arabian nights comes from the disney corporation the thief of bagdad held their interest to the end the story moves along at a good pace and includes a twist or two that reduced predictability sabu who plays the young thief abu also measures up to any of today s teen actors in appeal judging from the number of times i heard my oldest daughter say he s c u t e br br in the film won oscars for cinematography and special effects today of course those effects seem very dated look it s barbie flying through the air declared my daughter at the sight of the genie flying yet they fit into the story well the film is after all over years old the effects fit with the script furthermore what ones sees in the thief of bagdad remained pretty much state of the art for the next twenty five years one need only compare the opening montage from a star trek episode to see this in that it was quite an achievement br br this qualifies as a family film though there are a few stabbings near the end the acting is so obvious and the wounds so bloodless as to those scenes nearly as artificial as animation br br all in all a fun film worth watching for either an evening of pure entertainment or for the historical value of the effects i recommend it ',
'this film is in the mandingo drum type br br they were both dreadful but they are better than this tripe br br badly acted made oliver reed is the main name eartha kitt also is in it tis a pity rating is about as low as yu can get br br as always br br jay harris ',
'i grew up with this as my all time favorite film the special effects are incredible for the era and won awards i can remember the dialogue as if i d heard it yesterday it is simply a great timeless adventure the music is by miklos rosza who is cinema history s best sabu is the thief conrad veidt is the grand villain i have a copy within reach for the next trip down memory lane whoa there rex ingram wants out of his genii bottle ',
'there are no reasons to watch this movie should you have won and extreme amount of money and having spent your time discovering life s every pleasure and have come to a point where by chance you are at a loose end and have some time to kill like that would ever happen then get this movie from the video shop if you can find it and put up with the assistant laughing at you then ask for this movie be prepared however for you mind to be invaded by extremely wooden acting by absolutely everyone in fact the best acting was by the people who said nothing oliver reed tops off his grand career by playing a drunk go figure but wait i forgot there is one reason to watch this movie claudia udy showing her chest sadly no other reason than that ',
'i first discovered alexander korda s fantasy the thief of bagdad in the early s on a re issue billed as the wonder show of the century both korda technicolor films the thief of bagdad and jungle book were shown on one never to be forgotten program the music of miklos rozsa enhanced both films the technicolor in each was incredibly beautiful the thief of bagdad has remained on my list as the best fantasy film ever made as the years passed it became more difficult to enjoy the film s color in the way it had originally been presented in true technicolor gave way to a eastman color process in the middle s both kino and samuel goldwyn reissued the film both theatrically and on video but the eastman color prints were more pastel in nature and muted the vibrancy of the original technicolor the laser disc release of this title also has the pastel look to it nice but not as it should be now comes the m g m dvd dec issue the thief of bagdad again has the wonderful technicolor look to it on a dvd that is nothing short of stunning it was so exciting to see it like this once again that after viewing the dvd once i watched it a second time the only extras are a spanish dubbed version sub titles in both english spanish and a beautifully done original theatrical trailer thank you m g m for this exceptional dvd release now one can only hope that korda s four feathers and a restored version of korda s jungle book to replace to poor public domain prints in circulation will soon follow on dvd ',
'this is an extremely silly and little seen film about slavery in the west indies and it stars puddy from the seinfeld show patrick warburton made his film debut in this contrived movie and he s noticeably slimmer here oliver reed got top billing but he s hardly in the film at all warburton plays a white slave and its funny to see all the young and horny wives of rich old men bidding on him because they all want to have sex with him eartha kitt plays an owner of a bordello and they re is so much nudity in the film if its not drunken orgies at the bordello then its the young wives having they re turn with him then of course towards the end the slaves revolt and there s the bloody standoff no real political message like the film burn but just another contrived plot device to move the story along incredibly they made a sequel and warburton and all the rest of the cast came back i hope they got paid a lot of dough because this first film is pretty bad the nudity keeps it watchable and warburton s lack of any accent make it at times laughable very bad film but i got to admit that i want to see the sequel ',
'three flash backs introduce the main characters abu jaffar and the princess who will interact with ahmad three are the songs each linked to those same characters three times does ahmad pronounce the absolute word time in his declaration of love to the princess answering her three questions at their first of three meetings so strong is the impression he causes that the princess will resist the three attempts by jaffar to conquer her by three successive ploys deceit hypnosis and memory erasing yet jaffar owns what he describes as the three inescapable instruments of domination over a woman the whip the power and the sword three is the number of flying entities the mechanical horse the genie and the the genie and the magic carpet the genie offers three wishes to abu at their first of three encounters three times does the genie laugh loud in the mountain gorges and three are his considerations about human frailty before he departs abu overcomes three obstacles in the temple of dawn armed guards giant spider and giant octopus three are the instruments of justice the magical eye that shows abu the future the magical carpet that transports him just in time to save ahmad and the princess and the bow and arrow to execute jaffar there s magic in the number three and there is magic in this movie ',
' stars out of a possible and that is being overly generous br br i thought with a cast of james woods cathy bates randy quaid lou gossett jr and henry thomas how could it miss i was wrong br br i can only wonder what drugs sam shepard was on the week end he cranked out this piece of dribble i d long suspected sam s of being kind of nuts this film based on his play confirms it br br this is the kind of artsy b s that actors love to sink their teeth into as it gives them a chance to endlessly emote however for the viewer who sits through this nonsensical trash there is absolutely nothing to love about this movie br br you haven t seen dysfunctional families until you ve seen this bunch pa is crazy ma is crazy the son is crazy and the daughter is oh yeah crazy they also have mouths on them that utter words that would make a sailor blush especially the teenage daughter br br in addition to the above as if that weren t enough the plot and it s so thin you could read thorough it has a hole in it the size of alaska br br ma is conspiring to sell their rundown farm as it turns out so is pa now i don t claim to be a real estate expert but the last time i checked property jointly owned must have both of the owners signatures in order to be sold if only one of them owned the property then the other could not legally sell it so it would be pointless for that person to do so mr shepherd prefers to ignore this basic fact and therefore his plot does not work br br not that anything else was really working anyway br br the only possible reason anyone could have for watching this film is if they are absolutely desperate to see james woods in full frontal nudity and i can t imagine why anyone would want to ',
'like the arabian nights this film plays with storytelling conventions in order to make us feel that there s plot plot and more plot it opens with what appears to be the frame device of a blind man telling the story of his life then plunges into a flashback which takes us right up to the blind man s present where we discover that about half of the story is yet to come it must be admitted that the second half doesn t quite live up to the promise of the first like the arabian nights it tries to cram as many middle eastern folk motiffs as possible into the one work a freed genie a beautiful princess a flying carpet fantastic mechanical toys sea voyages a crowded marketplace a wicked vizier jewels i don t know why it all works but it does everything is just so beautiful the sets are beautiful june duprez is beautiful rozsa s score is especially beautiful as usual it sounds hungarian but somehow he manages to convince us that he s being hungarian in a persian way ',
'before seeing this movie i would ve said that i loved everything kathy bates has done now it s everything minus one james woods is pathetic not his character his acting someone should ve told him that poor is not synonymous with dirty nor ignorant nor cliche ditto for randy quaid s stereotyping the only redeeming feature is henry thomas who isn t a strong enough actor to carry this sodden mess if you enjoy the country you ll enjoy the scenery that s the best i can give it br br i m a serious fan of both independent and quirky films but this is simply terrible ',
' the thief of bagdad is impressive in the shape of the evil magician jaffar conrad veidt he plots with lies and magic spells to obtain the kingdom from its rightful ruler the young king ahmad and a gorgeous princess from her father br br he falls victim in the end as all tyrants do in books and legends to love and of the common man whom he ignored here embodied by the little thief sabu br br the armies of good and evil black and white are superbly realized in both visual and literary terms br br the script is poetic simply and very beautiful the costumes of the magician and his men rising and falling like the wings of black birds attacking suddenly in the night to inflict destruction and create terror br br the radiant hero wears white turbans and robes and his princess is dressed in pinks and pale blues br br for spectacular scenes it matched all that had gone before while through its use of color it brought to life a world such as had not seemed possible before br br with flying carpet and flying white horse with a giant genie excellently played by rex ingram with evil wizards and with the good acting of sabu and veidt the thief of bagdad captures the quality and true atmosphere of the arabian nights br br the version remains the screen s finest fairy tale ',
'this would ve been a great silent film the acting really is good at least in a look ma i m doing really big acting sort of way br br everything is huge every line is profound every scene is shattered by human tragedy br br mostly i felt like gagging yet like any train wreck i couldn t tear my eyes away this dialogue might ve worked on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it was cluttered haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work br br if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping doses you might enjoy the movie be prepared to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plods along at its own pace br br this script must ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves it simply doesn t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera br br imdb does us a great disservice at times when it uses its goofy computer controlled weighted score curse of the starving class deserves less than a br br character driven fiction is great but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isn t character development your characters must have a motivation being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is not character development that s a plot contrivance br br stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it muted perhaps you ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do br br oh and word to the wise to prove that this is truly an artsy film you see james woods in all his dangly male look at me i m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of man glory br br don t say you weren t warned ',
'the story of the boy thief of bagdad as it was once spelled has attracted filmmakers from raoul walsh in who starred douglas fairbanks in the first silent rendering of thief of bagdad to less imposing more recent attempts the best however remains s version which for its time was a startling magical panoply of top quality special effects those effects still work their charm br br no less than six directors are listed for the technicolor movie which starred sabu as the boy thief abu john justin as the dreamily in love deposed monarch ahmad and june duprez as the lovely princess sought by ahmad and pursued by the evil vizier jaffar played by a sinister conrad veidt the giant genie is ably acted by rex ingram br br ahmad is treacherously deposed by jaffar and when later arrested by that traitorous serpent he and the boy abu suffer what are clearly incapacitating fates ahmad is rendered blind and abu becomes a lovable mutt their adventures through the gaily decorated hollywood backlots are fun but the special effects make this film work br br two men were responsible for everything from a magic flying carpet to the gargantuan genie who pops out of a bottle with a tornado like black swirl lawrence w butler and tom howard howard incidentally did the special effects for the version of this film both men had long and distinguished careers in technical wizardry br br duprez is outstandingly lovely while little called on for serious acting justin s ahmad projects a driven but dreamy romanticism untouched by erotic impulses sabu is really the central actor in many scenes and he s very good for a movie meant for kids as well as adults there s a fair amount of violence but of the bloodless kind still i don t think anyone under eight ought to see thief of bagdad br br this film makes periodic appearances on tv but today my teenage son and i saw it in a theater with quite a few youngsters present it was great to see computer besotted kids in an affluent community respond with cheers and applause to special effects that must seem primitive to them br br thief of bagdad is a pre war hollywood classic from a time when strong production values often resulted in enduringly attractive and important releases this is one of the best of its kind br br ',
'this is not a children s movie br br this movie is like a bad acid trip for kids under the age of for a month my year old from time to time would ask me why was that rabbit bleeding from its mouth or why did the bulldozer bury all the rabbits and that wasn t the worst of it we stopped it about a hour in but the damage had been done intensely morbid oppressive violent fortunately he s finally forgotten about the whole wretched thing whomever decided this movie should be marketed to children should be brought up on charges go ahead censure me my conscience is clear ',
'i have to agree with mr caruso jr lanza s was the finest voice god had to offer if only he could have found the courage to go for broke leave hollywood and head for the opera he could have been the american caruso everyone says he could have been but in any case he is a fantastic introduction to the art form no bones about it and if thats the way its gonna be so be it see the film you ll see why mr lanza still come up in discussion even in my house someone says pavarotti i say mario lanza as for the film itself when will it be on dvd they must have it restored and vhs isn t good enough but this should also be the only lanza film put on dvd the others are down right bad and boring ',
'probable reasons why so many people on this site have enjoyed this br br they might not have read the book they might enjoy gore and violence in a film they might be very young and therefore not understand the violence people might not understand how somehow more scary and more violent it is compared to the original book there are sure to be many other reasons not covered here br br the only thing i liked about this film is the song bright eyes br br if perchance you happen to be one of those people who has read the book enjoys calm and peaceful films without violence and are quite old and understand scariness and violence you are sure not to like this otherwise you will almost definitely enjoy this br br like in the book a rabbit called fiver in an unsuspecting warren warns of terrible danger to come only a few rabbits including his brother hazel believe him and they set out on a dangerous journey to find a new place to live ',
'watch on the rhine started as a broadway play by lillian hellman who wrote the film and saw it open on broadway at a time when the soviet union was still bound to nazi germany by that infamous non aggression pact signed in august of so much for the fact that hellman was merely echoing the communist party line the line didn t change until a couple of months later lillian was actually months ahead of her time with this work br br the play watch on the rhine ran from april to february for performances and five players came over from broadway to repeat their roles frank wilson as the butler eric roberts as the youngest son lucile watson as the family matriarch and most importantly villain george coulouris and paul lukas br br lukas pulled an award hat trick in winning an oscar a golden globe and the new york film critics for best actor probably if the tony awards had been in existence then he would have won that as well the oscar is even more remarkable when you consider who he was up against humphrey bogart for casablanca gary cooper in for whom the bell tolls mickey rooney in the human comedy and walter pidgeon for madame curie every one of his competitors was a bigger box office movie name than he was lukas s nomination is usually the kind the academy gives to round out a field br br jack warner knew that which is why mady christians did not repeat her broadway part and the role of lukas s wife was given to bette davis davis took the part not because this was an especially showy role for her but because she believed in the picture and just wanted to be associated with it it s the same reason she did the man who came to dinner a much lighter play than this one br br davis is the daughter of a late american supreme court justice who married a german national back in the weimar days after many years of being vagabonds on the continent of europe davis lukas and their three children come to america which has not yet entered the european war they re made welcome by lucile watson who is thrilled naturally at finally meeting her grandchildren br br the fly in this ointment are some other house guests a friend of davis s from bygone days geraldine fitzgerald and her husband who is also from europe a rumanian diplomat and aristocrat george coulouris coulouris is a wastrel and a spendthrift and he smells an opportunity for double dealing when he suspects lukas s anti fascist background br br his suspicions are quite correct it s the reason that the family has been the vagabonds they ve become lukas fought in spain on the republican side and was wounded there his health has not been the same since his family loyally supports him in whatever decision he makes those decisions affect all the other members of the cast br br adding quite a bit more to the broadway play including some lovely fascist creatures was dashiell hammett who was lillian hellman s significant other coulouris playing cards at the german embassy was a hammett creation with such loathsome types as henry daniell kurt katch clyde fillmore erwin kalser and rudolph anders br br coulouris is truly one of the most despicable characters ever brought to screen as the no account runmanian count he was a metaphor for his own country who embraced the nazis with gusto and then equally repudiated them without losing a step after stalingrad br br lucile watson was up for best supporting actress in but lost to katina paxinou in for whom the bell tolls dashiell hammett was nominated for best adapted screenplay and the film itself lost for best picture to that other anti fascist classic casablanca br br though it s an item firmly planted in those specific times watch on the rhine still packs a stern anti fascist message that bears repeating infinitely ',
'how many more of those fake slice of life movies need to be made hopefully not too many br br raising victor vargas is a very self conscious attempt by the director peter solett at garnering the attention of hollywood nothing wrong with that in general what is wrong with this film in particular is that it ignores the audience and piles on every clich in the book of supposedly edgy hollywood independent production br br it s supposed to be real so left shake the camera documentary style except no documentarian would shake the camera on purpose br br it s edgy so let s not waste any time lighting the film br br it s hip so let s have the children use swear words like al pacino in scarface br br and so on and so forth all that you are left with is a very self conscious attempt at impressing hollywood that won t impress anyone outside of the rarefied indie crowd that seems to still heap acclaim on every bad film ',
'the great caruso displays the unique talents of mario lanza he shows great acting capacity and is in top form as a lyrical singer paired with dorothy kirsten soprano of the metropolitan opera indeed i dare to say that he performs some songs better than caruso check a vuchella from tosti and la danza from rossini the mgm art and music departments also did a good job this movie could be perfect were it not for the awkward presence of ann blyth we see that she is trying her best dressed in the fifties style in scenes just before unforgivable lanza deserved a better leading lady and blyth should stick to less demanding productions also notice that ms kirsten sings most of the opera duets of the film with lanza giving the wrong notion that caruso had a kind of permanent leading soprano ',
'ok i know that a lot of people will probably resent this review as watership down is a classic and a standard part of most people s childhood but seeing this film for the first time at the tender age of i must admit i really hated it br br we watched this film because my sister had read the book and really enjoyed it and many people who whimpered at the very words watership down their memories of seeing the film as children and having their emotions torn at the seams recommended it to be honest i wish i hadn t bothered i gave it the benefit of the doubt generally i don t like to stop watching a film half way through this was an exception it was really really excruciatingly sickeningly dull this film was possibly the slowest thing i ve ever watched imagine a doped up snail in space and really didn t do it for me the art was alright the backgrounds were nicely made if not a little bland and twee yet the rabbits themselves were not very endearing and the animation was quite jumpy and poorly produced br br i m not going to go into huge details about the storyline basically it is the tale of a group of rabbits who leave their warren due to the infiltration of humans in the area generally a moralistic story about the perils of human interactions on the environment it uses anthropomorphic rabbits to put the message across for me i kind of wished that they would get gassed not because i m a horrible sadistic person but because the characters were uninspiring annoying dull and generally quite rude oh i m so terribly english i found that i was constantly looking at the clock whilst watching the film and it took a whole minutes or so before anything actually happened and even that was a terrible anticlimax br br if i were to praise it in any way i d have to admit that the concept of showing children the perils of building on the countryside and hopefully unveiling the arrogance of humans etc etc is quite well meaning maybe it is all in general sanctimonious and preachy but the message it s trying to put forth is good in its nature the musical score was not bad too br br so to conclude this film is pretty poor i couldn t watch it the whole way through or i d probably be forced to eat my own legs in sheer boredom granted it isn t torque bad but it still doesn t rate highly in my eyes so i ve given it a br br hope this helps ',
'this is a most handsome film the color photography is beautiful as it shows the lavishness of the metropolitan opera house in brilliant color other indoor scenes at various mansions etc are equally brilliant as for the music what more can be said other than that lanza s voice was at its peak as he sang so many of the worlds best known and beloved arias the marvelous dorothy kirsten is also a joy as her soprano voice blends with that of lanza in delightful harmony of course hollywood took their customary liberties with the life story of caruso there is precious little in the story line that relates to actual events for example the facts relating to his death are totally fabricated and bear no relationship to the truth there are some very good web sites that tell the true story of caruso and contain several pictures of him these web sites can be located by using any good search engine there are also several books available concerning his life history but the fictional story line does nothing to mar this beautiful film the voices of lanza kirsten and the chorus members are the real stars of this movie enjoy i know that i sure did ',
'i saw this movie as a very young girl i m now and it scared me witless for years i had nightmares about every aspect of this film from the way it was drawn to the music to obviously the violence my parents still argue about who allowed me to watch it and both of them say that they would never let me watch such a movie i think they only say that knowing that i have such strong feelings about it i am currently reading the book out of morbid curiosity and the fact that it s a classic and it is really a great story however i don t think that it should have been made into a cartoon ever well maybe kids nowadays would find it quaint but it gave me nightmares for weeks and weeks and i still have a hard time seeing rabbits drawn in a similar way gives me a little heart palpitation every time yah i am a wuss but i strongly suggest that any parent looking to show this movie to their kids read them the book instead or watch it first to make certain that they approve of the content not everyone finds it as disturbing as i did but we are out there ',
'mario lanza of course is the great caruso in this film also starring ann blyth dorothy kirsten eduard franz and ludwig donath this is a highly fictionalized biography of the legendary world renowned tenor whose name is known even today br br the film is opulently produced and the music is glorious and beautifully sung by lanza kirsten judmila novotna blanche thebom and other opera stars who appeared in the film if you re a purist seeing people on stage smiling during the sextet from lucia will strike you as odd even if caruso s wife dorothy just had a baby girl also it s highly unlikely that caruso ever sang edgardo in lucia the role lay too high for him br br in taking dramatic license the script leaves out some very dramatic parts of caruso s life what was so remarkable about him is that he actually created roles in operas that are today in the standard repertoire yet this is never mentioned in the film these roles include maurizio in adriana lecouvreur and dick johnson in girl of the golden west there is a famous photo of him posing with a sheet wrapped around him like a toga the reason for that photo his only shirt was in the laundry he was one of the pioneers of recorded music and had a long partnership with the victor talking machine company later rca victor he was singing jose in carmen in san francisco the night of the earthquake br br instead the mgm story basically has him dying on stage during a performance of martha which never happened he had a hemorrhage during l elisir d amore at the met and could not finish the performance he only sang three more times at the met his last role as eleazar in la juive what killed him the same thing that killed valentino peritonitis his first role at the met was not radames in aida as indicated in the film but the duke in rigoletto so when it says on the screen suggested by dorothy caruso s biography of her husband that s what it was suggested what is true is that dorothy s father disowned her after her marriage and left her of his massive estate they also did have a daughter gloria together who died at the age of on however caruso had four other children by a mistress before he married dorothy br br some people say that lanza s voice is remarkably like caruso s but just listen to caruso sing in the film match point caruso s voice is remarkably unlike lanza s in fact from his sound had he wanted to caruso could have sung as a baritone he is thought to have had some trouble with high notes further evidence of baritone leanings and the role he was preparing when he died was othello a dramatic tenor role which lanza definitely was not lanza s voice deserved not to be compared with another he made a unique contribution to film history popularizing operatic music he sings the music in the great caruso with a robust energy he is truly here at the peak of what would be a short career his acting is natural and genuine ann blyth is lovely as dorothy and gets to sing a little herself br br really a film for opera lovers and lanza fans which are probably one and the same ',
'firstly i am not easily scared by anything except for my few phobias but this movie is absolutely horrific this is not appropriate for children at all i had my mouth open the whole time it just shocked me i couldn t believe how gory it was for a children s movie bunnies being brutally murdered it s just unnecessary to be so horrifying and be rated g i recommend being over to see this but don t get me wrong it was probably a good movie if i wasn t scarred mentally as a child i cannot believe a parent would allow a let s say year old child to watch this it s just to intense and complicated not to forget gory for young kids i m wayy over and i was shocked by the violence i don t recommend ',
'yes be my love was mario lanza s skyrocket to fame and still is popular today his voice was strong and steady so powerful in fact that mgm decided to use him in the great caruso lanza himself thought he was the reincarnation of caruso having read the book by kostelanitz who wrote a biography of lanza he explains that the constant practise and vocal lessons became the visionary caruso to lanza there is no doubt that lanza did a superb job in the story but the story is not entirely true blame it on hollywood i used to practise singing his songs years ago and became pretty good myself until i lost my voice because of emphysema asthma ten years ago reaching the high note of be my love is not easy but beautiful ',
'so it s really sexist and classist and i thought that it might not be in the beginning stages of the movie like when stella tells steven that she would really like to change herself and begin speaking in the right way and he tells her not to change well he certainly changed his tune and it seems that the other reviewers followed suit what at the beginning appears to be a love story is really about social placement and women as sacrificial mothers the end of the movie does not make her a hero it makes the whole thing sad and its sad that people think it makes her a hero perhaps that is the comment of the movie that people should take away positive reception reflects continual patriarchal currents in the social conscience yuck ',
'since musicals have both gone out of fashion and are incredibly expensive to make without all the talent needed to make one under contract to a studio i doubt we will ever get a real life story of enrico caruso br br but if everything else was in place it was no accident that no hollywood studio attempted the task until metro goldwyn mayer had mario lanza under contract no one else could have done it i doubt whether it will ever be tried again br br and why should it i think enrico caruso himself would have been satisfied as to how his singing was portrayed on screen for his tenor voice was his life his reason for being on the earth br br to say that liberties were taken with his life is to be modest caruso like the man who portrayed him was a man of large appetites although with a lot more self discipline he had numerous relationships with several women and fathered two out of wedlock sons who are not in this film br br his contribution to the recording industry is treated as almost an afterthought he s shown in a recording studio once late in his life actually he started recording right around the turn of the last century and together with irish tenor john mccormack for rca victor made the recording industry what it became br br when caruso and mccormack were at their heights you had to practically inherit a ticket to see either of them perform live but a lot of immigrant italian and irish families had a phonograph and a record or three of either of these men it s why both became the legends that they are br br what the film does have is some beautifully staged operatic arias done by mario lanza a taste of what he might have become had he the discipline of a caruso to stick to opera the great caruso won an oscar for sound recording and received nominations for costume and set design br br mario himself helped popularize the film with an rca red seal album of songs from the great caruso unfortunately due to contractual obligations we couldn t get an actual cast album with ann blyth dorothy kirsten and jarmila novotna also br br though blyth sang it in the film lanza had a big hit recording of the loveliest night of the year further helping to popularize the great caruso br br if you re looking for a life of enrico caruso this ain t it if you are looking for a great artist singing at the height of his career than you should not miss the great caruso ',
'i should love this movie the acting is very good and barbara stanwyck is great but the the movie has always seemed very trite to me the movie makes working class people look low and cheap the fact that the daughter is ashamed of her mother and that the daughter does not rise above it has always made me a bit uneasy barbara stanwyck as the mother worships the daughter but the daughter forgoes a mothers love to find happiness with her well to do fathers family i wonder how many others who have seen this film feel this way about it again the acting was very very good and worth watching i really don t like the story line just a personal preference thank you ',
'the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie ',
'this movie is great mind you but only in the way it tells a very bad story stella is so terribly crude and never learns better her husband is incredibly snobby and small minded neither ever learns better is this realistic somehow stella understands that her daughter is ashamed of her gaudy manners dress yet cannot understand that she just needs to tone it all down i don t think so stella is a good woman and a very good mother giving up herself so her daughter can be associated with a bunch of bigoted snobs is disgusting br br much of what we see might have been normal for the times people having a beer or two enjoying a player piano dancing but it is made out to be some sort of moral inferiority i can t have our child living this way spare me br br this story tells me one thing that the unwashed working class cannot ever hope to aspire to the heights of the upper classes and that is simply a load of hogwash ',
'i like it because of my recent personal experience especially the ideas that everyone is free and that everything is finite the characters in the firm did not really enjoy their real lives but they did enjoy themselves i e what they were the movie did a good job making this simple day a good memory a good memory includes not only romantic feelings about a beautiful stranger and a beautiful european city but definitely about the deeper discussion about their values of life many movies are like this in terms of discussion of the definitions of life or love or relationships or current problems in life or some sort of those before sunrise dealt with it in a nice way which makes the viewer pause and think and adjust her breath and go on watching the film before sunrise did not try to instill a specific thought into your head it just encouraged you to think about some issues in daily life and gave you some alternative possibilities this made the conversations between the characters interesting not just typical whining complaints or flowing dumb ideas you would be still thinking about those issues for yourself and curious about the next line of the story the end was not quite important after all you could got something out of it and feel something good or positive about yourself after the movie movies are supposed to be enjoyable this is an enjoyable movie and worth of your time to watch it i am on a journey too the movie somehow represented some part of me and answered some of my questions ',
'i hate this movie it is a horrid movie sean young s character is completely unsympathetic her performance is wooden at best the storyline is completely predictable and completely uninteresting i would never recommend this film to anyone it is one of the worst movies i have ever had the misfortune to see ',
'jesse and celine ethan hawke and julie delpy are two strangers on a european train the two come from widely different backgrounds he s american and she s french after they talk a bit on the train jesse manages to get celine to get off the train and explore vienna with him during the next several hours the two wander vienna taking in all that the city has to offer and become madly infatuated with each other but will this newfound relationship last past sunrise br br this wonderful romantic comedy is a breath of fresh air to a genre that has been in decline written and directed by richard dazed and confused linklater before sunrise never bores because of its small cast in fact it flourishes due to the leads that make you love their characters and have a wonderful charisma between the two smart dialogue makes this a must for romance fans ',
'well they say nymphomania leaves you unsatisfied i don t know if stella james sean young qualifies as a clinical nymphomaniac but she certainly is in to sexual relations with men she s still exploring trying to find more data so she can see what she wants from life and the men in it though it seems like at her age she should have a pretty good idea by now i can t agree however with anyone who says young is too old for the role if she is we should all age so nicely for the most part this film left me cold though it s by no means the worst of its type you ll ever see and unlike the recent eyes wide shut at least something happens in this one ',
'amazing movie that in theory should be boring but is delivered with subtlety and incredible acting that i have long despaired of ever finding instead of relying on clichs and overly dramatized moments the plot unfolds through a series of incredibly realistic moments the lead characters are not perfect and so relating to them as people you could know is easy the movie is not trying to pull laughs or push an ideal onto the audience but simply showing us the possibility of true love in any circumstance br br i am now restless waiting for the weekend so i can see the sequel a moving thought provoking funny look at love that i think should be an absolute romantic classic up there with casablanca and breakfast at tiffany s will soften even the hardiest heart ',
'did anyone else feel as betrayed as i did the first hour or so was pretty solid but the last oh my god it seemed like it was predictable and cheesy not grandiose and epic like the entire run of the show has been most reviews have read have been glowing but i really can t understand why i had seriously predicted that general ending way earlier on but then retracted it because i thought no they would never do that that s far too lame i can hardly stand it i feel so unsatisfied i think i m about to walk out the door to go sell every season i own someone please change my mind i want to love this so bad someone tell me why i m wrong great show terrible ending ',
'i m not usually a fan of strictly romantic movies but heard this was good i was stunned easily the most romantic thing i ve ever seen in my life stunning brilliant sweet funny and full of heart the chemistry is flawless as is the writing and directing br br ethan hawke and julie delphy are so natural and sweet together you really think they re a couple br br the movies grabs you right away and doesn t let go you can t look away nor can you stop listening to them even the little moments just melt your heart br br this has jumped into the ranks of one of my favourite ever a masterpiece ',
'the first half was ok but the last half really really disappointed it s funny the producers even admitted they didn t have a clue for the ending and it really showed whats really sad is i have to write ten lines of comment minimum to be able to post this i really didn t want to include spoilers to qualify my remarks since the show isn t really worth that effort when battlestar galatica first came out i was really excited with the prospect of a better remake it didn t happen that first season border on being space porn they eventually cleaned it up a bit and actually had some pretty fair drama so i started watching again but to end the series with kara being a cyclon god angel same with baltar and six was pretty dumb ',
'an american woman her european husband and children return to her mother s home in watch on the rhine a film based on the play by lillian hellman and starring paul lukas whom i believe is repeating his stage role here bette davis lucile watson george coulouris geraldine fitzgerald and donald woods an anti fascist a worker in the underground movement many times injured and wanted by the nazis kurt muller lukas is in need of a long vacation on the estate of his wealthy mother in law but he finds out that there is truly no escape as one of the houseguests coulouris is suspicious as to his true identity and more than willing to sell him out br br great performances abound in this film written very much to put forth lillian hellman s liberal point of view it was certainly a powerful propaganda vehicle at the time it was released as the evils of war and what was happening to people in other countries reach into safe american homes the movie s big controversy today is that paul lukas won an oscar over humphrey bogart in casablanca humphrey bogart was a wonderful screen presence and a fabulous rick but lukas is transcendent as kurt the monologue he has about the need to kill is gut wrenching just to mention one scene br br though this isn t what one thinks of as a bette davis movie she gives a masterful performance here as kurt s loyal and loving wife sara her acting tugs at the heart and the love scenes between kurt and sara are beautiful and tender br br the last half hour of the film had me in tears with the honesty of the emotions lillian hellman is not everyone s cup of tea but unlike the little foxes she has written some truly sympathetic wonderful characters and a fine story given a casting and production values by warner brothers highly recommended ',
'first of all write the script on a napkin who needs more than that after all we re not a hollywood film br br then get amateur actors it will be good for the festival hype after all who needs people who have spent years honing their craft then hire a cinematographer who doesn t know how to light you see if it s well lit it won t look real and the festival people won t like it who needs to have professional level photography anyway then hire a ten year old who has never held a camera to be your operator it will give your movie that completely amateurish touch that festival screeners will mistake for reality and guarantee that even though you will empty the seats from real people critics and a small sliver of the audience who over intellectualize will scream genius because they won t believe this was just complete amateur hour br br once you ve done that buy your ticket to the festival of bad movies aka sundance br br what a sad waste ',
'i bought the dvd of before sunset and saw it for the first time a week ago having saw it twice i couldn t help but missing before sunrise not because the sequel was not as great but i felt that these two movies completed each other like no other sequels ever did every time i finished watching one of them i feel the need and yearning to see the other so i ended up spending the weeks watching both of them repeatedly i will be quite embarrassed to mention how many times exactly the most remarkable thing about before sunrise is how you feel the development of the feelings of their characters towards each other it sounds so simple the growing of the chemistry i think other romantic films might think that they succeed to track the development but to me who doesn t believe in nora ephron before sunrise is the first film to really gives the viewers chance to feel it when i saw it for the first time about year ago when i was i already liked it but i didn t rate it as a great film it still seemed to me like another thinking persons feel good movie linklater was too smart to make it more realistic it was minutes too long the characters was too well fabricated i thought i liked it because it was like a dream and because i enjoyed their conversations etc etc but now thanks to before sunset i feel that s more to before sunrise than what i felt for it before i saw the elements more clearly jesse celine vienna their conversations everything how each of them are separated element by itself and they have a chance to mix the story is just a frame of time i am no longer feel manipulated and the freedom that every scene has as well as its refusal to be overly efficient how blind i was that those qualities didn t strike me as exceptional when i first saw it now year have passed the more movies i ve seen the more i realize that many movies are just collections of ordered scenes that only exist for the sake of its ending even movies like pulp fiction or linklaters s own slackers included the jesse and celine tale avoid that maybe before sunset is a better example in this case but before sunrise is also one of few films that its ending is just a consequence of time not a destination every single scene has its own life i don t know whether linklater or anyone else had a sequel in mind when they made before sunrise but to me one of the most amazing things about these sequels are how these two films visually contrast each other before sunrise which i think employs more static angels and brighter color schemes seems to try to capture the smallest atoms of liveliness surrounding jesse and celine the world is always full of hope whether or not the characters feel it meanwhile i enter the vision of boredom as jesse stuck talking to the journalists in before sunset and celine s first smile from behind the shelves are the most heartbreaking smile i ve seen in a beginning of a film and the many moving shots after that takes me to a place i don t know with a sadness in me no matter how beautiful paris is and no matter how happy i am that they meet again i m sorry that i go on this long with my limited english before sunrise is already an extraordinary film without me pouring my scattered thoughts and it gets even better with an equally great sequel following it ',
'there are many good things about the new bsg there s the multiple cylon roles for model and for example which the two actresses played superbly there s the old school feel of industrial design aboard galactica my ship will not be networked over my dead body also all the space battles the special effects even though the seasoned sci fi watcher will acknowledge the cartoonishness of it all the darkness of the characters their essentially flawed nature br br that makes it all the more bitter that the ending was so childish br br yes the first part the scenes in space the raid on the cylons and all that was very good but the mushy ending i always watch films and shows these days with the timer hidden so i never know how much time is left until the end so for me it was a special kind of torture to see the end happen over and over again every time i thought oh this is the final scene the final shot i got one more every frakking character got its complete ending that wasn t really necessary br br what really highlighted the schoolboy amateurishness of it all the young roslin scenes why is important for us to know that a she lost her sisters and father in a horrible accident and b that she has a one night stand with a former pupil student what does that bring to the story where was the linkage now i m all for a more european ish style approach and a random acts of whateverness in films and shows and all that but this was just ridiculous this didn t bring anything meaningful to the story br br also i ve seen the last frakkin special and in it ron revealed his own cluelessness about the plot he couldn t come up with a good ending for the story so he just didn t it s never as much about the characters as they made the last episode to be the whole this was thousands of years in the past idea the mitochondrial eve thing was also used in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and believe you me there are a lot of bsg watchers who know that particular h g storyline and speaking of hera now there s a storyline that was not worked out well at all instead we get roslin is doing her former pupil who s years younger don t get me wrong i m all for older women with younger men the more power to them but this just made no sense br br all in all the writing in this series is as flawed as they intended its characters would be that goes even moreso for the last episode i hope lost and do better with their series finales ',
'i m not even sure what to say about this film it s one of only a handful of movies ever made that i would consider romantic to try to talk plot or performance or technical details about this film would be in the words of frank zappa like dancing about architecture it absolutely hits the nail right on the head in the way it captures those fleeting moments in life that move us and then run away from us never to be experienced again this seems like the movie the character version of charlie kaufman in the movie adaptation wanted to write the ending is left open and ambiguous no happy ending here just mystery no profound life lessons just a couple of horny and intelligent kids exploring the ability to feel the most irrational and unrealistic of feelings romantic love br br out of watch it with your special lady and recommend it to a stranger ',
'i loved the first season the quality went down a little bit in the second season which however had a great middle pegasus third season was fairly novel and original and was ok fourth season started going downhill fast because they never even began giving us any explanations when by now we were really starting to need them what the hell was the cylon plan why were there two cylon factions what was the point of angel kara leading the fleet to a devastated earth what kind of a past did the last five cylons have and how did they survive or were they reincarnations questions everywhere answers nowhere br br and then comes the end earth our earth in the past well okay but destroying the fleet giving up technology and giving up any kind of urban life and spreading a few thousand people paper thinly across the planet that s not only anti science it s anti reason and anti life and the philosophy of the show then seems to be that humanity is forever trapped in a cycle going from nature romanticism to a decadent capitalist society inventing destructive a i that ruins everything it is without vision without hope for a grander future for humanity and it is antithetical to proper science fiction and don t even get me started on the angels religious claptrap of the worst kind the ultimate disappointment br br the whole all this has happened before and will happen again thing should have related to the previous incarnation of the series not just to earth as we know it making the new show somehow consistent with the old would have been the definitive stroke of genius frakkin shame br br out of ',
'i must admit that at the beginning i was sort of reticent about watching this movie i thought it was this stupid little romantic film about a french woman who meets in the train an american and decides to visit vienna with him i was not actually enchanted about this kind of script since it continued to make me believe that it is just a movie still i watched it and i was amazed before sunrise is one of the few films who dare to talk in a rather philosophical way wondering about the fact that in the moment of our birth we are sentenced to death or that it is a middling idea that fact that a couple should rest together for eternity or that we humans can afford sometimes to live in fairy tales br br the ending was wonderfully chosen we do not know if they will meet again in six months at six o clock in vienna s station in our optimism we sincerely hope so the actors acted in a very good manner so that i began to believe that i myself could live a love story just like this ',
'horrible ending and i can t believe moore spent a year coming up with it smacks of l ron hubbard and dianetitcs which hubbard claimed to pen in just three weeks this was actually disappointing enough for me to toss my discs from the first years now the first hours were action packed though absurd in the premise and then it deteriorated into a slow painful sophomoric dissolution of the series unbelievable how slow and drawn out that last hour was were we to think more deeply if i wanted a lesson in a materialism i would reread daniel quinn s ishmael absurd to think k people would give up everything for a fresh start absurd to throw in a disappearing kara and a reappearing baltar and six absurd to throw in the mitochondrial eve just absurd ',
'american boy jesse took the train to vienna in order to take the plane for usa on the train he met a french girl celine although they met the first time they talked like good friends when the train stopped at vienna jesse begged celine to accompany him to have a tour on vienna then the romantic story unfolded br br at first they were cautious the funniest scene was their listening to cd in music store they peeked at each other though their eyes did not contact after in depth conversation they relationship became close then i saw the most romantic scene that they pretended to call their respective friend their deep love for each other was expressed completely by words br br love is a strange thing when you really want it it will not come as you wished love needs mutual understanding without it love will not last long spiritual harmony is the most important for love br br excellent screenplay and performance resulted in huge success of the movie br br one of the best romance movies ',
'the fight scenes were great loved the old and newer cylons and how they painted the ones on their side it was the ending that i hated i was disappointed that it was earth but k years back but to travel all that way just to start over are you kidding me k people that fought for their very existence and once they get to paradise they abandon technology no way sure they were eating paper and rationing food but that is over they can live like humans again they only have one good doctor what are they going to do when someone has a tooth ache never mind giving birth yea right no one would have made that choice ',
'the most amazing combination of love and psyche of two young people presented in the most sublime manner and definitely touches your heart a rare combination where the sequel surpasses the prequel in both storytelling and intensity of emotions the movie re affirms your faith in love and pain of separation the joy of seeing your most beloved is unparalleled and anything can be sacrificed ethan and julie have essayed eternal characters with such simplicity that gives the movie a sheer joy and love to watch a must see movie for all the people who believe in true love by far the most romantic at least one of them movie of all times ',
'did i step in something or is that bad smell coming from daybreak god was behind everything what has god got to do with sci fi god is only the answer when you can t think up a sensible explanation for something in fact this is exactly the problem with the series finale they obviously couldn t think up sensible explanations for the multitude of big questions that were raised throughout the series such as how kara thrace come back from the dead in a brand new viper how her old viper and charred body ended up on earth why baltar has an imaginary in his head why has an imaginary baltar in her head etc so they explain it with angels or just don t explain it at all br br the plot of the last episodes had holes big enough to fly a basestar through for example why does galactica and its crew go on a suicide mission to rescue one girl hera particularly after adama said there was no way he d attempt a rescue because they found out the location of the cylon base that s not a good reason to sacrifice the crew s lives and how did anders know the location and what was the point of the flashbacks to the major characters lives before the war it s like they forgot to do it earlier so they threw something in at the last moment br br the people who wrote the last two episodes could not have been the same writers who created what has been so far a sensational series feels like the script writing was take over by evangelical christians on a mission to spread the word forget trying to tie up the loose ends in the plot the important message the writers wanted to get across is don t put your faith in technology as it will lead to your destruction god is your ultimate salvation tough luck if you have an illness that needs medical treatment br br imagine in the final movie of the star wars series they tell you there is no force instead a jedi actually gets his power from jesus then they fly their spaceships into the nearest star and go live in the forest with the ewoks would this be a good ending no it frakken wouldn t ',
'my watch came a little too late but am glad i watched both this and the sequel together which makes me compliment the makers of this flick for giving such a pure and basic treatment to the idea of romanticism and very marginally separating it from the idea of relationships as a lot has been written about the movie already it would just be appropriate to highlight few portions of the movie which i personally loved br br i think the point where jesse and celine make phony phone calls to their respective friends was a very shrewd way of telling each other what they had meant to each other through a journey not even extending hrs the curiosity of two people who both think the other has made an infallible impact on the other has been very smartly dealt with br br on the plot front making a romantic story work on pure conversation is not an easy job to accomplish br br i believe in romantic flicks of such flavor the characters are not clearly designed even in the writer s and director s mind what the actors bring out is what becomes of them right or wrong even the idea bearers would find it difficult to justify to become the character the life the actor gives has to go beyond instructions and the story here both the actors do just the right job kudos and before sunset is another feather which makes this one even more beautiful ',
'with these people faking so many shots using old footage and gassing animals to get them out not to mention that some of the scenes were filmed on a created set with actors what s to believe old film of countries is nice but the animal abuse and degradation of natives is painful to watch in these films i know racism is ok in these old films but there is more to that to make this couple lose credibility portrayed as fliers they never flew their planes martin johnson was an ex vaudevillian used friends like jack london for financial gain while stiffing them of royalties denying his wife s apparent depression using her as a cute prop all this makes these films unbearable they were by no means the first to travel to these lands or the first to write about them he was ok as a filmmaker and photographer but that s about it ',
'i managed to catch a late night double feature last night of before sunrise and before sunset and saw both films in a row without really having the chance to catch my breath in between or ponder on the meaning of each film separately after sleeping it over i have to say that i largely prefer the former over the latter and i shall explain why br br before sunrise introduces us with then young actors ethan hawke reality bites dead poets society only at the time of the film s release and julie delpy the three colors trilogy then although looking much younger he is a promiscuous american writer touring europe after breaking up with his girlfriend she is a young french student on her way home to paris they meet on the budapest vienna train and spontaneously decide to get off the train together the two deeply spiritual and intellectual individuals than spend a whole night together walking the beautifully captured streets of vienna exchanging ideals and thoughts and gradually falling on love br br the film has s written all over it back then technology was leaping rapidly the new millennium with all it s hopes and dreams was waiting just around the corner and young adults like the ones depicted in the film were filled with love of life and passion for the future the characters of jesse hawke and celine delpy with all their flaws and inconsistencies celine s accent if by mistake or on purpose was half american half french and it swinged from one spectrum to the other breaking the character s credibility were a mirror of the time watching the naive couple swallow life with such meaning and excitement acting all clichd and romantic yet managing to have the audience fall for them as well is what really made this movie work for me the fact that the director doesn t let you know if their relationship continues after the film or not makes it all even more worth while br br all in all sunrise is a dreamy stroll through the urban landscapes of vienna a well told classical romantic rendezvous and a film i will definitely return to for further insight sometime in the future ',
'the s saw a vogue for documentary films about remote corners of the world with an emphasis on wild animals exotic terrain and primitive people with unusual cultures despite the logistics of transporting a film crew to a distant and dangerous place and then bringing em back alive with the film footage such films were often much cheaper to make than were conventional hollywood features because there were no expensive sets costumes or high priced movie stars br br the most successful makers of such films artistically and financially were the team of martin e johnson and his wife osa who made several documentaries sometimes with blatantly staged events in africa and asia the johnsons safari films were extremely popular inspiring several parodies most notably wheeler woolsey s so this is africa in which the very sexy esther muir plays a character named mrs johnson martini instead of martin e johnson geddit although several other filmmakers were producing safari documentaries at this time the johnsons films were the most popular in this genre because they relied heavily on humour viewed from our own more enlightened i hope standpoint this is a serious flaw in the johnsons documentaries there are too many scenes in which the funny little brown or yellow people are made to look complete idiots who are easily outsmarted by the clever white bwana johnson and his wife br br one definite asset of these movies is the presence of osa johnson ten years younger than her husband she manages to seem young enough to be his daughter while certainly not as attractive as the shapely blond esther muir osa johnson was a pert brunette who gave ingratiating performances in front of the camera in all the films she co produced with her husband br br congorilla is probably the best of the johnsons films the shots of the congo are interesting and have some historical value as evidence of what this environment looked like in the shots of the pygmies and other natives are also interesting although these suffer from the johnsons penchant to stage events in a manner that makes the natives look wild and alien br br the best and funniest scene in congorilla is an improvised sequence in which osa johnson attempts to teach a jazz dance to some pygmy women the dance is the black bottom no less the same dance which bob hope famously taught to daisy and violet hilton the conjoined twins wearing jodhpurs riding boots and a pith helmet osa johnson starts scat singing while she does high steps and slaps her knees in her attempt to teach this dance to the african women meanwhile they just stand there staring at her apparently wondering what this crazy white woman is trying to accomplish it s a very funny scene but it has unpleasant undertones osa johnson is doing a dance that was invented by black americans the implication seems to be that black africans should instinctively be able to perform this dance after a brief demonstration using natural rhythm i guess because it s in their blood or something br br i ll rate congorilla points out of this film says a little bit about african life in the s and rather more about american cultural perceptions in that same decade ',
'this is a slow moving story no action no crazy suspense no abrupt surprises if you cannot stand to see a movie about two people just talking and walking about a story that develops slowly till the very end and about lovey dovey romance don t waste your time and money br br on the other hand if you re into dialog masterful story telling thought provoking ideas and finding true love in the fabric of life then this is your movie i recommend you watch this movie when you are most alert though because the pace the music and the overall tone of the movie can put you in a woolgathering mood it s truly fantastic i really mean that br br ethan hawke and julie delpy are annoying with their mannerisms at times but thankfully the chemistry between the two makes the acting very natural warm and tender they act and feel each other out from the very beginning making you feel as an intruder br br in their conversations there are excellent commentaries on many subjects that will provoke thought and conversation between you and your partner i thought it was too deep and too diverse for such young characters but i may be underestimating their intelligence still it did not ruin the movie br br the overall story is very simple which i think gives the movie it s charm and ultimately it s power br br bottom line the movie s flow is slow the dialog is fascinating the story builds gently systematically and substantive the build up to the finale is satisfying and in the end rewarding ',
'admirably odd though mean spirited comedy drama about a strange young man who hopes to fly like a bird through the houston astrodome robert altman directed quasi comedy with eccentric characters is so overloaded with weirdos that it starts to creak early on from the weight some of the cinematography is evocative shelley duvall is a stitch in her debut as a tour guide and sally kellerman looks every inch the glamourpuss as bud cort s vision of a mother bird imagine altman and producer lou adler explaining that role to her in the lead bud cort is once again after harold maude a true original not off putting like say michael j pollard cort manages to be geeky wacky and inoffensive a tough act to pull off unfortunately this is one of altman s misfires he can put together a cast and a showpiece like no one else but let him get fired up with some misguided inspiration and he spirals downward from ',
'after a chance encounter on the train a young couple spends a single night strolling the streets of vienna discussing life and love the primary reason to see before sunrise is to watch a young julie delpy deliver her lines as celine this sexy brainy soulful brown eyed blond is sort of a cross between brigitte bardot and joni mitchell as they were in their mid twenties risking overstatement celine is practically the ideal woman unusually beautiful and very feminine while being natural unpretentious introspective and selflessly loving we can easily forgive that she is a bit eccentric and talks a blue streak for her sincere intelligent remarks are occasionally penetrating further her varied expressions are nothing short of captivating and she speaks english with a french accent that is very endearing br br if there is a fly in the ointment of this good movie it would have to be her unkempt and disheveled costar ethan hawke as jessie comes off like a vaguely appealing slob sort of a maynard g krebs of the nineties attempting to appear detached and nonchalant he sort of drags himself through certain shots his pants fit poorly his tee shirt is coming untucked his wavy dark hair his most attractive feature needs a good washing and someone really should have showed him how to properly trim his youthful goatee nevertheless he is supposed to represent an unwashed youth on a two week train ride around europe so the look he has cultivated is probably pretty genuine his oft cynical observations and wry sense of humor seem to impress the unapologetically romantic celine although she is occasionally disturbed by the extent of his alienation when he finally admits to her that he is utterly sick of himself and likes being near her because he feels like a different person in her presence we know he is getting somewhere br br after blowing their collective funds on a series of cafes bars and silly diversions they agree that because they may never see one another again they should make the most of it jesse bums a bottle of red wine off a sentimental bartender so that he and his newfound lady love may repair to a local park in the middle of the night to lie on the grass looking up at the moon and the stars and watching the sun come up br br given his boundless luck in the romance department it is especially irksome when jessie as the very definition of a naive jerk foolishly allows this wonderful young lady to slip from his grasp he contents himself with a half baked plan quickly devised at the railroad station when he bids her adieu to reunite at the same spot in half a year when the appointed time comes you just know this beautiful and unusual girl will be involved with another perhaps even married and pregnant for whatever reason she probably won t show while jesse who ends up working at target or if he s lucky the local library will go back to vienna desperate to see her again only to wind up alone br br despite what for me was a very discouraging conclusion before sunrise is a beautiful movie i highly recommend both it and the sequel before sunset ',
'the movie sucked it wasn t funny it wasn t exciting they tried to make it so bad that it would be good but failed and thinking it s cool to like this movie next to the hype are the only reasons that this movie is a success br br the fact that at this moment voted a out of for this movie seems pretty concerning to me either the movie going public is going insane or this vote is unrealistic which can have numerous causes and should be dealt with anyway it is a less than average movie which bloomed through mouth to mouth advertising it s success can only be described as a marketing marvel ',
'when i saw this movie in the theater when it came out in via a free advanced screening i was totally enchanted and would have gladly paid to see it i was sorry when i talked to many people afterwards who had also seen it and who were totally disappointed with it and how it ended i on the other hand felt completely the opposite i was totally satisfied with the outcome and everything else people i talked to said there was too much talking plus they were unhappy because they felt that the ending left you wondering about the fate of the two characters i found these observations to be absurd and to also be painful evidence of how the majority of the american movie going public seems to have a tendency to want easy to follow stories in films with not too much complex and intelligent dialogue lest they get confused they also like to be spoon fed tidy endings happy or sad this disgusts me nobody wants to be challenged anymore and as for the ending and i don t want to be a spoiler i am totally content because i know in my heart that these two characters will see each other again it s all about your own personal faith in romance and destiny it s a very personal film that doesn t speak to all people but it certainly spoke to me give it a chance be patient with it richard linklater has crafted a very lovely film with a beautiful story set against the beautiful background of the city of vienna watching it makes you feel as if you yourself are strolling through the city streets along with the characters as if you yourself were tripping through europe on a eurail pass it s very intimate plus ethan hawke and julie delpy do an exquisite job of bringing the complex script to life they must have improvised during some parts and it works well they have a great chemistry in their roles their awkwardness as strangers getting to know each other in the beginning is very believable and you can truly feel the romance and bonding develop between them as the movie progresses i get the feeling that this was a very personal work for mr linklater and i deeply respect him for getting this film made it definitely touched me and i hope it touches others just as much bravo for romance ',
'i d like to think myself as a fairly open minded guy and it takes a lot for me to dislike a movie but this one is without a doubt one of the suckiest crappiest movie i ve ever seen br br i have no idea what s wrong with the people who gave it such a good rating here imdb is usually pretty reliable when it comes to ratings the only thing i can imagine is that people must ve voted during one or more conditions br br while being shitfaced stoned out of their minds they ve received hard cash for the votes under gunpoint br br i can t believe i wasted a good h min of my life for this pathetic excuse for a movie ',
'ever since i can remember and i m only my mother and i have been and continue to watch older movies because well i find them much more rewarding in the long run but hey don t get me wrong i do love the movies we have today just not as much as i love movies of the s and s anyways now i have to say the moment i started watching the movie my eyes were glued to the tv of course my favorite character was the grandmother played by lucile watson but i loved the way betty davis and her family was portrayed the children did not act like children in the slightest but there is good reason for that having had to hid and run most of your life seeing the awful things children saw those days destroyed their innocence so people saying oooo i hated how the kids acted blah blah blah read between the lines and know they saw things children should not see br br paul lukas dear paul did an amazing job now i know many people are mad that he go the oscar and bogie didn t but hey they both did amazing jobs so i think it could have gone either way but lukas performance was so amazing that by the end of the movie i was reduced to tears i loved this movie so much and recommend it to anyone d ',
'what a bad bad film i can t believe all the hype that has been lavished on this pretentious amateurish excuse for a real movie i left the theater before the end stunned by how bad the direction and camera work of that movie were and to read adoring paeans that claim there is truth and reality in this film when all it is in reality is a brazen attempt at pulling the wool over the eyes of reviewers and festivals by being cheap and tawdry br br at least this film showed me once and for all that the sundance festival has become a complete joke and that being shown here is more a label of bad film making than anything else br br avoid at all costs you ll want your time back i know i did ',
'this movie is intelligent that is more than most other movies it transcends the least common denominator stupid people will probably not appreciate it the story also relies heavily on dialogue it has some parallels to lost in translation although before sunrise is much brighter somehow less abstract and simply a lot better br br the script the characters and even the slightly surreal atmosphere feel totally realistic the actors play absolutely brilliantly rarely have i seen a movie where the script and the acting has melted this perfectly together br br the dialogue moves into very personal issues with the risk of becoming a little over the top it does however stay on the right side almost all the time although i found a few moments a little awkward and embarrassing balancing on this fine line demands outrageously talented actors sometimes it yields great results and overall this movie is simply stupendous only very very rarely is love in films depicted in a way that i find trustworthy and realistic every time that is achieved the result is fantastic i think the stunning and apparently timeless beauty of the female lead actress helped quite a bit in this respect she still looks stunning in this film years after br br this is simply a gem of a movie that you can t miss one of the best movies i have seen from the s ',
'unless you are between the ages of and except for the r rating there are very few things to like here one or two lines from kenan thompson david koechner we really should see him more and sam jackson are humorous and julianna margulies is as good as she can be considering her surroundings but sadly that s it poor plot poor acting worse writing and delivery the special effects are dismal as much as the entire situation is an odd and awful joke the significant individual embedded situations are all equally terrible if we consider the action portions well there are unbelievable action sequences in some films that make you giddy and there are some that make you groan this movie only contains the latter kind this leaves little left i m so glad i did not pay for this br br despite any hype i can read and think so as i sat down to watch i did not expect anything good i had no expectations but was somewhat worried going in yet like a train wreck one cannot merely look away and even with no expectations i was let down bad not even so bad it s good material i m very tolerant of bad movies but this makes six string samurai which i liked oscar worthy br br no this piece of over cgi d rubbish is in the same company as battlefield earth little man and gigli how this is currently rated a completely mystifies me brainwashing or somehow stacking the voting system is all that i can think of as answers br br i could go on and on but suffice to say that tonight i witnessed a train wreck i need to go wash my eyes of ',
'before sunrise has many remarkable things going on almost too many to fit into one review like this but it s suffice to say that it s one of the most observant character studies of the nineties maybe even in all of contemporary cinema to be observant not about love per say so much as it s about a human connection how does one fall in love at first sight no one does at least that s deep down the consensus that linklater wants to show with his film and yet there is the possibility of as intense a connection of a bond that can form in those that are young and with many ideas that can be expressed articulately and with a breadth of cynicism and is somehow very tender and true at the same time linklater here gives us the story of celine and jessie a french girl and an american boy who get off the same train heading to vienna and on the way there start to talking about things at first arbitrary then personal jessie seeing death for the first time in his great grandfather jessie persuades celine to go along with him on a night out on the town in vienna until his plane the next morning br br before sunrise gives jessie and celine in the midst of the gorgeous vienna scenery and locales to go on and on about subjects that have a lot of importance and in a sense is about the act of having conversations of what it s like to watch people having one leading into another and another here it s often about relationships and commitments as jessie and celine tell stories sometimes somewhat inconsequential or seemingly so and another that may tell a lot about their essential qualities we hear confessions of desires for other loves or what weren t really loves of being part of a family or part of an upbringing that may or may not inform how you ll love your life of what it means to believe or not believe in some religious form or just to have some connection to any faith and the soul i loved the bit about the quakers in the church and sometimes laced with cynicism or skepticism jessie may be more responsible for that last part but what s fascinating about the film is that it s never exactly cynical itself just commenting upon cynicism that lays in the concerns of men and women at that age of their lives br br meanwhile it s always great to see ethan hawke and julie delpy in these roles where they re not incessantly annoying in that s generation x mode but are the kinds of people where if not in the central conceit of the film which isn t a bad one at all but a necessary one one might think to find walking along the streets of a city somewhere the conceit is that of an old romantic picture ala brief encounter only here intimacy is expressed in the central characters either between each other where sweet asides are actually acceptable i have to tell you a secret jessie says and then leans in for a kiss ho ho or in the little moments that pop up with other people along the way i loved the scene with the poet where it s very cinematic a thing to suddenly find a random romantic bit player in the midst of a romantic picture with such beautiful words at his disposal or with the palm reader and how the reactions from jessie and celine are that we might share but really are seeing them do it first hand all the while hawke and delpy embody the roles interestingly we can see how neuroses are being formed already for their adult lives as it may lead off into the future br br featuring splendid cinematography and a script with an ear for natural wit and a true sense of what it means to have a moment of happiness however self contained as it may lead into something more who s to say you can t suddenly be attached to someone if only for less than hours and be that much more attached than a married couple this is perhaps linklater s thesis but there s more to it than just that it s a very dense film and one that will have me calling back to it repeatedly one scene especially which is both cheesy and brilliant is when the two of them are talking on the phone in front of each other mimicking their expositions might go to the other s friend a ',
'i stopped watching this pos as soon as the snakes started taking over the plane br br at first i thought maybe it should get a one for the comic relief but then i realized i could just watch the three stooges for free and laugh more br br whatever respect i might have had for samuel jackson has been irreversibly destroyed and hollywood demonstrates once again how removed from reality they really are when i was a kid we used to catch snakes for fun the only thing snakes would do is huddle at the bottom of the cargo bay and no amount of hollywood cartoon snakes can change that br br this movie isn t worth a trip to blockbuster be warned if you pay for it the only victim is your dumb ass br br if you want to be really scared i suggest the descent if you want humor go to your local stand up comedy club their worst performer will be a million times better than this trash ',
'this is truly truly one of the best movies about love that i ve ever seen closely followed by none other than before sunset which technically isn t another movie at all since it s about the same two people and the same romance br br this is love in the real world ok that s only if most people are as intelligent and eloquent as the leads in the movie reading the other reviews it pleases me to know how so many other folks are crazy over dialog based movies as well and this is what makes before sunrise so good the dialog is perfect it s so real so engaging and funny it s hardly a surprise that jesse and celine fall in love coz you fall in love with them at the very same time br br my favorite scene is the one in the coffee shop where they pretend to phone their best friends with the other pretending to be said best friend it s perfect brings you back to the very moment when you fell in love for the very first time in your life br br i must say that if you have a choice do watch before sunrise before watching before sunset if like me you watched sunset first it s hard to shake off the feeling of pity and sadness for the two young lovers throughout the entire show br br once again the greatest romantic movie in my books wonderful acting excellent script and beautiful locations young love at it s best ',
'all internet buzz aside this movie was god awful i expected the movie to be more of a farce than anything instead the film makers tried to make a serious thriller horror movie and they completely missed there were only a few good parts and a couple good lines by samuel jackson other than that it was a bunch of gore and some poorly animated snakes all of the internet joking was miles better than the actual movie now that the movie has actually come out hopefully this joke will die don t waste your time or money on this piece of over hyped trash if you re looking for something that s funny and entertaining then just go to snakes on a blog ',
'richard linklater s beautifully directed mixture of youthful romance and paris travelogue is one of the s best thinking person s romantic movies julie delpy turns in one of the decade s most engaging performances as the parisian lass who spends a day with stranger on a train ethan hawke the dialogue and there is oodles of it is sometimes meandering and overly precious but this portrait of two young wannabe lovers making a romantic intellectual and spiritual connection to one another is full of wonderfully amusing touching and insightful moments ',
'i saw an early screening of this film in new york and i along with my friends and pretty much the entire audience were vastly disappointed the movie wasn t even so bad it was good it was as lifeless as a snake bite victim samual l jackson looked surprisingly tired through most of it and the snake effects were lame it reminded me of one of those cheesy scifi movies except the cheesiness of this movie was not funny or even campy it all seemed worn flat and overtly formulaic i m shocked to say i actually think anaconda was more fun it s easy to understand that soap realizes it s a piece of sit and plays along with it but what the film fails to embark on is a script that has any scares of suspense it s the worst kind of lame movie it s joyless ',
'sweet and charming funny and poignant plot less but meaningful before sunrise the third movie of richard linklater is dedicated to everyone who ever been in love is in love or never been in love but still dreams of it and hopes to find it it is one of the very rare movies that is should will be equally interesting to teenagers their parents and even grandparents it seems a very simple little movie with no spectacular visual effects car chases or long and steamy sex scenes two young people in their early s two college students american tourist ethan hawke who is returning home after the summer in europe and the french student julie delpy who goes to paris to attend the classes in sorbonne meet on a train they are attracted to each other instantly even before they start talking they hop off the train in vienna where they walk around exploring the city all night they talk and fall in love that s it that s the movie it could ve been boring and silly but instead it is a lovely believable clever and moving romance that only gets better with each viewing at least for this viewer high praise and my sincere gratitude go to the director and writers for delivering two charming characters superb writing always interesting and witty dialogs two awesome performances and the atmosphere of magic that falling in love is julie delpy who looks like a botticelli s angel is great in portraying smart independent and incredibly attractive young woman ',
'the only thing great about the movie is its title in this case snake on a plane is example of not judging the book by its cover the title says nothing about the movie when i went to the theater i wasn t expecting citizen kane i was expecting independence day a movie that s pure popcorn fun but instead i got that horrible roy liotta movie called turbulence yes this is how bad soap is the only thing make soap better is its title and it s not even the apporiate title for the movie the wasn t even a glimpse of snake or plane minutes into the movie what a false advertising if it wasn t for its title soap would be just another unforgettable cheap b grade summer movie and the r rating it has to be the most undeserved r rated movie of all time the makers of the movie only add a few f word to make this a r all of the violence are kept pg level you know what s really r rated the r rated superstar edge see him at summerslam instead of waste your money on a snake ',
'first let me say that before sunrise like all movies is not a movie for all tastes it appears some folks are less smart to acknowledge this fact but it is remarkable to contemplate the kind of outright dislike this small harmless movie generates from some people for me like most folks here before sunrise struck a deep chord in me i was truly stunned moved inspired by it this is a movie that ultimately benefits from more than one viewing it creates some of the most awesomely unforgettable feelings and emotions you can possibly imagine it is impossible to imagine this world without ever thinking about the kind of inspirational feelings i got from it br br the movie works as a communion of two fragile souls that are starting to get to know each other it is very intelligent and inspiring not so much in how one conversation necessarily ties into the next or the significance of the topics of jesse and celine s discussions but rather the little nuances the perfectly articulate responses they provoke from each other it captures an honest romantic yet fleeting human emotion that is starting to blossom in the awesomely sublime viennese milieu it convinces us that their evanescent relationship might be the greatest compliment in the world and what happens after that night is open for debate but i never doubt that they won t each other again br br the facile comments by rockythebear and the below user are hopeless examples of a doctrinaire dissenter unwilling to accept and respect those who love this movie br br see it and it may change your way of life ',
'this must be one of the worst movies i ve ever seen the graphics are ridiculous and the script pathetic and the biggest question is how this rather low brow script got trough the selection process br br i like all sorts of movies from deep dramas to the more male oriented kill everything you see type of movie so i can t say i m picky i have been struggling to find something to compare it to but i just can t think of anything that matches this maybe starship troopers witch in my opinion makes the movie gods cry and me thinking about throwing out my dvd player but compared to this its effects are great the acting superb and the script should be awarded you know when a movie is bad in a funny way well folks this isn t one of those this kills your soul minute by minute ',
'i watched this movie years ago and have watched it on video an average of once a year since it s the type of movie that s timeless because the themes are universal yet the stories and conversation are so personal it s also one of the very few movies that capture you from frame one til the credits roll despite the fact that there are really just two very involving characters this owes a lot to the engaging acting by hawke and delpy who make us believe that they are actually jesse and celine this is also the first movie i saw that mentioned reality tv and now the phenomenon is rampant i love the way this movie just envelops the audience in its space and makes you think however jaded you may be that you are one of those characters it also made me want to ride the train around europe i have not met anyone who has not been able to relate to this movie maybe that speaks about myself my friends or just the sheer genius of this movie ',
'b movie at best sound effects are pretty good lame concept decent execution i suppose it s a rental br br you put some olive oil in your mouth to save you from de poison den you cut de bite and suck out de poisen you gonna be ok tommy br br you stay by the airphone when agent harris calls you get me give me a fire extinguisher br br weapons we need weapons where s the silverware all we have is this sporks br br dr price is the snake expert br br local ers can handle the occasional snakebite alert every er in the tri city area ',
'there are many people in our lives that we meet only once in our lifetime but for some reason or another we remember those persons for the rest of our lives these once in a lifetime friendships occur between people with long distances between and there are always some natural reasons for why we don t meet these people anymore we don t always even know their names as we are never presented to each other and sometimes we even forget to ask what their names are it s funny how common humanity makes occasional friends and we like to keep it as such because reuniting might spoil fond memories or we don t know do they we are too afraid to check that out br br the movie before sunrise just caught me watching it i never had intention to watch it through but because the discussion between the couple seemed interesting i gave a look for the rest of the film i didn t know what to expect from it but nor did the young couple they had time to discuss with each other until the sunrise and anything could happen before they had to separate i believe this film has had good reviews because the situation is something that everybody on this planet has at least once or twice lived through it makes us all think about all those people we have met only once in our lives ',
'i chose to see this movie because it got a good score here on imdb but a lot of people either have really poor taste or someone s been fixing the score br br either way it was a real disappointment the movie is exactly as stupid and far fetched as the title would suggest there really is no reason to give a summary of the plot but here goes it felt like someone had been thinking wouldn t it be cool to make a movie where there were snakes on a plane and then the snakes for some reason would go crazy and start biting and stuff and that s about it the plot is thin and unoriginal the snakes are bad cgi but it makes sense to cut corners on a movie that no one in their right mind will recommend to anyone the acting is poor and all people are unbelievable stereo types br br to sum it up it s one of the worst movies i ve ever seen stay away ',
'if you are a traveller if there is a fire burning into your heart if you d call home every place on earth but none of them can give you enough if you are always looking for the next thing and if you believe the other part of your soul is somewhere out there see this movie and you ll find out a little but wonderful piece of life sitting next to you ',
'oh dear lord how on earth was any part of this film ever approved by anyone it reeks of cheese from start to finish but it s not even good cheese it s the scummiest moldiest most tasteless cheese there is and i cannot believe there is anyone out there who actually truly enjoyed it yes if you saw it with a load of drunk stoned buddies then some bits might be funny in a sad kind of way but for the rest of the audience the only entertaining parts are when said group of buddies are throwing popcorn and abusive insults at each other and the screen i watched it with an up for a few laughs guy having had a few beers in preparation to chuckle away at the film s expected crapness we got the crapness plenty of it but not the chuckles it doesn t even qualify as a so bad it s good movie it s just plain bad very very bad here s why look away if you re spoilerphobic the movie starts out with a guy beating another guy to death ok i was a few minutes late in so not sure why this was but i think i grasped the this guy is a bit of a badass who you don t want to mess with message behind the ingenious scene oh and a guy witnesses it so we already have our ultra evil bad guy and wussy but cute apparently good guy cue hero big sam steps on the scene in the usual fashion saving good guy in the usual inane way that only poor action films can accomplish i e hero is immune to bullets everyone else falls over rather clumsily cue first plot hole how the bloody hell did sammy know where this guy was or that he d watched the murder perhaps this and the answers to all my plot hole related questions was explained in the minutes before i got into the cinema but i doubt it in fact i m going to stop poking holes in the plot right here lest i turn the movie into something resembling swiss cheese which we all know is good cheese so the plot a very generous word to use good guy must get to la evil guy would rather he didn t hero sam stands between the two cue scenery for the next vomit inducing hour the passenger plane as i said no more poking at plot holes i ll just leave it there passenger plane next the vital ingredient up until now missing from this gem of a movie and what makes it everything it is snakes yay oh pause first we have the introduction to all the obligatory characters that a lame movie must have hot horny couple see if you can guess how they die dead before any snakes even appear british guy those pesky brits eh cute kids and jo brand for all you americans that s an english comic famous for her size and unattractiveness now that we ve met the cast let s watch all of them die except of course the cute kids don t expect anything original it s just snake bites on various and ever increasingly hilarious really not parts of the body use your imagination since the film makers obviously didn t use theirs br br so that s most of the film wrapped up so now for the best bit the ending as expected everything is just so happy as the plane lands that everyone in sight starts sucking face yep ice cool sammy included but wait we re not all off the plane yet the last guy to get off is good guy but just as he does he gets bitten by a you guessed it snake of all things clearly this one had been hiding in mr jackson s hair the whole time since it somehow managed to resist the air pressure trick that the good old hero had employed a few minutes earlier despite the ft constrictor the one that ate that pesky british bugger being unable to so sam shoots him and the snake in one fell swoop at this point i prayed that the movie was about to make a much needed u turn and reveal that all along the hero was actually a traitor of some sort but no in a kind of icing on the cake way but with stale cheese remember it is revealed that the climax of the film was involving a bullet proof vest how anyone can think that an audience years ago let alone in would be impressed by their ingenuity is beyond me but it did well in summing up the film br br actually we re not quite done yet after everyone has sucked face uncle sam with leading actress good guy with tiffany token black guy with token white girl and the hot couple in a heart warming bout of necrophilia it s time for good guy and hero to get it on in bali nope it wasn t at all exciting the exclamation marks were just there to represent my utter joy at seeing the credits roll yes the final shot of the film is a celebratory surfing trip to convey the message that a bit of male bonding has occurred and a chance for any morons that actually enjoyed the movie to whoop a few times that s it this is the first time i ve ever posted a movie review but i felt so strongly that somebody must speak out against this scourge of cinematography if you like planes snakes samuel l jackson air hostesses bad guys surfing dogs in bags or english people then please please don t see this movie it will pollute your opinion of all of the above so far that you ll never want to come into contact with any of them ever again go see united instead that was good ',
'i had never heard of this film before a couple of weeks ago but its concept interested me when i heard it an american man meets a european woman on his last night in europe and they spend the night together talking it sparked my interest but i never expected it to be this great before sunrise is a masterpiece and it s also one of the most romantic films on record to my surprise it completely lacked the cynicism of the s it s impossible to really talk too much about it since there is no real plot so to speak although there are plenty of thoroughly interesting things you could talk about it is sort of like my dinner with andre where there is a conversation but it s not just the conversation that matters but let me just say see it see it ',
'this is not a film you can really analyse separately from it s production the audience became the film makers to an extent unprecedented in the history of the american film industry we felt so involved that viewing it becomes like watching the work of a friend how is it possible to be objective this is our movie isn t it or is it there may be nothing more disingenuous than a film maker who promotes himself as the audience s friend giving them all the naughty treats that the nannyish critics would deny them just look at that prime self publicist eli roth promising gore hounds all the viscera missing from literally gutless mainstream horror films only to churn out a watered down and technically incompetent piece of work like hostel br br david r ellis may not have spawned the monster that was the internet response to his film but he was quite understandably quick to engage with it he took the carnival huckster school of film making to a new level getting the fans to build what they would eventually buy so many have enthused over this interactive democratic approach to film making that they seem to have missed the point that this is the most cynical form of film as marketing nothing is included that the film makers know the fans won t buy and any old suggestion that will get bums on seats is incorporated the fact that the pitch became the title tells you all you need to know br br isn t this just the evolution of the focus group approach individual creativity talent craft ideas all are sacrificed before the inane chatter of the masses it s a critical commonplace that focus groups and test screenings don t make for good movies why should the preemptive intervention of internet enthusiasts be any different because we happen to be film fans well thank god for us because otherwise i might not have seen a topless woman get her nipple bitten by a snake br br so yes i had fun at the movie a midnight showing fresh from the pub and with a bucket of ice cream but it actually had relatively little to do with the film and quite a lot to do with the atmosphere like christmas everyone seemed determined that they would have fun no matter what there was laughter but i don t know if it was with the film or at the film with a film as calculated as this one is that even a meaningful distinction there are some genuinely good aspects to the film samuel l jackson gives a well judged performance pure self parody but with a real sense of pleasure rachel blanchard and lin shaye are decent in limited roles and there are one or two inspired moments the fate of the lap dog is genuinely funny black comedy that the rest of the film fails to emulate br br the stock characters are to be expected but the total lack of suspense isn t what s the point of a film that combines two great phobias if there s no creeping menace there are several snake jumps out moments but they re incredibly badly staged only the annoying british man gets a decent pulpy death scene the other killings are oddly flat the demise of the honeymoon couple for instance is shamefully botched most of the actors fail to make an impression it s a shame that a charismatic actress like julianna margulies should seem so tired when she tells two kids to close their eyes and pretend the turbulent flight is a roller coaster she could be talking to the audience the film falls far short br br there are worse movies but there are many many better another reviewer on this site compared this film with lake placid and it s as apt a contrast as any i can think of that film worked so magnificently because the performances were excellent the jokes were funny the suspense sequences were scary and it wasn t devised by committee that the characters had a little depth and shading was an unexpected bonus i don t need a post pub midnight showing to have a good time with that film br br this film will in time fade to become a mere footnote in film history if it sets a precedent however i m genuinely worried about what might be crossing our screens in a couple of years time in all probability nothing much will come of it perennial popcorn favourites raiders of the lost ark alien halloween and of course star wars just aren t produced by group think br br in the mean time i ll tell you what i haven t half got a craving for some ingmar bergman ',
'many of the criticisms on this thread seem to pick a comparison of this film with the mortal storm or casablanca everyone is entitled to compare films they choose but the similarities of the mortal storm and watch on the rhine are clearly the problems of refugees threatened by the nazi juggernaut while the main comparative point brought out with casablanca is the seeming unjust treatment of humphrey bogart in by the academy of motion picture arts and science because they chose paul lukas instead for the best actor oscar it does not strike me as totally wrong lukas had a good career in film both here and in england he is the villain in the lady vanishes and this performance was his best one bogart had more great performances in him than rick blaine for instance he was ignored for sam spade in the maltese falcon and roy earle in high sierra two years earlier both of which were first rate performances and he would not get an oscar for his greatest performances as fred c dobbs in the treasure of sierra madres the writer murder suspect in in a lonely place and captain philip francis queeg in the caine mutiny afterward he got it for charley in the african queen i think that bogie should have got it for the role of dobbs but it did not happen but lukas was lucky he got it on the defining performance of his lesser career few can claim that br br to me the film to look at with watch on the rhine is based on another play script by hellman the searching wind they both look at america s spirit of isolationism in the s and s the searching wind is really looking at the whole inter war period while watch on the rhine set in the years just proceeding our entry into world war ii deals with a few weeks of time therefore it is better constructed as a play and more meaningful for it s impact br br the film has many good performances led by lukas as the exhausted but determined anti nazi fighter courier davis as his loyal wife wisely keeping her character as low keyed as possible due to lukas being the center of the play s activities coulouris as the selfish conniving but ultimately foolish and ineffective teck lucille watson as the mother of davis and geraldine fitzgerald as coulouris wiser and sadder and fed up wife and kurt katch who delivers a devastating critique as the local embassy s gestapo chief about coulouris and others who would deal with the nazis it has dialog with bite in it and what it says is quite true it also has moments of near poetry witness the scene towards the end when coulouris is left alone with lukas and davis and says the new world has left the scene to the old world hellman could write very well at times br br given the strength of the film script and performances i would rate this film highly among world war ii films ',
' raising victor vargas is one of those light family movies that you can watch and do the n y times crossword puzzle at the same time and if you want to go to the kitchen for a taco and a corona you don t have to pause the dvd just let it roll cause you won t be missing anything really important no twists turns or tension it s not really an ethnic movie it s a movie about a poor struggling immigrant family that happens to be latino they could have been any ethnic group it made very little difference i ve seen it all a zillion times before just plug in a jewish family an italian family a black family or an irish family just the accents and names were different if the vargas family was named bush or clinton and were presbyterians the movie would have been a total snooze br br it s funny that the critics here couldn t get the locale straight some said it was spanish harlem some the bronx and another brooklyn as a life long new yorker i vote for the lower east side and it seemed that the family never met up with anyone except other latinos they lived in an insulated isolated little enclave some interaction with non latinos might have created some excitement interest or tension remember west side story br br and now for the oft criticized cinematography i don t know if it was my tv or what but all the indoor shots looked very orange to me the apt the furniture and the faces were all orange what was that supposed to mean and the apt did look pretty cramped to me somebody here mentioned that the old apt s tenements had very big rooms well maybe years ago what landlords have done is to break up one big apt into or very small ones and squeeze as many immigrants as they can into them br br and another annoying thing this is the second family movie i ve seen and criticized this week that featured a teenage boy jerking off is this private sex act necessary for us to watch please spare me what s up with these directors br br so victor vargas is a pleasant little movie it was nice for a change to see young latino actors given a break and a chance to show their talents which they did but the writers let them down giving them a flat unspectacular script to work with enjoy the show but keep your fingers near the fast forward button ',
...]
The first step when building a neural network model is getting your data into the proper form to feed into the network. Since we're using embedding layers, we'll need to encode each word with an integer. We'll also want to clean it up a bit.
You can see an example of the reviews data above. We'll want to get rid of those periods. Also, you might notice that the reviews are delimited with newlines \n. To deal with those, I'm going to split the text into each review using \n as the delimiter. Then I can combined all the reviews back together into one big string.
First, let's remove all punctuation. Then get all the text without the newlines and split it into individual words.
In [10]:
from string import punctuation
all_text = ''.join([c for c in reviews if c not in punctuation])
reviews = all_text.split('\n')
all_text = ' '.join(reviews)
words = all_text.split()
In [5]:
all_text[:2000]
Out[5]:
'bromwell high is a cartoon comedy it ran at the same time as some other programs about school life such as teachers my years in the teaching profession lead me to believe that bromwell high s satire is much closer to reality than is teachers the scramble to survive financially the insightful students who can see right through their pathetic teachers pomp the pettiness of the whole situation all remind me of the schools i knew and their students when i saw the episode in which a student repeatedly tried to burn down the school i immediately recalled at high a classic line inspector i m here to sack one of your teachers student welcome to bromwell high i expect that many adults of my age think that bromwell high is far fetched what a pity that it isn t story of a man who has unnatural feelings for a pig starts out with a opening scene that is a terrific example of absurd comedy a formal orchestra audience is turned into an insane violent mob by the crazy chantings of it s singers unfortunately it stays absurd the whole time with no general narrative eventually making it just too off putting even those from the era should be turned off the cryptic dialogue would make shakespeare seem easy to a third grader on a technical level it s better than you might think with some good cinematography by future great vilmos zsigmond future stars sally kirkland and frederic forrest can be seen briefly homelessness or houselessness as george carlin stated has been an issue for years but never a plan to help those on the street that were once considered human who did everything from going to school work or vote for the matter most people think of the homeless as just a lost cause while worrying about things such as racism the war on iraq pressuring kids to succeed technology the elections inflation or worrying if they ll be next to end up on the streets br br but what if you were given a bet to live on the st'
In [11]:
words[:100]
Out[11]:
['bromwell',
'high',
'is',
'a',
'cartoon',
'comedy',
'it',
'ran',
'at',
'the',
'same',
'time',
'as',
'some',
'other',
'programs',
'about',
'school',
'life',
'such',
'as',
'teachers',
'my',
'years',
'in',
'the',
'teaching',
'profession',
'lead',
'me',
'to',
'believe',
'that',
'bromwell',
'high',
's',
'satire',
'is',
'much',
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'to',
'reality',
'than',
'is',
'teachers',
'the',
'scramble',
'to',
'survive',
'financially',
'the',
'insightful',
'students',
'who',
'can',
'see',
'right',
'through',
'their',
'pathetic',
'teachers',
'pomp',
'the',
'pettiness',
'of',
'the',
'whole',
'situation',
'all',
'remind',
'me',
'of',
'the',
'schools',
'i',
'knew',
'and',
'their',
'students',
'when',
'i',
'saw',
'the',
'episode',
'in',
'which',
'a',
'student',
'repeatedly',
'tried',
'to',
'burn',
'down',
'the',
'school',
'i',
'immediately',
'recalled',
'at',
'high']
The embedding lookup requires that we pass in integers to our network. The easiest way to do this is to create dictionaries that map the words in the vocabulary to integers. Then we can convert each of our reviews into integers so they can be passed into the network.
Exercise: Now you're going to encode the words with integers. Build a dictionary that maps words to integers. Later we're going to pad our input vectors with zeros, so make sure the integers start at 1, not 0. Also, convert the reviews to integers and store the reviews in a new list called
reviews_ints.
In [15]:
from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(words)
vocab = sorted(counts, key=counts.get, reverse=True)
vocab_to_int = {word: ii for ii, word in enumerate(vocab, 1)}
reviews_ints = []
for each in reviews:
reviews_ints.append([vocab_to_int[word] for word in each.split()])
In [19]:
labels = labels.split('\n')
labels = np.array([1 if each == 'positive' else 0 for each in labels])
If you built labels correctly, you should see the next output.
In [23]:
review_lens = Counter([len(x) for x in reviews_ints])
print("Zero-length reviews: {}".format(review_lens[0]))
print("Maximum review length: {}".format(max(review_lens)))
Zero-length reviews: 0
Maximum review length: 6020196
Okay, a couple issues here. We seem to have one review with zero length. And, the maximum review length is way too many steps for our RNN. Let's truncate to 200 steps. For reviews shorter than 200, we'll pad with 0s. For reviews longer than 200, we can truncate them to the first 200 characters.
Exercise: First, remove the review with zero length from the
reviews_intslist.
In [10]:
# Filter out that review with 0 length
reviews_ints =
Exercise: Now, create an array
featuresthat contains the data we'll pass to the network. The data should come fromreview_ints, since we want to feed integers to the network. Each row should be 200 elements long. For reviews shorter than 200 words, left pad with 0s. That is, if the review is['best', 'movie', 'ever'],[117, 18, 128]as integers, the row will look like[0, 0, 0, ..., 0, 117, 18, 128]. For reviews longer than 200, use on the first 200 words as the feature vector.
This isn't trivial and there are a bunch of ways to do this. But, if you're going to be building your own deep learning networks, you're going to have to get used to preparing your data.
In [11]:
seq_len = 200
features =
If you build features correctly, it should look like that cell output below.
In [13]:
features[:10,:100]
Out[13]:
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15, 49, 81, 5832, 44, 382, 110, 140, 15,
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70, 345, 3, 2102, 5, 408, 22, 1, 1928,
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4969, 2947, 4464, 566, 1202, 36, 6, 1520, 96,
3, 744, 4, 28265, 13, 5, 27, 3464, 9,
10794, 4, 8, 111, 3024, 5, 1, 1027, 15,
3, 4400, 82, 22, 2058, 6, 4464, 538, 2773,
7123, 41932, 41, 463, 1, 8369, 62989, 302, 123,
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36, 3267, 1, 6436, 1020, 45, 17, 2700, 2500,
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191, 22, 8994, 6, 82, 881, 101, 111, 3590,
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5, 29, 35, 482, 20, 19, 1285, 33, 142,
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With our data in nice shape, we'll split it into training, validation, and test sets.
Exercise: Create the training, validation, and test sets here. You'll need to create sets for the features and the labels,
train_xandtrain_yfor example. Define a split fraction,split_fracas the fraction of data to keep in the training set. Usually this is set to 0.8 or 0.9. The rest of the data will be split in half to create the validation and testing data.
In [ ]:
split_frac = 0.8
train_x, val_x =
train_y, val_y =
val_x, test_x =
val_y, test_y =
print("\t\t\tFeature Shapes:")
print("Train set: \t\t{}".format(train_x.shape),
"\nValidation set: \t{}".format(val_x.shape),
"\nTest set: \t\t{}".format(test_x.shape))
With train, validation, and text fractions of 0.8, 0.1, 0.1, the final shapes should look like:
Feature Shapes:
Train set: (20000, 200)
Validation set: (2500, 200)
Test set: (2500, 200)Here, we'll build the graph. First up, defining the hyperparameters.
lstm_size: Number of units in the hidden layers in the LSTM cells. Usually larger is better performance wise. Common values are 128, 256, 512, etc.lstm_layers: Number of LSTM layers in the network. I'd start with 1, then add more if I'm underfitting.batch_size: The number of reviews to feed the network in one training pass. Typically this should be set as high as you can go without running out of memory.learning_rate: Learning rate
In [31]:
lstm_size = 256
lstm_layers = 1
batch_size = 500
learning_rate = 0.001
For the network itself, we'll be passing in our 200 element long review vectors. Each batch will be batch_size vectors. We'll also be using dropout on the LSTM layer, so we'll make a placeholder for the keep probability.
Exercise: Create the
inputs_,labels_, and drop outkeep_probplaceholders usingtf.placeholder.labels_needs to be two-dimensional to work with some functions later. Sincekeep_probis a scalar (a 0-dimensional tensor), you shouldn't provide a size totf.placeholder.
In [32]:
n_words = len(vocab_to_int) + 1 # Adding 1 because we use 0's for padding, dictionary started at 1
# Create the graph object
graph = tf.Graph()
# Add nodes to the graph
with graph.as_default():
inputs_ =
labels_ =
keep_prob =
Now we'll add an embedding layer. We need to do this because there are 74000 words in our vocabulary. It is massively inefficient to one-hot encode our classes here. You should remember dealing with this problem from the word2vec lesson. Instead of one-hot encoding, we can have an embedding layer and use that layer as a lookup table. You could train an embedding layer using word2vec, then load it here. But, it's fine to just make a new layer and let the network learn the weights.
Exercise: Create the embedding lookup matrix as a
tf.Variable. Use that embedding matrix to get the embedded vectors to pass to the LSTM cell withtf.nn.embedding_lookup. This function takes the embedding matrix and an input tensor, such as the review vectors. Then, it'll return another tensor with the embedded vectors. So, if the embedding layer has 200 units, the function will return a tensor with size [batch_size, 200].
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# Size of the embedding vectors (number of units in the embedding layer)
embed_size = 300
with graph.as_default():
embedding =
embed =
Next, we'll create our LSTM cells to use in the recurrent network (TensorFlow documentation). Here we are just defining what the cells look like. This isn't actually building the graph, just defining the type of cells we want in our graph.
To create a basic LSTM cell for the graph, you'll want to use tf.contrib.rnn.BasicLSTMCell. Looking at the function documentation:
tf.contrib.rnn.BasicLSTMCell(num_units, forget_bias=1.0, input_size=None, state_is_tuple=True, activation=<function tanh at 0x109f1ef28>)you can see it takes a parameter called num_units, the number of units in the cell, called lstm_size in this code. So then, you can write something like
lstm = tf.contrib.rnn.BasicLSTMCell(num_units)to create an LSTM cell with num_units. Next, you can add dropout to the cell with tf.contrib.rnn.DropoutWrapper. This just wraps the cell in another cell, but with dropout added to the inputs and/or outputs. It's a really convenient way to make your network better with almost no effort! So you'd do something like
drop = tf.contrib.rnn.DropoutWrapper(cell, output_keep_prob=keep_prob)Most of the time, your network will have better performance with more layers. That's sort of the magic of deep learning, adding more layers allows the network to learn really complex relationships. Again, there is a simple way to create multiple layers of LSTM cells with tf.contrib.rnn.MultiRNNCell:
cell = tf.contrib.rnn.MultiRNNCell([drop] * lstm_layers)Here, [drop] * lstm_layers creates a list of cells (drop) that is lstm_layers long. The MultiRNNCell wrapper builds this into multiple layers of RNN cells, one for each cell in the list.
So the final cell you're using in the network is actually multiple (or just one) LSTM cells with dropout. But it all works the same from an achitectural viewpoint, just a more complicated graph in the cell.
Exercise: Below, use
tf.contrib.rnn.BasicLSTMCellto create an LSTM cell. Then, add drop out to it withtf.contrib.rnn.DropoutWrapper. Finally, create multiple LSTM layers withtf.contrib.rnn.MultiRNNCell.
Here is a tutorial on building RNNs that will help you out.
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with graph.as_default():
# Your basic LSTM cell
lstm =
# Add dropout to the cell
drop =
# Stack up multiple LSTM layers, for deep learning
cell =
# Getting an initial state of all zeros
initial_state = cell.zero_state(batch_size, tf.float32)
Now we need to actually run the data through the RNN nodes. You can use tf.nn.dynamic_rnn to do this. You'd pass in the RNN cell you created (our multiple layered LSTM cell for instance), and the inputs to the network.
outputs, final_state = tf.nn.dynamic_rnn(cell, inputs, initial_state=initial_state)Above I created an initial state, initial_state, to pass to the RNN. This is the cell state that is passed between the hidden layers in successive time steps. tf.nn.dynamic_rnn takes care of most of the work for us. We pass in our cell and the input to the cell, then it does the unrolling and everything else for us. It returns outputs for each time step and the final_state of the hidden layer.
Exercise: Use
tf.nn.dynamic_rnnto add the forward pass through the RNN. Remember that we're actually passing in vectors from the embedding layer,embed.
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with graph.as_default():
outputs, final_state =
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with graph.as_default():
predictions = tf.contrib.layers.fully_connected(outputs[:, -1], 1, activation_fn=tf.sigmoid)
cost = tf.losses.mean_squared_error(labels_, predictions)
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate).minimize(cost)
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with graph.as_default():
correct_pred = tf.equal(tf.cast(tf.round(predictions), tf.int32), labels_)
accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(correct_pred, tf.float32))
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def get_batches(x, y, batch_size=100):
n_batches = len(x)//batch_size
x, y = x[:n_batches*batch_size], y[:n_batches*batch_size]
for ii in range(0, len(x), batch_size):
yield x[ii:ii+batch_size], y[ii:ii+batch_size]
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epochs = 10
with graph.as_default():
saver = tf.train.Saver()
with tf.Session(graph=graph) as sess:
sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
iteration = 1
for e in range(epochs):
state = sess.run(initial_state)
for ii, (x, y) in enumerate(get_batches(train_x, train_y, batch_size), 1):
feed = {inputs_: x,
labels_: y[:, None],
keep_prob: 0.5,
initial_state: state}
loss, state, _ = sess.run([cost, final_state, optimizer], feed_dict=feed)
if iteration%5==0:
print("Epoch: {}/{}".format(e, epochs),
"Iteration: {}".format(iteration),
"Train loss: {:.3f}".format(loss))
if iteration%25==0:
val_acc = []
val_state = sess.run(cell.zero_state(batch_size, tf.float32))
for x, y in get_batches(val_x, val_y, batch_size):
feed = {inputs_: x,
labels_: y[:, None],
keep_prob: 1,
initial_state: val_state}
batch_acc, val_state = sess.run([accuracy, final_state], feed_dict=feed)
val_acc.append(batch_acc)
print("Val acc: {:.3f}".format(np.mean(val_acc)))
iteration +=1
saver.save(sess, "checkpoints/sentiment.ckpt")
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test_acc = []
with tf.Session(graph=graph) as sess:
saver.restore(sess, tf.train.latest_checkpoint('checkpoints'))
test_state = sess.run(cell.zero_state(batch_size, tf.float32))
for ii, (x, y) in enumerate(get_batches(test_x, test_y, batch_size), 1):
feed = {inputs_: x,
labels_: y[:, None],
keep_prob: 1,
initial_state: test_state}
batch_acc, test_state = sess.run([accuracy, final_state], feed_dict=feed)
test_acc.append(batch_acc)
print("Test accuracy: {:.3f}".format(np.mean(test_acc)))
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