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terrible movie . nuff say . these line be just filler . the movie be bad . why i have to expand on that i do not know . this be already a waste of my time . i just want to warn others . avoid this movie . the act suck and the writing be just moronic . bad in every way . the only nice thing about the movie be deniz akkaya breast . even that be ruin though by a terrible and unneeded rape scene . the movie be a poorly contrive and totally unbelievable piece of garbage . ok now i be just go to rag on imdb for this stupid rule of 10 line of text minimum . first i waste my time watch this offal . then feel compel to warn others i create an account with imdb only to discover that i have to write a friggen essay on the film just to express how bad i think it be . totally unnecessary .

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assume this would not end up a straight to video release and i would have to say void this title at all cost . unless youre bore of good and well executed movie and that be . i saw this last night at afi dallas and and i leave with 20 minute remain and simply because i do not care anymore ( about the plot and not about insult the director . that be awkward ) . when you can spot a goof only 5 minute into the movie ( a shot out and shatter window before any shot be fire . and then the window break with the first shot ) and thing be go to bad . let just say this be only an indicator of thing to come . unfortunately . i will spare you all the detail and but this be sub par in every manner and even the half assed acting by michael madsen be disappoint when youre expect half assed act from him . and the rape scene . christ . shut up and take it should never be use in a rape scene . ever . negative .

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sometimes a movie be so comprehensively awful it have a destructive effect on your morale . you begin to really ask yourself and what do it mean for our society that the standard be so terribly low . can they honestly expect that we will endure this many clichés and still be entertain . of course and it be still a hollywood mainstay to make the gun the major character and plot device and and the source of all conflict and resolution in film . character need a gun . get a gun . can not do that because he have a gun . put his gun down first . oh my god what be we go to do . he have a gun . he wave it around and act more malicious than real human being ever do . he push it in someone face for 90 minute and shout question . the hallmark of any conclusion will be the comfort sound of police siren . it a real challenge to make such a tired and hackneyed formula work again while a film have to be very clever and well execute . this one be neither . it have no life and no personality and and it will suck these component from you . it will make you feel bad about living in the time and space that you do . really and who need that . so yes and i will say it represent i think this may well be the bad film i have ever see . anyone who be involve in the making of this sub mediocre soul kill trash should be publicly embarrass for the disservice they have do to u all .

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i have to congratulate the genius who approve this one . edward furlong and youre not as good a you think mate and you can not grab on every piece of low cost amateur crap and which sole intention have to be to get some buck . the filming be bad and and i mean bad . anyone with a camera would get the same result and or good . the acting and let just say represent do not go to the supermarket look for actor . the good one usually come with a degree or and at least and have some damn experience . the director . mr. jon keeyes and please find your purpose in life and a a director you simply suck . your directing be poor and the angle be all mess up ( not in a good way ) and the line seem a if theyre be read out of toilet paper and and the damn music . it always come up when it shouldn not and go out for no apparent reason . and do not go for writer either and by the way . make movie isn not like serve on a coffeshop and it require art and skill and thing i really doubt you will ever have . instead of make a badass shootout movie and you should have shoot this one back to oblivion and wait till something good come up . or just go find a job on a coffeshop . you will have less stress and you will save movie goer some money and a bad night . vote represent negative ( my first one ) .

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i rent this one on dvd without any prior knowledge . i be suspicious see michael madsen appear in a movie i have never hear of and but it be a freebie and so why not check it out . well my guess be that mr. blonde would very much like to forget he ever take part in such a shame of a film . apparently and if your script and dialog be terrible and even good actor can not save the day . not to mention the amateur actor that flood this film . too many non native english speaker play part of native english speaker and read out line from a script that should have be throw away and not have be make into a movie . it unbelievable how unbelievable all the line in the movie sound . the music be awful and totally out of place and and the whole thing look and sound like a poor school play . i recommend you watch it just so you would appreciate other and good and movie . this be why i give it a 3 instead of the 1 it deserve .

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i saw this dvd in my friend house and think that this be a turkish action movie with some hollywood not very big name in it . interested enough i decide to give it a shot later . it be a tough to bear experience believe me . then and after finally see the credit roll i tought we turks really suck at hollywood style film making . this be an insult to the heist|hostage movie genre . but then wait . i check some name and no and they be not turkish name and no and this be not a turkish movie while on the contrary it be literally shoot in america with an american director and crew . that make me think again . how on earth can you persuade name like micheal madsen and edward furlong or even arnold vosloo to take part in such a project . with money probably . that keep me think far . how can you raise such amount of money to offer them and a supposedly international cast . then all my meditation pay off and i come to find the answer . by hire the cheap equipment and crew that you can find . and if you still have to difficulty in adjustin your budget then represent by write and direct the movie you be try to produce or vice versa i do not have any information on that . so bottom line this be not a bad movie a everybody be so anxious to present a . it make you think in my case even meditate and there be a lot of movie outthere that doesn not give even that affect . this one at least make you think while it make you wonder . it leave you with disbelief . and then it make you wonder again .

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what be with all the turkish actor . no offense but i think it be all for nothing for all these actor . the film have no script to test any actor act skill or ability . it demand next to nothing i buy this film to see michael madsen . he be one of my favorite actor but this film be another failure for him . the script be so bad . their be just nothing to sink your teeth into and all the character be two dimensional . madsen try to act like a hard as but the script and direction do not even allow him to do enough with his character to make it more interesting or 3 dimensional . even the sound effect of the gunfight at the beginning of the film sound like the noise of paint ball gun when they be fire in a skirmish . it be really weird and they do not sound like real gun . a video game have good sound effect than this film . there be also a really annoy bloke at the beginning of the film who be a member of the robbery gang . he have this american whining voice like a girl shout line like let get the f # $ k out of here and what be we go to do man . he sound like a girl . a a positive it be funny to watch and it make me laugh too . for a few second . whoo hoo . dumb film . poor madsen . he will bounce back .

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this movie be terrible . at first i just read the plot summary and it look ok and so i watch it . the acting be terrible . it be like the actor be almost camera shy . everything seem fake . i feel bad for edward furlong and terminator 2 be my favorite a few year ago . i have watch it at least 20 time . the plot be also crap . the writer be probably sleep deprive when they come up with the line . on the plus side and it the good kind of bad movie . the one you keep watch just to see how much worst could it will get and so that late you can tell other people how you couldn not believe how terrible the movie be . i think everybody should watch this and so that then we could appreciate good other and real and movie .

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i be a big fan of arnold vosloo . finally see him a the star of a recent movie and not just a bit part and make me happy . unfortunately i take film appreciation in college and the only thing i can say that i do not like be that the film be make in an abandoned part of town and there be no background traffic or lookie loo . i have to say that the act leaf something to be desire and but arnold be an excellent actor and i have to chalk it up to lousy direction and the support cast leave something to be desire . i love arnold vosloo and and he make the film viewable . otherwise and i would have write it off a another lousy film . i find the rape scene brutal and unnecessary and but the actor that get away at the end be pretty good . but the sound effect of the shoot out be pretty bad . there be some glitch in the film ( continuity ) but they be overlookable consider the low caliber of the film . all in all i enjoy the film and because arnold vosloo be in it . jackie .

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this be an art film that be either make in 1969 or 1972 ( the national film preservation foundation say 1969 and imdb say 1972 ) . regardless of the exact date and the film definitely appear to be very indicative of this general time period with some camera work and pop art stylings that be pure late 60 early 70 . the film consist of three simple image that be distort use different weird camera trick . these distorted image be accompany by music and there be absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort . this be obviously intend a almost like a form of performance art and and like most performance art and it interest at first but quickly become tiresome . the film and to put it even more bluntly and be a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who make the film and their family and friend and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understand by u mortal .

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nine minute of psychedelic and pulsating and often symmetric abstract image and be enough to drive anyone crazy . i do spot a full frame eye at the start and and later some bird silhouette against other color . it be just not my cup of tea . it about 8½ minute too long .

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there be lot of extremely good look people in this movie . that probably the best thing about it . perhaps that even make it worth watch . load tell the story of tristan price ( jesse metcalfe ) and a young man who about to make his mark on the world . he the son of a well to do family with a good reputation and and he on his way to law school . but like so many such setting and thing aren not quite as perfect a they appear . the expectation in this family far outweigh the love . except for school and tristan father rarely let him leave the house . this seem to be the result of some past traumatic event that shake the family and which be partially reveal through flashback but isn not spell out until the very end . tristan claustrophobic environment cause him to let loose in very extreme way at the first possible opportunity and when his friend take him out to a strip club to celebrate his graduation . the celebration soon follow some stripper back to a beach house party and and from there and tristan befriends sebastian cole ( corey large ) and who pull him into a drug deal underworld . while technically well make and this movie suffer from a lackluster script and a storyline that isn not very engage . also count against this film be some constant camera trick that generally seem annoying and out of place and such a slow motion and fast motion and freeze frame and echo . these be the type of effect a director might normally utilize to show a character perspective while on drug and except in this case they seem to have be sporadically toss in at random point and in some cheap attempt at style . despite it cast of relative unknown and performance be good all around and most notably with respect to the main antagonist ( corey large ) . i suspect we will be see at least a couple of these people in big and good project in the future . of course and when mention the actor and i must mention their look . rating base on hotness and this movie score an 11. the woman in this movie be incredible look and almost distract you from what a boring movie youre watch . i be sure the male character be also quite attractive and but you will have to ask someone else to comment on that . overall and i can not recommend this movie and not for buy and rent and or even see for free . it unfortunately just not worth the effort it take to sit through .

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this be it . this be the one . this be the bad movie ever make . ever . it beat everything . i have never see bad . retire the trophy and give it to these people . there just no comparison . even three day after watch this ( for some reason i still do not know why ) i can not believe how insanely horrific this movie be or be . it so bad . so far from anything that could be consider a movie and a story or anything that should have ever be create and bring into our existence . this make me question whether or not human be truly put on this earth to do good . it make me feel disgust with ourselves and our progress a a specie in this universe . this type of movie sincerely hurt u a a society . we should be ashamed . i really can not emphasize that our global responsibility a people live here and create art and be that we need to prevent the creation of these gross distortion of our reality for our own good . it an embarrassment . i do not know how on earth any of these actor and writer and or the director of this film sleep at night know that they have a role in make loaded . i do not know what type of disgust monster enjoy watch these type of movie . that be say and i love a good bad movie . i love shark attack 3 and i love bad taste and they be hilarious . i tell all my friend to see them because they be bad . but this . this cross the line of bad into a whole new dimension . this be awkward bad . this be the bad where you know everything that be go to happen and every line and every action and every death and every sequence before they happen while and not just like a second or two before and i mean like and after watch the first 5 minute before . every cheesy edit effect be shamelessly use over and over again to a sickening point . i really never want to see the shaky camera drug buzz rush effect or jump cut or swerve cut or any fancy cut ever again ever . this be meticulously boring and repetitive and just torture the audience . but . and let me be specific here and the most disturbing thing about this movie be that give the production and it appear that a somewhat decent amount of money be actually put into this excrement . i personally will grab the shoulder of the director if i ever see him and shake him into submission and demanding that he run home and swallow two gallon of drain o or i will do it for him . if we ever need a new form of inhumane torture for our war prisoner abroad and just keep show them this movie in a padded cell over and over again . trust me and i think they will become more extravagant with suicide method after the 72nd time of sit through this . stop these movie and they be just the most vile of all facet of our society . please . stop . now .

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there be time when finish a film one wish to have a refund for the time just spend . this be one of those time . i almost give up with only 15 minute leave to endure . and i wish i have . the pace that a man go from a straight lace and control life to one of complete spinelessness and irresponsibility could never be this rapid . from a graduation celebration to the predictable end tristan price ( jesse metcalfe ) man of privilege and culture allow himself to be seduce by a woman and by violence and and by mind alter substance . of course and the woman part be understandable when observe the talent of the beautiful april ( nathalie kelley ) . but the in for a penny in for a pound aspect of the drug and violence and dedication to a person he have just meet be impossible to understand . frankly and besides be able to stare at nathalie kelley and monica keena and this film have no redeeming quality . save your money and save your time . do anything else .

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weak plot and predictable violence and only semi interesting character . like the writer ( also one of the star . ) be fictionalize his own screw ups and add an incredulous fantasy of drug and murder to make it hot . from the predictable rap and house soundtrack and to the family conflict and it poorly act and stereotypical and and ultimately terribly bore . even the title have be do before imdb list five movie with the same name release in 2007 2008. note represent saw it on showtime and which list the synopsis for one of the other movie . be halfway thru before i realize no one be an undercover cop . even tho another stereotype and would have make it interesting if it happen .

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all i could think of while watch this movie be b grade slop . many have speak about it redeem quality be how this film portray such a realistic representation of the effect of drug and an individual and their subsequent spiral into a self perpetuation state of unfortunate event . yet really and the technique use ( a many have already mention ) be overuse and thus unconvincing and irrelevant to the film a a whole . as far a the plot be concern and it be lacklustre and unimaginative and implausible and convolute . you can read most other report on this film and they will say pretty much the same a i would . grant some of the actor and actress be attractive but when confront with such boring action . look can only carry a film so far . the action be poor and intermittent represent a few punch throw here and there and and a final gunfight towards the end . nothing really to write home about . a others have say and bad movie be great to watch for the very reason that they be bad and you revel in that fact . this film and however and be a void . it nothing . furthermore and if one be really in need of an educational movie to scare people away from drug use then i would seriously recommend any number of other movie out there that board such issue in a much more effective way . requiem for a dream and trainspotting and fear and loathing in la vega and candy be just a few example . though one should also check out some more lighthearted film on the same subject like go ( overall and both serious and funny ) and halfbaked . on a final note and the one possibly redeem line in this movie and deliver by vinnie jones be steal from lock and stock and two smokling barrel . to think that a bit of that great movie have be taint by load be vile . overall and i strongly suggest that you save you money and your time by not see this movie .

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if you look at corey large information here on imdb and apparently there a movie call reload in production ( a of june 08 ) in which he play a character name sebastian cole . first of all and how do such a crappy movie ever earn a sequel . and second and do not sebastian get kill at the end of loaded . i watch this in the wee hour of the morning when i be battle insomnia and and so i be drift in and out while it be on . i be sure i miss some plot point and but overall and it seem really weak . large performance be ( for me ) one of the strong part of the film . i be also a bit surprised at all the people comment on the beautiful girl and since i think the actress play brooke be pretty and but not exceptional .

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this film have a lot of promise and and the plot be relatively interesting and however the actor and director and editor seriously let this film down . i feel bad for the writer and it could have be good . the acting be wooden and very few of the character be believable . who ever edit this clearly just learn some new edit technique and want to splash them all over the film . there be lot of quick flashy edits in almost every scene and which be clearly mean to be symbolic but just end up a annoying . i want to like this film and expect there to be a decent resolution to the breakdown of equilibrium but alas no and it leave me feel like i would waste my time and the film maker have waste their money .

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this be one of the dumb film and i have ever see . it rip off nearly ever type of thriller and manage to make a mess of them all . there not a single good line or character in the whole mess . if there be a plot and it be an afterthought and as far a acting go and there nothing good to say so ill say nothing . i honestly cant understand how this type of nonsense get produce and actually release and do somebody somewhere not at some stage think and oh my god this really be a load of shite and call it a day . it crap like this that have people download illegally and the trailer look like a completely different film and at least if you have download it and you haven not waste your time or money don not waste your time and this be painful .

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6/10 act and not great but some good acting . 4/10 director and make some stupid decision for this film . negative writer and story make no sense at all and have huge amount of flaw . 4/10 overall score for this movie . don not waste your time with this film and it not worth it . i give 4 for this movie and it may be too much . character be so over exaggerate than they can ever be in real life and some pretty unexplainable stuff happen storywise and not in good way . because of the style this film have be film you get bore after 30 minute ( too many special effect represent slow motion and camera shake and fast forward ) . it always good that movie use music to make the story go smooth but there too many track in this one . in the first hour there be almost 50/50 dialog and music .

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this be really a new low in entertainment . even though there be a lot bad movie out . in the gangster or drug scene genre it be hard to have a convincing storyline ( this movie do not and i mean sebastians motif for example couldn not be more far fetch and wear out cliché . ) then you would also need a setting of character relationship that be believable ( this movie do not . ) sure tristan be draw away from his family but why be that again . what the deal with his father again that he have to ask permission to go out at his age . interesting picture though to ask about the lack and need of rebellious behavior of kid in upper class family . but this movie do not go in this direction . even though there would be the potential judging by the random backflashes . wasn not he already down and out and why do he do it again . so there be some interesting question bring up here for a solid socially critic drama ( but then again and this movie be just not and because of focus on cool production technique and special effect an not give the character a moment to reflect and most of all force the story along the path where they want it to be and not pay attention to let the story breath and naturally evolve . ) it want to be a drama to not glorify abuse of substance and violence ( would be political incorrect these day and wouldn not it . ) but on the other hand it be nothing more then a cheap action movie ( like there be so so many out there ) with an average set of actor and a vinnie jones who be manage to not totally ruin what left of his reputation by do what he always do . so all in all i . just . can not recommend it . 1 for vinnie and 2 for the editing .

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from the beginning of the movie and it give the feel the director be try to portray something and what i mean to say that instead of the story dictate the style in which the movie should be make and he have go in the opposite way and he have a type of move that he want to make and and write a story to suite it . and he have fail in it very badly . i guess he be try to make a stylish movie . any way i think this movie be a total waste of time and effort . in the credit of the director and he know the medium that he be work with and what i be try to say be i have see bad movie than this . here at least the director know to maintain the continuity in the movie . and the actor also have give a decent performance .

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i basically skim through the movie but just enough to catch watch the plot be about . to tell you the truth it be kind of boring to me and at some spot it do not make sense . the only reason i watch this movie in the first place be to see chace crawford . he be so hot and but in this movie his hair be kind of weird . but still hot . however and despite how hot chace be and it really do not make up for the film . i guess the plot isn not that bad but what really throw me over be the fact that they cuss in like every sentence . be it that hard to express your anger without say the f word every time . the cussing be annoy and the whole flashy and camera shake thing give me a headache . all in all and although the plot be ok and i find the film to be a bore and over dramatic . that why i only cut to scene with chace in it . lol anyways and not worth rent unless your a die hard fan of a specific cast member like i be . oh yeah the cast be hot . the girl be hot . but chace be the best .

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this fanciful horror flick have vincent price play a mad magician that realize his vocational talent have be sell to another . he devise way of avenge all those that have wrong him . his master scheme seem to back fire on him . price be a little below par compare to his masterpiece and but be still the only reason to watch this thriller . support cast include patrick oneal and mary murphy and eva gabor and jay novello .

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if i have not read pat barker union street before see this film and i would have like it . unfortuntately this be not the case . it be actually my kind of film and it be well make and and in no way do i want to say otherwise and but a an adaptation and it fail from every angle . the harrowing novel about the reality of living in a northern england work class area grab hold of my heartstrings and refuse to let go for week after i have finish . i be put through tear and repulsion and shock and anger and sympathy and misery when read about the woman of union street . excellent . a novel that at time i felt i could not read any more of and but i novel i simply couldn not put down . depress yes and but utterly gripping . the film . oh dear . hollywood take barker truth and reality and and shower a layer of sweet icing sugar over the top of it . a beautiful film and an inspiring soundtrack and excellent performance and a tale of hope and romance . yes . an adaptation of union street . no . the woman of union street and their story be condense into fonda character and their story be touch on and but many be discard . i accept that some of barker tale be sensitive issue and be too horrific for mass viewing and and that a film with around 7 leading protagonist just isn not practical and but the content be not my main issue . the essence and the real gut of the novel be lose darkness and rain and broken window cover with cardboard and and the graphically describe stench of poverty be replace with sunshine and pretty house and and a twinkling william score . if you enjoy the film for it positivity and hope in the face of reality and i advise that you hesitate to read the book without first prepare yourself for something more like schindler list . but without the happy end .

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i saw the capsule comment say great acting . in my opinion and these be two great actor give horrible performance and and with zero chemistry with one another and for a great director in his all time bad effort . robert de niro have to be the most ingenious and insightful illiterate of all time . jane fonda performance uncomfortably drift all over the map a she clearly have no handle on this character and mostly because the character be so poorly write . molasses like would be too swift an adjective for this film excruciate pace . although the film intent be to be an uplifting story of cure illiteracy and watch it be a true bummer . i give it negative and truly one of the bad 20 movie for it budget level that i have ever see .

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robert deniro play the most unbelievably intelligent illiterate of all time . this movie be so wasteful of talent and it be truly disgust . the script be unbelievable . the dialog be unbelievable . jane fonda character be a caricature of herself and and not a funny one . the movie move at a snail pace and be photograph in an ill advise manner and and be insufferably preachy . it also plug in every cliche in the book . swoozie kurtz be excellent in a supporting role and but so what . equally annoy be this new imdb rule of require ten line for every review . when a movie be this worthless and it doesn not require ten line of text to let other reader know that it be a waste of time and tape . avoid this movie .

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story of a man who have unnatural feeling for a pig . start out with a opening scene that be a terrific example of absurd comedy . a formal orchestra audience be turn into an insane and violent mob by the crazy chanting of it singers . unfortunately it stay absurd the whole time with no general narrative eventually make it just too off put . even those from the era should be turn off . the cryptic dialogue would make shakespeare seem easy to a third grader . on a technical level it good than you might think with some good cinematography by future great vilmos zsigmond . future star sally kirkland and frederic forrest can be see briefly .

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be you familiar with concept of child artwork . while it be not the great picasso any three year old have ever accomplish with their finger and you encourage them to do more . if painting be what make them happy and there should be no reason a parent should hold that back on a child . typically and if a child love to paint or draw and you will immediately see the groundwork of their future style . you will begin to see their true form in these very primitive doodle . well and this concept of child artwork be how i felt about fuqua depressingly cheap and uncreative film bait . while on all account it be a horrid film and it be impressive to see fuqua style begin emerge through even the messy of moment . if you have see either train day or king arthur and you will be impress with the birth of this director in his second film bait . while foxx give a horrid and unchained performance and there be certain scene and which define fuqua and demonstrate his brilliance behind the camera . sadly it only emerge in the final thirty minute of the film and but if you focus just on those scene and you will see why fuqua name appear on so many best of film list . i will never disagree with someone that fuqua eye behind the camera be refresh and unique . his ability to place a camera in the strangest of place to convey the simple of emotion be shock . i be surprise that more of hollywood hasn not jump aboard this bandwagon . even in the silly feature bait and you be witness to fuqua greatness . two scene that come directly to mind be the explosion scene near the middle of the film and the horse scene close to the end . in both of these scene i saw the director fuqua at work . ala and in the rest of this film and all i saw be a combination of nearly every action film create . the likable hero down on his luck that suddenly find his life turn around by some unknown force be a classic structure that just need to die in hollywood . we have see this two often and and no matter who you be ( unless you be charlie kaufmann ) and you can not recreate the wheel . it be just impossible with this genre and and it be prove with bait . i be annoy with fuqua for just sit back and allow this to happen and which could explain why it take me three viewing to finish this film . i be just tire of the structure and and while i hop that fuqua would redefine it and he do not . then and there be the acting . while jamie foxx have never impress me a an actor and i be willing to give this helmed vehicle a try . i want to see if he could pull off another dramatic role similar to collateral . i be under the impression that perhaps this be the film choose to show producer that foxx could handle the role in collateral . again and i be disappoint . foxx be annoy . not in the sense that it be the way that his character be to be and but in the sense that it felt a if neither fuqua nor foxx take the time to fully train foxx on what should be ad libed and what should be use to further the plot . instead and we be downtrodden with scene over scene of foxx just try to make the audience laugh . add second long quip and culture statement just to keep his audience understanding that he be a comedian first and an actor second . fuqua should have stop this immediately . foxx joke destroy his character and which in turn leave me with nothing solid to grasp ahold of . instead of character development and he would crack a joke . neither style work and no joke be funny . the rest of the cast be average . by this i mean i have see them all in similar role . they be brine nothing new to the table and nothing solid to the story and and nothing substantial to the overall theme of the film . they be pawn fill in dead air space . fuqua have no control over this mess and and the final verdict only support that accusation . overall and this be a sad film . with no creativity in sight and unmanaged actor just try to upstage themselves and what originally start a a decent story eventually sunk faster into the cinematic quicksand . foxx be annoy and without character line and and a complete bag of cheese . in each scene i saw no emotion and and when emotion be need to convey a message and he choose to take his shirt off rather than tackle the issue . be my word harsh . i do not think so . when you watch any movie you want to see some creativity and some edible character and and theme that seem to hit close to home . bait contain none of these . while i will give fuqua some credit for two of the scene in this film and the remain five hundred be disastrous . apparently and i take the bait when rent this film and but now have see it and hopefully i can stop others from take that curious nibble . grade represent out of ( for his two scene that be fun to watch ) .

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ah and bait . how do i hate thee . let me count the way . 1. you try to be funny and but be corny and unenjoyable while every joke be predictable and expect and and when it come and do not inspire laughter . instead and i want to hurl . 2. you try to be dramatic and but be unbelievable while the woman overact to a terrible degree and and the bad guy look like bill gate and and be about as scary a . well and bill gate . ( just try to imagine bill gate try to intimidate somebody with a gun . doesn not work and do it . a lawyer and maybe and but not a gun . doesn not fit . ) a for jamie foxx and well and just watch him try to deliver a dramatic and heartfelt dialogue be ludicrous and and make me want to hurl . 3. you try to be action pack and but instead be dull and drag too many time . and when the action heat up and the tripod for the camera must have be lose and for the scene wobble more than those in the blair witch project and and i find myself nauseated and and once again i want to hurl . 4. you try to be a good movie and but you fail and you fail and you fail . i would rather walk barefoot across the sahara with a pack full of beef jerky and no water and no sunscreen and and only meryl streep for company . this hell would be lovely than a single minute more spent watch everyone in bait overact their way through an idiotically write story with bill gate for a bad guy and and let not even talk about the massive bomb that go off in a car that jamie foxx character have just drive off a cliff and but somehow manage to escape . just kill me now and or do the right thing and promise me that somehow i will never have to watch a movie that be this bad and ever again .

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the premise of the movie have be explain and if you have get this far you do not me to pretend that i be a movie critic . with that be say my own opinion of the movie be quite low . i be a fan of takashi miike but this go down in the category of his not so great work along with doa 2 and 3 and and some others ( many ) . the movie seem to get a free pas because it be a takashi film and nothing takashi do can be wrong . this be a highschoolers approach to cinema . for the rest of u we will find and hour and a half of a kid scream for no real reason completely annoy ( and yes and this do take away from the film ) and the pace of the film almost reach level of rigomortis and and the acting . well . hmmm . if one be a takashi fan you will see it regardless to peak your interest . it lack any originality ( see the neverending story ) or any character development from the lead character in the face of conflict other then a quite superficial one . a it have be point out this be the first film miike have be credit with co writing and but that doesn not mean much a non of what we would hope would be miike personality would spill over into the screen . all we get be some of the token miike shot vis the director of photography . the movie have the potential to be something great . the premise be not a difficult one to run wild with . but this one seem to have be run into the ground . my suggestion be if youre just get into miike be go with some of the standard like gozu and ichi and and audition . then movie into his work like blue harp and fudoh and rainy dog and bird people of china .

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uninspired direction leave a decent cast strand in a handsome but bland adaptation and in which dialogue seem recite rather than heartfelt and and cash strap appearance by the ghost fail to round up any sense of awe or magic while edward woodward and a the ghost of christmas present and wobble around on stilt and seem to be do an impression of bernard cribbins . a scrooge and george c. scott be too wry and and he never seem to truly believe in it and which rob his performance of it effect . the scene in which he show his past have as much impact a if he be half heartedly flick through his family album . no one else seem to be put any effort in and except frank finlay and who chronically overact .

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i be sooooo excite to see this movie after finally read the book this week . my 13 year old son be look forward to it too . i rent it and snuggle down to enjoy a classic holiday story bring to life on screen . boy and be i disappointed . this movie veer off from the book more time than be forgivable . george c. scott be an excellent actor but in this and it seem that he be fully into character only about 20 % of the time . the rest of the time he be quite flat . i realize that this be make in 84 and pre cg effect and for the most part . but it look to be very b movie quality and especially the encounter with jacob marley . the big disappointment be the fact that they leave out one of the most moving part of the story represent when the spirit of christmas present take scrooge on the whirlwind tour of the world and observe people in the bleakest of circumstance still have the light and love of christmastime . i will admit that mr. scott do a good job with the reform scrooge at the end . that be a refreshing portrayal . i wish that bob cratchit have be portray a a little more ragged and down trodden . and tiny tim . oh do not even get me start on bad child actor .

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have see three other version of the same film and i be afraid for me this be by far the weak and primarily due to scott rather dull and leaden performance . his emotion throughout be so bland it make it difficult to engage in the film . alistair sim portray the role infinitely well . when scrooge be at his mean and you do not get the sense scott be say the dialogue with much conviction and when he undergo his metamorphosis he be similarly unconvincing . i can not think of any actor in this film who match those from the alistair sim version . even the musical version ( and frankly the muppets ) take on this be well execute . very disappointing .

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saw this movie in my english class this afternoon and be surprise by how bad this version be . don not get me wrong and george c. scott be terrific a scrooge and but the rest of the cast fail so very badly . sometimes i couldn not stop laughing at the stupid acting and the repeated line represent merry christmas to everyone . other time i almost fell asleep . the movie be base on a charles dickens short story about a rich guy and who do not think christmas be nothing but humbug . after 30 minute and the rich guy be visit by three ghost and who persuade him to celebrate christmas after all . i can not understand how this movie and with a script so bad it must have be write in five minute and can be so well rat . instead of this piece of garbage and i recommend to you and the bill murray comedy scrooged . that at least and be funny .

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when will the hurt stop . i never want to see another version of a christmas carol again . they keep on make movie with the same story and fall over each other in try to make the movie well then the rest and but sadly fail to do so and a this be not a good story . moralistic and old fashion and conservative happy thinking . a if people learn . the numerous different version of this film prove that we do not .

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it be 9 represent30 pm last night at my friend camp trailer and we be so hyped to watch south park ( a new episode ) . the thing be and in my country and south park air at 10 represent30 pm and we decide to kill time by watch the show now air and father of the pride . i will start by say that i have only watch to episode . the first time i watch it and i find it unfunny and crude for nothing and so i think holy sht and i have a football game early tomorrow and so i have to stop watch stupid cartoon . but yesterday and i try to give father of the pride a second chance . i find that it a complete rip off of the simpson and only replace yellow human character by lion instead . the second thing be i wonder why it get it tv 14 rating . i find the simpson a lot more vulgar and and the only real vulgarity in this show be a few homosexual ( unfunny ) joke . the simpson be also a lot more violent ( halloween special ) and crude . i also hear that the creator of the series have also direct shrek 2 and well i have get news for him represent shrek 2 be way well and i think he stay too much in the family thematic . however and i must admit that father of the pride do make me smile ( even burst out laugh once ) three or four time . all in all and i do not mind father of the pride . i do not hate it and but i do not like either . i have see way well from the simpson . 3 . 5/10 .

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this be blatantly a futuristic adaptation of jules verne mysterious island . the sound editing be pretty bad . you hear the dialogue on set and you hear the voice be record on a recording booth at the same time . this be an amateur film with actor from boston and shot around new hampshire . for those live in new engalnd and who be read this comment will be wow with a capital w. this film be full of flaw . you get to hear the director voice give direction and give out direction to the actress . ok now stand up . a for the other character . there be this guy who talk with his mind instead of his voice and this blue alien . the alien guy talk with a deep voice . when he be yawn or grunt when he be fight you hear the actor voice . a for the special effect and man . this be brett piper early work for cry out loud . the creature be good but the animation be jerky . really jerky . sort of like karl zeman animation in journey to begin of time ( 1955 ) . the special effect be imaginative . thge music be good . bottom line and this film make equinox or planet of the dinosaur look like a ray harryhausen epic . do you know mysterious planet be a home movie and be on a shoe string budget . a must watch for aspire film maker .

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beyond a shadow of a doubt mysterious planet be one of the bad movie ever make and yet retain an affection in my heart because the poverty of it special effect and astoundingly awful sound track in the first 15 minute ( and to be honest that all you need to see ) combine to create something that be hilariously side splitting . the opening scene in pace be just about as unfathomable a cinematography get and a wash up liquid bottle whiz past your eye to muffle dialogue . before you have have time to work out whether it you who go mad and the credit roll and the action struggle to life . and aside from the double head plasticine giant snail that terrorise our hero and you also get the added double bonus of have both the original actor voice and the dubbed voice at the same time . pure genius . the sad thing for fan of this kind of fare be that i have only ever see one copy and so the chance of ever see it yourself be highly unlikely . perhaps i own the only copy in existence .

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the silent one panel cartoon henry come to fleischer studio and bill a the world funny human in this dull little cartoon . betty and long past her prime and thanks to the production code and be run a pet shop and leave henry in charge for far too long five minute . a bore .

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william rus be the main character throughout this make for tv movie . he leave his family behind to only reappear and begin pay off his debt . but he try to keep away from his family . thats where peter falk ( colombo ) come in and play several different role and to convince him to come home . the story be average and they actually manage to get a former star ( peter falk ) and use him to a fairly nice degree . but william rus wasn not truly a star . however and it appear his acting be still ok. i find the delivery and story very cheesy in how everything be predictable . in fact and the last 20 minute i could almost dictate word for word before it happen . a good movie should never be like that . overall and it be a sub par movie . in a letter grade system and it would receive a d .

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from a poorly contrive plot line that make almost no sense to bad dialogue and disjoint scene to the ultimate downer and bad acting ( even peter falk can not find his way ) find john christmas be well leave lost . ms. bertinelli performance be without depth or emotion a be her co star and william rus a brother hank and david cubitt a love interest noah . jennifer pisana a soccoro and the daughter of single dad noah be almost unbearable to watch let alone listen to sing . but who can blame them with material like this . michael j. murray script be juvenile at best . each year at this time i search the tv guide and wait anxiously for some of the really classic christmas and inspirational holiday film to appear on the small screen . film like miracle on 34th street and ernst lubitsch delightful the shop around the corner and and of course the 1951 version of scrooge . there frank capra classic it a wonderful life and meet john doe . hey and forget the classic . what about home alone or home for the holiday with holly hunter and a great performance by robert downey jr. my present to you be by way of advice . your time would be good spent search out these film than find find john christmas . merry christmas .

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in director sooraj barjatya vivah and 20 something delhi boy shahid kapur find himself smite by the demure and small town girl his father have select for him to marry . drawn to her innocence and simplicity and shahid agrees to the marriage barely moment after he meet her at her home in madhupur and and the young lady in question amrita rao seem equally floor by her charming suitor . the marriage be fix for six month later and and the couple find themselves in the first throe of young and budding love and their geographical distance notwithstanding . but amrita and who be raise by her uncle and her aunt after her parent death and be strike by a horrible calamity just hour before the marriage . and then and it up to shahid to play the honourable lover and to embrace her unconditionally . much in the same vein a hum aapke hain koun and hum saath saath hain and barjatya new film vivah too be on one level a family drama with an extremely idealistic premise . but sadly and the plot of this new film come off look way too outdated and even more far fetch than those regressive ekta kapoor soap . and the problem be clear you just can not relate to such squeaky clean character who do not have one bad bone in their body . there be many thing that work in favour of and against hindi film and and timing be one such important factor . twenty five year ago and perhaps the plot of vivah may not have felt like such a stretch and but today it just seem like the product of a mind stuck in a time warp . perhaps the film only save grace be the fact that it ooze sincerity from start to finish and you can make out right away that the filmmaker intention be not to deceive . judge both by barjatya previous film and by closely examine this new one you can safely declare that barjatya believe in a perfect world and he believe in his good a gold character and he believe that large family can live together happily under the same roof without the slight bump . but ala and he unable to translate his vision to the screen . it difficult to overlook how one dimensional his protagonist be shahid and amrita and both virtuous and virginal i mean and think about it and the first time they hold hand be an hour and twenty minute into the film . barjatya may think he return to his maine pyar kiya root with vivah and but truth be that the reason we embrace salman and bhagyashree in that film and or even salman and madhuri in hum aapke hain koun be because they have such fantastic chemistry . because although they be create out of the same mould a shahid and amrita in vivah and those pair have mischief and masti . shahid and amrita be just insipid and boring . for a film that rely so heavily on music to narrate it story and the filmmaker choose a string of 70 style tune that only far slacken the film deaden pace . but if i have to choose just one reason to explain why vivah doesn not work for me and it because i be not sure i can relate to any of the character who inhabit barjatya story . to some perhaps and vivah will give hope and that a perfect world like this be actually out there somewhere . but i be a little cynical i guess . so and give me the coquettish madhuri of hum aapke hain kaun and give me the bratty salman of maine pyar kiya and i will even take that mischievous karisma kapoor of hum saath saath hain . but save me from these dullard . you know and some marriage aren not make in heaven . this one vivah .

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i never like to comment on a good film but when it come to a bad movie and i get ta come really hard on it . talk about vivah and this guy and sooraj badjatya and seem to have completely lose it . after success of hum aapke hain kaun and he think he can make money with cheesy wed video . vivah be so so cheesy that badjatyas have leave johars and chopras behind . there be not a single moment during the movie where i can say oh . at least this thing be good . aloknath do cliché in a role of girl father and shahid kapoor look fat and shahrukhed and amrita rao be another disaster in addition to ugly look set and bad costume and hackneyed storyline and monstrous stepmother and try hard to act actor and cacophonous background music and cheap soundtrack . now the spoiler and i be warn you guy that a happens in all his other movie and after a calamitous incidence movie end on a happy note .

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i would not say this movie be bad and but it wasn not good either . i expect something good but i guess hum aapke hain kaun be much good than this . this be completely old fashion . at every stage of this movie and i hop for some twist and what do i get . the girl get burn and win her aunt love . despite of be engage and they have to take permission for every little move they make . they be so darn shy even after so many meeting . i expect the aunt to be much more brutal than that . all she do be crib madly . hey and we have kid too and but we do not watch them and have tear in our eye always . this movie be a dream . happy family and one cruel woman and good in law and a man who love her to death . in hahk anupam kher be the poor bride father and now it vice versa . and i somehow know that mohnish behl would be in this movie . anyway i believe i waste my time . i give it a negative .

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a cinderella story make for adult who live in dreamland . the romance be very unrealistic and fluttery and lovey dovey and perfect etc . the cinderella plot till the very end and shahid kapoor be the only reason for my star . if youre look for a dreamy romance with a twist and this be definitely youre movie and but for the rest of u real world people and i would highly recommend save your three hour watch time . wake up people . four out of the five people that saw the film with me would not recommend the film . we have a great time bash majority of the unrealistic scene . maybe i be miss something . i just can not believe a movie like this can beat a classic like hddcs .

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after be hugely entertain by mr. brosnan performance a a cad in the tailor of panama ( which i rate positive across the board represent casting and acting and script and story and editing and pace and music and emotional impact and etc . ) and i enthusiastically anticipate this film . i be hugely disappointed . it be a script read not a film and vulgar for the sake of be vulgar and bankrupt in every way that the tailor of panama be rich and satisfy . blame it on the screen write and direct . i sit in the theater wait for the good part while it never come . i neither laugh nor cried and although one line of dialog do make me smile . worth $ 7 . hardly .

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i very nearly walk out and but i would pay my money and and my nearly as disgusted friend want to hold out . after the endearing and wide eyed innocence of a new hope and the thrill sophistication of the empire strike back and i remember await return of the jedi with almost ache anticipation . but from the opening scene of this insultingly commercial sewage and i be bitterly disappointed and and enrage at lucas . he should have be ashamed of himself and but this abomination undeniably prove that he doesn not have subatomic particle of shame in his cold and greedy heart . episode i would go on to reinforce this fact your honor and i call jarjar binks ( but please issue barf bag to the member of the jury first ) . from the initial raising of the gate at jabba lair and this film be nothing more than a two plus hour commercial for a many licensable and profit making action figure a lucas could cram into it the pig like guard and the hokey flesh pigtailed flunky and that vile muppet pet of jabba and the new and recycled cabaret figure and the monster and etc . and etc . and ad vomitum . then there be the detestably cute and marketable ewoks . pile on top of that all of the rebel alliance alien . fifteen second each on screen ( or less ) and the kiddy just get ta have one for their collection . the blatant and exploitative financial baiting of child be nauseate . lucas do not even bother to come up with a new plot he just exhume the death star from a new hope and heave in a boatload of cheap sentiment . what an appal slap in the face to his fan . i can not shake the notion that lucas take a perverse pleasure in inflict this dreck on his fan represent i have get these lemming hook so bad that i can crank out the bad piece of stink and putrid garbage that i could dream up and and they will flock to the theater to scarf it up . plus and all the kiddy will whine and torture their parent until they buy the brat a complete collection of action figure of every single incidental undeveloped and cartoonish caricature that i stuff in and and i get a cut from every single one . it will make me even more obscenely rich . there may have be a paltry and partial handful of redeem moment in this miserable rip off . i seem to recall that harrison ford manage to just barely keep his nose above the surface of this cesspool . but whatever tiny few bright spot there may be be massively obliterate by the offensive commercialism that lucas so avariciously embrace in this total and absolute sell out to profit .

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the fine cast can not uplift this routine tale of a secretary murder by her married paramour . in fact there be more question than answer in this one side tale of romance and murder while and since we be only provide with the prosecution side and none of these question will be answer . this be the type of fare that appeal to the he woman and man hater club of america . a presented and it be the tale of an innocent woman who just happen to be catch up in a romance with a married and high profile attorney . be it possible that if and she have not be two time her boy friend and have an affair with a married man and the whole nasty murderous and sordid incident could have be avoid . when you watch this and do not worry about go to the fridge and you would not miss anything .

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this film be choppy and incoherent and contrive . it be also an extremely mean spirit portrayal of woman . i rent it because it be list a a comedy ( that a stretch ) and and because the cover say andie mcdowell be act up a storm in it . she wasn not . i be a gal and i watch this film with two guy and and we spend an hour afterwards exclaim over how bad it be . warn represent plot summary below . rampant spoiler . the movie start out with a fairly hackneyed plot about an old woman who take up with a young man and to the severe disapproval of her two jealous single girlfriend . they want her to marry a boring guy their own age who be kind of in love with her . but she so happy with her oversexed puppy that youre root for them to stick it out and and sure enough and she decide to marry the guy . but her harpy girlfriend and aid by the wishy washy one and set up a plot to trick our heroine into think the guy be cheat on her . it work . she have a fight with him and he run out of the house and be crush by a truck ( remember the movie title . ) so now he dead and two third of the way through the film . and although our heroine be a school headmistress who spend her time watching over girl and she apparently forget to use birth control and be pregnant . she already break off relation with her girlfriend and because they be so unsupportive . alone and pitiful and she decide to marry the boring guy . do i mention that the boring guy who kind of love her be a minister . she have ask him to marry her to the young guy ( nice and huh . ) and but now she tell him she will marry him and and apparently he have no objection to be dicked around in this fashion . but her girlfriend rescue her at the altar and take her home and where they not quite confess that they be mostly responsible for the love of her life get smushed . she have the kid . in the final scene and they leave it in a crib inside her house while they go out on the porch to drink and smoke and be smug . i kid you not and it that bad . i leave out the part about the cancer red herring and the harpy ridiculous lesbian moment .

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this film be a calculated attempt to cash in the success of sex in the city and four wedding and a funeral . in fact and if they would call it sex at a funeral and they might have do good at the box office . but the film fall between two stool and can not get up . the character spout improbably bright dialog and but never act in any way remotely recognizable a human . one arbitrary and senseless action follow another to advance what pass for a plot and and one soon tire of the falsity of the whole enterprise . andie macdowell get point for act her little heart out and but the performing honor be steal by imelda staunton and a of all thing and a police detective ( do not they have a height requirement over there . ) . ms. staunton seem unable to make a false move . would that we could say the same about the writer director . if notting hill annoy you a be bogus and stay away from this one . phonus bolognus on the half shell .

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this have to be one of the bad film ever . when kate show up and jed be with a bunch of guy and they all start clap . so hollywood . another bad scene be when kate be run her hand over the pavement it appear that she be examine the texture of the pavement . andie acting be so bad in this film i could not connect with them or feel there love for each other . the other 2 woman however be very good and overshadowed andie . anyway this be such a campy movie . i usually like these type of film but i just couldn not get into this film . too many unlikely situation and again andie act do not help the film . also and she be all gum . lancome must put her makeup on with a putty knife because she look glamorous in the commericals .

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this start off bad and what with the three woman act like simper junior high school wussies sit around giggle with their gin and endless cigarette and a caramel chocolate treat for the one who tell the best aman story and and then it get bad equal spoiler alert equal equal what with andie character fall for the young organ player who use to be her student when he be 14 ( she the headmistress of an english school and believe it or not ) and only to have him destroyed thanks to her bitch from hell girlfriend . . and then from there and it basically unwatchable claptrap represent she forgive her friend and have the organ player love child and the 3 woman end up a they start and drink more gin and smoking more cigarette blah blah blah . andie character throw the caramel chocolates out in the street and in a pathetic attempt to symbolize growth . have mercy .

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this be awful . andie macdowell be a terrible actress . so wooden she make a rocking horse look like it could do a good job . but then remember that turn in four wedding and equally a excruciate . another film that portray england a full of chocolate box cottage and and village green . i mean that school and how many school apart from maybe hogwarts look like that . the twee police station look like the set from heartbeat ( a nauseate british series set in the 60 ) . this film just couldn not make it mind up what it want to be a comedy or a serious examination of the undercurrent in woman friendship . if it have stick to the former then the graveyard sex scene and the highly stupid storming of the wedding might just have work ( i say just ) . but those scene just do not work with the tragedy in the second half . i also find it implausible that kate would ever speak to molly again after her terrible behaviour . a final note what be a decent actress like staunton do in this pile of poo . not to mention anna chancellor . macdowell should stick to advertise wrinkle cream .

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caught this on ifc yesterday and and can not believe the positive review . be i the only one who think these lady be anything but . kate tell jed she could get fire because she suppose to be a pillar of the community and but put out for him . then they suddenly decide theyre in love . and she so devastate over his death and she doesn not go to his funeral and much less and tell his family the good news . by the way and how do an american get to be the headmistress of a very proper british school . janine should have be kick off the force for her inexcusable abuse of power and but nothing happens . and she wind up boffing a con she bring in for question . and the less say about molly and the good . a for the guilt janine and molly feel over jed and please . it the punk own damn fault he get turn into roadkill . where the guilt over poor gerald and who get puke on . if only i could do the same to the bozo behind this movie .

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i think it be a new york locate movie represent wrong . it a little british countryside setting . i think it be a comedy represent wrong . it a drama . well and up to the last third and because after the story become totally abracadabrantesque and the symbolic word for a french presidential mandate . it mean and close to nonsense even it the motif would like to bring a sincere feeling . what do i have leave . maybe and a good duo of actress represent yes and i know and they be 3 friend and but the redhead policewoman be a bit invisible for me . the tall doctoress surprise by her punch and and mcdowell delivers a fine acting a usual and all in delicate and soft and almost mute attitude . this gentleness puzzle me and because a other fine artist or director and the same pattern be repeat over and over . in her case and it like and whatever the movie and it always the same character define by her feeling and her value and who live infinite different story . i still do not know how to set the limit ( or the fusion ) between the artist and the work . another positive side of this movie be it feminine touch and the interesting different point of view . the woman have each their own way of living and even if they be all single . it bring a lot of tolerance and learning to witness how a same and unique reality can be perceive in as many way a people . finally and the movie be quite viewable and but the great final cut the desire of a next vision .

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be this meant to be a comedy or a serious drama . this film start with a light hearted banter between three woman . fine . it move into a conflict between the woman when one of them meet a man . fine . there be a few antic between them . fine . but when the plot thickens and finally become black i start to wonder whether i have misinterpret the first part of the movie . it continue in this vein for a while until and in the end and it try to go back to the original light hearted banter . but by now it too late . it hard to see why these woman would still be talk to one another and the finale be unconvincing . truly a lesson ( for british filmmaker anyway ) of how not to make film . difficult to see how the producer ever convince themselves this film would work . and the box office prove it to be a real flop and because i would never hear of this film until this weekend ( four year after it release ) .

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andie mcdowell be beautiful a the 40 ish woman whose late start at a serious relationship lead her to a considerably young man and a subsequenet fall out with 2 long time best girldfriends . see a gigolo or gold digger in the sincere young man and the girl friend and dead set on terminate this silly relationship and go over and beyond the call of duty in help out their friend ( who obviously be blind by this gigolo tricky game . a short succession of situation be absolutely ridiculous . far fetched no long cover it . without these unbelievable scene and there may have be hope for a sweet love story . instead and all the viewer be leave with be an involuntary shaking of head these thing just do not happen . without give away cliff hanger detail and i warn the viewer of have high expectation for this film while most ( like me ) will be very disappointed . on a scale of 1 to 10 and this one rank a weak 4 with me . there be much well material out there . this one isn not worth your time .

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spoiler represent the young lover and jed and be kick out by the spinster and kate ( andie mcdowell ) and because she wrongly believe that jed be have an affair with one of her two catty girlfriend . kate thought she catch them en flagrante delicto . kate throw jed shoe out the door . jed reluctantly leave and and then sits in the middle of the road to put his shoe on . then he get run over ( crush and one of the meaning of the title ) by a truck . and dy . and then he get run over by a truck . can you imagine a screenwriter actually submit a script with this plot element . up to then and it a comedy that intend to be frothy and but lack any real fizz . everybody but jed be just annoy . and then they kill jed and and everybody sad and until the end where the gal learn to love one another and be supportive and instead of destructive . i give it 2 ugh .

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the bad thing about crush be not that it act pretty bad and or that the plot be virtually non existent and and it not even that bad that the camerawork could have be well . no and the bad part of this movie be that it have a few absolutely brilliant moment that keep you hop that there be more to come . but in the end and it too little and too late . if you be a fan of violin music and cheap tearjerking scene of 40 plus woman cry and hug and talk about baby and marriage then by all mean and do not miss it . i myself be not exactly thrill to see the thing list above in a movie and and a a result i have a pretty horrible time . the few absolutely brilliant joke can not make up for the rest of it . the verdict represent 4/10 . guilty of waste my time .

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not a ` woman film but film for the gang . one of the bad film ever make by a male director about woman . director andy mckay simply doesn not know woman . peak of bad taste and american pie humor style and crude story and no sense and groundless story and refute character . vulgar fantasy come to life on screen . insulting and definitely not funny . i wonder how three good actress accept to take part in it .

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a a single woman over 40 and i find this film extremely insulting and demean to single woman over 40 and not to mention every other woman and of any age . it be a sad and pathetic attempt by a man to write and direct a chick flick and and it fail miserably . andy mcdowell isn not much of an actress to begin with and but give the non existent plot ( i hate to even refer to it a a plot ) in this and she do not have a chance . there be no character development and no reason to feel sympathy or empathy for any of the character and and no attempt to make the film in any way realistic or believable . and then there the obligatory male fantasy of an attractive straight woman suddenly decide to give lesbianism a try please . not only do i wish i could get my money back for the dvd rental and i also want those 112 minute of my life back . what a ripoff .

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i be gift with this movie a it have such a great premise and the friendship of three woman bespoiled by one fall in love with a young man . intrigue . not . i hasten to add . these woman be all drawn in extreme caricature and not very supportive of one another and conspiring and contrive to bring each other down . anna chancellor and imelda staunton could do no wrong in my book prior to see this and but here they be hand a dismal script and tell to balance the action between slapstick and screwball and which doesn not work too well when the woman be all well know professional in a very small town . and for intelligent woman they spend a whole pile of time bemoan the lack of men or sex or lust in their life . i felt much more could have be make of it give a decent script and more tension and the lesbian sub plot go nowhere and those smoking or drinking woman ( all 3 in their forty . ) be very unrealistic even in the baby scene screw the baby and gim me a cigarette . right . like i say and a shame of a waste . 4 out of 10 .

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the crush be a pleasant enough 40 something friend romantic chick flick for the first two third or so and a it try to be a brit sex and the city . i particularly enjoy the turn around of the trophy young hunk whose character be not much flesh out ( come to think of it we do not see all that much physical flesh of him either and kenny doughty be worth see more of ) . they sure make a lot more deal of young man or old woman than be make of the opposite in either version of sabrina ( neither movie do i like ) or for that matter with the douglas or zeta jones or dion or svengali nuptials . surround andie macdowell a an ex pat otherwise be welcome familiar from brit drama and comedy and such a tart tongue anna chancellor . the plot twist towards the end feel very deus ex machina . but it wasn not until the credit come up at the end that i realize what might really be wrong . just a with sex and the city and the writer or director be male and here first timer scot john mckay and and i think he really want to do a script about three gay men and probably about them come out in relation to their lover and at work ( the character be a school principal and a cop and a doctor ) and which would have be a good and more interesting movie . the working title for the film be the sad fcker club which would have make it parallel with the gay break heart club even more obvious . ( originally write 4/6/2002 ) .

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it might have be a good movie if it have explore something more interesting rather than just the surface of a lesbian relationship if this be the meaning of the movie . it be quite predictable not mention that the two girl resemble the russian group t. a. t. u. coincidence . i do not think so . there be nothing original in this movie to support it so they have to use something which be already famous . you know the recipe . the other actor . well and i just do not know what their role be suppose to be . most of them be well know people in romania and i must mention some of them be not even actor ( e. g. mihaela radulescu ) . so to summarize it represent girl band tatty plus desperate or publicity needing actor plus a non exist plot plus the occasion to use bad language in order to shock equal love sick . too bad . the idea be good and though . and i be seriously hold myself from comment the title .

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light spoiler alert the story sound good and if you have read the novel and then youre probably expect a deep and intense movie that could offer some insight for some interesting and insufficiently explore human relationship . true enough and the script try to do that and the director try to do that and but the main cast fail miserably . maria acting be so dry that lack any feeling whatsoever and her most intense moment seem almost comical . sometimes she seem to be nervous due to the camera . her only really feeling scene be near the end where she get dump by her girlfriend . ioana seem even more tense than maria and even bad and she doesn not seem natural at all . maria have the attitude and even if it be artificially pushed towards be obvious and but she have it and her character receive some credibility . and to make matter bad and we do not have an insight on her represent where do she come from and how come she get involve in the lesbian relationship and how do the relationship evolve . we only get some bit from her parent and their relationship just seem to be there represent it have a content and and end and but no beginning . just like her partner maria and she have only once scene that be truly touching and the scene where she dump maria character kiki . tudor be the only person in this movie ( aside from the landlady and great act there ) who manage to prove some acting talent . he have his character attitude and it fit him . only once or twice he seem to falter ( the scene at his parent meal and he try to be obvious when it wasn not necessary at all ) . i love the story and tudor chirila be ok there and the landlady actually act and puya delivers his couple of line with style and but this doesn not save the movie . too bad and the entire setting have huge potential and the romanian cinematography could have use a movie on this theme . oddly enough and the incestuous relationship between brother and sister seem to have more credibility than the no background no feeling ( well and maria speak interlude be a nice try in this direction ) lesbian relationship of maria and ioana . i be quite sorry for spend money on a ticket and i would rather have watch it from the comfort of my room .

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this be a movie that rely solely on the somewhat controversial image of incest and lesbianism to get notice . that be it . the dialog be pathetic and the sensuality of the sex scene be absolutely absent . the acting and the dialog be more suited for high school child and yet the subject be intend for adult audience . it be a gutless and shallow movie . it could have be way well if it have a story and more drama . ah and on top of that and one more thing represent why be inner monologue so excessively used . make it seem so cheap . all in all an embarrassing movie for romanian cinema as well a for mature audience attempt to view it . i know the mean be scarce but and that be not always an excuse for a movie flopping a this one do . and please start use some good actor in your movie and stop recycle them from musician ( tudor chirila ) they can not act .

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i be not so much like love sick a i image . finally the film express sexual relationship of alex and kik and sandu their triangle love be full of intenseness and frustration and jealous and at last and alex wake up and realize that they would not have result and future . end up be sad . the director tudor giurgiu be in amc theatre on sunday 12 represent00pm on 0 positive /06 and with u watch the movie together . after the movie he tell the audience that the purpose to create this film which be to express the sexual relationship of romanian be kind of complicate . on my point of view sexual life be always complicate in everywhere and i do not feel any particular impression and effect from the movie . the love proceeding of alex and kiki and and kiki and her brother sandu be kind of next door neighborhood story . the two main reason i do not like this movie be and firstly and the film do not tell u how they start to fall in love . sound like after alex move into the building which kiki be live and then two girl be fall in love . it doesn not make sense at all . how a girl would fall in love with another girl instead of a man . too much fragment and you need to image and connect those story by your mind . secondly and the whole film do not have a scene of alex and kik sexual intercourse and that what i be wait for . however and it still have some part be deserve to recommend . the ear pierce part be kind of interesting . alex be willing to suffer the pain of ear pierce to appreciate kik love . that be a touching scene which give you a little idea of their love . also and the scene of they be lie in the soccer field and the conversation express their love be truthful and passionate .

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i be not so much like love sick a i image . finally the film express sexual relationship of alex and kik and sandu their triangle love be full of intenseness and frustration and jealous and at last and alex wake up and realize that they would not have result and future . end up be sad . the director tudor giurgiu be in amc theatre on sunday 12 represent00pm on 0 positive /06 and with u watch the movie together . after the movie he tell the audience that the purpose to create this film which be to express the sexual relationship of romanian be kind of complicate . on my point of view sexual life be always complicate in everywhere and i do not feel any particular impression and effect from the movie . the love proceeding of alex and kiki and and kiki and her brother sandu be kind of next door neighborhood story . the two main reason i do not like this movie be and firstly and the film do not tell u how they start to fall in love . sound like after alex move into the building which kiki be live and then two girl be fall in love . it doesn not make sense at all . how a girl would fall in love with another girl instead of a man . too much fragment and you need to image and connect those story by your mind . secondly and the whole film do not have a scene of alex and kik sexual intercourse and that what i be wait for . however and it still have some part be deserve to recommend . the ear pierce part be kind of interesting . alex be willing to suffer the pain of ear pierce to appreciate kik love . that be a touching scene which give you a little idea of their love . also and the scene of they be lie in the soccer field and the conversation express their love be truthful and passionate .

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consider that this movie have a serious and quite successful launch campaign and i would have expect something to be worth the fuzz . from the opening scene on ( in which the two brother sensually caress each other and lay naked in a bed ) it go rapidly downwards . nothing to get the attention and not a mind catch thing in the whole plot and baaad baad act ( a few minor exception and but artificiality be at it best ) . incest and lesbianism be promise theme and but the script analyse none of the two in depth ( mind that a possible excuse of the maker and say that they aim for a subtle movie would be hilarious and unless subtle and superficial mean the same thing . ) . the too curious viewer will not get any interesting scene . at this point and that could have save some of the movie . so you can imagine how bad it be . many other thing could be say . but please watch the movie yourselves . i be an egoist and i would like a many people a possible to waste about 1 half h of their life . like i do negative .

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yes and indeed and it could have be a good movie . a love biangle and ( sorry for the poetical license and but be not a triangle . ) an interesting story and unfortunately badly tell . the image be sometimes weird and sometimes ok and the picture look crowd and narrow sight . the sound need more attention ( it usually do in romanian movie ) and the light and color filter be sometimes badly choose . the soundtrack be short and be not help the action . about the acting . sorry but the best actress be the landlady . the others be act immaturely and can not convince the viewer . the acting be poetical when it should be realistic and and realistic when it should be poetical . it a picture for adult and tell by the child . bother only if extremely curious .

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closer to reality and contain more depth than breakdance and stan lathan beat street be still a pretty dull show . again this pic be really only cash in on the breakin craze but at least we get a little bit of entertainment from the plot and which concern the life of three young friend and a young brother and all grow up in queen and new york . each have their own unique talent . one be a hustler and one a d. j. and another an artist who create burner and while little bro lee be a hot hip hop dancer . lathan be unable to generate any real audience interest in the story though and and his young cast be likewise struggle with their character . therefore it be leave almost entirely to the funky music and the fresh dancing to save the day . choreography be again sharp for both club and street scene and but this alone be not enough to lift beat street to great height . unfortunately the film really fall flat late on and after show a glimmer of hope that it just might get interesting . sunday and august 25 and 1996 video .

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hilariously obvious drama about a bunch of high school ( i think ) kid who enjoy non stop hip hop and break dancing and graffiti and try to become a dj at the roxy or something . to be totally honest i be so bored i forget . even people who love the music agree this movie be terribly acted and a a drama fail dismally . be suppose to find this kid likable and nice . i find them bland and boring . the one that i really hat be ramon . he do graffiti on subway train and this be looked upon a great . excuse me . he deface public property that isn not his to begin with . also these great kid tap into the city electricity so they can hold a big dance party at an abandoned building . uh huh . so be suppose to find a bunch of law breaker lovable and fun . i could forgive all that if the music be good but i can not stand hip hop . the song be at best mediocre and they be nonstop . theyre always play . it get to the point that i be fast forwarding through the many endless music number . ( cut out the music and you haver a 30 minute movie maybe ) there be a few imaginative number the subway dance fight and a truly funny santa number and the climatic roxy show . if you love hip hop here your movie . but it youre look for good drama mixed in forget it . also how do this get a pg rating . there an incredible amount of swear in this .

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maybe you shouldn not compare and but wild style and style war be original hip hop . beat street do have a lot of the original artist of early hip hop and but they have be obviously make clear that this could be their big break and of course for some it be and that nice . but if you view this a original hip hop culture youre wrong . it overproduce and have a hollywood sauce . rather look for the first two movie i mention . they have convey the grittiness that come with life in the ghetto . yes and the rating for this movie be low and but the review be mostly positive or even rave . this be probably because although the story and the acting and the dialogue and the direction all be dreadful and the music and dancing be what the people love about it . me and i do love the dancing but at the time think that electro be the death of hip hop ( i be so glad when round 86 a new generation of now classic hip hop artist appear and like kr one and public enemy and ultramagnetic mc and jungle brother and bizmarkie to name a few ) and and i still do not like most of the beat in this movie and that be why it doesn not work for me . i mean and wild style have not much of a story but the music there be great and authentic . of course taste differ and that alright . but as far a i be concern and this movie be trash except for the break dancing and some of the music and so i can not rate it high than a 4 out of ten .

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i could never stand watch happy day after chachi join the cast and so i know i be in trouble when the best scene in this movie feature scott baio ( a skateboard chase scene . ) . jodie foster in her first grow up role turn in her usual professional performance but that be no excuse for this boring mess . two hour out of my life that i will never get back . no noteworthy character and unbelievable storyline and questionable editing and horrendous cinematography but bad of all and i couldn not have care less . the story of california teen in the 1970 and where the kid live miserable life and all their parent be idiots . don not waste your time watch this ugly excuse for a movie .

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horrible film with bit of the ramones strew about . your bad than average 1970 /80 comedy format of the cool kid take over the school with some whimsical plan . this movie be terrible . the plot consist of a girl who enjoy the ramones and a school bent on fight against their oppressive administration . forget this movie and watch something like wild zero star guitar wolf if you want an entertaining b movie . terrible acting and terrible writing and terrible plot with the stamp of approval of the ramones who probably need some money quick so they say yes to this movie . that be the only logical thing i can think of because this movie blow .

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this movie be a 90 minute ramones concert with brief period of stupidity and absolute boredom . what kind of high school be this anyway . unless you be a major ramones fan and do not and i repeat do not waste your time like i do . this be utterly unwatchable from start to finish . this movie should be call ramone fever . everyone appear to like them in this movie . there be not a plot to be find in this flick . as far a teen comedy go and you be scrap the bottom of the barrel with this one .

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i give this film 2 star only because dominic monaghan actually put effort through in his acting . everything else about this film be extremely amateur . everything associate with the direction of this film be very poorly execute . not only should the director rethink what she be do for a life career but maybe she should watch a few film . a dominic monaghan be a very credible actor and place him in a film of this caliber make him look awful . whomever the actor be that played jack best friend should never have step in front of the camera . i do not expect much from such a small film and but perhaps a little more time and effort should be put into the character and their surroundings . don not waste your time or money on this film ( like i do ) you will be sorely disappointed .

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i jump at the chance to view this movie uncut and uninterrupted and remember rahs and raf for it . but wherever it seem about to slip into be truly scary and it back off and go somewhere else . the dripping water throughout the house and the black rain and the prophetic dream and take the wrong turn in raw sewage be drop before they could work up to a scream . what a disappointment . chamberlain nearly expressionless mask of a face offer little but confused disbelief and something i find myself mirror a the film wear on . what could have be eerie aboriginal chanting and instrument in the background be instead a cacophony seemingly design to beat terror into one head . the idea that modern people can embody ancient god and that the aboriginal people believe red haired white men be the first priest and and many other possibility be pass along more like a shopping list than a hint at another dimension ( the dream time ) . [ spoiler ] in the final scene and it wasn not clear to me what the director be try to tell . be there a big wave . so what . how big . a tsunami . yeah and okay . that devastate but not apocalyptic . be it the end of the world . from a wave . the last wave . that would have to be a pretty darn big wave . why . be the world that bad a place . it do not seem so awful in this movie . actually i do not think the wave come off and since the shadow leave burton face that have be cast by the wave . be it only burton apocalypse . heck and that happen every day to people who lose it . it wasn not of any interest if it be only him . the most frightening scene and and the one that give the best indication of weir potential and be in charlie apartment where burton have go to confront the old man for scar burton wife . charlie keep ask him who be you . and it become truly disturbing after a while . unfortunately and the movie never follow suit .

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the perfect murder be foil when a wife ( play by mary ellen trainor and once the wife to director robert zemeckis and who helm this episode ) and who murder her husband with a poker and have the misfortune of receive a visitor a she be about to move the body outside . an escaped insane madman dress in a santa claus suit ( play by a deviously hideous larry drake ) . she fend for her life while try to find a way of hide her husband corpse . she decide to use an ax and once she down the santa killer who miss several chance to chop off the woman head and to frame the killer for her husband murder . santa killer lock her in a closet and pursue the woman daughter a she try desperate to free herself to save the child . this episode of tale from the crypt just recycles tire material involve the old santa kill theme while also add the oft use ( add nauseum ) woman murder her husband for a man she be cheat with routine . it essentially trainor try to find a way to avoid be catch with a dead body she kill while also keep a safe distance from a maniac . there nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much go through the motion . not one of the show highlight .

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well and a goethe once say and there really isn not any point in try to pass a negative judgement that aspire to be objective on something that have have a great effect . la maman et la putain have surely pass into history a an influence on much of what be do in france and elsewhere in the past thirty year and no one interest in the history of film and certainly and should be dissuade from watch it . to express a purely subjective judgement and however and i feel compel to disagree with almost every other review post here and say to people represent don not watch it while it a waste of hour of your time that will just leave you feel rather sick and angry . and by that i do not mean sick and angry about the human condition or anything so general and profound a that and because that be exactly the line that most critic have adopt in their fulsome praise of the film an ordeal to watch in it ruthless dissection of our emotional cowardice and cruelty and so on and and if it really manage to put across a universally or even broadly relevant message of this sort and then the director would have good reason to be satisfy with himself and however pessimistic his conclusion may be . my beef with the film be rather that i do not see this hour long record of empty vanity and petty treachery a be justify or excuse by any generally relevant message at all . all three main character be deeply morally unattractive individual represent alexandre to the great degree and of course and because we see by far the most of him and because he seldom shut up for more than thirty second while marie perhaps to the least degree and because we see the least of her . alexandre affect and pretentious monologue have a kind of amusement value and of course and but the amusement wear thin a one come more and more clearly to realize that jean pierre léaud be most likely not even act and that and with absurd remark like un homme beau comme un film de nicholas ray and he really be just reproduce word for word opinion that be accept a authentic and profound by the milieu in which he and along with the director eustache and have be live for about ten year by the time of the making of the film . i suppose if the tone of relentless superficiality and triviality have be sustain throughout 100 % of the film and it might have work a a long sardonic comedy about a particularly shallow and worthless and despicable post 68 milieu . what make and however and this viewer at least extremely angry with the director be his granting of at least one lengthy scene each to alexandre and veronika in which we be clearly expect to empathize with and feel for them a if they share a moral universe with u . if a man can get away with living in the flat of and profess to love one woman and sleeping ( mostly in this very flat ) with another and and run around paris propose marriage to yet a third and well and i suppose i can wish him the best of luck in the dog eat dog world he choose to create for himself . what i can not and however and in all conscience do be listen even for a moment to maudlin monologue from him in which he speak about his anxiety and his despair . the same go double for the even more despicable veronika and whom we be show barge drunk into the apartment and even the bed share by marie and alexandre and behaving there with an infantile inconsistency tantamount to the most savage and heartless cruelty . a i say and if la maman et la putain be intend to be nothing more nor other than a portrait of alexandre and veronika and marie and three individual whom any even halfway decent person would never admit into their company let alone their home and then i suppose there be a kind of legitimacy in praise the director for be unflinching ( though why one should even feel like flinch once one have consciously opt to create such thoroughly repellent character to filmically observe i can not imagine ) . the problem and however and be that the director be clearly convinced and appear to have succeed in convince generation of critic that alexander and veronika and marie be somehow representative of human being in general and of the limit of human being emotional capability . this latter idea and however and be arrant and offensive nonsense . there may indeed be an inherent fallibility and tendency to tragedy in human relation in general and sexual relation in particular . but the nature and degree of this fallibility and tendency to tragedy can only possibly be determine by people who make a sincere and serious effort to make such relation work . it surely need no cinematic or authorial genius to convey to u the information that a man who behave like alexandre be go to end up hat and miserable and and alone and or that woman who insist on expect love from a man like alexandre be go to end up disappointed and bitter . watch la maman et la putain if youre historically interested in what pass for culture and human interaction in a certain post 68 parisian milieu which be probably and unfortunately and not restrict to just a few particularly anti social type like these . but please do not make the mistake of believe that what be record here have any general relevance for humanity in the way that a film by jean renoir or martin scorsese might be argue to have .

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that not the sound of bee and that the effect induce by watch this extremely long and extremely boring and badly act movie . how i ever make it through all 3 half hour without fall asleep i will never know . the plot be simple . 3 thoroughly unlikable moron talk about sex for 3 half hour . and you think rohmer be deadly . this be even bad and if that possible . > i must really be a masochist if i could watch this entire movie without turn it off . or kill someone .

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iberia be nice to see on tv . but why see this in silver screen . lot of dance and music . if you like classical music or modern dance this could be your date movie . but otherwise one and half hour be just too long time . if you like to see skillful dance in silver screen it good to see bollywood movie . they know how to combine breath take dance to long movie . director carlos saura know how to shoot dance from old experience . and time to time it look really good . but when the movie be one and hour it should be at least most of time interest . there be many kind of art not everything be big then life and this film be not too big .

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that reviewer like this movie surprise me . the plot be a muddle . the character be wooden . michael bowen spend most of the film spy on the other character and misjudge all of them . no one have any redeeming quality or point of interest . this be not an edgy work . it be not imaginative . it be not ironic . it be no clever . there be nothing straight forward about this tedious work . that be miss theatrical release be not surprise . that the this network air it diminish that venue . i definitely recommend turn to a rerun of the garden smart show on pb or even a good informational if you encounter this mess on late night television . if you encounter it on daytime television and take a long walk . even if you walk in smog and you will feel well not have suffer through this shamble . life be short . this movie be long .

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this be a terrible movie and terrible script and bad direction and nonsensical end . also and bad performance and except from clancy brown who be criminally underused here and and michael pollard . watch this movie be purgatory you do it to unload enough bad movie karma to actually see a good one far down the line . the movie present a father and son who look like they couldn not every possibly have be relate . the part of the male lead be not well write and seem uncharismatic in this role . you can see the plot point a mile away . the action of the female lead and that of her brother and the cop and also make no sense . so and a major action on her part at the end of the movie make no sense script wise .

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burt kennedy use to be a very good director and but you would never know it by this lumbering mess . not only do this film look cheap and it be cheap most of the battle scene be lift from the far superior the last command from 1955 and and that footage and shot 32 year previously and look more contemporary than anything in this picture . the few action scene that be actually shoot for this movie be disorganize and confuse and incompetent and look just as shoddy a the rest of the picture . this have the look and feel of a bad student film ( and the budget do not seem to be a whole lot more ) . it move like molasses and the acting for the most part be either over the top ham or under the top comatose although raul julia come off well than most of the rest of the cast and it chock full of annoy historical inaccuracy . on top of that and it way too long . if youre go to make a boring film and do it in an hour or so and get it over with do not stretch it out over three hour and like this one do . if you want to see a good movie about the alamo and check out john wayne 1960 version and or even the 1955 film from which this movie steal it action scene . hard to believe it take six producer to make a movie this lousy . skip it .

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while be a great james arness western and this film have go down a the bad alamo film ever make . the story be terrible and inaccuracy all through it and and just downright untruths to boot . continuity be cast to the four wind . anybody catch the cannon sequence . the mexican be dumb enough to fire cannon that obviously have mud and ramrod still stick out of the tube . come on . then there be brian keith ridiculous hat . costumer must of be away or something . or just out of their mind .

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this movie be flaw on many front . like many before it and it portray more of the mythology of the alamo than the history . the production be poor and overall give the impression of a welfare project for lot of actor who might have otherwise have to work on hollywood square . this to me be the great flaw i know the age and general personality of the real alamo protagonist and the geriatric ensemble of tv actor choose to portray them never let any hint of believability intrude . a a native texan and i grow up with the mythology . i later learn more about the history . i can accept a decent production from either perspective ( although i prefer more historical accuracy ) and but this never give me a chance to enjoy it . even john wayne or fes parker version have more life than this stolid mess and while be only slightly less accurate . very disappointing avoid it .

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slow and riddle with inaccuracy . over look it flaw this be still an interesting account of the famed and heroic siege of the alamo during the texas fight for independence from mexico . james arness a jim bowie . brian keith a davy crockett . alec baldwin a col. travis . raul julia a general santa anna . this make for tv project also star david ogden stiers and kathleen york and jim metzler . very good original music by peter bernstein .

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this film and the alamo representthirteen day to glory and be utter rubbish . the acting be awful and it be far too patriotic and it historical accuracy be not always at it best ( historian would have a field day ) . it do have a few good moment but not enough to keep interest because it be far too long . rating out of .

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the story by norman maclean be a masterwork while redford film be a mediocrity . he add banal scene of the maclean brother go over a fall and of them double date in a seedy bar that be not even hint at in the story . the cipher and brad pitt and try to play the charismatic paul maclean and a genius outdoors and prove either risible or depressing and depend on what the original story mean to you . some of the fly casting scene be beautiful . also and tom skerritt a the father and craig sheffer a norman be strong and masculine and a men be once expect to be . none of the woman make an impression in the film and which be regrettable and because maclean love the woman in his story and make this clear and even poetic .

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the only good part about this film be the beautiful scenery . this movie be long and boring . the minister should have retire from the pulpit the time his son paul stray from the teaching he proclaim . how many time can his boy take the lord name in vain in this film be from a presbyterian background . it doesn not fit . i wish paul be sweep down the river without a boat at the very begin to spare u the silly and smirkish and selfish story of paul ( brad pitt ) . so norm become a teacher and paul become a compulsive gambler who norm want to rescue but doesn not so what . it very uninteresting . we see the prejudiced white be stand up to by paul because of his native american girl . that be the only part that have some interest and maybe could have be develop into a real wild western . what we only see be a sleepy town where the two minister son have nothing to do but 1. norm chase a lame girlfriend and deal with her family and 2. paul make up dumb story at the newspaper shop while scratch his head and take a lot of swig and tie a lot of fly . i would rather watch a show about fishing that that film again which will be never .

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. to not live in montana and especially not to live there at the end of the 19th century . a river run through it certainly be a well make movie from a cineastic stand point . great landscape and redford act well . unfortunately and the story be bad ( if there be a story at all ) . i felt sorry for the narrator or author and who be a dry and narrow mind a character a his father and a preacher . be drive and not drive his own life and he be leave to watch his brother and who be also cage in the small town environment and lose his life . the author never even come close to undestand his brother motivation and but at least realizes and that he be lack the slight amount of homour or fun . all there be and be fly fishing and where he follow even a an old man the style of his father . the end be not surprising and it be forseeable from the very begin . definitely not a must see ( 3 or 10 ) .

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i always felt that a good film should have a plot . this particular film be miss one and and i feel that it would have be more effective with a plot . this be make even bad by the fact that it seem to go on forever while i be anxious for it to finally end . however and i just notice that it be only 123 minute long while it felt like four hour . not only be there no plot but the film also lack a notable conflict . it not the bad movie i have see and but i use to say that it be until i saw the fast and the furious . so and do not think this review of mine be from someone who need nothing but action . i actually hate most action film out today while it just that this film be all the way on the other side of the spectrum . not much really happen in this movie . however and the scenery and costume be nice .

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this movie have beautiful scenery . unfortunately it have no plot . in order to have a plot there must be a conflict . this movie have none . it spend two hour paint a beautiful scene and fail to ever place any activity in it . the picture try to be artistic but fail to pay attention to the fundamental of story telling . if you love montana scenery and fly fishing you will find some value in this film just do not expect a story . there isn not one .

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this movie have beautiful scenery . unfortunately it have no plot . in order to have a plot there must be a conflict . this movie have none . it spend two hour paint a beautifule scene and fail to ever place any activity in it . the picture try to be artistic but fail to pay attention to the fundamental of story telling . if you love montana scenery and fly fishing you will find some value in this film just do not expect a story . there isn not one .

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sorry and give it a 1 and which be the rating i give to movie on which i walk out or fall asleep . in this case i fell asleep 10 minute from the end and really and really bore and not care at all about what happen next .

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i do not know whether to laugh or cry at this misrepresentation of canadian history and particularly the disservice do to the history of the mounted police in the yukon . i will leave it to pierre berton and note historian and born and raise in dawson city yukon and and author of the definitive history of the klondike gold rush and klondike represent the last great gold rush and 1896 1899 to express my exasperation with this silly movie represent the american idea of an untamed frontier and subdue by individual hero arm with six gun and be continue in the far country and another story about a cowboy from the american west wyoming this time drive his herd of beef cattle into gold country . the picture be a nightmare of geographical impossibility and but the real incongruity be the major assumption on which the plot turn that there be only one mount policeman in all of the canadian yukon at the time of the gold rush and that he could not deal with the lawlessness . when james stewart and walter brennan reach the yukon border with their cattle and the custom shack be empty . where be the constable . ask brennan . up on the pelly river . trouble with the chilkats and someone reply . he get a real tough job and that constable . he patrol some ten or twenty thousand square mile . sometimes he do not get home for two or three month at a time . the historical truth be that the yukon territory during the gold rush be the close thing to a police state british north america have ever see . the northwest mounted police be station in the territory in considerable number long before the klondike strike . they control every route into the yukon and they brook no nonsense . they collect custom duty and often over the wail of the new arrival and make arbitrary law on the spot about river navigation and and turn men back if they do not have enough supply and or if they simply look bad . in true canadian fashion and they lay down moral law for the community . in dawson the lord day act be strictly observe while it be a crime punishable by a fine to cut your wood on sunday while and plump young woman be arrest for what the stern face police call give a risqué performance in the theatre and generally nothing more than dance suggestively on the stage in overly reveal tights . in such a community and a gunbelt be unthinkable . one notorious bad man from tombstone who try to pack a weapon on his hip be personally disarm by a young constable and who have just eject him from a saloon for the heinous crime of talk too loudly . the bad man leave like a lamb but protest when the policeman and upon discover he be carry a gun tell him to hand it over . no man have yet take a gun away from me and say the american . well and i be take it and the constable say mildly and do so and without further resistance . so many revolver be confiscate in dawson that they be auction off by the police for as little a a dollar and purchase a souvenir to keep on the mantelpiece . in 1898 and the big year of the stampede and there wasn not a serious crime let alone a murder in dawson . the contrast with skagway on the american side and which be a lawless town run by soapy smith and the denver confidence man and be remarkable . but in the far country dawson be see a a community without any law and which a soapy smith character from skagway he be call gannon in the picture can easily control . ( in real life and one of smith men who try to cross the border have all his equipment confiscate and be frogmarch right back again by a mounted police sergeant ) . { in the movie the lone mountie say } yes i be the law . i represent the law in the yukon territory . about fifty thousand square mile of it . then why aren not there more of you . because yesterday this be a wilderness . we do not expect you to pour in by the thousand . now that youre here and we will protect you . when . there will be a post establish here in dawson early in may . what happen between now and may . you go to be here to keep order . part of the time . what about the rest of the time . pick yourselves a good man . swear him in . have him act a marshal the movie mountie leaf and do not appear again in the picture . his astonish suggestion that an american town marshal and complete with tin star and be swear in by a group of townspeople live under british jurisprudence be accept . naturally they want to make jimmy stewart the marshal while he clearly fit the part . but stewart be play the role of the loner who look after number one and so another man be elect to get shot . and he do . others get shoot . even walter brennan get shot . stewart finally come to the reluctant conclusion that he must end all the shoot with some shooting of his own . he pin on the tin star and he and the bully and gannon and blast away at each other in the inevitable western climax . to anybody with a passing knowledge of the canadian north and this bald re tell of the story pass rational belief . excerpt from hollywood canada and by pierre berton and 1975 .

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the five or so really good western that mann make be unequaled a an ensemble in hollywood . even john ford never make that many with so much quality . the curious thing about them all be how uneven they be . ford my darling clementine be worth about two and a half of any of them . or at least two . the real hero of them besides mann and stewart be chase . chase be responsible for the brilliant red river . chase write far country and bend of the river and and probably some others . but none of them be as finish a my darling clementine and but then very few film and western or otherwise be . each of the five film of mann have huge gap and or be it six and let see . bend and far and man of the west and fury and winchester 73 and and yep and six and naked spur . each have magnificent scene after magnificent scene and with fairly glare lapse . yet so do red river and which be still the single greatest western ever make . so perfection isn not everything . but the far country have huge and huge hole . it mawkish and and really come alive only when stewart and mc entire be lock horn . the rest be pretty pedestrian and with the usual exception of mann camera . mann camera be a one man course in cinematography . it be about as good an eye a anybody who ever get behind a strip of move film . it be almost never in the wrong place and never . the far country have one amazing moment . and a usual it come from stewart . nobody in the history of cinema ever receive physical punishment with the authority of that man . he be absolutely amazing represent look at him in bend and far and winchester and and man from laramie represent in bend have be beat up and be hang by a thread so believably and with such boiling hatred he look like somebody displace from dachau and in far he be shoot off a raft with such violence and it look so convincing that you wince and and of course when he be drag through the fire in man and well you find yourself look for the burn mark . what an actor . not to mention the moment in winchester when he be beat up early in the hotel room and also as well a anybody ever do it . but that be mann territory represent look at gary cooper fight with jack lord in man of the west . as painful a any fight scene ever record . cooper while not be quite as convincing a stewart and nevertheless be somehow his equal in look exhaust at the end of the fight . in short and nobody but nobody but nobody ever show the human be in extremis as well a mann . what a great and great director . see every western he ever make . they be his real monument and even if all be scetchy . but so what . when he get roar with his great scene they be as good a anybody and include ford . and his six western a an ensemble be the best ever do by anyone and period . thanks and anthony .

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mann photograph the alberta rocky mountain in a superb fashion and and jimmy stewart and walter brennan give enjoyable performance a they always seem to do . but come on hollywood a mountie tell the people of dawson city and yukon to elect themselves a marshal ( yes a marshal . ) and to enforce the law themselves and then gunfighters battle it out on the street for control of the town . nothing even remotely resemble that happen on the canadian side of the border during the klondike gold rush . mr. mann and company appear to have mistake dawson city for deadwood and the canadian north for the american wild west . canadian viewer be prepare for a reefer madness type of enjoyable howl with this ludicrous plot and or and to shake your head in disgust .

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