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MartinHafer | The Love War (1970 TV Movie) | 5 | 0 | The story idea behind "The Love War" is really neat. Too bad it's undone by a huge and obvious plot problem.The film is set on Earth in the present day. Two teams of aliens are having a private war among us and they look just like us. But, if the aliens use special glasses, they can see their enemies and kill them. On ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Lightning Strikes Twice (1934) | 3 | 0 | "Lightning Strikes Twice" is a dull murder mystery comedy...and, unfortunately, it's not especially funny due to the poorly written dialog. It begins with some apparent murders but a couple of the supposed dead guys are idiot cops who get stuck in the sewers. This bit wasn't funny...and was repeated throughout the film... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | In the Aleutians (1945) | 4 | 0 | The Private Snafu films were clearly made to be seen by soldiers and not by the general public. The dirty jokes, sexual innuendos and language is relatively tame today but never would have been allowed in the regular theaters due to the Production Code. But, such off-color remarks went over very well with the enlisted ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Married Virgin (1918) | 4 | 0 | This is the sort of over-done melodrama that must have played well at the time, but is like a hunk of cheese--over time is just starts to stink. That's because the plot, by modern standards, is just archaic--archaic and filled with way too many story elements. The only reason to see it today is if you are a fan of Rudo... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Vault of Horror (1973) | 4 | 0 | The idea of a horror anthology movie interested me, so I sat down to watch this movie tonight. While the basic structure and idea was good, I was amazed at how sluggish and indifferent most of the five episodes were. Most of this seemed to be because of relatively poor writing--this SHOULD have been a lot more interest... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Bob's Busy Day (1942) | 1 | 0 | "Bob's Busy Day" is a very confusing film when it first begins. While it was released in the 1940s, it's obvious the print is about 10 years older. This is because the footage originally came from a full-length film called "Going Spanish" but someone later edited out all the singing and kept all the laughs...or, shall ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Super K (2011) | 1 | 0 | To say that the animation of "Kiara the Brave" is bad is a HUGE understatement. It's absolutely abysmal. In fact, if a student in an art college produced this, the school would probably dismiss them and disavow all knowledge of them! While it might have looked pretty good about 1990 (before "Toy Story"), for 2011 it lo... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Billy Wilder Speaks (2006 TV Movie) | 5 | 0 | Billy Wilder was a genius when it came to writing and directing films. There's no doubt about that and listening to him reminisce makes this documentary worth seeing--particularly for film buffs like myself. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to him talking with Volker Schlöndorff ("The Tin Drum"). However, from a technica... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Hands of a Murderer (1990 TV Movie) | 5 | 0 | Sherlock Holmes is the most commonly featured fictional character in film history--so there are tons of versions of the man. Most, unfortunately, aren't very good. One of the biggest problems I usually notice is that the writers often think Conan Doyle didn't do a very good job with his stories and begin embellishing t... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Scarecrow (1973) | 3 | 0 | Gene Hackman is Max, an incredibly angry and thin-skinned drifter with a penchant for fighting. Inexplicably, Lion (Al Pacino) insists on partnering up with him and they drift through life together for a while. They take odd jobs, hitch rides and seem to have little in the way of connections. The film follows them as t... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Little Pioneer (1937) | 2 | 0 | It's a shame that so few Hollywood films have been done about South Africa--and almost none about the early years of this country. In light of this, it's even sadder that one of the few is this limp little film. Aside from being filmed in glorious Technicolor or a chance to see Jane Wyman in a very early appearance, th... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Dakota (1945) | 4 | 0 | This is one of the worst John Wayne flicks of the 1940s. By this point in his career, Wayne was now a star and deserved better material and a better leading lady. If you compare this film with THEY WERE EXPENDABLE, which came out the same year, the contrast is great. DAKOTA is simply a B-western with lousy and very con... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947) | 5 | 0 | This film is listed in Harry Medved's "Fifty Worst Movies" book but this really doesn't make sense, as it's a decent little B-western. I usually agree with Medved but this time the film isn't particularly bad, nor good--just a very typical programmer.While much of the film doesn't make sense (such as the extensive use ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Angels Over Broadway (1940) | 5 | 0 | I love old movies--generally more than newer films in fact. So, in light of my adoration of Hollywood's golden age and the preponderance of very favorable reviews here on IMDb, it surprised me that I disliked this film as much as I did. To me, it is a film that comes off as stagy, overly talky and unconvincing.The film... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Track of the Moon Beast (1976) | 1 | 0 | Considering that this film is #19 on IMDb's list of lowest ranked movies ever, it certainly isn't a surprise that I scored it a one. It also isn't a surprise that I watched it, as sometimes I like to watch terrible films because they give me a good laugh. However, unlike some bad films, this one isn't particularly wort... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | So Red the Rose (1935) | 3 | 0 | Like so many of the Hollywood films of the era, this film presents a ridiculous and offensive view of the old South. In pre-Civil War southern states, the slaves are all shown as being very happy, well taken care of and in love with their masters. Whippings, forced sales of which broke up families and dehumanization ar... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Houdini (1953) | 5 | 0 | Too often, films take a fast and loose approach to biopics. So, it didn't surprise me that much of "Houdini" was pure crap. Sadly, however, the discerning viewer is left wondering what is crap and what was really true about Houdini. I investigated a bit and found SOME of the movie was true--such as Houdini playing a wi... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Love Is a Racket (1932) | 5 | 0 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a worldly-wise newspaperman whose beat is Broadway. He always seems to be one step ahead of everyone and is never a chump...except when it comes to one woman (Frances Dee). This lady has written some bad checks and he decides to help her. However, it all ends up backfiring on him. It's a sha... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Outrage (2010) | 5 | 0 | While it has been a decade since Takeshi Kitano made another gangster film, "Outrage" is pretty much the exact sort of thing he used to make. Having seen "Sonatine", "Brother" and, to a lesser extent, "Violent Cop", it's definitely a serious case of deja vu here. All the films were very nihilistic--with lots of violenc... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) | 3 | 0 | Compared to the next Tracy film (DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA), this is a pretty good film. This isn't saying a lot, considering how horrible the next movie is however. The main problem with both these films were the moronic writing--they just didn't make any attempt to fix plot holes or make the movies make any sense--even wi... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | They Learned About Women (1930) | 2 | 0 | "They Learned About Women" is a film from MGM starring the Vaudeville/Broadway duo of Van & Schenck. While they were very popular on stage, on film they were a bit of a bust....and "They Learned About Women" was a box office loser. After seeing it, I can understand why it failed....they just weren't that funny and the ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Pulling a Bone (1931) | 4 | 0 | Throughout "Pulling a Bone", George Burns keeps telling everyone that he has a bone stuck in his throat. This is a stupid idea for a plot for many reasons. First, if this was the case, folks WOULD pay attention to him. Second, if he has a bone in his throat he'd be coughing and would have difficulty talking....but he n... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Le baptême de Calino (1910) | 4 | 0 | In the recent collection "Gaumont Treasures Volume 2", I have noticed that the dates attributed to many of these films by Kino are quite different than those listed on IMDb. I think much of this is because with such early films, determining when they were made (as well as by whom in many cases) is just guesswork. Wheth... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Escape Me Never (1947) | 5 | 0 | This was one of the more difficult Errol Flynn movies to watch--mostly because Flynn plays a character that is probably more like him off-screen than any other he played (except, perhaps in one one of his last films when he played John Barrymore). Flynn is a ne'er-do-well brother who is shacked up with Ida Lupino. Lupi... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Off Limits (1952) | 5 | 0 | Hollywood made quite a few military films starring the most ridiculous actors. In "Great Guns", a 300-400 pound 49 year0old Oliver Hardy joins up. And, in "Buck Privates", a 46 year-old Bud Abbott also joins the army. So, the notion of a 50 year-old Bob Hope in the army is ridiculous but not without some precedent. My ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Time Piece (1965) | 5 | 0 | This is an experimental film done early in Jim Henson's career--before he achieved national prominence. While I didn't enjoy it and didn't see it as a great artistic triumph (despite the Oscar he received for Best Live Action Short), I am thrilled that he made it because it gave him a chance to experiment and hone his ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Babylon 5: A Late Delivery from Avalon (1996)
Season 3, Episode 13 | 5 | 0 | This is both one of the more fun episodes to watch BUT also one of the dumbest episodes as well--an odd combination, to say the least! So why is it so dumb? Well, Michael York plays a man who thinks he's King Arthur! With this premise, how can the episode not be pretty lame?! Sure, later in the episode they give a pret... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Death at Love House (1976 TV Movie) | 3 | 0 | Robert Wagner and Kate Jackson play Mr. and Mrs. Gregory, a couple who are writing a biography of a famous silent film star, Lorna Love. Apparently decades before, Mr. Gregory's father had an affair with Love but ended up leaving her....and the son is really fascinated with the lady. However, during their research they... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934) | 5 | 0 | James Dunn plays a down and out film director. While he's won the Oscar in the past, currently he's unwanted in Hollywood and goes to work for a fly-by-night acting school run by Grant Mitchell. However, when a genuinely talented lady (Alice Faye) enrolls, Dunn is in a bind when his boss wants him to con her out of mon... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Dawn Rider (1935) | 3 | 0 | Oh my gosh...listen to the little exchange that occurs about four minutes into the film. It is, possibly, the worst exchange of dialog I have ever heard--it was so dumb that even Ed Wood wold wince!! As Wayne and another dude try to one-up each other, I just couldn't help but think sooner or later one of them would say... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Sightseeing Through Whisky (1907) | 2 | 0 | No one who is familiar with the films of Georges Méliès would ever consider "Sightseeing Through Whisky" to be a classic! In fact, it's one of the poorer films of this great director I have seen....and I've seen at least a couple hundred of them.A group of tourists are exploring some ruins in the Middle East. An older ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Boy Meets Girl (1938) | 4 | 0 | I love "screwball comedies" from the 1930s and 40s. Such films as ARSENIC AND OLD LACE and BRINGING UP BABY and HIS GIRL Friday are wonderful films--with a wonderfully breezy pace, high energy and lots of laughs. BOY MEETS GIRL is an attempt to do this same sort of comedy, though the laughs just aren't that noticeable ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | All's Well (1941) | 2 | 0 | One of the characters in the Fleischer Brothers' full-length film "Gulliver's Travels" was a bit of comic relief called Gabby. Someone must have really loved this character, as the following year he somehow got his own short-lived series of shorts. However, he only lasted for eight cartoon shorts and is almost certainl... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | When Hell Broke Loose (1958) | 5 | 0 | "When Hell Broke Loose" is one of Charles Bronson's earliest starring roles. Up until that time, he mostly played minor supporting characters but here he is THE star of this low-budget production. Bronson plays a rather amoral guy who is always looking out for himself--which is tough, as he's in the Army during WWII--a... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Racket Squad: The Case of the Miracle Mud (1951) Season 2, Episode 3 | 5 | 0 | Note that if you watch this episode on the Alpha Video disc, this episode is accidentally labeled "One More Dream" and vice-versa. They're on the same disc--it's just that their titles have been mixed up.Mr. Edwards arrives in Fairview and meets with a realtor to look for a home. Oddly, Edwards ends up picking a comple... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | 曼羅奇遇記 (2014) | 4 | 0 | When "The Book of Life" began, I was really enthralled by its creative art style. After all, there are so many CGI films out these days that it's great to see one that looks so different and bold. There also were a few scenes that simply blew me away with the grand look--such as when the film went to the Kingdom of the... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Way of the Vampire (2005) | 1 | 0 | I am a masochist. That is why I am trying to see all the movies from Harry Medved's book "The 50 Worst Films of All Time" as well as all of the Bottom 100 from IMDb. Masochism is the only thing that would explain it. Tonight I actually watched two films from the IMDb list. One, "I Can Do Bad All By Myself", turned out ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Son of the Mask (2005) | 2 | 0 | This is one of those Hollywood projects that makes you wonder why they even made the film in the first place. After all, to anyone hearing the plot, they'd know that the film was destined to bomb--yet some lunkheads approved the picture. And, while they saved a huge amount of money by not getting Jim Carey for this seq... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Amazing Stories: No Day at the Beach (1986) Season 1, Episode 14 | 2 | 0 | Aside from the episode featuring a young Charlie Sheen as well as Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (a HUGE boxing star in the 80s), there isn't much to see in this one. The biggest problem is that the story just doesn't make much sense.The show begins on a troop transport ship during WWII. A group of really obnoxious young sold... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Sunset Murder Case (1938) | 5 | 0 | I am pretty amazed that during the Post-Code era that this film ever managed to be shown--and, according to IMDb, it was NOT shown nationally as local censor boards went ape at the plot as well as the brief nudity! Pre-Code (1934 and earlier) I could see such a film getting made--after all, brief nudity and salacious p... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Broadway Bill (1934) | 5 | 0 | Successful businessman Warner Baxter quits his job to return to the life of horse racing. Broadway Bill is a horse that Baxter thinks can take him to the big time. The problem is that he is practically broke and must scrimp and scheme to somehow get the money needed to get Bill in 'the big race'.This is an amazing film... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Casino Murder Case (1935) | 4 | 0 | During the 1930s and 40s, Hollywood produced a long string of B-detective films such as Charlie Chan, the Falcon, Boston Blackie and Sherlock Holmes. One of these series that never seem to catch on despite many films in the series were the Philo Vance films. Now a few of them were very good and the series seemed to be ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Andy Griffith Show: The Bazaar (1965) Season 6, Episode 5 | 1 | 0 | Newcomer Warren comes to town and appoints himself deputy. Then he goes on to arrest some nice old ladies playing penny-ante cards--much to Andy's consternation.This episode was clearly written as if Barney Fife was still on the show, as the sort of things Warren (Jack Burns) did were right out of the Barney Fife handb... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Lawless Range (1935) | 4 | 0 | "Lawless Range" is a B-western with little to distinguish it but one thing....John Wayne. While many today don't realize it, Wayne was in B-westerns and serials during most of the 1930s and only graduated up to A-films in the early 40s. All the B-westerns shared a few things in common: they were quickly made, had very ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | 5 | 0 | Why is this movie so overrated? It almost always is listed among the greatest movies ever made and I once again ask WHY? First, I need to point out that I am a bright, well-read and highly educated person. So, yes, I did understand the imagery and "hidden significance" of the movie. Despite this, I still MUST point out... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | A Shot in the Dark (1941) | 3 | 0 | "A Shot in the Dark" is a slickly produced B-mystery from Warner Brothers. And, just like in his film "The Case of the Black Parrot", William Lundigan plays a smartypants newspaperman who helps the cops solve the mystery. But, unlike "Black Parrot", this later film suffers from a poor mystery...so poor that at the end ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Sleeping Beauty (II) (2014) | 3 | 0 | Sleeping Beauty is a production of The Asylum—a film production company known for making so-called 'mockbusters'. These mockbusters are films that are released to coincide with the release of big studio epics in order to capitalize on the hubbub surrounding the big-budget movies. They feature titles that are VERY simil... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949) | 1 | 0 | In the 1930s-50s, double features were the norm. The A-picture was longer, bigger budgeted and drew in the audiences. The B-picture, on the other hand, was cheaper, shorter and were generally less refined. A few of the Bs were quite good--such as "I Walked With a Zombie" and many of the series films, such as Charlie Ch... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Four Star Playhouse: Desert Encounter (1956) Season 4, Episode 23 | 3 | 0 | The show begins with a great playwright, Paul (Boyer) learning that his driver is sick and he'll need to drive himself across the Mexican desert. On the way, he meets up with a strange Mexican young lady who asks for a ride--little does he know that she has matrimony on her mind!"Four Star Playhouse" was a wonderful bu... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Blitt Happens (2003 TV Movie) | 1 | 0 | Before I found this failed TV pilot on YouTube, I had no idea who Ricky Blitt was. Apparently, he's written some episodes of TV shows like "Family Guy" and "Romantically Challenged". Well, he and the Farrelly brothers got together to make this show...hoping that the TV networks would approve it. Why they didn't is woef... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Felix the Cat (1958– ) | 2 | 0 | I love the review by neutrino68. Despite tons of reviewers saying how much they love this series, they buck the trend and savage the series—a savaging that is justly deserved. I honestly think a lot of folks scored this one much higher than they should have for nostalgia's sake—as it was part of their childhood. Howeve... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Danger on the Air (1938) | 3 | 0 | In the 1930s and 40s, Hollywood made a ton of B-mystery movies. Some (such as most of the Charlie Chan flicks) were very good--many were, at best average. Among all these movies were also a series of so-called 'Crime Club Films' and "Danger on the Air" is the 4th of 11 in the series. While I haven't seen the others in ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) | 3 | 0 | inexplicably a corporal he and men get lost--enter french town as heroes --later reassigned to be liaisons with locals Jean Porter is adorableThis is a follow-up to Robert Walker's war film "See Here, Private Hargrove" but it isn't nearly as good. In fact, I think it's not even close!The film begins with Hargrove inexp... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | A Day's Pleasure (1919) | 5 | 0 | This movie reminds me of the later Laurel and Hardy film A PERFECT DAY, though the Stan and Ollie film was an awful lot funnier. Part of this is that Chaplin's character is not exactly the "nice guy" he played in later movies and part of it was the choppiness of the film. It was a lot of little vignettes pieced togethe... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Little Miss Broadway (1938) | 5 | 0 | "Little Miss Broadway" isn't a bad film. However, Shirley Temple sure made a lot of films that were a lot better. Overall, it's watchable but most likely a film for someone who is more the die-hard Shirley Temple fan than anyone else.George Murphy, Edna May Oliver, Jimmy Durante and Jane Darwell are among the supportin... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Rhinoceros (1974) | 3 | 0 | The French/Romanian writer Eugène Ionesco wrote this VERY strange story for The Theatre of the Absurd. Now if you are the sort of person who likes their stories very literal (or semi-comprehensible), you will most likely have no interest in this film. In fact, MOST people would probably have no interest in this movie!!... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Creature (1965) Season 1, Episode 28 | 5 | 0 | Episode 1.28, "The Creature", is an odd one because episode 1.25, "Cradle of the Deep" is so similar. In fact, I find them too similar...thus my score of 6.When the show begins, you see stock footage of a Vanguard rocket on the launch pad. Suddenly, some ultrasonic sound strikes and there's a huge explosion. Soon, the ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) | 4 | 0 | This is a rather dopey comedy starring Ronald Reagan, Eddie Bracken and Virginia Mayo. Reagan plays an artist known for painting pinup girls. Bracken is trying to discover WHO Reagan's model is, as she's practically perfect in every way. After repeatedly pestering Reagan, he learns that there is no one model--but that ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Untouchables: The Genna Brothers (1961) Season 3, Episode 4 | 4 | 0 | The TV series "The Untouchables" often played very fast and very loose with the truth. A history lesson it is not! Many times, the only real things in the episodes are the names of the criminals...but their exploits, personalities and even looks are nothing like the real life folks. So the fact that the show got the no... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Syncopated City (1934) | 5 | 0 | Umpire straight buldg
Hal proposes review using staff of building--works as mayor's assistant
hal le roy
songs and singing isn't very good
laziest tapdance ever
girl fire dept--with dance on ladder bit
weirdIn the early days of the Vitaphone shorts, the musical acts were very stilted and there was little, if any story.... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Mouse Into Space (1962) | 1 | 0 | In the early 1960s, some evil trolls at MGM decided to revive the Tom and Jerry series but wanted it done with practically no budget at all. So, the cartoons were farmed out to be done in Czechoslovakia by people that had hardly any notion of who the characters were. As a result, they didn't look all that much like Tom... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Bring Home the Turkey (1927) | 2 | 0 | "Bring Home the Turkey" is one of the most disturbing installments of Our Gang I've ever seen...and I've seen most of their movies! It's supposed to be a comedy but is one of the few I don't recommend you show small kids! Why? Well, during the course of the film you see a man with a giant bull whip chasing the kids and... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Johnny English (2003) | 4 | 0 | Had I never seen the various Blackadder shows as well as Mr. Bean, I probably would have enjoyed this film a little more. However, I know that Rowan Atkinson can be a tremendously funny man and he is quite the talent. Sadly, little of Atkinson's genius for comedy is evident here, as this spy film features exceptionally... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Paul (2011) | 4 | 0 | "Paul" is one of the more frustrating films I've seen in a long time. While the idea of the film is quite nice and I really like Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, too often the film relies on cursing and crudeness instead of cleverness. It's like someone took the script and gave it to a couple 12 year-olds to have them 'spice... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Dumbstruck (2010) | 5 | 0 | This documentary is about five ventriloquists of widely varying backgrounds and ages. One of them, Terry Fator, is extremely rich, famous and a major star. The rest of them are trying to become stars and make careers out of ventriloquism and they find the path very difficult and personally destructive in at least one c... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Jefferson Davis: An American President (2008 TV Movie) | 4 | 0 | I was excited to see this documentary about Jefferson Davis--mostly because although he was a hugely important character in American history, oddly, he's a real cypher. Most history books say little about him and very few people could tell you anything about him other than, perhaps, he was the president of the Confeder... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Frosty the Snowman (1951) | 5 | 0 | "Frosty the Snoman" is an odd little curio from the 1950s that I found on YouTube. Apparently, some music production company wanted to promote the song "Frosty the Snowman" and commissioned UPA to create this three minute promotional film. It's very bouncy and good considering it only cost $7000 to make. As for the ani... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987) | 2 | 0 | Ignore my numerical vote--this is a bad movie but only in the best possible way!! I am a bad movie fan, but not all bad films. Some bad films are dreadfully boring and I hate them (such as "The Conqueror" or "Cracking Up"). However, a small group of film are bad but hilariously bad--so bad, so silly, so unbelievably st... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Rock 'n Roll Musical (2003) | 2 | 0 | "The Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Rock 'n Roll Musical" is a bad film despite the mostly very, very favorable reviews. Technically, it's very cheap looking--with a direct to video look as well as scenes that just make no sense and seem to have no reason to be in the film (such as the guy working out and singing about Henry). ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The North Star (1943) | 3 | 0 | Up until WWII, most Americans (and particularly Hollywood) looked to Soviet Russia with, at best, fear. While the true extent of the brutality and human rights violations of the Stalinist regime were still not fully comprehended, there was great fear that the Russians were bent on world domination. BUT, with the entry ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1937) | 3 | 0 | Over the last couple years I have watched a huge number of B-westerns--such as the films of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tim McCoy, Bob Steele and many others. As a result, I have noticed that although these films were very quickly and cheaply made, some tend to be a lot better than others--and some tend to be a lot worse. ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Star Trek: The Next Generation: We'll Always Have Paris (1988) Season 1, Episode 23 | 4 | 0 | This episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is a rather poor one--mostly because the show features two plots and one of them is frankly very dull. As for the other, it is decent...but nothing to get excited about either. Overall, it left me very flat.The Enterprise notices a space wrinkle where things repeat thems... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Missing Girls (1936) | 4 | 0 | With a title like "Missing Girls" and the way the film was promoted, I thought for sure that this was going to be an exploitation film about prostitution. And, the film sure looked like this in the first few minutes, as an young lady runs from her abusive father to the big city. But then, abruptly, the entire movie cha... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Cannon: Killer on the Hill (1975) Season 4, Episode 17 | 5 | 0 | Cannon is hired by a woman to help free her incredibly stupid husband from prison. It seems that this hot-head is accused of taking a shot at someone--and because of the guy's history, the cops naturally think he's guilty. Cannon quickly proves the guy couldn't be the would-be assassin but doesn't do anything to let th... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | I'm Going Home (2001) | 3 | 0 | While parts of the film are quite interesting, there are so many problems with it that I would hesitate to recommend it to anyone. First, there are many prolonged scenes from plays in the beginning of the film that don't seem to help the picture along. It was as if they had the footage and used it as padding. A few sho... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The 9th Entry (2005) | 4 | 0 | This was a well acted film but the subject is so unappealing I really have no idea who the intended audience is. This short film purports to be a video entry from a man who talks about how "the sickness followed us to the new house" and as he cries and tries to explain what happened in a very fragmented manner, you gat... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Dracula's Dog (1977) | 3 | 0 | Dracula's dog, Zoltan (a Doberman), and his servant, Veidt (Reggie Nalder) are on a mission. Since Count Dracula and all the other Dracula family members are dead and gone in Romania, they're coming to the United States in search of Michael Dracula to make him the next vampire. However, Michael has changed his name to ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985– ) | 4 | 0 | It is not surprising that the life of Il Duce is depressing and awful--he was a brutal, evil little man after all. However, after watching it I was kind of wondering WHO the intended audience was. After all, you might have noticed that many of the worst monsters of the 20th century have been so rarely portrayed on film... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Green Fire (1954) | 5 | 0 | 1954 was a VERY busy year for Grace Kelly. She starred in five films...one of which (THE COUNTRY GIRL) earned her a Best Actress Oscar and two of which were Hitchcock pictures. But not all these projects were great...as she also starred, inexplicably, in "Green Fire"...a rather pedestrian film where the worst thing abo... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Thrilling Sword (1981) | 3 | 0 | The film begins with the evil Emperor (incorrectly dubbed as "King" for the English language version) wiping out an entire extended family just for something he perceived as a minor insult even though it obviously wasn't. However, two young girls escape execution and, true to the standard Kung Fu cliché, work for years... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | De wraak van dr. Fu Manchu (1967) | 5 | 0 | This is a decent and entertaining film, but not one that is particularly inspired or memorable. In many ways, it's like a 1930s B-film with very modest pretensions as well as some excitement and clichés. Of course, what else would you expect from a Fu Manchu film?!In this third installment from the Christopher Lee seri... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Wild Horse Rodeo (1937) | 4 | 0 | Why did I mention Dick Weston in the summary? This is because he's none other than Roy Rogers. But here in "Wild Horse Rodeo", it's before he became the famous cowboy and instead he just sings and yodels in the film...but nothing else. Soon after finishing "Wild Horse Rodeo" Leonard Slye (that's Roy's real name) went o... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Mountain Justice (1937) | 4 | 0 | Before I begin, I must point out that even if you think I am being too harsh about MOUNTAIN JUSTICE, you can't possibly think this seriously flawed film deserved a score of 10! Films like GONE WITH THE WIND and DR. STRANGELOVE have many reviews with scores well below 10--this very obscure and strange little film from W... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Magic of Heineken (2014) | 3 | 0 | I make my own beer. So, a documentary about beer making and breweries is the sort of thing I should love. However, "The Magic of Heineken" is hard to love. While the film has some interesting information (such as the huge number of breweries around the world owned by this mega- company), mostly it looks like a film mad... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Wicked as They Come (1956) | 5 | 0 | Kathy (Arlene Dahl) is a conniving woman. Through the course of this film, she schemes again and again to take herself from her humble country routes to riches. However, the film calls her 'wicked' and I see her much more as scheming and a cold-hearted woman with a plan. Wicked conjures up images of a great Bette Davis... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Vagabond Violinist (1934) | 3 | 0 | Paul Verlaine (John Garrick) is a struggling young composer in Paris. Most folks have little interest in his work, however, he's spotted by a rich and spoiled brat (Margot Grahame) who takes him under her wing. Despite the wonderful (but awful singing) Germanine (Merle Oberon) loving him, he is lured to the rich lady w... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Down the Wyoming Trail (1939) | 2 | 0 | This installment of the Tex Ritter franchise must have been made for kids'. After all, the plot is extremely simple, folks behave like total idiots and it has a Santa Claus angle! As a result, it's the sort of western adults would be best to avoid.When the film begins, Tex Yancy (Tex Ritter) arrives in Wyoming right in... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Hot Money (1935) | 5 | 0 | I noticed in Michael Elliott's review that he felt that Patsy Kelly could be funny but she was also quite often abrasive and annoying. Well, I couldn't agree more and assume her rather obnoxious persona was much of the reason she isn't more well-known today. As for her partner in these Hal Roach films, Thelma Todd, she... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Circus of Horrors (1960) | 4 | 0 | This horror film stars Anton Diffring, a name you probably won't recognize though it's very likely you'll recognize his chiseled Nordic face. He was a prolific actor in supporting roles but was most often cast as German soldiers in such films as WHERE EAGLES DARE, THE BLUE MAX, OPERATION CROSSBOW, THE HEROES OF TELEMAR... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Second Hand Kisses (1931) | 5 | 0 | "Second Hand Kisses" is a very strange comedy short, as its plot is just bizarre and something I can pretty much guarantee you've never seen! James Finlayson and Louise Fazenda play two folks who are about to marry. However, each has a child and they haven't told their fiance about the kid! To make it weirder, both pla... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Three Smart Boys (1937) | 3 | 0 | Alfalfa and Spanky hear that their teacher wants the day off but also hear the school superintendent tell her that aside from an epidemic, she cannot have the day off. What the boys don't hear is a moment later--when the superintendent has a change of heart and lets her have the day off anyway. But, the boys decide the... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Tuba Tooter (1932) | 3 | 0 | I noticed some other reviewers liked this and several other Tom & Jerry cartoons...though I strongly disagree. No, I am NOT talking about the marvelous cat and mouse cartoons made by MGM but the earlier Tom & Jerry cartoons made by Van Beuren Studio. This one, in particular, did not impress me and I found it a bit tedi... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Studio One: Abraham Lincoln (1952) Season 4, Episode 37 | 5 | 0 | This episode of "Studio One" is an impressive looking biography of Abraham Lincoln from the time he accepted the Republican nomination in 1960 until just before he left to go to Ford's Theater...and to his death. For a TV production, it has very nice costumes and the folks who made it must have worked hard to make this... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Border Phantom (1937) | 2 | 0 | This is without a doubt the worst Bob Steele film I have ever seen. While I wouldn't go so far as to give it a 1 like bkoganbing did, I sure thought it was terrible. What's worse is that some of Bob Steele's westerns were quite good, so I knew he was capable of much, much better.The film is set in the modern day and is... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Test Tube Babies (1948) | 1 | 0 | TEST TUBE BABIES is a sleazy and horrid little film that is actually much worse than Ed Wood's "masterpiece", PLAN 9! In every conceivable way (like the pun?), it's worse--the acting, the writing, the directing, the sets and the stripping (yes, I did say "stripping").This film purports to be an educational film that is... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Animation Show 2005 (2005 Video) | 5 | 0 | I was a huge fan of the first Animation Show disk, so I was sure to see this second collection. However, I was very disappointed because the films just weren't very funny--as they tended towards "arsty-fartsy" films that just made my head hurt.One of the biggest disappointments was the virtual absence of Don Hertzfeldt... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | The Wet Parade (1932) | 3 | 0 | THE WET PARADE is the sort of old fashioned film that looked old and out of date even when it came out in 1932. In so many ways, this film is a carryover from the early silent anti-drinking melodramas of the first decade of the twentieth century--complete with ridiculously one-dimensional characters and a very heavy-ha... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Zigoto as a Station Master (1912) | 5 | 0 | Clément Mégé's recurring character 'Calino' appears in yet another short film from Jean Durand, entitled "Calino, Station Master". For no apparent reason, the idiot Calino has been made head of the local train station. Given that he's not only an idiot but knows nothing about trains, he makes a huge mess of it. Unfortu... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Wings and the Woman (1942) | 5 | 0 | Amy Johnson was a female aviator who isn't well known here in the States today. Considering her exploits, it's hard to understand this and I can only assume he's more famous back in her native Britain.This story is about the life and career of Amy Johnson, an early aviator who established many records with her flying. ... | negative | 0 |
MartinHafer | Pinky and the Brain: A Pinky & the Brain Christmas (1995)
Season 1, Episode 8 | 5 | 0 | "Pinky and the Brain" was a wonderful cartoon series--one of my favorites ever. However, I am not a "Kool-Aid drinker" who automatically says that EVERY episode was gold and that the show was perfect. I have Pinky and Brain statues, stuffed figures and even a commemorative plate--so I am obviously a fan. But, I still w... | negative | 0 |
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