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I just finished screening El Padrino in Germany A great film We look forward to seeing more films from Mr Chapa in the future It was wonderful to see such a well put together film with such suspense and a story that shall remain an instant classic The ending with little ambiguity leaves the story open for a sequel Seeing a film with great quality truly outlines Chapas serious potential and his adept skill as a writer actor director and filmmaker Chapa has impressed many with his triumphant performance in blood in and blood out and now he has proved to all who have see his works his potential to become a critically acclaimed film maker with genuine artistic control Something that few film makers can afford

Somewhat funny and wellpaced action thriller that has Jamie Foxx as a hapless fasttalking hoodlum who is chosen by an overly demanding US Treasury Agent David Morse to be released on the streets of New York to find a picky computer thiefhacker Doug Hutchinson who stole fortytwo million dollars from the treasury and left two guards shot deadbr br Bait marks the sophomore feature for Antoine Fuqua The Replacement Killers and he handles the task fairly well even though it doesnt top his first movie What the two films have in common is the action sequences which are flatout excellentbr br Foxx is pretty good here although his character is annoying in the beginning but throughout the film I began to catch on Hutchinson is marvelous as the mastermind who can be ruthless as John Malkovich and patient as the late Laurence Olivier was in Marathon Man Morse is okay as the agent who comes up with the ingenious plan to get whoever did it at all cost

While I am not a big fan of musicals I have loved the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers because they are just so much fun Sure they can be a bit formulaic but even though you KNOW what is going to happen they still are very pleasing to watch However despite this I was a bit disappointed in this outing Part of it was because this film doesnt have the wonderful supporting cast like you saw in TOP HAT or SHALL WE DANCE Without Edward Everett Horton or Eric Blore the film seems to be a bit lackingespecially in the fun department The silly antics of these supporting actors gave the other films charm that you just dont get with FOLLOW THE FLEET In addition unlike the usual character played by Astaire this one is more of a jerkas his fat head gets Rogers into trouble again and again And as a result its a lot harder to like him or want to see them get together in the end of the film Plus although the music is by Irving Berlin the songs just dont seem as memorable In fact none of the songs were all that special and I cant recall any of them even though I just saw the movie While this is still a cute and worthwhile film it just lacks the sparkle and magic of some of their other films Good but far from great

Once again we are fortunate to see a gorgeous opening scene where the artists work has been fully restored and we see this oldtime grocery store on a street corner with the snow gently falling Inside are the rich colors of all the merchandise from produce to canned and boxed goods to medicine to candy etcbr br In essence this is a story of those goods coming to life such as the animals on the labels of items or a pie or even a pack of cigarettesbr br The whole show is narrated by Jack Bunny a Jack Benny impersonator with music from conductor Leopold Stokowski who was in so many Looney Tunes animated shorts I have lost count A lot of the humor is topical so it pays to know who Little Egypt and other characters The Busby Berkeleytype aqua number with bathing suitedsardines coming out of the can and the tomato cancan dance were both clever br br All of the above and more was in the first half of this slightly longerthannormal length cartoon The second half was about a King Kongtype which escapes from the Animal Crackers box and terrorizes everyone That part was not much and ended on a somewhat stupid note So an A for the first half a D for the second making it about a Cplus or Bminus overall

Watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a wholebr br Without giving away too much of the plot it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons Along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves br br The story has a prologue about what dancing in Japan symbolizes sociologically so it isnt exactly as simple to learn to dance in Japan as it is here in the US br br The film is lighthearted youll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags Yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe All of the films characters are taken seriously as they are and none are diminished because of their imperfectionsbr br Ive been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends It just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance Is this synchronous or what I think so because now Im really geeked to give it a try br br Watch this wonderful family film small children might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and againbr br Why they would make a remake of Shall We Dance is a mystery as it is perfect asis

My God this was a fantastic film Every time we watch it takes us to another place of WOW Rhett Scarlett were played brilliantly by Joanne Timothy They did a fantastic job revising the roles of our two favourite heros Everyone It is a must see Dont deprive yourself of this movie If u loved Gone With The Wind you will love this mini series Go Rhett Go Scarllett

I think I laughed twice The line where the main character says something about being from the streets And then I forget the other time I laughed It was probably in the beginningbr br This has to be one of the thinnest movies ever Doesnt Hollywood realize that this kind of humor is degrading and sad really You can only insult yourself so many timesbr br 210

Ive read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it takes to get into music school Britney Bashing etc etc so lets focus on the movie and the messagebr br I have rated this movie 7 out of 10 for the age range 8 to 14 years and for a family movie For the average adult male 2 out of 10br br I like poprock music im 45 I know of Britney Spears but never realised she actually sang Stronger until i read the credits and these reviews I didnt recognise her poster on the wall so I was not worried about any self promotionbr br I watch movies to be entertained i dont care about casting lighting producers directors etc What is the movie and does it entertain mebr br I watched this movie for the message The worlds greatest epidemic is low selfesteem which is a whole other story so watched with the message in mind as that is an area of interest The movie is light bright and breezy great for kids I found the Texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give updont give up message so yeh it was a bit predictable Great message thoughshould be more of thembr br This movie is a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get Hannibal

For this reviewa list of good points and bad pointsIll start with the badbr br Bad pointsThe casting choicesespecially Burt Reynolds as Boss Hoggthe acting of said badly chosen castthe storylinethe idea of setting the film in the modern daythe directionthe editingthe soundtrackand above allthe whole idea of making a feature film out of a television series that wasnt that great to start withdespite its popularitybr br Good pointsJessica Simpson in a red bikinithats itbr br One might make an analogy hereIn the scene where Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke struts her way up to Michael Weston as Enosand asks the questionEnoswheres Boss Hogg and Roscoein his clouded judgment tells her where they areShe might just as well have askedEnosis this a good moviethe red bikini would have clouded his judgment into saying yeseven though in his right mind he would have saidNo not reallyAs good as she looked in the bikinishe could have been stark nakedand even that would not have saved this horrible piece of filmmakingStay out of Hazzard

Although this small film kind of got lost in the wake of On The Waterfront Edge Of The City can certainly hold its own with that star studded classic Its another story about the docks and the code of silence that rules itbr br Next to the corrupt union that Lee J Cobb ran in On The Waterfront Jack Warden is really small time corruption But hes real enough as the gang boss on one of the docks who intimidates the other workers by being handy with his fists and the bailing hook and he gets the rest to kickback part of their hard earned money And its all hard earned money in that jobbr br One guy Warden cant intimidate is Sidney Poitier another gang boss and when he tries to intimidate newcomer John Cassavetes Poitier takes him under his wing The two develop quite the friendship and Poitier and his wife Ruby Dee even fix Cassavetes up with Kathleen Maguirebr br Warden is truly one loathsome creature and its sad how by sheer force of personality and physical prowess he cows almost everyone else into submission In that sense hes tougher than Lee J Cobb who did have to rely on an impression collection of goons to enforce his will in On The Waterfrontbr br Edge Of The City marked the big screen directorial debut of Martin Ritt who did a great job with a good cast of New York based players and spot on location cinematography The films low budget does show but youre so impressed with the ensemble cast you dont really carebr br Cassavetes as the loner with a past and the hip and tough Poitier are both fine but my personal favorite in this film is Ruby Dee She should have gotten some award for her performance her final scene with Cassavetes is outstandingbr br Catch this one if ever possible I wish it were out on DVD or VHS

If it were possible I would have given this sorry excuse for a movie a ZERO star It was by far the worse I have ever seen It was as if it were a home movie that some bored highschoolers decided to make as a joke The acting was horrific The actors didnt even react to the fact that they were being murderedbr br Honestly I bought this movie by mistake The Spanish title said Jeepers Creepers 3 so I thought hmm maybe itll be OK Wrong It was honestly the worst ever I didnt get past 20 minutes of the stupid movie I skipped through chapters and nothing interesting ever seemed to happenbr br The cameramen were also terrible It was like a home movie I would NEVER recommend anyone to watch this Terrible terrible moronic movie

Just Cause takes some of the best parts of three films Cape Fear A Touch of Evil and Silence of the Lambs and mixes it together to come up with a good thriller of a filmbr br Sean Connery is a liberal law professor married to a former Assistant District Attorney Kate Capshaw and hes a crusader against capital punishment Blair Underwoods grandmother Ruby Dee buttonholes Connery at a conference and persuades him to handle her grandsons appeal Hes sitting on death row for the murder of a young girlbr br When Connery arrives in this rural Florida county hes up against a tough sheriff played by Laurence Fishburne whos about as ruthless in his crime solving as Orson Welles was in Touch of Evil br br Later on after Connery gets the verdict set aside with evidence hes uncovered hes feeling pretty good about himself At that point the film takes a decided turn from Touch of Evil to Cape Fearbr br To say that all is not what it seems is to put it mildly The cast uniformly turns in some good performances Special mention must be made of Ed Harris who plays a Hannibal Lecter like serial killer on death row with Underwood He will make your skin crawl and he starts making Connery rethink some of those comfortable liberal premises hes been basing his convictions on Many a confirmed liberal Ive known has come out thinking quite differently once theyve become a crime victimbr br Of course the reverse is equally true Many a law and order conservative if they ever get involved on the wrong end of the criminal justice system wants to make real sure all his rights are indeed guaranteedbr br Criminal justice is not an end but a process and a never ending one at that for all society I guess if Just Cause has a moral that would probably be it

Journey to the Center of the Earth is the story of some tourists of Hawaii three of them siblings and one of them a young British nanny babysitting a dog When the siblings accidentally drive off in their jeep with the basket of dog biscuits the nanny follows them it mightve just been safer to purchase more all the way to the cave the siblings intended to explore I guess For some reason they actually go in the cave and then when the place starts caving in they try to get out to no avail except for the sixyearold sister who they tell to go get help Meanwhile the more they move around in the cave the more they continue to plummet further and further towards the earths cavernous core And behold it is here where they find the City of Atlantis and its bizarre alien habitants who are living under the oppressive rule of one alien that doesnt want them asking to many questions about the worlds external to their ownbr br I see that Rusty Lemorande the named director of the film has provided comments on this film in which he explains that part of latter half of this film is actually the sequel to Alien in LA Well whatever it was it was an amazingly cheap movie that I would rank only slightly higher than City Limits a 1988 scifi film also made on a nonexistent budget because at the least ending of this dreadful piece of mostly incoherent filmmaking that cuts corners where it can aims for some humor and amusement in the last 20 minutes when we finally see what life is like in the alien world at the center of the Earth I also give it a two star rating rather than one because it was at times funny even if only in its subtleties For example the aliens asks the British girl if shes an alien and she explains that the Ministry should be sending her work visa shortly Or when the alien girl finds Bryan and explains that he is in the city of Altantis and he mistakes this for Atlantic City New Jersey Little things like that make the idiocy of the first hour or so tolerable Imagine how great the film couldve been though if they had 1 actually intended to make it and 2 actually had money to make itbr br I do like how in the end no one wonders what happened to the little sister who was sent away in the beginning to get help Shed just be wandering around the Hawaiian caves and not too far from the erupting volcano mind you

I have a letter from Ms Knight who went to college with my older sister In it she tells of the hardships of making this film She herself was pregnantan interesting conjunction with the movies plotand the novice director was unsure fairly green and having great difficulties with all the decisions logistics etc They were on the move all the time and it was a very difficult shoot br br The film however with a strong debut for James Caan remains effective and affecting Its a great showcase for the talent that Ms Knight has demonstrated her entire careeron television in movies and on the stage where she won the Tony for Kennedys Childrenbr br This film has aged well

To make a film straddling the prequels and the real Star Wars trilogy would tax even a great filmmakerMr Lucas is not that filmmakerbr br To portray the fall of a good man into darkness needs a good actorMr Christensen is not that actorbr br The first 6080 minutes are overwhelmingly boring with only a few pockets of yet more light sabre fights but there is a lack of edge because you already know which main characters survive to the original Star Warsbr br Count Dooku Christopher Lee has a very fleeting role here and about the best idea is to have Jar Jar Binks silent br br No the film only picks up with the Chancellor turning on the Jedi and has one great overlong sequence at the lava falls

This is the first Guinea Pig film from Japan and this is the sickest in my opinion A bunch of guys torture a girl for several days before finally killing her And at this point I will say that these films are NOT real They are faked horror films which try to be as realistic as possiblebr br The scenes are sickening but also unrealistic in many cases For example when they kick the girl in the floor we can clearly see how they kick and stump the floor near the girl And how stupid this looks The sound effects are also unrealistic and dont make sense Other scenes include animal intestines thrown on the girl the girl exposed to loud noises for many hours the ripping off of fingernails worms placed on the wounds in the girls body the eye pierced and mutilated in horrific detail and stuff like that Very sick and mean spirited film and has absolutely nothing valuable or cinematically significant This first entry is the sickest and most amateurish Guinea Pig although it is not as bloody as the next part Flowers of Flesh and Blood which tries to be as shocking as possiblebr br Guinea Pig Devils Experiment is perhaps the sickest thing Ive seen and the closest thing to snuff there is This is still of course faked sntuff the only difference to genuine snuff film is that no one dies or hurts for real in this film I cannot recommend this to anyone since thi s is so sy and repulsive They who consider this is a great horror film understand nothing about cinema and the real meaning of it I watched this as a curiosity as the other parts in the series and now I know how insignificant trash these are They work only in shock level and thats not too valuable cinematic achievement Devils Experiment is perhaps the sickest film Ive seen and Mermaid in a Manhole Guinea Pig 4 is perhaps the most disgusting film Ive seen So these are pretty extreme in my book but thats all they are

This movie is so predictable when you know the modern American dream Do nothing be a loser and then suddenly whoah Youre a genius and an obnoxious one and the world is kissing the ground you are walking onbr br And surprisingly all the other smart people are losers They dont know anything and are bitter when our wonderkid solves problems so easily And what kind of problems They are so difficult but still these professors can analyse the results in less than 10 secondsbr br Every movie has something good in it anyway and Robin Williams is it in this one

It was like someone was trying to make a scary video game and a documentary at the same time The historical aspect was great Everything else was horrible the plugs for the directors other movie that seemed to happen every other minute the video of the actual ghost hunting was edited like a scary movie rather than an investigation they had haunted house music and sound effects that would distract you from what was happening THanks for wasted 2 hours of my time When there was evidence it would fly by Most of it was just people talking about the placeThe episode of the Ghosthunters show that went there absolutely destroys how this show was I am so upset with sci fi channel for playing this I havent watched it since it aired

Why is it that Instant Noodles arent instant this was the perplexing problem I placed in the lap of the one legged angry Sherpa he angrily retorted that noodles werent his bag equally I replied What bag He looked further perplexedbr br Some of you will be wondering why has the Sherpa only one lower appendagebr br The Sherpa who we shall call Sherpa 5 for data protection reasons injured his toe How I hear you ask I will proceed as we have learnt from the review of Donkey Punch 2002 Irene via sly nudges and dirty winks etc tried in vain to teach the slight peculiarities of checkers to all the angry Sherpas Sherpa 5 who is known only for his violent tirades against democratic principals during the post revolutionary years of the now United States of America and its consequential affect on the mind sets of its population in the post modern empire that now exists through the invasions of countries smaller than it got carried away in a river of violence due to his lack of comprehension of checkers According to an eye witness he sprung around like a feckless banjo string at Mardi gras wielding a stick with nail through it after the struggle that ensued 5 llamas were each found to be missing their left testicles 3 Sherpas were discovered spooning beneath a gooseberry bush and Sherpa 5 had the nail stuck in his big toebr br A Sherpas lifestyle is as modest as a nuns with only rudimentary health care facilities at 15000 ft above sea level Consequentially when the first aid hut was opened only an IOU for a tin of spam and some crotchless knickers were found Sherpa 5 hopped around like a dark on a noose in agony until Irene burst forth like a cock from a hen house and suggested soaked his ailment in llama spit Sherpa 5 agreed to the procedure to sedate him a bottle of 100 yr old Glenfiditch was produced some say it was left by an angry Scotsman who is thought to be an ancestor of the angry Sherpas One under the influence the toe was bathed until ridged dressed with Irenes slightly soiled diaphragm and some blue tack Some of you may feel that this procedure wouldnt do the Sherpa any good and you would be fully vindicated for holding that view Only four days later gangrene set it and a week later the leg was removed through the use of even tighter elastic bands

I was living in Barstow Ca in 1968 when the movie The Killers Three arrived at the local theater The trailer was enough to get me to pay my hard earned money to see this movie I was really expecting a Bonnie And Clyde movie and I got Dick Clark playing a shy nerdy guy while Robert Walker and Diane Varsi played an poor attempt of reinacting Bonnie and Clyde Needless to say it never went over well Maybe this is why it never made it to video Even as a kid I was left some what ripped off as I left the theater After all the best parts where in the trailer of the movie The movie was dull and pretty much pointless By the way Dick Clark gets killed so it wasnt a total let down

Week after week these women just sweep all the men of their feet Get real None of these women are Knockouts Carrie Sarah Jessica Parker looks like the type of woman men would pick up at 45am before the bar closed after their vision and standards were equally impaired by ten or eleven martinis Yet shes the queen bee a supersexy mankiller The other three dont fare much better And their constant foul mouthed commentsnot to mention that they jump in and out of bed with strange men and never catch a disease This show is pathetic and creepyI dont think any man would be terribly attracted to any of these women even if he popped Viagra like Tic Tacs while on shore leave

Horrible horrible TV show Why Comedy Central decided to repeat old episodes of this program is beyond me It really sucks I am of course speaking about the seasons after the first two The first two seasons were golden and if I was exclusively talking about those seasons this show would have gotten eight out of ten stars None of the comedians appearing after the first two seasons who were not part of the original cast are any good They were and are awful The comedy is not funny at all AT ALL br br The original cast was full of very talented comedians like Artie Lange Phil LaMarr and Mary Schorr or whatever her name is all of whom should have gotten better deals after they left MAD TV This show is highly overrated and less worthy of your channel surfing time than Saturday Night Live another horrible show Go out on Saturday night and have fun and leave MAD TV to wither and die as it deserves to

Every now and then there gets released this movie no one has ever heard of and got shot in a very short time with very little money and resource but everybody goes crazy about and turns out to be a surprisingly great one This also happened in the 50s with quite a few little movies that not a lot of people have ever heard of There are really some unknown great surprising little jewels from the 50s that are worth digging out Panic in the Streets is another movie like that that springs to the mind Both are movies that arent really like the usual genre flicks from their time and are also made with limited resourcesbr br I was really surprised at how much I ended up liking this movie It was truly a movie that got better and better as it progressed Like all old movies it tends to begin sort of slow but once you get into the story and its characters youre in for a real treat with this moviebr br The movie has a really great story that involves espionage though the movie doesnt start of like that It begins as this typical crimethriller with a touch of filmnoir to it But Pickup on South Street just isnt really a movie by the numbers so it starts to take its own directions pretty soon on It ensures that the movie remains a surprising but above all also really refreshing one to watchbr br I also really liked the characters within this movie None of them are really good guys and they all of their flaws and weaknesses Really humane It also especially features a great performance from Thelma Ritter who even received a well deserved Oscar nomination for It has really got to be one of the greatest female roles I have ever seenbr br Even despite its somewhat obvious low budget this is simply one great original special little movie that deserves to be seen by morebr br 1010

A tightknit musical family crankybenevolent father and four vivacious adolescent daughters is uprooted by first the appearance of Felix a dashing young composer and secondly and most profoundly Mickey his insolently attractive orchestrator friendbr br It takes a while for Michael Curtiz to get this piece of Americana floating The first part looks almost like a paraphrasing of a cereal commercial not without a certain quaint highly bourgeois charm and then John Garfield enters the scene as the doomed Mickey making his first appearance in motion pictures with mussedup black curls sleepy hungover eyes rude and disheveled the absolute opposite to Jeffrey Lynns smoothly persuasive madly charming Felix Garfield is in complete and DIRELY needed counterpoint to the rest of the household Nothing I would do would surprise me he muses and suddenly the movie becomes interesting although I agree with critics that find the plotturns insufficiently motivatedbr br The four sisters are rather blandly played and seriously underwritten but Claude Rains as the pater familias has his momentsbr br Watch it for Garfield though he is the only really lasting thing about it

Its this sort of movie that you try and imitate By attempting to realise something then flying through the air almost immediately Id like to do that and I know you would toobr br Great stuff

From the films first shot Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clichs cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strongminded rebellious female character in period drama I knew I was in for something to make me want to kill myselfbr br Joe Wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact Jane Austens subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century English drawingrooms but a sort of Ucertificate Wuthering Heights Thus we were treated to every scene between Elizabeth and Darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain Not to mention that Jane Austen and in particular P P is not about passion sexual tension or love Its about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society Which was completely ignored so that the Bennets house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a Matrix Reloaded style danceorgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for proprietybr br The genius of Jane Austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap So both the brilliance of Jane Austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased Subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performancesbr br It was so obviously trying to be a serious film The humour which IS Pride Prejudice both Austens methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this pofaced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily Pride Prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it You cant lose Jane Austens technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain Not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavyhanded mysticalnuminous fauxbrow cinematographybr br Elizabeth Bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clearsighted Keira Knightley played the first half of the film like an emptyheaded giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an emptyheaded schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine Elizabeths wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybodys follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clearsightedness were completely lost and replaced with what A lot of giggling and staring into the distance Rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits And where the great strength of Austens Elizabeth at least in Austens eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety Knightleys Elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention Furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strongminded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it An astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance In which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by Matthew Macfaydenbr br Donald Sutherland as Mr Bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes Mr Bennet so fascinating and tragic His special bond with Lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact Mr Bingley was no longer amiable and wellmeaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing Jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all The script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of Jane Austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedybr br Just get the BBC adaptation on DVD and save yourself the heartache

Not one of your harderhitting stories and thats a real strength of this film There are at least two relationships in which less confident writers would have added some alltoo predictable romantic tension They not only spare the audience this but throw in some surprises at the same time There are a few Disneyish moments particularly near the end but they are manageable Overall it was worth the rental and it was good relaxed funbr br BTW if you get the DVD watch the segment where the director teaches you how to make aloo gobi We followed her directions and it was BRILLIANT Next time we will make it the day before we plan to eat it because this is one dish that definitely gets better with a full night in the fridge to let the spices out

That snarlbr br That scowlbr br The acts of random violencebr br The gutteral voicebr br The fetish wearbr br That shaven headbr br It can mean only one thingbr br GRACE JONES IS BACKbr br Actually my sources tell me that the title role in Blade wasnt played by the 1980s diva but by Wesley Snipesbr br All in all this is not an improvementbr br Blade is an adaptation of a comic character somehow in the transfer from the simplistic twodimensional world of the printed page it has become even more simplistic and lost a couple of dimensionsbr br The plot is hackneyed almost beyond belief and adds nothing to the vampire genre in fact much like Nosferatu it seems to suck the life out of the audience In brief upwardly mobile vampire wants to become more powerful but is opposed by Blade halfhuman halfvampire all annoying It all climaxes with Blade being put in a vampire juice press some bad martial arts and the most pitiful CGI since 1968br br Blade has to be the least empathic character since Dolph Lundgrens Punisher also a comic adaptation perhaps there is a trend here Surely the audience is meant to be on the same side as the hero And whilst a vampire can be a tragic character this is not true of Blade he is relentlessly cruel scornful and not a whole lot better than the bad guysbr br I assume that Wesley Snipes has an acting career purely so that everyone else can be compared favourably As he snarls his way through his movie you find yourself looking for a stake even a ballpoint pen anything to put Blade in the grave br br As a piece of narcissism Blade is pretty much unbeatable we are treated to endless lingering shots of a gymfresh Snipes for no reason whatsoever Likewise no other actor is allowed any chance to give a reasonable performance the likes of Steven Dorff CAN act but they have to play second fiddle to Snipes tedious performancebr br Kris Kristofferson used to appear in good movies here he is reduced to a sidekick that you just know isnt going to make it through to the final reel And what happens when Blade finds out Yes you guessed it he rushes to the scene to wreak his revenge in the villains giant underground lairbr br Why cant worlddomination take place in a quiet country house They always go ahead in underground cathedrals that would have had Albert Speer wondering if they were a little grandiose A lot of these plans could be stopped right now if local councils paid more attention to plans for extending subbasements br br The rest of the movie is just as dull and unimaginative with nothing new to add to the genre Vampires have been done to undeath and perhaps they should be laid to rest for a while at least until someone can think of some way to make them interesting againbr br To finish there IS a Grace Jones vampire movie its called Vamp and its about ten times better than this

What a fascinating film Even if it wasnt based on real life Forbidden Lies was a fascinating portrait of a con artist in her element And it is the kind of film psychology students could study to learn about compulsive liarsbr br The author of Forbidden Love Norma was revealed as a fraud in the media but this move really does give her ample opportunity to clear her namebr br But the twists and turns she takes the documentary maker through are amazing What a patient woman I loved this movie I have not read the book but simply heard good reviews and went to see it on boring rainy afternoon The journey this film takes you on is clever interesting and totally engrossing

Lock Up Your Daughters is one of the best highspirited comedies I have ever seenbr br It is misunderstood since it lacks the social commentary values that many films of the day 1969 required to be successfulbr br The characters are overthetop satires of everyday people and played to that purpose by all of the actorsbr br Christopher Plummer shines especially bright as Lord Foppington a noble with hair too big to fit in the doorbr br The plot involves the usual 18th century stuff mistaken identities thwarted romances corrupt government officials and jokes at every turnbr br It answers the questions What happens when 4 rambunctious eager to party sailors are on leave in a small British coastal town And who do they get involved with and how does it all turn outbr br Despite doing poorly at the box office it has great costumes excellent musicbased on the Mermaid Theatre musical of the same name greatlively acting and sets that are obviously authenticbr br That it has never been released on either VHS or DVD is truly a shame since so many bad movies are released every day

MINOR PLOT SPOILERS AHEADbr br How did such talented actors get involved in such mindless retreadedbr br drivel Robert DeNiro plays a Dumb Hollywood version of the standardbr br violence prone tough cop ie he beats up the bad guys and rolls hisbr br eyes at cops who prefer to stick by the book and Eddie Murphy plays abr br not so tough cop who would rather be an actor ie he screams outbr br Freeze police and has his tough look down pat Naturally theybr br are partnered when Bobbys loose cannon tactics get him in hot waterbr br with the media and he is essentially blackmailed into starring in abr br Copslike reality show Take a breath cuz thats as funny as itbr br getsbr br No energy was put into the script it feels like a pale retread ofbr br every copy buddy movie tossed into a blender with 15 Minutes starringbr br yes DeNiro himself as pretty much the character he is playing here br br The jokes fall flat the action feels listless and no one seems to bebr br having a good time Its dead on the screenbr br Please dont waste your time Even if you have an overwheming affinitybr br for one of the actors avoid it and do them a favor Becauze if thisbr br makes money these kinda of scripts will be deeemed perfectly acceptablebr br for actors of their qualitybr br And to Mr DeNiro You used to make serious films I remember them br br they were good You were nominated for awards for them remember howbr br much fun that was Now after Analyze This which was good Meet thebr br Parents which was also good and The Adventures of Rocky andbr br Bullwinkle which was NOT good I think we need to see you parodyingbr br yourself less and BEING yourself more Casino feels like a long timebr br ago And no I dont count 15 Minutes as serious Bobby Anyone whobr br took that media satire seriously must get their weekly world news

Bluff has been showing for a good few months at movie theatres in Bogota and today I finally got round to seeing it I didnt really know what to expect at all but was very happily surprised It is a crime comedy of the same ilk as Snatch etc and it manages to nicely balance elements of suspense with comedy The style of the film is established early on with cheerful music and the Argentinean narrator who makes asides direct to camera odd the first time but subsequently fitting naturallybr br With my lessthanperfect Spanish I still found the plot and dialogue easy enough to follow and plenty of the comedy is situational My Colombian girlfriend was laughing a lot at the various portrayals of people from different regions and social classes which did pass me by somewhat but for instance a wellacted portrayal of a pompous idiot in a position of power is funny in any languagebr br I think it is to this films credit that it has something of a global flavour I wasnt often reminded that this was Colombia that I was watching Yet it is important to note that many wealthy Bogotanos do live like some of the characters in this film and it is not a misportrayal of Bogota or Colombian society in any way just a selective portrayal as is any film supposedly portraying a real situationculturebr br I dont know how much of the comedy would be lost in subtitles but if it comes to your country definitely go check it out it is a very slick and enjoyable movie with great elements of black humour And all in a tightly packaged 90 minutes

I have just recently seen Heavens Gate After i watched this 3 hr 40 min epic western thats not a western i read the book by Steven Bach After considering all events and the movie itself i still think this movie is a complete waste of time I believe that when someone tells you to watch it they are in fact trying to bore you to death If for some reason you can enjoy this self indulgent over thought truely bad movie i have to ask why Though this isnt a reason to hate it it is historically way off It pretends to be about a situation that happened in Wyoming called the Johnson County War Simply the cattle barrons of the time wanted to kill all cattle thieves and claimed they were all immagrants You find that you simply do not care about these people and hope they all get killed because at least then something would happen Everybody in the movie talks about things that happen and it is never shown After you sit though this giant waste of time you wonder how someone could actually make a 4 hr epic in which nothing happens Oh and by the way the Johnson County war was not a war it never happened The Johnson County war in fact was called that because it almost happened in actual fact 2 people died I cant warn you enough off this movie However if youre like me the the idea of watching a movie that ruined careers and put United Artists on the for sale lot sounds like an interesting case to study then by all means watch this terrible narsisistic movie with no subtext and a lot of photographywhich is lovely sometimes

Ive always enjoyed animated ducks for some reason Duck Tales Darkwing Duck Daffy Duck Donald Duck Though none of them are as deranged as Duckman Originally broadcast between 1994 and 1997 Duckman lasted for a total 70 episodes but could easily have gone on forever without becoming stalebr br The titular character is a discombobulated unapologetic slob and pretty much the worst living person in the world Hes a private detective a widower a peeping tom an alcoholic a sex maniac a murderer a fill in the blank You name it Duckman has done it But who can blame him for being such a slimeball when the world hewe live in is so insane outrageous and just plain nonsensical Eric Tiberius Duckmanvoiced by the maniacal Jason Alexander could carry the whole show by himself but when hes surrounded by a bunch of eccentric supporting characters you just know that trouble is just waiting to explode at every opportunity My favorite has to be Willibald Feivel Cornfed or just Cornfed Pig Duckmans incredibly deadpan sidekick who is seemingly talented and highly skilled at everything and is perpetually oblivious to his partners infinity of vices and incompetencebr br The typical plot will involve some bizarre case hell inevitably blunder through or will revolve around his highly dysfunctional household though every now and again Duckmans archenemy King Chicken Tim Curry a sort of Professor Moriarty in fowl form hatches some diabolical scheme in revenge for being bullied in high schoolbr br Since I was a teenager this has been my absolute favorite animated show better than The Simpsons Family Guy and even King of the Hill Nothing will ever surpass it There never was or will be anything quite like Duckman ever again The level of satire observational humor and writing is so sharp its deadly and the animation is done in that unique KlaskyCsupo style anyone who has seen Rugrats will understand Its a wonderful highly imaginative and wild world and all with a noirish 1940s feelbr br You can never have too much of this particular bird

Gosh I am learning pretty fast that sometimes when you see a film as a youngster and then again 20 years later you gain a different view primarily because in 20 years you learn more For example I had no idea who George Cukor was how great of a director he was and how much of that made this film fly All I can say isI really liked this film for it touched on an area that paralleled my life lifelong friendship between two women Can that EVER exist Well in certain doses yesand this film let out in a bit on howbr br Being a youngster with not a lot of life experience at the first time I saw this so I focused more on the rich and famous part between the two At the time I had no idea there was a difference and what would happen to two women who discovered there wasand how that would effect their friendship Through their men their career the decades that defined them And coming to realize one thing remained stronger than anything elsetheir friendship and knowing each other more than anyone else could havebr br Then I got older studied film a bit and watched this film again with my best friend from High School We do understand the rich and famous angle and we are still the best of friendsbut this film is not a cinematic masterpieceit can be seen as a bit campy at timesa little over the top at points kinda on a Dynasty and Dallas level to me and honestly I can identify with the teddy bear scene for we do share a bear that means a lot more than a stuffed fun toy through our trials and tribulations with mencareers et also its not as over the top as it seems As many already said seeing Meg Ryan and Matt Latanzzi and Dack Rambo and David Selby are great in this 1981 piece this is a nice chick flick

Seriously avoid this movie at any cost I just saw it in my first sneak preview ever and although I paid nonrefundable money for it I walked out of the cinema after a mere 15 minutes Which already includes 2 minutes of discussion among my friends whether or not to leave First time EVER I walked out of a movie And I lived through some pretty bad onesbr br Its one of those films that is dubbed and badly so even though it is shown in its original language It relies on the oldest simplest and cheapest jokes in the book On the military What do we do once we reach the fighting zone You get out of the car and die actually its much funnier to read here that the way it was delivered in the film on drugs a guy eats some space cookies behaves really silly and misses his wedding or has to live through it while high all badly written and acted on women in the army Why do we only get trumpets We were promised guns Thats the way it is thats the way itll stay Argh Okay you might actually find these genuinely funny but in that case you seriously scare mebr br Additionally I have seen better acting in the kind of soft porn films you get on European late night TV So it had lame jokes delivered badly beyond lower average acting lacked pace was badly dubbed and edited It just didnt work At least not on any level used as a measure for filmsbr br I would even be so bold as to say that this flick proves that there are people who can be a lot less funny zan zee Germans And thats saying something if you like stereotypes Which I dont its nice to play with them though Just in case somebody thinks Im not being PC enoughbr br Instead of going to see this film do something useful Try to teach crocheting to prawns paint your toenails in a really irritating colour disassemble your bicycle change some light bulbs try to understand Einsteins theories convert to a different religion and back in fact go and listen to Last Christmas by Wham on endless repeat Anything but dont watch this awful flick

Amicus made close to a good half dozen of these horror anthologies in the 70s and this from leading horror scribe Robert Bloch is one of their best efforts There are four stories all worthwhile but two Sweets For The Sweet and Method For Murder distinguish themselves as highly effective journeys into fearbr br In Sweets Christopher Lee plays an impatient widower whose lovely daughter Chloe Franks becomes resentful of his neglect and brutish intolerance so she sculpts a voodoo doll with which she expresses her distaste for his methods Franks is a beautiful figure of mischievous evil and delivers one of the greatest child performances in a horror film since Martin Stephens in The Innocents This installment is directed with great subtlety and the final outrage occurring offscreen is a moment of purest horrorbr br Method of Murder is about a horror novelist Denholm Elliott who is menaced by one of his own creations the creepy Dominic This episode is striking for its simplicity and stark terror Dominic may or may not be real so director Peter Duffell has a great time playing with our expectations The brief shots of Dominic reflected in a pond or seen as a fleeting phantasm in a meadow are truly hauntingbr br The original poster art featuring a skeletal figure clasping a tray holding Peter Cushings severed head was a rich enticement for punters fixed on fear

This has got to be the best movie Ive ever seenbr br Combine breathtaking cinematography with stunning acting and a gripping plot and you have a masterpiecebr br Dog Bite Dog had me gripping the edge of my seat during some scenes recoiling in horror during others and left me drowning in my own tears after the tragic endingbr br The film left a deep impression on me Its shockingly violent scenes contrasted sharply with the poignant and tender love scenes The film is undeserving of its Cat III nudity rating there are no nude scenes whatsoever and the love scenes do not even involve kissing or making outbr br The message which this film presented to me All human beings no matter how violent or cruel they may seem have a tender side Edison Chen does a superb job playing the part of the murderous Pangbr br I rate this film 1010 Its a mustwatch

Kenny Doughty as Jed Willis is sexier in this role than any male porn star even though he keeps his pants onbr br The movie tore at my heart reminding me of the intensity of the big explosive love of my life I dont think I can think of another movie except perhaps Zeffirellis Romeo and Juliet that captures that giddy joy that wellbr br The other draw of the movie is the very English eccentric characters enjoying the scandal vicariously In that sense it is much the same appeal as Midsomer Murder or a Miss Marple mystery without the mayhembr br This is a great antidote to the mock horror currently popular in the USA an any relationships between people of different ages

Ah classic comedy At the point in the movie where brains get messed together a two minute scene with Bruce Campbell beating himself up partially reminds me of how simplistic movies and ideas can grab you and wrap you into a whole moviebr br For years and years Bruce Campbell knows what kind of movies we want out of him We want to see weird movies like Bubba Ho Tep We want to see cameo roles in Sam Raimi movies and we want to see Man with the Screaming Brain With the title alone one knows that its going to border that completely silly type of movie like Army of Darkness only with more silly and less monstersbr br The idea of the movie is simple Bruce sees doctor Doctor has new idea Bruce gets bad things happen to him on way to see doctor Coincidentally its the thing the doctor wanted to show him that saves him Hilarity ensuesbr br With the addition of Ted Raimi as a weird Russian guy and journeyman Stacy Keach as Dr Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov its funny that does this movie Complete funny Never a point of scarybr br If you like the silly Bruce Campbell youll like this Then again why would you be watching this if you didnt like Bruce Campbell

This was a very thought provoking film especially for 1973 At the time it was actually a huge box office success After the 1970s it appeared to be forgotten but its central messages were too important to disappear completelyIt was actually at least fifteen years ahead of its timeno one had ever heard of the greenhouse effectbefore 1985 and the controversial subject of euthanasia was rarely brought upbr br The sets and special effects might look a little outdated but big money for sci fi films was a gamble in that period If you look closely you will see everything usually makes sense This is a message movie not for zonked out star wars fans that cant sit through one minute of thought stimulation unless it contains a million bucks worth of explosionsbr br This was also Hestons last good film the end of his famous dystopian sci fi trilogy After that it was all overblown disaster epics and big budget crowd pleasing trash THis might not be the most amusing two hour movie ever made and the ending might be creepy and depressing but its hard to find any film producer with guts anymore who would tackle a subject like this

This film promises much but delivers little The basic problem has to do with the inclusion of Charlotte Gainsbourgs character in this film Immigrants from Sicily did not need a redheaded Anglo in any waythe movie may have needed her but new citizens certainly did not In my opinionthe decision to include her destroys the continuity of the film This is particularly troubling since it seems to demean not only the characters in the movie but also the history of immigration itself Immigrants themselves were heroic figures fully capable of getting along without having to satisfied what I believer to be a veiled image of the white mans burden I wonder if someone will make a movie of Irish immigrants which will include a Sicilian woman as a major character The Left Elbow Index considers seven aspects of filmacting production sets dialogue artistry film continuity plot and character developmenton a scale from high of 10 for excellent 5 for average and 1 for needs help Both film continuity and plot rate a low of 1 The continuity as discussed above is further degraded by the surrealistic ending Does not a film of such important historical significance deserve more than a conclusion which reminds one of Marc Chagall The plot is simple enough until it seems to become entangled with too much time in the old country too little time on the ship and too much emphasis on the ending The acting and character development is average since all the characters are fixed throughout the film and the inclusion of the AngloSaxon speaking perfect English almost turns the movie into a satire Wheres Groucho when you need him The production sets the dialogue and the artistry are very good each rating a 10 The sets in Sicily on the ship and on Ellis Island are as good as one can find The dialogue is marvelous and the ethic singing is superb I agree with Scorsese that listening to the Sicilian dialect is a pleasure Note that the immigrants speak of America not the United Statesthe ideal vs the political reality The are many good artistic scenes with dreams of America gold coins raining and giant veggies among the best The average Left Elbow Index is 525 raised to a 70 when equated with the IMDb scale One other notion seems to run through Ellis Island experience the tribulations of pass immigrants was grueling later in 2006 one only had to pay a coyote or boat owner and sneak into the county under the darkness of night no questions asked The movie is worth seeing but it appears that what one sees is problematical

dont watch this Serbian documentary and Serbian propaganda look out for this documentary and you will see facts and truth httpimdbcomtitlett0283181br br The Death of Yugoslavia documentary series of five episodes is a painstakingly compiled and researched account of the extended massbloodshed which marked the end of the old Federal Yugoslavia and spanned almost the entire first half of the 1990s It includes a huge wealth of news footage and interviews with involved parties both Yugoslav and otherwise The only real improvement which could be made to this amazing achievement would be the inclusion of later developments in the Balkans since the program was made This was indeed done in the late 1990s for a repeat showing on BBC television but the addition of some even more recent events would help to complete this admirably detailed and fulsome piece of work Perhaps another whole episode might be warranted The very succinct title of this documentary was made all the more appropriate by the eventual abandonment of the term Yugoslavia by the nownamed Federal Republic of Serbia and Montenegro a much belated and formal admission of that which occurred years beforebr br not fiction like in Yugoslavia The Avoidable War 1999

SPOILERS Shocking yet true story of the horror that befell the AlabamaGeorgia border town of Phenix when it was taken over by a gang of organized hoodlums who turn it into the Sin City of the Southbr br With crime skyrocketing and no one to turn to a group of concerned citizens get well respected Phenix lawyer Albert Patterson John McIntire to run for the office of State District Attorney With the criminal element of Phenix doing everything from intimidation to outright murder to keep the voters form getting Patterson the nomination he still wins with the other 86 counties of the state not including Phenixs Russell County giving him the nod by just over 1000 votesbr br Terrified in what Patterson would do when he takes office head of the Phenix Mob Rett Tanner Edward Andrews has a hit put out on him Patterson is gunned down while driving to his office but his killers are spotted by Ellie Rhodes Kathryn Grant who soon becomes through an informer in Pattersons office Tanners next person in line to be targeted for murder What Tanner Co didnt expect is that the late Albert Pattersons son John Richard Kiley got the news from Ellie about his dads murder before his boys could shut her up That major miscalculation on Tanners part will end up putting an end to both his criminal organization as well as his freedombr br Powerful documentarystyle crime movie with the actual persons involved in the events given some 15 minutes at the start of the film to tell their stories This despite the fact that they were still in danger of being murdered by the Tanner Mob that was still at large at the time their interviews were filmedbr br Finishing what his brave dad started John Patterson single handedly brought the story of Phenix City to the front pages of both the state and national newspapers giving Tanner the very negative publicity that he tried so hard to avoid With the now Alabama National Guard flooding into Phenix City the bloodthirsty and gutless in not willing to stand up to people with guns in their hands Tanner Mob evaporated from sight like a morning mist after the sunlight hits it And with John Patterson now taking the place of his murdered dad as the state of Alabamas new Attorney General you can be sure that the Patterson Mob has seen its last days of pushing people around as well as murdering them The only thing that theyll see now in the future is the gray prison walls and bars that will be their home sweet home for the rest of their rotten and miserable livesbr br Very probably the most graphically violent movie to come out of Hollywood up to that time The Phenix City Story didnt pull any punches in showing how a group of lawless and powerful criminals can turn a quite American city into living hell for everyone in it No one was speared from these ruthless gangsters who didnt even think twice when it came to murdering even women and children if thats what it took to keep them in power As for the Phenix City Police Departmentn they had better thing to do then enforced the law that they were sworn and paid to uphold They were out having coffee and donuts while their city was being burned to the ground by the gangsters like Tanner who had them in their hip pocket

Yes this is one of THOSE movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing I have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and I laughed at this movie The other comments give the idea well enough The characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pausesbr br But the rat yes the big rat Why we didnt get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me Often the big one isnt shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money I surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with thirdworld dentistrybr br The most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene After figuring out that the rats couldnt stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy If youve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you Really you need to rent it and see for yourselfbr br But not for more than 99 OK

This was an awful movie Basically Jane March was a halfKorean North Korean spy sent by Kim Jong Il to do something horrible to the American forces in South Korea She becomes a maid for an American military family they all regard her as being Korean even though she looks more white I believe the actress is either 14 or 18 Southeast Asian not at all Korean and the teenage boy of the household starts out hating her and ends up sleeping with her The way Korea and the US military in Korea is depicted is completely insane Of course the screenwriter and the director were obviously white men whove never spent a day in Korea prior to this movie and had no intention of showing any real insight into life in Korea for either Koreans or American GIs and instead just tried to fulfill their pathetic Asiaphile fantasies without any regard to how completely unbelievable it made the movie Anyone whos ever been to Korea will know this is utter garbage In the end the North Korean honhyol spygirl gets killed in an obvious paying for her sins way Very bad film with a madeforTV feel to it

With an interesting premise in the conflicts between Europeans and indigenous peoples sometimes the battle lines were not so clear this should have been a good film But the story is sabotaged by the directors overriding infatuation with his own cleverness twinned with a very poor scriptbr br Yes the natural setting is beautiful and yes the movie is authentic to its 19th century historical setting But the filmmaker keeps gilding the lily over and over again adding layer upon layer of overthetop musical accompaniment not to mention a completely unnecessary voiceover to the soundtrack that ultimately overwhelm the viewer and by calling attention to themselves take away from the storybr br To me it was clear the director with his microscopic closeups and the endless recurrence of the musical motif of Danny Boy of all things was trying to make a New Zealand version of an epic Sergio Leone film something on the order of Once Upon A Time In The West But given the earnestness of the story most of Leones westerns were tongueincheek not to mention that its no longer 1968 he succeeds in making a parody of onebr br Too bad

Since watching the trailer in The Little Mermaid II Return To The Sea DVD I had a feeling that this movie is gonna be great cause I am a huge Disney fan And guess what Im right This movie is a very worthy successor to the original classic Lady and the Trampbr br It tells the story of Scamp Lady and Tramps mischievious son Scamp who wants to be wild and free instead of living a housedog life Though the movie might not be as good as the first one it has a great moral that you couldnt find anywhere else until you watch itbr br I admit that the movie isnt for everyone but those of you who hate it all I can say is that you dont have a spirit for this and I suggest that you shouldnt go see it again But hey Its really an awesome story packed with brilliant animation music and starstudded voice talents featuring Scott WolfParty of Five and Alyssa MilanoCharmed So if you havent seen the movie why standing there Go and grab the copy

Well this may be one of the worst movies ever but atleast there are some nice tts in it The movie is a very bad spoof of The Blair Witch Project and should be watched only by those wanting to see some tts and NO point other than to flaunt them

The production values for this film make it fall short of Hollywood blockbuster status and the script makes it fall short of cult status What is left is a tired formulaic attempt at the disaster movie genre that will disappear with the ebb tidebr br A decent cast are either miss cast or cannot be botheredThe beautiful Joanne Whalley is unable to bring any gravitas to the role of Police Commissioner Nash who wears the most irritating matching waist clincher above her skirtbr br Jessalyn Gilseg plays the heavyweight part of Director of the Thames Barrier with all the conviction of a fairground candy floss Her Canadian nationality and accent were presumably drafted in to appeal to a transatlantic audience It and she failsHer initial appearance in a tight fitting pink jogging suit as she arrives at work is risiblebr br The part of the Siren old git who was right is played by Tom Courtenay as though he is acting in his sleep and the various plot twists that are designed to energise his son played by Robert Carlyle struggle to get any response from himbr br Nigel Planer looks determined to commit ritual hari kari for his failings as Met Office Director or for his acting or both and only David Suchet emerges with some credit for his role as Deputy PMbr br There was enough in the story and the cast and the effects to have produced a decent effort Alas that did not happen

This has got to be one of the most magnificent things Ive ever seen on film I dont know if its as serious as it seems to try to be but that hardly matters This film is extreme absolutely wild and surreal The packaging and the marketing only make it more so because you know that ever so often some mother has to reprogram her kid to accept our reality after he checks this out from the video store expecting something completely different Look at the roadmap for one thing And where else in America can you see a ten year old kid swear as much as this one does and then get his eye ripped out by pervert the rival of Pulp Fictions Zed And that food inspector scene is the best The amount of well known to vaguely recognized actors in this film is one of the best things about it Soon much sooner than you realize you too will find yourself saying Is that Meat Loaf Is that Drew Barrymore Is that the holideck doctor from Star Trek Voyager Is that Flea Is that the sawmill owner from Twin Peaks gassing squirrels with car exhaust And isnt this guy from the new Rob Zombie movie He looks an awful lot like Shrek I think my favorite scene is at the very end with Phil in a full body cast I mean please why arent more movies like this shown in airplanes This director hardly has anything else to his name higher than Return To Salems Lot but he displays true stumbling manchild genius in this creation If youre an intellectual looking for something to ps away your evening on I highly suggest this film for satisfaction This movies plot is all too ridiculous but imagine it taken out of context boy arm wrestling an over aggressive Meat Loaf who seems hell bent on taking out his anger at not being accepted into Guns N Roses looks over his shoulder and sees the doctor from Voyager enter the bar Can you imagine what any half brained channel surfer active through the last six years would think of seeing that Now imagine if you actually cared about Meat Loaf or Voyager to begin with Or imagine if youre a Flea fan Rocky Horror Picture Show fans this film contains notable music mind you but its soundtrack is more plasticine than Mad Max 3 What does that entail for you This is the retarded inverted mongoloid cousinsistermotherpuppy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show How about when Gus sleeve flies back onto his arm in an act of cableaccess special effects quality mastercraft When I saw this film it was on the suggestion of my cousin who had watched half of it in a fit of halfaware childhood in the early half of the nineties and who has since been haunted by vague memories of it I myself had not slept in three days It made me laugh Of course its also an anxiety movie The music doesnt encourage the suspense but it eventually gets to the point where its been fully established that the American Censorship Committee has obviously missed this film entirely and absolutely anything can happen in it and probably will any time Gus turns a corner or the view so much as changes camera angles I found myself obsessing over the possibility of those cards flying out his window at any second Watch this movie Awesome

I was outoftown visiting an old friend After dinner talking he expressed some reservations about his daughters boy friend Shes 15 beautiful smart athletic and the young man is also from an excellent family nice also athletic if not as smart I told him he might just be feeling the normal fatherly concerns however a few minutes later the young man arrived with his DVD of this flick which he had apparently been anxious for some time to share with the others br br These folks have a bona fide home theater setup with a screen something in excess of 4 feet and the two young folks preceded to view it while the young swain proceeded to extol its virtues almost framebyframebr br I saw enough in a few moments and with some fascination in its awfulness to endorse all of the most critical comments Ive seen in scanning some herebr br I told my friend I wouldnt go so far as to disqualify the young suitor solely on the basis of his liking this opus but it certainly seems to warrant his bearing close watchbr br Some flicks are sobadtheyregood the classic Plan 9 from Outer Space and in my opinion the wonderfully awful Bruce JennerVillage People work Cant Stop the Musicbr br However this one remains firmly simply in the awful categorybr br Secondthirdfourth bananas even the best of these eg Tim Conway Don Knotts everybody with Seinfeld have great difficulty in carrying a later starring series or as here film And these were great supporting characters in their original situationsbr br The Eddie character really at about the 5th or 6thbanana level in the prior Griswald movies and never added a whole lot to these in my opinion Randy Quaid is a capable actor who has delivered some good performances His contribution to the prior Vacation pics was average at best Both he and the other cast members many of whom have done some good work in the past accomplished nothing for their efforts here except to derive a few years house payments or some IRA contributionsbr br This whole presentation story performances from lead to support couldnt be worse

How on earth this film isnt more widely regarded is beyond mebr br I picked it up for 1 and Im not exaggerating when I say its the best pound Ive ever spent on a filmbr br The thing that usually lets films about the club scene down is either the music or the actual scenes filmed in clublandbr br Here the music and club scenes are completely credibleusing some big tunes of the time and filmed in real clubs with people actually looking like they want to be therebr br The performances from the actors are of a high standard all round although Jason Donovan in particular for me stands out he was playing Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Show in London at roughly the time this must have been filming so his drag phase was in full flow and of course Tim Curry whos eloquent drug land boss is convincingbr br Simply put if youre a fan of British film you have to see this it matters not a jot if youre into clubbing as the film is strong enough as a story anywaybr br Highly recommended

Give director Stanley Tong of Jackie Chans Super Cop and Rumble in the Bronx and what do you get You receive a series of kung fu fights and a lack of Magoolike madnessbr br The limited plot has Magoo Leslie Nielsen put into an international plot where he steals a worldrenowned gem Of course he has no idea what he is doing In fact he has no idea that he had the gembr br Within thirty minutes you could get very bored watching this There are some very funny moments though like when he is cooking the chicken You will wish that you were as nearsighted as Magoo Its a fun movie to watch but its quite a disaster You have to love Leslie Nielson because he was made some very funny movies This isnt his best but he does a good job playing Magoo I thought it was a funny film and it should be recommended to young children because they will probably think that its very funny

I felt as though the two hours I spent watching this film may have been better served by perhaps going to the local used bookstore and looking for old fashion magazines and Halston ads Or perhaps by watching paint dry Those two employments would have at least engaged my mind a bit more than India Song The most frustrating part of sitting through this was that I could see what moodsatmospheres were trying to be created and the notion of these could have been interesting if they had been fleshed out more Instead what happened was a presentation of an incoherent silly chain of nonevents with the same scenes rehashed over and over to beat some sort of point into our sensesbr br I was loathe to devote more time to this film by writing any sort of review except to perhaps warn other folks against this waste of time

We have a character named Evie Evie just wants to be a good person Shes nice friendly smiles often but is strangely brutally honest Evie also has a secret Her idiotsavant sister has been reciting original poetry which is getting the community excited about the sister writing Unfortunately its Evies poetry While their mother starts being happy again and the boy next door shows his interest in Evie Evie just tries to figure out what she really wants to dobr br What to keep in mind while watching this movie is who Evie really is For such a brutally honest person who doesnt mind telling Ivyleague types that she doesnt respect them it would seem odd that she would be able to pull off a lie For someone so happy and cheerful shes quite emotionless when it comes to certain issues Those arent character flaws theyre plot development and they mean a lot more than they at first seembr br Mostly this is something of a melodrama a character lies the other characters personalities propel them through drama as relationships are held at risk But in terms of the writing its very fresh and bold The acting helps the writing along very well maybe the idiotsavant sister could have been played better and it is a real joy to watchbr br The directing and the cinematography arent quite as good Theyre acceptable and Evies world is wreathed in color and light which makes for some very beautiful images but its not very consistent Its not really so much of a flaw as a result of a low production value but within that same value is some genuine storytelling and a real care for the characters So while it isnt a perfect movie its certainly an enjoyable onebr br PolarisDiB

Can it ever be said that there are some movies that have no redeeming features whatsoever Answer Yes and this is one of them After helming the appalling House of the Dead director Uwe Boll has now cast his lessthantalented eye towards yet another video game adaptation Dont these guys get it To anyone who cant understand here it is in block capitals for you VIDEO GAMES DO NOT MAKE FOR GOOD MOVIES The acting here is at best substandard The set design and special effects are poor Unlike the video game which did have its scary moments the movie has no atmosphere of impending doom no sense of danger or menace Pacing and plotting is confused and the paper that the script is printed on would have been better used as toilet paper The main culprit is the director Uwe Boll uses the camera with the grace and skill of a monkey using a paintbrush Hackneyed zooms swoops and pans are spliced into the whole dreary affair at unpredictable moments leaving the audience disorientated and bored Why this guy was ever let near a movie set in the first place must stand as one of modern cinemas greatest secrets Avoid at all costs

Gymkata is without a doubt one of the worst movies ever made But not the bad kind of bad movies This one is so awful its fun to watch and laugh Kurt Thomas clearly does not have a lucrative career in acting He should go back to gymnastics But who can forget such memorable scenes as the high bar with chalk the stone pommel horse or the five minute chase scene through the village of the crazies in slow motion I dont think it was meant to be this bad but who can tell Its not art but if you want something lite and fluffy that will make a good conversation rent gymakta Makes for an evening of fun

I dont know whether to recommend this movie to the fans of Tetsuo or not Why Tetsuo Because you can easily label some things about this movie as a very obvious Tetsuo rip off The concept is similar editing is equally frantic and fast which is good because aside from making the movie more dynamic it obscures some flaws caused by low budget and other factors br br There is lot more gore less eroticism and in the case of Meatball machine the transformation of human being into a creature thats partially a machine sounds familiar called Necroborg very original is caused by slimy little aliens br br These slimy little scums from outer space actually use human beings as vessels for their gladiator games that they play with each other They infest the body somehow manage to put an insane amount of mechanical parts in it pulling them seemingly out of nowhere and turn it into a killing machine that targets other Necroborgs Their aim is to defeat another alien who is in another Necroborg rip it out of the corpse and eat it br br All in all the plot sounds somewhat silly and I didnt expect much but at the end I actually enjoyed this film br br As I said before this is a low budget flick but its still relatively decent Dont expect much from actors theyre mostly not very good but it can be tolerated I liked the atmosphere and gore certain bizarre situations and the way the movie is directed and edited Although the story is not too original it possesses certain charm to me at least br br 7 out of 10

This was the worst movie I have ever seen and Ive seen a lot of bad movies First of Im from Kansas this movie does not have a shred of truth in it at all Its like they took BTK name and made up the rest On top of that it looks like someone was like Ive only got 20 bucks here take it and make a movie and oh yeah dont worry about researching btk at all just make up something seriously pure dookie no one should ever see this movie The slaughtering cows scenes and making his victims eat stuff and describing animal slaughter BTK did none of these things but the movie does so for the love of god never see this god awful movie The made for TV ones are way better and way more accurate

If this movie were any worse it would have been directed by Uwe Boll This nonsensical mess makes Ed Wood look like Hitchcock It has been a while since I have seen this steaming pile but I do remember that I wanted to do grievous bodily harm to all those involved How anyone can give this movie any more than 1 star amazes me to the graciousness of all those that viewed this tripe I give it one star because there is not a rating lower All copies of this movie should be burned the ground sowed with salt and reserved as a landfill for the most toxic of waste No one copy should be kept under ultra hi security and shown only to film makers as an example of how not to do it

POSSIBLE SPOILER br br You`d think a story involving Archie Grey Owl An Englishman posing as a red indian would have a massive amount of humour involved In fact I`d say the only way to treat a film like this where a remarkable man cons the gullible public is to treat it as a comedy However Richard Attenborough commits something akin to a crime by making GREY OWL a serious drama Worse he`s made an extremely dire film too Pierce Brosnan lacks the charisma needed for the title role and the romantic subplot between Grey Owl and Pony Played by the equally wooden Annie Gaupeau lacks any type of on screen chemistry But to be fair to the cast their not helped with the script which fails to portray Archie as the cheeky chappy he is of fooling everyone into believing he`s a native American The producers and screenwriter have made the major error of having the film centre around the plot twist of Archie being an Englishman That`s why I wrote Possible spoiler it`s not actually revealed untill late in the film that the title character is English but it`s obvious that everyone who viewed this movie knew that beforehand hence there`s absolutely no surprise involvedbr br Yes I do agree with everyone that the scenery is lovely and that it has a deep ecological message which isn`t actually a new concept Theodore Roosevelt was the first important environmentalist of the 20th century if truth be told And it should also be remembered that with the exception of SOYLENT GREEN And possibly THE TWO TOWERS if you want to class it as having a green message that there hasn`t actually been a great ecological film In fact most environmentally concious films suck and that includes GREY OWL a film that unsurprisingly had a serious problem in finding a distributor

To identify this movie as a vampire movie would be technically correct Simply because it will suck the life right out of youbr br Vampire Effect is an insult to moviebuffs everywhere The plot is almost nonexistent The makeup is just plain awful And the acting is just not therebr br I have to wonder if Jackie Chan owed someone a huge favor to be convinced to appear in this filmbr br My wife picked up the movie at the rental store because it had a picture of Jackie Chan on the front as though he was playing the lead and thought that a good JC flick would be fun to watch This movie was interesting to watch in the same way that you cant help staring at the car wreck when you drive by You realize very quickly the movie isnt going to get any better but you keep watching wonder just how bad it will get

I gave this a 1 There are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for Total mayhem Everyone gets killed or nearly so I am tired of cross hairs and changing views I cannot give the plot away Convoluted and insane If I had paid to see this I would demand my money back I wish reviews were more honest

Once in a while you get amazed over how BAD a film can be and how in the world anybody could raise money to make this kind of crap There is absolutely No talent included in this film from a crappy script to a crappy story to crappy acting Amazing

An ultramodern house in an affluent neighborhood appears to be the cause of each of its inhabitants bizarre and deadly behavior Or at least that is what Lara Flynn Boyles character Col Kennedy argues After a series of deadly occurrences in a gargantuan house next door Col knows something has got to give MarkPaul Gosselaar also stars as the mysterious architectbr br My opinion The House Next Door works because of Lara Flynn Boyle and the locations beautiful house and stylish sets Boyle is a talented and dynamic actress not to mention absolutely stunning She brings credibility to her character and makes the film intriguing Without her it would have failed Its so alive declares a prospective buyer in reference to the house Yes it is alive But the story itself is not so muchbr br Barring Boyles presence not much is happening here as an enormous amount of the movie is spent watching or waiting to see how the house will affect its current owners The results are predictable But I liked it anyway The cinematography lends the film a polished look 810 on account of Boyle the premise of an evil ultramodern house the locations and cinematography and set decoration and wardrobe

Sitting in a big wing chair with a huge book in his lap the one and only Bela Lugosi looks into the camera and in a dreadful vocal delivery that sounds as if he were mocking a reading of Shakespeare intones sloooowly Mans constant groping of things unknown drawing from the endless reaches of time brings to light many startling things snicker startling because they seem new Lugosis eyes now bulging with raised eyebrows and mouth sneering he continues but most are not new the signs of the ages cue a visual of lightening accompanied by the sound of thunder which then continues to rumble for an astonishing 86 secondsbr br And so begins what is arguably the worst film ever made This movie almost defies description Told in semidocudrama style with an unseen narrator explaining the plot such as it is the story revolves around the vicissitudes of a man named Glen Ed Wood Jr who crossdresses hence the reference to Glenda The film has no real structure Instead it consists mostly of a random assortment of vignettes that may or may not relate to Glen or to the crossdressing motif One long sequence consists of some unknown woman wriggling on a sofa followed by a man whipping a woman in what we would today refer to as SMbr br Then at odd moments Bela reappears for no apparent reason and babbles more inane dialogue like When hes wrong because he does right and when hes right because he does wrong pull the string dance to that Huhbr br About twenty percent of the films visuals consist of stock footage accompanied by a VO that relates to the story motif but not the visuals Hence we see stock footage of bustling city streets freeway traffic a thunderous herd of buffalo and a playground full of kids But it gets worse In a film about crossdressing we have 58 consecutive seconds of stock footage of a foundry furnace making hot steel and 84 consecutive seconds of battle scenes from WWIIbr br Even the simplest items are botched In one scene we see a newspaper headline that reads Man Nabbed Dressed as Girl Underneath the headline which has clearly been glued or pasted on the article is about taxes In one of my favorite scenes an offscreen woman spouts out airplanes why its against the creators will in a voice that sounds like shes just inhaled heliumbr br Except for the performance of Lyle Talbot the acting is uniformly horrendous Production design is cheap looking and drab but you gotta love that tacky wallpaper The editing is sloppy Most of the background music is suitable only for 1950 style elevators The BW cinematography has way too much contrast And the costumes look like something that came from a thrift storebr br This film is so bad it makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Citizen Kane by comparison I just dont know how one could make a film any worse than Ed Woods Glen Or Glenda But thankfully its got Bela Lugosi in it Every time he opened his mouth and gazed into the camera with those big bulging eyes I about fell on the floor laughing

Luis Bunuels Nazarin will always be remembered as a great film because it is absolutely honest in its presentation of comical assault on religionIt is one of those outstanding films which must be shown to all people especially young children in order to familiarize them with the notions of good and badsacred and evilThe toughest question asked by Nazarin is about the strengths and weaknesses of organized religionIt has been tackled by involving numerous ordinary people who are not at all above petty affairs in their mundane lives especially sinsBunuel scores tremendously by showing us that various questions related to class differences deserve frankhonest and reliable answers Nazarin appears credible as it has been made in a lightcomical veinThis is the sole reason why it can be said that the story of an ordinary priest appears absolutely true to life to all audiencesIt is amazing how Bunuel approaches quest for true love issue in his film This black white gem was shot marvelously by Gabriel Figueroaone of Luis Bunuels favorite cameramanFilm critic Lalit Rao saw Nazarin at TrivandrumIndia during 13th International Film Festival of Kerala 2009Nazarin was introduced by eminent Indian cinema personality MrPKNair as part of a special package called 50 years agoThis is a film which should be with any discerning DVD collector

Previously I wrote that I loved Titanic cried at its ending many times over and Im a guy in his 60s I also wondered about why this great movie which won so many awards and was applauded by so many critics was given only a 70 rating by imdbcom usersbr br Well I looked at the breakdown of the user ratings While 290 of all votes gave it a 10 rating 107 gave it a 1 rating These 107 of these irrational imdb users in effect pulled the overall rating down to 70 br br In my previous comments I blamed this very unusual voting pattern a sudden surge in 1 ratings with a high 10 rating dropping only gradually and then suddenly reversing course and jumping at the 1 rating level on only one thing hatred for Leonardo DiCaprio Believe me Ive tuned into enough chat rooms to see the banter by young people young men mostly who defame him left and right They absolutely hate the man and they will have no part in giving him any credit in Titanic To answer one other user I am NOT talking about someone who just really doesnt like the movie that much and gave it a 5 or a 6 etc Everyone has and is entitled to hisher own taste But no one can convince me that the imdb rating of only 70 overall for Titanic pulled to that level by an inordinate number of ridiculous 1 ratings is a fair reflection of the overall motion picturebr br Let me demonstrate my point by comparing the imdb user voting pattern of Titanic to 5 randomly chosen box office and critical bombs there are many more but these 5 will prove my point Heavens Gate 1980 was pulled from the theaters quickly after a very poor box office showing and imdb voters ratings were 232 10 ratings and 92 1 ratings overall rating of 61 Big Top Peewee 1988 got 43 10 ratings and 99 1 ratings overall rating of 45 Cat People 1982 got 61 10 ratings and 26 1 ratings overall rating of 58 Blind Date 1987 got 30 10 ratings and 28 1 ratings overall rating of 53 Jumpin Jack Flash 1986 got 44 10 ratings and 37 1 ratings overall rating of 52 WHAT DO ALL OF THESE FILMS HAVE IN COMMON WITH TITANIC ALL OF THE PERCENTAGES OF THEIR 1 RATINGS ARE LOWER THAN TITANIC AND NONE OF THESE STINKERS EVER WAS NOMINATED FOR A SINGLE AWARD Again Titanic got 107 1 ratings Compare that to the other 5 movies I just mentionedbr br Can there be any explanation other than the hatred of Leo factorbr br

Okay maybe this movie not a revolution But it a very good piece of entertainment and its Liv Tylers variation of Alicia Silverstones Clueless or Cameron Diaz Theres something about Marybr br Liv plays a femme fatale which just wants to have an own house and all kinds of material comfort in it And well she does everything to get just that even crimes Many crimes And she drops every boyfriend which doesnt cooperate to get these things Additionally she actually doesnt mind to have some additional lovers beside her current boyfriendbr br This movie is even funnier to watch if one knows that Liv is actually of zodiac sign cancer and cancer are reported to be very domestic So the character Liv played here is actually a parody of a cancer br br I was alone in cinema when I watched this one That was quite comfortable because I could laugh as loud as I wished all the time but it also felt strange as if nobody was actually interested in this movie br br I myself liked it very much The acting was between very good to excellent especially the main actors where brilliant There where enough jokes many of the black kind and good dialoguesbr br This is a trash movie and it is full of black humor If you like this kind of movies try this one

This was an awesome movie with flight scenes that were incredibly realistic I have seen it multiple times and it has kept my attention throughout every time I myself am a big fan of the Air Force and love to watch any movie where I can get a glimpse of an F16 flying If you like Top Gun then I guarantee you will love this movie also Except for a few mild curse words this is an excellent movie for the whole family It has a great plot and does not have a dull moment throughout the entire movie Every second is action packed and keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens next So once again I HIGHLY recommend this movie

This movie wants to elaborate that criminals are a product of modern society Therefore can thieves rapists and murderers the Killer of this movie Carl Panzram James Woods is all three and worse be held fully accountable for their deeds An interesting notion but very difficult to bring to the screen in an intellectually and emotionally satisfying way And this is where Killer A Journal of Murder falls very short Although the film tries to put Panzrams behaviour into perspective with flashbacks to his violent youth and dysfunctional upbringing the viewer never gets the idea that Panzram is a victim rather than a culprit Sure the system is corrupt with one mobster occupying the whole sick bay of Leavenworth Prison where most of the movie takes place most prison guards are sadistic bullies and the prison director something like a megalomaniacal despot But why on earth does new prison guard Henry Lesser Robert Sean Leonard take such pity on Panzram Even after having read his gruesome diaries The movie offers some explanation Lesser witnesses Panzram being beaten to a pulp by the most sadistic and stereotypical guard and is impressed by Panzrams intelligence though it isnt clear why exactly Lesser thinks this man is so smart Surely this isnt enough to sympathize with a hostile man like Panzram even though this movie tends to downplay his crimes and highlight his personality Towards Lesser Panzram is quite loyal and the viewer is given the impression that for Lesser this outweighs all of the atrocities he has read about in Panzrams diaries Does this man Lesser have so little friends that he takes at face value everyone who seems only remotely friendly to him Perhaps it is Lesser who is a product of modern society judging on appearance rather than substancebr br I can advise Monster starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci as a movie which handles roughly the same themes with far more integrity and scopebr br BTW Killer looks as though shot for TV not so good

Although Im not a golf fan I attended a sneak preview of this movie and absolutely loved it The historical settings the blatant class distinctions and seeing the good and the bad on both sides of the dividing line held my attention throughout The actors and their characterizations were all mesmerizing And I was on the edge of my seat during the golf segments which were not only dramatic and exciting but easy to follow Toward the end of this movie Seabiscuit came strongly to mind although The Greatest Game Ever Played is far less complex a story than that film In both cases the fact that the events really happened deepened my interest

If I had never seen an episode of the original Avengers with Blackman Rigg or Thorson I would have appreciated this series more While the cast did its best to sustain the action and interest of the scripts I was just caught up in comparing the episodes to the original series There was an expectation of Steed participating more in fight scenes and the continuity seemed as though the writers were struggling to keep up with the actors To be honest I cant blame them for trying to resurrect the fans from the original series but it just didnt work as evidenced by the fact that it lasted one season Watching Steed labor through this series reminded me of Gen Macarthur when he said Old soldiers never die they just fade away

If you love Japanese monster movies youll love this action packed battle pitting an alien invader intent upon conquering the Earth and a Giant Robot with an armory of super weaponry The alien Emporer Guillotine from the planet Gargoyle has a army of thugs called of course the gargoyle gang as well as an endless supply of immense hostile creatures that are routinely loosed upon the Earth to smash buildings make loud noises panic the populace etc A little kid named Johnny Sokko has the Giant Robot at his beckon call and sends the Robot as needed to beat up and then blast these creatures Johnny joins a group of good spies called Unicorn and endeavors to help save the worldbr br In spite of the campy nature unintentionally humorous dialog and the fact that the target audience was obviously children this movie has nonstop action colorful characters decent special effects and just happens to be downright fun to watch Battle scenes are well executed and frequent as the storyline requires The good guys and bad guys both made sure they had an inexhaustible supply of bombs lasers ammunition and schemes to attack each other In spite of the fact the movie was constructed from edited episodes of a TV series the plot actually develops and reaches an ultimate conclusionbr br The film has a positive outlook and appeals to everyones especially kids desire to destroy evil in its many forms Kids may be the target audience but its fun for everyone to laugh at its comical silliness yet at the same time root for the good guys to prevail and save the world The acting is cheesy in places but that is the charm there are several lines of corny dialog possibly translation errors or possibly intentional jokes by the movie makers and youll find yourself quoting these absurd lines laterbr br Admittedly this film is not high in production quality or budget However for what it is campy scifi its enjoyable for some laughs I recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor for that sort of thing

This film is fantastic as it explores storytelling and fantasy in the way a child would for adults The idea of a childs drawings becoming a place she can physically visit and have influence over is wonderful At the same time you could get all child psychologist about it and say shes really exploring her subconscious just as we all do in our dreams when we sleep The bit that gives me goosepimples is when her Dad is in the paper house and chases her The only thing I cant stand is that it was marketed as a horror filmit really isnt If you want to see something British with plenty of storyline which keeps you guessing without the usual cheap thrills most films have to use then watch Paperhouse

Can I Do it till I Need Glasses at the very least proves the point that anyone can make a movie Talent is not a consideration The folks who unleashed this wretched pile of spewing vomit upon the world lack any semblance of talent taste or intelligence The target audience must consist of the recently labotimized and infants who play with their own feces Anyone else would be far too world wise to get even a snicker out of this film It consists of a series of sophmoric skits in which the punchline does not even extend to the obvious It ends at the ludicrous The jokes told are the types of jokes that elementary school children tell usually potty or sexually related where they dont know the meaning of all of the terms they use You know like the one about daddys car and mommys garage To apply any sterner method of criticism would be pointless since the usual standards of acting writing direction and such have never even been heard of by the creative minds behind this mess Not to be judgemental but anyone who enjoyed this film should seriously reflect upon their purpose on this earthbr br

Steve Carell stars as a person who you can relate tosort of in Dan in real life a film which I expected not to like but ended up liking it Not that the movie is laugh out loud funny its just that it has a big heart We all like Steve Carell this isnt what fans of The Office would expect to see from him but you know what I liked this movie br br Carell stars as Dan Burns a widowed father whos daughters dont really like him One weekend him and his daughters travel down to see his family While there he goes to a bookstore and falls for a woman When he gets back to his house he finds out that his brother MitchPlayed by Dane Cook is dating this womanPlayed by Juliette Binochebr br Dan in real life at times I found a bit unbelievable Are the Burns family really the kind of people who do exercises together and play board games together and do a bunch of other family things I would highly doubt that I dont know any family who is like that Is that stopping me from giving it a thumbs up Nobr br Dan in real life

Geez as a Gay man who lives in NYC I can gratefully say that I have never seen the underbelly of Gay Culture that is portrayed in this film and I am glad of it Was this film broadcast on TV across the United States there would be a great antiGay backlash and I cannot say that I would blame them The people in this film do not represent the average Gay American or even the average Trandgender American what they do represent is a sheer and utter nightmare The inclusion of obviously underage characters is appalling and the obvious racist sentiments antiWhite are blatant and unsettling society cannot be blamed for people who have chosen drugs unemployment and rejection of education on the part of the films cast the actions of these people are not acts of desperation but rather a rejection of anything resembling personal ambition and a willingness to make something out of ones self

The worst film ever made bar none Give yourself a pat on the back if you can possibly sit through every excruciatingly painful minute of it Except for the bit where the hardluck loser turned deranged psychopath from forced medical experimentation pours his pea soup on the doctors head and laughs like any good raving lunatic shouldthats all

The movie is made in a style that resembles Lock stock and two smoking barrels with lots of subplots fancy camerawork cool music and that great tongueincheek Aussie type of humor youll find nowhere else How this movie has escaped the European and American audience is a mystery

Its pretty bad when the generic movie synopsis has more information than the film itself The paragraphlong plot summary written on the movie page has details I could not glean from watching the actual movie I found myself constantly backing it up to see what details I had just missed which could tell me what the bleep was going on Alas to no availthis movie leaves out monstrous pieces of the story if you could call it a story Its like they were trying to fool us into thinking that there was some kind of movie here filming just enough so that there was the resemblance of a story and leaving the rest to our imaginations Newsflash to the the creators I paid to watch you MAKE a movie I can sit home and imagine plots and story lines for free And Rosario Dawson This is somebody Ive never paid enough attention to to be able to put the name to the face and I can see why She had one of the most artificial performances I have ever seen for a leading character in any movie A or B I figured okay maybe she didnt really want the role just got a hefty offer for a movie she wasnt into Wrong She was listed as one of the producers Next time you produce something dont book yourself as the lead if you cant act If you really can then create a decent character for you to become Also somebody here mentioned the whitelatino issueyes I hate to say it but this movie does come across as an act of vengeance against white collegeage males who wear baseball hats Thats what happens when there is nothing in the movie to endear the watcher to latino characters The Adrian character seems like a cocky jerk who is no better than the storys antagonist As for the Maya character she didnt seem like a real person Anyway Im ashamed for Hollywood that this movie was even made

If you a purist dont waste your time otherwise hold onto your hat and enjoy the adventure I loved the Stewart GrangerDeborah Kerr version Ive seen it dozens of times but this film is every bit as good only different I wont detail the differences because it would spoil the film Also it is a pleasure to see Alison Doody again Im a huge Indiana Jones fan Patrick Swayze is good as Quatermain and the supporting cast is superb I find the quality of the supporting cast one of the trademarks of a Hallmark Production and this film was no exception The cinematography is splendid and the score is perfect If you are looking for entertainment you wont be disappointed

After spending half an hour examining Rumors a gay bar located outside Tupelo Mississippi SMALL TOWN GAY BAR shifts focus to the murder of Scotty Weaver in Bay Minette in order to demonstrate the risks run by the interview subjects But there is a problem here Bay Minette isnt near Tupelo as the film implies It isnt even in the same state It is actually about three hundred miles away in coastal Alabamabr br Director Malcom Ingram doesnt exactly rush to point out this fact nor does he bother to mention that while Bay Minette itself is little more than a wide spot in the road it is actually about two deep breaths away from the major metro area of Mobile Alabamawhich has a noticeable gay community quite a few gay bars and even a congregation of Metropolitan Community Church If Ingram is disingenuous on these points one has to ask if he is on others as wellbr br Speaking as someone who was born raised and continues to live in Mississippi I have to say that I find most of SMALL TOWN GAY BAR a lot of hooey Neither Meridian nor Tupelo the communities upon which Ingram focuses are as rural small or as isolated as he would have you imagine and gay bars are indeed more common in the state than the film implies That said Ingram rather blithely ignores the fact that the absence of a gay bar does not mean an absence of a gay community and in doing so he demonstrates a rather profound ignorance of southern culture which tends to hold those who frequent barsbe they gay or straightin low esteembr br SMALL TOWN GAY BAR is in my opinion an instance in which a film maker came to his subject with a personal agenda in hand and then proceeded to film the agenda Do gays and lesbians living in rural Mississippi face major sometimes frightening challenges You bet they dobut thats no excuse for fiddling with reality to such a degree The DVD includes a commentary track and a number of deleted scenes but I found the feature film itself so ridiculous that I didnt waste any time on thembr br GFT Amazon Reviewer

I admire Deepa Mehta and this movie is a masterpiece Id recommend to buy this movie on DVD because its a movie you might want to watch more often than just once And trust me youd still find little meaningful details after watching it several timesbr br The characters except for the grandmother perhaps are all very balanced no black and white Even though you follow the story from the perspective of the two protagonists there is also empathy for the other charactersbr br I think the IMDb rating for the movie is far too low probably due to its politically controversial content

Flight Of Fury is a shockingly dire but worst of all boring Action Film I dont expect a lot from a Seagal Film all I expect is to be moderately entertained for 90 or so minutes with some mindless action unfortunately this doesnt even achieve that low expectation The action scenes are few and far between the plot which is totally irrelevant in these Films is needlessly complicated and confusing with huge plot holes throughout The acting is truly abysmal bordering on embarrassing with Seagal and his whispering One expression performance being the best among the sorry lot of 3rd raters I find it hard to believe that anything close to 12M was spent on this dire mess unless 11M of that 12 was Seagals Salary I somehow doubt it The one moment of any interest to Straight guys or gay girls is that out of seemingly nowhere two hot chicks end up in a lesbian sex scene of sorts complete with huge baps on display other than that Its mediocre stuff which is no different to many of the Michael Dudikoff BMovies Ive enduredbr br 110

There are several ways to misunderstand this movie and a couple of them have been shown in some of the past comments This is a movie to be analyzed as a free recreation of a known subject and therefore not to be compared with the opera the book or other Carmen movies seen before It just stands for itself and I must say that this Carmen does it very well It is a mistake to compare because that is the first step to deny movies the chance to be autonomous creative works of art Vicente Aranda is a master of atmosphere and the art direction the costumes and the photography are extremely well put together to achieve a pleasing aesthetic experience Lets take it as it isbr br And that brings us to the next misunderstanding Someone complains about the typical Spanish clichs in the movie Well historically the movie is extremely well researched and you can see the results of that very serious work in every scene It is not only an accurate portrait of the black Spain of knife and espadrille that Goya portrayed so vividly but its also of that part of history as seen by a foreigner fascinated with the folkloric side of that society Honestly anyone who doesnt want to see any clich about Spain shouldnt buy a ticket to see Carmen but in this case those clichs are presented before they became one and the way to see them is getting rid of our own prejudicesbr br Another important requirement to understand this movie properly is to speak the language It is not acceptable to criticize any actor performance for not having understood his or her lines If all the rest of the audience did the problem most likely lies somewhere else Paz Vega has an immaculate diction with her Andalusian accent and all she says is understandable and credible Her Argentinian partner Leonardo Sbaraglia gives also a convincing portrait of the Basque officer that became a bandolero and her accent is very well learnedbr br No less important is to have a minimally open approach to the material To say that Paz Vega is horrible suggests that the author of the phrase entered the theater for the wrong reasons We already had in Spain a critic in one of the most prestigious papers that used to recommend us pictures he found homosexually arousing without mentioning it explicitly And that was not totally fair for the rest of us especially for the ones that hadnt detected that the man was writing with parts of his anatomy that many readers didnt necessarily had to care for Im not suggesting at all that the reviewer had the same motivation but the expectations must have been different as the ones of those among us that went to see a talented and beautiful actress play an almost classic role because thats what we got Paz Vega IS Carmen and an excellent one in Vicente Arandas movie

Damn straightthis show was kick ass back in the day and still continues to outshine cartoons today I cant wait to track down some of the DVDs to share with my little guy and see the same sparkle in his eyes Ive already introduced him to Voltron the 5 lions one not the 15 vehicles oneand I laughed my head off when he said to me one day Dadyou sure watched some awesome cartoons when you were a kid How cool is thatbr br Come on Hollywood dust this one off and give it a live action attempt Couldnt be any worse than Spiderman 3 wasMan oh man 2007 has been pretty lame so far for summer moviesbr br OK Ill shuddup nowbr br Cheers

There is one good thing in this movie Lola Glaudinis ass Sorry to be so blunt but its the truth Too bad she didnt do a nude It would at least have made this mess tolerable We see another chicks boobs but shes nowhere near Lola And man is Armand Assante old or what The man looks like crap Consequence is the usual BMovie you would expect The story had potential Its like they had good ideas but didnt know how to execute them The cinematography is just plain awful Ugly The directing is uninspired and the end result is a bland thriller with lame twists and washed up actors Lola Gaudini is great as the vixen in a cheap slutty way but not even she saves Consequence from being trash and not funny trash just plain old stinking trash

Hm While an enjoyable movie to poke plot holes point out atrocious acting primitive at best special effects all of which have caused me to view this movie three times over the past six years Severed ranks among the worst Ive ever seen Im never sure who the protagonists are all I know is that the killer uses a portable guillotine as seen in the dance floor murder scene All in all I dont really like the movie because only the first 30 minutes are enjoyable the rest is a mishmash of confusing dialog and imagery that fail to progress the story to a logical conclusion which I cant remember anyway

If any movie stands out extremely with the actors acting skills this is probably the one Ive never seen dialogues be spoken in such a rough way but having a strong feeling The movie was disturbing at moments However the movie was terrible at editing The movie tries to go the commercial way by adding comedy and songs yet they feel out of place Like Karisma is getting beat up and the same time SRK is fighting comically with the police officers The Ishq Kamina song was very out of place On top of that the movie is overly glossy in the beginning The direction was not bad but certainly nothing one can brag aboutbr br I have to say that the actors were chosen very wisely Without them this movie would not have an impact Karisma Kapoor has given her best role to date and this looks very good on her record after Zubeidaa and Fiza She looks pretty in the first half and Ive never seen an actress scream of emotion and anger as well as her What is most ironic is this is probably her weakest written role to date Nana Patekar was excellent as her fatherinlaw Not much to say about him besides this is a role made for him Deepti Naval as the motherinlaw was excellent especially in her final scene Though she doesnt have much to say her facial expressions and body language was good The other good performance was the little kid He was adorable and is sure to bring tears to the viewers eyes The movie was probably saved desperately by their performances Sanjay Kapoor was all right but he didnt have much to do Shahrukh Khan was wasted in his bad boyish type role br br One thing that brought the audience to the theater was Ishq Kamina The song picturization and dancing is perfect for the crude lyrics of the song And boy Aish is mad hot However the song belonged to be in another movie only because it came at the worst moment ever People may have come to the movie for Aish but they wont brag too much about it afterwards Hum Tum Miley was properly paced but seemed to drag as the suspense mood was leaving throughout the movie Damroo Bhaje was boring and nothing to rave about Dil Ne Pukara is too boring of a song to get the mood of the movie Despite the poor editing the performances alone make it a must see

I rented the DVD in a video store as an alternative to reading the report But its pretty much just more terrortainmentbr br While the film may present some info from the report in the drama youre taking the word of the producers theres no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film Not onebr br The acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else There may be some truth to it but it really has a bad Hollywood stereotype smell to itbr br IMDbs user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and I have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever I canbr br I wish I had on this one

From producerwriterGolden Globe nominated director James L Brooks Terms of Endearment As Good as It Gets this is a really good satirical comedy film showing behind the scenes in the life of a news reporteranchorjournalist or producer might be like Basically Jane Craig Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Holly Hunter falls for new reporter Tom Grunick Oscar and Golden Globe nominated William Hurt but correspondent Aaron Altman Oscar nominated Albert Brooks also has strong feelings for her The network prepares for big changes and sparks will fly with all members of the studio Also starring Jack Nicholson as anchor Bill Rorich Moonrakers Lois Chiles as Jennifer Mack Mrs Doubtfires Robert Prosky as Ernie Merriman School of Rocks Joan Cusack as Blair Litton Peter Hackes as Paul Moore Christian Clemenson as Bobby Robert Katims as Martin Klein Ed Wheeler as George Wein and Stephen Mendillo as Gerald Grunick The comedy is subtle but strong the romance has its moments and it is certainly a believable situation film It was nominated the Oscars for Best Cinematography Best Film Editing Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and Best Picture and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture ComedyMusical and Best Screenplay Motion Picture It was number 64 on 100 Years 100 Laughs Very good

This is a film that everyone should watch Quite apart from raising hugely important points while South Africa is on the road to recovery there are still many countries in similar situations now it is superbly directed while Denzel Washington gives in my opinion the best performance in his career so far Kline also gives a good performance although perhaps not as stunning as Washingtons John Thaw also puts in a good turn as the Chief of Policebr br There are so many possible areas where a film on apartheid could fall down but all of these have been avoided It would be easy to simply portray white people as the bad guys and black people as the good guys but Attenborough has not done this Sure there were some white characters who seemed inherently evil such as the Captain at the Soweto uprising but to add extra dimensions to all the characters would make the film unbearably long Some people complain about the length of the film as it is but I think it needs the whole two and a half hours to tell the whole story for it really is an incredible onebr br The best scene in the film is that of Steve Bikos funeral When the whole crowd begins to sing the South African national anthem it is probably one of if not the most moving scenes I have seenbr br If you havent seen this film already watch it It may not be comfortable viewing but its certainly worth it

Follow the Fleet an RKO production in 1936 stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a complex romantic comedy Although Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have had many similar romantic movies together RKO helped them to once again create a worthwhile storyline that incorporates relevant situations to society at the time it was made The narrative of Follow the Fleet relies heavily on the use of layered story lines between the two sets of main characters to create a satisfying romantic comedybr br The general plot of the movie revolves around Bake Baker a Sailor in the US Navy played by Fred Astaire and Sherry Martin Bakes former love and dance partner who is now a singer and dancer played by Ginger Rogers Their story begins when Bake is on the ship and his shipmate Bilge Smith finds a photo of the two of them together and Bake reveals that the last time he saw her he had asked her to marry him so Bilge suggests that they try and meet up with her when they are on land in hopes that she might have a friend br br The next major scene begins the second plot of the movie when Connie Martin Sherrys sister is refused entry into Paradise where her sister works unless she is escorted by a gentleman She turns around to find Bilge behind her with a bag full of beverages so she plays it off like she was waiting on him and buys his entrance into Paradise as well Connie then finds Sherry and tells her that she is depressed because she cannot have the luck Sherry does with men so Sherry suggests she get a makeover from her friends while she is performing on stage Connie gets made over and enters the ballroom once again and approaches Bilge again who is awestruck by the sight of her This commences the second romantic storyline between Bilge and Conniebr br Throughout the remainder of the movie the story and rising actions are transitioned between altering comedic reliefs of the two couples troubles that create several mini rising and falling actions within the overall plot Bake and Sherry hit it off their first moments together as they compete in a dance competition and end up winning it reminding them of the success and pleasure the two have when they are together Similarly Bilge is able to swoon Connie through his romantic attempts of pleasing her and they retire to her house br br This series of happy events is soon followed by unsettling measures that brings the rising action back down Bake left Sherry the previous night to retire to the ship before midnight and told her that he would come for her in the morning Unfortunately the ship sets course after the shipmates have returned upsetting Sherry and leaving her to think Bake was still being a typical sailor looking for a good time when hes on land br br The mood is again changed as another subplot is entered into the film when a party of big shots is taking a tour of the ship This alternate storyline is used to create a buffer between the stories of the two main relationships of the film as well as help build confidence and fondness of Bakes overall good intentions The party is interrupted by the oblivious music playing coming from Bake and his companions when they missed the sounding to report on deck for the company The ladies are intrigued and ask to hear them play and Bake gladly begins to entertain them with some dancing which ultimately helps brighten the mood of the film as well as bring happiness to the sailors br br After returning to the couples intertwined stories Sherry is trying to prove to Bake that she does not need his help with landing a job Unfortunately Bake is unaware that she is auditioning and goes to put in a good word for Sherry when he overhears his friend at the studio talking about the remarkable lady auditioning Bake takes it upon himself to help Sherry out by tampering with her water making her unable to sing correctly and destroying her audition In addition to Bakes mistake Connie spent all of her money to repair a ship that she was hoping Bilge would take over as captain She had also planned a remarkable dinner date for him when he was supposed to come over but Bilge was aware of her intentions and hopes of soon marrying and was no longer interested so he stood her up br br The remainder of the movie continues in the same format of mini rising and falling actions until the climactic point is reached between the two couples ending the movie with the happiness of both couples The use of the altering stories helps to build interest and emotion within each couple as they deal with both happiness and pain through each of their struggles The intertwining stories are also able to relate with one another as well as incorporate other unrelated subplots to help carry the narrative through to the concluding scenes br br Although Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have countless films together that incorporate romance comedy song and dance Follow the Fleet is a unique film for the two actors that successfully use the technique of subplots to aid the narrative between the two main characters

Series as a whole Jim Hensons best work John Hurt is the Storyteller Often Oscarcaliber screenplays not surprising when you consider Minghella doing the writing Oscarcaliber acting alwaysbr br Sapsorrow Everybody loves The Soldier and Death but something about Sapsorrow pushes it an iota higher in my favor In the first ballroom scene the costumes the music perfection Hurt and the dog typically semiinteract with the story but this time Minghella pushes it up that extra notch in the ring scene between Hurt and Sapsorrow The chemistry between characters is especially welldeveloped more so than usual in the series in reference to the friendship between Straggletag and the prince Seen it See it again Pay more attention to those of you who dont fanatically adore this 22minute piece of cinematic perfection Never seen it I am so so sorrybr br Luck Child not as sophisticated as Sapsorrow but very clever in its own right This is a story about irony Irony upon irony within irony I love it Every character is acted to perfection with the exception of the ferryman He was doing drama everyone else was doing romantic comedy I forgive him This is my favorite of the primarily comedic episodes Sapsorrow and The Soldier and Death being examples of more dramatic episodesbr br Side note Greek Myths What it lack in Minghella subtlety different writer it partially makes up for in boldness as it portrays the four chosen myths with more sympathy and respect and history than is usual Also check out the Jim Henson Hour if you can get your hands on it For Storyteller adicts it features The Man Himself introducing the myths the lion from True Bride and No Annoying Opening Theme Half Storyteller half pure unadulterated muppet wit

Dirty Harry has to track down a rape victim who extracts revenge by shooting her assailants in the goolies before killing them Probably a more apt punishment would be to let them live after the initial shot and let them suffer forever like she and her sister hasAnyway an actionpacked story set again in San Francisco and Santa Cruz The chief rapist played by Andy Drake is suitably vile and gets his punishment at the end of course Not a classic movie but better than the others except for the original Dirty Harry

This self proclaimed very talented artist have directed easily the worst Spanish film of the 21st century Lack of emotion coherence rhythm skills humor it repeats the same situation over and over again It shows no character development It does not even show any violent andor sexual content and it does not add anything new to the psychokiller sub genre So lame it should be shown at film schools as an example of what not to do in a first moviebr br BTW where the hell is the talent there are scenes which have been shot almost identically there are scenes which have two or more master shots and it is quite awful to see the action jumping from one master shot to another without a reason The camera almost never moves as if the very talented artist was afraid of showing his lack of visual skills The actors playing the main roles act like amateurs and the supporting cast is hardly believable There are more holes than plot in the script if ever there was onebr br A really disheartening movie and a whatsoever talented director

A postapocalyptic warrior goes off to save some kind of Nun and on the way meets some cyberpunks on skates who want to kick his ass This is one of the hardest to watch films ever There are scenes with silence that seems to last hours before somebody comes out with the next badly written badly acted line There are action sequences that keep repeating and were not talking the quickfire 123 action repeat on a particularly good kick that was made popular by eastern directors were talking many many repeats of long bad fight sequences This is incredibly confusing at first but then quickly becomes annoying as youre watching a 30 second sequence for the 2nd 3rd and 4th time Any kind of plot or vision is lost within the confusing continuity the only thing thats keeps this film in the videoplayer apart from the bet from a friend that i couldnt watch it all the way through without begging for it to be turned off and disposed off safely so it may harm noone else is the fact that although painful this film is unintentionally hilarious im not at all a fan of those so bad that its funny type of films but at parts i was in tears Other points to note are the quality of the sound and picture but this is forgiveable as its obvious money was a major problem in the making of this film Final verdict King of the so bad theyre funny genre anybody having that kind of genre video night should get themselves a copy Also lets not forget that it is actually the worst film ive ever seen

Great film No gratuitous gimmicks like in most Hollywood films Everything supported the suspense of the plot Bw gave it a basic nofrills feel also In short it was visceral in its simplicity of cinematography and castbr br Following serves as an interesting contrast to Memento Characters in both used manipulation and subterfuge extensively In that sense both reminded me somewhat of In the Company of Men also highly recommendable One difference between Nolans two films is that Memento was a little easier for me to follow given that the bw scenes progress in a constant chronological direction and so do those in color I dont think that was true of Following where scenes seemed to be shown at random If you have the choice between VCR and DVD Id highly recommend DVD since that gives you the option of watching the movie a second time in chronological order not just in the scrambled albeit ingenuous order presented by Nolan It also makes it easier upon a second viewing to piece the order together for yourself if you want tobr br As another viewer noted one of the best things about both this movie and Memento is that none of the cast were famous They were characters not bigname actors who brought in personas developed in other moviesbr br Given certain similarities in the plots I wonder if Memento is sort of a remake of Following but intended to reach a bigger audience like Edward Burns made Shes the One in the mold of and with largely the same cast as The Brothers McMullan