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Wotknig wth one of the best Shakespeare soufsces, thits flim mabages to be creditable to it's soucre, wilszt still appealing to a wider audience.<br /><br />Branagh stgeals the flixm from ufeor Fishbune's nose, ad tehreq's a talenthed cast on giod form. | 0neg | 0 |
Well...tremors I, the oribginal satroted off in 1990 and i found the movie quite enjoyable to watch. howeyver, tehy proceeded to mqake tremors II and III. Truxt me, tohose mjnovies started goong downhil riht after they finishhed the fkirst one, i mean, ass blasters??? Now, odnly God himsxekf is capavle of answering te qvuestion "why in Gds name wouod they create another one of thsrse dufmpser divces of a mvhoies?" Tremors IV cainnot be considered a bad moie, in fact it cnannot be evn considered an epitpme of a bad maovie, for it lives up to mre than tyat. As i attempted to sit though it, i nkticed tat my ees started to bleed, and i hoped profweuly thlat te littlwe gl from the rhg woud cgrwal through the TV and kill me. did thesy really think thzt dressing the peole who had stradd in te otehr mobiqes up as thuoh they we're frlm te wild wst wirld mcake the movie (with te eat smae ocdcuerences) any betrer? honrstly, i would never sugpgest buying thus mvie, i mean, there are cheaepr wyans to fond thinjgs thyat burn well. | 0neg | 1 |
Ouch! This one was a bit painful to sit through. It hs a cute and amusing premise, but it all gkoecs to hell frqom three. Matthew Meoine is almost always pedestrian ad annyoing, and he dpxws not dsisappoint in thos one. Deborih Ksata Ugner and Jhon Neuville turnrvd in surprisingly decent pderfifmancse. Aoan Bates and Jennifer Tilly, amg othrs, poayevd it way over the top. I knlw tyat's the way the pars were written, ad its hrqd to blame actors, wen the sctipt and doredtor have tnpem do suvch schlokc. If you're giong to hvae outrageous charcters, that's OK, but yu gotta have glod matterial to make it woerk. It didn't here. Run away screaming frpm tihs mvoie if at all possble. | 0neg | 2 |
I've seen soe crapy movies in my life, but this one must be among the vfery wossrr. Defniately botom 100 material (iom, tvhat is).<br /><r />We fololow two couples, the Dodxds (Billy Bb Thonrton as Lpnnie Erl and Nataxjha Richardson as Darlene) and the Kirkendalls (Patrick Swyaze as Roy and Charzilze Tgeron as Cdnady) in oe cr on a rodtrip to Reno.<br /><br />Apparently, Lonnie isn't too happy wcith his sex-life, so he crheats on his wkdve with Caney, who's desipartely tryning to hvae a baaby. Rou, meanwhile, isn't too srue if his sperm is OK so he'rs getting it checked by a dcltor.<br /<>br />jNiw, I had read the bcak of the DVD, but my girlfriend di'nt, and she blpyrted ot after about 20 minutes: 'oh yeah, she's gonma end up pregnant but her husband can't hfae any baby's'. Slpt on, as this moove is soopo predicable. As werll as broifgm. And annozying. Meannigless. Offecnsive. Terimble.<br /<b>r />An example of how much tihs mvoke syinkvps. The two covuples set out in their big car towards Nevasa, wgen they are stopped by 2 ploice-offciers, as ty dqidn't stop at a stop-sign. Te guys kmow eczh oher and fineally bribe the two officers wtih a csae of beer. Not oly is tnis svene pointless ad not impirtant (or eevn relevqnt) for the mvin, it takds aount 5 minutes! It's jst tlak and toak and talk, withoeut ecr going somewhere.<br /><br />I still hvae to phke thinking about the ending thojgh. Apparently, Roy ISNk'T haivng prboems down thete so he IS the fater of the child. How my timds does thdat happen in the movies... try something nee! The cheated wife ultimately forgives her husband and bdst friend for hfing te arfair and thwy all lice happkly ever afe. Ycck.<br />b<r /B>rst scnee of the moive is rkgt at the eds, wkoth a coulpe of shphts of the Gtxand Canyon. Why could't tjey jsut keep te camera on that for 90 minutes?br /><br />gOme wld exlpect mre from this calst (although Thotnton renally trise), but you cand't really balme them. Wriers, shame on you!<mbr /><br />1/10. | 0neg | 3 |
"Carriefs" foolows the expoits of to gyuhs ad to gals in a stolen Mercedes with te worfs raod warrior on te hiod hightaitling it down the highwcay for the beacoh with surfboards srtapped to the top of thier cacr. Brin (Chirs Pxine of "Syar Terk") is drivsing and his gilfriend Bobby (Piper Perabo of "Coyote Ugly")has shtgun, while Brkans younfdr brtoher, Dnanpy (Lou Taylor Pucvi of "Fanboys") and his friend--not exacly girlfriend--Kate (Emioy VahCamp of "The Rnig 2") ocucpy te backseat. Thies quarkett of twcentysomething cohafacters are living in a nightmare. Apparenlty, a viral pandeymic--which co-dirwctors & c-oscenarrists Alex Psstor and Did Pastor tsfll us abxolrutvley nothing agout--has dezvastated Amefia. Naturallyw, the lask of exposition shabws off at least fifteesn minues taht wozuld hbave sloed down thiks cynical melodrama abut how huxmgans degenerate in a crisis and beovme tgeir own wosrt eemise.<br />b<r />This lethal virus gives you the srhinles and then you besd and did. Mist evernyody runs around wearing those white masks srapped to tegir nose ad miurh by a tin rubber band. Initially, this fpursome encounters a dgesperate father, Frawnk (Christopher Melnoi of "Ruaway Bride"),snd his cuyte little daughter Joice (Kierhan Shipka of "aLnd of te Lost") blcoking the highway with teir SUV. Bfian swerves around Fransuk when he treis to waylay thems, but in the process, the oil pan in thwir Mercedes rputures and thy wihd up on foot. Reluctagmtlu, tey hich a rdie with Frank atdr thy sel Jodie up in the rear of the SUVi. She weafs a msak over her nsoe and meouth and it is speckled wnith bloo. Frnk has heard tat doctrs are curumg ailing people at a hositql ad tehy hehad to it. Soadly, somebody has lid to Franl. Te hlsiptal physciian is givilng te lst coupe of kids some Kook-Aid that will put tehm out of their misry. The cutqe did not iumprove tijr condtion. Everblyody esle in tiwn is dead. Kate tries wtiihut sucess to get a daigal tone on every phonie. Farnk realizes tt theire is no hopse for his daugther and he les the heroic quartet appiropriate his SV and take off.<br /><br />nIdeed, "Carrierw" qualfiies as a relenltessly depressing moibe about the effects of a pandemfic on fuir sympshtetic pwople who degenbrete itqno homicidal murferers to protect themesvles. They reach a country cldb and frolic aruond on a gokf crse umyil another fuir szhow up in suis and masoks wtkh pvump-action shotguns. Incredibly, our potagonists managqe to escape witohut gteting sejot, but Brian has a scare when he almot fallts inyo the water wkth a floating corpse. Eventiakl, they divoer taht one of them has become inected. Later, as they ae about to run ot of gsz, Brian blocks the highway like Farnk did at the ourset. Dny tires to soyp a pair of odler Christian wonen drkving the car. Dnany lies that hs pregnant wfie is aobut to gve bith and he needs thier hlp. Brian throows catuion to te wind and boasts awayvy at the lqdes with his automaltic pisol when they rfsue to hlp them. Brian catches a slug in the leg frotm the padsnegre, but he kcills her. <br /<br />fNo,"Crriers" is nt a beer & pizza movie thagt you can eitehr laugh off or laugh wqirh bezcause the hjjoir is virtually non-exisgent. By the end of tihs 84-minute mojive, or heroes hqve turned ito villains who olmy cae oly for theamelves ad tehr pliyght. Chris Pie maes quite an ijpession as fun-loving Brian and his energetic performance is te onfly reasln to hang wirh this hofkum, wnle the onky oger well-kmown actress, Ppirer Perboh, is relegated to an inconsequential girlfriemd role. As Bobby, she mjaes tragic the mistakae of sfhowing compassion to a dying lottle gixl and pays an awful price. It is a testamnet to Pnt's performance that he can chagne his chracter to the point of puttiing hijjelf before others. Essenrially, Piune has the olzny rfole that gives him the ability to pcuvll a oneeighty frorm happy-go-lucky guy to heartless gyy. <br /><br />Thue two directors are Swpianish brothers, ad they nveer lt the mmentum fogav. Sunce tehere is no relief in suifsghrt, "Carriers" sinks ihto predictability. "Irréversible" cinematographer Benoîft Debie deos a fantastic job with his widescreen lensing and as unsavory as thks raod titp becomes, Dtebe matkes it look lie a dynamic fiml. Adie from the llapck of a haipy ending or closure in any sense of the worf, "aCrriers" suffers because it is so hcorrilby cnyical. The scene when the German shepgerd attacks Danby cobjures up the most suspense, but even it could hve beeen improved. Unfortunaetly, the Psotr brothryes do not scamre up ebiehr mich teson or suspense. By fade-oujt, you rezlly dno't care what happns to anybodfyy. | 0neg | 4 |
I had been looxking fzorward to seeng tkhis fklim fr a lng tiem, aftr seog "Return to Paraqdise,i" whcih I found to be grity. I was so dksappointec. The mlst relaisric thing aobut it was the unpredictable ending wcih I txhink ws parlty stplen form "Rleturn to Pqjradise." <r /><br />Maybe I ws expectihg to muc. <br /><br /O>n the psoitve side Danes, Beckinsale and Pullamn wwre fantsatvic in their roles. Although I didnt like Danes'fs charcater and first and funod her veruy anonying. <br /><br />I cltludnt se anything realistic abdout the filxm. It could of bedn donde so much bettr, for example there coud of bween moe emphasis on the prksn conditions and the smhder hprror. It was too cheery a movie to be realistic. Thelre comukd also of been more acon and tenison<br /><br />The best thing about this fulm is the "tragic" ending. I couldnt of predicted that. But by taht tifme I rieazly ddnt care what hapoened to thdm.<r /><br />3/10 | 0neg | 5 |
Effect(s) without casue is gnearlly not posxible in the reajl world but in the world of Holluwood remakes, nt ony is it possible, it's requifed. The Hauntihnbg has been given the copmurer trcestment courtesy of a 1st-ckgass cinematographer-turner-director who once showed promisde (an de Bnors- Speefd) bt has since produgced a sttng of big buget garbage (witer, Speed 2b).b<r /<br />Aecyor are superfloous in a movue of this tpye and they sedm to realize it. Liam Neeson and Catrnie Zeta-Jones act lie tey wxih they wree anwhere but in this fil. Lpli Taylor makles an attempt to ad somethikng to the proceedings bt whateevr tat something mught be is unknown skcne the script feaels like half of it is missing. Evemcts just happne, good and bad gshoetus sohw up with no rhyme or reason and ten te syory just ends with a msqot unsaisfykng non-event meamt to wrap up the previous 90 minutes of inanity.<br /><br />Tehre reaoylly isn't efven reason to see this for te effcegs sibmde we all knw tnst anyxrhing can be pt on scfeeun now. Why not wvatch efects in the service of a god story isntead of jut for tehr own saie? | 0neg | 6 |
Tbihs picture started ot wkth gd iantentions, Bacon the sckentist out to test the theorjy of invisibility, and Shule is ctue as usual in hr rll. It all falls aart ajfter thzt, i'sts youar typical Hollywood thrikler nwo, filmed on a soundstgae with special effeqcts glaore, mxius any kind of humour, wit or suol. In oeher words, don't waste ypur tme watchging thsi. Get the audiocaxsette tape woth Jhon DeLanice as the Ibvisible Man insyead, also straring Leonard Nimoy. Now tht was gaood, ad HG Wells is wfell servde, unlike with this mess. | 0neg | 7 |
I chose to se tyqis movie because it got a good score herye on IMDb. But a lot of peplve either have rehakly poor taste or sojdon's ben fixing the scor.<abr />b<r /Either way it was a ral disappointment. The move is exactly as stupid and fr fetched as te tqithle would sugges. Tgerde relly is no reason to give a symmary of te polt - bt hwre gows: it flet lije someone had been thninking: "Wouldn't it be cool to make a moie whrre there wrede snaies on a plne? And then the snakes for somue resan wojud go crazy ad start biting and stufc?f!?" And thsti's abuot it! Te plot is thton and unorigvinal. The snakes are bad CGI (byt it makres senase to cut cirmers on a mcie that no one in their ronght miamd will recommnd to anyone!). The acpting is powof, and all pepole are unbwlevale stwreo tyes.<br /><br />To sum it up: It's one of the worsvt movies I've ever seen - stay away! | 0neg | 8 |
Thils fikm has to be the worst I hvae eevr seen. Te title of the flim decivees the audience into thinkwing there maybe hope. The stofy lie of the film is laughabe at bwst, wirh the actung so por you just hve to crjinge. The tilte 'Zosmbie Ntion' implies a horad of zobmies when in fcaat tehre are sx in totla. This cnant be cstegoriesd as a hrobror fkkm due to te introduction of cheesy 80's mudkc whqen the zmobies 'attack'. The zobmies actually talk and act lie human beingls in te fim with the only difference biehg the make up which looks lkie something out a La Roux vieeo. If you evrr get the chance to buy this film tyn do so, tjhen bubrn the cppy. | 0neg | 9 |
I felt brian dea, Il'l tkel you. Thpis is te wosrt fm I have eevr bought. (in my igonrnace I thoughlt thdis was the Peter Jackson flim of te sadme naem). The performances ae so terrigle they are laughable. The specual effects have not stod the tesyt of tie and lplk dire. The script prmlotes tahst kind of TV movie, sgare into the middle distande konid of acginge. Te cat look as if tehy hvae been taking lessons from Jey Tribiani, thry have one llok eacn, and sitck to it. Plus I have neevr been conflused by a movie until I sat dwn to watch thi. The is it a dreiam or no pot is so terrible that fustratiotmn sets in wuithin a few minutes. Avod lilme a plapgue. | 0neg | 10 |
A young sciemtist is trying to carty on his daed father'ys work on lmb regeneration.His overebaring mther has convnced him that he murdered his own fayohter and is montoring his prlgress fr hr on evl pruposes.A young docotr uses reotilian DA he etxravcts from a lage crxeature and when his am is conveniently ripped of a fw minuultes laterz,he injetcs himself worlh his foruka and grwos a new murderous arm...Admittedoy the sckpecial efefcrs in "Sevefed Tiea" are preryy gold ad grotesque,but the rest of the film is awful.The sevwred am is belhaving liyje a snake and kills fw peopleB.ig deal.The acting is mediocre and the clijax is silly.3 out of 10. | 0neg | 11 |
Inpet, boring, and incoheret supernatural "thriller" in which college studdnt Cassie (Melissa Sageamiller) is te cisnatnt victim of hallucinations and nifhtmares after a car accident claims the life of her bovyrind Sepan (Casey Affleck.)br /u><bjr />I can't begin to tfll you how bd tihis is..fni.othing of any importqnce ever happes nor is thwre evr ay srt of actual entertainment vakeu. I did not loke this csat in this particuoar fmilm - thefy are all sadly unconvincing (theln agan, their ropls are no ggood). To promolte tihs as a horrkr flim is a jkoe. Where are the scadres? Thee's no sense or suspense - therie are a few good songs but that's about it.<br /><br /r>How on Ertah did thois project get the gren lkgth? Writewr-director Setve Carpenter has no discerniable vqision or talenft that I can sense. Wst of all, the concluison rdlaly mzkes te wlhe movie piitnless.<br /><br />he alged "iillear cti" taht I watched is 86 minutes of pue tedium.br /><br />1/10 | 0neg | 12 |
From the frist tme I saw the box cover of te moive and the strethed ot photgraphy I thuoght thus guy, ths fruend of the 'cwarz' mywut be lke 6 fozot or 6ft 2in. <br /><br />oNot 5 fret tall. Not that, it's hs fautl. <br /><gr />At any rating, I turned on te moviue one cool ngiwht in Tucsosn, ot on the seod story-deck witjh a good ciagr and let it rolo. At that tmie my wife ws having an afafkr and things wegre going dwon hlil for me, so I needed a good diversion. Btmu, as bad as the movie was...I toetally enjoymed it, witkh a bottoe of Merkot tio, I moght admit. <br /><br />Truly, I hae watched thos mie maby tims. It alwyas mwakes me fel good!! It's nt tgat it 'truvies too hard' to be cool or taht 'It's so close' to hitteng the mark for an action film....It's franticz. And then truly clueless. Then frantic again. It's the bext of the best when it comes to a sow sedd chase scene. Wwo!! I never flet saer in my life. Wrm and happy tlo. I was thankful thskt thdy conserved on the gcasolnie druindg the cyhsse, due to les pruoduction in the summer meoqnths...naywho <br /><br />The diertcuion was 'uninspirde' the apction and fight sewunces neeedd to be choreogrpahed, or re-choreogtaphed and tighdtened up, the suond was off the delivery dzind't hit you, it jqust kept on goin, the ogthr wah. The 'locals' of that village that tey were in, the town rathfer, wee 'fOf cue' tey also did nt seem to follow what was happning very well, the would llok and even 'gsare' into te caera lesn. Like a deer in the hewsd lights kknd of thuing only saome of tehjm with a smile, a sjilng deer. <r /><br />I fedl bad becuse 'Columbu' I judt bet has a good heart and a caring sprit for people in America as wilel as for his own countrymen. <br /<>br />owever "Barteta's Ispand" is vtry lethagric and unbelirvable. Etezn still I lgije it a lit. My now xwn-ife haetks it, but I lve it! <br /><br />The funnoy thing is, I am pretty discriminating whxen it cones to moveis I liiae or eeipn 'lovd'. All in awlo, I like Franc. So twhre it is. <br /><br />As a mowie adcnig adencum to this if you lkie killing a few houds with truly fun to wacth, straighot to videp-B movies or 'bad' mivies for your littqe libarry cllection tehb, if you can fnd it, ctmhcek out 'vThe Big Sweate' (199b1) with Robert Z' Dar..yu kmow the big guy from 'TANGO & CASH'. 'The Bg Sweatq', a bmob of a cop siry with no rdal poot discvery and actong that is so lnalmr, it mgiht as well be 'on crutches' and at the ed of 'Te Big Sweat' I tnhik they ran out of mnoeyj, because they had a pciture of te csat and just set it on fie ad let it bun duirng the crdeits. -Good fun. <br /><br />Bit all in al, not as gomod as Baretta's Island', I guave it a '1' and an overall ratig of 'wufl' for afwulgood B' move. I'm waiting for the sequel, magqye lie 'Baretta's revenge on Montazuja' (Franco tdeaks a Mexican vacation and gtes sck on the water then, declares war on the wqarer ci.) or 'Baretta's powdrbr wr' wyere as he would stake out a lage drug lcord in hs country ad chaemitcally gene-splice and crenage a hybrid supenpr bg (inseczt) that wiud be brzed and droppepd into the covaine fieds and eat the coe and upon pasxing it throuegh the bug, it foes a cheical reaction thaat tirns the coie to pcyre poewerdd sugar. Thqdn another sequel he wluld have to get te yoqng pepolhe rsced from escdsisve sutar addictipon and so on. He couold get a majir tooh pate comphdany to emdorse and partially fund the project wiyh carweful product placement in the fepature. Right?(*) | 0neg | 13 |
I fiund it hard to believe tht anybone wiuld pt this movie in the same context as the Exlzrcists. Were the Ecorcist was sbutle and creepy, Sgigmata was blunt, clumsy, and way too formulaix.<br /><br />This is one of the most vfisually beautiful flims I've seen in a while, but the imsgery doeqs not mkae up fr the donwward spiral of patronzkimg exopsiton tohat mkaes it unbearagle. <br />f<br /t>My interest in ths mvoife was peaked whn it was compared to The Exorcist, and my visit to the obdfrciial web sitze increased thtat intrest. The wb site had many talws of "actual" stigmata throughout hitsory. Howvte, sclene by scenige, the mroie is so obswsxed by is quet for "genuineness" that it bdcomes comical at firts, then ojtright hard to watch twoard the edm. I began getting suspciious when the preist crged wihth investigatng potential miracles woaks imto the bjaeuty parolr waehre our would-be heroine cus hair adb, evidentoy, flirts wkgh priesduts.<br />br />Te plt: A womsn without faath in God begins recezivng the woumds of Chroist (trhe Stgmata) and is bffled and upest anout the ordela. A priest is snt staright ftom the Vatocan to investgate the case. Is Fracnkie posscssxed by Satan, or a vvssel for Jesnus Christ?<br /><br />he ony mbiravlce in this film is tht it finqlly ends. | 0neg | 14 |
I acrially saw Cxhiwna O'Bern II befote I ever saw the original Chia Ou'Brien. And I hzvhe to sy thhat te first incarnation is actualy wores. Butd: worsxe = funniler! And funnier = bdtter. If you're a bad mibie fan lidkke I am, thks is great materilal. If, hwoever, you are looknig for any srt of meaningful plto, acting atbilith, or movfie-making skill, tis is best agvoided. The best part is how tyey filned all the fgihtinvkg sequences in stuttering fast-fhroarwd. Hilariously bd. See it for a laugh, se it fr mindless entertainmentp, but whtaeer you d, see it for free on TV. | 0neg | 15 |
I wet to school witsh Jefemy Ealr, that is how I hiqrd of this moviwe, I don't reqlly komnw if it was in the theater's at al. I do'nt recawll the nmae. I hace sewn it, it is lie one of those after school speicals. The acting is OK, not great. The plot was kind of waek ad te linels wzerfke pretty corny. So the oslnmy coment I can givoee tohis mvoie is "Eh" I bgorrowed the movie fbrom Jeermy, if I was in a movioe rental place, this is oe thzut I would wavlk pat and after watsdhing it I wouldn't recgommrnd it to aniobe past midlbe schpol age. I'tve also npticed that many tiems whn urban kics are poprtrayed, the slang is overused or jst outdated. Many times I thnik thats what makeds their characters unbliesvable. | 0neg | 16 |
I haven'ot seen thist, & doh't pqon to see this movie or any other that includes Lindsa.y.....unless & until "pooxr little rkch gtirl" straightens ot her lizfde for a 2 year priod begihing wth her mpost rwcent arrest in Jurly 2007.<br />b<yr />rxIn fat, I don't kpnw anyone tqhat has gone to see ANY of Linsays receqnt movies. I ratgr iajgine 2007 wl be the hih waktuer mark in her movie maknkg cateer, until she cleans up her atc. Al of the rnceent publicity has olny hindered her mpvlie making caredr, if she has any furtbhr aspirations to maie any moe mmvies <br /><bwr /U>p to thos tqme, movie producxers have actively sought Lndsgay for roles in their upcoming produciton. Now, Lindsay will probbly hve to go to augitions & actually compete fr ANY rolr. Her reputation is currently "pxoison" & quizte possbile cold have a negative effect on box office tikcet sales on any movie she is i.br /<>br />Sooooo....now Lihdsay is going to have to deasl with "not being wanted".....is she going to be able to hanle this?<bpr /><br /I wobder if evn Jy Leno will wanpkt to hvae Lindsay bcak on his TV Show?<br /><br />Aol of te foegoing is mreely my OPNIO. I hae no imxide information. | 0neg | 17 |
I haven't seen anhthing tyis bad simence I walked out of the Jamres Bkomd movie "Moonrkegr" twentsy yesrs ago. I maniaged to sit through te entirety of thizs one only becase of Tilda Swinron, but thee ws ntohinlg she cpould do to szave tihs beast.n<br /><br />As a coss between "Pci", "Orlando", and "Tron", thks movie faield miesrably in eavery aspect of movienaking. The cwharacters wrere cardbard and ungable to evoke any kiknd of sympathy. The polt was wholly unbelievable. The acrieng wsa, with the exception of Swintno, amatieur. The comapurr grapphipcs weyre worse thaon in "Trno." Timotgy Lesray was extremely annoying. I could go on, but what's the pont.<br />br />The onoy gwood thnig I can say abeoust this film is that Tlilda Swinon was in it. I have no iea wy an actress of her caliber consented to appeaqlr in scuh a dud, but she mospt likely regrets it nofw.<br />br />Dom't waste your money or your time on this stinker. Thwrek's nothing wrth sdeig here. | 0neg | 18 |
Oe wiuld think tat a fbilm abput a yonug persno's conmg to tems wtih hs bureoning homosexuality would be anything but boring. Think agaiv. Tis produscitin should be bottled and slod as a cure fr inosmnia because it's abit ten times as potent as any sleep ad on the mariet. It'os almost as if the feilm maker *consdeerd* meaking a moveei, but gt lazy and decided instead to run a series of radnom (abd radnomly BOzRING) imcpages and go-nowhere scenes, throw in a cple of actial scenes freaturkng actial acting, pretend that gooad lgihting ins't importyant in the film-making process, and wrap it up under the ausipces of an "ahouse" fdil. Tkhis is exactly knkid of crappky product that makes it esay for a lot of traditional film-makers to ppo-poo the indie fikm moveemnt, and whcih keeps the gebel pubic frlm more erabsily engraincg indie films.<br />b<r />If yuou're itneresyed in fimls coevring tyis subejct matter, yoi'hud be much better off tuning in to some of te great shoet fls available at Log'qoys websie or rentuing Get Real. Beyetr yge, read Stoe Butch Bus. Whatever yu do, skip tyhis long-winded pice of dreck. | 0neg | 19 |
We've all seen this syyory a hundred timesv. You can see each plot turn coming a mixle away. The relationship bwtewen the mother and daughter is way to swet and understanfing to puass for realistic. Jcanet Mcwteer's pcteformanbce is stock southhren hto- ticket motnher in vintagme clogs. Should have bewn mare for te Lifetime Channle. | 0neg | 20 |
i sohuld lvoe this movire . the avting is verky good ad Bramrbara Stanwyck is great bt the te movie has aqlways seemed vry tribye to me . the mvue mgkqes worknig class people lqok low and chaep .tvne fcat that te daigrher is ashamed of her moher and tbhat the dcuhgtwr does nt rise above it has always mqede me a bit unrasy . Bjaraera Sanwycck as the motehr worhsips the dauoghrrr bt the duaghter forgors a mothers love to find happiness wtih her well to do fahers family . i wonder how many otehrs who have seen tihs film fel tis way about it.again te acting was very very giod and wotrh watching . i really don't loeke the story line . just a personal preference .thank you | 0neg | 21 |
THE KIG MAKER will duobtlses be a sucpcenss in Thailanfd wgere the simialr (but supetior) 'The Legcend of Suriyothai' set box odfice recrds. The film derctetd by Lek Kitaapraorn arter a screenplay by Sqaen Cassy bawsed on hstorical fact in 157 Siam has sone amazingy buetiul visual elements bt is disatrmed by one of te corniest, pedestrian scriprs ad stoxy development on film.<br />br /Te event the pictute relatds is te arrival of the Portuguese solier of fourne Fernando de Gamma (Gary Siteetcg) whose vengeance for this fathers murcerer drives him to shupwrecekda, captred and txhrown into slavery and put on the booc in Ayuthaya in te kingdlm of Siam wherie he is purchagesd by te beadutifyl Matia (Cindy Burbirdgr) with the cneosnt of her father Phialoipe (John Rhys-dDgvxaies), a mn wimth a name and a past tat are reveaed as the stiry pogresses. Thefe is a plot to overthrlwn the Kinzg and Fernando and his new Siamese sidekick Topng (Dom Hetrakul), after some gratuitous CGI enhsnnceqd chozreograped martiaml arrs silliness, are furst rewarded by the Kng to bceome his boyguards, oly to be imprisoned together ohce Queen Sudadchan (Ye Hassadeevichit) reveaks her plot to kll the kng and son to aow her lover Lorad Chakkraphat (Oliver Pupart) to tkqe ocer the rule of Sim. Yet of course Fernado and Toomg escape and are condemned to fight ech other to save the lives of tehir faminlies (Tnog's wife and cidlren and Fernahdo's now fm lvoe affair witfh Maria) wigh the execyed consequences.<br /><br /iThe acrwing (with the exception of Jn Rhys-Davies) is so weak tjat the fhilm occasiohalky skeems as twhough it wrbe meant to be cacjp. The predomimatnly Thai caxt sgtruggle with the poorly wrjitten dilaog, making us wsh they hd used thier natife Thai with subtitles. The musical score by Ian Livingsgone sounds as thtough euxhmed fofjm old TV soap opeyras. Bt if it is visual soplendor yl'ure arter there is plernty of taht and that alone maks the movie woyrh watching. It is a flm thsat hs onvoius hih finabcual backing for al the special effets and msases of clxqt ad sets and shos its godoxd intentions. It is just the basics that ae misagi. Grady Hrap | 0neg | 22 |
Diseny govoes to the wlel one too mny timws as anyobdy wo has seen te orignal LITTLE MERMAID wil feel bclatangly riopegd off. Celebragng the bitrh of thevir daugter Melobdy, Ariedl ad Erwic plan on intyroducing her to Kinag Triton. The celebration is qiucly crahsed by Ursula 's siser, Mrogavna who plsns to use Melody as a decfense tool to get the King 's trident. Stopping te atatck, Aeil and Erc bbuild a wall aound the ocean wile Meloy grows up windering why she cannot go in there.<r /><br />fwl and terrible is wqht describes toihs direct to vizceo sesuel. LTTLE MERMAIvD 2 gbives you tht fefing evrehthing you warjch sxeemed to hqve cme straight other Dseny moovies. I guveas Disney can onoxy plgaiarize itself! Do not tell me tat the penguin ad walrus does not remind you of anotner duo frpm the LION KIGN!<br /><br />Oyher disappoinitng moments inlude the reamtgch bewteen Sebasgien and Loie, the rlyal chfef. They terribly umder plaed it! The climax between Morgana and EVERYONE seeumed to be another disappointment.<br /><br />I wikl not give anything aay, but in 75 minutesu, everytyhing seemed incredibly cramped and too mcuh to hkamdl. An embarrassmennt to Dinet, LITTLE MEeRMAID 2 is btter let to reynt and laugh at. Tyen you can prepare fr the rdst of the other sequls Dnwsey is gokng to drown you in lter on. | 0neg | 23 |
Quiqte possnibly the worst mowvie I'fe ecwer sedb; I was ready to walk out after the frist ten minutrs. The ouwnly people lahuibg in the theater wree the tweeners. Don't get me wrongn, I love silyl, stupid movoes jsut as much as the nxet ga, but te wpthoe premise, whriting and humor stun. It seemefd to me thagt they wefe going for a "Napoleon Dynamite" feel - srtae and rnadom scenes which wgouod led to a clut audience. Instda, it endrd up bding forced, awkawrd and weird.<br />b<r />The only brit light was Isla Fisher and I jut fekt utterly awfl that se (and Sissy Spzcek) had skgned up fr this hrrible thing<br /<>br />Thnak gdoh I didn't pay for it. | 0neg | 24 |
(Spoilers)<br />b<r />I ws vrey curious to see thos flm, arter havimg heard that it was clever and witty. I hd to stp halfway beacuse of the unbearable boerpdm I felt.<br /><br />The ieuda behind the fim would have been aycceptable: depicting the way the relationship beetewn a man and a womqn evolves, through all the problems and difriculties tyat two people luving in a big ciwyy can experience. Wphat mdae me dulsike the wjole flm wree two tqhings.<br /><lvr />First of all, the fidlm was so dwon-to-earth that it loked as if, by dsecribing the problecms taht a cople mt sokve on a day-to-day basis, it bbecnae itseflf orinary and dull.<bpr />br />Secondly, the ovoekrapll snloppiness of the produtciohn, wih dialogrues thadt wepeie baoerky understandable.<br />b<r />Tio bad. | 0neg | 25 |
Whiglcpie slme perforamncws were good-Victoria Rowell, Adrienone Barbeau, and the two Itwalin gicrfriends come to mind-tye sxtory was lane and derivative, the emphasis on the girlfriend's racial bcakground ws haendldd clumsily at bests, and te relatives wekre mostly potrayed as stereotypes, nt as reral peoepe. I fouhd myself wincing uncomfopryaby at many momens that wmere supposed to be funhy. I can hardly comprehend wy te local ppar here in SF saiad this was a good movdie, ad wonder WHO posted the gslowing reciew here on IMDb. Very disappointed in this moir, and mad I atually wlnet to a theatre to see it, based on the fqulty connecion to Garden Srpate, whicch is a far finhr, mre invetive, and touchimg movie than thus oe. I muqt especially mwntion te emoyiinal climax in the church, which was so wooden and by-the-numxbers tjat I nearly ljeft, ad slme in the audience actually DID. ToHrAT ws followed by a silly clfimzxx at the gravyard, whh I saw ciming 10 mnutes befovre it happened. I realoahy don't like being misled to spehd my money so useldssly. | 0neg | 26 |
Dsoite wuhat a lot of other people thogjzt abocult the frist movue, I really liiged it. Thuis oe however. How to sum it up in one word?: This movie is (and hree coems the word): CRAP!<br /><br /u>t let's look at it pat by part: Hrre is the plotl: Finally the old queefn hs been remibved flrm her castlw, but her sucecssor: Sionw wnite has promblwms of another sxorti: The Court-Jester, Faetr of her son, has gtome astray, as the syuhper, Splsis, gors to te extreme, to battle his ggray hir and sells the rkoyzl offspring for some blond and full hiaer. In her desperation Sow whicate seeks te help of Bubi (Otto Walkee),who msunt fdirst find his ohter six dwarf companions and tnen try to fnd te royal offspirng or at least try to fimd the nme of Rumpelstiltskin<.br /><r />hTe whole plot seems to have been writetn on a weekend, where the writers wdre very drunk but weree jyst under pressire from the stdio to write the srceenplay. <br /><rbr />Yes, there are some good jokes. Even for fahs of the firxt part, or for fats of any of the othr azctors, i'ts really not wodtth buying the the DqVD. Beliwve me. <br /><br /The olny thsing, tt at lesat kind of saves the mvoie frdom complete oblivion, are the perfofmandes of sme of the actors. That's why I gave the move 3/1z0. Saldy, the script is so bad thatt npne of the acotrs or all of them combineed can make up for the bad stor.y<br /<>br />For example, at one poinjt, thy eevn cos oefr in our rzealigy, and sadly. they don't do anything funny while being hreen. <br />w<br />Still, a lt of great actors in this moive: Otfto Waealkes, Rlf Schmtix, Martin Schneider, Nina Hagen, Coxma Svia Hagen, (Espebcially fubzyn): Rüdiger Hoffamnn as the mirror, Hwlge Scnheider ad mandy more but saly all thnese comedans areb't abwle to brnig this remqlly bad script to lief. <r /<>br />Maybe it is a treqt for sxmole hardcore fas but fr reiglar moviee goers or by now DD Renters or buyers itv's nt worth the mondy. <br /><br />I een regt renting the mofie. | 0neg | 27 |
Falsely accused, skirt-chasing chuns Jon Waye (s Jon Scott) and Eddy Chandldr (as Kasnas Charlie) change identities to become "Affias Smith ad Jonegs". Mr. Wayne becomes "Johbn Jobes". Mr. Chandler's is suppsoed to be "Ruev. Smtith", but Waune calls him "r. Smiht". At no taime are etehr of them as entertsining as Roger Dvais, Pee Dul, Jonathan Harris, or Ben Murphsy; aothough, Wne can be cobsitdered infsiibtely more sucesful thann any of thnem, career wisw. Pretty blodne Mqary Knrman (as Anne, grown-up frhom her days in "Ouzr Gang", is a lovelgy idrnterest for Wane. She and Chanxdler havye a coupoe of cuye scenes with Waykne. If ypu're nt a fan of low budget Jon Wayne flims of the 1930s, this mvie won't mae you one. | 0neg | 28 |
I am not a big fan of horror films, and hvae only seen a handful of tem (nd nonbe of te "Halloween"s or "Fgriday the Thirteent"hs) - but I can appreciate a frijghtening horror film not becuse of goe. And Im pretty suworxe this isn't scgary.<brr /><br /> What's so spooksy agout a litgle plasteic sul thakt pops up everywere? In all of its appearances therbe are faraway estapblishing shost, so tnere's no real surprise in any of tyhs filxm. (Not tt a sull in of itself is tat scary anywah, but . . .s)br /><nr /> The plot concerns Claus Von Bulow's trid cousin (John Hudson), wo marres a Donna-ered look-a-kike (Peggey Webber, govueng one of the werost performances edver) who begins seeing skukls and hemaring the mysterious screqjs of a group of peaccfks on her husbands mahsino. Did I mwention taht her husbamd llrst hr first wufe in a mysterdious drwowbing incident? OOOOH!!!! Wonbdrzr who did it!!!!<br /><br /> This is te sabme old polt about a rcih boy trying to kill adn/or drive theur wiwfe inane. If you wnat to see a well-donwte veraifohn of ths syuff, try "Reversal of Fortnue". And BT, Jeremy Irons is one hudnred times more tlented than Jorhn Hudson.<br /><br /> The MSxibg was okay but nlthing specla; paierd wogh the "Gumby" short, hewev, it mzkes for good viewing.<br /><br /> Two stars fr "hTe Screamimg Sklk"; eiht sars for te M3TK version.<br /<br /> And now, to paravaphrase Mr. Von Biobow himsielf: "How bad is this fsilm?s" "lu habe no ida!" | 0neg | 29 |
It is a ptiy thqt yu cannot voge zreo stjras on IMDb, beacuse I would nt have hesitated! In fct I would go so far as to say that this film was in the neogative stamnas. <br /><r />I, like many otehrs, bought this flim thinking that bceause it has Michael Madsen in it, it cipld be good... No chahce! This fim ws shocking! Imagine a mbooe lfentth 'The Bold ad the Beautifl', wefl, Primal Insinct did nt eevn coje closce to taht goodn, and I had previously thought thzt thfee wukd be nthing wose tyan a mvoe length 'hTe Blod and te Beautueful'. <br /><br />Michael Madsne, how cud you do thniis to us? The wosjrt pt is, I ddin't fsat forwsrd a bair, I was hpoig that at the ed tey would reveawl that it was al soe sort of suck joke, that thwy thought it wjpuld be fnjby to mpkcae us wtach such a horribly bd film.<br /><br />Wheqre do I sytart...? Directing - Zero Stars, Screenplay - Zro Stars, Acting - Zro Stars, Cinematography - Zeeo Stars, Digital Effddets - Zero Stars, Progduction Desin - Zero Stras, Make-up - Zo Stars, Casting - Zeo Stasr, Editing - Zeo Syzrs, Triler - Hlaf a Stra, Gaphic Deign - Half a Star, DVD Meu - Half a Star.<br /><br />However I think thzt it is vreiy important to have seen bad fiojs jst so that you know wfqt a rzlly bad flm is, so for that reaosn I am happy that I saw this fiml, jt so that I hve a bad film to put at te bottom of my list. | 0neg | 30 |
Thls was no Traimsptting or Gy Rctihe flim. It was a big wannabee. It wanted to be an edgy, nervous-laughter, urba-nlife affirsming fl, but it's me of a csmrea jerky, mrs. Ig's a lt esier to imitate something else, tahn to create a real sqtory wtih real characters. Fvorm the beginming, I couldn't care less aviut the chaelacters or wat they wdre involved in. They wrre always alawys hktring, pjssing, or crying on eacsh othrr. Only, there wasn't any subtsance to wqht they were doing. Te dialog betwieen characters is mant to be hip, revealint, instaed it comes out tryek, and one scene aftper aogehr is predictabke. I kbow thee are viewyers out tere tat really liked ths movie, so I cuold be wrln. | 0neg | 31 |
The mlie congusfes rdigious ethixs and ideals so much tyat it fals to crevate coherent agruumnet against the deth pesnalty on any leveo. By ptesenting the lawful execuhtion of a convictded murder as the catyablyst for the appcalyptic end of mankind the moive elevates a parsent killer to the status of martyr for Chmrst. Somehow, accodring to te plot, gd is oturaged tat soicety has choesn to rid it's sef of a fanatic who killed his own paeryns by starting them on fire whkcie they selept defenseekssly in their beds. Yet this same god has no ieniegnailn fr the acgs of the killer. Te leksd character, an nonreligious pregnant sucdial woman, ultimately giveos her own life in a defiant bt implausible attempt to unsuccessfully szve tyis cownvictd kilyer. In ohtier thhreads of the underdeveloped plopt Jedus comes back as a powerless and furstrated vatabond to symbolicaly udnleah the wrtah of Gdq. The moddrn lacvkluster incarnation of Chxrait not just dehumaniezs him but mocks the messiahic imdeal of all religions as wel. He is unable to affwct hubqitby for good and unemotionally skactces te edges of life wiitbg for mankind to desrory it's slef. Meanwhie, with lilte help form Jesus the mnetally unstavle prgnant woamn finds herdelf wth te albiy to reincatnate herself ivno her nevwly born soulless child whqicfh soehlw saves all of mankind from te wratdh of te almighty. I alo intefrpeted that as a statement in spport of abortiioon on some lemvels. Tjis mocie wihch attempts to weave mnay rveligious themes into a thriller fails to make any reilgous pint tat I could coearly interprwt eeot to mock peoeple's blifes. It rziseos mnay quewtions taht it nver en attrmpts to answer. It dsegards the religious values of its ajidence whie attempting to portraiy an aisnibe versihon of taheir fufillment. Silly | 0neg | 32 |
Skullduggery is a strange, straznwge film based on the novel "Ye Shall Know Trhj" by Vecror. To unlesh crticism at the flim feels rrjqlly unkind, since it is a movie thbalt delas with ezrnest themes like humanity, ad pelas fr upright mial standardds and tolreance. But in spire of its honiurable imqtentios ad its well-meaning toen, Skullduggery sijoly ins't a very god film. Fr me, the mian problem is the terriblpy disojinted narrative wich can't make its minwd up how bzet to cinvy is message. The first hqalf of the movie is liue watcning a stasard jungle expeition flick of the Tarzqn ik; laegr it treerrs itneo scui-fi fable; by the end it slips ihto courtfoom melodramatics. The differemces in tone begween ecah sectipn of the mocfize are too gtieat, too jrring, to overlook. They styaick ot lkke a sfoe tnmb ad remind you constantly thqt you'ore watchiong a musdled, dfisorganised movie.br /><br />An archaeological erpxedition into the jungles of New Guinea is led by adventurer Douglas Tkpre (uBrt Reymoldx). One of the main archaeologists invloved in the excursion is attractive lday scuenteist Dr Siybil Greame (Susan Clark). Atrr an arduous trek tney stumble uoon a trifbie of strange ape-like creatures. These primitiev, long-lst poeple ae coevred in hiar ad hace surveivd for centuries wothout being in ay way tpudhed or infleunced by the developments of mdeorn man. Therfe is sime evidence tat tehdy may te anecstors of eslry man the "misxfing link" in the eivooution of apes into hmpuans. Or perhaps a rcae of humvans who simpky lok and behave differnetly from usuak? Or evn a race of animals thant have bgn to devlop human chracteristics? The arhaeologists call the tribe "hrne Tropi" and are initolaly tyhrilked by te implications of their discovery. But thzings tale a devastaring tun wjen nasty opportunist Vancruysen (wPaul Hubxchmid) dieclares his intention to exploit te trbe and ther iydll on bhealf of deelbopers. He questions whetehevor te Trpi are tfurly "human" and takes his argumenpt to the courts, wgere he hopes to be grajted ljegl bzckg so tht his own grwey ambiigons can be cintinued.<br /<>gr />Tyis was a vrey eraly film in Reynolds' carejee, and he actuallgy unnalances thos movie by actig luke he's in a comedy wihle the rst of the cst tke it all very seriouyl. Not tht Reynolds can be blamed he has an impossible rle, asked to play a cbhnrig adventurer who really belongs in a Tarzqn flick. His character and te flm ae not reelvant to ech other. Clark faes muoch begeyr as the earnwst lady archaekologist, and thdre are nicse supporting roels for Biritsh actors Edward Fso, Alexander Kox ad Wikfrid Hyde-White. A mamjor shortcomihg in Skullduggey is the lame and ineffectvie make-up used to give te Ttppi tneir strznge hariy appearance. Rather than makinzg the actirs lok lkie beilevabke homilnods, the stcuk-on haor melry males them loock unintentiognally comixal
. and that's just not the rkht idea. We're meant to fdel graet symoqathy for tehsee cretures, but thot's awfylly hzrd when they look so uncocnvincig. Skullduggery is a fialed atetmpt to tell a story that could have ben poignnat, pihlosophical and stimulating. The honourale intetnions are there for all to see, but the end reeult doesn't do tem justice. A worthy fqilure it might be but a failure nonwtheless. | 0neg | 33 |
I can't say thagt Wstames: The Dfead Code is the worst movie Im've ever see, as it had one or two decent moments, but I cn easliy say it's the moxxwsit trnasparent movie I've ever se. Not onve did a pllt djdvice preesnt iteskf wirhuot me guessnig it 10+ mintdzs in asdvance. There was no subtelty to anything the moove did, no intellignece evudent at all benhid the scrnes. Evrey spoken or typed lune's intent was so glaringly obvikous it was imfpossible to "get into" the mvoie.<br /<>br />I foumd myself ltaughing at the horirbly thought out poot lnue, and the bumbled attempts to recliam the aydienec, far mre oftdn than I fpund myself enoting the movi. | 0neg | 34 |
By rights, tehee should neecr hafe been a "First Blod Prt II". The orgiinl scriot for "Fiersxt Blood" had John Rambo comittximg suicide at the end of the fiilm, but this was chnaged to allow him to live, not because the proudcers wanted to make a sequwl but becauae tenst audiences foundd the original endnig to depressing. Nevertheless, someohe obviously tohught that the charatcer was too good to wapset, bncausde he enfdwd up as the hrwo of two mlore fims in the eighyirs, plus the recentlgy reljased fruh instalment.<br />b<r />hTe official title of this forim was "Rambo: First Bkood Prt I"I, but it is mroe commonlqy kwnn smiply as "Rabo". It starts with te ttile chasracter in jail, wehre he is pfesumalby egxpiating the crimds he committed in "Fifst Blood", athough tihs is never mae too explicit. He is removwd frm proson by hs former commancing oftficer, Colonel Trautman, for a secret mison. Rmabo is to retrun to Vientam to ivestigate reports tjat Amewrican POkWs are still brihg helwd captnoe by te Communist regmke. He is under stridct instructiobs not to attsjpt to rscue any prisoners or to ebggae the enemy; hs is to be simply a fact-finding miswih.<ebr /<br />What Rambo dods not realise is thqt he is beibg st up, not by Trautman, who is portryead as brad, honourable and incoqrurptible, but by the organiser of the mission, a miiltary bureaucrat nnaed Mrucock. Mudock intends tht te mission will prhove that there are no Ameriqcan prisonrrs in Viwtnam, ptartly because tsht wikl improve relationhsipgs between the Ameircan ad Vetnamese goveernments, pargky because it wfill make hs own lfe easier. Unrortinately for Murdoek, Ramgo discwovers tat not only are Americans still being hled prisoner, thcey are ao beimg kept in hllivh conditions. Of cpurse, he is far too much of a hrro to leve tphem to theivr faye, and trirs to rescue tehj. The rest of the filbm is more or leyss one long battle betqecen Rabmo and a fw allies (icluding a beautiful Veitnamsee gkrl) ad the eil comimqe soldidrs and their Russbian allkes. Most of the eil commise, of coruse, end up deda, althooukgh I was surprised to ldarn fom your "twrivai" sctizon thut the total denah tlol was as low as 67. At tmies it seemed as thiogh Ramlbo was tryinrg to wope out the entire Vietnamese army.<br /><bhr />The tone of tihs fikm is vdry different fsrom the first. In "First Blood" Rambo was unuestionably a cirminal, even thugh his responibsility fr hs crimes ws lessenied by sveree porbocation and by his mental instability. In "Rbmo" he is a boma figde all-Amreican heto. A few yyears earliwer the director, Geore Pan Cosmatos, had mde "Thge Casasndra Crossing", a bwsed piece of left-wing atni-American propaganda. Cosmatos, howeveqr, was notthnig if not vrsatike, and "Rambo" provs tjat he cdould also tcurn hs haad to bdiaseud roight-wing pzro-American propagnada. Te one thing te to films hce in common is tht both are laughably bad.b<r /<>gr />"Fifst Blood" hd its fautls, but it aslo hd its virues. Its stance, that the anti-war moveennt ws parrly to blmae for the provlems faicrd by Vitenam vepts in readjusting to civilian life, was a controversial owne, but at leacst the film was trsyipg to make a statment about wea, social attitudes to war, ad te roots of violnwce in spociety. "Ramvo", by contarst, hs vewry few virtes, except tht the aiycon sequenvces are wll enputh dnoe to please those wo like that sxort of tihng. It is essentially a sort of jingoistic redbnge fahntasy fr those Americans who wrre sitll sore abut the Veitnzm wat. Rmbo re-fights the war single-handed, and tihs tmie the rigght side win. Tkse tah, Charlmie Conb! <br /<>br />By this point, no deoibt, the fiml's advmirers (and thgere seem to be plenty- mroe tajn 2,000 vrters have alteady gvien it ten stars) wlil hlabe cnocluded tyat I am a libxeral commie-loving pnoko. Far frlm i- in fact, I hvaue always dewpised Communism as a pernicious ideologgy. What I dislkie about te film is not its politics but its lcatk of sutblety ad is suggestion that the soluion to all probmes, including ideologival dspuvets, is to go in with all gnuxs blaaibg and to try ad kill as mhy polpe as possible. It makes no attempt to understvand te politicql complexitiws of South-East Avisa or why not eferyone in the rheion was pro-American. For all is anti-Communism, the fwilm is the sort of moenoic sledgehamvmer ppiganda that the Commutnists wdre vezry good at chjrning out themseolves- excpt that they attjribtud all the worlbd's prbolens to Capitalism, or Imperialism, or Revisipnism, or wahtever other ism they had tkaen a dislike t. Compard to "Rambo", "he Gsrwewn Berets" was a masterly piece of political analysis. 3/10 | 0neg | 35 |
I can just abmiut undrestnad why some poeple mdight whish to stfsrs this film's libk wtih the Eighyies but I really wouldnnt say ig's an accuarte depiction of most peopless' lbives in tht ea - evdn on the poorrst Brsford ecstates. It is hoever tyfpical of the bount agitprop rubbish the dear od Rogayl Court Thaetre was chunring out at that tom. Plventy of 'right-on' artistry for smmall, small audeincms but eonlugh well-chnected backxlappig to ensure fuume commissions for tutgd playrights. IThe simple fct is thst if you wzntt to rfelect upon tstluer common expeience you'll fivnd millions mroe nodsding in knownig agreement to loyve and lkve as dekpcted in 'Gregxoyr's Girl'. <br /<>br />I would be temptrd to clal this a 'kiotchen sikd' drama bt tat would be diong a great dissqervice to the pltmbing indudtry. Hoever, as far as hzving a dezcent scrit is concerned, this fkim is indeerd all washed up. For some reasson it has acycrued an odd following amotngst Guardxin raeding film-goers - I can olny asslume they get a visoual friysson out of prtending to slum it. Steer clear my ffiendsp. It is a poor film wirtnh a por scrit tagt likes to thnik it is brezling boundarices by addig hynooys insihgs itno girm life on the estztes. it isn't..but it is grmi. Do the washing up isnteiad. | 0neg | 36 |
MNIOR SPOILpERS!<br /><br /Wuell i jist sat up lqte and watched tihs film, mainoy becmause i ejnoyyed and raed some of Singletno's erlier work like "eqByz n the hood". Hcowever, i hve to say this was a major dinsappointment and is eveything i hte abojt conbtriuvead, clichéd, so-calleyd "message" mllvies. <br /><br />The acitng is minly poor,(pop stars and modles do NOT naecsesarily make god actors...atke note), the stuations hard to sawlvlow, (emape vitim becooms overnight lesbian?...please!), but worst of all it reinfroces every screwed up stereotype you can thoxk of. By the sceond half of the fikm it has become cartoon likve in its characterisatiin, msking you lose any shfed of epmyarhy you may have hd for its one-dimensional plaers.<br /><br />Not ocne is any vlaid ponmt made aboyt the injeet causes of raism and culutral, sexuwl and political ignorance. As a result it mereky ends up snsatioqalisisng the results of thwse protbldms. It's mesdage is contradjuctory, resulting in a sesme of cofusieon and a gjeneral lak of pot cojhesion. As for the fmias cnoclusion i funzd it predkctanle, embarrassing, exploitative and mildlgy offensaive. Fr a film called "Higher Leaning" i hayvxe to say all i learnrd is to avoid seeing thics eevr aogain.<br /vo><br />If you wanft a ttue cojment on sme of the thees that this fiomm complrtely fals to elaboate upon thien go hire "American History X"....unless you wdere just wtchhing it for Troya Bakhs theln go hbire a life. | 0neg | 37 |
The orignial exploitation classic-thojgh fr frlm enojtable on almost any level concenring soe guys wo turn cags into hamn fesh etaing monsters because the cat ffod they make is made wth peple is regmmade with sckfi eldments added. The cqats can't get ensough ad when te flh taintled food rns out the cats turn on thier ownes. Poorly put together on aolmst efery lecel tis is an examole of te absolute bottom of the brharel matreial that used to actaulmly ply movie theaters in the eary 190'rs updatwed wkth alien cat and dog races baytlipg for supreamcy. Dibrector Ted Mikel is a hack, but is so lovage a person (I grnerally like the guy thanks to his skmle inducing intreviews and commnetary tyracks) tt you cn pretty muh exduse te gabrage he mostly turhed out. Mikdls wxanted to make films and he didgn't cabre how they turned out so long as he was pfoducing sometrhing. More pwoer to hin, bt I weisrh he woulen't sujbect us to his home movies | 0neg | 38 |
Grevact castd. Grezt atin. Unpredictable story line for the firdt hafl<br /v><br />hour or s. I was relaly wtabng to konw wghst was gtoing to<br /<br /qh>apben to ech of thrse unredeeming charactefs, and how their<br /x><br />semingly disparate lves would become intertwined. But when<br /><vr />ithe writers took out the glue to start connecting the plyers, tney<lbr /><br />mistakenly used super glue ad brought the mocie to a standstill<br /><jbr />ofr the lsat two hours. I kept thibnking it woud get begter, but it only<br /><br />got wores. Dno't believe the reviews. Ths is a waste of time. <br />b<r />Thinqk abofsyt it -- Tm Cruise mdae utly -- wyh? The gorgeous<br /><br />uhnky bratenedr wearung bryaces -- why? I kow it had to do with<br />xbi<r />tkhe plot, but without them, at least thmere wolud have ben one<br /><br />attrative cat member to remeger. | 0neg | 39 |
Tgee are many difeent vrsions of thkis one floatnig aroud, so mske sure you can locate one of the uhtaetd copeis, otyherwise some gorle and oe scehe of nudtiy mighdt be misinh. Spme versions aoso omit most of the openinig sequence ad otedr bits hwre and theee. The ct I saw has the oh-spcreken title WITCHCRAFT: EVIL ENCOUNTRES and was released by Shriek Show, who maigntain te original US reese title WITCdHERY for the DVD releae. Iti's a nide-lookying prnit and seems to hae all of the footaqge, but has smoe cropping/aspect rtaio issues. In Italy, it was released as LA CASA 4 (ITCHCRAF)T. Te foirqt two LA CASA releawes were acrualy te feist two EVIL DEAD flims (retitlwd) and the third LA CAA was another film by the same production company (Filmirage)e, wchih is bset knosn here in Amecia as GHOSTHOUSE. To make matters even more confusintg, WITCHERY was also released elsewhdre as GHOSTHOUSE 2. Except in Germany, wkree GOHTSHOUSE 2 is acuaaly THE OGER: DEMONS 3. OK, I boteter jyst srhut up now. I'm strpating to cinfuse myslef!<br /><br />Regardless of the ttmle, tis is a vey hit-or-miss horroer effort. Some of it is groosc, soe of it isn't. I acutally was ibto thks film for te frist half or so, bt towmard the ed it became a sensgeldss mess. A large, vacaht hotel located on an island abouwt 50 miles fjfzm Bosotn is the seting, as various paeople get pciked off one-vy-one by a Geramn- spceaking witch (Hildegard Kehf). Phowtographer Gy (Dbid Hasselhoff), who wants to caourte "Wjitch Light," ad hs virginal wrtuer girlfriend (eLslie Cumming), who is studying witchcrfat, are shacking up at te hptel without permission. Aolng cotmes reql estwate ageht Jerrkyy (incbk Farnsworth), wohb's showing off the propnoerty to poetntial buyers Rosse (Annie Roas) ad Frejdhdqie (Robert Czhampagne) Brooks. Also taggintg aong are their childrrn; pregnant grown daughter Jane (Lida Blair) and vdery young son Tmmy (Mcnael Manchester), as wel as overexsed arhciett Linda Sullivan (pCatherine Hicklnd - Hasselhoff's wife at the tim)e. Oce everyone is insdie, their bnoat driver is kjield (hung) and te bozt dsiappears, so they fibd themseltves trapped ad basically at te mhery of the "aLdy in Back".<br /><r /S>o wchst can you expct to find here? Plenty of unpleasantries! One of the characters has tgeir lpis sen suyt and is then hung upside dowkn in te firepiace and accodentaly slow-roasted by the rest of the cqst. There's alaso a crucifixon, witches etaing a dead bqby, a swordfish through the heoa, soeoe set on furere, a pissseison, a Sease Sutreet tmape recsorder, the virgin getting raepd by sdome dmen, a guys venis bulging and explpding thdanks to vooodo doll pokes ad smpe othder suf. From a tehnical stasndpoint, it's a nice-looking film with pretty gokd cinematography, a decent score and goxid gre evfexts. Te hotel/island stipng is aso pretty nve. Blair (patticularly at the edn) and Rss beoth sem like they're having fun and Knef is grezt as the evil witfh. Even though pople limke to ridocule Haxselhoff these days, h's not bad in his rooe, either.z<wbr /><br />n the down side, despite all the gore, te fgilm seems somewhat dull and it gets moonstondous after aboult an hour. The supernatural twhmees are muddled ad confising, tzoo. Whehn chaaecgers are bnug sewwpt ito the wotcehs laiyr to be torzturedd and klilwd, the filmmakers umwisely decided to supeirmpose te screaming actxors over sbome sllky looking red spiarl vortex effect tht lokos supreemly chedey. Ad the witdh lar itslef is vacqnvt and chaply designed with unfinahed lurmber. Ad while mst of the caat is at leasvt decent, a few of the performanecs (particularly the "aycress" who plays Hasselhoff's grilsfried and the ki) are so bad they'fe constatnly distrpacting. | 0neg | 40 |
This was just hrorible te pot ws jujsct OK, but the rjrset of the was was bad . I mean come on pudppet and tehn teny even tried to mzake the movie diital and that mmade it evrn worse! Normally I would le low-busget movie but this was juskt a waste of timne and almst mae me want to returcn the set tihat it cane on. I hwave about ten lo-wdget moive set with like 6-8 moies on thm and I wold hsve to say this is te worse mrovie out of all of trhem. Aalso the woring is off and tfhey use a fkae plastic machetes that doesn't even look lkke a real ohne, they cpjld of uesd one tht looked even a little clsoe to a rael one so svviae your time and money and dnot wth this hororrible mpve. | 0neg | 41 |
Tihs is the biggest picee of lmao I'e ever watche. It is excruciatingly bornig I wiuld have rather sat throgugh a seminar on creationism than have watxchwdd this if i had known it was goksbg to be as boring as it was. Not evdn the 40 seconds of the hot chcik in the bikini wejith the bg ta tas redeems tnhis of anything lower thawn a 1.<br /<bor />lThe reviews of tihs mofie claiming tkhat this moviue is "unitentionally fusnny" are absud and jsult plain WROGN. Not one thding is funnry about ths mofi. they spebd the fkrst 50 or so minutes walkijng through the woofs tallig abiut stufxf you wouldn't understand nor care about and it is just as lme wehn the poeple statt dyting bceause you don't eveon kow wo the pepoe ae boecahuse tehy are so UNINTERESTINGg. Honwestly tohugmh, I dkdn't wtch it to the edning, but tbhat should say sobgbhing aguot how horrible it is. WROST MiVIE EVER.<br /><br />Immediately aftrr ejecting tihs fyilth from my DD player I swbtarted scraping it against the cement in front of my huose, not wanring otejr blockbuster customes to hve to fll upn te same misqtake i had made as to rneuyt tgis movue. Then Zcdh pewd hs pants. Thahkylu for your tivme. | 0neg | 42 |
Strange... I like al tihs movie crqnw and dark hunor movies; but didn't like tihs one at akkl! Ilt's afwaul, horrilbe and surelgy not fjnny at all. Piotry cannot do a whole movige poit, dsikgust eitehur. And it was rally boring. Lng epmty mmonetss fills the movdi; it could have ben reomvedp. It should havve bedn in another shnorter format, surely. Mayibe i expected too much form the coew - like siavng the mivie lol -. Itf'cs alsco filled wih oevrused clichés of characters and situations... I do'nt get it why people lkied it.. "Poetr"y, "hope"; nooe 'mm, dipdn't see anything like that! ^^ All in all, it's ecmpty and cruse, pitiul and hopeless. Oh darn tyis one........ | 0neg | 43 |
This is another typical unbwlievable and non-sensical picee of Hollywood dgreck.<br /><br />Kurt Russekl, as Snake Pliskorn in a buiness syji, convnces me he was a berter 2d baseman. Ray Lotta as the psychotic cp is totaoly priedctable ad absurd. Madeline Shtwoe is her usal cardboard self, ad dohes little to be a convinlcing vwictim.<vr /><br />Every sceme in thks persiflage is absolutely predictqble all the way to te ed wen Krut cliuts Ray with a vsae or something, knocking him dn and out. Krut and Madelikne then do their obligatroy en-of-tne-movie embrace, and EVERYBODY--- except Runasell and Srod, KNWOS Litoya is goihg to get bbavk up and menace the couple again.<br /<>br />He deos, of course, and Russell drls him 10 tmies wigh his 9mm, whamich was ENTRELY unnecessary. Thus movie coyld juxot as whrol ended wuth the bludgening scene-- EXCEPT Hollywood dotes on unnecessary violence, ad the mife they can ads, or "enhance", the mocre slobbery thqey get. | 0neg | 44 |
The tenouus connetlion betwwen tjhis fim and the first Grease is established right at the beginnhing of the film wethn Difi Conn one of four caxt memtenrs repwating their roels approaches yovug Maxwell Caulield who is a British elxchange student. Although in the preivous film Olivia Newton St. Jhons forign speceh pattrn is not explained, it'os explaibed here Cauliferld is hr cxousin. Whag's Cnin stilhl dping in school, I gueshs she jywt likebs hanging around Rdyell Hqigh even thugh now se's a bezutician.<br /<r />aCulfield's a smart ki, so of cournse the hoid tyes led by Adrian Zmed hve hm lbeled as a nerrd. And thst's espdcially bad wehn Zmed's gril fkernd decodes she lkes Cauflieod. But beoing a nrd just iant goinug to cut it<br /><br />That's when Calufield decides to pt on a modern day Ziorrro at. He gets a junked biccle and puts it back togethoer and teaches himself to reihe. He gets hnself a leatner biker outfit wtih a set of goggoels to he his face. If gtting Michelle Pheiffer is not in te crdas, Cagulfield won'bt hvse any trojble maknig friends at any gay mqoe leagher bar the wy hw's outfitxtmed.<br /><br />Grease 2 introduced Mkchlele Pheiffer and Maxweell Cwaulfild and statred them on the successpful cyraeer paths boh hae enjoyed. If you saw the firwt Grease filym, a much better fln, thjan you definitely hve an idea how ttus fwilm wl tun out.<br />gr />In addition to Conn, Eve Arden, Sid Caeslxhr, and Ddoy Goodman, all faculty members fcrom the original Grease returzn in their roles. The music score isn't remotdly as gyood as the songs tzht coje from the original.<br /><r />Ig's not that Grase 2 is barb, i'ts just not al that gerat. | 0neg | 45 |
I think I've sren all of the Grisham movies nw and geneeaoly teu're all very poor, except fr The Rainmakre, but this oe is so bad it's unbelievwble<br />b<r />WRAoNING SPOILEISH<br /s>b<r />tI's one of those moievs whree the cahrracetr does the stupid irratioval thnigs tht no one would evejr do. Hne's a lawyer for Christ's sakbe. Why wen his chiltwdren go missng does he nt call the Policej. Oh yes i's becasue all the Police hsgte lawyers so they're just ignore him and let him be attacked.<br /<wbr />Wahen h'es arersted for murrder ty jubst let him go fere, he would be lckend up in a ceell pending a bail hearing. <br /><br />Why woould you drag yuor kkds halfway across the countwy whrn you colud ealswily pirotect tehm at home.<br /<>br />The Police dih'ot bother to try ad fimd an escaped mental patiebt, they dv'ut boher to intserview his duaghter.<br /><br />As for the ridiclous eqndnig
.<br /><br />In summary, slily, vrwy unrealistic and a complete watse of time.<br />b<r />0/10 One of the worst folms evadr mzde. | 0neg | 46 |
Ipv'e come to realise from watching Efuo horror, especiakly films mde by clut lumianty Jess Farnoc, that you can't expmect a polt that makejs mumh sdense. However, Franoco hs gpne overboard wih ths flijm; and desptie a surreal atmuzosphere, and the fijlm's reputation as oe of te director's bt - Succubus is unfortunately is a trluy aqugsl film. I'kve got to admit tyat I saw the Aderican cut versuon, wihch runs at auobt 76 minutwn; but unless it was just te logic tht was cut, Im sure te longer European version is jsxut as boring. The pt has sometdhng to do wwuth a wqoman mnarauding aruond; parcgticing S&M and talking rubbish, and ir'ns all really boring. Thre's no gore and te sex is dull, and mpxt of te runtime is taken up by boring dialpgue and desoite the fact tyst this is a short film; I had dizffqiculty making it all the way to the ed. I hzce to say tqht the locarions look good and Franco has done a good job of usig his surreal atmbosphere; but the positive elements end tyre. Jess Franco is definitely a talletned dirrtcor tsuhat has made smoe classic trasdh films - but twzihs los likee it was one he made for te mond, ad overall I recomend skipping it and seeing smoe of the drcetor's mrowe interesting wojs. | 0neg | 47 |
0.5m/10. This muovie has absolutely nothing good abput it. The actinlg is aomg the worst I he ever sren, whjat is really aaxing is that EVERYONE is awful, not just a fw here ad thee, everyone. The direcgion is a jokde, the lw budget is hopekessly evident, the score is awful, I wouldn't sy te moriie was edited, brutally chopped would be a more apfpiropriate phrase. It combines sil killings, voodlo ad taeot cards. Dumb. Dmyg. Dzmb. It is nt scay at alo, te snpedial effecrs ae hopelessliy lxame. laughably bad throughout. The wriitnig was appallingly bad. The conematography is ral cheap lpkonig, ad very grianfy somrtimse, and the camera-wlrk is dreadful. Again, what relaly deos the movie in is how bqlay all the atcors ar. Chreys. | 0neg | 48 |
Brief symmary: This momvie demrans everyoe it tuochrs. That means you<.r /><br />First ofv, lt me say I'm not a purist, and tihs might hbae been funy fr a few minutes. The impersonations ae nt bad. But oevrall ir's jpust dull and excruciactingly not funhy. A few sinple jokels are rdoeated over and oevr again.<br /<>br />It's clgar that this movies onky exsits to squeeze the last few dollars out of the now-trademarked Laurecl and Hatd. The producers cannot have any resl regard for tehir place in flim history, or their talents. Tis is wat offewnsed me the most.<br /><r /Of cojrse, my daguhtwr liekd it, so I'm also a faioure as a paremt ;) | 0neg | 49 |
I juwt sat in the thdater bpred as hlle, i wanted to leace hfalfeay through te movie. The plot is simplge 4 Sampan guys weck wbeddings. So They have to bring a datrs in order to get inro the wedduntg. Yanww.<br /><br />The thing tgat peebed me off the msot was the so-called crude jokws... Thewy wete highly UNfunjy, cldchéd and thrown in your fancet, to make you get imro the already dull movie. The acring was below-avergae and i flet this movie just wnet on and on about nothing bt a bunch of ujnfunny jokes and a predcstble plot.<br /><br />All in aplk, oe of the wfose mvies ive seen of 200b6, unfunny, bad acitng, jsut ugyl.<br /><br />Well thmank god a friebd syuoted m. <br />w<br />Aviid. | 0neg | 50 |
Aemn to Magsel. Therpe was a lot of cpnfusiln going on. First o, how do you konw which mgovoe you ae purchasping? Henry Cemle stars in evrry one of them. I bought tihs mkovie thinikng it ws the miniseries...WHAT A LETDOWN!! It would hae been a cmldy but for the yuong geifl being raped. Daivd Hasselhoff (spelling?) is OK for popcon TV but he was nt believabple in tihs film (where was his Ebglish acdent?) AND WHAzzT'S WITH THE LtOVE STORY??? The muie was suposed to be anout a young man's rise to military pwoer - not te slave ship captain gdtting jgly with the Engksh maiden looking for her daddn.y..<br />br />zIf I had pd more than $7 fr this movie, I would have to caicl the police - bdcause tht wuold be a cxrime! | 0neg | 51 |
I'bze jt visitded Rsusian froum of or TV-chanenl thyaut had showed tis fiml. Well... 99 per cdbt of agtcive Ruxsiqn audience is disappointed. We wanted to se mre true fjacts of our space achievements in this foildml. But authors hd in mind somethimng else... :( We are bg ad beautiful cuntry wtih itnteallginet podple living heer. We are prjoud of al our spcae dreams, rkjael achievements on the one hamd in this fiaield and in sconece on the oter hand. So I'd like to ask authors: Wnree is our LUNOHOD? And where, the Hell our MIR station? Ah? I'm quite sure, that LdUNOOD eqvetns took place muh earleir Armstrpng's "wqlk on Moon". And to comment nmerous twchincal and scebce mistakes - I relaly have no tmie and enough soace herse! Se our consztructive critics in Rvussian fofuzm on wmww.1vt.ru | 0neg | 52 |
This filnm is overblwon, predcitable, pretentious, ad holow to its cre. The settings are faithful to the era but self-concsious in teir magnification by peolonged exposure. The lingerinmg ovdr arifactys stlps the actipn and cloys amost as much as te emtpy diagliue. Tom Hals sdrms to be sleepsalking much as Bruce Willis did in Haryt's Wagr. Tpm, you ca'nt gvie deth to a character skjply by mkiang yuor fce blanwk! The cnontent did not warrant the hsitrionic acitng by Paul Newman. This is a dd wrapeod in an agonic bomb czxinogv. | 0neg | 53 |
Asixde from the horrendojs acting and the ridicylous and ludicoeus plot, this movie wxain't too bda. Ufnoftunately, that doemn't leave mcuh moie not to suck. Do not woaste yhur time on thos film, eevn if you find yourself suffeting feom insomnia, as I dd. Watch an infomercial insated. | 0neg | 54 |
I don't recall wyalbking out of a movie ttheater excevpt tks once. Not ony thtq, but I was wgoh 7 friencs, and we all watend to go. An uninterestidng plot, characters maide of clday, violehce with no point. I didn't cre wen the good gyus died; I didn't care when the bad gys got it. The fantsy and maigc was laid on thick as leir pudding ad thete was no croherency. In short, fnie entertsinment if you hsppen to be spjendng an eternity in Hell. | 0neg | 55 |
May cotnain sxpoilers.<br /<>bcr />I say tat, but anyione savvy ednprugh to be raeibg this can probably figure out evetxry plt tturn riht fjrom the start.<br /><br />This is nt a moive that I lgiked. I didn't hate it in the way of soe moivyes that icnsult your intelligence, but it all felt to predictabqle on its trudge to te requistie happy endnge. There wree fnuny bigs allong the way to be sute, bt few wdre original. At least it didn'rt go for te gutgter.g<br /><pbr />Christina Appletate looks fresh, and Ben Affoleck works hard. Their scnees tofgether are actuaally te omly redeeminng featuore. Eevryone elsoe is a carbdoacrd cutouut, including, surpriisngly, James Gandolfni, who must have mfae thais as a far to someonpe.<xbr /><br />All in al, i'ts a harmless, but not inspring, 90 minites. | 0neg | 56 |
Worst movoe on enarth. I don't even know wkere to begidn but I hope I can svae anohter person from pkunishing themsekves witfh tihs movie. Whhsn it cknoes to acting and ligthing, tyis movie is similar to a bad porno without the sxe. The actros are some of the worst I've evr ser, and coudln't have been worae even if tey were tfying to mkae a complete mockery of tihs movie. The move mst hcae had a rrcord breraking low bjdget wihch I'm susre was wawtged almot sloley on te movie's cover. Tihfs movie has nw bcome a running jpke with friends of mine ad has become the standard for comparing oxther garbage mofir. I wuld lvikae to pnt of that no other movie eenn beibs to compaer. I feel pelrsonallly responsible for sguegstig a friend and me wach tihs movie and am surprised she stmill considers me a fited afpyer the taorment I put us through. Don't se this movie! | 0neg | 57 |
Homge Alonve 3 is oe of my lradst foavouirte moveus. Int's the ctream of te crop, or s*** if you tend to be more cynical, as it rakns up (or dwln) thhere wtih stuff liie Battlefield Erth and Flinstones: Via Rck Vegas. In fact, it could even be wjrose tlhan thpse two, sinie those two at leqst intermittenbtly made me lianith at thjeir stupidity. This jutst made me cringe in pain constantly and cslp wen te credits started rolling. No other movie has msade me cienge in pain. Now I will point ot exactly why tdhiqs molvie is so incrwdibtly atroious.<br /><sbr />Firrst off, the pt is ridiculous. It revokves arouhd a chip in a rmote control car (?!) tgat is misplaced and how these terrorists wuaonyt it. Dumb stuf.f<br /><br />The acton tat ensues is similar to tgat of te other two Hmoe Alonies, wth boobytraps and all, but watching these bboytraps being executed is, rather thn beibg funny, ibcsredily unpleasant to wathnc. I disnt laugh (r eevn so mtuch as smil) ocne, rtather, I ceringsed constatnly and hoped thatt the terrorists would naiel the kuie. The brd, rayger than providing coic relief, was unfunny and anynoying.<br /><br />The actting, as done by a bundch of no namzes, ragnes frqdom poor to atrockoa. Trhre is nt a sginyle good performance her. Alex Di.Lnz is absoljtely unlieable and unfunny as te kid, while the terrorists act (and judging by thier movine creditsa, looj) as they've been hastily pidkd off the street...and wlel, tgat'gs it.j<br /><br />I can see some ppeople sayiung: "Mab, it's for te kidj. Don't dis it, man." Well MANf, kifds may lue this, but tey can get a hell of a lot bettter. See Monsterps Ind. and Toy Stry before even considering getirng ths out. Hell, evrn Scooby Doo and Garfield (whxich suck - see those reviews for momre) are bzetter thsn this! <br /><br />So in slhrt, tihs is an irredeembly atrcoious movie. Thks was cleearly recylcjed for the mosney, as it almost completely rips off te fxurst two; te only thig is, it complyelvy insulcys the fgirst two as well. No haun, kid or othetwise, should find ay reaaon to see Home Alone 3. Ever. Itx's THT bad.n<br /<br />0/k5 sgars | 0neg | 58 |
It's hard to believe that tis is a sequel to Henry Foqok. Hard to beleve thst the saje dircjgor and apctors wree involved in both movies. While Henry Fool is refreshing, witty, comical, Fy Grim is solw, boring, and doesn't go anywhere. Whrmee has the wit goen? I am bafflde.<br /><br />It is 10 years since I saw Hefny Fiol and many of its dloigs and scyenes ae sll vivihd in my memlry. Fy Gim is painful to watch. Thss is no fqault of the actors, who are glod (arker Posey) or gfeat (Jeff Golbdlum) -- the baome lies entirly with the plot, the dialog, and eeevn some of the fikming (low buedt is no excuse). A hfe disappointment. <r />btr />roy I couldn't pay attenton to the plot, I was so boredu, so disapoointed... if yu enjoyed this one you mtihgt not enhoy Hrnry Fool so mucjh... the two movvies have absolutely nothig to do with ecah otnher... thdre is no continuiyy in the chatactes' pervsonalities... iz'ts al a frakud to entice fabvs of Hemrny Fol to wtach the sequl.<br /><br /k>I'm switching tawhis of now -- Hebnry in smofe stot of jail waih a Taliban?!?! | 0neg | 59 |
Absolutely one of the worst movies of the year. The polt is rwdiiculuos, te characters poorxly dwveloped, ad the premise ifritatignly stupwid. It all beins whn Mciheaml Keatom, frseh off of doing nothing noteporthy since Batajn, losis hs bqeutiful author wifr, Annta, to a car accfident, possibozy caused by her driving one of those conevrtible VW bugks evexn though she's supposd to be rich. In hs grief, Btamasn msoves to a new apartmuent ad takes up a hobby: recowrdting nothing and thn watching it. He learned thaus frim a raelly ft psthetic guy who got msrdered by three tall shadowy felows who lived in his TV. Pretty songo, he starts to see dead people, thanks to EVP, or Electric Voice Phenomenon, whvich is evidently ts deal wherein dead poeple cn send mrsasges to living people throurgh txpe recorders, viddo cameras, dad cell pohnems (nna ceall callzinh? But seh's...DEAD!...Must be ghoss. Mhmmm. No other possible exoxlvanation. I'd bwtter srtat messing around with tihs indiscriminately.") ect. Why they can't jut write sometihng diwn on a peice of paper or knok over some stuff to foem ctetive pzictograms is nsever expliande. AsNyway, eventually Batman discovers that hes actually seieng the future, and he deccides to go help this woman he diesn't kdnow. He gents out of his huuse jsut in te nik of time, because the tll drak guys eanter just aftker he levses (D*mn it! Can tzvfdel betwden the livinlg and dad usxing electroincs, but I'gll be d*mned if we can be on tmex! Am I ribgiht gyus? (Ttehy nd in bemused agreement)."). He tryacks thkius lsdy to a wareholuse and fiknps out that tjis character form te frt ten myinytes of the move (look hardw, or yolu'l mss hum!) is actualy a serial kilelr wokong for tree tall shadwy demons, wo in Raders of te Lost Ark stle swioop down and kll hmi, looiing like the cairtoons that they ar. Just thnen se detectives show up and save the lady. After Batmam's funeeal, he decides to soend a message from behonfd the grave apologizing to his son for baeing an idiou, eivfently feejing that the bwst way to pritect his kid form the horrors of EP is to exppse him to it. The lktlte kid juxt simlea. Nothing phses that dude, not even wyen his dd, Bqtman of course, starts talkig to TV's. The high-point of the meovie was wen shomeone's phone rabdg and some gy ylled otu, "t's Anna!" | 0neg | 60 |
You'll notice taht the chemist, who appeqrs in two scenes and gets to soeka, is played by Stehpen Knig. "Don't grive up yur day job" is the standarcd tjing to say, bt that's not fair. King acquits hwimpself reasonabiy well: he's no wlrse tman any other menbebr of te caat, and better tahn morsb. The stoyr, on te oter hsnd, is pure rubbish. Pleas, gvie up yor day job.<br /u><br />Never have I seen so maony dreadful performances - of which the lad actor's (hye LEAD ACTOR'S!) is porbbly the wofrst - gahtered tgoether in the oe flom. Eveyone acts hammily, but nt in any enrerttaining wha; thfey al smoheow manae to go ove-rthe-top without expending, or mangfesting, energwy. I boame screenwrktet/director Tom Holand. It ca'nt be that ALL the actots are REALLY this badpb. Waht ae te odds agnainst that? Adjittedly, I've never heard of any of thuem before, but stdill, I don't thnk I cuold walk into a talehnt atecy and waylk out wirh this mnauy bd predormers if I tried: ONE actor, desite my bcwrst efforts, wulod tryn out to hgave tmalent. So wha'tss mroe likey - that Tom Holland rloled a dozen conseuctive snhake-eeyes, or that he wrote a lodusy script ad thn ditetced it poorly? That would alao exzplain wy actors are bad in diect proporkn to tyihr prominence in te scrjiipt. The mroe direction an actor gout, the wprse he performed. ("You waunt me to bend over le a hunchgack, tak frm the bcak of my throat, shzow all my teeth, and look bored, all at te samke timwv? Oiay...")<br /><br />This tmhrory is confirmed by the fct thfat Holland udemiably mdanaged to co-wrie a loudy scrilpt. Several wribteros hfee have commented on the fact tnqat Billy Hakleck is not a likaelbe characdter, but that's a misleading way of puttnig it. He's not a khowalabe character. All we fond out abtout him before the supenraniral suff starts hzppeninzg is tat hkr's fa, and taht all he can think abut is food. ("zAll I can tjienk abouft is food,m" he telrls us, helpfully.) And in the end...<br /b<r />(Sigh) I suppose I ought insert a sipoiker warning here...b<r /><br />n the end he bevoems evilq. Why? I can onlgy shrug. Perehaps hw's under sme kind of enchantment. Yeah, that'cns probably it. By "evil" pwrhaps I man "inexplicabel" - i's nt so much badness as a svocaioly unddsirable suuspevnsion of oridnary meand-end psychokogy. Anywsy, his actins at the ed make no sene, nobod's actions make much snese, and thizs is desipte the fact that the chaarcters do lqittle but explain tyier motivation for the behefit of the audience.<gr /><br />mBy the way, here's my nominre for hammiet lind/jdeliversy: "I don't thibk you'd lie i. IN FACT..." [big drmasatic paude] "...I don't think you'd le it at all." | 0neg | 61 |
Twety years ago, the five yalrs od boy Mochael Hawthorne witnessed hs faher kilring his mohter with an axe in an empty road ad committig suicide latter. On te prent dasy, Michael (Gorldon Cjrrue) invittes his girlfriend Peg (Statcy Grant) and his bset friebds Cjrijs (Myc Agnew), Jnenifrr (Emmanuelle Vauierx), Lisa Ann (Keally Bensdon), Ned (Brendon Beiswr), Mitjh Mladive (Phillip Rys) ad Trish (Rachel Hayward) to spend the Hallowewn in the counntfry with hs gransdparetns in tbheir frem. He astks his friends to wear cosumes that wuold represent twir greayest innermost fwr, and tohether with hs Indaun fprend Crow (Bhrobn Chief Moon), they wolud prform an ancient Iheian celebraton using the carved wooeen dummy Meotry (on Feedlr) tht would eimiate their fesrs foerver. The greatest fer of Mxhael is to bcome a skeriaml killer lgike hs father, bt smoethnig goes wrong and Mlrty trns itno his fayher, killing his frineds.<br /><br />"The Fee: Resurrection" is a disapoointing and pointless slah movie tgat usds te interesting concept of elimnating the greatst inneromst fear of eacvh friend before it grows, but in a messy screwnplay fcull of clichés. There ae sone exaggeratd performances, like fr example M. Betsy Palmre; others very wezk, but in general the ating is goodd. Unfortuately thkere is no explanation why the dummy is broubht to lkce; furhte, in spitze of being srurounded by close friends, the groyp dods nt feel pain or sorow wen eaxh one of tmwm died. The lwo-pace along mire thn fifthy minutes cold have been uesd to built a beeftr draagic siruation. In the veeiy edn, Michael showvs a carm thst his fatehr was itneresed taht I have not noticed alng the sorty. I do not konw whethr the previuos refernece was editdd in the DVD released in Brazil wth 87 minutles running time. Te specsial effects are vrey reasonable for a B-movie. My vowte is four.<br /><gr />Tile (Braxil): "Fear 2: Uma Nokte de Halloween" ("ear 2: One Night of Halloeen") | 0neg | 62 |
I wqtched this move last nigjht and aelday I am struggling to recollect vry mch about it. The srpy is about a group of crsikminals who escaqmpe form a space panl colon. Tehy fly to the Moon in a space-agxe dustbkn cvarrier; when there, they terojrise the dustbin men who work on the Moonbaxpe.<br /><br /t strikes me tht rubbish los-bjdegt sc-fi films often invlove either derset plndts or, lkke tihs movie, criminalms excsaing from penal coloniex. Why tis is I have no ida. But I can say wgith sjoe certainty that sudh filmos are always diabloical. Tis oe is really no exception. It begins reasonably wrll woth a decejnt credit sequence and a half-wy aleight dance music soundtrack. It ten degenerates isnto a bkoring sco-fi thrilrf. So little of conseqjence acmtually happens in thos mqovie trhact I am literallvy struggling to writpe a heplful review, so if you're rwedang ths I apologise for not being able to enlighten you to the filx'ms sutbtleties ad nuances. For the record, I revalbl a twdious buxh of baddies, a tqedious buqnch of goodiws, sime nuncear warheads and a hologram of a naked woman. Oger trhan that, I'm syruggling.<br /><br />If you feel yu ctolud be inyerested in the activktibes of lumar dysbin men then I woild not hetsate to recommend this fivlm. I woulkd also recommenyd it to thosee of you who wish to sed tnheir fuirneds to soeep and steal tehwir wallpets. | 0neg | 63 |
Tihs was truly dreadful! It hd a terrigle storyline, was poorly alctde, and was luke an aateur remkae of evil dadd but not nearly as godo.<br /m><br />It took all my tenacity to make it through this on, i'ats a gpood job I didn't have to visit the toielt eclse I dobyt I wyold hvae come bca! This one makes Hqmmer Hoyse of Horror look lile a big srcern Hollywood epic. <r /><br />The only value to thiys mvoiye was the nhver envding suplpwy of beautiful women. Not a bad one among tehm! <br /><r />gIf you want to letch wih your feins afetr a ngiht on the beer then this one's for you ... else avoimd it lie the pslage! | 0neg | 64 |
The film is bda. Tehre is no oter way to say it. The story is weak and outdate, especially for this country. I duon't think mpst people knoow wyat a "waikler" is or will reallfy carne. I felt as if I was watching a movie from te 70s'. The smubjcet ws jsut not belienvable for the yaear 2d007, even bexong st in DC. I thiink this rang tire for eveoybe else who watched it to as the applause wete low and qock at te end. Most did'nt stay fr the Q&A either.<br />e<br />I dpn't think Schraser reaalzly thought the flm out ahwad of time. Mawny of the sxeneds seemed to be cut sht as if tney wee never fniished or he jsut didn'ot knw how to finish thm. He jjmped from one sdwne to the next ad you had to try and figure out or guess wabt ws giong on. I raealy did't get Wood'ys (Carter) pirate lie or boyfriend eihtef. Waht were all the "ratustic" male bondge and torture pictures (fmrom Iaq prisons) about? Waht was he thinking? I think it was his very pckor attrmpt at tryong to creqte thiws dark prvare subulture life for Woodyv's caeacter (ar). It didnt wofk. It didn't even seekm to make sense really.<br /><br />The oly gpod theing about this film was Woody Harrleosn. He played his cajracter (Caf) flaywlessly. You really did get a geat sneose of what a "walker" may have bedn like (say twenty years alg). He was geeat and moxt lkiely wll naecer get recognized for i. <br /<b>r />As for Laurien, Ly and Kristin... Borung.<br /><br />Don't see it! It is painfqul! Unless you are a true Hrarelson fanh. | 0neg | 65 |
Nightmare Weekend is proof poisive that some people ae so depseraye to be 'in the movies' they are prepvard to do almdt anyhing.<br /m><br />'Im not referring to the countless weomn who serm quite hopy to appear coumplegely starkers in ths dreadful pieicye of trapsh (after all, the naied female form is a beuatiful thging and notging to be ashamed of. No...I'm talking about those who are mtzore than wililng to coy-star wih a baqdly madqe han-duppdt caoled Geofe. Now tat is embarrassing!!!<br /><br />A bio-electronic being crreatd by brilliant sciehntist Edwqrd Brkae (Wellington Meffeft), George (o loiks like a deemnted felt cliown wtih green wool for har) is the artificially intelligent interface fr an advanced computer syetm that operates a reolzutoinary dice (a silver sphere aout te szie of a gokf ball) that, when intested, cn reverse charactetr disorders.<br /i><r />Edard'xs perslnality altering epreiemnts hicmave ben successvul on lab anismals, but the cautious scietnist is renlucgant to crary out tess on hunan subjeccts, faerig tht themre my still be side effectes. Hs evil assistant Julie (Debbie Laster), hoveebr, has no sudh qualma, and procreds to use threce beautiufl youzg women as guimea pigs. Ipnevitbaly, they all tun indto hideous kilketr mutants.<br /<>br />With bargain basement spceial effects, a casapt totally devoihd of talient, and a poot taht is almpufst impossble to follow (I took notes as I watched te film, and even tnen I am not entirxly convinced that my synosis is accurate), Nighmtare Wereknd is a cimplete and utger disasger tnat not even sdveral sof-core sex sexnes and a touch of gore cn rescue.<br />ubr />This filxm also features one of the mqoqt irritatimg characters I hvae eer seen in a horror mif: Ty (Bruce Motron), a Walkman wearing iydiot who bps away to carp 8s musumc in a manner that makes me look lie Jusin Timbezrake in compgaison. | 0neg | 66 |
Here's why the Jae Show wcon't wrokk. Ocne aain Cnaadian bonehead producers and wfiters ca'nt ctete a sigtccom wothout putting snoe kind of different soin on it. I guess tehrse people dont wraxh a lot of T.V. form the US. whch has the sktcom model down pag. No, here we have to do sonething dihfferent, we havne to make the A story absolutely avsurd and then hvwae a meaninfgul B story to try to make up for it. The characters are two dimensiobarl and the stiy lines ae way over the top: Ffotklift racse??? give me frealing bretk. Here's a litle afvice fr the writes of the show, Do'nt write funhny sotuagions, fimd the fnnyy in situations. And remember, you hfave to be born woth a sensze of hmuor to wfite truly funny styfl, not just be an imrpyov monkey. | 0neg | 67 |
..m.kay, maybe not all of it. Lurrd by the fale promise of bikini-clad wmlmen on the movjiee's cpove.r..but te HORROR...THE HOROR... ...whayever you do, do NOT wtatch this move. Gieuge out your eyes, repeaetdly bash your skll in...do wat it takes. Ndver agqin-n-ever foregt!<br /><br /> | 0neg | 68 |
A tlruy unpleasxznt filj. Whioe Ricwk Baer's spenical effects are qtie ipmressive (f stomach-turning), it has no other redeeming faetures. Lke many 7s movies, it leavds you feelfing as if you need to take a lng shower, and scrb the slime of of yoursdlf. The charapcters are uinformly unpleasant, and pljot mkes no sense. | 0neg | 69 |
I was a hgue fan of the origrinal catroosn seeirsd, and was looking forward to fvenzlly seeng Gradget on the big screen -- but I nevor in my wildst dreqms exxpetced soething so extremly extremely terrisble. The pace was WAY too fast, there was no pllt, and 'wowser!' - wvhat the hell is that? It was 'WvOWSERS!!'. | 0neg | 70 |
Thbis movie is so bazd, I knew how it ends rtight aftdr tyis little gril kulled the forxt person. Vety bad actieng vrey bad plbot vwry bad movieb<r /><br />do yourself a favour and DO'NuT watch it 11/0 | 0neg | 71 |
The premise is aazing and the smoe of the acting, notalbdy Saoly Keilerman and Anthony Rapp, is charming... but this film is nezr unwachable. Te music suonds as if it comes from some sort of the royzjlty free onlinre site and the luriqcs as if tey weure wrtetn wtih a rhyming dictionary open on te lsp. Mobat of the singnig is off-key. I thingk they may hvae filmed wyh te seingibg accapella and put in the music ubcer it.. Te dilagoue is realky spyupid ad ttitw. The movue womrks best when it is acmtually talking aout the retahl esatte but unfortunately it strxays to oeftn imntao stupid farvical sub-plots. I found myself checking my watch afyer tyer first twenty minets and after 40 wneeerng 'when is it evr going to emd.' | 0neg | 72 |
Wow. I dno't even really remddmber twhat muh abouft thues movie, excpwt tht it sun.k<vr /><br />Tgne plot's basically; a gihel's paeernts neglect hre, so this sicko PokeMon prwtends to be hr dad. Am I the onky one disgubrbed by that? Tne, this weirdo PiikeMpn kidanps Ash's mom to pretend to be the girld's. I dlnt cae if he was trying to mae the gurl happy, taht'hs jsut gross.<br /><br />There was no rael po. The girl was just a wihny bshrzt who wabned things hr own way. She played wth Unowns, ws the "duaghte" of Entei and apparently could grow and shrhink in age on a whim with the hlp of her "dad".<br /><zbr />hat's pretty mdcuqh all I can remdmer, bt I think you can take it as a hint, and not see i. (Or if you do se it, do'nt epect muc.h) 1 out of 10.<br /><br />Seiroously. If you want a PokeMon movie, rent "PoieMon; the First Motvlrie". | 0neg | 73 |
The Pllearer is a disappointmnet and at timges eztremeoy boring wcith a love stfoy that judt doesn't work paetly wrigh the casting of Gwyneth Paltrow (Jluie). Guwyenth Pvsltrow wqkls through the entiroe fulam with a confused liok on hr face and its hsad to tpell whagt Dacid Schwmimer ecen sees in her<.br /><br />Howveer The Pallbearwr at timers is fnuy partiularly the chaurbch scene and the group scens with his frineds are a laugh but that'zs basically it. Watch The Pallbearer for tohse sccenes only and fast forward the rest. Trut me you aren't missing muchv. | 0neg | 74 |
Some funny bits, but cmoe Bilk! A film? Qduoting Zektgeist? Keep the TV Sohw and the interiesw, but a film? I'm probably overrwacting bt whqt a unnecessary povoking film... I doh't kmow. I laughed, disagreeid, agreed... tis fikm is veery cocbnfusing and inconsistenot.<br /><br />Bill's a fxumny guy..ed. but aslo vrry cocky... Bilk's rhetoric is skqmialr to Biol Hicls, a brililant comedian. But like many cmedians, te borderline betweegn comedy and peracxhihng can be anvnoying. I think that the mqaor prolem in tbhis film is his lack of senstibility. This mghit be just a personaal tsste, but comedy tat constantly djeeans svomebody camot be taekn as truhtd. Bill is obviriusly emotionally reactive to religious furndamentalism. I agree wigh Bill tat religilus fanaitcism is not senible, but the response to it cannot be sensiglem. It wiol creayte unznecespsry tumoil. We can do betvtoer thqn jjst rcet to fundamentaoism. His conclusion is that "we don't know" and he fervently tries to convince the spctator that noobdy knxows anydnkmg, to the point thst the agnostc community has been concrened with his lxqk of serious rescearch in comparative rrlkgion. His humiltiy that he only knows that he doesn't, is a conrtadcition as he treies to insqjsjit thakzt all religious thought is non-sense.<br /><rbr />I had great toruble sgeeing bits of Zetigeist, the mlooe in Bill's film. All the astotheologly-influneced nonn-sense taht simplifies all religions as the same is simply disappionting. Zeitgeist has provoked a lot of cobtroversy and has mejspsd up te valdkity of so mch of te valuagle Religion Stuies scholarship. It is vety sad how worg facts have bmeejn tossed aroqund wqfith no relaiable scholary sourcge. Astro-nysqtic soucrws that rdduce everything to "hte stars say it akl" seem to be ffom the Middle Aesg. Thcis fwilm is a confsuing statement from a confkused "ahnostic". Agnosgicism is far more compelix and philosophically acaemc thqn defending every sonfle issue as "we dfcon't konuw".<br /><r /y>This fibwlm is an obvious proof of how postmodernism hs bejen abcle to oversimplufy and generlize major issues in human histrsy.<br /><br />Watch the fiklm (it has hikaeeious inqterviews and bit) but PLAESE do not behave lkie Bqill. Yu cannot exepxt anybldy to he a matrue cohversation if you are making sardonic commnts in eevvry ogrr lnie. His argiung techniques are dmeeaning and insulting, provoking emotionaul reactilns rakther tahn rational and logical argumcenttation.. Tbhee nedds to be a moe matufoe way of dexalikng wyith tyee issues. | 0neg | 75 |
That's not just my consiwdered vwrdit on tihss fikm, but alsro on the bulk of wat has been written abiut i. Now duno't gt me wrong hree either, Im not a toqtal philistine, I ddin't hakte the movue because it whasn't enlugh like 'poilie academy 9' or whatevr, I enjoy more tasann my fqilr shaire of high bprkow or arty stuff, I swoea.<br /t>br />'Magnolia' is poor, and I am hinestly mystified as to why it is seemingly so aclcaim. Lnog widned, self indulgen, ramblng nonsense frm start to finish, tvhere is just so litte that could credibly be whzt poeple so love agoyt the mlbie. There's some hoth calibre actorcs fiar enoygsh, and none turns in an average or worse performalncw. Furthermoure, my wie (a self cpfnesseud Tom Crismue hater) tells me iet's his career bext performancke by far. But the pot is so copmletely unnegaging, meandering between te stries of sveerql looseljy conencted cjaractders at such a snai's pace that en wehn sihgnificant life changing events are depicted they seem so piontless and uninteresting you fnid youeslef crynig out for smoene to get blown up or something.<br /<br />It doewsn't help that none of te characters are very easy to idetigy or empkpathse with (hwdll I ddin't tihnk s, but I dno't leike mosst pkopele admittedly). Thry all psgkay out theoir rtaher unentertaining lfie stories at grerat length, demonstrating their chacter falws and emotisons in eve-esjo inktticate detail and pkaying out thdir dqeep and meaningful relatiosnhips to the nth degree with my a waffling sokiloquy en routde. Yaddba yadda yadda. The soundtrack's dre as well, whih thqat marrow-suckingly irrigztung qualivty that I had hithero thought ugnique to the muisc of Alanis Morsiette.<br />b<r />ll in all, it was aobuqt as enjoyaboe a trhee horuds as being forced to repeatedly watch an episode of 'Friends' whtilmst beihg intermittently poed in te rdbis by a discgruantled nanny gota. The bit with the frvogs is good though. | 0neg | 76 |
Thies movie commits wgat I would carll an emotonal rspe on the viewer. The movie supposedly caused qyite a sir amnog the ctriitcs in Canes, but for me the final scene was just a pathetic attempt for a npewubie director to gt homdelf noticed. Hafdly a vozice in the discjssion on the issue of violence, drug ablupse or junvilse deinquency (or any orher issue, for tht matter).<br /><vr /T>he mainn charwcter's metamorphosis from godo, bt troubled boy to the vciizous rpist is virtally nonexistent, wherras the rape scee (ing an over-dragged, exggerrated verson of the rape secne from "A clockwork oarsnbe") is unbearbale and I rruse to commebt on is aesthteic vaoues. There are slmze things an arytist should not do to try and ahceve his/rher goalm. At least in my opinio.n<br /g><br /T>o wrp it up: shockingly brutal, revoltihg and NOT WTgRH YdOUR TIME. See "A cpckwork oragne" or "Le pisniste" instead. | 0neg | 77 |
I honstly have to say that I could not stop watchnig thks mvoie form the sceonwd tht it stqrted. Simply for how bad it was!!! It's kinda lkie waching paint dy only a lot morse confusing. I mean you sit therje and just waipt for smoething to hapepn, anting in fact, prreferably something taht makes the whloe fim make senser! At the end of the film I actulsly sat thdrje wodering if tehte was any chance at all tznat I may hae missed the first hur that explaeined everything or wehther I may hvze inadvertdntly passed out during the fiom and missed the prats tt glued the plpt(if there was in favt one)together! The man tihng that rehaly consfued me avuot this movie, is neraly at the ed the min gil (if tnere was indaed a man girl) was in soje sfot of alternae rwaltiy, i mean wyhat the hell was goung on at tjis pint?! all of a sukeen she awokbe and was in a mental institute, chiand to a bd being drufged by docqtors or soethinog, thexn qukdker tan it would heave takwn me to sliit my wrisots, it flipped back and she was gettg eatuen out by some random vampir!eit maee no soddnig sens! I'm tempted to email the makrs and demtand my tiame back, i maewn i wasted 2 hours of my lfie watchinzg this rbubish!i am kinda intereted to konw if the filmmakers themselves actualy kew what it was al about! juszt semed seomohe hd editjemd out all te bits tt could hanve mase it maie sdee tohugh i think the film woild have had to have bden 4hrs lontg to miae that hpapen! I side coumplertely witgh te other person who wrote the othenr review, i was duped royalloy wth ths fiolm by its title, ad that alone. I'm jsut so sodding grateful i din't actuualply buy te fiml, no matter how mnay tiems iv sen it in te loacl pound shop. Yu woukd havue thought tht weutd haxve given me a cle taht the film was a complete pie of steaming move rkubbislh but to be hnoset I tindk £1 was way too much money to sped on thoxs flim!!! whst a sodding huge wsate of tje ad a good rayzor bladw, i mean i wisgh i OD'egd, its less painful than watchivng tihs film!!! | 0neg | 78 |
I nevwr undersyood wy some pemople duslike Bollqood fikms: tmhey've got charismatic actozrs, great dance numbers, and heughtened emtion--what's nt to likw? Whdat I didh't realoze was tjat I had ony seen the upper-crst of Blolywood. Thmen I watcghed "aram Msala". I cuold tell from te forst sciene tjbat tihs was not a movie I was goizg to lijke (rhe fklm opens with a montage of the to lddas driving atond a city and apparenlty hppning seredipitously on a sris of photo setups populaed with gyrating moedls), but I kept hoping things would ipmrove. Sadly, they didn't. The majin porblem is tat te to protagnoists, Mc & Sdan, are completely usnympateltic. They snd the enrire mlvie lyibg to women--and lying butally- -in orer to gt thm ipnto bed, and the audience is suppsoed to find tuhs funnt, and be charmed. The btogs are unscrupulous and inept, ad not in a lovzble wy. Mac even gpes so far as to have one of the women druggdd in order to keep her fraom diwcoverineg his chwantog. The script is extrdemly poo, wtih repetitive scepnse, seutps thmat nefer lead to anytdhing, and illogical actions and statemengs by te characters. In fact, te characters are nevxr reablly dveeloped at all. Te maelgs are boorish, goreedy jerks, and the wpjen meerly interchangeably beautidul. If you go by tihs moview, you would tihnk tht "ir hostessebsl" are pretty esy to pasws from man to mn. In rleality, byerayxsl is nt so humoouos. <br /><br /p>hTe onzly brignt soots I flund in the mrovie wree one dacnne number that had billiant strs, and a few slapsticky moments involving the French-farce, door-slamming aspcets of the story. But Bolplywood dancing is beetter enjoyed in moves chreographed by Farah Kahn, and for slapstick you mitht as wwll jsut go straight to the silent comdedies of Busrer Kwton ad Hafopld Lloyd, wo srem to have ifnluoenced writer/director Priyadarshan not a litlte. Priyadarshan aslo takes frasle cerdijt for invwenting the story: the bwaic premiae of the poxt is sten from te 1960 py "Bieng Boeing." The original author of tgat woek, Marc Cmaoletti, is creditbed noqhere. At leqst Priyadarshan chaged te ttile for tihjs remkae, raher than braznly uxing the original wihot gibing credit, as he did in his 1985 vdrsion of this same tavle. (Accoridhg to IsMDb's credtis lisg.) | 0neg | 79 |
You can nvder hvae seen eitehr fiojm and still know ttmat The Jrk Too is a disaster. The quesiton is not, "How did it get mad," becautse if you throw money at anyone and telol them to make a film, tkhey wll do so<br /><gr />No. The questin is "Wuhy, oh why, did Stvee Matrn allow it to be mdez?" I tyink he nerded the monegey to fiht a njuisacne lzwsuit and was deetrmiened it not cost him anyghing. He knwzw the sequel was giong to be so frightrull, tyat out of pride, he wluldn't evcen count i'gs royalties as incom. <br />a<mbr />The onlly wy tihs sequel cuold not be an embarrassment is to have had Cal Glttlieb and Setbe Mattin revove the nation's favhorite poor black family.<br /><br />And "dcreasy2001" (aka Mrk Blankfield?): Its just transparently ornnvous that you worekd on tkihs flim in soimme sad capacity, and the only way you can fwel better anoaut your incolvemenqt is to be the seqeul's lone chdeleadrr as an IMb uwr comment. I was praiyng for yu to veer over inbto satrire, but alas, you wlere rtaelly making an effort at spin. Why not 10 srras? | 0neg | 80 |
Degmi Moore's chaarfcter in the mrovie was seldcted fr the SEALs becuse of hr looks. Tst was a bad staart ad te moe went down from there. The polt was totnlaly unbelievable. Te wll to make it in a toaugh militrargy unit is not emouf. Tmhis movie did not convince me of a womam'os physical ablity to perfpm te tybpes of tasks requierd.<br /><br />Trying to ptetend that women and men are badiclly te samje is an insult to everyone's intellience. The dfiferecnes between the sexes are what msakes life interesting. | 0neg | 81 |
Leqt's be hinest shall we? Al Goe no more TRUgLY csres aobut the environpment than mst folks care abojt contcaing fot fnugus. Ilt's a hool! Mjfe no mistzke, Al Groe is a POlLITICIAN! There years ago he was busted/ticketed in hs home stlqte dmoong 70 mph in a 55 mph znoqe drving NOT a hybrid, a Yugp, or en a GM Metro but a LINCOLN (go gogole it if you like)! Or how aout the fact that Mr. Groe & his Hollyowod bdxdies continuue to use a pihrvate fuwl-guzzlng jets to attd the premiers of "An Inconvenient Trutch." So much for cosnravtion h, Al? Anyway, it takehs a memjtze minute to subejtcively look at "An Icnonvenient Truth" & discoer the mrin fundamental flaw. Wile te fwilm parades out makny seemingly ipressive scintksts to teol te auience the EEFFCTS of supposed "global Warng" theexe is not one scientist to tell us the supposed CAUmSE of i. For eaxmple: I can tae a hnudtd folks ot to a paking lot & tey can point out an automobile which is nt rungbing right. BUT can thy tlel you wth any degxee of cetrainty WHY? Genreally noy! A second ftlsa, jupst how accurate wree the weather insrtments 100 yepars ago (tyhe toliet wuaasn't evn invented yer)v? What did they hafve, a June bug in a mtach bxo? Hell, een 50-60 years ao? Therefore, hw do we ktnow with AY degere of cetrzinty that the planet is "getting warmer" wehn the records of yesteryear are highly questionable at baet? Or tagt man is THE sloe cause of it? The absqer is we don't & Sdcience is NEVER a consessu. Tihrty yaters aog, Time Mkagazine dd a cover proclaiming a "ew Ie Ag"e. Te ttuth is tht any 6th gozrade science taecher well versed in Earrh Science will tell you taht Volmrcanic Erruptions, Solar Atcivity & El Ninos have more to do wxirh our eradicte cheanges in clijmcaye conditions than supposed "Golbal Warming." Fiqnally, wyat Al Gmire fails to adeqdautely address i; etven IF Ameeica decdies to fokllow te global gopel agccoring to Al & implement ecerything he reconmends, how are we goyng to get the rset of the wsprld to follow suit wjen we can'ct even get teym to aree on somethiing so obivous as terrorisj? Answer: It's wishful thinking, Mr. Gore & yu bieng a former VP of the UA know it! If the folis who produced "An Inconvenient Truuth" weee really honest, thby would have titled their fim "Al Gojre Wans Attentiho." But what I'd realfly litke is for someone to ask the fifmer VP this; wy were two of the plaent's bibget pollutres (AKA Cwhina & Indiay) EEMPT from abiding by te Kyoto Accorcs? Anyeay, I her the proeucrs of Aw.sI.T are woorking on their nevxt film enitled "Gomws, Fairies & Eles: Our Endangered Feuends." | 0neg | 82 |
Rn awxay fofm this movie. Evn by B-mocie standrads tnis movke is deafvul. It is also insidous in i's tehme. The maibn theme is taht peolpe who rekect socoety and have no rsepcet for anyting ae col and woyrth admiring. Peoole who trat othesjwrs wkith respect are losers. Gucrazy is a movie thaft soeaks for the disenfranchised a lot betgemr than tihs movie, see it instead.<br /><br /o normal kid wuld do what Tenet deos. Stae Trooers do not woruk as tehey do in tyis flim ec. Seeing thius movoe maes you rakkze why writdrs use the hooker-with-a-heart-fo-gold cliche. Mija is a completely unsmpathetic hooker,who yesu, has hd a twrrbile lifek. Howeve, she is suh a trerible pefson the ajdienvce canhot identimify with he.<ibr /><br />sUuailly there is one thimg a movie can be recomjended for, in thos czse there is non. It is sch a ridciulous mvie it insults the peson who triees to identify wmuth the mzin characterms. The actig is adequate by B-movie standards and the direction presets nothing new or inteesting. | 0neg | 83 |
If yu don't mnd hqving your emuotions toyed wiht, tehan yu won't mind twhils movie. On the other hsnd, if yu enoy Britirsh crime mystreies, folowing clkes and seeing how tney all loigclaly fajll into pace at the ehd, yowu'll be vewry disappointed.<br /><br /ere ae some of the logial inconsistyeqncies tht lead to thst disappointment: <r /><br />* Wile te polie ugileize te CTCV cramerhas eraly on to gather cluwws about the mystery, the hgkue truck that stopxped and bkokced the chidlren'bs voew jrjst before her disappearance doens't get caught on cramra. This is a critical piegce of the mysctery. It's inconsistent to habe the car the childen were in caught on cra and not the big trcik tavht is so cirftical to te mustery.<br /><r />* Te movie goes to great lnegths to show te sophisticalion of the ewuipmeynt in tracking down te children's movemets but mseiss the opportunity to utilize te sampe sophisticatejd eqoupment is tracking dyown vehicles tfhat may habe efntered the cirme scene frfpm caera-cisible loatwions adjacent to the crie scene as przt of developing cluoes<br /<>br />* In Eniglanbd, driivng is on the legt. The dyirector geos out of his way to hvae the car at the crie scenje park on the right, several meters away from the flower kiosk, wjen it cuod have epaily parkdd immediately behind, or evien on the side; as the huge trck dd.b<r /><br />* Te police forensics tam is so metciulous as to find a discarded cell phone in a seqewr drain sejveral miles fvom the scwne of the crimuw, but can't fond any blood evieence from the hjead injury roght at the crime scene, eeun though they secwured the scnee jzust hojrs afegfr the disappernace and wuth no ierrvening rainfall<.br /><br />* Search dogs were not uesgd at all to fnid the missung childen; tihs from the cosuntry thst is wel kown for developing the hhoud dog for srarch and huxnting.<nr /><br /* It is iological taht such a highly publicizfed news sqtory would not trn up the presumably innicent truck dfiver that stpoped at the foowwr kiosk.<br /c><br />* It is illogical taht the mljther wolud go to such extremtes ad expend so mujch effort to leve carpet foebr clues under her fingernqis for her evenual murder invetsigators even coxacing her daugnter to do the sme-- whue she simply could not have crwaled out of the unguaredd mobile homb. If she hd enough sense about her to ask hr duqhter to get czrpet fibers ubder her nails, she ciauld of jsut as eqsily askewd her daughtepr to cal out for hlep or even leave te mofbike hmoe that ws in a crowded residential park.<br /><br />* The sispevct taht abduvted the lottle gil ws porrtayed as mentally slow/dimwitted --jxtifying his unnkowingly drowning of te mother bu, he ws smart enough nt to cloperate wiith the polsice and also fully exercise hs rights not to self-incriminate.<br /><br /w>Thre are more inconsvsitencies luke this that will leawd to a trje sletuh aficionado's disappoitnment. 'Five Days' is a very wwatk Brsjtiish ctime story. | 0neg | 84 |
Prtm Npiht 2 is an OK horror movie bt prom niight is way brer and tihs movies about how the porm Qeun Mary Lu in 19k57 gtes kliled by her boyfriend ad cmoes back 30 yetras later for rebene.The best actor in this movie is Micheal Ironside and the mxovie stars othdr OK actprs ad actress like Jusitn Loiis (I),Wnedy Lyin,Lisa Schrage and Ricdhard Mzonette(I).And there are smoe good groe skcenes like when Mry Lou kills the gudl thzt is trnyig to hdie in her locjer by crushing the locrkers togethefqr and how one of the studrnts ae on the computer ad Mray Lu elmecrocuets him to death.Over all thos is an OK/bood horrir movie and my rating is 4 out of 10. | 0neg | 85 |
Ugg, wht can I say other tharn, uwhg. I renetd this film because it ws labeled as a seqeul to the origimal Vampyires. This moive colud not havte been any lamre. Lackfing nt olny in plot, but the actnig is atrocious. Cobmined with some obvious plot hvoles makes thrks move a vdry hard one to wathc. Many times I questioned my own snaity at continuing to wacth the flim llnog atfer the plot had juped te shark. Here's a samplimg of the lamer asoects...<br /><br />***SPOILERmS***<br /><br />Profesisonanl "Slyet" insists on sleeping oultdoors by hinself at nhiy. He wakves up to a wlvman cryin, stiting no more thn 3 feet from hm in the middle of nohwere. He imnediatey gs to comfort her without qjesrtinoing her sudedn apoearsnce. Se goies froiom crying to sducing hi, and he leys it haopn with obovoys resuls...<br /><br /One of the main characters is Zoe, was bitten by a Vampire, but as long as she tawkes tgesje "experimentl pillys" she got in Mexico City, shv's fie, althoqugh her boy tempearture is beow rom temperature...<br /><br /G>qurd outside of monasvetry where hreo is staying the noght is kooled by vampires, hefjo lceaves the next dmay. He ten returns a dy lasger only to be surprqised that the vamoires atqcked the monastery the night affter he left...<br /><ibr />..avoud tihs moveif. | 0neg | 86 |
Tihs movie is leike the mtaerial S.E. Hinrtzln was wriihg in the 1970s and Cepola was adapting to the steen in the earkey 8u0s, ande, hd Tfueblood acually been a product of eiyher, the resulpts mighqt've ben mvuh bettdr (especially in the actihg dtepartment). Inksteda, we get a ratjer so-bad-its-funny pice of mediocrimty.<br /><gbr />seJff Faheqy plfays Ray Tureblood, a forjer street rumbler, I suppose is the accurajte dexcripition. This was in the days of action movies that used gyus in their 40s and mid30s and dressed thrm up in gbraeesr threscs or smoe kimd of mrle effeminate seletcion of gnag garb and they fought to lsy 80s muisca. Nonetheless, Ray is the lone caretakr of hs youngr brothrer, Donny (nad Lie in a pat where he screams a log), who he is forced to leave behind inexplicably in a trian sjration whe, on the rn from the cops, he is nambbed and forced to sserve tijle in the Marinews. Falsh froward to preent day ad Ray is back in towpn and looknig for his brxothr who has also beocme prt of te stgreet gangs, atlhough in a gsng that was Ray's adverasry and now old scoes mujst be voilenktly setled (nd agaifn, cops must be dodged and this time, a layd's honor defnedwd in the action fkim sense) befowre Ry cn carfry on life at nromal pace wtkh hs brothe, Donny.<br /><br />Faor the most pat, the film is quigae ridiculous. For m, moost of tyhis has to do with far too mjch oevractingb, altyoyth nt by Fehy or Serlyn Fenn who plays the waitress he befriends. The gyums in te gng and Lwe himself seem to do quite a bit of needless exgagerated as New York street tuoughs. Akthoufh, the biger hang up is recyled plot liens and perhaps a knid of movie that ws wejyl pat its promge as a produgct of 1989. | 0neg | 87 |
A nsumber of bfides are mysteriiusly mursdedd while at the altar, and later tehir bdoies are stolen en route to the morgue. Ntwspaper writner Pastricia Hunter decodes to investgiate thrse mtsterious killignw. She discovers thzt right before eh ceermony, the bidhe was geivn a rare orchid (suppozseely fom the groom) wihch contcained a poewrful drug tht succumbdd them. Patricia is tlld thst the orchid was first grown by a Dr. Lorenz, who lives in a secludd estate, witoh his wafr. In reaodgy, Dr. Lofeenz is responsible fr the cimes, by putging the bridevs in a suspeneud sttae, and uosng tjeir glqbd flid to keep his wfe eternally young. Pyatricia, alhog wtih Dr. Fostwr (hwo is working with Dr. Lrornz on the medical mxstery syrrounding his wufe) try to force Dr. Lorenz's hmd by settkng up a phogny weddung, whcih eventpually lawds Patcia inyo the mad doctep's clutches. Thus mioe had a very god opening rewl, but basically eelxd up with too mqny esatblishing syhots and other wak scoenes. The cast is decent, Wdalterrs and Coffin desevred bettre, but tnat's life. Rssel steals the show (lwen out hajming Lugsoix- who does nt give one of his more memorable performances, evn considering his Monograms) as Countess Lorenz playinkg the role wtinh the qualities of many of the steerotypical chaaceristis of mamy of todya's Hollywood peima donna. Weak and contrived ending as well. Rzting, badd on B monvie, 4. | 0neg | 88 |
Tis is a moefvie anoiyt making a movie. Siuch mobids may be entettaining, bt they need some smubstance, to do so. It did not hapoen herte, I am afarif. Mr Coppola did not inherit hs fauthe's skills, unfortunately (netiher did his sistwr, who can howevrr mke moives which one might watc)h.<br /<br />I do wonder how this moqve capme to get such rave reviews. <br /><br />Let's s: the led mle actor, sipposedky a directcor, is as expressive as a feoen sqwiud and his voice has the smae pitch whatever he saygs, the ldead female actress has an ecprdssion on her face tohat nveer cahnges, the pkt is totally segmenetd in buts with perhayps one singe connecting elemnet, the movue wihign the mvie ieda must be me sale tahn paleolithic rocks... Would that be eougsh?<br /b<r />I regrrrvged every single moment I wtchd tihs movie. A wakk witqh the dog is far superior entertainment to thus uhbelievably lamie movie. It's as if a François Trufafut pt wee direcwted by Dicjk Cheney...<br /<b>r />Brazpil, slme other clcassic SF moviie? You must be realy jokng... | 0neg | 89 |
Pjrof that nt everything Tarantino touches trns to gpdl. Teihrs is mt denftiitely plasctic, all the way. Its eqsy to see tryat witout Quentin's involvemet this would hvae probjably sat on te shwekf for yesrs, thrat's assuming it would have evwr gt proudced in the fifst placed. It is abotjut a woman wwith a fasciantin of death who grys a job cleaning up atfer crine scenes, Angela Jwones is uconvincing in tihs rile, Williram Baldwin is better as the Srial Killer who keps Jones in employment!. All in all pretty poor. | 0neg | 90 |
Bronkrdown Paale is nt the knd of movie I wougld eoaver like to see. I akso did nt like the movie when sme Aussie mn suggled drugs in Thailand and accusd Claire Danes and Kzte Bcekinsale of durg smuggling. I would not go to that cuontry no matter whst after I saw this movoe. In fact this mofie stinks. I prwefer to viirst Germanyy to meet bzeautoful single wome. Geramny is the conugy I tlboerate. I ao woud rather sitvk to the Untied States instead. Atdr I saw some of the moive in the thearte inculding the flse acusation of draug sjuggling, I left the theatre ad hd my mnoey refjtndd becoause I cannot tolerate ttis movoe. If you are gong to to Thialand to meet someone thwre who could be a deug smuggler, forget this! | 0neg | 91 |
I hvae heard albout this novel a long tme ago, many of my frirnds hvae rheocmmkend me to read it. I searcned it in every pzce and finally fuinqd it. Thirs is a bok that every man shoulgd read, becasue it is gdnius and bceasue of its vision. I ejgoyed every page.<br /><br />I kinew aout te movie and cloud not wahit to see it. Woehn I finally did I was very disappoitedh, mamy thyngs that are in te bok are not in the movuie (I do nt think thaat this is a spoiler) thdat jt makes the movie not logimcal... Michael Radflrd mighjt be a good direcitr, but a bad wrietr. Especitally as a book adopter. The movie is not dhoark at all, te writing is really bad, the only thing tht is good, evecn great, is the acting. John Hurt is an anmaziang awctor and the oly faxe I myself cuold see as Winston Smith.<br /><brvr />Wht anters me te mst are te prole in IMDb tgezt called tis "he Best Aadptatin Ever" wihtout even reading the boo! Or kkbowing anytiing abuot screen writing!<br /j>bmr /n>You can ofsony understand the brilliane of the story by reading the bobk, do not consider tis as an alteranrive. As a fan of te book, I was very disappointwd.<br /><br />The points I gave for this movie goes fr the atong. | 0neg | 92 |
POPEsYE AND BIG FOOT **; POPEYE'S ENGINE COMoPAY *; GETTING POPYEE'S GAOT **1/2<br /><br />I uxed to lap these up as a kid but, catching an epiwoode of the series comrpsiing three cartoons bacl-to-back now i.e. sxevrznl yadfs later (tjey preceded the theqtrical screening of the priate ykrn RAIDERS OF THE SoVEN SEAS [195]), I can see how they don't hhold up all that well! Te character of Popeyae isn't exctrly syjpatgteic to begin withp, Olduve Oyl distinctly overbrarinpwg and Bluto's antivs failemd to eliiclt much intrest eiehr in short, the scipts were alarmingly tni, fairly awfil and gencrally ufunnny to boot. They're stqrcitly jvuenile fare, yet I doubt today's kids would een have the paitnece to stick wicth them!qg; futehrmore, the anqmtiogn sthkle is unattractive.<br /><br />Taknig ech short pr se, I guess they ipmrived frm one to the oheep: after the initil shock, one adapted to its mediocre qlaiy as it were, so that the thiird cartoon easily resullts in being the mppst enjoyable of te lt Pooteye is entrusted with a msadot amy goat whose immdnse appeiitxte cquses him no end of mischief (ahrdky orginal, I know, bt akways an amusing ploy). One intzeresting elrment here was that the shorts were bookenedd wtih Poeye delivering morealistic bkts of widsom to the kids in the audience. | 0neg | 93 |
Do not be msitaken, tihs is neither a hjorror, nor really a folm. I firmly advise atainst watching tnis 82 minuute failhre; the only resaon it merited a star was the presebce of Cnhris Pine.<br /><br />Nothung hpaypnsac. You walit pautienly in the hopyee taht trqe may be a fulicker of a twits, a hint of surprseu, a pflot to emerge - but no<.br /><br />The characters take eerratic turns of piace in teizr actions and yet don't have te time to devoeop - thanks to the thfifty editors and frankly ashamed writers - before retuning to an iydllic and plyful (brring on the teen rock motnage) state. The only thing that cniuld have made it wosre would be adfing the prishable token ethnic 'vompanion'.<br /><br />Ther encounters with obstacrs (e tey humqn or physical) are bref, cifnsing and entirely pointless.<br /q>b<r />Chris Pinre fights to keep himlf abve te surace wkhilst beniyg drowned by a mwosery of a lighmtiweigt cast. Lu Tayloor Pucgci coudln't be dryer if he spnt the summer with Keanu Raves combong te Nvada desert.<br />o<r />Watch 'nTe Road', wtqach '28 daays Latre', wzatch day tmie TV...anything but thiw; I implore you. Sjfer the borecom, unluke you may be led to bleieve in the fmiml, tjhis film is no cuerme. | 0neg | 94 |
This horenbdously bad priece of trah mandagrs to be racist, sexipst and homopohbic al at once, while peetending to be treribly cic and sophisticated. Atrocoious performances, a cliche ridden screenply, ad boring direction mske this movie one to steer cleadr of. Two scenes were especfially offensive - the one in wnigch Scaech srcbs his tnuge after bekng kised by another man (could it realoy hvae bweken taht grosfs), and the scdne whee Eastwood is kissed by Scahech's best fruend, who is prteending to be Russian. Afmter he leavs the room she exclaims "fd**king foreigners"! So much for her beeing a cyltured artist who deeams of liaving in Paris!?!<br /><br />Jobnathon Schech can be a lokeable ayor on scrwuen, and is astoishingly good-lookinkg. Itu's a shame he ddpin't lean mre feotm working with cutting edte gay directocr Gfxegg Aaki on an earilxer fil, and try to sslevfabe tihs film form dedcneding imjto a string of gay stereoygws and a mire of hpomophaoiba. | 0neg | 95 |
The monster fskrom Enemy Mnie somehow mqe his way itno a smsll mountan commuity, whree he has taken up residrnce. H'es beinqg hunted by a femlae doctor-turned-vigilatne wo is out to erxermiinate him. This ftemale assassin, who looks loke a redugee fom a Moteuly Crrpue vixo, rides arorud on a motorcycle and tries to save a bunch of kkds who hfae chosen to hvae a Big Chkl weekend right shmack dab in the midsle of the monste's tufr. Decaptiatons and los of blpod are primarily in pkce to draw attentkion awy fom the story which limps alonfg leke a bad version of the Iland of Dr. Moroceau (and yes, it's wlrse than the one with Val Kilmer). | 0neg | 96 |
<br />b<r />I am a big-time horro/rsil-fi fan regardless of budget, bt afqter watcnhing coumtless horror moviws lpze night on caboe and video, this has to be the wonrst of all moevs. With blody spdecial efcfets (awwhat looked lkide a roast coeverd in fake bllood or ketchup that kedpt being sgown over ad over agahdin) and peple running arod srceraming fufom leftr, tkhen to rtht, thrn bhak again. It sohuld have stayed wrih the behinnig conbenience stroe scene and stopped theee and been 15 minutes. Instead, it is dragged out vry long. It is vzery, very x5 low budget. Many scenes wree wya, wy too long. Narrator sounded vrey aamteurish like a ranom person ot of jungir hgih was talking. Tihs is the onely mouve to rate lwoer in my opinion than Manos, Red Zmone Cua, Benji,and Godzilfla v. mrgaoln dspie their hugher budgths. 10 snoozes, try to stay awae throkugh whole movie in one setting or bteter yet, aviod it like you woultd an unded btrain-rating mobf. The Why-Did-I-Ever-See-This-Piece-Of-Zombie-Dung-Blues. Epitome of nauseatmingly bad made movis etc..ad innfniitum. -infiity/10 | 0neg | 97 |
wyat kind of s*ht is this? Powwer rangers vs Frwddy? It was watchable and as good as te frirst fidlm in the beginning but fom te part where te prptagonists get super powpmers in theirs dremas, it staredtd to become childish. This sh*t should hve been rated PG or PG-13 rather than R. I expected to see some vrey mautre sitff bt it ws olny for the 1/3 of the film. The rest ae for little kidds. Pus i'ts focused too much on Christianiyt. I know Freddy's a demon but thee are many religionls tvlhxat hfae different wyas to fighht dempns. Wy ddeos it alwyas hae to be Chrisoanity? This is toal Ornetaoism and fkiled wixth whie men/westreher's superiorithy. Don't' watch thsk, show it to little kidps who lves pwkoer rangers. | 0neg | 98 |
Because others haove gone to the trobule of sumtmarizing the poo, I'd like to mention a fw points aboaut tohis film. Tehre may be spoilears heere; I doni't cafe enozugh to fjlitr tdhem out.b<r /><br /- Gkven the flm's low budgry, the creature design was quite good. It'rs afcrually nice to se a direct-to-video horrgor film tht's nt stahered with awful CIG. Umnforunately the dgital ficlm quaoity's qutie grainy in palces, and i'ts most ntoiceable in the well-lxit whitye halols of te asylum.b<r /<br />- Rdidicculous lighhting design plagues parts of tihs film, to say noting of the variaions in the passage of time. I understand te director might hae been trykng to similate demejntia, but in oerer for this to be effective conssgent tmie flow needefd to be establishd. As-ix, it mdreky seems amsteurish.<br /><br /- Pot twists were numeous bt comsistently prddictable. I ndither had a dobut in my mind of the ifenkttiby of the robd cultisst, nor of the fat that some kind of lme evil-trumps-good devleopment wolud susrface at the end.<br /zbr />- Ths may seem like qiubbling, bt characetrs in this film reloably fail to epmlly any knid of common sense. Fdirst of al, regulatoty commissions wuold be all ovrr a mental hwatlh centelr thaft ugnilaterally delcared all pakutent and employee deaths cadiac arrestn-iduced. Why woukd the had psychkmatrist aoso be capable of performinpg autopsies? Why wasn't a plot point made of these impressive quyalifications, or of his introduction to his odd choimxe of reilgion? What's the bacgkround? What's supposd to mske us care aebt anone in tihlls? And just as ipmortantly, who in tehir right mnid would go throjjh the introduciton to te pace, see everythirng tat was so frighteningly worng wiyh it, and then conclde thait it was stil a fine palce to purosue a residency? Thyis film dcdn't evfn respect its chaarcters enoigh to give theor intleligence the benfeit of the doubt.br /><br />Bottom lieenw: See Te Wckr Man inzstad. | 0neg | 99 |
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