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Don't bother
Muddled plot, and a waste of some fine acting talent. Those who remember the original series will certainly be disappointed. | 0negative
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Will they please kill him off, already?
Jason X (James Isaac, 2001)Jim Isaac was the guy who did some of the creepy special effects in eXistenZ, but you'd never know it from watching this particular piece of silliness.Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder (of Andromeda semi-fame) head up the cast of youngsters ready to get picked off by the uberslasher in the tenth installment of the series. You know the drill: sexy young things wander around and get killed by Jason Voorhees. There's no more of a plot to it than that. This one's set four hundred years in the future, on a spaceship, but still, the plot does not manage to thicken. Alien with Jason Voorhees this movie is not.Part of the problem with the Friday the 13th series has always been that while it's originally derivative Nightmare on Elm Street franchise allowed its villain to develop and its story to take on some much-needed humor value, the Friday the 13th films (with the notable exception of the underrated, highly amusing Jason Takes Manhattan) have always been humorless, plodding affairs. The suspense died out after the second film, but there wasn't anything to take its place. The attempts at humor and self-parody in Jason X only serve to underline this, coming off truly pathetic rather than witty.For completists and fans of the various flesh on display. The rest of you can safely ignore it without feeling like you missed much. * | 0negative
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Overlooked Classic!
This movie is a great, even to someone like me who isn't very high on comedies! Even though this movie was filmed on a shoe-string budget, it's a classic. Townsend blasts the stereotypes of blacks in Hollywood, sending a positive message about maintaining his dignity as an actor, and makes you laugh. Very Highly Recommended. | 1positive
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Reaching for the sky
I normally prefer to review the disc release and not the movie but, obviously, this disc is not yet available and the movie is enough of an unknown quantity (evidenced by this being the first review) that it seemed an exception was due this time.I came across FORTRESS by accident. I had not seen any publicity for it and I follow movie releases fairly closely. It is apparently a low budget, independent production. It is pretty ambitious for such a film. To recreate the large bomber formations, fighter plane attacks and even the base camp it uses a lot of CGI.So, I have seen FORTRESS and I very much enjoyed it. Sure, the visual effects are sometimes a bit crude, but most of the time they are pretty effective and certainly good enough to support the story. I'd say the visual effects are a bit better than those in the TV series DOGFIGHTS (which were pretty good) but not up to the standards of RED TAILS (a high bar, IMO). The movie was well written and I was impressed by the performances by the unknown (to me) cast. For a movie made on a tiny fraction of most big studio movie budgets it is quite an accomplishment.Synopses of the story can be found on IMDb and if you haven't watched the trailer on YouTube, yet, do so. If you like WW II movies, especially about the air war in Europe, I think you will like FORTRESS.I like this movie enough that I have pre-ordered the Blu-ray. Since Amazon does not mention whether or not it will have any extras, I emailed the production company and asked. They replied that it will have a timelapse of part of the plane being built and a short documentary. | 1positive
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OMG ! Logic is like soooo bad !
This movie is based on the supremely absurd premise that logic and science lead to a society where all emotion is outlawed, people get shot for crying, individuality is outlawed, there are neon signs saying "E=MC2" everywhere, and everything is decided by computers. This premise is so disgusting and ridiculous that no possible movie could save it, and certainly not this one. | 0negative
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Suspensful, Intriguing.
Great plot, believable characters. The true extent of the British government's research on tracking individual citizens stays hidden until the very end. Benedict C shows his exceptional talent yet again. | 1positive
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The Circus Is a Crazy Place
Where has this movie been all my life? This is high camp on the order of "Valley of the Dolls" and "Mommie Dearest". Why is it that Hollywood can make realistic cop movies but miss the mark so wide when making movies about themselves? Whatever the reason, if campy gems like this are the result, I'm all for it. Worth twice the price for the Sound Booth scene, as well as Natalie Wood's Showstopping dance through the galaxy, and Robert Redford playing gay. Get this movie now! | 1positive
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Olide but goodie
My sister and I saw this show years ago and we always loved the movie. We have talked about it for years. We laugh about the Bear song Richard Boone is always singing. Anything with Indians rules!! Richard Boone is the greatest in this movie. Of course the Indian is hot too!!! When ever I need or want anything I can find it on Amazon. | 1positive
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NG Save your $$$
Remember Jason and the Argonauts from the 60-70's. Special effects like that only worse. Acting sucked.. even for B movie.. I hate CGI when its good, this is just awful. | 0negative
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Hooked!
I felt like I'd been transported to another time and place. Watchinging it is a wonderful experience!It's Gotsford Park without the murder. | 1positive
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Inane Script, Incompetent Direction - and those are the strong points.
I've wasted enough time with this tripe, so I'll keep the review brief. Fleeting moments allow some acting talent to shine, but it's all overshadowed by incompetent direction (one need only view the prologue for evidence), vulgarity rather than wit, and pointless gore. For violence to work in a movie, it must be staged correctly. As a joke requires construction - a set-up and a pay-off, so also do scenes of horror and suspense. We don't get anything that like that in this film. Lacking planning and direction, it offers little impact beyond gross-out visuals. Contrast with the best sequences in Psycho or Halloween or Evil Dead, where one can deconstruct a scene down to thoughtful storyboards, this film clambers like an amnesia patient, apparently having learned nothing from fifty years of the specific filmmaking heritage (horror/suspense) that preceded it. | 0negative
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Barefoot in the Park
This DVD was received as promised. It was a gift. Very satisfied with your service. | 1positive
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Could be more fun
This is campy Sci-Fi (Sci-low?) at its best. For real fun however, find the version spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Absolutely nothing is lost in the translation, as if there is much to lose, and the add-on commentary is hysterical. | 0negative
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5 film noir collections compared
This is mainly a contents listing of 5 box sets of film-noir collections. Quality is excellent for the Warner box--the films are not public domain and were remastered. The four other collections are of public-domain films, some of which were fixed up somewhat. Film quality is variable (dropouts, scratches, cropped images, fuzziness, low contrast). Most films are quite watchable, and there are some very good versions, especially if low price is considered (e.g., Hitch-hiker--only on CLA9). However, there are some marginal issues (e.g., Red house--only on FN10) and some extremely bad issues (e.g., Man who cheated himself--only on CLA9).Ratings based on video-audio quality and emphasizing value for money: 5* = CLA1; 4* = CLA9, KIL5, MY10; 3* = FN10COLLECTIONS--SUMMARY:*** CLA1 = Film noir classic collection (Warner, 2004) [5 movies, 1944-50] $49.95 list. Extras: 5 film commentaries; 1 introduction; 2 trailers. Note: Volume 2 with 5 more noir films will appear in 7/05.*** CLA9 = Classic film noir (St. Clair, 2005) [9 movies, 1946-53] $9.95 list. Extras: poster gallery (in color); featurette (About film noir, TT5:00); 7 trailers (TT16:00)*** FN10 = Film noir: 10 movies (Brentwood, 2004) [10 movies, 1934!, 1945-52] $19.95 list. Extras: 40 trailers (4/disk)*** KIL5 = 5 film noir killer classics (Questar, 2004) [5 movies, 1945-49] $29.95 list. Extras: The posters of film noir (in color, TT3:50); 2 featurettes (What is film noir?, TT13:00; Femme fatale, TT7:53); 38 Film noir trailers (TT1.58:07)*** MY10 = Mystery classics: 50 movie pack (Treeline, 2004) [10 film noir movies, 1945-54, 40 other movies, 1931-52] $34.95 list. Extras: noneCOLLECTIONS--CONTENTS:Asphalt jungle, The (1950) = CLA1Borderline (1950) = FN10 Note: at best marginally film noir!Call it murder (aka Midnight) (1934) = FN10 Note: a 1934 film, not film noir!Detour (1945) = CLA9 FN10 KIL5 MY10 Note: right-hand-drive vehicles in first scene a goof of film, not a reissue mistake!D.O.A. (1950) = CLA9 FN10 KIL5Gun crazy (aka Deadly is the female) (1949) = CLA1He walked by night (1948) = FN10 MY10Hitch-hiker, The (1953) = CLA9Hollow triumph (aka The scar--UK) (1948) = CLA9Impact (1949) = MY10Kansas City confidential (1952) = FN10 MY10Man who cheated himself, The (1950) = CLA9Murder, my sweet (aka Farewell my lovely) (1944) = CLA1Out of the past (1947) = CLA1Quicksand (1950) = CLA9 MY10Red house, The (1947) = FN10 Note: rural film noir!Scarlet Street (1945) = FN10 KIL5 MY10Second woman, The (1951) = FN10 MY10Set-up, The (1949) = CLA1Strange love of Martha Ivers, The (1946) = CLA9Stranger, The (1946) = CLA9 FN10 KIL5 MY10 Note: The separate Roan Group issue (with Cause for alarm, 1951) is superior.Suddenly (1954) = MY10Too late for tears (aka Killer bait) (1949) = CLA9 KIL5 MY10 | 1positive
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PLEASE DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY
This isn't even a film. This is a slide show with the same information repeated over 15 minutes. Then the rest is just pretty much the same pictures. HORRIBLE! | 0negative
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Way better than others give it credit for
I saw Eden Log recently for the first time, and was so into it I almost immediately ordered a copy on DVD. While I understand that the Blu-ray version has technical shortcomings, my review here relates to the content of the film, both thematically and stylistically.I don't want to give much away, because Eden Log does a great job of slowly unraveling a mysterious story over the course of the film. Toward the end when most things become revealed, I really had that "Aha!" moment you get when you realize a great puzzle was being untangled all throughout a story, and the clues that were there all along you were only vaguely understanding. For this reason I think the film merits multiple viewings.The style is very dark and "dingy", fairly cyberpunk, but from the sub-sub-sub-basement of a futuristic kind of world perspective. If you've read the Japanese manga series Blame! you will find many similarities to Eden Log. Likewise, the movie borrows from the stylings of French BD sci-fi comics, and this is a great thing, as not enough films do! Perhaps similar in a sense to Immortal by Enki Bilal, which of course itself was his adaptation of his own BD comic.Eden Log definitely is operating on several levels, in addition to the science fiction story itself. It is concerned with the environment and the planet, and how we as humans interact with and seek to control it, and create a feedback loop of negative consequences. It also has themes relating to immigration theory and nationalism/citizenship, and what some people do in order to pursue the dream of being a productive member of a "free" and prosperous society -- when in reality this is not what they are necessarily signing up for upon applying for citizenship. Other interesting themes abound as well, and because of all these subtleties I think this movie appeals more to an intellectual crowd.Stylistically, I am extremely impressed by what the filmmakers pulled off with a presumably relatively small budget. Camera work, set design, and costume design are all EXCELLENT, and all serve to illustrate the "darkness" of the world of Eden Log. I am impressed by the acting, and even creature design. The movie is very dark, the colors very muted and affected, and the camera work jarring -- but it's all very intentional, and the overall effect I found very appealing.So, maybe Eden Log won't appeal to your average Joe looking for a generic sci-fi horror action thriller -- but that's not the intent of this movie. I'd call it hard science fiction of a very artistic/stylized fashion, with intellectual social themes as an undercurrent. If you like artsy, gritty, dark, heady science fiction, absolutely give this movie a chance. | 1positive
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Two Stars, one for each actor
This is a horrible movie. It's funny how people rate this movie based on their affection for Kate & Leo from the Titanic. This is not the Titanic. This is a foolish movie that never moves along, nothing happens until the last 15 minutes. It's one of the slowest most shallow movies you will watch, there is no depth in this movie. If your in love with Kate & Leo well you will watch this movie just because but if you are not, you are wasting 2 hours to watch this movie there is no redeeming value. I don't post very often, I don't review movies but I had to vent on this one. All the hype is sad, this movie sucked. | 0negative
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A beautiful epic romantic film!
Richard Attenborough's story of the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Anges von Kurowsky (the inspiration behind the novel A Farewell to Arms) is recounted in this film. It is truly an epic film, covering the last year of the First World War, during which time Hemingway was injured while a member of the Red Cross, to his meeting and blossoming love for Kurowsky, to the pensive, melancholy conclusion to their relationship after the war.The film has a rich, sweeping feel to it. Attenborough does a wonderful job at direction, blending the gorgeous cinematography (from Italian battlefields to Venician waterways) with the loving, at-times heart-wrenching musical score. However, the film is not manipulative, as most recent romance films are. Instead, it is allowed to unfold slowly and naturally, and it has a more honest feel to the characterizations than you find in most mainstream Hollywood films.On its initial release, one of the main complaints about the film was the unusual casting of Chris O'Donnell as Hemingway and Sandra Bollock as Kurowsky. In actuality, Bollock gives a very commendable performance, and I believe this film shows her best acting to date. In most of her other films, she just plays Sandra Bollock with a different name, but here, she suppresses her usual idiosyncrasies and creates a true character. While I enjoyed a lot of her other films (Speed, While You Were Sleeping), this is really her best and most underrated performance. O'Donnell is somewhat less successful - it is hard to imagine him as a young Hemingway, and he seems like an anachronistic Boy Wonder. His mannerisms don't seem to fit with a 1910s mentality. However, he is not terrible, as some reviewers might have you believe. He delivers a decent performance; in fact, if you drop any pre-conceived notions of the real Ernest Hemingway and try to view O'Donnell's character as just another spunky youth caught in the excitement of wartime, his performance works well in the context of the film.Personally, I like this film a lot. It's gorgeous, it's romantic, and it feels like a sweeping epic. If you enjoy films like The English Patient or A Room with a View, you'll enjoy this film.Just a few words about the DVD, which I bought....this is an essentially bare-bones DVD. There are the usual small extras (subtitles, trailer, cast notes) but nothing else. You can choose to view it as widescreen or full-screen. But there is no commentary or documentary...So, if you like romantic films, give this film a chance....you may be surprised at how it slipped by your notice. Recommended! | 1positive
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The Worst of Its Kind
Say It Isn't So! Tell me I didn't waste 95 mins of my life watching this DVD! I think I had pretty realistic expectations going in that Say It Isn't So wasn't going to be anything exceptional and I do normally enjoy the sick Farley Brother sense of humor, but Say It Isn't So is so painfully un-funny that it's hard to believe it ever made it past its first test screening. You'd think with actors like Heather Graham, Chris Klein, and Sally Field, you'd have at least a semi-watchable movie, but there couldn't be anything further from the truth! Say It Isn't So is one of those movies that is so bad in just the wrong way that it isn't even laughable as a bad movie. ... If you're looking for a good gross-out comedy I'd recommend some of the Farley Brother's other endeavors, including the much-overlooked Kingpin or even Dumb and Dumber. [Geoffrey Kleinman DVDTalk.com] | 0negative
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Inferno
What is it with Italian Horror?Not all but the majority,I have seen Suspiria and I liked it but Watching Inferno is like watching some spoiled college kid's Experimental film for film class.The dialogue,dubbing and the usual doesn't make sense story is not my problem,The Man who has an evil way to get Rid of Cats doesn't bug me despite my Feline Fancy(I love cats-But Animal Rights activists are just silly treehuggers.)It just seems not an horror film but a badly made soap opera or drama with bad effects and despite the lack of usual Italian Style Gore which to me is always overdone and lacking in taste the movie just doesn't do it for me on a scared level,and I have seen Several "Scary" movies especially Italian variety. | 0negative
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Eye Saw And Eye Didn't Like
Sylvester Stallone is a coming of age Academy Award nominated Actor/Screenwriter, A legendary Action star, and a Hollywood heavy who has lasted over 25 yearsin the spotlight. His newest feature 'Eye See You', however, is a bad movie.First of all, it lacked any character development. The first scene has Stallone's character Fed Cop Jake Malloy buying a ring for his lovebird. That scene immediately takes you to Malloy with his cop buddies talking about a slasher who is killing cops. Then, one of the buddies gets home and gets killed, then Malloy goes home to his lovebird, and the next morning he gets a call about his buddy's death, he heads to the scene, gets a phonecall from the slasher as he's breaking into his house and killing his lovebird. All in the first 10-15 minutes! Where's the logic? Where the character background? Why is this happening? Nobody knows.Next, Malloy goes into a deep depression where he turns into an alcoholic and comits suicide. This behaviour ends Malloy up at a detox unit for troubled cops. And here is where the poorly rated fun begins. A snow blizzard hits the area, breaking any contact between the detox unit and the outside world. Malloy is stuck in detox with a dozen other cops and one of them is the slasher.By the end when you find out who the slasher is, you have no idea what brought him there, why he is killing cops, and why he has harrassed Malloy.???This movie is forgettable. Very poor script at worst. And Sly's acting is nowhere near Rocky status. Just the same old puppy eyed look on his face and the same snarly voice. The worst is where Stallone crys over his lovebird's death, it's more aching for the viewer to watch him overact than it is crying over the lover. That's how bad this movie is!I wonder where has Stallone of 1976 gone? Was it a strike of good luck that turned him into a star? Only the rest of his time will reveal that secret!Eye See You final words: don't See it unless you really feel like watching another Stallone movie.Not recommendedD+ | 0negative
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Chemistry and Vision
What makes a five star film? How about a cast starring Matt Dillon, Mikey Rourke, Dennis Hopper (and a cameo appearance by Tom Waits!), a soundtrack by Stewart Copeland (with a bit of Stan Rigeway!), a story by S.E. Hinton, and directed by Fracis Ford Coppola. This film is magic. It is modern impressionism shot in a timeless realm- a blackboard sky. Its more than rouge street kid getting into rumbles, its a story of fish that need to be set free, so they can swim to the ocean where there are no dividing lines. When this movie first came out in the early eighties, it got negative reviews and a cold public welcoming. As you can see here -an almost five star consensus- it was very ahead of its time. This movie probably hit the establishment like a bomb, which at the time was very conservative. All that aside, this is an extraordinary film- a true art piece of the silver screen- livid, bullish, and moving. | 1positive
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I usually love mindless gorefests
Blood Pigs, Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence, The Burning Moon, Das Komabrutal Duell, Bone Sickness, VS trilogy...these are great ultra-gorefests but The Summer of Massacre is just retarded. It's fatal flaw is that 99% of the blood and gore is CGI. And CGI alone is bad enough but this is really, really bad CGI. And the filmmakers blatanly lie about the bodycount of 155. There's maybe 55 on screen kills. Already dead bodies laying around shouldn't count towards the body count and I hope Guinness revokes their world record for body count in a slasher film (if this isn't a blatant lie). I thought Joe Castro was a practical FX man? I just enjoyed his films such as Evil Unleashed, Legend of the Chupacabra and Jackhammer Massacre which if I remember correctly had almost 100% practical gore fx. Why couldn't he do that here? Is he that lazy? This film with all practical gore and blood would have been awesome. No one has ever liked CGI and it's even more hated when it comes to blood and gore. Not only were the fx horrid but the death scenes were stupid. A guy getting a remote control pushed through his mouth and splitting his head? A guy's head getting crushed with a seatbelt? Some of the stuff in the burn story was kinda neat despite still being very dodgy fx wise. Another knock on the film is the complete lack of female nudity and that wouldn't be a big deal if there wasn't any male nudity which unfortunately there was. There was even a sex scene with no nudity. The male nudity wasn't confined to the behind either...trying to tell us something Joe? This is an anthology by the way and none of the stories are worth mentioning. I dare you next time to top this film Joe, but with 100% practical blood and gore fx. Brian Paulin made 3 films just as gory as this and much, much better without any CGI at all and probably even less money than you wasted on this dissapointment. | 0negative
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Who says Brit is always snobbish
I just admire Chef Ramsay so much for helping people. I think he is bloody brilliant! I love him! I hope one day I can work for him,even if I am a 65 years-old woman. | 1positive
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It was dumb...
Oh, the things I heard about this movie. One of my friends told me that this was the worst movie ever made. Then later I read reviews of this movie and decided that I might, just might, give it a try. I mean I have been surprised before. I have seen movies that I thought were going to be dreadful, but they turned out to be perfectly acceptable. This was not one of those movies: no the inept directing and script writing relegated this movie to the lowest level of the rubbish bin.Puck is a follower. He just wants to be part of something. The script etches out this point again and again, lacking any subtelty in the delivery. Instead of having to actually think about the characters and decide whether they did the right thing or the wrong thing, the movie spoonfeeds us the answers and deeper meanings. So, here he is, his anarcho-pacifist group taken over by a radical sociopath. What is he to do? Follow the path of his Republican girlfriend or blow up building alongside with neo-nazis and gun weilding McVeighites?Apart from entirely lacking subtelty, this movie was hackneyed rubbish. Now, I understand that every movie steals from other movies. That in and of itself is not a problem. However, this movie is nothing but a sampler of: SLC Punk, Trainspotting, American History X, Fight Club (its there believe me), and a plethora of other such movies. Yes, its all been done, but the story of a young misguided man breaking off from the underground and into the mainstream has been done more times than even the multiple personailty cliche.So what have we got? A movie that is a patchwork of cliches and exhibits the subtlety of a sledgehammer. I'll go on. The script is terrible. Yes, terrible. None of the actors in this movie were that terrible, no, but being forced to say those horrid lines you would sound coerced too. For example: Double D says, "What am I going to do without you." In full seriousness. It sounds stupid. Really stupid. The plot, being little less than a string of cliches is horribly predictable. Sitting in front of the screen you will be able to tell what will happen in the next five minutes at every point in the movie.However in the end you supposed precognition will become more obvious. You will enjoy not watching that film. Any viewer will be able to predict that. | 0negative
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That was weak folks...that was weeeeeeeeaaak!!!!
To be quite frank, I did not think the first one was that good, but when I when I watched the 3rd installment of the Hellraiser series called "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth", I just kept rolling my eyes and sighing the entire movie. There is absolutely no element of horror within this movie whatsoever...in other words, it just doesn't cut the mustard as far as a horror movie is concerned. Yeah, there is a lot of blood and gore, just like the first, but once again, that is not enough to make a good horror movie. This movie is a very weak horror movie and I give it ONE STAR and that is being oh so generous my friends. After seeing "Hellraiser", "Candyman" and "Hellraiser III", I must admit that I am completely unimpressed with the ability of Clive Barker to produce a good horror movie...frankly, "Hellraiser III" just flat out sucks...it's not the worst horror movie I've ever seen, but it sure is bad. I have not seen "Hellraiser II" or any of the Candyman sequels yet, but if it is anything like what I've seen so far from Clive Barker, I better pack my cooler jam full of beer because it's going to be another long night of pure and unaldulterated crap for me to watch and another night of unintentionally funny horror movies, which is so common from the supposedly "horror movies" of the 90's and today. Why do I waste my time on this garbage? | 0negative
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Better than I expected, and much better than the reviews...
Okay, as a long time fan of the original series of A Nightmare on Elm Street movies, I like most people, was very skeptical about this latest version. I own ALL of the original movies, and I do mean ALL. I even own New Nightmare and Freddy vs. Jason. I bought this movie without even seeing it first because of the low price thinking that if I didn't like it I would just give it away to someone who does. However, I gave myself a little pep-talk before sitting down to watch it. I told myself, this is what I'm going to do - Watch this movie with an open mind and judge it on its own merits as if it were its own movie and not a remake. I decided I wasn't going to watch it, constantly comparing it to the original.I know some people have a strong sentimental attachment to the original. They have fond memories of going to the theater with their middle/high school friends and being scared out of their minds. I fortunately was very young when the original was first out, I didn't even get to see it until it had been around for about 10 years, so I didn't have the emotional attachment for the original to shed before seeing this one. But, as I said, I'm still a huge fan. I was instantly hooked by Freddy in all of his twisted glory and now own every original movie they ever made.I actually enjoyed this version very much. The trick to enjoying this movie is to not judge it as a mere remake, but instead as it's own movie. That's really not a difficult task, as many elements such as the backstory for Freddy have been changed. They kept a few pivotal scenes from the original here, but a lot has changed, and I found it refreshing. I cared about the characters, I felt the fear that they felt and through much of this movie I was on the edge of my seat, which is something that hasn't happened in a long time.This is definitely a darker, and in some ways, more sadistic Freddy than we've seen before. He still has a few wise-cracks here and there, but long gone are the cheesy one liners. Again, no disrespect, but I personally don't miss the humor or hilariously bad dialogue. One thing even to this day that often makes me cringe while watching the originals is the horrible acting and deadpan delivery of lines. The bad acting often made me laugh more than Freddies witty satire. I love this one for the scare factor, this genuinely creeped me out, which is what I want in a Horror movie. If I want to laugh, I watch a Comedy.A classic is always going to be a classic. I feel that many people are giving this bad reviews without actually seeing it, because in a way they feel it's some kind of blasphemy to have redone it in the first place. Give it a chance. Watch this movie with an open mind and judge it on its own merits, and you'll see that it's actually a very good movie. | 1positive
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Mildly entertaining action but weak story
I was excited when I saw the previews for this movie thinking it would be an update to The Running Man (1987) with two talented actors, namely Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall. I ended up very disappointed by this movie for the following reasons:1. Weak script - none of the characters receives any development. Gerard Butler has very little dialogue in the movie and half of his scenes seem to be pictures within the movie used as advertisements for the Slayers game. The movie is full of actors with talent but they have bit parts that are disposable. John de Lancie (Q from Star Trek Next Generation), Kyra Sedgwick, Keith David, and John Leguizamo all had scenes that could easily be removed without taking away from the movie. Their talents were wasted, each of those actors could have brought something memorable to the movie had their parts been better developed. Amber Valeta's character is a complete waste and could have been removed. The boy gamer and rebel leader (Ludacris) are important roles that are never developed. This failure to develop even one character makes the movie fall flat.2. The plot doesn't go far enough to be the thought provoking edgy piece it could have been nor does it make for a enthralling action movie. The plot gets a bit lost during this movie since the initial premise is a human gamer controls a human avatar, but Butler's Kable is the one portrayed as a great fighter who makes it further than anyone. If the gamer is the one controlling Kable and he can't even turn around unless the gamer turns him, then isn't the gamer really the badass? If the evil genius bad guy wants to kill the hero, why doesn't he just off the gamer or have someone else control Kable? (**Spoiler alert**: in the final scene, Castle reveals he has the cells necessary to send so he thinks it and Kable does it. So if Kable was a threat way back at the start of this whole mad scientist project, why didn't Castle just think Kable's death and kill him with a thought? Then there would not have been a movie but that is just how weak this script is.) By the end of this movie I found myself wondering how a society that can't entirely accept the death penalty is going to, in a few short years, accept something like Slayers as a way for criminals to earn their freedom.3. Camera jitters/angles make this movie sickening for anyone with motion sickness issues. This style of filming does not add to the action and I agree with another reviewer that it is an attempt to cover a weak script.Ultimately, this isn't a movie I would recommend buying unless you are just that in to looking at Gerard Butler. As a straight action movie this comes up short but not terrible. As a thought provoking piece to make one think about the future it is a failure. Butler's other movie from this year, Law Abiding Citizen, would be a much better choice to watch. If Michael C. Hall was your reason for watching, tune in to Dexter, Hall is a gem in the lead role. | 0negative
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Simply the Best!
This is one of the best musicals ever made. I don't care what anyone says. Forget "The Sound of Music". Quincy Jones creates a true masterpiece with the sound track as well. And the acting is very good. I would have rather seen Stephanie Mills but you know the politics of the industry. | 1positive
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Stargate SG-1 Season 10
Vala (Claudia Black) The new chick (she actually showed up last season but plays more of a part this season)has great chemistry with Daniel Jackson(Micheal Shanks). The Merlin aspect of the story lines was wonderful. Even though there is only one apperance of col. jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) there are still good stories here. | 1positive
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Stupid but the kids like it
My kids are two and three and they liked this movie, so two stars for that. I think it is awful. The wolves are dumb looking and the story was a good idea but with NO research nor prior knowledge of wolves behavior at all they may as well have dressed people up in furs and made the movie about a tribe of people not a pack of wolves. I'll give creative license in cartoons but this is just too full of ignorance and dumb jokes. I am very much disappointed as well because I was looking forward to this show. The first Balto was so much better AND better informed. Also it grates on me that they talk about the pack being half alpha and half omega, do the writers not know what those two words mean?! Alpha means beginning or number one, there is ONLY one alpha female and one alpha male in a pack (a mated pair usually). They lead the pack but do not do all the work. You could call their second-in-commands beta's if you want and you could even go down the line but some of the wolves have almost the same status in the pack so further than beta might get confusing. Packs are NEVER as large as the ones in the movie because a pack that big would kill every last prey animal in their territory just trying to feed themselves. And YES wolves DO eat berries and other wild fruits along with fish mice deer elk caribou and anything else they CAN eat to have a full diet BUT they don't eat the healthy large animals because there is huge risk to life and limb in trying to take one down and they know that. (If you don't believe they eat fruit try and give your dog some. Chances are they will gobble it down. My dogs favorite is Kiwi)I know this isn't supposed to be an educational film or anything but the least they can do is keep the animal characters true to their forms, after all you wouldn't make a movie about nice and nurturing shark parents (they eat their young by the way) because it isn't in their natures to be nurturing and it just makes the idea ridiculous and stupid.These are just a few examples, the show is highly flawed and not funny enough to make up for it. It seems to TRY to teach kids wrong ideas about just bout everything in it. I like the French-Canadian golfing goose. He is funny anyway. And the librarian/biker couple that features for five minuets. | 0negative
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COULD BE BETTER
ONLY EPISODES OF 1999- I CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH FAN BUT DVD IS NOT The REASON SO THAT I LIKE The SHOW I ANOTHER THING SO THAT THEY CANCELLED The SHOW IF HIM GO SO WELL THEY COULD HAVE HAD IMPRESSIVE BATTLES LIKE:Ashton Kutcher vs Jack BlackNAOMI WATTSON vs Rene ZELLWEGERJASON LEE vs JUDE LAW"BUT NOOO THE SHOW IS CANCELED"THIS DVD IS VERY POOR NONCSINGLE PROBALY IS EAST DVD OF CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH THAT MANAGES TO REMOVELIKE RELESED ALL THE SERIES. | 0negative
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Love to see Angelina in this type of film.
I love action packed movies featuring women. Kept me and my girlfriends and husbands entertained throughout. Would recommend this movie for adults. | 1positive
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not tairabley bad
duplex was a romantic comedy with ben stiller and drew barrymorewhen they think they have a perfect house they find out that a little old lady lives upstars.this littel lady turns out to be evil and tries to kill them. this movie was ok but i thought it would be vary funny.but it turned out to be not that funny.but it was still a preaty good movie.you should defintly rent this before you buy it. | 0negative
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This Movie Begs for a negative rating
This is the type of movie that is so bad that it can't be rated. You'd think that with endless millions to spend, someone could be found to think up a creative plot. The same old tired worn out killer virus and the whole planet will die theme--ugh. Then the face masks used over and over and over. Duh, doesn't anyone notice that even though these people have the same face, they're not the same size as the real ones? When Ambrose disguises himself as hunt, didn't Nyah notice that there was a slight difference in height? The script also liberally borrowed from a number of other movies, including the Matrix, among others.All in all, something to avoid at all cost. | 0negative
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Don't buy or rent
I bought this movie thinking it'd be a good watch. I'm a big fan of the mafia movie genre and I love Harvey Keitel. But this movie was just plain boring, and far too long. But don't think I'm the kind of person who can't appreciate a slow moving film (I loved The Killing of a Chinese Bookie). Plus there was just some rediculous moments, like the nuns pushing the car off the cliff even though he was sitting right in it and in park....You want a good Harvey Keitel flick, go check out Reservoir Dogs or Mean Streets. You're looking for slightly obscure gangster movies try Wannabes, Revolver, Family Enforcer or Ghost Dog. | 0negative
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Blashphemy
This abortion of a sequel should have never been made. I won't watch it. I can tell just from the front cover art and the title that this is a trainwreck of what the original story was. Look how cute the main rat is! I hope he dies in this sequel. | 0negative
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Superb movie but...
This is a superb movie. I would buy it and watch it. However...be forewarned, the second DVD that is available on the limited release has the most annoying menu structure. You have to play like you are answering psychological questions in order to continue an aimless hunt for the special features. I can appreciate creativity and trying to add an extra dimension of fun but this just gets in the way. | 1positive
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Mike
If you want to waste 2 hours watch this movie. Even Owen Wilson couldn't save this abortion of a movie. | 0negative
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Richer than S1
Season 2 was a little darker and cerebral than Season 1. A very nice show with a nice cast. Yup. | 1positive
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vertigo
Again a classic thriller by Hitch backed up by Bernard Hermann. What more could you ask for. | 1positive
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Terrible transfer to tape
This particular version of Nosferatu done by Timeless Video is awful. The soundtrack is not done accordingly to the movie - the songs are just classics, and most of the time, they are really cheerful, which totally ruins the mood of the film. The titles don't fit on the screen, so you miss the last line of most of the titles, plus the first and last words on either side of the screen. I do not recommend the Timeless Video version. I found myself not enjoying Nosferatu as much as I should because the quality of this tape was so terrible. | 0negative
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Thirteen episodes are:
Who Built Egypt's Pyramids?Nefertiti: The Mummy ReturnsPompeii Secrets RevealedHunt for the Lost ArkThe Holy GrailThe Iceman ComethQuest for King Solomon's GoldPassage to the Maya UnderworldThe Lost Tribe of IsraelSecrets of the Nazca LinesThe Search for El DoradoGiants of Easter IslandMystery of the Anasazi[About 45 minutes each] | 1positive
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Two thumbs down
I had ordered this dvd for Christmas. I got it before then which was great but when i went to watch it on Christmas Eve. I found it to be not funny at all. The F word is used by every puppet and the jokes could be altered to be funny. I used to like Jeff Dunham but i'm very disappointed in this dvd. I must say i am not so sure i will want to order his next one that comes out. He might be not be married any more but i have to say when hew as married his stuff was A LOT more funny....and AJ the new puppet reminds me of Chucky. that demented doll from the old movies. I must say this is the first dvd i wish i had known was like this i would not have gotten it. even the extra's are not impressive to me. I must say others might find this funny however i do not and i think he needs a realty check if he is going to continue this career of his. | 0negative
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For the Melissa Leo fans maybe...
I had a significant increase in Melissa Leo requests since last month's Oscar nomination so I went with her latest piece that no one had heard of (she has eleven other films coming out this year since Woodcock and Righteous Kill didn't exactly showcase anything for her).This story takes place in the impoverished streets of a city in South Africa and briefly in a trailer park in the southern US. Melissa Leo plays the waitress/mother of a drug-addled son taken hostage by a dealer/pimp across the ocean from her. After finding out that she needs to pay the ransom to save his life, she flies across and dives head first into the crime filled life her son was living.Admittedly, she looked and acted like she just came off the set of Frozen River, in every way. Her mannerisms, dress and role all appeared identical. As did the depression level of this whole film. The supporting cast and film stock were both average and sometimes below mediocre, so the redemption had to be Melissa. In the end though, even the writing collapsed, as shown when the drug laced prostitute (girlfriend of the son) was pregnant the last half of the film - had taken a quantity of drugs, been kicked and beaten, been working the streets the whole time, but magically produces a healthy kid with no care. Maybe she beat the odds. But anyway, the ending really fell apart in believability, even though the director had just helmed such spectacular flops as Prey and Dracula 3000.A skipper all the way, though it looks like at least half of the upcoming films of Leo's will be better for her to showcase her skills. | 0negative
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Excellent, technically accurate film
Silent Running takes the viewer on an exciting, but depressing journey into Earth's possible future, where the only remaining plants are maintained on three realistically rendered spacecraft. Bruce Dern does an outstanding job of portraying a crewmember who cannot face the destruction of the last surviving plant life, and does the 'unthinkable' in order to preserve his cargo. The spacecraft, equipment, and 'droids' are extremely believable, and technically accurate. This film will be well enjoyed by those who care deeply about the world's ecology. The music is sometimes haunting, and the manner in which events are presented allows the viewer to experience the loneliness of space, and the emotions felt by Freeman Lowell, Dern's character. A true classic, perhaps best understood by viewers who experienced the 60s and 70s. Not a shoot-em-up, but more of a thinking person's film. One of my favorites. | 1positive
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Best, most clever movie ever!
This movie is one of the funnier movies I have ever seen. From unexpected outbursts and actions to clever plays on animal life, it will NOT DISAPPOINT. Take some time to watch this movie. It is quite short as well, so don't let time keep you away from it. | 1positive
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Funny movie slightly different from book
"Freak the Mighty" is such a touching book, so I was slightly disappointed in the movie. However, it still had its funny moments. I showed it to my eighth grade class after reading the book, and they really only got into the humorous parts. I thought the kidnapping scene and the end were very downplayed in the film. | 1positive
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Christmas present!
I got this as a Christmas present as my daughter loves 30 Rock. She loved it, Than you very much! | 1positive
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Will the real Halloween 3 please stand up?
Once upon a time, way back in 1978, there was a little independent film released at the wrong time of year for its title: Halloween. Halloween was not only the first of its kind (in a very long time), but it provided its horrors elegantly and suspensefully, not grotesquely and blatantly. It was the first film from director John Carpenter (waaaaaay before he insisted that his name go above the titles of his increasingly bad movies). Halloween's popularity inspired not only imitations galore (Friday the 13th, The Burning, etc.), but its own sequels. The first sequel (Halloween II) continued the horrors set up in the original on the same evening of the original (but this time full of gore), employing the newly crowned queen of scream, Jamie Lee Curtis, as the star just off her turn in the original. This was a coup that made the sequel a huge hit too. Then the misery began....Someone in Hollywood got the bright idea to change the Halloween films into a brand name. Thus was born Halloween III: Season of the Witch. This film had absolutely nothing to do with the first two films and it also had absolutely nothing to do with horror or scares (unless you count the horror of paying to watch such dreck).Halloween IV through VI were sequels to the first two Halloweens, but their premise and association was only remotely attached (Halloween V was a decent delivery, but only when seen as a stand alone film).Halloween H2O was a return to the original franchise. All the press that came out on the film told viewers that this film is the real sequel to Halloween II. In other words, it is the real Halloween III. This was a wise move. Not only do we have a return to the original story basis, but we are given a return of the original Halloween heroine - Jamie Lee Curtis (no longer a newbie, but a seasoned and accomplished actress, who has the Halloween films to thank, in part, for her success).It is 20 years later (thus the 20, part of the title - the H refers to Halloween - get it? - Halloween 20 years later). Laurie Strode is alive and disturbed after the horrors of that night some twenty years earlier. She is a mental basket case, a functioning alcoholic, single mother to Josh Hartnett, and the head mistress of a toney boarding school in the middle of nowhere California. Having faked her death many years earlier to avoid the infamy of the horrors of that long ago night (and to hide from her brother Michael, whom she still believes to be alive), she lives as much of a normal life as she can. Only her son and she knows who she really is.Of course, Michael is no more dead, than the Pope is Jewish.Halloween H20 does some really neat things that make this film seem not only like a real sequel, but a welcomed return by an old friend. For example, the opening scene features a nurse returning home from work - the nurse seems oddly familiar - and rightly so - if you remember waaay back, it is the same nurse who accompanied Donald Pleasance to the insane asylum the night that Michael Myers originally escaped in 1978. The same actress is used. I don't think she's ever done another film between these two films, but darned if I didn't like that continuity!Also, Jamie Lee's secretary at the school is none other than her very own "real life" mother: Janet Leigh. This is a really cool cameo, because it offers us a nod to the Hollywood legacy that Jamie Lee inherited, but it also ties in the horror connection as well - Janet was the first to die in the Great Grandfather of all slasher films: Psycho! Now, the filmmakers decided to go even one better, which is the most delicious part of all to the cameo. The car the secretary drives is the exact - and I do mean exact same car that Janet Leigh drove in Psycho. Plus - Plus - if you listen carefully, you will hear the music change very briefly to the Bernard Hermann score from Psycho. It is a very cool cameo!!Halloween H20 is really a fine sequel and is deserving of being the real Halloween III. No longer just a weakling girl who runs from Michael, Laurie stands up to him and shows her mettle. This is not only within character, but necessary in light of the female empowerment movies that would not allow her to do otherwise (Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, anyone?).Rent this film, because it is not only a good fright film, but it is an worthy descendent of the original film. | 1positive
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Maybe i'm being a LITTLE harsh...but
I love ben affleck, and this happens to be his worst film ever! Reindeer games finaly twists and turns until everyone gets killed, and you just can't figure out who the bad guy is...it changes all the time, till their all dead. HORRIBLE....to be honest though, and give the movie some credit, it was good until the ending, and was a very good idea. | 0negative
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This series is like a nightmare
I do not know where to start.- fully armed civilians obeying a withdrawn para-military person??- A professor of history (an intellectual!!) who is mentally and physically capable of fighting like a well trained soldier??? His obsessive addiction for AK47 is another issue..- 16 - 17 year old teenagers armed and fighting like trained mercenaries?- many different weapons but no shortage of ammunition for each of them??- unlimited supplies of food, equipment, water, ammo and fuel???- alien robots with "impact weapons" firing Earth technology bullets??come on. is that the best you can do? even my eight year old son can create a plot better than that.to me, this series is a mixture of Lost and V but much worse than each of these.by the way, 2 stars is for very good acting of Will Patton and not for the series. | 0negative
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Why would anyone see this movie? Hmmmm, I wonder...?
Due to group preasure I did see it.The movie was somewhat funny. I mean; bad acting, stupid story, everything realy sucked. That is the one point for seeing the film though (well, that and Pamela Anderson... but why not rent a porn movie if that is what you want). If you possess a sence of irony the movie can be rather funny. But had it been anything like Plan 9 I could have given it better rating for just being geniously bad. This film is not even that! | 0negative
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Four Christmases
Both actors in this movie are well cast & they are very likable in their roles. I would recommend this movie. | 1positive
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Rebecca DeMornay tries to catch up with the plot in this one
In "The Right Temptation" Rebecca DeMornay plays Derian McCall, a former undercover cop who is now a private detective and who is hired by Anthea Farrow-Smith (Dana Delany) to investigate her husband, Michael (Kiefer Sutherland), who she believes might be cheating on her. Anthea insists that she would be more comfortable with a woman doing the job, which is how Derian gets the gig. But from the start we get a bad vibe about this. There is something about Anthea that does not scan right and if Derian is a bit behind us in her suspicions she does her best to catch up. However, that takes a bit of doing in this film.Early on in this 2000 thriller I thought I knew what was going on, but I had about as much trouble as Derian did in catching up with what is going on. In fact, at some point Derian passed me, which is where I ended up liking this film more than I had thought I would. Every time you think you know what is going on you have no faith in your guess, and that is part of the fun. In a world where too many thrillers are stupidly predictable "The Right Temptation" defies you to figure out what is going on. The script by Larry Brand ("Halloween: Resurrection") might not qualify as being brilliant gamesmanship, but it is at least moving in the right direction.DeMornay does a good job in the lead role. Her character keeps having flashbacks as we see what happened that made her quit being a cop, and we pay attention because we know it has to have something to do with how this storyline is going to get resolved. We know not to trust Delaney's character from the start and every time she smiles you just know it is not a good sign. Sutherland is rather disappointing in that he brings so little to the role, especially compared to what we have seem him do as Jack Bauer on "24." But overall the acting is competent enough as it Lyndon Chubbuck's direction. The question is whether you like movies that are like Russian nesting dolls (aka Matryoshka), where inside each doll there is another one. "The Right Temptation" is at least above average and worth a look for thriller fans. | 1positive
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Awful Screenplay, Brilliant Performance
A failed attempt to combine a misguided ghost allegory with the powerful story of one of the most important women in the long and fabled history of Great Britain. Were it not for the brilliant performance of Meryl Streep, the film would not be worth watching. As it is, it is not worth watching unless you want to study Streep's inspired acting job in this otherwise epic disappointment. | 0negative
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Way off the wall and WOW!
God, this movie is weird. (But I love it) Every time I watch it I understand something new about the symbolism that is everywhere in it. If you're looking for a reasonable attempt at unravelling unknown segments of history, look somewhere else. If you are looking for a wild ride that will make your pulse pound and make your little grey cells work harder, see this film: the first time I saw it I was still thinking about what it all meant for days. | 1positive
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NOW I KNOW HOW TO SAY F... WITH PHONY BOSTON ACCENT!
I CAN'T BELIEVE I BOUGHT THIS MOVIE....UNFORTUNATELY IT CONFIRMS MY BELIEFS OF HOLLYWOOD... THE ACADEMY VOTES FOR REASONS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH QUALITY. OH WELL....IT WAS STRANGE TO LAUGH AT MOMENTS THAT ARE SUPPOSE TO BE HORRIFYING.....BUT AFTER EVERYONE GETS THEIR BRAINS BLOWN OUT CONSTANTLY, IT BECOMES SO CORNY!! SEEING JACK NICHOLSON WITH HIS WONDERFUL FACIAL CONTORTIONS IS ALWAYS ENTERTAINING AND LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS TERRIFIC..... | 0negative
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So much of this season is boring.
Is it just me who is sick of these flashbacks to hotel rooms where soppy mushy dialogue fills up half an episode. Its like Days of our Lives thrown in and a cheap and easy way of filling up space. These guys are suppose to be hunters killing supernatural beings - the story now has such a formulate to it. Surely the producers and writwrs can be more creative in giving viewrs more entertainment value with unusual beings and creatures appearing. Something new and exciting. The characters are becoming older and the show is looking tired and has very little bang - special effects are old from series 3 and 4. i now watch a bit of a show or just switch it off. | 0negative
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Sneakers Anyone?
This show is cleverly designed and has some moderately good acting and script writing. I am reminded, however, of one of my favourite movies, "Sneakers", every time I watch this show. While the main point of the show and movie are totally different, the most basic concept: people getting paid for finding holes in security systems by "breaking in". The show's first season, having only seven episodes, makes it difficult to grade as five stars because there was not enough time or opportunity to develop the characters, and ***partial spoiler*** for some reason, several of the characters didn't make it into the second season. A solid show, not the greatest, but now that we have a second season it has plenty of room to grow. | 1positive
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A Converted Sceptic
Let me start by saying Casino Royale was a really good movie. I enjoyed it, and I thought Daniel Craig was/will be a great James Bond. The problem was, there was very little in this motion picture that indicated it was a James Bond film. The really slick pre-title action sequence was missing. The Maurice Bender style credit sequence was missing. There was no gadgetry. No Q. No Moneypenny. There was very little humor (even Tim Dalton's Bond contained some humor). They could have called Craig's character Ethan Hunt and called this movie Mission:Impossible IV. In spite of the fact that Casino Royale was jam-packed with action, and and had a better plot than a few other Bond flicks, it didn't seem like I had just watched Bond 21. I don't know where Barbara and Michael will go from here. I assume Bond 22 will further the plot of Casino Royale, trying to get the arms merchants, but I can't even begin to think of where they will go there after. Other than being a great action adventure, there is nothing unique about this version of Bond that will sustain it for any period of time. Thus, I consider the end of the James Bond franchise to be Die Another Day. Again, I enjoyed Casino Royale, and Daniel Craig was a surprise in his portrayal of 007, but there was no feeling of having visited an old friend after viewing Casino Royale. As a stand-alone action adventure, I gave this a rating of 8, but in spite of beautiful photography and a great soundtrack (although I didn't care for Chris Cornell's title song) and Craig's great performance.... as a Bond film I can't give it more than a 5 or 6.But now that I am watching it on my 10' screen in 1080P on the Blu Ray disc, this is easily the best HD transfer of any Blu Ray movie I have seen.It is crisp, colors are great and it actually looks better than it did on the screen at the cinema last Thanksgiving.It has become my "show-off" disc. When someone wants a quick glimpse of how good a Blu Ray disc can be, I throw Casino Royale into the PS3 and crank it up.I still miss the humor, gadgets and one liners from the first 20 Biond films, but Casino Royale in Blu Ray is ear and eye candy. | 1positive
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A Really Great Bond Flick
Pierce Brosnan will always be my favorite James Bond, but perhaps the best plot of all the Bond film's is this one. And with the beautiful Blu-Ray I'll enjoy it again and again. | 1positive
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Downton Abbey
.Reminds me of Pride and Prejudice. Enjoyed very much. I do not enjoy these surveys by the way. Okay?Stop | 1positive
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Really really bad!
This movie was slow, predictable, and boring. The script and directing were terrible and I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. | 0negative
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For the Gullible
Offensive use of media to enrage the ignorant. There is nothing credible about this film. It is typical political extremism and if you or any of your cohorts believe this, you are already sadly misinformed. Find a legitimate source of information and start over. | 0negative
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Hollywood did it again and ruined a very good classic
The writers of this script have overdone it.The movie is not funny, just plain idiotic if there were a court those writers should be sentenced to never touch pencil and paper again. Steve Martin used to make some funny movies but in this one he is acting more like a 16 year old who never was in front of a camera before. I dont want to give the actors the fault since Steve Martin, Jean Reno and Kelvin Klein are no beginners and delivered top class movies before. My guess is the script sucked and the director Shawn Levy has still to proof that he knows what he is doing, not one of the movies he directed could really convince me of that. Hollywood seems to think lately that if you put some high paid actors and a few million in a movie it will sell automatically. My suggestion if you are a pink panther fan rent this one first and see if it is worth the $15-$20 to buy it.Fazit: No one will ever be able to reach the level of the originals with Peter Seller. | 0negative
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How could anybody enjoy this?
"Problem Child" has made my top ten worst movies list. How could anybody enjoy it?"Problem Child" paved the way for Little Monster movies. In its footsteps would come "Clifford," "The Good Son" and more recently, "Are We There Yet?" In this genre, children are little sadistic monsters who stop just short of killing their adult supervisors and cackle maniacally. Usually, these movies are billed as "comedies." In this one, this kid could have a tea party with Damien from "The Omen" and Samarra from "The Ring." He's not funny, he's not charming or cute; he's a scary little creature.Plus, are we supposed to think it's funny that his idol is a serial killer? That he writes letters to him? That the serial killer comes to visit and "takes him away," therefore putting him in danger? That the father proves himself at the end by battling the killer and rescuing the kid?Horrible, cringe-inducing stuff. The filmmakers should have had a long discussion before making "Problem Child." | 0negative
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Not even worth a rateing!
This is by far the worst movie I have ever had the bad luck of ordering. In the first minute of the movie the F word was used over and over, and continued as far as I could stomach until I turned it off. I watched it on roku and there was no way to watch a trailer. No wonder why. Amazon was gracious enough to refund my money. I don't feel this is the fault of Amazon in anyway, they have no way of knowing the content of every movie. I think it is a shame that such junk can get a five star rating. | 0negative
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I loved it
I had not expected to like this movie at all having seen some bad reviews when it first came out. I got a very good price on it and sat down to watch it one evening when I was sick with the flu. I never like anything when I have the flu. But, I fell under the spell of it right away. Keeping in mind that WWI was the bloodiest war in history with the most suffering in the trenches and the most horrendous loss of life, I thought all that was well represented without it being too gory. Knowing as much as I do about Hemingway, I could well imagine that this is a true portrayal of how he was at the age of l8. Smartass, egotistical, clueless, handsome, charming. Chris O'Donnell fit the role perfectly. Those who think he did not are thinking of Hemingway as he was when he was older, not this "kid". All of the cast were wonderful. I was particularly impressed by Mackenzie Astin. I wondered if he was the son of Patty Duke Astin as I seemed to see a resemblance and when I googled him I saw that indeed he is. While I'm sure the movie is not absolutely factually true, I think it comes close and it is the way I prefer to believe that it happened. It is a very believable telling of the story with everything you could ask for in a romantic tragedy. I wonder if this experience and the way it ended did, indeed, haunt Hemingway the rest of his life. Certainly something haunted him. After all, he never wrote a story about a happy man. All of his heroes are tragic jaded figures. I've often wondered why Sandra Bullock has not been cast in more dramatic roles. She has been wasted on light romantic comedies. I was amazed at her performance in "Infamous" as Harper Lee. Could hardly believe what I was seeing. And, she is wonderful in this movie. Absolutely believable all the way. And looks lovely. It is beautifully filmed with the unmistakable Attenborough touch. He always gives the audience quality. I highly recommend this movie. | 1positive
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great movie, lousy copy
If you've never seen Little Shop but love humor on the edge, this is more than worth the money (though I bought the same copy from another source for a dollar less).But, if you love film, this copy is abysmal, not even close to Corman's original. There's dirt on the film, contrast is limited (though the movie is watchable) and detail is definitely compromised. It's recorded in VHS EP mode.Corman made some great films, this title is arguably the best of its genre, and I hate to think that the original may be lost or missing, and this is all we have left.It may have been shot in two days, but it was excellent B/W not so long ago. | 0negative
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Good, but not as challenging as it might have been
This might be just under four stars for me. It's certainly a decent film and I do recommend it to everyone, but it's not tremendous. I agree with reviewers who say that the director had tricky material to cover and tried to do so in a way that wouldn't offend too many different groups of people. I'd recommend people read The Inner Circle by TC Boyle. It's also about Kinsey, but Boyle clearly enjoys the kinkier side of Kinsey's character. He makes the group around Kinsey to all be very sexually active and experimental, while trying to maintain an outward appearance of respectability. This strikes me as more to the truth. If you're talking sex, sex, sex all day with multiple people it's going to possess greater portions of your energy than this film suggests. Also, Boyle's book makes clearer some of the controversal aspects of Kinsey's research. For example, he interviewed people he knew where active pedophiles. He knew that these people would walk out of the interview and go on to molest children, and yet he didn't turn them in. He argued that he couldn't turn them in because that would ruin the research. Knowing the information was more important than protecting the victims. I understand what he means, and to me this is an issue that should've been dealt with more in the movie. It's complicated and unseemly. I guess I wish that this film had likewise been more complicated and unseemly. It provides an important introduction to social/historical realities around Kinsey and our attitudes toward sex, but it doesn't go beyond that to make this the difficult, thoughtful and challenging movie it might have been. | 1positive
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Sadly,
The lack of Liam neeson and raimi's directing is what ruined this movie for me. While Mr. Vasloo is superb in his taking on the burden of the Liam created character and mr. Drake always has appeal, the movie as a whole needed a much better script. It was too predicatble, too phoney.On the bonus side, they did manage to keep the hapahazard and crazy comments Darkman makes during chases and fight scenes in tact, so that was a plus. | 0negative
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Disaster Movie lives up to it's title...
I watched this movie hoping that it would contain even a small percentage of laughs, even though Epic Movie cured me of that hope. Somewhere along the line parody & satire films went from cleverly thought out jokes & slapstick to fart jokes that aren't even funny to a first grader. Calling this film a parody or even a comedy would be doing the better films in the genre a disservice.The plot, you say? What of the plot? There is one, but one that is stretched so thin you could use it as glass in a window. The focus of the movie mainly surrounds the "writers" (who obviously aren't chosen for their merit) throwing in one pop culture reference after another. I can even imagine how the brainstorming session went:Writer 1: "Hey, the Chipmunks did really well in the box office. Let's include them. Oh, and let's throw in Juno, Enchanted, & Batman."Writer 2: "Those aren't disaster movies. So what type of jokes are we going to write for these... 'disaster' movies?"Writer 1: "We're going to make Giselle a man! And we'll turn the Chipmunks rabid! Everyone else will just walk around being themselves!"Writer 2: "Gay jokes? Fart jokes? Trying to pass off cameos as jokes? Come on guys, this blows and we know it."Producer: "Throw out Writer 2! He's making far too much sense!"The only reason I could possibly imagine anyone watching & enjoying this movie is because they're either a pre-adolsescent boy who likes watching boobs (which there are a lot of) and hasn't yet discovered that there are better films out there. Or someone who has an IQ under 100 or has had recent head trauma. In any case this is a film to avoid at all costs. I love parody movies & I'm willing to put up with some blue humor in films, but this goes beyond what is bad & lame in movies. The "_____ Movie" efforts of Friedberg & Seltzer have officially killed the parody/satire movie genre & are now what any hopefull young filmmaker should look to as a "what not to do" guide to comedy. | 0negative
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this movie is a tragedy
Not only was this movie very confusing, but it lacked any sort of direction. There were so many things going on that I lost track of what the purpose of the whole movie was to begin with. From the preview, they make it sound like it is a movie about a woman whose child is abducted after her car is hijacked. The movie quickly turns into a battle of the races. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm tired of this "black versus white" bullcrap in movies. We've seen it all before. And in my opinion, movies such as this do nothing for civil rights, but rather make both white and black races look like monsters. As far as acting, both Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson were excellent. In fact, I'm more of a Julianne Moore fan now than I ever was. Excellent acting. | 0negative
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Great cover - mediocre story line.
The cover picture is awesome. The movie started off good, but veered into a different direction. The story line is not for everyone, though I am sure there are a few that will take interest to it. | 0negative
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A very fun movie!
This is one of the cleverest comedies out there. John Travolta plays a bookie (Chili Palmer) in Miami Beach, FL. He is one of these respected hard nose, no BS type of people that just demands respect wherever he goes. But for a change of pace and a change of heart, not to mention money that is owned to him, he flies out to California. He is searching for a man who took a very large some of money, but in the mean time is caught up in the Hollywood movie making industry. He meets up and makes friends with Gene Hackman, a B movie director always looking for the next big break. Rene Russo plays a B movie washed up actress who is helping Travolta get into the movie industry. Mean while, old friends and enemies follow Travolta to the sunshine state to find out what he is up to and possibly move in on the action. This movie also has Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, cameo by Penny Marshall, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, and more twists and turns that you can imagine. If you are looking for a really fun comedy with lots of stars then this is the movie to get! | 1positive
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Geek tragedy in the northern wilderness
Erik Magnusson is living a hopeless life. He is barely out of his teens but the pressures of earning enough money to survive, and caring for his senile ailing father, have exhausted him. Erik's resentment and despair are understandable: his older brother Bjorn disappears for months on end, leaving an overwhelmed Erik to manage alone. Even Erik's girlfriend Lyn deserts him, ostensibly to look for a job, but really to spend the weekend acting as a Viking princess at Bjorn's role-playing game in the woods.Erik is portrayed by Ricky Mabe, who's better known for his comedy work in films such as "The Trotsky", "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", "Goon", and ABC Family's made-in-Toronto TV series "Beautiful People". There's very little comedy in "The Wild Hunt"; however, Mabe puts in a strong performance in one of his first dramatic lead roles, which got some excellent reviews. Tiio Horn plays Lyn, Erik's moody dissatisfied love interest. She is in a love triangle with the older Celtic shaman Murtagh (Trevor Hayes). Not much is revealed about Murtagh's background, but he seems to have problems of his own, dealing with increasingly-violent and obsessive members of his group like the cruel Greg-ash (Kent McQuaid). Comic relief in this rather grim situation is provided by the outlandish antics of Erik's older brother Bjorn (Mark A. Krupa), the cynical King Argyle (Nicolas Wright), the timid would-be warrior David (Kyle Gatehouse), and Bjorn's nerdy accountant friend Bernie (Terry Simpson). Egged on by Bjorn and some of the other participants, Erik decides to enter the game's fantasy world and win back his girlfriend's affection. The players start choosing sides in the dispute, as do a couple of the referees (Claudia Jurt and Spiro Malandrakis) -- this makes the situation increasingly unstable, as people begin to break the rules to help Erik. As the game spins into chaos, the ominous ending hinted at early in the film is fully revealed, but with a twist.As Bjorn, carried away with the excitement of his younger brother's "love quest", makes them swear an oath on his representation of Thor's magical hammer, the reluctant Erik protests "we were born in Canada!" And so they were ... but the forest that engulfs them is not the pure unspoiled refuge of North American visionaries like Thoreau and Muir, but Europe's darker path of blood and madness alluded to by Simon Schama ("Landscape and Memory").The film's cinematography is exceptional, for a relatively small-budget Canadian indie production. There's a stark contrast between mundane inner-city Montreal and the freedom and beauty of the woodland gaming site. To get there, Erik has to depart on a literal geographic as well as emotional quest. Mark A. Krupa is best known in Canada as a wilderness writer and TV host, so the undercurrent of enchantment and escapism in the outdoors scenes is probably not surprising - he also co-wrote the screenplay. The use of the Duchy of Bicolline near Shawinigan Quebec, an existing live-action roleplaying (LARP) compound -- and recruiting extras who are involved in the hobby -- conveys a colourful anachronistic atmosphere. Representing the perspective of most viewers, Erik is bewildered by the strange people he sees when he enters the compound to look for Lyn -- and frustrated by the elaborate system of rules that the referees insist he follow, such as wearing a period costume to comply with "decorum".This film is not intended to be an accurate depiction of LARP, the Society for Creative Anachronism, or historical re-enactment in Canada or anywhere else. Judging by online discussions, some players are concerned that audiences may get a negative impression of what they do. All I can say is, the LARP and re-enactment people I know who've seen this film generally enjoyed it, without taking it too seriously. Commented one online reviewer, "it's not like anyone will actually be afraid of this happening for real; they're Canadians for God's sake".More serious are some of the issues with first-time director Alexandre Franchi's script, which he co-wrote with Krupa. The story probably could have benefited from more editing, since it seems repetitive and slow-moving in the second half. Horn does her best, but Lyn's character is unevenly written -- she frequently seems so fickle that it strains credibility, something that might have been remedied if she'd had more lines or actions that could offer an insight into what she's thinking. Instead a lot of the burden for justifying their relationship is placed on Erik, as he shows his desperation to sustain even the illusion of romance in his drab life. Some key points in the story take place at night, but this can be confusing to follow as many scenes are dark and murky. (I'm cutting them some slack on this though, since some of the footage may have been shot by a skeleton crew of only four, including the director, at the site's scheduled Big Battle Weekend a month before the main shoot.) As for the DVD release, the extra features are a bit disappointing. Even a commentary track, by the writer/director or a few of the actors or production staff, would have been a welcome addition. In post-release interviews, Krupa hinted that the earlier love story showing the extent of Erik and Lyn's relationship had been cut -- it may have been helpful to the audience to see what brought them together in the first place, and what he meant by the "serious problems" in Lyn's background.The Wild Hunt won Best First Canadian Feature Film at The Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. | 1positive
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some movie.
this movie is pretty dull and a good example of a bad film adaptation of a kind of okay book. sometimes it's laughable when it's not supposed to be, hahaha!! i laughed. | 0negative
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Save Your Money!
Anacondas-The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is a very bad sequel to the 1997 film Anaconda. The film has good acting and special effects, but the problems in this film make the movie just horrible. The first problem- ANACONDAS DON'T LIVE IN BORENO!!!!!!!. The expedition there to find the Blood Orchid, a flower that prolongs life, goes wrong when the crew is attacked by giant Anacondas. This is totally science fiction because Anacondas live in South America, not Asia. The Second Problem- Anacondas are meat eaters. In the movie, the explorers find out that the Anacondas they encountered are so big because they have been eating the Blood Orchird, which prolongs their life. (Anacondas keep growing until they die, so the longer their life, the bigger they are.) This is a major problem since Anacondas eat mammels, not plants. The Third Problem- Anacondas don't eat people. During the expedition, about half the crew is eaten by the Anacondas. Anacondas don't have the stomach or the mouth to eat people.I can't really think of anything positive to say about this movie other than what I already said at the beginning of the review. All in all, this was a very bad horror movie. | 0negative
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LOVE IT!!!!!
My absolute favorite TV show!!! Started watching the 1st season years ago and I haven't stopped!! I am an avid Who-vian! | 1positive
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Flash - stands for everyone of us!
The movie is a corny passionately made production meant to be silly in tone - loving homage to the 1930s serial features and the original comic strips in all their cheesy glory. The special effects were purposefully made to look simple, and the acting as well as the production value were purposefully over the top. This is a glittering New Wave daydream - space as seen through the lens of Studio 54. It's a whole mess of fun.This Universal DVD has the BEST transfer available of the film and that is the reason to get this instead of the PAL European version. The Silver Anniversary Edition isn't nearly as clear as this one's - that one looks slightly washed out in skin tones and the colors are too hot. The colors are incredible here in the States, and Universal did a great job with the look of the film allowing you to see details you may have never seen. It is the best copy available to date.As far as the extras go...True the Sam J. Jones and Melody Anderson commentary was nixed because the two actors would not be paid for their participation. And the two commentaries from the European edition (Director Mike Hodges and actor Brian Blessed) are owned by another company, so of course they aren't on this one.We do get an interview with the guy who redid the cover art who is a fan of the film, and a discussion with the script writer who remembers how wild it was working with the International crew. Also included is the first episode of the Buster Crabbe serial version. This will let you see what they were shooting for in the film.All in all you have to ask - what's more important the transfer and how the movie looks or the extras? That will determine which one you'd be happy with. | 1positive
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I can't wait for Season 3
Season 2 was very good and has made me want to buy Season 3. I can't wait to see what else all the characters have in mind!! | 1positive
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Hubby's favorite movie!
What can I say? Heath Ledger is phenomenal in this film! my hubby has watched it so many times that i finally had to get him 1 of his own which he still watches every chance he gets. | 1positive
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Exciting program
This action program has suspense and action enough for anyone who loves a good chase scene or explosion. The group problem solving exhibits each character strengths, unique perception evaluating the enemy and quick thinking when things go wrong. The characters are well developed and likable. I thoroughly enjoyed every program. | 1positive
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great!!!!!!!
This movie was sooooooooooooooo great. The only reason i was mad was because ashley did not kiss anyone. Mary-kates romance was awsome they were so cute together!!!!!! I love the twins i think that they make good movies for teens to watch cuz there not all about sex or drugs. I just hope that they keep on making movies!!!! | 1positive
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Fighting Chance - inspiration and action
Saw this film on ESPN recently, Kyle Maynard is a superb athlete and has the trophies to prove it. He's also someone who rises to any challenge - particularly those he sets for himself. When I first heard that Kyle, born without lower arms or legs, was going to have a MMA cage fight against an able bodied fighter, I thought the idea was nuts. This film tells you what happened - what was required in body and spirit from Kyle to get into the ring, and what he has done with the experience. Watching him work with wounded warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan creates one of the most moving scenes you'll ever see. Kyle's motto is "No Excuses". Nobody lives his motto more completely. Buy this film and share it with your friends and family - There are No Excuses. | 1positive
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Clint Eastwood Stikes Again
Space Cowboys was one of my favorite movies from last year. It fells like a small personal movie, even with the effects heavy ending. If you are willing to suspend some belief for a little while this is an entertaining, fun film. The movie is divided into two parts. The first being an hilarious take on the training before the mission format of Full Metal Jacket or Armageddon but with senior citizens. There is some subplot with the villainous James Cromwell character which seemed a little unnecessary, but wasn't as distracting as it could have been. The introduction is interesting but I found the dubbed voices of the older actors on to the young actors a little gimmicky. The training scenes are absolutely hilarious with the prerequisite scenes of the older more clever Clint Eastwood and crew outwitting the young "punks". There is definite chemistry between the four stars.The second part of the story concerns the disarming of an ancient satellite carrying nuclear missiles. The movie shifts gears and turns less humorous. I found it to be exciting and I was caught up in the action. The ending is touching but not maudlin.This movie was compared to Armageddon when it was released but there is only a superficial resemblance. Where Armageddon was loud and overdone Space Cowboys is quiet and elegant with four of the best actors of their generation having fun poking fun at their own age. Great movie and a lot of fun. | 1positive
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What a waste of talent!
How could two excellent actors and an acclaimed director make such a bomb? The premise doesn't work from the start. Would a congresswoman's husband sneak away on an affair booking the tickets in his name and his wife's name when the mistress is 15 years younger than his wife, and is obviously not his wife? The unknown mistress doesn't use her real name, but the known guy uses his real name? I didn't buy the romance, if that's what it was, between Ford and Thomas for a second. They had no chemistry. The subplot of the police situation with Ford adds absolutely nothing. Loved Thomas in The English Patient, and Ford's acting has been great since Witness, but this one just doesn't work. Very disappointing. The previews made it look like a suspenseful movie, so I kept waiting for something to happen. Nothing happened! P.s. Can somebody tell Ford, Eastwood, Redford, and Costner to demand that their female interests in films be within 10 years of their real ages! The actress who played Ford's wife could have passed for his daughter. Harrison, I love ya man, but you have matured and your love interests should as well. Why couldn't they cast a good looking woman closer to Ford's age? She was only in the film for a short time. | 0negative
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Leviathan DVD(MGM)
Excellent release! Very high quality picture for DVD. The release got a new cover with a 3D sticker. It's great! He received great pleasure from watching a movie. Thanks to MGM and Amazon, which made ''it possible to see this film in a new capacity. | 1positive
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You may want to watch it twice
Every so often, there's a movie where the hero has amnesia. Even with amnesia, a person can establish an identity in a few weeks, judge new people and surroundings, and function. In addition, such movie heroes are easy to identify with, because the audience seems to know as much as the hero.Well, in this movie, our hero has the opposite problem, an inability to make new memories. And that kind of problem is indeed rare, and it merits some discussion.What would you do if you couldn't form new memories? Well, you would probably be institutionalized, or cared for by family or friends. Without that, it would be important to be in familiar surroundings as much as possible, ones you would remember. You would remember your old house, your old car, and, of course, your old acquaintances. But you would not remember new possessions or friends. And you would be totally lost in a new town, while in your old one, you would know where your friends' houses were, where your bank was, where the restaurants were, and so on.You would need to avoid strangers. And you would need a way to take notes, read and understand those notes, and keep a rough diary. Probably you would need to trust a few friends to keep a few key documents and help you update them occasionally. And you would also need a safety deposit box for notes, diary entries, money (even with a bank account, a safety deposit box would be very useful), and so forth.The key problems would be taking notes, figuring out how to make sure you could and would read and understand those notes, going on "missions" (even a short errand would be a major event), and keeping your privacy.For any important task, you would almost surely need to be backed up by a trusted friend, known by you from back when you were able to make memories. That friend would need to be with you at such occasions or as a minimum constantly available by phone.You could write cryptic notes that only you could decipher, using your earlier memories. But it would be hard to be sure just what secrets you had divulged. Basically, you could keep your ideas private only by making sure nobody else saw them. And that would be tricky. That's one more place where a safety deposit box could help somewhat.I'm writing all this in order to explain just how weird the situation is for our hero in this movie, who is basically, um, "open loop," and cut off from almost everything that is familiar. It's a fascinating and suspenseful movie, but one can see that the hero is at a tremendous disadvantage.On the other hand, there are some things the hero knows quite well, and that makes the movie work. Rather than offer a spoiler, let me just say that I highly recommend it. | 1positive
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Can a Movie About a Hit Man be Charming? Yes... Here's Proof.
How exactly does one translate the title, MALA UVA: Bad grapes? Foul mood? That's the only real mystery in this movie -- because this isn't a crime thriller about a hit man, it's a dark comedy about a hit man, wrapped-up with a romantic comedy about ... growing older, and all that that entails.I loved every minute. Like so many of my favorite European films, MALA UVA develops slowly and without fanfare, but inspires many smiles throughout. Very quickly we begin to recognize the best parts of our friends, family and self within this happy, loving family of a (secretly) former hit man! That should tell you just how quietly subversive but charming this film really is.Sancho Gracia (Cesar) is excellent in this movie; he reminds me very much of Marcello Mastroianni, later in his own career, who performed many tongue-in-cheek roles like 'Cesar,' and had a great gift for bringing a warm but slightly skewed sense of humanity to every role. Sancho Gracia shows he could fill Mastroianni's shoes, at least in this film -- and I have never said that about any other actor. It's worth watching MALA UVA just for Gracia's performance, but I think you'll find even more to like, as the movie develops. I did, anyway.Ciao! | 1positive
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the Wolfman
It is a great movie with great actors performance like Benecio del Toro and Anthony hopkins. The quality is excellent and it is most close from the original story in 1941. | 1positive
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Great movie!
Great movie!! If you are an Eastwood fan you have to watch it. If you are a extremely sensitive people, skip it. | 1positive
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Retarded Nonsense
The chuckleheads on Amazon who think this film is "awesome" are the reason western civilization is in decline. Of course their sins can be forgiven.. if perhaps they are only 18. When Red Dawn came out in 1984 I was 17, thinking of joining the military with my own subscription to Soldier of Fortune. I was gulable and naive and Red Dawn had a real impact on me. It seems bizzare now but for some reason I thought that the possibility of Cuba ganging up with Nicaragua to invade our southern border seemed plausable. Instead of the military I chose to go to college. That November I had just turned 18 and I cast my first vote for Ronald Reagan on the strength of the delusions of Red Dawn. I decided to major in history and political science and it didn't take long until I realized just how misguided and wrongheaded I had been. My advise to the champions of this film is to open a history book and lean about American Foreign Policy or short of that rent the Erroll Morris film "The Fog of War". Like I said it's fine to like this film if you don't know any better but alas it's time to put childish thing away.PS. this review deals with the political messege of Red Dawn it would take many more paragraphs to lay out the aestetic faults of this dog. | 0negative
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I bet he got an invitation to the White House
I'm surprised George Bush hasn't been waving this around. This film is for Americans who look at a map of the world and see America and a few islands. Hello to Americans in Michael Wilsons light. There are other great in fact greater countries out there, than America and yes they are important, even if they don't have oil Bush can steal. This film is for Americans who believe America is the centre of the Earth! Send your $10 to some orphan in Iraq instead of buying this pathetic excuse of a movie! | 0negative
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We're counting with Ernie!
My 22 month old daughter loves this dvd! It was a reward for using the potty multiple times. She absolutely loves it and loves to count going up stairs, counts her toys in her crib, counts in the car! Great investment! | 1positive
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Mystic River..The Ending Bites
First off..someone please tell Clint Eastwood to back away from the camera slowly and never ever direct another film. As far as everyone who raves about this film..you have lost all cred. I supposed your enthralled by shiny objects too. The ending was ridiculous....my daughter is killed..lets go to a parade?????? The fact that this drivel was considered genius in two mediums is baffling...more proof that everything is watered down beyond hope...whoever says this is a classic- I have some old home movies..you wanna shell out money to see those too??? | 0negative
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Beyond Horrible
Rented this for the 3D affect. The 3D was bad at best and the movie itself reminded me of a boring acid trip (is such a thing possible?). If you are trying to get into 3D this ain't the place to start. | 0negative
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damage on arrival.
The movie was so scratched up it didn't even work properly. I know the item was used, but it should have worked. Bad buisness. | 0negative
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Better (and worse) than I expected.
The actors did a better job than the early reviews led me to believe. Sometimes hitting first season quality level. A couple of rough spots for the new Doctor, but not too bad. As someone else said, they did the best with the stories they were given. The overall writing was not as great as previous seasons, though it did have a few good moments. Better than expected overall. | 1positive
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