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a wonderful film ahead of its time i think so in the eighty's it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that 20 times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin are simply wonderful also beverly d'angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don't get me wrong there are many more great performance's in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film

it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go you shouldn't really decide to watch this based on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldn't even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it couldn't they have just made earnest does dallas

this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive not destined to be a great one to remember

only light spoilers in here stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you're watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won't shut up or a victim's father responding to the criminal's death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it's quite unprofessional and adds nothing it's really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty however if you're able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline i voted 4 10

yes this is one of those movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie the other comments give the idea well enough the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses but the rat yes the big rat why we didn't get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me often the 'big one' isn't shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene after figuring out that the rats couldn't stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy if you've ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself but not for more than 99¢ ok

well where do i begin my story i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it and that it was supposed to be a horror movie well i figured out within the first 20 minutes what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie the plot was crap and so was the script the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically the cast couldn't have been more plastic looking even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker like they dragged on for no particular reason very poor editing all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money boo

this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you've got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat

following directly from where the story left off in part one the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man's legacy is exactly as such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to che—struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties the change of setting isn't just aesthetic from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle yet as che would go on to say himself—such a struggle is best told exactly as that—a struggle while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that part two takes a much more refined callous and bleak segment of che's life and ambition and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner while the movie's tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible this somewhat distant cold approach to telling che's story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man—if anything the entirety of che taken as a whole delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man's struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che is a slow moving reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who –arguably conducted the whole thing yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn't feel too disjointed from its predecessor but does enough to give it its own reference points here the basic structure of part one is echoed back—there's the initial struggle the battles the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement yet as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming and disquieting note this difference in combination with the similarities to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all means both could be digested one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such and enjoyed as they are but taken as one statement che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve indeed everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building realistically structured combat scenes—the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible but with a feature such as this part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don't necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged in fact upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review as a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively with that said i cannot rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part's ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie's characters without drawing attention to themselves che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film a review by jamie robert ward http www invocus net

sometimes it's hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody's idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret

i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today shot on a minimal budget of $40 000 with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against 'seamless' hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles' pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it's this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin's the naked city 1948 that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers camera obscura 8 10

based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps

this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say enough already! of course it isn't nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in 90 minutes eric phillips don wilson is an undercover cop in the near future when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg it is up to eric to clear her name wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me being a pm production there are tons of car chases exploding cars 4 in the first 5 minutes! and shoot outs i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don's simulator it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa 1995

shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho i'm leaning toward rip off after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better almost to the point of being original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpasses many in the yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks genre because it is actually shot in the south a group of college girls head to ft lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road note to yankees stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl has to pee so she heads into the woods when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankees do not wander off into the woods when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this is the point where the story not the movie actually comes close to being good while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i've seen since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of 1000 corpses a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her and in the strangest scene sheriff dean makes like he's about to rape patty carol cadby and tells her to take off her clothes dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he's about to do the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher's flock jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven

although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one's eyes open for

no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for the house next door from her 1970s novel of the same title or someone else did it this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough having read the book a long time ago we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials which of course one can't find in this version we watched the film's star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body ms boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better the film has a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wives and other better known features combined with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting

meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age based on william golding's trilogy these three 90 minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an aging man o' war in the early 19th century as he heads for a government position down under among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny 1st lieutenant who's worked his way up from the bottom jamie sives and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life's hardships man's inhumanities and his noblest sentiments those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o'brian's series of novels on which it was based will love this – for everyone else it's a whole new world to discover

wow this is really not that good i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good it is but it is nothing special the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies * ****

i have to point out before you read this review that in no way is this a statement against iranian people if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that i'm against politicians in general but if you're looking to be offended i can't help you! not in iran as this movie is banned there see imdb trivia for this movie which is a shame because the movie is great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin rightfully so it was the runner up or second place if you will why because it is a movie about oppression it's not even that this is a complete women issue it is about the government trying to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear! another reviewer had a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sums it up pretty well!

i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it's then that you know you aren't simply watching another silly 80's slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that! seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it's originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the 13th clone i know what i'd choose also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it's silly plot dug it into is the fact that it's extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there's nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that's not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn't any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it

after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women's behaviors in a small city in brazil this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han suyin jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them therefore suyin's attitudes always leave poor elliott – a determined brave and extremely practical man – anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time in fact suyin's chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people's life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad! the rice is bad! to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead's family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don't take advantage of their sorrow and fragility in other words suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone's daily life as the story takes place in hong kong in 1949 it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in 1973 took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of suyin's eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong in 1949 and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone! in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual!

first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn't know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i'd heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ! if imdb would allow one word reviews that's what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn't age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable! so my advice is don't watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a&c go to mars would be an improvement

once in a while a movie will sweep along that stuns you draws you in awes you and in the end leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form this is not it this is an action movie that lacks convincing action it stinks rent something else

hard to imagine this film is based on a true story and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring daniel day lewis is a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before the story is kinda bright and intriguing christy is not despised by the normals his life is also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes one important factor of christy's success is his mother's support which seems to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy's dream come true so lucky for christy!and hugh o'conor is also excellent as young christy what a performance for a child! the love story of christy is very well done trustful christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr eileen cole surprisingly played by fiona shaw i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind but anyway any woman has her own youth is paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love is a two edged sword happiness and agony are just next to each other btw jim sheridan's works are all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die trying' god knows why he chose to direct that crap! really a career taint for him what a pity!

i'm stunned that the reviewers imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did it's an innocuous sweet uncomplicated cliché' of a film that had two big names from the past in it both of whom did a decent job but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels i like a good romance as well as anyone but as my wife and i were watching this and before we saw the rating we said there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there's nothing in it to challenge their brains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preferences it's possible to make a good film like that and away from her is an example but this was amateur hour there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films watch the family stone it's miles ahead of this schlock

do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you've seen one of 4 films scott made at rko during his prime 1947 the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street the town's main street and the sod busters who feed our bellies it'll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won't say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they'd learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america's movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in 1972 in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood 2005 derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word 150 years ago when the city was named

i went to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest even a child can see the missing logic to character's behaviors today's kids need creative stories which would inspire them which would make them 'daydream' about the events that's precisely what happened with movies like e t and star wars a decade ago how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers seriously don't waste your time & money on this one

*sigh* leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool lordi is a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far to all you marketing idiots out there this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something lordi isn't scary lordi is lame lordi is over i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy sure they won the eurovision no wait they won the eurovision that's it i rest my case

after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that 2 of the episodes really are'nt that good but the other 4 certainly make up for it if i had to pick 2 great episodes id go for formula4 driver steve pising pronounced pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have'nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes

i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals the idiots that put it down on production value don't get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned

i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the 1970's there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it's one of the best comedies of the 1970's and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary's excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs 2 is so bad that it's fun meatballs 3 and meatballs 4 are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters

the film's design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country u s we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film befittingly the obvious of student v s teacher is present but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships male v s female white v s black and the individual v s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s himself i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides it did not attempt to show how either was right although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discusses sex and rape it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together for a time lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive other stars that make this film are omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper in fact i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other rather than some dry book as the real education at a university it is a life learning process not a textual one i think you'll find higher learning is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general 8 10

is rich ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or is she just overreacting or more precisely overacting as usual actually both are applicable in director joseph losey's wandering meandering mess called boom appropriately titled since tempers in the lush luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode richard burton climbs taylor's mountain uninvited she dresses him in a samurai's robe complete with saber though great looking in widescreen the picture is otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz 'n dick philes should shun the stars' collective what the hell! attitude to their late '60s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom is a catastrophe although screenwriter tennessee williams who adapted his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesn't stop here anymore was said to be quite fond of it! * from ****

i can't even describe it it's the worst movie i've ever seen i'm being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn't like to think much it's not even scary it's revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clichés and cook it for a week or so and you'll get the nun and i thought bad boys 2 was horrible!!!!

the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn't know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn't great but this is telly so it was fine i don't mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn't clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it'll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn't work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they've even spent any time with each other it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there's a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a 'one flew over the cuckoo's next 'twelve monkeys' type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story

lady and the tramp ii scamp's adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it's junior's turn lady and tramp's youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things scamp's mother and father did having an italian meal spagetthi and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie 10 out of 10

wow what's this on the video rental store's shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to 8mm it wasn't a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fiancée tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fiancée which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end i didn't like how this had nothing to do with the original 8mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn't believe the words coming out of david's mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least 11 ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress tish's father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn't even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good 10 seconds long out of an hour and 3 4 long movie go rent and maybe buy the original it's one of joel schumacher's better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn't recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges

ok honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great its really not there were two good things that came out of this movie 1 jack's performance he was very good i can tip my hat for him 2 danny's performance he was good no other then that it got pretty stupid and what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy she was so bad she looked the same every time she got scared the problem with this movie was the ending i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently and the over all movie was just stupid the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off 3 10

this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it's funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn't here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn't she take some precaution before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights!!! also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone! the phone company doesn't need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it's alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could've done it in a way that didn't look cartoony brave little toaster anyone

the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see academy award winners brenda fricker home alone lost in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o sanders jfk the day after tomorrow the story is centralized around a foster child up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents the two don't have much but what they do have angels' baseball and what they are seeking identity that's when 4 time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator 2 comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager george knox in relation all characters in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are depressed over the fact that roger jgl is separated from his father he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant odds are astronomical but 3 time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd is sitting with roger in the stands snacking on cracker jacks and causing some of baseball's biggest boners! dorothy kingsley and george wells' dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner 1951 screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominated in directors guild of america he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark played by tony danza 4 time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim clark has been dubbed a wash up a once big name in cinci but he has something to prove to manager knox spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the 18th century this one is a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we are marshall for all you ladies out there

i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i'm going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won't maybe i'll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it's a made for tv b movie

the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it was extremely funny angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie if you don't like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don't watch if you don't mind those you will have a blast watching this one

if somebody wants to make a really really bad movie wizards of the lost kingdom really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting work your way slowly painfully through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it on second thought skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half

a film for mature educated audiences i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i'm sure this story will not be everyone's cup of tea especially considering the film's darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford's very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss & betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer 2000 thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy's the sum of all fears 'fears' will be harrison ford's third outing as cia operative jack ryan director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas' congresswoman it's a very sharp & energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don't necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford's quiet man toughness the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford's character's investigation into police corruption look for a chilling & effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutch's investigation into police corruption the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd the technical side of pollack's thriller is top notched from dave grusin's pollack's the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film's unfortunate downer premise i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal & forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year ***1 2 out of **** or 8 5 out of 10 0

for all of the has beens or never was's or for the curious this film is for you ever played a sport or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left this film explores that and more robin williams jack dundee is a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life has been plagued by a miscue in a big rival high school football game 13 years ago when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield their arch rival that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets season after season kurt russell reno hightower was the quarterback in that famous game and is the local legend that now is a van repair specialist whose life is fading into lethargy like the town of taft itself williams gets an idea to remake history by replaying the game ! he meets with skeptical resistance so he goes on a one man terror spree and literally paints the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game after succeeding the players from that 1972 team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which is hysterical the game is on bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets game strategies and sophisticated training routines taft is drawing plays in the mud with sticks stones and bottle caps what a riot ! does taft overcome the odds does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels does kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of times for one of the best viewing experiences ever! one of robin williams best understated performances the chemistry between robin and russell is magic and who is kid lester holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell succeeds on many levels a 10 !

this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the ¨director¨spent the whole time on a tripod it doesn't have pace rhythm it's illogical what a mess you can tell what's gonna happen since the first 15 minutes and the ending wow spoiler jesus christ how the hell perrugorria got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever! end of spoiler bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn't recommend this movie at all it's a waste of money and time

i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the 90's their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst3k complete with bearded host capt frank drebin played by the stone faced dead pan filibuster leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky & hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled 3 times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt drebin notice he's a captain here has perfected it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of 6 golden episodes the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as 90 minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python's and now for something completely different if you liked airplane 1 & 2 naked gun 1 2 3 or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why 2 words no o j

a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuses him but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it starts a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero it can't be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeeds at being a nice film it's no masterpiece but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is even with the superhero thing going believable so thin story but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time 7 out of 10 broken hearts

i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don't say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children's film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children

the film someone had to make waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner's inquest the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it's pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it's at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the 60 minutes reports perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them

what a good movie! at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock illusions of fame well known rockers are getting old and forgotten not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever danced on bill haley's rock around the clock anyway still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n'roll i have ever seen far much better than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people are mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see characters with their own personality weaknesses and dreams like anyone of us spend a good time watching this listen to the awesome soundtrack! and finally thinking of your own future bye!

had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she's in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that's how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey 1929 88 is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a larda$$ and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift! in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don't have a cousin patty! and owen shouts you lied to me! and el cabongs larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic! 5 stars!

yes it is a bit cheesy but it's suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it's interesting to see david soul in a 'bad guy' role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i've watched movies or tv i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it's difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn't be universally sought after but i'm sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i'll keep hoping!

so it isn't an epic but for people experiencing anything similar sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well spent for some reason it hasn't really caught on in the audience something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it probably would have reached its audience in a much greater extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted impression

i absolutely loved this film! i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful i remember how hard it was when john was shot however watching the two of us took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what might have been aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which was so poignant the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel are appropriate given the circumstances

previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film's plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art on a scale of 1 to 10 i'd give it about an 8 75 the only reason i shy away from 9 is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it's a 10 i definitely think it's a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall 8 75

great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents

have to agree that this movie and it's talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here's hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors

i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday first of all i wanted to see gina lollobrigida and here i wasn't disappointed she looked gorgeous second of all through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca's films on this account however i was sadly disappointed i found the jokes predictable apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war and the characters completely one dimensional also the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i kept watching until the end but i got bored very quickly and just sat there waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida

this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were 5 of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ! ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap

this was my first gaspar noe movie i've watched and i have to say i was shocked i don't mind gore in generally but this isn't even gore it's real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can't stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i'll let you figure them out don't watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema

i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in 1993 tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i'm a big fan of tom selleck's and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can't imagine any other actor being able to pull off this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan's an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in

i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini gives his typical a performance the entire cast is funny the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives the best part to this film to me anyway were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped namely the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh!

although i lived in australia in 1975 i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman! and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the '80s and '90s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were riven by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama

i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will orhan be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l orhan fan for life

i never want to see this movie again! not only is it dreadfully bad but i can't stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick mostly i can't stand watching this terrible movie! frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films! i warn you don't watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come!

the problem is the role of the characters in the film man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film two people who are kidnapped treated like animals and yet given such a shallow stereotypical role within the film the kidnapper british anthropologist ends up being the hero of the film because he 'manages' to relate to the pygmies no notion of how the two hostages feel of their point of view of their ordeal i find it is a shallow film with a one sided fundamentally racist view it never manages to move away from the 'white mans' view

life begins and ends in a typical 1930's maternity recovery ward where we view 48 hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women played by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea as they await to give birth while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in 1932 was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member young eric linden as jed sutton grace's loretta young husband what an actor! as a first time father jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly i'd like to see more of this actor's work he had a very emotional voice which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia who screamed don't cut! don't cut! as scarlett fled the hospital in horror chilling! another great performance is from aline macmahon who plays miss bowers the nurse her character is a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession loretta young did another superb acting job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace my she is great in these precodes i've really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didn't anyone know back in 1932 that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies' health but her character redeems herself in the end also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star as a grieving italian husband his screen time was brief but notable life begins is a must see precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into 9 out of 10

this is a great film touching and strong the direction is without question breathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i

i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of names are that certainly not serbian! by the way caradan maldic!!! what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever!!!

*criticism does mention spoilers* i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of 6 and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about 10 minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie's character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse' hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie's character and denzel washington's of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a 4th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock's rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer's intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial 'chess game' and gets with his pet project angelina if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible 'woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you'd be bored

possible spoilers perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dreams come true is one of the worst movies ever made first of all the movie was made during the height of disney's sequel rampage it was created around the same time as the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which were disservices to their original film classics disney also made the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but i'm going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however was a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching in the original cinderella was kind and loving the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like i'm going to do this banquet my way! let me also tell you that new cinderella as i have affectionately named her says ewww! that is the anti cinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsisters is good! what the heck why they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia my question to the world did the people at disney watch the original cinderella when making this sequel well it surely doesn't seem so if i remember correctly anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine i am all for redemption and forgiveness but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia was evil in the second one she is good one just can't leave a story like this i hope disney realizes that this movie among other movies is shaming walt disney's name perhaps now that michael eisner is gone things will start shaping up around the house of mouse

hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of 8 s this movie's true score as mentioned before chris rock is the king! previous to going to see this movie i wasn't that over the top about him but now i'm banging on the doors of chris rock's website begging him to take me on as his protege this film is truly funny if you don't find this movie funny you really need therapy and it's humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably class division love wealth employment dreams stand up comedy the list goes on there was one slight disappointment for me however this was that in going into this film i didn't realise that it was actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie made in 1971 with warren beatty as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any you get the picture well to the actual plot of the film don't spoil the experience for yourself! don't read the plot! just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time go and see it because it's a cinema experience that doesn't leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets go see it because it is a good movie!

formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell's part is very small and doesn't add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare

whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscasting phase tennessee williams wrote the milk train doesn't stop here anymore and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play but apparently he was the only one taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money whatever it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears it's so campy that among taylor fans it's probably considered a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand you're way ahead of me sadly this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress even after winning two oscars for burton it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare

viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam margera and his pals johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on bam's torturing of his parents i'm sorry to say this bam but you're in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he's going to do whatever the f*** he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents' garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera's already too big ego i don't recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone

i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor like many others on here i don't know how to categorize this film it wasn't scary or spooky so can't be called a horror the plot was so wafer thin it can't be a drama there was no suspense so it can't be a thriller its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project people who liked this film used words like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn't there like the blair witch people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying this movie actually started off well with the family meeting the locals after hitting a deer it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next 45 minutes well over half the film nothing happened the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something does happen its not even clear how the father was shot how he dies the nurse said his liver was only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with 3rd grade special effects the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied i would have bailed out with 15 minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself it didn't

schlocky '70s horror films ya gotta love 'em in contrast to today's boring slasher flicks these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula this is a b movie about the making of a b movie that went horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth stars as an over the hill b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home her boyfriend director who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude is filming on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism is something they could have done without john carradine having long since given up looking for the 17th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate he goes about his daily work but always seems to run afoul of the director the horror builds slowly a dead cat here john carradine entering a grave there finally culminating in seven yes seven murders at least there's truth in advertising it's just sad that the ghoul didn't understand that there was a movie being made above him how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work face it you just can't go around tugging on satan's coat and expect him to take it lying down sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses

i suppose for 1961 this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now 45 years it's charm was just as silly as it's entertainment value ! granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in 1964 but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting ! i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview obviously not well staged or trained ! overall it's pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen's biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it barabara eden went on to play genie on t v micheal ansara was her husband now that is a cool part about this film ! i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat !

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 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 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 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 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

now i don't hate cheap movies i just don't see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad's camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great and it wasn't maybe i hate it because it's cheap has the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic characters ever and the really really really worst showdown in the history of films ever even tom savini can't save this seriously this one is a complete waste of time

a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do that being stealing from farms and killing prey until a trio of farmers decide they've had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem solved they are of course out foxed at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land the film version and i use the term film very loosely is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them they'll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book

as soon as it hits a screen it destroys all intelligent life forms around ! but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn't fall into any known movie category it deserves a brand new denomination of its own ! it's a neurological drama ! it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person's brain it's the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one it drives you speechless all you members go numb your mouth falls open and remains so and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf no small feat for such a sort of a movie the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage !!!!!!

for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesn't achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films ms gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not! we would like to see ms gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here

this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat delaney daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn't think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it's a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn't just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i'm your father and i'm smarter than you! this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce's wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart

the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i've been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i've always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement i'm not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don't see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though we have the standard 4 matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i'd recommend watching it's hard to sum up without giving away the winner next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it's heidenreich its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you're a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw's match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i'm a fan of both guys involved now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it's a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn't make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance i'd recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection

i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we'd stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other we called one of our mates zipmole watkins after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of 'restyling' on his nose by the back street abortionist lots of great lines remember at 5 30 in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy! gandhi as a local shopkeeper tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it's no good amanda i'll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought woodcock played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he'll mark your packages 'return to sender good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young drinkers' evenings sir **update i found a couple of episodes on tape i'm going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube **

destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island *prediction* the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it

stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film

this movie was way over hyped a lot of the viewers who thought this was amazing must have been into the old school movies cause the whole movie is set in the past at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass but it just going basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past and the 2 don't mix very well in this movie even with special effects you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying it's the greatest movie ever done it's just crap on a stick it also didn't help that the story line was sooo crappy i don't understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced and i also don't understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this it's almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print it will all be done on a computer this was a movie that should have been on a movie network because nothing about this movie was revolutionary i'm very upset with myself for paying money to see this whatever you do don't waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow

it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in 2005 this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn't they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting writer director david michael latt didn't have steven spielberg's budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed $588 million worldwide the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles who played a pastor that was giving up on his god gary busey was creepy as an army lt

i dunno sometimes you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved bat people which i saw under the title it lives by night is just such a movie you can't watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on night gallery and not one of the better ones either the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood actually you'd think if he was turning into a real bat he'd be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket but because this is a cheap lurid horror movie blood's the word in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat and black out episodes almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr mustache aspen extreme insists that he's just having an 'allergic reaction' to the rabies shots meanwhile the world's most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls and one wino also meanwhile the doctor's wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction it's not so much that the acting is bad you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script even the guy who plays the sheriff okay it is pretty bad but it's bad in a clichéd wooden professional way it's just that everything about the acting the way the scenes are paced the costumes the dialog the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to well slap everyone involved i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but 1 the director needed to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agreed to act and not just channel dennis weaver 2 he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bites human who then turns into a bat scenario 3 he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his 'episodes' instead of resorting to man has a seizure page from the little golden book of clichéd acting mannerisms 4 he needed to rework the whole 'wife' character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bots it's bad but it isn't bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still better than battlefield earth or waterworld though

big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting irkel and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don't laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention

tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie well all i can say is i totally regretted it! these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can't think of anything else because this movie is so cheap! fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven't disappointed me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled

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

nothing is sacred just ask ernie fosselius these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don't get off on their own self importance 25 years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no! that's what makes it so great! it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young! to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggie's nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always

i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art

i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies but my god!!! this was the worst movie i have ever seen bad acting bad effects bad script bad everything! the plot follows a group of teen cliche's on their way to a rave that takes place in broad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrives all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers the clan set's off on a mission through a zombie infested forest during this crusade they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clips from the hotd video game and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations one of the character's even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he was noble and brave but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled! i'm supposed to feel sorry for this guy ! to sum it all up there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen and i'm sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh*t could easily cover the costs it took to make it grade f

if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory gringy do i need to go on it's message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn't even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it's surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch i honestly feel like 1 hour and 40 minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for 10 minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for 20 minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband honestly this movie deserves nothing but a 1 10 and if your not happy with my preview seriously i'm an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film

this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn't matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won't go near it the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you've been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching $5 000 is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested members of elite army units don't see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they're exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism handguns hold at least 52 bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment's hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves the blonde girl really is the stupid one the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to 100 feet long in a matter of a day but don't grow at all in the weeks either side the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don't meet contact deadlines men with guns don't necessarily change the direction they're shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures women's intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds any time you're being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for 'swearing' at the same volume old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military