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Awesome!!!
This is the best rock and roll film of all time. Special thanks to Oliver Stone. Way to go, The Doors are #1. | 1positive
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The first time I actually booed my television...
This movie was so awful, I found myself actually booing my television during the bogus "child in jeopardy" scene at the end. I didn't see the original, but I hope Drew Barrymore was better than anyone in this dreadful waste of time. | 0negative
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Beh..........
If you are a fan of Bruce Campbell or the Raimi Bros., do everyone a favor and skip this cookie-cutter whodunnit... | 0negative
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Does Anyone in Hollywood have an ORIGINAL thought?!!!!
Why oh why does hollywood insist on trying to recapture the essence of horror classics that could never be made any better?When it comes to horror films any fan of the genre will tell you, it's direction, originality and setting make it what it is.These lackluster, effortless remakes are ruining the classics that most of us have come to know and love. Enter "The Fog" (2005 version) an unoriginal, pointless and insulting remake of John Carpenter's classic. Storyline is the same as the original, the ending is different.I have no idea why I punish myself watching these awful remakes. Do yourself a favor, skip this film and watch the original by John Carpenter (1979) back when horror movies were dominated by originality, creepiness and setting rather than loud sounds and CG effects. I pray there is NEVER a remake of classics like "Halloween". | 0negative
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EXPORTING RAYMOND - a timeless must have!
EXPORTING RAYMOND is one of the (if not the) funniest documentaries I've seen in my life. Phil Rosenthal is genius, understated, and his timing is perfect. This is such a wonderful mirror on our culture and cross cultures in a series of unexpected adventures as we follow Phil over to Russia to export his tv show (which is the #1 most successful syndicated tv show in history), over to Russia. Language barriers, cultural nuances, different perspectives, etc., make for a hilarious journey. The film has been cleaning up "Audience Awards" at festivals across the world, including at HATCHfest, where I saw it. I highly recommend this film as a purchase for your permanent library as it is and always will be timeless. I loved the movie! I also read that the dvd will also include 2 Russian episodes of the translated version...which should be fascinating to see too. | 1positive
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Horrendously Abysmal
Here is a movie toted as being the best film by this oh so famous anime creator since Ghost in the Shell, but what we have is a shell of a movie.It attempts to have a huge meaning, but fails miserably, as the plot just drolls on for most of the movie and barely scrapes the surface of what's going on until the very end. Yes, you do get some clues about the big shocker in the movie, but they are so few that it's hard to piece together anything concrete. To top it off, one character that seems to just be thrown in to try to give the movie an ending drops almost all of the plot right at the end. That's the cheapest route to make an ending when you hit a road block. Insert an odd, out of place character who observes and makes some comments for most of the film and then spills the beans of everything right at the end. When everything was lain out in front of me, I was thinking, "Seriously? This is the best he could come up with?"---------------- SPOILER ALERT -------------------The only thing remotely inventive about the plot is what the characters are. And their big enemy? Umm... I'm guessing he watched Star Wars too much, as their enemy is their former teacher. Ooooooh! How "un"predictable.--------------- SPOILER ALERT --------------------After watching this movie, all I could think was about how much I was ripped off, and about how there is no doubt in my mind that people would do what happens in the movie and not think anything of it. Yes, Sky Crawlers does have a philosophical plot, but it gets beaten out by single episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig and Hamtaro.The end seems rushed and it never goes anywhere. Though Oshii claims the characters have changed, the don't change one bit during the movie, only before, and then they revert back to what they were before.Here's a hint, Oshii: If people decide to do something drastic, there's a high chance they'll do it again as they have already done it before.The animation is good, except the CGI stands out and takes you out of the movie. The characters are horrible. Oshii tries to make it look like they change while they don't change at all. The dogfights are cool, but the movie is horrendously abysmal.Sky Crawlers is a good name for this movie, as the movie is crawling ever so slowly to it's demise.If you want to watch this movie, you should smack yourself in the back of the head and say "No!"If you want to watch a movie where you also will think "Given the circumstances, people would do this and not care about who (or what) gets hurt," just watch Michael Clayton. It's a much better film, and it's probably cheaper on Blu-ray, too. (Though it doesn't have any dogfights, it does have an exploding car.) | 0negative
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Aging stars light up space tale
Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner, the four stars of Space Cowboys, all have some miles on them. Their average age is sixty-six years. All but Jones, the youngster at fifty-five, are drawing Social Security. That's the bad news. The good news is that rarely has so much experience been gathered together for one movie. In addition to decades in movies, three of them have extensive TV experience. Eastwood is particularly amazing. He has been a star for forty years. He has produced seventeen films, composed the music for seven, and this is the twenty-third movie he has directed. It has some flaws, the main one being that it is too long, but it is his best effort since 1992's Unforgiven. It is most entertaining.The movie opens back when the American space program was in its infancy. Frank Corwin and Hawk Hawkins [Eastwood and Jones] are part of a team of test pilots. While flying a new jet, Hawk pushes it to the limit, and it begins to break apart. He and Frank safely eject, but the plane is totaled. Apparently they have a knack for doing this, and their boss, Capt. Bob Gerson [James Cromwell] uses this latest incident as a reason for making sure they never become astronauts. Frank holds Hawk responsible for this.We then switch to the present, and NASA, where Gerson is now an administrator, has a big problem. An old Soviet telecommunications satellite is threatening to come crashing down to earth. NASA learms that the ancient guidance system is one that was stolen from us by the Russians. Gerson discovers another problem. The man who designed the system is Frank Corwin, and he is the only man who can possibly figure out how to fix it. Seizing the opportunity, Frank insists that he and the rest of his old test pilot team be the ones to go into space to fix it. Gerson is forced to agree, and the stage is set for quite an adventure.The middle of the movie drags a bit because Eastwood spends too much time and energy on jokes about the geriatric set. Such humor has become stale, having been been covered many times before on the screen. Admittedly, Eastwood has endeared himself to audiences by laughing at his own advancing age, but the point about how hard it is for older people to get in shape could have been made in half the time. Once the quartet finally gets into space, the picture turns into a real thriller that is full of peril and surprises. In this part it holds its own against any of the other action-adventure films released last year.I liked this movie. Obviously older audiences can relate to it, but I think younger ones can also. While kids may not be expected to understand what it is like to be old and supposedly over the hill, they do like to see that dreams do not always go away, that hope really does spring eternal. In this way Space Cowboys is ageless. | 1positive
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Love Zoey
We all love Zoey. It is to bad Spears screwed up and the show ended it was a good show. | 1positive
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Buy Season 1 only
This show went downhill in a hurry when it summarily dismissed its most interesting character, Marina. I watched the first season and was so intrigued with her. Then the first episode of the second season...well, did they really think we would buy that this smart, sexy and intelligent woman would try to KILL herself over of all people..the dysfunctional Jenny? I got half-way through the second season and found myself bored. The L Word really messed up when the let go its only true woman in the the lot of girls. What a waste of a tremendous talent. | 0negative
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Here, wear this bandit hat.
Excellent film! Absolutely love Wes Anderson! Great to watch with your kids! Shipping was quick, and a great price for blu-ray. Got the digital copy right away. Great product for anyone to buy! | 1positive
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Prom Night - Poor
I can sum this movie quickly: poor acting, poor plot, and faults in the plot. | 0negative
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The Big Ten
Good movie. Granted there is a bit of "artistic license" in a few places, but still a classic. It always makes me want to buy some stone tablets and throw them down while saying "Those who will not live by the Law, shall die by the Law!" | 1positive
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Just a bad movie
We ordered on a Sunday night to watch with the family, Russian with English subtitles, in-laws could understand Russian too. It turned out to be the worst movie we have ever seen. We had to turn off TV after half hour. Do not waste your money. | 0negative
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The Great Santini
This was a realistic movie for me but I bought it for my husband for Christmas cause he asked for it. Talk about the things that our men and women in uniform go through and can never really talk about. I know cause my husband is also very closed about what happened while in the military. Love my husband he is a good man and never had these problems but I can see how this is still prevalent today as it was back then in military families. We need to try to help them deal with things better along with our children. God bless our men and women in the Armed forces and their families. Good movie and fast ship. I am happy with my purchase. | 1positive
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The best is Jonny Quest
I grew up in the 1970s and missed this cartoon classic as a child. As I grew, my fondness for classic cartoons grew and Jonny Quest soon became one of my favorites. The DVD is excellent with all the original episodes. This may be one of the finest if not finest Saturday morning cartoon ever! | 1positive
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FILM INTACT
Ah, the vagaries of memory. I almost didn't purchase this film because of a review that claimed the elevator scene in the film had been cut. But I enjoyed the film so much in its theatrical and video incarnations I picked it up in DVD for the scene menu. A previous writer was incensed that in the film version he saw ( 25 years ago) Arthur and Eileen break into a musical number after he relates the story of the band members in the elevator, but on the DVD the elevator appears in Eileen's living room, they skip into it...then back to reality. In point of fact they DO break into a musical number ( Ms. Peters' very sexy lyp-synching of Helen Kane's " I Want To Be Bad"), the elevator appears IN THE MIDDLE of the number, they skip in and.. do their thing.( What you see is the shocked look of the elevator operator). The soundtrack is complete- no jumps- and so is the scene. While I'm sure it ( and Ms. Peters) has been the source of many a male fantasy, there was always more implied than shown in the film. Just as people will swear they've seen the knife penetrate Janet Leigh's skin in the "Psycho" shower scene, so has one man misremembered the elevator sequence in "Pennies from Heaven". The film is COMPLETE! For my part, I could have sworn Denholm Elliot played Eileen's schoolmaster in the film, delivering the memorable line about Adam offering the apple to Eve, but in fact he appears in neither the film nor the miniseries it's based on, so go figure.Speaking of apples, to compare this and the BBC miniseries it's based on is much like apples and oranges, but it's worth noting that Dennis Potter himself adapted the series for this film, so blaming hollywood for bowdlerizing his masterpiece is simply a waste of time. I enjoy both versions. The miniseries of course has more depth and characterization, ( even the most minor characters have their own emotion-revealing musical numbers) but if you're unwilling to sacrifice up to 7 hours to view it, this 1 hour 47 minute version is quite good on its own. Potter put all his main themes in place, it's Ms. Peters finest performance on film, perfectly capturing her rare mix of innocence and sexuality, and Mr. Martin too does a fine job as Arthur, an American sheet music salesman in Chicago, as opposed to Bob Hoskins' masterful cockney version. (Mr. Martin once did a TV special with Gregory Hines; the man CAN dance. So too can Christopher Walken , whose performance is always specifically cited). Some of the musical choices are different, yet express the same sentiments: when Arthur first sees Eileen, he segues into "Seeing Is Believing" on the BBC, but here lip-synchs " Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?"The material is disturbing, the musical numbers surreal; brilliance can be uncomfortable. This is certainly not to everyone's taste, but if you occasionally like noir, give this a look. As has been noted elsewhere, if you liked CHICAGO, this has a similar, slightly sordid feel. And by the by, there is no happy ending "tacked on" for American tastes; the ending is exactly the same as in the miniseries, down to using the same musical number ( "The Glory of Love") sung by Arthur and Eileen,( though the film version has made it a bigger production number) and even to the same camers pan up to blue skies. A great film. | 1positive
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Entertaining enough, but not very informative for true fans.
In 1980, a little film called 'Friday the 13th' was released and it changed the horror genre forever. Now, thirty years later, director Daniel Garrands has gathered some of the most important members of the 'Friday the 13th' crew. . . and some random people (like the dude from 'Psych' (?)). . . to discuss the series as it is, was, and will be.Approaching a documentary like this and giving it a review is difficult. The main reason is because, well, it's just not all THAT informative. The majority of the film is made up of the opinions of cast & crew & random useless people. The main plus of the film, as with many of his horror films, is Tom Savini. As the host, he commands the typical creepiness with the mixed-in humour well. He's a good relief when the sloppy editing and occasionally trite discussions get to be too much. . . luckily, that doesn't happen a whole lot. Technically, the documentary does look a little cheap. I liked that Savini's scenes take place at the Universal Studios Horror Nights set for Jason, and the effects they used during his scenes were quite fun. However, the other Powerpoint-ish effects used for title cards and name tags were a little low-grade. As said previously, there really isn't that much information that a fan of the series won't know. This lack of information really puts the documentary in a weird purgatory. . . there's not enough information to make it informative for the casual viewer and there's not enough new stuff for a hardcore fan (like myself). I would've liked to see some more behind-the-scenes segments showing the productions of the various films, or maybe revisit more sets (they did once) to show us how the places are now. It was nice, however, to see a gathering of the old stars and crew, but the most entertaining parts with them weren't shown until the credits when they were all repeating their most famous lines and having fun. Also, it seemed that the majority of them were treading lightly as to not insult anyone (though I did like when one person comments on 'Jason Goes to Hell' as his not having a clue what the plot was (because, really, who the hell did?)). Overall, the documentary is entertaining and a good watch for both casual viewers and hardcore ones, but there's not enough for either group to make it great. Is it worth the $14 that it's currently listed at? Not the movie itself, but the features might be worth a look.Final verdict: 7/10.-AP3- | 1positive
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Grand -- for the first 30 minutes
Like horror classics like Texas Chainsaw Massacre? The beginning of this film (before you see the "creature" and things go off the stupid end) is *really* fun and scary. Classic suspense. The director know what he was doing for awhile.... Overall, if you consider the piece as a whole, it doesn't go anywhere worth while. But for the beginning alone, grand. | 1positive
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the ultimate sin
i wonder why people produce films whose screenplays are actually NOT SCARY? Yes, this film commits the ultimate sin for any so called horror film..IT'S BORING.........and why would a guy with a sever australian/new zealand/whatever accent say that his father took him to the barrens when he was a kid when hes obviously not from this country? C'mon man....give the audience a little respect!!!!! Blahhh....... | 0negative
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Keeps getting better
By episode 4 of "Major Crimes" Sharon Rader has won me over completely. She's a great cop but more than that I appreciate her socially awkward moments and especially how well she handles Rusty. The show keeps getting better and I couldn't be happier. | 1positive
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Looks Good....But Really Isnt
In a few words, I wasn't really crazy about it. I remember seeing the book for it in a bookstore some time ago and thinking that this movie was going to be dark and really cool and it was dark indeed, but sadly the plot was very boring. the cg environments were very cool to look at but the characters were not. Movies like the dark crystal, never ending story and labrynth are comparable to this in genre and all had a plot, a mood and an objective storyline. This was just random eye candy. I'm giving this one 2 stars, because it looks really nice and the cinematography was well done. Visually, the movie is nice to look at and the soundtrack is decent also, but the anticlimatic plot and storyline are rather disappointing. | 0negative
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Horror at its chilling best.
An original horror film that scared me to the bone. While not as graphic as contemporary horror films it still ranks as the best of its genre. | 1positive
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Makes Zero Sense
I understand the need to be creative, artistic and non-linear, but this move is a convoluted, sequential mess. After 90 minutes into it I was still confused...so I finished it and guess what, I'm still not sure! Makes zero sense! note: If you're a "pure artist" looking to explore the inner-workings of a creatively, obscure and tortured soul, then you should watch it. If not, NEXT! | 0negative
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Italian Jungle fun!
This one is campy, funny and cute. Luana the female Tarzan character saves the animals and is the living embodiment of the Jungle itself. In reality she is a sexy, petite asian actress who doesn't say a word. Pure camp and good for a laugh. I like anything that protects the animals and shows some boobies so this film is aiiiight with me. | 1positive
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YOU MUST BE JOKING BARBARA!!!
I LOVE ZOMBIE FILMS, BUT THIS 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION IS AWFUL. IN ALL OF FILM HISTORY, THE BALD HEADED PREACHER TAKES THE CAKE AS THE MOST ANNOYING ACTOR I HAVE EVER SEEN. WATCH THE ORIGINAL BUT LEAVE THIS SAD PIECE OF WORK IN THE BASEMENT. NUFF SAID. | 0negative
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Why didn't I think of this my freshman year?
Teensploitation movies are one of my not-so-private shames. A guilty pleasure that I've had, probably since the first time I saw the "Breakfast Club." Maybe even going back as far as "Gidget." But even I have to admit that sometimes they can get somewhat repetitive and monotonous."100 Girls" was quiet refreshing. Not only was it different than the end-of-highschool-one-last-party-take-the-ugly-girl-who's-actually-a-knockout-to-the-prom stories that we have become accustomed to (not that there's anything wrong with that formula), its also an easy to relate to romantic comedy for twenty somethings who aren't as much a fan of that genre. II'm long past being a college freshman, but even a decade later, I coulc look back and see myself being that guy.Michael Davis of "Eight Days a Week" brings us this refreshing college, romantic comdey about a boy in search of his dream girl and the story of how becomes a man on the way. This film delivers romanace and comedy, good characterization and fine acting. The cast is beatiful without being unrealistic and the story is refreshing and entertaining. This is a romantic comedy woth owning, and can be watched over and over again. | 1positive
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Your Sides Will Ache From Laughing At This Unintentionally Hilarious FATAL ATTRACTION Wannabe!
Don't tell us they don't make Bad Movies like they used to. The Crush, a 1993 gigglefest about a teen psycho-nymphet who makes life a living hell for the twice-her-age writer who's renting out her parents' guest house, is a Bad Movie gem. Alicia Silverstone plays this Lolita-ish minx--think Poison Ivy in a Wonderbra--who one second is displaying herself nude to renter Cary Elwes and the next is trying to murder his photographer girlfriend, Jennifer Rubin, by shoving swarms of buzzing wasps into a darkroom's ventilation system. We'd guess that Silverstone, who rapidly exhausts her repertoire of three expressions (coy, steamy, wacko), honed her acting licks studying the oeuvre of Cybill Shepherd. When she chirps lines at Rubin like, "Don"t worry, Amy, some guys really like girls with small breasts," we can only hope for Silverstone's sake that some guys like girls with teensy talent. And we'd guess that Elwes, who rapidly exhausts his repertoire of one expression (self-enchanted), honed his acting licks by studying the oeuvre of Ryan O'Neal. Just like O'Neal in What's Up, Doc?--but that movie was intended as a comedy--Elwes hopes to pass himself off as an intellectual by donning specs. Indeed, when Silverstone finds him chomping on a cigar while writing, he explains, preposterously, "Helps me think."But it's in its crackpot plotting and kamikaze ripoffs of other moviemakers that The Crush attains Bad Movie nirvana. When Elwes can't hack a Pique magazine assignment about a Michael Milkenesque arbitrager, 14-year-old Silverstone secretly rewrites his story so brilliantly that it becomes a career-maker for him. Later, explaining her actions, Silverstone--who sounds to us like she's learned every word of her dialogue phonetically--says, "Your split infinitives put such stress on the adverbs."For plot reasons, Elwes's character just up and becomes stupid, which the actor does manage to convey. Long after Silverstone has etched a rather nasty word onto the hood of his car, made a room into a candle-lit shrine to him and phoned him to say, "Guess what? Got my period. Definitely not pregnant," you'll be screaming aloud, "Ever think of moving, Cary?" Of course, if he did, we wouldn't get to savor such prize moments as Silverstone cooing, "Ever do a virgin?" Or the scene in which the heroine's rich daddy, wielding a pair of pliers, tells Elwes what he plans to do to the horny guys his little girl will soon attract: "Some friggin' kid'll be standin' there with his hard-on stickin' out of his pants," he says. "Hope I don't go breakin' it off!" By the time Silverstone gets around to the most implausible plot twist of all--she accuses Elwes of raping her and people actually believe her--you'll be breaking in half with hilarity.With two stars incapable of having a crush on anyone but their mirrors, we're afraid that writer-director Alan Shapiro's crush on Alfred Hitchcock is the only crush on display: Silverstone freaks out in full riding gear, like Tippi Hedren in Marnie; when Rubin fights off those wasps, it's shot like the finale of The Birds; then, falling, she grabs a curtain, like Janet Leigh in the Psycho shower. In the absurd climax, Elwes fights for his life on a twirling carousel straight out of Strangers on a Train, only this one's in an attic (don't ask).Our favorite moment, though, is an original. Elwes, disturbed from his sleep by chopping noises and angry screams, investigates to find a sweaty, crazily wide-eyed Silverstone hacking away at lemons. He asks what she's doing and she hisses, "Making lemonade. Want some?" When you're ready for a long cool drink of laughter, buy The Crush. | 1positive
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Hilarious beginning to end...
The day I watched this, it instantly became one of my favorite standup routines. I've seen it about 5 times now and still laugh out loud at the LL Cool J bit everytime.Check it out. | 1positive
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Good Contrasts
A fun look through sit-com eyes of middle America vs. the glitterati of Los Angeles. Fun characters with some plausible situations and some only on TV situations. | 1positive
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Review of the HD DVD version only
Almost everybody knows how great this video is. Some versions of the songs are extraordinary. But as I said, everybody knows that.I'm here to talk about exclusively of the HD DVD version which in my opinion is quite bad. I own the regular DVD and they both have the same video quality, which is not great. One should expect great video from an HD DVD, but this is not the case, so if you own the DVD don't bother. If you own the VHS, just buy the regular DVD. Oh, by the way I just have a 720p HDTV, so I haven't watch it on a 1080p HDTV, but I don't think it would make any difference. | 0negative
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This is turning out to be a really good show.
I've been watching this on Amazon Instant video because it's on too late for me...I get up at 5:30 on work days. I wasn't sure I was going to like it at first, but as the relationships developed & Dennis Quaid stopped scowling so much, it's grown on me. The bad guys aren't always so bad & the good guys aren't always so good & everybody is about as un-PC as you can get. It's grown on me and is a great relief from the sanitized view of most TV these days when juvenile sex gags & humiliation pass for comedy and nobody dare offend anyone while offending everyone. | 1positive
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thefly
never got the dvd you just sent the vhs tape i sent it back reorderd and never got it kids were disappointed | 0negative
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This Movie sucks like a Dusbuster!
While I can understand true Matt Stone and Trey Parker fans drooling and blustering over this silly amateurish movie-musical, I can't see any reason why somebody this side of the Betty Ford Lobotomy Clinic would find it any more than an amateurish albeit remotely entertaining piece of student film exploitation. The point of this exercise is pure capitalism. You have a neat little piece of cheap cinema you put together with your friend and $25,000 after quitting college. Now, after perfecting your style and humor, you've become famous for something completely peripheral (South Park). How can you cash in on your fame even more? Why, tap into your already existing fanbase with that piece of crap you have in your closet from your college years! Fans of the show will eat this up like Marlon Brando at a twinkie factory simply because it has their favorite fart-joke duo at the helm. They will give it exaggerated praise filtered through their idolizing lemming brains, adoring it for the very reasons Parker and Stone lambast in their brilliant "South Park" movie. They will love this movie not because the film was good, but because it was made by the rebels they have come to adore. My point is this. The lavish praise in all of these "reviews" isn't based on anything but a kneejerk reaction to enjoying the work they have already seen of Matt and Trey's. I don't want to pee on anybody's "golden goat", but this movie stunk. Stunk like 3-week old deep-fried hamster testicles dipped in fermelnahide. Stunk like a sweaty jock strap tied covered in cheese whiz and dipped into a septic tank. It was bad. But that's not necessarily bad! It was so bad, it was good. Do you see my point? I don't know if most South Park fans have a even a vague notion of what this concept is, or even the name for it. Well, I'll tell you. it's called "camp". No, not summer "camp" at Lake Humpaneighber. What I'm talking about is "camp" as in "banality, mediocrity, artifice, so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal" (Websters dictionary). Another word that might be properly suited for this movie is "kitsch". No, not the tasty pastry with all those yummy fillings. That's "quiche". "Kitsch is art, writing, or in this case a movie "of a pretentious but shallow kind, calculated to have popular appeal." I think much of "Cannibal" is chock full of "camp" and "kitsch". I think Matt and Trey knew this while making it. And that's the problem. Movie making that is overtly self-conscious is simply not good movie making. It's as if throughout the movie, to compensate for a lack of talent, acting ability, directing experience, and even general cinematic know-how, Trey went out of his way to bring attention to the lack of budget, experience, or any artful means. That added a klunky kind of energy to the campiness of the film, but it didn't compensate for the lack of all the previous. I have seen student films made on a similarly tight budget that were infinitely funnier, and could be considered good films alongside mainstream movies. Because Stone and Parker have a large juvenile following, this obviously juvenile film will get undo attention. Also, while I'm sure the DVD commentary is rightly hilarious (especially if they get drunk), one comment below is telling. A viewer remarked on how this audio commentary had him laughing harder than the movie. This is sad. It means that a bunch of guys sitting around a table drinking beer can be funnier than this film. It means that Stone and Parker were funnier 'on their own' than this movie was in its entirety. I don't care if Trey Parker becomes Sultan of the Sudan. It won't change the fact that this movie would be rotting in obscurity and rightly be considered a piece of radioactive sludge if South Park hadn't taken off. It's not even the South Park style of thinly veiled social satire laced with expletives and fart jokes (which I personally love!). It shows that Trey's ideas were a work in progress, and he needed to move on and hone his humor and song writing skills (which he did with his South Park movie and the considerable help of Marc Shaiman). Fame does interesting things to people's concepts of quality. A painting of a waterfall that a collector would burn if they found in their cheap motel room suddenly is worth 10,000 dollars to him because it was drawn by Paul McCartney. That doesn't make it a quality piece of work. That makes it a piece of crap drawn by a celebrity. We tend to put an extra price tag on anything done by celebrities, whether it's in the past or present. "Awww, Mr. McCartney can draw. Kind of. But not well. But who cares? He's Paul McCartney!" It's like we treat celebrities as little kids. "Aww, little Timmy drew a picture of a Hippo and wiped a booger on it. let's put it on the fridge! Isn't it perty?" I don't want to see the dumb home video of "Lassie: a Tale of Murder" Trey Parker made when he was 12 with his video camera, three gallons of ketchup, and the help of the neighbor's chihuahua 'Skippy'. Why would I want to see an amateur film they made of a bad musical when they were 22? And then fawn all over it like a horny puppy dry humping a Furby? It would be like selling a tape of Rachmaninoff practicing scales on the piano at age 5, and considering it an "early work". Our artists have no chance to develop their craft anymore. Trey's skills were simply not developed when he made this movie, and anyone who isn't blinded by celebrity or their wild obsession with South Park should see that too! Now, after all of that, I want to say, I didn't necessarily "not" like this movie. I liked it in the Ed Wood sense. I enjoyed the camp. The purposefully bad lyrics. The purposefully exaggerated gore. The self consciously atrocious acting. I liked it- but only in the sense that it was "camp". Like Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space", it was so bad, it was good! So I laughed. I thought some of it was silly. Anybody who thinks there is anything of lasting quality in this movie has been deep throating the exhaust pipe of a Toyota Tercel with transmission problems. It was kind of entertaining. Trey and Matt admitted they made the movie in a rush, not having a clue how to make a film, with barely a cent to work with. It shows. I'd shave off my eyebrows if with a year of preparation, a reworking of the script, a proper auditioning period to find high quality actors, and the assistance of Marc Shaiman with music, the movie didn't improve ten thousand percent. I'm a fan of some of South Park, especially the movie which satirized fanaticism and Hollywood's hypocrisies perfectly. But that doesn't mean I have to like Trey's work when he was just some obnoxious college kid with an attitude- and a dream. The movie occasionally made me laugh. That doesn't make it a good film. I think Adam Sandler is funny. I also think he's a terrible actor. Just because he makes me laugh in a film, doesn't mean I think he's a quality performer. For some reason, most people who watched this movie used the following equation. Funny = Spectacular acting, music, and direction. Half of what I found funny was due to obviously bad acting, music, and direction. If a movie makes you laugh, that doesn't make it a high quality movie. I can differentiate between laughing at something, and respecting it for its craftsmanship. Can you? | 0negative
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SAVE YOUR MONEY
Voice of Lex, Mercy, Braniac we're different. Dialogue was campy and uninteresting. Sound effects were not same or as high quality as the series. AND THE STORY WASN'T WORTH MY TIME MUCH LESS MY MONEY. How can the creators of such a great series put out such TRASH! | 0negative
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Takes too long to develop.
The story was interesting but the movie took to long to get anywhere. Additionally there also wasn't a single character that I cared about in the film. It didn't matter if they lived or they died. I felt more remorse watching the cows get killed...I don't think that was intentional on the directors part. I hated all the actors especially the girl and the guy. The creatures.... well they were the worse design I have ever seen in a monster flick and I mean out of even the cheesiest ones. If you could imagine a turkey after everyone has carved their piece off that is your monster. Thanksgiving leftovers.' | 0negative
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What the Hell!!
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this film. ... Not only did it look [inexpensive], but the acting, my God the acting! I am usually a fan of Arnie's films(other than Batman & Robin)but I couldn't stand hearing that voice of his, well actually it wasn't his voice. Just a campy dubbed version of what a muscular guy would sound like. I guess I could give Arnie a break, after all it was only his first film. If you haven't seen this film yet, I strongly recommend it just for a laugh. | 0negative
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Great movie,
It deals with real life problems for the less fortunate person. and the hardships that they have to face in an everyday life situation. | 1positive
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beyond bad, way beyond
I have seen numerous bad horror films in my life, and I have to say there are many that are so bad they are great. This film is so bad it is bad. Bad acting in horror films can be overcome with good gore effects, an original idea, or just an over the top script, but this film had none of that.Firstly the camera work was just horrendous. It was so muddy I could hardly see a darn thing. But the worst part was how jittery it was I couldn't focus on anything or anyone. Now when a film is shot in the first person I still my not like it but I can understand it. Films such as Blair Witch, Cloverfield, etc. are some examples, it worked for the story. But in this movie there is not one character with a video camera, so the shaking of the camera was beyond annoying, it gave me a major headache.As far as the characters are concerned, where should I begin, firstly the screaming between the girls through out the film is constant. Each girl does not stop screaming at the other until the film ends or they die. There really is not much to say about this I recommend if one watches this film the do so with the mute button. Trust me you will not miss anything. The plot is that bad as well.I do not have a problem with amateur film making. I have seen many amateur films I have enjoyed. This film however was below anything amateur at all. It was if bunch of kids took their dad's camcorder from 1993 and their mom's mini van and drove out into a rural area and just shot the whole film off the top of their heads.This film should not have been made. To call it anything above garbage would be giving this film a complement. | 0negative
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Don't waste time/money on this.
I think the stars this has been given are pretty un-realistic and might make people think it is a worthy film to watch.Yes the main actor is good looking but that is about all this film has going for it.Very poor acting from the "staring role" - storyline wasn't that bad but its ruined by the acting.The time I spent watching this would have been better spent watching paint dry or cleaning the toilet. | 0negative
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Love this show!
Glad to have all the season 1 episodes commercial free to watch whenever I want. I love how they demonstrate their faith and family values! | 1positive
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tastefully done
I SAW THIS MOVIE BACK 1978 MYSELF. THEY DID A BETTER JOB THAN THE BEATLES.SO KEEP YOUR LOUSY COMMENTS TO YOURSELF ROBERT HORTON!!! | 1positive
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Not great.
It's made immediately clear that the cats enjoy their perfect society at the expense of "lesser" races, the king is a racist jerk who first turns a blind eye to a lynch mob going after a pair of falsely imprisoned lizard-men and then actively supports it when his son (Lion-O of ThunderCats fame) tries to defend the lizards.Lion-O is considered weak and unfit for the throne for showing compassion, but he manages to successfully persuade the king to release the lizard-men. Not long after when an army of unrelated lizard-men attacks the city (or perhaps lead a revolution to overthrow a corrupt king) the king acts like it's a personal affront engineered by those two prisoners.At no point is it even remotely suggested that the king is anything less than Jesus H Christ, king of awesomeness and defender of all that is good and the "bad guys" don't really show much evidence of true villainy and when they do it's forced and unnatural almost as if the writers have to remind us that cats=good reptiles=bad.Ignoring that, the animation is pretty good and the action is also great, but it starts off on a sour note in regards to the protagonists(except for Lion-O who manages to defy logic and be a good person in a society full of jerks) and doesn't get better. Like, at all. | 0negative
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Excellent thought-provoking film... Barebones DVD from IFC
This is an excellent film. In the second installment of his proposed American trilogy, Lars von Trier, touches on the subjects of racism, cultural blindness, hypocrisy and self-righteous superiority. In its way, it points at why America is simultaneously admired and despised the world over. Famously, Lars von Trier has never set foot in America (afraid of flying). So his views are the views of a foreigner, specifically a northern European steeped in the liberal tradition. Some will see that as a negative. I think it is refreshing for Americans to see how America is viewed from abroard, from someone unencumbered by its cultural baggage. What he shows is the ugly side of America. But von Trier's comment is by extension a critique on all humanity; for what Americans are here accused of, is equally applicable to other nations, races and creeds.The story is simple. It carries on chronologically from Dogville. After destroying the godforsaken town in the bloody climax of the previous film, Grace (previously played by Nicole Kidman, and now by Bryce Dallas Howard) drives homeward with her father and his convoy of gangsters. They chance upon a plantation in Alabama where slavery is still practised, some 70 years after abolition (this is 1933). Grace gets it into her mind to free the slaves and to teach everyone, former slaves and Masters alike, about the new creed of equality and democracy. With the aid of her gun-toting gangsters, she preaches and enforces her new religion on the "benighted" people of the plantation. Of course, out of the seeds of her good intent, come no good at all.The film can be viewed on many levels. The simplest is to take it as a commentary on racism. Passing a decree does not abolish racism. Nothing changes as long as hearts and minds don't change. Preaching empty words will not alter generations of abuse and hatred. On the flipside, it also poses the question: why do certain groups of people remain so backward and unsuccessful? Is it because of their past or themselves? It's a question that reaches beyond the black/white divide in America, to vast swathes of the world, from Africa to the Middle-East, where societies and nations have floundered and where they all invariably blame their past and their "victimhood" at the hands of white colonisers. Do they bear no responsibilty for their own fates? Is it simply easier to blame someone else than to take responsibility for one's own actions? The abdication of responsibility is sadly an all too American trait, but it is by no means confined solely to America.We are also called to ponder on Grace's self-righteous attempt to free the slaves and more importantly, her attempt to force them into seeing things her way. Apart from its obvious ridiculing of the "do-gooder" abolitionists, and by extension, the superior white man with his constant chant of equal rights and democracy, it is also a comment on present day politics. America's actions across the world instantly spring to mind. Its endless, simple-minded attempts at interfering with and changing others to fit its own image, is today mirrored by other world actors; newly rising powers, increasingly resurgent religions, all of which similarly want to remake others into their own image - their prime justification being: "I'm better than you, so you'd best do as I say." It is a sad comment on humanity as a whole.Like Dogville, this is a very dark film. It is not light entertainment. It is also not cinéma vérité. Do not expect realism. It does not aspire to historical accuracy. It should be taken more as a parable than a history lesson. It is wide open to interpretation. I especially liked Brandon Medford's analysis (further down) which I thought was spot-on. And I agree with him that to look at this solely as a film about slavery or racism is to impoverish the work.Manderlay follows in the Dogme 95 tradition of Dogville. It is Dogme brought to its extreme conclusion - a filmed stage-play with minimalist sets, with actors acting and pantomiming on stage. If you don't think you can sit through a 2-hour-plus stage play, this film is not for you. Acting is fine overall. I wasn't affected by the change of cast. Lars von Trier's films are not centered around stars, although Nicole Kidman was the ideal choice for Grace.The DVD from IFC is totally bare save for the film. It is beautifully transferred in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio (enhanced for widescreen TV). Colors are accurate, black levels are perfectly set. The DD 5.1 soundtrack is front-centered and is clear enough although I turned to the optional English subtitles after a while.Note: There is a very graphic scene of copulation, even more explicit than the rape scene in Dogville. | 1positive
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LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!
I have enjoyed lots of TV series, but never one enough to buy it on DVD - until now. If you haven't become a fan yet, be sure to tune in to the new season, beginning in a few days. And if you haven't read the Sookie Stackhouse books yet - you might want to check them out too. Scary, sexy, imaginative - great entertainment. Glad they made the first season available to buy - hope the subsequent seasons are also sold on DVD. That way, I can watch Sookie, Bill, Eric, Sam, Tara and the others whenever I want to! | 1positive
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Very Strange Film About Small-Town Justice in Denmark
A Copenhagen cop (Robert) is sent to an isolated town (Skarrild) because he pulled a gun on his wife and her lover. Robert resigns himself to 'serving out his time' while being a good policeman, then returning to his former job. However, he soon becomes involved with a domestic violence situation involving an attractive woman who cannot tear herself away from her abusive husband, or even file a police report on him. Eventually this 'Russian roulette' results in her accidental death at Robert's hands - he's trying to silence her loud moaning after they have sex while her husband is looking for him, and ends up suffocating her. However, viewers also learn that the local physician (self-described 'Dr. Quack') has also given her an overdose of pills. To cover up both his own and Robert's complicity Dr. Quack issues a death certificate citing heart failure as the cause. This absolves the abusive husband of any responsibility, but the town also realizes they are all contributing factors for failing to do anything about the on-going abuse. The townspeople try to assuage their guilt by marching the husband into the bog - to be sucked under; policeman Bob, however, rescues the husband.The abusive husband eventually figures out that Robert killed his wife, and seeks revenge. Robert then shoots and kills the husband. Neighboring police investigate, and whitewash Robert's involvement. Thinking he's off the hook Robert prepares to leave, only to be confronted by three townspeople (including Dr. Quack) who reveal that they know the entire story, and will leak details unless he stays. Their motivation - to ensure a fourth player at their nightly card games. | 1positive
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A different kind of Rat Pack
I enjoyed Ocean's Twelve. I skipped Ocean's Eleven. I heard good things about Ocean's Thirteen, so I downloaded it.Ocean's Thirteen is supposed to be better than Twelve; the characters are emotionally invested in the plot (as opposed to the first movie, where they were apparently needed the money, I guess) because this time they're out for revenge. Reuben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould) invests in some properties only to have it forcibly taken from him in a move of Trumpian proportions by the nefarious Willie Bank (Al Pacino). Poor Tishkoff suffers...a stroke? A broken heart? Some kind of nondescript medical condition that leaves him bed-ridden? Our boys are loaded with cash, so it's just a matter of humiliating Bank, returning the property to Tishkoff, and making a quick buck in the process.The fact that they have to ally with Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) is supposed to make the movie even more hilarious. But it doesn't matter, because our heroes take it in stride. In fact, there's never a moment in the film when we actually feel like things might go sour.There's a lot of problems with Ocean's Thirteen, not the least of which is the superhero status of our Justice League of Swinging Hip Guys. There's too many of them. They're all really rich at this point. And it's hard to conceivably rouse them into action, even if one of their buddies got hurt. Or to put it another way, when Superman can punch you through a wall with his fist, does he really get that upset if you cut him off in traffic? Does he even drive in traffic?Bank is supposed to be a really mean guy, but Pacino barely gets to tear up the scenery because it's crowded with a dozen other actors. So he's only sorta mean. He's also really, really paranoid, which makes breaking into his place a challenge. He invests in all kinds of technological defenses, including an artificial intelligence that uses face recognition to spot cheats. Bank is truly a wonder of the modern age.Opposing this technological villain are our heroes, who kick it old school. And by old school, I mean they buy a gigantic drilling machine to cause an earthquake, thereby temporarily shutting down the computer security system and giving the team time to get in and get out.This is pretty much where the movie broke down for me. They bought a giant drill to get revenge on this guy? Seriously? When you have that much money, why not buy a big satellite laser and just nuke the guy from orbit?There are other nearly interesting plots, like the one in which Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon) decides he's up to the challenge of seducing Bank's right hand woman, Abigail Sponder (the SMOKING hot Ellen Barkin). And what do we get? Caldwell ends up using some ridiculous technological doodad to knock her off her heels, which seems suspiciously similar to a date-rape drug. If the movie was trying to make a statement about outwitting your opponent vs. using technology, it failed. If it was trying to imitate the Rat Pack, I don't think drugging the hot chick (no matter how old she is) is how you do it. And given that Barkin smolders on-screen, the fact that there's no actual pressing of flesh really makes the whole film into one big practical joke. If Ocean's Thirteen were trying to emulate the old style heist movies, you'd better believe Caldwell would be keeping the "cougar" busy. The greater sin is that this leaves Barkin with nothing to do than look stupid. She barely has any lines!There's other stuff that happens, some of it meant to be funny that's not so funny. Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle, still using that ridiculous accent) gets to ham it up, which is a high point in the movie. He writes touching letters to poor old Tishkoff to bring him out of his funk, but we're robbed of any sentimental feeling because we never find out what's in the letters. And for reasons that don't make any sense to me, Brad Pitt and George Clooney are barely in the movie. It's almost as if the guys thought that their egos got in the way of the second film, so instead they'd make it all not about them in the third film and that would make it better.It doesn't. Ocean's Thirteen is a photocopy of a photocopy. It feels like it's written by guys who didn't bother to see the original Ocean's Eleven and instead wanted to put in jokes about funny noses and "cougars." The allure of the Rat Pack is that they were men playing a boy's game. Ocean's Thirteen feels like boys playing a man's game. | 0negative
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Complicated story, not surprised by bad reviews
This is a complicated story and a lot is jammed-in between the lines. I had to watch this movie the first time to get an overview of what's going on. After that I could watch it and enjoy the storyline. As far as comparisons to Donny Darko, it's not that similar beyond having the same director, some of the same actors, and a foreboding plot. | 1positive
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My thought on this.
This is what I would call a more improved version of the film. Althought it does not reinvent itself like Dardevil did with the director's cut it was how ever good enough. My favorite new scene would be the new desert storm sequence that they were allowed to make exclucevly for this cut. The DVD gives you the option to play this with the movie or see it separatly my advise is to play it with the movie every time you put it on. And they add a little side story with Frank and a war buddy that puts the peces together on the matter of who gave him up to John Saint. If you really think that this is not worth getting then don't...Your loss but to those that do think it's worth it get it. | 1positive
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MacGyver
Good ol' Mac was my hero...just like my dad. They have something in common; they can fix anything, with a little household stuff and some ingenuity. I once got myself back into my house from the back door, with a paperclip, thanks to an idea I got from MacGyver! May he live forever on DVD! | 1positive
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The Snapper
If you enjoy seeing real life stories this is one of the best. Irish slang and local humor makes this film a keeper. | 1positive
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Jokey Spy Action
This pilot has been getting a lot of praise, so I was surprised that it didn't knock me out.On the plus side, the first episode zips along with some decent action scenes. The lead actors are attractive and appealing. And the premise is intriging enough that I'm curious to see more.On the down side, I thought much of the dialogue was forced and lame. Also, don't expect realism: characters make impossible jumps off buildings and walk away from car crashes that should have crippled them (twice!).But if you like jokey spy action, this fits the bill.Oddly, the "supercomputer" featured at the beginning is actually an 80's-era Macintosh. What's old is new, I guess. | 1positive
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So So
His Girl Friday is an OK movie about newspaper reporters in the early part of the 20th century. I think it was supposed to be funny, and it may have been at the time, but most of the dialog was lost on me. | 0negative
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Proof that a Seed of Truth is Stranger/Funnier than Fiction
THE LAST SHOT is best viewed with a bit of info to let the patient viewer understand what is coming. The opening titles are clever, dealing with movie paraphernalia that serve as matrices for the stars and production staff names and should give a sense of what is to come. But it isn't until the first 20 or so minutes into the film that the significance of the movie can be appreciated.Based on an apparently true news article, THE LAST SHOT takes a pot shot at not only Hollywood, but also organized crime, production magnates, the FBI, and little people with big dreams lost in the elusive utopia of fame.The plot is well outlined on these pages. Suffice it to say that the FBI sends Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin) to Hollywood to pose as a producer to lure the underground crime lord Tommy Sanz (Tony Shalhoub) to surface and be caught. Devine needs a script as he discovers from the gross Fanny Nash (Joan Cusack at her hilarious best) and gradually encounters Steven Schats (Matthew Broderick) who with his pathetic brother Marshall Paris (Tim Blake Nelson) has written an unmarketable, nonsalable script called 'Arizona'. Devine grabs on to the project, making Schats the director (his dream come true) and casts the film with has-been actress with box office draw Emily French (Toni Collette who looks terrific and adds yet another priceless cameo to her brilliant repertoire) and Valerie Weston (Calista Flockhart) who just happens to be Schats' squeeze.The process of filmmaking and the infectious delirium of Hollywood affects everyone in this film - even the FBI and especially Devine who softens into a man who wants to provide the 'littleman' Schats with his dream. The humor is broad, WAY over the top, crude, and slapstick and in so many ways this movie mimics all of the intangible oddities that make Hollywood what it is. The performances by Baldwin, Broderick, Cusack, Flockhart - and, well, all of the inserted cameos - are excellent. Once you get the premise of this film it moves from being inane to being a really terrific parody with some sensitive metaphors. Grady Harp, June 05 | 1positive
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Lame
Wasn't exactly what I'd call a "so bad it's good" type of film; just bad all around. Awful production values, worse acting, and lazy writing. The ending isn't as shocking as the synopsis and reviews would have you think. Ever see "The Vanishing"? Remember how bogus the ending of that was after all the hype? That's about the size of it. | 0negative
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completely AWFUL........
I got this as a free rental. NOT even worth free. This couple has got to be the most annoying idiot's. Me and my girlfriend got thru about 20 min, I should have shut it off after 10 min. If I had gone to the movies or actually bought this, I would of demanded my money back.. They should have negative star's for rating's. | 0negative
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day for night
Not worth a penny.Boring boring boring. The worst movie ever! Hard to follow; no action, no sense.I felt a sleep shortly | 0negative
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Boring, No Plot
this should have come on network tv. What a waste of $4.00! There was no plot, how do we even know the Blair Witch existed? We don't! I believe that these kids just wanted to make some loot and did. I have a story idea. How about the Blair Witch of the Ghetto! Now that's scary! | 0negative
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Craig Is a Great Bond
I was one of those people who thought Daniel Craig would be a bad Bond (wanted Clive Owen) and thought it was worse to use the title 'Casino Royale'. This movie, though, is for everyone! Bond is more human, makes mistakes, and comes off as a little cocky at times.This Bond, as others may say, is like 'From Russia With Love', where the movie rests more on the characters than the gadgets, the girls, or the cars. There are no "gadgets" except a few normal items (smartphone, defibrillator, the gun, the Aston Martin).I recommend even the person who has never seen a Bond to watch THIS ONE.- SJW | 1positive
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A WONDERFUL FUNNY MOVIE
Being a wilderness recluse myself I can really appreciate this movie. It is wonderful, funny and beautiful. The scenery and acting is great. Turturro is at his best here, and Sam Rockwell is perfect for the part of the eccentric "kid". This is in my "favorite" collection that I watch often, along with "Total Eclipse" of another eccentric anti-establishment kid. "Al Fountain" is an obsessive-compulsive who lets down his hair from the influence of "kid" and the blending of the two is psychology par excellence. | 1positive
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Wake me when it's over.
I was suckered into this film because Suffocation, Bloodbath and Dying Fetus were on the soundtrack and like a fool I thought that they would be playing death metal during the film...wrong.There was no death metal rocked out during the film or any good acting, writing or direction for that matter. I honestly cannot figure out what audience the makers of this steamer were aiming at. Eight-year-old boys? Nobody else would even like this [...] in the least. I hate myself for watching the whole thing.As far as the plot goes you got Tara Reid as an archeologist. Enough said. | 0negative
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Shroeder's Best
This is, by far, Barbet Shroeder's best effort. Perhaps his familiarity with the language, the country and its people themselves are contributing factors although Shroeder (Playboy August 2001) tells of the many problems and dangers he encountered while filming in Medellin.I have not yet read Fernando Vallejo's novel, on which the film is based, nor have I visited Columbia so I can deal with Shroeder's work at face value only. Still I was able to appreciate his accomplishment at a number of levels. As an introduction to the streets and los barrios of Medellin I was fascinated. As a documentary of the lives and sufferings of the resident populace I was moved. As cinema I was greatly impressed with the performance of German Jaramillo who plays Fernando, a man so jaded with life that he has surpassed the fear of death yet has difficulty making his exit for any number of reasons... One last love, a visit to a long ago cantina or church, the sound of a once familiar melody.His youthful lover Alexis (Anderson Ballestros) by way of contrast kills rather than engaging in senseless argumentation, or to preclude personal affront but most of all to avoid being killed. The pace of Alexis' life can only be slowed by sexuality, sleep or death. The music which soothes him is loud and frenetic. His sometime outward languidity cannot hide a turbulence bred of violence and danger yet he is unable to watch as Fernando mercifully kills a suffering animal.The killing portrayed here is not for those impressed with the Hollywood blood-bath type featuring good guys vs bad guys where the good guys somehow always prevail by way of superior cunning or fire-power. Here there is no justification. Only futile vengeance and self preservation. Nobody is right. No one wins.Shroeder keeps the film short and uses a bare skeleton of plot to extend the running time to ninety-eight minutes. It is only slightly more than enough and Shroeder can be forgiven for conforming to acceptable feature time length considering what he has been able to achieve.The dialogue is superb, cutting away the veneer of myth and civilization, as humanity is reduced to an insane parody of breeding, feeding, dying and removal of bodies. In one memorable scene Fernando rails sardonic at the determination of residents to dump corpses down a mountain side in spite of a sign clearly prohibiting the practice. Vultures circle above awaiting the opportunity to feast on the distorted carrion.The soundtrack ranges from pasodobles to Maria Callas and is beautifully integrated into the moods of Fernando and his youthful lovers.Anyone interested in how much can be communicated through the art of cinema should see this film and see it more than once -- in a cinema. | 1positive
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Not a word to describe how bad it really is!
This movie deserves a minus zero stars! It doesnt even deserve a rating. Amazon should be ashamed for even offering it. Don't waste your money on this. Badly written and I wouldn't even called the people in the movie actors. It looks like it was filmed with a video camera by a bunch of amateurs. | 0negative
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Lies and more lies !
This is a down right lie. The republican party has tried to discredit our President with this false information. For those who have read the book called "Dreams From My Father" you would know this documentary Dreams From My Real Father is a lie. The American public will not be dismay with the likes of this crap. God is watching. | 0negative
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Love that Jack!
It just gets better and better! An emotional Jack really got to me. Can't wait for season seven. | 1positive
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a waste of time to watch
this movie was horrible. I can't believe I actually paid money to see it. | 0negative
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Are You All Mad
This is the best film since Citizen Kane. The brilliant post modern irony of the piece was too subtle for the average viewer. | 1positive
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Best Season!
As a lesbian, I find this show to be extremely hot but that's definitely not the only reason why this show is good. It brings a lot of variety to the TV screen and it's something that I had never experienced before watching it. I had an emotional connection with the characters since the first episode, but this season in particular is where most of the characters develop into who they truly are; it's them finding themselves. While there is still plenty of that to come in further seasons, season 2 is especially great because it's no longer awkward and it's a little more risky, so it gets more intense and exciting, but you're still not too comfortable so your attention is still easily grasped. In my opinion, this is the best season of the entire series so enjoy it while it lasts. I'm not saying the others aren't good, but everything we all love about any show is in season 2: love, sex, drama (but not too much), and at least for me it was easy to relate to. | 1positive
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Cecil B. not that good
I have seen and enjoyed many of John Waters films, but this was almost boring. I understood the idea of it and parts were entertaining. Im sure if you were a fanatic of Waters or either of the stars you may like this, and don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, just ok. I'm most happy I rented it so now i know I wasn't missing anything as good as Waters old stuff. Even "Serial mom" and "Pecker" I enjoyed more... | 0negative
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important
Moving and Compassionate. I am making sure my kids watch this to help understand the "real world" they don't know about. | 1positive
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Rosewood
This movie is awesome! It's a true story, and very moving. I've seen it before and was buying it for a gift. However, the dvd was defective-it just stops right in the middle of the movie and goes back to the beginning to start over. I am presently in the process of returning it for (hopefully) an uneventful exchange. | 1positive
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Joanie! Joanie! Joanie!
After a career span of more than -- um, oh at least 115 years, it's gratifying someone helped finance this documentary, which retraces the genius of Joan Rivers, beginning with the birth of her firstborn twins, Jack Paar and Steve Allen; the weaning of Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" audiences off his standard late night schtick and her exploits raising consciousness among drunken dweebs in the upper Midwest. The scene from her north woods appearance was priceless; her taste for New York City hot dogs unimpeachable. (Better than, "Hey, stop the limo on 10th and 53rd! We need pretzels, g-d-it!") Rivers is one of a kind, even if she's hardly a 'glam dolly' without all her makeup; the wardrobe -- approaching that of Imelda Marcos or Elizabeth Taylor in range and scope -- can leave one breathless. (Even her coast-to-coast "dresser" is interviewed, along with her bling collection). Her humor is timeless, for the ages. The coup de vue, though, was the Q&A session near the end of the reel. Worth collecting for those who really love 20th Century stand-up -- or, send-up (whichever you prefer)! Did Colbert moonlight on this as co-director? Personally, three out of four in my nuclear family enjoyed this film. (So much for non-proliferation.) | 1positive
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didnt like
I didn't remember really what it was about but i know i didn't like it but its was not good at all. | 0negative
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John McClane in the Guantlet
The Amazon synopsis does justice to the movie. An otherwise-routine plot lifted from "The Guantlet" instead turns into a great suspense flick. The casting was perfect. Mos Def annoyed the hell out of me for the first ten minutes but by the time the first guy gets shot, he had me hooked. Like all well-written suspense movies, the plot moves briskly and the characters are not dumber than the audience.But if this were just a well-written and -directed cop suspense flick, it would get just four stars. What I find most appealing in the movie is its theme of redemption, and how that theme ties the two main characters together and to each other. Redemption does come at a cost, as true redemption must, and for Jack Mosley that cost is high, but not too high to not make it worthwhile. | 1positive
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Good follow up to 1 and 2, deserves to be the last
Halloween H20 was a great way to close the series. Salutes and tributes to horror were all over the film with scenes referencing scenes from the original film (the sightings out the window in the middle of class) to icon cameos (Janet Leigh (Jamie Lee Curtis's mother/Psycho star) and the return of Iⅈ's chain smoking nurse) to an opening tribute to Donald Pleasance via a voice over of classic lines from Halloween I.Also good casting which became few are far between at the sequel attempts after Halloween II (Josh Harnett became a super heartthrob and Michelle Williams recently garnered an Academy Award nonination).Just trust me when I say, buy Halloween , Halloween II and this film. Great acting and great rich story. Pretend the rest never existed. | 1positive
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Nice Movie
Why this C&C film is always rated as the "2nd or 3rd best C&C movie" by most reviewing it is beyond me! It is a must-own if you are a fan of C&C (the big "3" any ways), and could possibly be their finest.The "Hamburger Man," "Big Sticks ice cream treats," "Save the Whales," Stacey Keach, Paul Reubens, and more pot than you can shake a stick at make this one an empitamizing Cheech and Chong adventure, for anyone with a good sense of humor. | 1positive
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Kung Gu hottie!
She should be given other roles. It is rare to find a beauty that does her own stunts. I did some research on her career in martial arts and she rocks seriously. | 1positive
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Contemporary alien paranoia used to explain current evil
Rowdy Roddy Piper puts on a pair of unique sunglasses to discover vile creatures lurking incognito who are subliminally mind-warping the human race into "cattle." To top it all off, he has to convince his homeless friend who works in construction with him, to put on these special sunglasses; thus, an overextended, almost corny fight ensues while evil aliens are lurking about. "They Live!" obviously has its B movie effects and its non-existent acting, but this is not what defines this epic adventure.In a society based heavily on consumerism and complacency, the indifference humanity shows towards one another can be seen through class conflict. Where in the movie, the upper echelon of humanity unite with invaders, entire natural resource consuming alien elitists take power over the earth. In a metaphorical tale of human injustice, the bad guys are not human beings themselves, but hiding their unnatural faces to an ignorant population, and hiding their slogans beneath commercial advertisements and fluff about nothing.The human race fights back though... an insane individual conducting pirate transmissions through television, a blind black preacher giving sermons on evil, and a front-man who recruits Rowdy Roddy and his black buddy into the " collectively conscious." Not giving away the rest of a great story line, Rowdy Roddy and his buddy lead an insurgence one may never forget, and is a priceless moment in cinema history.Since it is a B movie, there are of course many things wrong with the allegory to begin with... the acting, the cinematography, the script, and almost anything else you can think of. The very essence of this problem is there are many movies that have all the same problems, but are not considered "B" movies; which, is truly sad for "They Live!" | 1positive
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They are the coolest!
It is the funniest show on television. Everyone who is cool should own these seasons! I will own them all cause I am cool!! | 1positive
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This review is for Christians and honest truth seekers only...
First let me start by saying that, if you have experienced an even moderate improvement in your health by switching to a low fat vegan diet I'm very happy for you. My joy professionally, as a certified health coach and personal trainer, comes from seeing and hearing of people who are experiencing greater health through the innumerable therapies the good Lord has bestowed upon mankind in the physical world.I believe that a low fat vegan diet can be extremely healthful SHORT TERM. I myself have used a similar diet in the past(although not really low fat) and have experienced tremendous results.First, let me come at this plant vs. animal diet thing biblically (you can leave now if you don't think the bible is of God, cause that's my base premise).Adam and Eve's original diet was vegan. After the fall, mankind began consuming animal foods (fish, eggs, poultry, red meat, dairy, and honey to name a few). In Genesis 9, after the flood, God approves of this practice. Later on in the Law (Lev. 11 & Deut. 14) he specifies the kinds of meat the Israelites should consume (basically, avoid reptiles, amphibians, fish without fins and scales, pork, etc etc).God Incarnate ate a meal with Abraham serving, which consisted of dairy and meat items. Roughly 2000 years later, Jesus Himself fed crowds bread and fish on two separate occasions.I won't go into Weston Price's research, or books like The Maker's Diet etc etc. I'll stick with God and Jesus.If you think Jesus was God, then as God He probably knows, more than anyone, what a healthy meal for a human should be. In the case of the loaves and fishes He chose a fish. Is Jesus unenlightened? Is Campbell more enlightened than Jesus? No. Jesus is God, the promise land was a land "of milk and honey", the Old Testament law is fully inspired, and God, as a good God, doesn't give His kids (us) bad advice (unlike some present-day nutritionists w/ a vegan agenda).In short, I don't think it's wrong to consume properly raised and butchered animal products. I also don't think it's wrong if a person wants to only eat plants. If your health is sound on either of those diets, fantastic. However, if you want to come at the argument from a biblical perspective, you can't get dogmatic on veganism. If you want to come at the argument scientifically, you'll find plenty of doctors and experts on both sides of the aisle.But do your own research...look at the blue zones (places in the world where people live the longest) and see what they eat. Look at Jeanne Calment. She lived to be a reputed 122 years old and she was famous for consuming about 2lbs of chocolate a week (high fat) and drizzling olive oil on almost all of her food (olive oil is a fat).I'm not here to be contentious, but I do want people to look at the facts. | 0negative
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A Journey From Regret and Ignorance to Englightenment
This is a film about a journey that many, if not all of us, eventually go through: a journey in which, in our old age, our regrets from the past arrive in front of our faces and give us a low, sinking feeling inside. Regret is present in all of our lives. However, if we are able to somehow become strong enough, optimistic enough, and brave enough, we'll be able to stare our regrets in the face and make peace with ourselves, before we have to go off to meet the stone cold hands of death. I hope I don't sound too "deep," gloomy, or spiritual, but the aforementioned statements are exactly what Wild Strawberries is all about. However, on top of the usual amount of regret that a human being has, Isak Borg also buries his regrets and his deep, overwhelming sadness beneath his prestigious job and the academic accomplishments he has made. By experiencing a series of incredibly frightening visions, plus taking a road trip with his daughter in law, Isak is able to carve away at the stone that has sat atop his true, often-upsetting feelings and memories for so many decades. Dr. Borg becomes in touch with his subconscious and remembers how his heart was broken when he saw his childhood love Sara with someone else, and also when he saw his wife with another man. Also, Borg feels death calling him via an infamous vision in which he sees his own corpse in a casket. Perhaps these menacing thoughts, along with his daughter in law's comments, make him realize that he has become a mummy, much like Kanji Watanabe in Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Ikiru. The truly upsetting part about all of this is that Evald, Borg's son, is terribly against his wife bringing a child into this world. He views this world as a cold and callous place, in which he can't stand to live one more day. As stated by other viewers, there is also present-day Sara and her two male friends, who may be seen as reincarnations of childhood era-Sara, Isak, and Sigfrid. As one can tell, Bergman is a master of subtlely using allegories, metaphors, and symbolism. The final layer of Wild Strawberries which I'd like to discuss is one of Bergman's favorite subjects: the existence and holiness of Jesus Christ versus the non-existence of God. I don't know much about Bergman but I know that he has some negative impressions of Christianity due to his father. However, I view one of the most important scenes, which occurs towards the end of the film, as being rather pro-Christian. When Borg is asked to recite his duties as a doctor and isn't able to do so, he asks Death what the penalty for his failures as a human being are, and Death then responds with "loneliness," to which Isak Borg asks "Is there any cure?" Death simply replies "I don't know. Don't ask me." Had Borg believed in Christ and not solely relied on science for all the answers of the world, he would have a Redeemer. However, since he looks to science to solve life's questions and to dodge the pain of past regrets, he is left with nobody to turn to besides Death, who, naturally, has no sympathy at all.I have a hunch many of you will find my analysis to be way too pro-Christian for a Bergman film, but if we assume that the character he speaks to is supposed to symbolize Death, I think my analysis would make some sense. I'm not saying Christ is God, but instead I'm trying to work with Christianity since that's what Bergman's father and the vast majority of his countrymen practiced. Of course, such an excellent film deserves a beautiful ending, and this is exactly what we get when an enlightened Isak Borg views his parents, whom he remembers as being bitter towards each other, sitting in complete delight and joy beneath a bright, summer sky. Though my review may sound complicated and some of you may disagree with some of my points and/or know more about Bergman's movies than I, I urge anyone and everyone who is even remotely interested in a film's ability to convey moving truths to go out and buy this masterpice on dvd! | 1positive
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comes up empty-handed
Vincent Perez was quite good in this movie and adds some much needed spark. I would like to see him in more movies. But unlike the reviewer who calls Kim Bassinger's acting "amazing astonishing" I think she is one of the worst actresses around and in this movie she is no less irritating. I did however appreciate her realistic portrayal with her son Emmanuel.There is very little depth to this movie, it skims over a lot of potentially interesting plots/sub-plots but doesn't go anywhere! Which is too bad because I think Kuki must be a deep and interesting person.As many others have said "for heavens sake .. don't buy it" | 0negative
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A Movie that will touch you (specially if you're a woman)
This is a great movie that touched me very deeply, because is not one of that moivies that you know what's gonna happend.I'd liked very much the end of the movie because it's not what I wanted but it's a very intelligent end.What makes the movie even better are the performances of Jennifer Aniston (of the hit sitcom 'Friends'), that makes you cry with her and Paul Rudd (of th 'Ciderhouse Rules') that makes the 'wrong' decision but you can't hate him, he's so lovely! | 1positive
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unboxed version doesn't have subtitles
be aware that the unbox'd version (digital download) of this doesn't have subtitles or closed captions of any kind. So unless you're well versed in old english it's pretty much worthless. I gave it 2 stars because it does have a kind of musical rhythm to it that makes it pretty decent background for a day's coding. | 0negative
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Not much to admire here.
Hack is a straight slasher-type movie with what the creators must've thought was an original take on the genre. Instead, it's a hack-neyed and unoriginal production.Save your money. | 0negative
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Very funny and sexy.
I could not stop laughing. Most scenes reminded me of my teenage hood when straight guys were acting gayer than any gay I know. They got more sex with men than most gays. Lucky bastards. LOL. Even if it is a comedy, the subtext was pretty realistic and reminded me of my own "straight male bounding" anecdotes. A plus, we get to see all the actors naked at least once. :)Original, a Keeper. :) | 1positive
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A powerful drama between love, hate, jealousy, & money
This is a powerful film that discloses the real human dramatic art in the acient time. It shows us how people allowed themselves to be polluted and caught in between being materialistic and superficial. It is a wonderful display for us as audience to understand how these characters are survived within the circle of love, hate, jealousy, and money. Love twists people to be weak, greedy and insecure, etc. It's is one of the best novel from Henry James and one of the best movie that I would make a recommendation to friends. | 1positive
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Slightly Overrated, But There Deserves to be a DVD Release
I liked this film overall; although it moves very slow [for a 1960s film] and if you are not in the mood, can be boring, especially to younger audiences. I appreciated what seemed to me to be deliberate "low-key" acting styles to simulate a realistic movie-watching experience, but at times certain characters' actions seemed inappropriate to what was happening around them.Although it was filmed in England, Blow-Up feels very much like a foreign language film. It's almost peculiar at times that the dialogue does not require subtitles, beacuse it often feels as though it should, even though the characters are English.The film is extremely well cast. David Hemmings is brilliantly cast in the role of a free-lance photographer and swinging Londoner about town. He's the right age, he's got the right look, and he's so believable in his role as to make it almost impossible to tell where the actor's true identity ends and the character acting begins. Yet he's totally believable in this role, he's good-looking, but also unique looking enough as to seem like a "real" person in a "real" environment living "real" scenarios.I will give big points to a genuine effort to make a unique film here. This is definately not one of your typical "formula films" of today! It did manage to hold my interest throughout, although I'm still not entirely sure what this film is about, and I have a hunch that some of it is another example of "The Emporer's New Clothes", which is why I can only give this movie 4 stars.This film was highly influential in it's day and I do recommend it to any fan of 60's culture and art films in general; especially for a rare chance to see both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck performing together in this short-lived lineup of the Yardbirds.This film is usually considered Michelangelo Antonioni's best film, although I disagree. I feel that "L'Avventura" is his masterpiece. But I must ask - why is this film not available in a DVD version yet? I can't believe that. C'mon Criterion - get on it! | 1positive
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Disappointing
After viewing other titles in this series and greatly enjoying them. I found this one very disappointing. Too much skipping around | 0negative
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The original has been cut so much!
I really like the original movie. But this release has been so much cut. I don't know what was the reason for it. But some really funny scenes (like a lion chasing Jackie) don't show up. Try to find uncut version. | 0negative
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A Huge Disappointment
After thoroughly enjoying the first Cranford with all its charm and appeal, this subsequent series was a great disappointment. With its splendid pedigree of actors retained, there is no lack of effort on their part but even the excellent cast cannot not fix a script/direction that is sorely lacking in most all aspects and one which renders every situation as contrived and insipid. It would have been wonderful to experience a continuation of all the heartwarming aspects of the first series but this particular rendition falls dismally short. | 0negative
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This is Why the Show Ended
If you need a crash reminder why the X-Files TV series dwindled at the end, you have it here: tepid writing, cheap effects, paint-by-numbers acting, and production values that look like the team's only goal was to get a project in on time and under budget. True believers would be better off re-watching their DVDs of the first three seasons and letting that be what they remember, not this which is all too likely to be the final chapter of the franchise.There's a fine line between David Duchovny's deadpan and just phoning in a role, and this is on the wrong side of that line. Gillian Andersen gives her all to the role, which is more than the script gives back to her, since it betrays the character by making her fuzzy and emotionally overwrought. Presumably the producers brought in Amanda Peet and Xzibit as star power for the FBI storyline, but they are criminally underutilized and play their roles at one fairly constant level. At least Billy Connolly has more than one note: he has two, neither of which are his unique brand of funny. What a waste of talent.And the story flows with the haste and dispatch of molasses from the fridge. Attractive young women are being kidnapped for gruesome experiments and a pervert priest has psychic visions pointing to the victims. What a great concept. But rather than tell us that story, we fixate on Mulder's beard, his sex life with Scully, a medical procedure that never actually goes anywhere, and ew-icky-poo beheadings. Then, just when we get to the climax, the whole thing lays over and goes FFFT like a punctured balloon. BORRR-ring!Please, producers, the franchise concept was played out by 1997. Let us fans keep our happy memories of how it was. Don't foist this monkey business on us again. | 0negative
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The Rocker - Proving Dreams Still Can Come True Anyway
The reviews I read on this product before purchasing it said it was a really funny movie, and it is! From the start, you can tell something is up and it's no holds barred hilarity from many cleverly (or not so cleverly) disguised stars of SNL! The plot is reminiscent of "School of Rock", but takes the situation in a different direction, while amplifying the differences between past and present musical styles. The movie features the parenting team of Jane Lynch and Jeff Garlin (from "Sleepover") and Christina Applegate really out of character as a somewhat overprotective mom. The gags are sometimes cliche, but not always, and fairly enjoyable, except for the pocket of puke scene (blech). Otherwise...Rainn Wilson is very charming and endearing (not nearly as creepy as Dwight Schrute, his character from "The Office") as he portrays an aging 80's rocker who was NEARLY famous before being axed from his band at the height of their popularity. Twenty years later, he is unexpectedly given another chance to rock and make a run for the top with his nephew and his band! Will they succeed? Will uncle get axed again? Can the young hipster set roll with an older, hard rock drummer? It's a fun ride, so why not get the DVD and find out? | 1positive
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About as scary as an old boot...
I don't know why this movie was praised by critics and movie-goers alike, as the only thing this film did for me was give me a slight case of motion sickness. This film WAS NOT SCARY IN THE LEAST. You want scary? Go watch the Exorcist, not shaky cam in the dark forest. I cannot believe people were proclaiming this as "scariest movie ever". Mass hypnosis and sly marketing are the only theories I can come up with to explain this movies success. Zero stars.Also, this movie isn't even original - watch "The Legend of Boggy Creek" and replace Bigfoot with the "Blair Witch". Boggy Creek had this beat by 25 years! | 0negative
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loved it!
Wonderful! I loved this show after hearing about it from friends. This is great show to watch if you enjoy this time period. | 1positive
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Disappointing 70s world war 2 flick.
Bad special effects as far as the model work goes. Stupid love story that you have to fast forward through. 60s hairdos on what are supposed to be 1940s women. It's just low budget and lame. | 0negative
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"The wives of Stepford have a secret"
Look, it's a comedy! No, it's a thriller! No, it's a sci-fi film! No, it's a horror film! Wait, what the heck IS it? Frank Oz's 2004 "The Stepford Wives" remake of the 1975 original, which was based on the book by Ira Levin, suffers from a major identity problem. The film itself doesn't seem to know what its message is and is annoyingly scatterbrained, throwing around different plot elements from the genres mentioned above with no real center or focus. If the filmmakers don't know what the point of their film is, neither do viewers, whom are left confused and unsure of what to make of it all as the credits role.The story is an absolute mess and seems to be stitched together from numerous different scripts, each focusing on a different element; humor, thrills, sci-fi, and horror. The result is a story where the pieces simply don't match up. This puzzling blend of genre and plot elements along with multiple endings is no doubt to be blamed on the reportedly vehemently dissatisfied test audiences. Frank Oz allegedly kept cutting, editing, and at times reshooting entire scenes up until a month or so before release. It shows.The all star cast of the great Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, and Faith Hill are tragically wasted on this bland, perplexing, and ultimately dissatisfying film. | 0negative
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Dave W Crawford Jr
I thought this was creatively done. I really enjoyed it. What a lot of people do not know is that Wes Craven originally wanted Freddy to be a pedophile but Robert Shaye did not like the idea since the very thought of such things in he 80's was horrible to hear or see. There isn't much to the movie I didn't like but maybe they could have focused more on Nancy than they did. And yes it did seem a little rushed. I will own this and I personally will watch it the night I get it whether here or Walmart. I would prefer to get it here cause it will save $5. But we will see. I especially like how they made him darker with a very small sense of humor. I like how his face looks more realistic. I love the new glove it looks more threatening at least to me. They actually look like claws instead of butter knives attached to a glove. I would give this a 5 star rating but you know I think 4 is as low as I will go. This movie has gotten bad reviews because this movie was one of the only remakes that people were very sensitive about and compared to the original. This is not supposed to be a remake at all it is a contemporary re-imagining. I am so excited to own this. I am driving people nuts talking about it hehehe. I was skeptical on this movie when I first heard they were making it but I am glad I saw it on opening day. People just need to go into this movie with an open mind and not ready to compare it to the original (which is the best) and I loved how they paid homage to the original series but this is supposed to be a completely different series. And from what I have heard they are making a prequel too but its just a rumor right now. | 1positive
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Great other than minor issue.
The only reason I rate these 4 stars because I bought these DVDs and received a set coded for Region 2 (Europe) I was not able to play on any device but my computer and was only able to do that by changing the settings in my video watching software to read Region 2 instead of Region 1 (USA) other than that the DVDs were great. This is disappointing but works just fine as I planned on watching them using my computer anyway. If anyone receives this product and cannot get them to play on normal DVD players or other devices, check the back of the box and look for a small globe with a number in it. If the number is anything but 1, then you have a different region code and must do what I did or return them. Otherwise, great show and great product. | 1positive
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A realistic horror epic a hellish masterpeice.
There's not much reveiwing you can do on this powerful film.If someone were to write a review on the hole movie you could spend a very long time perhaps a lifetime reviwing it.This is a moving film on how people view this movie is what your opinon on good vrs. evil.The movie's outline is more on faith vrs.hopelessness religon vrs. chaos and hell.In the midst of all of this happning a poor 12 year old girl, and unexperienced preist who has lost all but his hope.And a man who belives in faith and the word of god but sacrifices himself to something he cannot defeat or begin to understand.All in all Peter Blattys Exorcist will test your mind to belive in faith and religon.And for your hard earned dollars your going to get a great masterpeice on dvd and a very intelligent and thought prevoking movie.And a wild ride into the closest thing your going to get to hell.A truly epic masterpeice. | 1positive
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Tripe
Right then. This film has been getting quite a mixed reception from media and the general public so I thought I'd lose my Amazon review cherry by offering my opinions on this movie.Cabin Fever has been hailed by some as being the saviour of the low-budget horror genre, others though consider it to be the worst movie ever made. I unfortunatley fell heavily into the latter camp when I paid my hard earned cash to watch it.I really wanted to love this movie. It was the end of the summer and myself and a few mates decided at the last minute to pay a visit to the local cinema. One of the group had seen a trailer for Cabin Fever and thought it would be a good laugh. This friend is now in a shed in the middle of nowhere having his face chewed off by a rabid water vole. I was imaging the film to be one of three movie types a) A rehash of the Blair Witch b) Your usual teen slasher flick, nothing special but great popcorn fodder c) An Evil Dead style independent film that was fresh and full of individuality and charm. Cabin Fever was none of these things. From the very start I could tell this film was bad news. The group of actors cobbled together for this movie will hopefully never work in the mainstream again and I can only hope that Eli Roth is now safely locked away somewhere.I was neither grossed out nor scared by this film. The make-up effects were passable but nothing spectacular. I'll admit to laughing a couple of times during the movie. That whole thing with the Hanson kid and his pancakes was hilarious. But as soon as my initial roar of laughter calmed down I was impelled to question quite loudly "what the f*** was that all about?". Noone else in the cinema was sure either. I could really sense discomfort in the audience as noone was quite sure exactly what they were watching on the screen.This film left me puzzled for a long time after - my main confusion being why I had spent any money to watch this shoddy flick. There seemed to be no passion from the cast, there were also so many random moments in the film that I can only imagine the director believed would be witty, but that just came across as a desperate attempt to fill some time. That whole section where the group wandered off to try and find help - where the hell did that boat come from? There were two good points in the film - I'm not going to lower myself by telling you what they were (.)(.). Whoops. Ummm, I really can't be bothered to write anymore on the subject. Like the film, I think I'll just tail off and start loosing all structure and sense. Wibble. Yep. That outta do it.AVOID THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS. | 0negative
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