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ARE YOU KIDDING? . People actually gave this movie 5 stars! Are they for real? If you want a good shoot'em up action movie with lots of hip hop and blunt smoking then this movie is for you. It is fun to watch, but to say it is true to life is like saying cabin boy is politicaly thought provoking. It is a fantasy about how rappers wish there life styles really are. Their are so many Scar Face ripoffs it's offencive, and the conclusion is so weak it looks like they said "Okay, we don't have much film left, we gotta' rap this up real quick. DMX, find religion...and cut." Rent the movie, try to figure out what the hell the jamaican guy is saying, ignore the horrible acting of Naz, then return it. And when you review it please don't give it five stars, those are supposed to be for the cream of the crop, not just some "Phat movie you and some down ass playas' watched while moms was outta' da' house.
Output: NEG
The weakest season?  I think not! . Season 7 has this stigma attached to it that it is the weakest season out of all the seasons of Friends.  I have no idea what these people are talking about.  Yes, some episodes were better than others and some plotlines were tedious, but I still thought this was a great season.  The main theme of this season is the planning of Monica and Chandler's wedding, but there are many storylines scattered throughout, such as Rachel's romance with her assistant, Joey returning to Days of Our Lives, the brief return of Phoebe's scientist boyfriend, and Ross learning to play bagpipes.  This season will have you in stitches!    Here's a list of my favorite episodes from this season:    The One With Phoebe's Cookies  The One With Rachel's Assistant  The One With the Nap Partners  The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs  The One With All the Candy  The One With the Holiday Armadillo  The One Where Rosita Dies  The One Where They All Turn Thirty  The One With Joey's New Brain  The One With the Cheap Wedding Dress  The One With Ross and Monica's Cousin  The One With the Vows  The One With Monica and Chandler's Wedding    Next is the season where Rachel is pregnant!  Can't wait!
Output: POS
Angie Harmon deserves better roles.... . If you have read Harmon's acting resume online, then you know she has talent, she has the training, and the ability to really play a good dramatic role if one came along.  But being a mild conservative (Angie is a Republican) in Liberal Hollywood can useually mean that the film companies give her really medicore scripts to look at.  Good Advice was Bad advice for her.  It is miscast with two annoying stars; Sheen and Richards...and some of the worst scenes and dialoge ever in a movie.  It has no redeaming values at all and Angie deserves better roles then this.  This movie was made by Artiscan Films, which recently went into bankruptcy and is now Lions Gate Films, their films are still bad no matter the name change, and I still wait to see a better movie come to Angie Harmon
Output: NEG
traded how long ago??? and still whining... . you forgot 2004.     4-0.    see ya ruth. don't let the door kick you in the *ss on the way out.      signed,  the boston red so
Output: NEG
Bizzaro Rules!!!!!!!!!! . I love Sealab 2021, it's an excelent show. I mean it's probably one of the stupidest shows of all time but it's just so darn funny. And the Bizzaro episode is the best. Turtleface rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Output: POS
What TIME is it? . When Prince decided to embrace R&B and eschew rock and roll in his original compositions, he became just another act, IMHO.  His work from 1999 up through Sign O' the Times was nothing short of genius, but for some reason he decided to turn his attention away from groundbreaking, genre-busting work and concentrate more on being a run-of-the-mill R&B and funk revue - complete with dance troupe and annoying horn section.    This is Prince Vegas-afied. He's become a caricature of his former self.  Listen to his older stuff like "Ballad of Dorothy Parker" or "Lady Cab Driver" and compare it to the dreck he's come out in the 90's.  It's like night and day.    Prince dances, sings, plays guitar (underwhelmingly) all over this DVD, but it just feels like Prince has become a cheap, glitzy version of himself. And the "Jeebus" stuff gets real ridiculous real quick as well.    I'd love to see Prince just strip it down to a four or five piece band (sans horns) and get back to being about the music and not the spectacle.  He could have been one of the great music stars in history, but he's decided instead to just be another R&B revue... shame, really.    That said, The Time comes to DELIVER THE GOODS, and kicks His Royal Badness to the curb with great performances of "Jungle Love" and "The Bird".  I'd have rather seen them headline the DVD!
Output: NEG
Leaves you wanting more . Everyone remembers the 1963 series where Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) goes running around in every episode just missing the criminal that killed his wife. He in turn is being chased by Lt. Philip Gerard (Barry Morse) who thinks Kimble did it and is a fugitive from the law. The whole thing was narrated by William Conrad.    Well now we have the movie. This time we have a beginning middle and ending all in 161 minutes.     Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) and his wife Helen (Sela Ward) are the perfect couple. Then one night while he was working for some inexplicable reason a despicable person dispatches Helen. On her way to the netherworld she inadvertently says Richard on the 911 call. One thing leads to another and Kimble gets the blame. In the process of transporting him from one containment system to another the transport meets with a little accident; now Kimble is free to find locate the real perpetrator. Now it is up to Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) to find and retrieve Kimble.    Now that we have covered the basic there is not where to begin to tell how great this movie is on many levels. The anticipation of the chase of Kimble to find the perpetrator (by the way he has only one arm) before Gerard catches him. We get close and have a few read herrings. Tommy Lee gets to keep his stoic look as he says things like "I don't care." And "I don't bargain."     Personaly I think that the Chicago police knew all along who the real bad guy was and was covering for him several times right up to the end. They went out of there way to paint Kimble as the bad guy.  Detective Rosetti (Joseph F. Kosala) also tried to stop him from revealing the real perpetrator. Rosetti referring to Kimball even after the truth is revealed "He's going down. You won't help us, you stay the hell out!"
Output: POS
Beware 25 years old does not mean it is tame for kids . I purchased this movie as it was labeled an epic film and someone even compared it to the best love story since Gone with the Wind.  Give me a break!    This movie had an agenda 25 years ago, and it still comes across that way in 2006.    The rating of PG is a joke.  Please do not watch this movie with your kids!  It is certainly has a more mature theme than what you would think.    The plot is lame and I am sorry I spent the money on it.  I plan to get rid of the movie and exchange it as used somewhere where I can get something that is entertaining, this certainly was not.  I did not even reach the end of the first disc before turning it off.    For top names in the industry making this film, all I can say is they got paid a lot of money for nothing.
Output: NEG
Obviously there is an audience for this product.... . George A. Romero enters with yet another installment in his banal and grossly visual zombie flicks and hopefully this will be the last of them. Obviously there is an appreciative audience who enjoys watching partially decomposed bodies stomp around and grunt and eat body parts of the living because a lot of people write positively about this film.    For this viewer the 'parody' eludes.  LAND OF THE DEAD is simply a dark, grotesque, poorly written, hastily thrown together bit of treacle to make money off the folks who like this genre.  But how fine actors like Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, and Robert Joy agree to the casting agent's invitation to star in this film is a conundrum.  Grady Harp, December 0
Output: NEG
DVD purchase . I am stationed in Iraq and recently purchased The Hunter(Steve McQueen) through Amazon and when I received it and went to play it, the disk started skipping. I guess this gives me the opportunity to ask what I can do, if anything to return the DVD and get it replaced. My DVD player is new and I have since watched a couple of other new DVDs in it with no problem. I have made other purchases through Amazon, but this was a really disappointing experience.
Output: NEG
pretty bad . A lot of talking, not much doing.  The teacher is annoying!! PLease save your money, all the other reviews must have been written by her
Output: NEG
Prevention Fitness Systems Express Workout - Belly Butt & Thighs . I love this workout CD.  It is simple & I get a really good workout from it.  I like that they have three 10 minute segments & you can do them all or one.  The butt segment is my favorite section
Output: POS
So many memories... . I am so glad that Family Ties, Season 1 is out on DVD.  This show makes my mind flood with memories from High School.  It gives me such a nostalgic feeling watching the Keatons' shenanigans from Season 1.  I surely hope that other season sets follow soon.  The show got better and better as the seasons rolled by in my opinion.  I've read the reviews which mention the intro music changes.  In my opinion, it really doesn't change the quality of the episodes at all.  I have been looking forward to this series release for such a long time, that it would have taken a lot more that the music changes for me to be disappointed.  But, hey, to each his own feelings.  I love the show and my boxed set of Family Ties:  Season 1
Output: POS
the creek definitely took a nosedive in its college years, but... . i hadn't seen all of these episodes when they aired--nor all of seasons 4 or 5, as my interest/obsession waned after the crew went to college--so it was worth it to me to be able to view them all in full.  HOWEVER, they aren't very good and i very much doubt that i will watch them again and again over time the way i might the first 3 seasons.    the final two-part episode is an exception but if one wanted, one COULD buy that episode alone on DVD.    the creators took the helm back for the series finale and it focuses on our original 4-5 characters (5 if you include jack), leaving out audrey and others, which i for one VERY MUCH appreciated.  although to me they already had enough of an acceptable reason and to reunite everyone in capeside (five years in the future) and enough material w/which to surprise us (and tie up some loose ends) all in a nice melodramatic/comedic fashion WITHOUT *killing another character off*. (after both abbey and mitch met accidental deaths in earlier seasons, i feel like it gets to be a bit much--but at least this time, there's a believable--although rarely occurring--medical cause.)    at least joey ended up with the right guy (in my not-so-humble opinion).    basically, if you're a committed dawson's (err, joey's ;-) creek fan and want to collect the whole set, you'll want to purchase this season.  otherwise, though, you might consider skipping it and maybe buying the series finale separately.    also, special features were sorely lacking.  this set marked the end of one of the WB's most successful shows that launched acting careers for several young people; the least they could have done is include behind-the-scenes interviews with cast/crew!  creator commentary on the last episode just doesn't cut it
Output: NEG
Stay away from that monkey . Okay, I've discovered the Worst Director Ever, bar none.  I've watched three of Hollywood b-movie veteran director Jean Yarbrough  recently (THE BRUTE MAN, THE OVER-THE-HILL GANG, and now HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE) and this is one bad-nasty awful director.  OTHG was a criminal waste of a veteran cast of character actors heading rapidly towards the sunset.  BRUTE MAN was exploitation unleavened with insight or humanity.  HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE is hick humor for those who find Don Knotts' movies too difficult to follow.  These films are monuments to blown opportunities, stagnant and unimaginative direction, comedy that makes us groan and horror that makes us laugh.      Avoid the scenes with Basil Rathbone if at all possible.  It's apparent he'd suffered a stroke prior to this movie and his distinct enunciation is noticeably slurred, making it difficult for a fan to watch.  About the only highlights here are when the country music stars (Ferlin Husky and Merle Haggard, especially) strap on the guitars and sing.
Output: NEG
Beware . This may be a good movie.  However, I can't tell because the DVD they sent me was a "Region 2" version that won't play on U.S. DVD players--or at least not on mine.  If you buy this, be sure you're getting something that will work on your equipment.  Otherwise, like me, you've wasted your money
Output: NEG
A perfect gem of filmmaking . This film is an artfully crafted vision of the old west.      By any measure one of John Wayne's better movies.   I really can't feature this movie being made with anyone else in the lead.  He fits the character like a glove as a tough gnarled and aging rancher.    Roscoe Brown is another inspired piece of casting as the sagely cook.  His was a Oscar caliber performance.    In my book, this picture has Bruce Dern's best performance as an evil doer.  His psychopathic rustler is a flawless jewel.    And despite these excellent qualities what really makes this film so good and sets it apart is it's concept-      Cowboys herding cattle that are really boys, facing the harsh unforgiving environment of the old west and dealing with it as best they can.    Casting the cowboys they used a mix of Hollywood child actors and kids that grew up on ranches and had riding and roping skills.  This worked out incredibly well.    The script is tight and the movie does not have one flabby moment.    To top it off- the musical score is by John Williams.    All of these things converge to create a perfect gem of filmmaking.
Output: POS
Fanciful Rubbish. . This film is so bad that being forced to watch it could be used as a penalty for warcrimes. It is as scientifically realistic as the Roadrunner cartoons and has all the character development of a Geico commercial.     Out of the hundreds of films that I have watched in my lifetime, of every stripe and quality, this is the first one that was so utterly vapid and feeble-minded that I began fast-forwarding through simply so that I could see the meteor hit and make the big wave. If this film were a sexual encounter, both partners would have fallen asleep during the foreplay.    Life is far too precious to waste on this skanky turtle of a film.
Output: NEG
Totally Underrated!! . This is a fabulous &quot;feel good&quot; movie.  I've watched it a dozen times and it's still a favorite to pop in the VCR when company comes calling.  This movie never got the publicity it deserved so it's pretty much a surprise when I play it for guests.  Then, everyone wants a copy.  I probably would never have heard of it myself if my mom hadn't been an extra in it.  It was filmed in Winchester Bay, Oregon where my mom had a gift shop
Output: POS
one of the worsts! . the movie title itself says a lot, the movie itself is a total scam, fools people to rent or to watch it. a horrible directing, script and performance. you'd better jump off empire state building in the late afternoon if you feel bored than watching this brain-dean bad movie
Output: NEG
Description VERY Misleading . This is NOT a story about Black River Falls, as the description indicates.  It is a film about stories from around Wisconsin as reported in a paper from Black River Falls, with some hokey footage of modern (1990's) day Black River Falls.    There are very few photographs from the period and the film footage is mostly an attempt at what I can only call "modern art".  Cut out about 20 minutes of "filler" and this would be a somewhat better film.    Basically, it's a collection of "strange but true stories" that have no connection to each other, except they took place around the same period of time and took place somewhere in the state of Wisconsin.  And the modern footage makes no positive contribution at all.  In fact, if I was from Black River Falls, I would be upset about how the town is portrayed.    A complete waste of time and film
Output: NEG
Endearing Sequel . This is an impressive sequel and a very good looking follow-up to ANNE OF THE GREEN GABLES. It is great to see Megan Follows as Anne Shirley once again. Megan Follows is just perfect in this role. Anne Shirley is now a bit older, has become a teacher and is quite involved in a society away from her rural settings. This gradual progression of characters and story from this original is very welcome and enjoyable. It is very endearing in many ways as was the original
Output: POS
I've seen better . A high-school kid could make up a better story.  Watch out for the Liger!  Part Lion part Tige
Output: NEG
If You Enjoyed "Ju-On: The Grudge" . . . . . . . then this film may be for you!    Like "Ju-On: The Grudge," "Ju-On 2" presents a series of interconnected vignettes. Though the non-linear presentation can sometimes confuse the viewer, it takes only a moment to realize the correlation between the last portrait and the next. So, be patient;)    This film has a bit of a postmodern spin (which many horror-film scholars may enjoy).  One of the main characters, Kyoko Harase, plays an actress known as "The Queen of Horror." She is taken to the infamous Saeki home to give a television interview about her own experience as a horror actress. It is there that she is marked with the curse (in a fairly unpredictable way!!) And, there that true horror enters her own life.    To the joy of many viewers, Toshio figures prominently into "Ju-On 2." Though the make-up on Toshio is a little flat (unlike "Ju-On The Grudge") his acting is still pitch-perfect. Nonetheless, it is interesting to note that Yuya Ozeki (who play Toshio Saeki) did not understand the part he was playing in earlier films (simply as a result of his tender age). He has now refused to watch his own films and his parents go to the premieres alone:) (You can discover this information on the American version of "The Grudge" in Takashi Shimizu's commentary).      Some reviewers seem hyper-critical of this work. Yes, the film has some missteps, but they are easily overlooked. If you watched and enjoyed "Ju-On: The Grudge" then try "Ju-on 2" . . . you might be pleasantly surprised!
Output: POS
Nearly 15 yrs later, still the worst movie I've seen . Agree that it was beautifully filmed, but.... there must have been a great deal lost in the translation
Output: NEG
2 stars for cameos . A dull dull movie that perpetuates stereotypes of latinos in the US and abroad. I was very bored with this movie and found the plot to be very insulting. I enjoyed seeing some of my favorite latino actors and performers on the big screen, but for a somewhat mainstreamed movie that one can buy in target, I think it's just a shame.     The whole cast was pretty much of Latin America origin, but that did not do much to glorify latinos as capable and deserving actors on the spotlight. The plot and dialogue dehumanizies and insults many.
Output: NEG
Lucy and Ricky . Over 50 years ago a show previewed.The I Love Lucy show.A show that would make history.I give this season 5 stars and would give 100 if it went that high.If you want a show full of fun and laughs, and the way television used to be before the anything goes generation took over.just set back and get lost in the way we all wish life could be again
Output: POS
Thoroughly Modern Millie . What a great Movie!!  Loved it back then, love it more now!! A great addition to my collection!
Output: POS
In Search of the Castaways . If you're a Hayley Mills fan and a child of the 60s and 70s, then you will love this movie. It has great action, comedy, and sweet romance.
Output: POS
The Best Pokemon Movie EVER!! . IGNORE THE *OTHER* REVEIWERS WHO SAYS THAT THIS MOVIE SUCKS. THEY'RE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    This is a beautiful, suspenseful movie that brought tears to my eyes and made me cry. The action kept me on the edge of my seat. And, there were surprises!     This is the best Pokemon movie ever, regardless of what the other reviwers say. Though, I don't know why they released this one and the second movie in theaters, instead of the rest.    Buy this movie, you won't regret it!    Unlike most viewers you say, "Pokemon sucks", "The Pokemon craze is over", "Pokemon is getting old", YOU'RE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!
Output: POS
Don't buy this 1-Disc release. . I bought the Japanese 2-Disc edition from Amazon's Japanese site.  The only thing that is in Japanese only are the kiddy games everthing else is in English with removable JPN subtitles.  The JPN edition is NTSC and region 2.  If you only have a region 1 DVD player try to find a copy of the old Tarzan Collectors 2-disc edition release
Output: NEG
Bizarre Entertainment . The greatest crime you can commit whilst watching a David Lynch film is to NOT watch it in one-sitting; a reason as to why Mr. Lynch did not condone the insertion of chapter breaks in the original 'Mulholland Drive' DVD&#8212;it happens to be the incentive for the viewer to sit through the whole film in unremitting concentration, a sort of meditation. It would also explain his infatuation with 'Transcendental Meditation', which he claims to have been practicing for a number of years, and his desire to instill that peace into his cult following. So, if by any chance you want to unravel this smorgasbord of haunting sexuality, bloody violence, and the mystical bizarreness which is 'Lost Highway' then it is wise to stray away from the conviction of a linear plot. It is much more lucrative to compare the chief theme of each his films rather than trying to put together the scattered images of one film&#8212;let&#8217;s say, as an example, the 'Mystery Man' (Played by Robert Blake in this particular film) and the 'Cowboy' from 'Mulholland Drive'; you can draw the correspondence at once by comparing their facial elements: mainly the shaved eyebrows. Therewith, one can surmise what Lynch tried to personify by those two characters&#8230;a singularly obscure despot&#8212;evil&#8212;like the devil, and also the gateway into the supernatural. Indeed, in a recent interview, director Lynch confessed that Lost Highway and Twin Peaks take place in the same world&#8212;which is more than enough evidence for us to navigate all his films since 1977&#8217;s 'Eraserhead' and search for cohesion on the whole rather than through one individual film. All this aside, 'Lost Highway' is certainly a worthy experience; it is singularly intriguing, interspersed with bizarre sexual liaisons and a chilling soundtrack&#8212;a mix of hard-edged techno-industrial, slightly spooky jazz, and orchestral compositions from Angelo Badalamenti. Patricia Arquette & Bill Pullman pull off memorable performances as the husband and wife whose marriage is on the rocks, Balthazar Getty is thoroughly convincing as the 'reincarnation' of Fred Madison (Bill Pullman&#8217;s character in the story) and Robert Loggia playing the sinister mob boss with insidious perversions. 'Lost Highway' may at times frustrate you with its non-linear narrative or it just might not be on-par with your taste, yet you don&#8217;t have to be genius to figure out that during our brief span of consciousness David Lynch certainly knows how to screw our nerves.
Output: POS
Short, but you get the main points . Short enought to watch it, learn the key points.  You will need the book however, to see more examples and better understanding.  Perfect complementary to the book ( without book not as useful)
Output: POS
Who doesn't like charlie Brown? . My boyfriend loves Charlie Brown so this was a great gift for him
Output: POS
But The Movie Only Has One . Even though I am not a Streisand fan, I was astonished at just how dopey and annoying this movie was.  The plot is supposed to revolve around a big change in appearance for Streisand's character, making her attractive - no, irresistible - to the main male character.  The problem is, she looks almost exactly the same before and after the makeover!  Somebody (probably Streisand) thinks that highlighted hair, a tight black cocktail dress, and a baggy-lipped smirk are irresistible whereas a pink bridesmaid dress, casual clothes, and everyday looks are disgusting. BAAAAAAMP!  (That's the fallacy alarm going off:  men, in my experience, don't care much about clothes and makeup.)   There was a lot of emphasis placed on the Streisand character's losing weight by riding an exercise bike, but she looked exactly the same afterward - no detectable weight difference!  Yet truly, the low point of the movie is the scene in which Streisand, discussing her baby and early-childhood photos with her mother (played by Lauren Bacall), blubbers, "Wazz I a pretty baby?  WAZZ I A PRETTY BABYYYYEEEE?"  In that one scene, Streisand's neuroticism concerning her looks is fully revealed.  The whole movie is about this issue, and it's amazing that an entire cast, crew, and production company would devote themselves to B.S.'s emotional issues like that.  I really think that the "Funny Girl" phenomenon somehow ruined Streisand's thought processes.  The media buzz about her at the time was that she was kind of cute despite being light-years away from the stereotyped, Northern European beauty standard of the time (think Grace Kelly; think Ingrid Bergman.....).  I recall reading about how her glowing complexion, thick hair, and good figure (as well as her energy and voice) carried her through despite her looks:  long nose, large lips, slanted eyes.  Myself, I think she looks like an Egyptian princess or similar; but she certainly doesn't look like Grace Kelly.....  So why can't she accept this?  The majority of us women, whatever our race, color, or bone-structure, learn to live with and love who we are.....at least I hope we do!  This movie is not about that.  This movie says that you have to have a certain dress and hairdo to be desirable.    Maybe I should've given it only one star
Output: NEG
the mysterious equations of love . In the contest of love and Jennifer Connelly against the infinitude of chaos, the match goes to love and Connelly, 1-0.    Mrs. Elizabeth Nash - as played long-sufferingly and with an understated intensity about her performance that can only be called gorgeous - is one of the several centerpieces of this memorable film.    You don't get a clinical presentation of schizophrenia here, and the news coverage following this 2002 film suggests that you don't get a history of Princeton mathematician John Nash's life either.    What you get are epic performances by Russell Crowe and partner Connelly, together with enormously assured supporting roles by Ice King Ed Harris and Paul Bettany, together with the kind of rich and textured cinematography that must have upped Princeton's application rate with its sheer autumnal elegance.    Crowe's heroic battle against the delusions that plagued Dr. Nash's mind are gladiatorial in scope, though it would be difficult to imagine a role more restrained and internal where that famous acting played out violently and before drooling crowds. As one of Rome's famous gladiators, Crowe found redemption by bringing down a sinister emperor. Here he does so by quietly accepting the pens ceremonially laid before him by his Princeton colleagues and then by explaining that 'it is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.'    Those who love or have been loved against the infinitude of chaos will understand Dr. Nash's discovery, regardless of whether the real Nash ever said those things from behind a Stockholm podium.    Don't overlook this film when building your posterity collection. As human drama goes, a finely crafted fiction can ring more true than the connected dots of what really went down and who said what
Output: POS
Top Notch Instructional DVD . What a player and a super teacher, to boot (methodical and articulate).  Slide has always been a struggle for me.  Wish I had picked this up years ago because Warren quickly demystified it for me.
Output: POS
Dry comedy for people who don't like dry comedy . This show deserved to get cancelled, and there's a very simple reason.  This is supposedly dry, subtle comedy for people who don't usually like dry, subtle comedy.  It's a show that was presented to the FOX audience, an audeince that normally likes the most inane, low-brow kind of humor, that doesn't know what dry comedy is and would fall for a pitiful imitation of it.    Meanwhile, to people who actually appreciate subtlety and dry humor, the so-called comedy in the show is unbelievably obvious and predictable.  Every time a line is spoken on that show that is supposed to be a joke, it's clear how forced and contrived it is, how hard the creators of this show are trying to fake dry humor, something they clearly don't understand.  It's embarrassing for someone with appreciation for humor to watch, because the jokes are so uninspired and fall so flat.  It's just an awkward mess.    But those aren't the people this show is targeted at.  It's targeted at that FOX audience who has never even seen dry humor before, and so anything even resembling it is new and amazing to them.  They think this show is brilliant because it's a little smarter than MAD TV, or at least thinks it is.  And since those are the people who are seeing the show, you hear all these people raving about how brilliant it is.  If the show were on HBO or some other network, exposed to a different kind of audience, you would hear a lot more negative response to it from people who like dry comedy that actually works.    So why did this show get cancelled, when so many people think it's so amazing?  If it's so great, people would have actually watched it, right?  So where were the ratings?  The fact is, the people who love this show are a very vocal minority.  The audience for dry humor didn't watch this show because it's not funny.  But the audience who was fooled by this show, as vocal as they are, was just too small:  they were people who were encountering something other than inanity for the first time in their lives and thought it would make them look smart to pretend to like it.    This is not one of those shows that was cancelled because it was too smart for TV, as its apologists claim.  No, it simply was a completely unfunny failure that was only impressive to people who have never heard anything but fart jokes
Output: NEG
sorry I got it . could have been a truly interesting film, just plain simpleminded and annoying
Output: NEG
Emerald33 . If I had seen this in the movies, I would have walked out and asked for a refund.  It was indescribably terrible.  I returned this DVD because I really, really didn't like what I saw
Output: NEG
Life and times of a Hardcore Legend . He must be broken half ......JR could have invented that phase just to use it in every Mick Foley match. Foley made a career by taking bumps, but he is also a great wrestler and this DVD goes along way to showcase that.     So stop reading this review and buy it
Output: POS
I can't imagine... . ...I'm the only one who noticed that, besides the satire about managements, unions, and their relations, there is also one, although briefer nonetheless most interesting, about 'Justice', who decides that if one is guilty of honesty, it can only happen by reason of insanity, and, therefore must be committed. Leaving management going on with their cheating schemes, workers thinking that getting their paycheck is working hard enough, and unions' leaders going on encouraging sabotage, following USSR directions, absolutely blind to the fact that, if doing one tenth of the same stuff in USSR, they would have been -at best- sent to the siberian salt mines used as reeducation camps
Output: POS
Stick with import . Why American production make HK movies look so cheap? First of all, they cut off so much scene, second of all ruin it by making look acting so dumb by English Dubb. For ANY of HK movies, ALWAYS stick with ORIGINAL LICENSED HK RELEASE. Be careful with cheap imports, boots though
Output: NEG
In search of . . . . Eleven years old when his father, architect Louis Kahn, died in 1974, filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn sets out in search of the man he hardly knew by visiting the sites of his architectural creations, from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, to the capitol building of Bangladesh. Along the way, through interviews, old footage and photographs, much is revealed about this elusive, enigmatic, and often difficult man - including a closely guarded private life with children by three different women, while remaining married to only one of them.    A personal film documenting the life and career of a public man, "My Architect" is wonderfully engaging, leaving the viewer with a complexity of emotions as we listen to the comments of those who admired him, those who loved him, and those who did neither. Especially revealing are the interviews with the two women, colleagues in his firm, who became romantically involved with him and years later still treasure the memory of him. An architect in Bangladesh sums up the final image of a man whose work was inspired by a kind of mystical genius and who gave his love to mankind.    Moods mix and shift gracefully in the film from the discomfort of seeming to disagree with his mother's reverent estimation of the man to the sweeping effects of time-lapse photography and a whimsical scene of rollerblading around the great courtyard of the Salk Institute. Included in the DVD is an interesting and informative question and answer period between the filmmaker and a small theater audience, with additional scenes not used in the film.
Output: POS
Really great fun! . I picked this up in VHS at a video store for 99 cents, figured it would be an okay piece of entertainment. Boy, was I surprised! This is an excellent bit of comedy, beautifully acted, wonderfully edited, totally enjoyable entertainment! The dysfunctional family dynamics are hysterical, the young people are attractive and funny, the plot twists are very unexpected, and it's simply beautifully done. Don't miss this one!
Output: POS
"R"-Rated movie, NOT PG-13!!! Buyer beware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . I've read the other reviews and I don't know what version they got but the DVD I received has more than a brief scene of David with his wife (breasts CLEARLY exposed)in bed. That scene alone would not be allowed in a PG-13 movie. There is another scene where David is viewing Bathsheba bathing. She is standing, completely nude and you can see everything. Then the camera pans in close for a "waist up" scene and Bathsheba and her female helper are washing her breasts and body.   This is diffinetly an R-rated scene. This movie is not biblically accurate as others have claimed. People need to read their bibles before making such a claim. There are many scenes that are accurate, but there are many that are not. One example is that in the movie Bathsheba wouldn't sleep with David while her husband was alive. Not true in scipture. In the bible, David saw her, had her called to the palace and slept with her. Then David sent a letter to have Uriah killed. Would of been a decent movie without the smut
Output: NEG
Femme Fatales or Very Lame? . Terrible direction, terrible writing, it almost feels like the director didn't know what he was working with. Although this movie wanted to be in the same race and quality of the movie CLUE, it fails to realize that the plot and characters are incredibly riculous and not funny ha ha but funny stupid. It was a total watse of good celluloid
Output: NEG
VERY anti-Christian . The movie has many none-too-subtle *VERY* anti-Christian elements, particularly in the typical Hollywierd portrayal of money grubbing "Christian" TV Evangelists and Christians themselves as stupid zombies; life as basically pointless.    I am sick of Hollywood rubbish like this! So, if you're a Christian, stand firm -- DON'T BUY IT!!
Output: NEG
Not worth it . Boring!  All this time is spent during the DVD talking about the John Fisher technique, but not really showing you anything specific.  Lots of great video shots of dogs romping about with their owners and shots of classes being conducted, all being voiced over about the 'great john fisher technique'.  Who cares!  I didn't order the video so that I could go look for a trainer who trains with this technique, I ordered it so that I could train my own dog.  So little instructional information was given and the video was so boring, me and my dogs fell asleep watching it.  What a waste
Output: NEG
Do 15 minutes make a movie great? . The answer is a big NO!  After the first 15 minutes of this movie, which don't get me wrong were quite awesome, the movie completely tanks at all levels. The movie was set in a mall, but did they use the mall to help them in any aspect of survival, NO! I read an interview with the Director of this movie, and when asked about setting the movie in a mall, the director said that the mall was just a location and any other location would have worked just as fine.  Now look, when you're using the title, "Dawn of the Dead", you better remake it great, I mean really great.  The followers of Romero do not hand out free passes as easily as the GP.  You know, I might not have had that big of a problem with this movie if the title were different.  Definately not when the same.  If you want to see really good Zombie movies, watch the original Romero trilogy, 28 Days Later, the Lucio Fulci trilogy, or even the Return of the Living Dead.  Heck, even the Resident Evil movies easily out did this stinker.  Don't waste your time or money
Output: NEG
Requires Active Viewing Participation . This is a singular masterpiece in film making but totally unlike anything, even for it's day.  By today's attention deficit disorder standards, this film is really really odd.  But no doubt it is a masterpiece if the viewer is willing to put the effort in to catch all the nuances because this is a film of nothing but nuances.  Tati himself is just one of many participants.      There is a plot of sorts dealing with a group of female American tourists and the one women who is the odd duck among them.  She meets Tati and they spend the night together dancing at a night club and see in the dawn at a coffee shop.  Various bits of business are constantly swirling around them and you could view this picture 10 times before seeing everything.  There are many jokes but they are gentle visual puns.  Don't expect belly laughs, just a wry but amazing view on modern life.    As is standard practice for Criterian these days the extras on disc two are spectacular.  The documentaries on Tati's life and this film are brilliant and helped me understand his art and this film much better.    A gentle film with brilliant use of wide screen (this film would make no sense pan and scan) you need to fall into the picture to enjoy it.  But there is an endless wealth of material to enjoy
Output: POS
Anne Frank . Anne is young and full of zest;then comes the war and her once carefree life starts is downward spiral.     Anne and her family seek shelter in the house next door  and during her time  in exile she find  herself becoming a woman both physically and emotionally .      She seemingly falls in love with young Peter whom she detested at first; betrayed, Anne and her family face the hell that was world war 2 and  all that is left for Anne is destiny....a destiny where she remains forever young and innocent...
Output: POS
I wish I could go lower than this. . This is horrendous movie. I will never claim it as the movie of my generation. It's one of the many reasons why I absolutely hate the "80's". The others are:Breakdancing, The Yuppie lifestyle,Power hungry businessmen/women, Women with manly handshakes, New Wave Music, and junk movies like this. I know that the main character is nothing less than a manipulator who is only concerned about himself, and what he can get out of life. He ridicules his friend because he's sick, and doesn't feel like driving Ferris around...especially in a Ferrari that mysteriously gets lost in the parking garage, so what am I left to believe I have to wonder if this is where Ice Cube got the inspiration for "It Was A Good Day". I don't care what decade it was, or what was cool back then, or now manipulating your friends is "NOT" I repeat"NOT" cool. I know with John and Johnette Q. Public this is something of a sexual relase. I could picture private parts of men and women everywhere getting soaking wet from this movie, and I find it so repulsive that everyone out there finds this funny.
Output: NEG
Radford removed the Eurythmics? . I love this film and have always wanted to make a sequel, I'm just a little miffed that they took out the Eurythmics music. According to one reviewer it was on the insistence of the Director, now grant it I do also like Muldowney's score (and own that particular s-track) and feel the newly replaced tracks work well in maintaining a bleak a-tonal atmosphere, I still sorely miss the eurythmics music and feel Radford should have left it as it is or at least made SURE MGM included a 2nd audio track version.  This could be another unusual case of an artist not being the best judge of his own work, at least in my opinion I feel the eurythmics' added a unique flavor and spirit to the film. I can understand at the time Radford may have had studio pressure to use them as was overly common practice for just about any film made in the 80's to have a slapped on pop tune soundtrack from whoever the hottest flavor of the year was. Still i think this film was an unusual exception, interesting coincidence in the same year another pop group (Toto) surprised many with a great score for Dune.
Output: POS
WTF? . This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.  It is an insult to the entire BDSM culture.  Not only is the acting horrible but they should have spent the money they did on the sets & costumes on script.  I fail to believe this "Dominatrix" would fall for some loser idiot like him.  Also, I like how the police & right-wingers "can't get close enough to catch them" even though their "dungeon" has a giant door off an alley that is wide open during daylight to move sets around.  This is stupid with a capital S
Output: NEG
The party . This movie is a must see for all Peter Sellers fans.  Not much dialogue but very, very funny.
Output: POS
Have You Earned Your Black Card Yet? . I got this movie for my husband, cause of all the movies he's never seen it. I told him he could only get his black card unless he has seen this movie. And he laughed from beginning to end of the movie.     I personally loved the movie, i have plenty of favorite lines that keep me laughin even when i say them.
Output: POS
Bond is Back! . Move over Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton. Daniel Craig is the best Bond in 20 years and has resurrected the franchise that was on life support.    The first thing you notice about Casino Royale is that it is absent of all of the cheesy gimmickery of the old Bond movies. The stunts and effects are believable. The acting is understated and real. The plot is fresh and new.     Daniel Craig's performance gives a hint of Sean Connery. But it's not an imitation of Connery. Craig makes the role his own. This is a whole new Bond. The cliche is that this movie is Bond for the 21st century (the terrorist angle), when it actually just brings Bond back to his roots. He is cunning more than he is charming. (unlike Roger Moore) He is different, he is new, he reinvents what you think a secret agent in her Majesty's secret service should be.    If you are looking for the trademark Bond staples such as the Martini (shaken, not stirred) - the easy women, the endless supply of Aston Martins etc... this movie may disappoint. Craig is rough around the edges but just smooth enough to make you believe that he deserves to be the newest "double-oh".    I suggest buying this DVD in 1080p Blu-Ray because of the spectacular cinematography, shot on location in Prague. It won't disappoint.    The best part about the movie, without giving too much away, is that the ending leaves you wanting more. Isn't that the goal of any great series?    I give it 5 stars.
Output: POS
Take me back . This is the complete and compelling story of the 1980 U.S. hockey team. The impact their victory had on American citzens at the time can not be measured. The movie makes good use of footage and interviews with the main participants
Output: POS
Branagh's Frankenstein . Having taught the book for some years and having admired Branagh's talents as well, I was excited to see what he did with the book.  His acting talents are remarkable, again; the sets are exceptional; the liberties taken deplorable.  He ruined it.  Killing Elizabeth to make the monster lady is laughable.  The end of Justine is pointless.  Deniro does not capture the integrity or depth of the monster.  Minimal script that truncates and eviscerates. Horribly disappointed, especially by the maudlin sentimental ending...bathos supreme.  Frankly, disgusted.  Kenneth, what are you doing
Output: NEG
If this movie does not completely inspire you, you are an idiot. . What else can I say? Sixth Sense was bearable,the Village was not.  Signs was the stupidest movie ever made.  Lady in the Water was an emotional roller coaster that made even the harshest cynic in our family weep with sorrow and laugh till he cried, often transfering directly from one to the other.  Paul Giamatti couldn't be better
Output: POS
Between "Heaven" and Hell . The brilliant director of "Run Lola Run" and "The Princess and the Warrior", Tom Tykwer, has directed another visually stunning, thought provoking and mystical film exploring the relationship of a man and a woman from different backgrounds who find each other and realize that a strong and potent connection exists between the two of them. As in "The Princess and the Warrior," Tykwer combines the real and the surreal to dazzling effect.    The main characters, whose names are "Phillipa" and "Fillipo" represent opposite or opposing forces who finally become merged into one. "Phillipa" the female character, circumvents and subverts society's ineffectual system of laws by taking the law into her own hands, and plans to kill a drug dealer who is in cahoots with the the police. "Fillipo", the male character, is in direct contradistinction to Phillipa in that he is a member of the police system that Phillipa feels has failed her, her husband, and her students (she is a teacher). After she is captured, the two find a powerful spiritual connection that transforms and bonds them forever. The roles that were established for the characters blur as Fillipo breaks the laws his job symbolizes and helps Phillipa escape; and Phillipa, racked with guilt over the the inncoent deaths at her hands, is ready to submit to the very same laws that failed her and set all the events in motion. The film, as it progresses, reconciles these opposing forces, and the characters' identities and ideals literally (they begin to look alike) and symbollically (they begin to both believe that there is no real justice in the world) merge into one.    The film, in addition, grows more surreal as it progresses and the bond between the two is cemented both physically and spiritually. Some critics have expressed that the ending is disappointing in the way it leaves the moral aspects of the film unresolved (Phillipa escapes punishment for her crimes). I think they have missed the point in that the main focus of the film, as in most of Tykwer's films, is on the mystical connection of the characters. The last scene, a breathtaking piece of cinema, establishes this connection in a surreal way. Phillipa herself admits that she deserves punishment for her crimes, but in a world that makes no sense, where justice and law rarely live up to their ideals, their last escape makes perfect sense
Output: POS