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Somehow this movie manages to be invigorating bittersweet and heartwarming at the same time Stars like Tony Shalhoub from Providence bring the tale to life The story itself is inspiring We see a desperate upanddown life through the most innocent eyes imaginable a birdsbr br Paulie begins his life as a baby parrot given to a little girl played by Hallie Eisenberg also known as the Pepsi girl with a speech impediment While she learns to speak correctly so does Paulie However unlike most birds he can speak and understand everything being said The military father doesnt like the bird so he is sent to a pawn shop and bought by an aging artist Ivy She teaches him manners etc while traveling across the country to find Paulies owner The movie continues with several twists of fate until Paulie ends up at a laboratory where he is eventually hidden away in a basement and found by a Russian custodian who is touched by the birds story the plot is in keeping with the simple metaphorical theme that language is a gift and a curse I would like to say that the soundtrack is astounding A beautiful mixture of flute digital base and horns enhance the movie to the point of pure ecstasy The sweeping camera angles and breathtaking scenery beautify the story even more And as a final remark the puppetry is entirely believable Unlike in star wars where Yoda resembles a Muppet This film is one of my favorite movies with the added remark that my wonderful parakeet of four years died recently Overall I give this movie out of four stars two thumbs up and a big hug

This was a great movie but it had the worst ending I think I have ever seen The actors were great and displayed wonderful talent The entire story was twisted and unexpecting which is what made it entertaining As good as the movie was the entire film is judged by the ending which was terrible Maybe a sequel could eliminate this bad ending

This movie was horrible If it had never been made the world would be a better place Come on a flying wagon What were they thinking This was a subpar movie with a horrible hook and I would like a written apology from the studio that produced this along with some cookies to help repay me for the time I wasted on this crap fest that I can never get back If you payed to see this movie I am truly sorry because I watched it on TV on a Sunday afternoon when I had nothing better to do and it pretty much ruined my whole week A flying freaking WAGON And thats supposed to make up for having a horrible mother who cares more about her own screwed up needs than her children No wonder they dont have enough sense to tell someone he is beating them their mother teaches them nothing but that what she wants comes before everything else Absolutely horrible

This movie still chills me to the bone thinking of it This movie was not just bad as in lowbudget badly acted etc although it certainly WAS all of those things The problem with this movie is that it seemed to be intentionally trying to annoy the viewer and doing it with great success What I want to know is is this supposed to be a horror movie I mean its definately horrifying but not in the way horror movies are supposed to be I could see the first segment trying to be horror and failing but what the hell is the second segment Its just annoying The third segment is like watching an artsy student film which amazingly enough makes it the least painful segment Its an atrocity that this movie isnt way low on the bottom 100 so get your votes 110 in people I know some people gave this good reviews but well theyre lying in a sadistic attempt to trick you Trust me it is impossible to like this movie The only benefit of this movie is an amazing lifeextending effect it feels like youve been watching this movie for years after only the first half hour has passed

A previous reviewer said the movie is not all that bad What The movie glorifies child molestation Oh but Sylvia Kristel was naked in it so lets give it 5 out of 10 stars Why not a full 10 Because the filmography was agonizing the childs looks of shock were unrealistic and the fat friend was irritating Nowhere in the review does the reviewer express any outrage that an American movie in 1981 featured scenes of a child having sex with a grown woman I happened to catch this steaming loaf of a movie while staying at a hotel that had Showtime To me even if the fat friend had acted up a storm and was a deserving of an Oscar I would still have to give the movie only 1 star That TVs Howard Hessman starred in the movie at the same time as he was appearing in WKRP is particularly ridiculous But dont take my word for it

Nothing new in this hackneyed romance with characters put into unbelievable situations speaking dialogue that borders on the ridiculous This is an example of another movie put into production before serious script problems were solved Dont waste your time

If you have seen Friends the writing will feel very familiar Especially the last 3 or 4 seasons of Friends often share the same comedy setupsbr br The show is about a group of people whose connection is that they shared the same class when they were still rather young about 10 years old I think Now theyre in their midtwenties and they meet again on a class reunion This is where the series startsbr br A typical episode deals with multiple story lines at once Theyre usually not connected in any way Each story line is cut up into multiple sections which are then shown in a mixed orderbr br The sketches is where my problems lie with this series As in the later seasons of Friends its often a rather silly setting with hard to believe situations One of the main characters does something really stupid thats hard to believe The situation is then heavily exaggerated as if it wasnt silly enough If youre into this kind of inyourface humor then maybe youll like this series For me it is a great turnoffbr br The reason I started watching Friends is because of the first few seasons There are interesting and especially credible story lines with some romance in it that makes you root for the characters The Class has none of this The characters are simply too forced and stereotypes are pushed too far Its therefore not possible to relate to them and like thembr br At least with friends it took several seasons before it ran out of steam and the character traits were all milked out But in The Class it seems it has run out of steam before it even started

The Coen Brothers have done it again Three depression era convictsGeorge Clooney John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelsonescape a Mississippi chain gang and head off in search of buried treasure that will fund their new lives Along the way they sing on the radio and become much sought after stars as well as escapees Great laughs and a soundtrack that is a lessonintroduction to bluegrass musicbr br Clooney is outstanding as the fast talking quick witted Ulysses Everett McGill Holly Hunter plays his estranged wife Turturro and Nelson are flawless stumblebums Also in the cast are John Goodman and Charles Durningbr br Dan Tyminksi provides the singing voice for George Clooney on I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow the Soggy Bottom Boys song that serves as a template for the bluegrass laden soundtrack that also features Alison Krauss Ralph Stanley The Whites John Hartford The Cox Family and Gillian Welch Toe tapping knee slapping fun for the whole family Youll be surprised with how relaxed and funny this movie is

Having been a fan of Columbo I was sorely disappointed in Corky Romano While certainly a funny movie Falks mob boss character was a far cry from the lovable lieutenant hes played for so many years especially with the offensive language he used After Corky Romano I was honestly both surprised by and soured on Mr Peter Falk HOWEVER having just seen Finding John Christmas and its predecessor A Town Without Christmas for the first time within a week of each other I have to say that Max Peters Falks delightful character in both movies is surely as memorable and lovable as Columbo While parts of the movie are quite predictable such scenes in no way take away from the enjoyment of seeing the story played out I too wish I had recorded both of these heartwarming Christmas movies and I highly recommend them whether youre a Falk fan a Christmas nut or simply someone who enjoys the occasional feelgood movie of the week This movie may end up lost among the throngs of madeforTV holiday flicks so be sure to find Finding John Christmas before its too late

Hard Justice is an excellent action movie The whole movie is really nothing but shooting and fighting For the people who say they dont make shoot em ups like they use to Well this one is really hardcore David Bradley is really good and his character takes a pounding in the movie He gets hit by the stick over a dozen times gets stabbed in the back and is in a coma for three days and then wakes up and fights again gets beat up recovers and is ready for more action His character is incredibly tuff Charles Napier was very good as well and he arguably steals the show Vernen Wells was good Professor Toru Tanaka had a short and an uncredited role in Hard Justice As for the action it is truly awesome with all of the gun fights and the huge stand off like scene in the beginning has cars getting blown up and flipping up in mid air There is so much that happens in the 95 minute run time For the action fans you will be blown away by all of the fire power and fighting that this film has to offer Hard Justice is a movie that isnt easy to locate and if you are at a video store and you see it for sale buy it up because this movie is big keeper an d plus the box is cool There is a ton of action that has to be seen to be believed Look and see if you can find some good deals on Ebay Halfcom Amazoncoms ZShops and Market Place Sellers I strongly recommend that any action movie fan who loves shoot ems and fighting movies and has been disappointed by other movies that have the look like a true non stop action flick but fails to deliver it to get Hard Justice

I have seen Miracles Still Happen now at least four times I never tire of this fantastic movie From the very beginning it holds a persons interest As the movie progresses and the plane crashes the story becomes very intense as we watch this young girl trying to survive alone and frightened in the Amazon following a plane crash in which she was the only survivor Losing her mother in this plane crash as well makes this movie even more dramatic as we see the perils this young girl had to endure during her ten days in the Amazon To think this really did happen is just unreal and to think that anyone could actualy survive this is unspeakable as we see the wild animals snakes and other reptiles the enormous forests and wildlife as well as countless insects As the movie progresses we see the many dangers this girl has to face as she tries to follow the river in hopes of it leading her to a town Remembering what her father told her about how a stream will always lead to a river and then into an even larger river and this means it will eventually lead to a community this young girl keep track of the tiny stream which eventually lead into a huge river all throughout the movie At times having to swim in dangerous waters alone frightened injured she always managed to keep going Towards the end of this movie it was obvious she would not have been able to continue much longer as she had not eaten in ten days and only had water to drink and was very sick and tired from her perils Eventually as she sees a canoe she realizes there has to be a village and men find her and they take care of her and then take her to a hospital where her father comes to see her after fearing she was dead along with the many other passengers Such a dramatic movie and so heartwarming to see her fathers face when he sees his daughter is actually still alive after all this time in the Amazon Movies like this arent made much those days I will still see it again and I know I will never tire of it To think this girl was the only one single survivor of this airplane is just unspeakable Also the fact she only maintained a few very slight injuries was even more remarkable whereas everyone else on this airplane perished in the horrific crash into the wilds of the Amazon A brilliant movie superbly acted out indeed and one I will treasure forever and love to continue watching Strongly recommended by me for sure

I have read each and every one of Baroness Orczys Scarlet Pimpernel books Counting this one I have seen 3 pimpernel movies The one with Jane Seymour and Anthony Andrews i preferred greatly to this It goes out of its way for violence and action occasionally completely violating the spirit of the book I dont expect movies to stick directly to plots i gave up being that idealistic long ago but if an excellent movie of a book has already been made dont remake it with a tv movie that includes excellent actors and nice costumes but a barely decent script Sticking with the 80s versionRahne

I recently saw House of Wax and must say i really enjoyed itbr br its been one of the better HorrorThriller films in the past few years if not one of the best and most entertainingbr br ive heard a lot of people bashing the socalled slow start and character development which takes up the Films opening 45 minutesbr br yet if the film dived straight into the deaths audiences and critics would have criticised the film for not having decent characters who they couldnt care less aboutbr br well as for the character development i think it worked amazingly wellbr br taking into my own response and others from reading posts off the message board a lot of people ended up wanting the characters to live one of which ive noticed many people mentioning being Paige Edwards Paris Hilton taking into consideration Warner Bros have been marketing her death its a surprise turn around that many audiences ended up cheering her on for survivalbr br speaking of the chasedeath scenes they were some of the most inventive and suspenseful ive witnessed in a while and enjoyed each one very muchbr br the acting in the film was absolutely fine i couldnt fault any of them especially Paris Hilton i thought she was very decent and i was hoping for her the get more than a mere 25 minutes screen time in a 120 minute film yet her chase scene made up for that and believe me when i say Paris can act scared Watch the scene where shes hiding in a car from Vincent and he walks past her the look of terror on her face comes across as VERY realbr br Overall i give House of Wax maximum stars for entertainment value and suspense and even gore only criticism is i wish that during the marketing for the film they hadnt revealed the death list and who dies and who survives as it would have been ten times better not knowing if the character being chased was going to live or die and horrible deathbr br cant wait for the DVD but go see it at the Cinema while you can it wont be the same in your own front room yet if you do wait for the DVD watch the film in the dark with no interruptions trust me you wont be disappointed

Im working my way through the Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection and REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES is one of the movies in the set I am watching them with my soontobe sevenyear old daughter which makes most of these movies a laugh riotbr br I had high hopes for REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES after watching White Zombie which is really the precursor to so much that is the mainstay of zombies in cinema think Clive Barkers Serpent and the Rainbow and James Bonds Live and Let Die funeral scene NOT Night of the Living Deadbr br However even though the title includes the word zombies it is little more than a love triangle involving anthropologist Armand Louque who is smitten with Claire Duval who in turn is taken with his companion Clifford Grayson What a yawnfest my daughter fell asleep halfway throughbr br I had a real hard time deciphering who these people worked for the allies or the axis but I guess that doesnt really matterbr br I was shocked to see Bela Lugosi in the credits for this movie but of course those were his eyes from White Zombie serving as the mindcontrol device for the zombies

Ah yes the VS series MVC2 being the pinnacle Its been said before this is what you get when half of the crew fell asleep on the job unfortunately the gameplay half did Dont get me wrong this is fun but you get tired of mashing buttons As for the plot summary AHAHAHAHAHAAAAA There is no plot Beat that guy at the end and win Eh who plays this by their self anyway

The story takes place on the streets of Sao Paoulo in Brazil where a young boy named Pixote grows up alone without his parents Left troubled and with no direction Pixote gets taken into a child asylum with other adolescents from the street Behind closed doors terrible things occurs within the staff and within the childgroups And there is one last trigger that gets the place blown up the last incident that makes Pixote and his friends decide to break out and escape From there on begins a journey overwhelmed with strong bonded friendships friendships torn apart love and hate criminal activities and simply chilling on the beach talking about things something someone like you and I also does sometimesbr br I think this film is perfect in so many ways because it touches you on so many levels it did that with me anyway The documentlike style used to portray Pixote and his surroundings does it seem more realistic and the actors who really are street children and have lived similar lives helps the humanity in the conditions seem more natural It has a social comment about child abuse too but I think what makes the film so great is that the pressure is on the story and not on the political views The last scene which I find the best piece from the film strikes me as something beyond nothing Ive seen before So full of emotions and yet so unsentimental makes this film a truthful believable unbearable unforgettable storytale A true heartbreaking masterpiece which is so underratedbr br My vote 1010

Joseph Conrads novel Heart of Darkness is a dark profound and lasting novel that portrays the futility and irony taking place in Africa If you are looking for a great book to read over the weekend this is not the book for you Conrad holds nothing back when describing 19th century imperialism but the novel is meaningless without giving it the reflection and consideration it deserves If I read this novel looking for a great adventure story I would say that I wasted my time but looking at in the perspective of explaining the futility of 19th century civilization I would say this is one of the most significant novels I have ever read Because of the fact that I read this novel in my English class and we analyzed every page I think I appreciated the book more than someone would who was just reading it for entertainment I am not going to lie this book was difficult and it challenges the reader to dig deep into this novel to find the true meaning The movie on the other hand I found tiresome and boring The movie Heart of Darkness comes no where near giving the book justice The movie left out many key parts that I consider important to get the true message of the story If you are having difficulty understanding and visualizing the novel then the movie might be a good recourse but I would not recommend seeing the movie as an alternative to the novel or even a different perspective

Over several years of looking for halfdecent films to rent for my kids Ive developed a sixthsense for spotting the really cheesy directtovideo efforts that are really painful to sit through for anyone over the age of eight I dropped the ball on this one and the kids spent half the movie asking me what did she say that for and why did he do that and my eyes got sore from rolling them every minute or so as characters did a really bad job of introducing seemingly random plot changes And the next time someone decides that having absolutely no skill with a sword is simply bringing realism to a film please run them through with a dull butter knife Prehysteria was head and shoulders above this Arrgh

Jim Carrey shines in this beautiful movie This is now one of my favorite movies I read all about the making and I thought it was incredible how the did it I cant wait till this comes out on DVD I saw this in theaters so many times I cant even count how times Ive seen it

Although this movie has a slow dreamlike almost mesmerizing pace and an interesting though possibly not entirely accurate description of a rural French constabularys criminal investigation practices and personnel I find it ultimately impossible to recommend I think this movie is simply a setup piece to advance one persons the directors one presumes disgust with heterosexuality Certainly human sexuality in all its forms can have their revolting moments no denying that But to choose the bad uniformly at the expense of the good as this film does at every turn suggests a warped sensibility at work In short if you enjoy watching homoeroticism masquerading as compassion and the depiction of heterosexual lovemaking and the female form in a hideous and degrading light then this movie is for you I dont and it wasnt

I rented this movie without having heard or read anything about it What a shame This movie is intelligent witty hilarious fastpaced and realistically ridiculous The characters manage to get developed without relying too heavily on clichd tired stereotypes It was refreshing to watch I couldnt help thinking that marketing would have helped lob this notsomainstream movie into the starvedforintelligentcomedy mainstream The quality of the dialogue and the ease with which the actors execute a huge range of awkwardness heartbreak and comedy is so rare these daysI felt that the actors must have really enjoyed participating in something this rich How is it that National Treasure was number one at the box office for three weeks in a rowit is so weak in too many ways to mention I guess Im just happy that movies like Seeing are still being made somewhere out there

Its a very good movie not only for the fans of Lady Death comics but also for those who like animated moviesseries of adventure and fantasybr br The film is about a innocent girl who is about killed for something she hadnt done but for be who she is daughter of the ruler of hell Lucifer himselfbr br Then she seeks revengeand the rest you better see it from the moviebr br I liked the movie a lot the characters are like the original comics form Chaos I never had the chance of read the the first parts of the story in comics only the last ones after the passages in the movie so I cannot tell you if the events are exactly like the comics butone way or another its the story of Lady Death

What a fun movie If youre a Giallo fan Red Queen Kills 7 Times is a real winner To begin with its hard to go wrong with Barbara Bouchet and Marina Malfatti in the same Giallo Both are wonderful especially the wideeyed innocent Bouchet as the guilt ridden woman fearing for her life The kill scenes in Red Queen Kills 7 Times are especially nice and feature enough blood to make most fans happy One of the first murders comes rather unexpectedly and really gets the movie off to a good start The killer The Red Queen is one of the most overthetop and interesting looking murderers Ive seen in an Italian movie The 70s sets and fashions are wonderful In fact all the visuals are interesting with the laughing Red Queen running across the bridge at night being one of my favorite moments in the film The convoluted plot held my interest throughout Finally Bruno Nicolais score may be the best Ive heard from the composer The main theme is so memorable I havent been able to get it out of my head for two daysbr br The only two issues I have with Red Queen Kills 7 Times come in the films finale First the person responsible for the murders is far too easy to spot If youve seen more than a couple Gialli you wont have any problem determining who is behind the killings Second the ending feels a little too rushed and as a result is a bit confusing Im definitely not one who needs every plot point spelled out to me but Ill admit to being at a loss to explain it all A second viewing might just clear this up

Hooper is Not Funny Not Fasted paced Not romantic and Non informative There is no real drama You would think that a movie about the worlds greatest stuntman would have some drama there was an attempt but it didnt seem real No Character study no lessons learned it did not even look like the actors were having any real fun they were just trying to act like they were having fun There is no reason to watch unless you like to look at Burt and want get an occasional glimpse of Sally Prancer the horse was beautiful and did what he was supposed to do In fact Prancer was the best actor in this movie Smoky and the Bandit was such a fun movie that I was ready to like Hooper This movie turned out to be a real disappointment and waste of time

This television show is a idiotic waste of time if you want to learnbr br about animals watch the discovery channel If you want to watchbr br nincompoops on television just watch MTV MTV stands for music televisionbr br not nitwit Dlisters preforming retarded skits or bratty kids cryingbr br their hearts out for not getting a BMW for there 16th birthday I betbr br that if you like this show I bet you love viva la Bam and jackass huh I think my IQ dropped ten points watching this show br br This is a combination of two shows jackass and the animal planetbr br Some people think this is a good combinationbr br I on the other hand think it is retardantbr br And if you notice its a lot like jackassbr br and viva la Bambr br just a note this show is horrible

This is the best movie I`ve ever seen Thomas Beckett Richard Miller two mankinds who want to survive in the jungle of violence and madnes one shot one killed You must kill if you getting doubt about something YOU MUST SURVIVE br br PP I appologise of my bad worst English

The Thief of Bagdad is a treasure First and foremost it is a good story Though my four childrens primary exposure to this tale the most famous of the stories of the Arabian Nights comes from the Disney Corporation the Thief of Bagdad held their interest to the end The story moves along at a good pace and includes a twist or two that reduced predictability Sabu who plays the young thief Abu also measures up to any of todays teen actors in appeal judging from the number of times I heard my oldest daughter say Hes cute br br In 1940 the film won Oscars for cinematography and special effects Today of course those effects seem very dated Look its Barbie flying through the air declared my daughter at the sight of the genie flying Yet they fit into the story well The film is after all over 60 years old The effects fit with the script Furthermore what ones sees in The Thief of Bagdad remained pretty much stateoftheart for the next twentyfive years One need only compare the opening montage from a 1967 Star Trek episode to see this In that it was quite an achievementbr br This qualifies as a family film though there are a few stabbings near the end The acting is so obvious and the wounds so bloodless as to those scenes nearly as artificial as animationbr br All in all a fun film worth watching for either an evening of pure entertainment or for the historical value of the effects I recommend it

Andrewjlau I could not agree more My girlfriend is watching this at this very moment and I find this movie appalling Quote from my Chinese girlfriend laughing They are doing all this for a man br br I find these women have no intensity no sense of the a fight between tragedy and identity and that these men are hardly worth fighting for During the dance scene where Zhang Zi Yi wins them over the men look stupid more than admiringbr br Japanese people have much more intensity than Chinese people and being geisha is Japanese culture I am sure the Chinese had something similar but the faces do not match the mainbr br Anyway the dialogue is so unmysterious so American Had a European done it with European orientals they would have done a far better jobbr br I have to add it seems most of the people who liked the film are American Sorry to say but no wonder All spelt out for you not instinctive not passionate I think the Chinese actresses are lovely but I could not say they were good actors in this film Yes the cinematography is great but really I cannot see how it can be seen that these characters are complex deep individualsbr br Im going to Japan to see the real thing I am sure that would be amazing to see

In 2023 in a world ruled by the economical interests of the great corporations and not by the people will or politicians Kam Bobbie Phillips is a human hybrid and IBI International Bureau of Investigation agent She is denominated a `subfrom subhuman and her genetic composition is 80 human and 20 animal She has a combination of genes of cougar that gives her strength and flexibility falcon that giver her a increased capacity of seeing and hearing and chameleon that gives her the power of camouflage In the first film she was a very seductive and amoral woman using sex to achieve information I do not have watched the second yet but in this third one the story is full of action A group of scientists has been developing a new and dangerous form of power generation for fifteen years The research has not been concluded yet when one of them betrayal the other and steals the research The problem is that due to its molecular instability a black hole will be created and will suck the whole planet Kam saves Dr Tess Adkins Teal Redmann the survival of the team of scientist and tries to retrieve the dangerous invent from the hands of the `bad guys There is a very strong `sub in this gang that causes many difficulties for Kam This action and scifi television movie is better than the first one recalling `The Terminator in some parts of the plot Bobbie Phillips is a very beautiful actress and her outfit is very cool I am becoming a fan of this good entertainment Fans of scifi movies will not be disappointed Now I am trying to buy `Chameleon 2 My vote is seven

This filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so Really awful jumble of unlikelyunexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivationbr br We get clich snapshots instead of characters One in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her Nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete American Tourister set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology Otherwise its standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in CT

This movie was so bad it was funny For awhile there I thought I was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la For Your Consideration The cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt The script was dreadful enough but coupled with Sean Youngs terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching In fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an Ed Wood movie I still cant believe how this thing got made First of all how did such a bad script get the green light How did star actors get attached Were they at low points in their careers Questions questions

I suggest that in the future any movie made by the Sci fi channel and subsequently released on DVD must say that it was indeed made by such channel as I would not buy this stuff if I had known this fact Not that this was all bad but when you have fade out for commercials in the middle of your movie it just ruins the flow of said film This in turn makes the movie rather more boring This one had an interesting story however the light hearted and extremely generic soundtrack distracted one from the film as did most of the bad actors with the exception of Dien and Linda Carter The story vampires are on the attack in South America of course the rules of vampire movies are not in effect which the usually arent in any of the movies about vampires I have seen lately with the exception of the Blade trilogy Group of soldiers are sent down to battle said squad another team is sent to meet up with the team and to track down the ex wife of one of the soldierswhy she is not just his wife who knows as this part of the plot really goes no where Still we get an interesting boat ride some nice jungle scenery and a lot of blood This fact however does not save the film from being way to jerky in its presentation and really dull seeming at times I dont know maybe it was the cgi blood and smoke and whatever they have to make cgi now even though old effects look better and dont cost that much more I mean cheap Italian zombie movies could do a bullet hole without cgi why cant we now

Watch On The Rhine started as a Broadway play by Lillian Hellman who wrote the film and saw it open on Broadway at a time when the Soviet Union was still bound to Nazi Germany by that infamous nonaggression pact signed in August of 1939 So much for the fact that Hellman was merely echoing the Communist party line the line didnt change until a couple of months later Lillian was actually months ahead of her time with this workbr br The play Watch On The Rhine ran from April 1941 to February 1942 for 378 performances and five players came over from Broadway to repeat their roles Frank Wilson as the butler Eric Roberts as the youngest son Lucile Watson as the family matriarch and most importantly villain George Coulouris and Paul Lukasbr br Lukas pulled an award hat trick in 1943 winning an Oscar a Golden Globe and the New York Film Critics for Best Actor Probably if the Tony Awards had been in existence then he would have won that as well The Oscar is even more remarkable when you consider who he was up against Humphrey Bogart for Casablanca Gary Cooper in For Whom The Bell Tolls Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy and Walter Pidgeon for Madame Curie Every one of his competitors was a bigger box office movie name than he was Lukass nomination is usually the kind the Academy gives to round out a fieldbr br Jack Warner knew that which is why Mady Christians did not repeat her Broadway part and the role of Lukass wife was given to Bette Davis Davis took the part not because this was an especially showy role for her but because she believed in the picture and just wanted to be associated with it Its the same reason she did The Man Who Came To Dinner a much lighter play than this onebr br Davis is the daughter of a late American Supreme Court Justice who married a German national back in the Weimar days After many years of being vagabonds on the continent of Europe Davis Lukas and their three children come to America which has not yet entered the European War Theyre made welcome by Lucile Watson who is thrilled naturally at finally meeting her grandchildrenbr br The fly in this ointment are some other house guests a friend of Daviss from bygone days Geraldine Fitzgerald and her husband who is also from Europe a Rumanian diplomat and aristocrat George Coulouris Coulouris is a wastrel and a spendthrift and he smells an opportunity for double dealing when he suspects Lukass antifascist background br br His suspicions are quite correct its the reason that the family has been the vagabonds theyve become Lukas fought in Spain on the Republican side and was wounded there His health has not been the same since His family loyally supports him in whatever decision he makes Those decisions affect all the other members of the castbr br Adding quite a bit more to the Broadway play including some lovely fascist creatures was Dashiell Hammett who was Lillian Hellmans significant other Coulouris playing cards at the German embassy was a Hammett creation with such loathsome types as Henry Daniell Kurt Katch Clyde Fillmore Erwin Kalser and Rudolph Andersbr br Coulouris is truly one of the most despicable characters ever brought to screen as the no account Runmanian count He was a metaphor for his own country who embraced the Nazis with gusto and then equally repudiated them without losing a step after Stalingradbr br Lucile Watson was up for Best Supporting Actress in 1943 but lost to Katina Paxinou in For Whom The Bell Tolls Dashiell Hammett was nominated for best adapted screenplay and the film itself lost for Best Picture to that other antifascist classic Casablanca br br Though its an item firmly planted in those specific times Watch On The Rhine still packs a stern antifascist message that bears repeating infinitely

Sorry about the extremely clever summary phrase I dont know what I was thinking but I really couldnt help myselfbr br Ive been meaning to see Bloody Birthday for a long time and I must say that it was a pleasant surprise to find a copy of this film by accident and for such a low price And believe me I live in a small South American village and these things are very unlikely to happen Its a real shame that some of these gems from the 80s are now almost completely forgotten Bloody Birthday is one of those movies that surprisingly ages well enough to remain watchable nowadays Not a masterpiece for sure but still entertaining and guess what it doesnt really have unintentionally funny scenes I know its a shocker if we keep in mind that this is a low budget flick from the early 80s about a group of evil children who kill people But trust me the movie manages to remain respectable and watchable for the most partbr br In Blood Birthday the story revolves around three children who are born during a a total eclipse According to astrology during eclipses the sun and the moon block Saturn which controls emotions As a consequence the three children who are born that day eventually become uncaring and evil Since they dont experience any feelings of remorse whatsoever these 10yearold kids gang up against basically everyone who stands in their way including their own parents and siblings and kill them The body count increases day after day and the police authorities believe that theres a psychopath lurking around the place In the meantime Debbie Curtis and Steven dont hesitate to keep butchering people since nobody seems to suspect of those sweet angel faces br br Like I was saying before Bloody Birthday is surprisingly NOT funny I know I said that before but Im truly surprised by this I was expecting some hilariously bad scenes but the movie proved me wrong True its not exactly what most people would consider a serious horror movie but if I have to be fair Id say that the story is decently executed One of the most important reasons why one would normally expect laughable situations like I did its because in these kind of movies in which the main villains are children the young actors tend to be plain awful and they make the whole thing laughable Lets face it kids tend to be horrible actors which is understandable and we cant blame them for that But to my surprise the three young actors who played the merciless killers in this film looked very disturbing and not at all funny The rest of the actors are also good and if youre a George Clooney fan you can see his uncle playing a doctor in this movie Yeah I know right who cares Also Julie Brown the great actress singer comedienne and gay icon gives a solid performance as the naughty older sister and in case anyone is interested in nudity she also strips in one of the scenes and she looks great naked Too bad she didnt have more time on the screen though Julie is absolutely fabulousPbr br So basically this movie is fine if youre in the mood for some modest horror from the 80s My only objection regarding Bloody Birthday would be the way to justify the childrens motives This is perhaps one of the lowest points of the film Lets see if children who were born during an eclipse end up being heartless killers then how come these three were the only ones who actually murdered people Im sure there were other children who had been born the same day and during other days of total eclipse too oh well Overall no big deal its just a simple observation thats all Ive seen worse trust me Take The Children 1980 for example in which the precocious killer get their evilness after being turned into zombies by toxic cloud No believe me Bloody Birthday is far more decent and if you enjoy simple slashers youre going to enjoy this one very muchbr br So now you know youre invited to the childrens birthday party and the hosts will be serving a delicious poisoned cake for you and the rest of the guests Come on you cant miss it

Eight teen convicts are brought to the abandoned Blackwell Hotel to clean it out as community service They soon discover that its the residence of a hulking psychopath Kane who has a thing for pulling out and collecting eyeballs It doesnt help that the guard watching over them Steven Vidler has had a previous runin with the beast four years earlier br br A guilty pleasure of mine are slasher films Most of them are poorly directed and acted but they still hold some appeal and entertainment value See No Evil is a good example of this It features atrocious writing and acting but the death scenes are pretty good and the movie proves to be entertaining The premise sounds like a mixture between Friday the 13th Saw 2 and Halloween Resurrection I really liked the idea but it didnt work out too well It was really just a bunch of clichs and everything was predictable Screenwriter Dan Madigan just focused on the death scenes and nothing else apparently The death scenes themselves are pretty good and gruesome Director Gregory Dark did a good job with them and he came up with some creative kills br br The acting is pretty bland and unremarkable This is because all of the characters are one dimensional and we dont know much about them It was hard to feel for these people because they were pretty unlikable Kane is surprisingly mediocre I was expecting his on screen presence to be scarier but he didnt do that good of a job A second rate Jason Voorhees if you will The rest of the actors are relatively unknown and this film will probably neither help nor hurt their careers br br While the death scenes are gory they arent necessary scary Theres really no suspense just some gory death scenes Because of this the movie doesnt hold much of a repeat value Also if you dont like slasher films then dont waste your time with this one It will do little to change your opinion In the end See No Evil is a decent slasher film but it is generic and forgettable so its not exactly worth watching Rating 610

Have I ever seen a film more shockingly inept I can think of plenty that equal this one but none which manage to outdo it The cast are all horrible stereotypes lumbered with flat dialogue I am ashamed for all of the people involved in making this Each one wears an expression of fear not generated by the plot but by the realisation that this project could easily nix their career Even the many charms of Ms Diaz dont provide an adequate reason to subject yourself to this Avoid its obviously a style of film that Americans havent really got a grasp of Watch the final result if you must and youll see what Im talking about but DONT say I didnt warn you

What do you get when you mix a lump of clichs with a directionless pacing and a group of characters who you dont care about and a failed attempt at creating an appealing visual style and an even bigger lump of clichs and a weak sense of humor and a really big budget Why you get one of the most intolerably unwatchable movies ever made Im referring of course to Dominobr br Here are some things that people might say during the viewing of this moviebr br Ooh wow the storyline is told out of sequence that hasnt been done a billion times before And much more skillfully than in this moviebr br Wow look at all of the flashing lights and grainy film texture and elaborate transitions The director is trying so hard to make things look arty and to establish a visual style Its just too bad that none of these effects add anything to the movie or make sense with the scenes theyre in and its also too bad that most of them come across as irritatingbr br Ive heard that exchange of dialogue in about twenty thousand movies beforebr br Ive seen this scene in about thirty thousand movies beforebr br This one toobr br Uh didnt they reveal this plot twist about half an hour ago Was that supposed to be surprisingbr br If this movie is supposed to be showing a tough chick going around kicking ass when why doesnt she do very much of itbr br I cant believe how unoriginal this dialogue isbr br How long is this thing I feel like Ive been watching it for over four hours alreadybr br I have no idea what just happened but also I dont particularly feel motivated to try to figure it outbr br Is this over yetbr br I want my money backbr br The songs in this soundtrack feel so misused herebr br Its ironic that all of the cursing they use actually detracts from the impact of each onebr br UGHbr br And finally I might have to end my friendship with the person who recommended this movie to mebr br In summation this movie is a failure in nearly every aspect Avoid watching it at all costs If your house is on fire and this movie is playing in the only room that isnt flammable you should seriously consider being burned alive insteadbr br If I sound bitter its because I just spent over two hours watching this movie and uh I didnt enjoy it very much

Theres the danger with the criticphilosopher Slavoj Zizek with his film directed by Sophie Fiennes which takes together a wonderful amalgam of silent horror scifi surreal and other contemporary thrillers together to make his points ofr Freudian comparisons to overload But in the Perverts Guide to Cinema he also makes even the more farreaching points a point of departure from any other analysis Ive seen on a collective section of films While it doesnt cover the expansive territory Scorseses movie documentaries cover the same attachments are there and Zizek has a definite love for all of these perverse examples and films primarily the work of Hitchcock Lynch Chaplin and Tarkovsky Yet one shouldnt go into seeing this if you can find it that is I got to see it almost by luck thinking Zizek will just try and dissect all of the psychosexual parts or parts referring it in an obtuse deranged manner If anything he opens up one to points that might never be considered otherwise would one think of three of the Marx brothers as representations of the Id SuperEgo and Ego Harpos example is most deadon for mebr br Hes not just one to take on the classics though he also considers the food for thought in The Matrix and Fight Club in representations of the split between fantasy and reality and if the matrix needs the energy as much as the energy needs the matrix for the former and in the attachment of violence in dealing with ones own self as well as ones double in the latter He even throws in a piece from the pivotal moment in Revenge of the Sith when Anakin becomes Darth Vader and the implications of shunning away fatherhood under that back mask at the very moment his childrens births happens elsewhere The ideals of fatherhood male sexuality the male point of view in turning fantasy into reality at which point Zizek rightfully points to as the moment of a nightmares creation and female subjectivity are explored perhaps most deadon with Vertigo This too goes for a scene that Zizek deconstructs as if its the Zapruder film where he dissects the three colliding points of psychosexual stance in the dont you look at me scene in Blue Velvetbr br Now it would be one thing if Zizek himself went about making these sincere excited and somehow plausible points just face on to the camera or mostly in voiceover as Scorsese does But he goes a step further to accentuate his points of fantasy and reality and how they overlap intersect become one and the same or spread off more crucially into some netherworld or primordial feeling for some characters ie Lost Highway by putting himself IN the locations the films take place in Funniest is first seeing him in the boat heading towards the same dock Tippi Hedrens boat heads to at the beginning of the Birds equally funny is as he waters the Blue Velvet lawn he goes on to explain the multifaceted points of Frank Booth only one when hes in Solarislike territory does it seem a little cheesy But Zizek seems to be having a lot of fun with this setup and after a while one bypasses the potential crux of this gimmick and Zizeks words come throughbr br There were some films I of course wouldve expected chiefly from Hitchcock and Lynch but a treat for movie buffs come from seeing two things the movies that one would never think of seeing in a film about films titled the Perverts Guide of Cinema top two for me would be the Disney Pluto cartoon and the exposition on Chaplins films albeit with a great note about the power and distinction of voice and the ones that one hasnt seen yet ie the ventriloquist horror film Dr Mabuse Stalker among a few others that inspire immediate feelings of wow I have to see that immediately no questions asked Zizek is a powerful writer with his work and puts it forward with a clarity that reminds one why we watch movies in the first place to be entertained sure but also to have that actual experience of sitting down and having something up there as he put it looking into a toilet Its probably one of the greatest films about cinema and in such a splendidly narrow analysis of how Freud works its way into films regarding desire the IdSuperEgoEgo and of the supernatural in fantasy that you may never seeunless distribution finally kicks in if only on the smallest levels

Many people like this movie and many more love it but it seems that it is all for the wrong reasons Scarface should be liked and loved but not in the way it has been or isbr br Many people say the acting was overthetop but who better to do an overthetop character than Al Pacino To say that Pacino went overthetop in here would be an understatement Yet he does it so well he just brings the inner devil out of you so well His character Tony Montana was not such a great guy to begin with but his thirst for power just bring his sickness of greed to another level an inhumane level Sure at times Pacino seems to be a bit cartoonish and surreal but that does not at all to me seem to be a liability at all The supporting cast served its job very well Michelle Pfeiffer was not really at her best but she certainly fit the role she played On the other hand Steven Bauer was at his best still he is Steven Bauer Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was good and like Michelle Pfeiffer fit her role very well Robert Loggia I have always enjoyed watching in just seeing him yell Other than Pacino they were not really any standout or memorable performances Everybody just seemed to fit their roles by being there They did not fit in perfectly but were convincing enoughbr br Brian De Palma did a very good job directing this movie Whenever an actor is able to become larger than life with his performance some credit should be given to the director and I will certainly give De Palma that Brian De Palma though not given the respect is a very versatile director by my count He knows how to direct movies according to their genres but that at times has not turned out well In here it does this is by all counts a gangster movie but few are much better than this one because of De Palmabr br The writing was great it was just pure Oliver Stone When I saw the credits at the end of this movie and saw that Oliver Stone had written this I was not the least bit surprised That is a testament to him though I have always though of him as a great writer and to me he proves this once again with Scarface Nobody knows how to write a surreal reality for a movie than Oliver Stonebr br The music was good but not that great It is certainly not my favorite from Giorgio Moroder The music was a little bit too 80sish for me but it didnt annoy me The cinematography was good not amazing but really who cares with a movie like thisbr br This has probably been one of the most influential movies in the past 25 years but as mentioned before it is for the wrong reasons People should realize that the character of Tony Montana is no hero he is a monster He is not inspiring in anyway He is greedy bloodthirsty uneducated and self consumed Yet he is a role model to many people because he is in some way or another a rebel but probably most of all because he is a deluded gangster A vigilante would be like Mother Tereasa next to Scarfacebr br The good thing about this movie though is that it shows that the Tony Montanas are not the real problem If we or the people of authority would want to shut people like him down we could do it but we dont In a freaky twisted way he is a necessity of our society He is somebody you could blame everything on and fell better about yourself doing it The Tony Montanas of this world are the scapegoats of our society This in no way excuses people like him Instead it is more of a reminder that we shouldnt excuse or allow ourselves to do bad things just because we measure up or think we measure up compared better to a gangster or drug dealer I love this movie because it is more than a corruption movie it is a movie that in a strange way makes you self reflect

Peaches is truly a marvelous film I write this to refute a review from someone called Auscrit that has appeared on this site First of all the idea that either Monahans first film The Interview is somehow TV is an extraordinary statement Here is a film that has been significantly praised around the world as is simply one of the best Australian Films ever made It fully deserved to win best picture Peaches is a brave bold and courageous departure For me it works on every level and I have now seen it twice Monahan is a filmmaker who is demonstrating great skill and incredible sensitivity For Auscrit to make the comment that it is another TV movie etc and that Hugo Weaving is no good simply does not get the film Or more particularly does not want to get it Frankly it is the sort of comment that one expects from either another filmmaker who is jealous or bitter or both Or someone from inside the industry either distribution exhibition or bureaucracy Your average punter I have found just does not write comments like that I have noticed other comments on the site and reference to the film Sommersault One has to wonder what people think they are looking at Unfortunately in Australia at the time SS was released the push was if you did not like it then there was something wrong with you not the film This manipulation of the media is pretty common down under The reality is the only similarity between the two films are that they are rights of passage films Unfortunately for me SS is a film about nothing that could have been told in 15 minutes I see it as a one dimensional film about anxiety Peaches in comparison is a master piece Personally I cannot wait to what Monahan does next as he is clearly way ahead of any of his contemporaries when it comes to cinema In conclusion if the film does not win all at this years AFIs and IF awards then it is a rigged game As for Auscrit please find something more constructive do with your time

This film really disappointed me The acting is atrocious Unbelievable And its about actors The story is incredibly obvious A group of independent actors stage a Passion Play and in turn they start to live out the lives of the characters they play Ive been watching a lot of movies lately thanks to Netflix and this is the first one I havent watched all the way through in a long time I felt I didnt need to see the end we all know the end of this storybr br For some it seems this modernization of the Gospels is either sacrilegious or enlightening I cannot speak to any of this as I wasnt raised in the Christian church That being said I was raised in the US and I live in an increasingly Christian culture Im curious enough about Jesus and about the modernization of the religion for better or worse I havent seen Mel Gibsons version but Im guessing that those who liked that one will like this except for the most conservative I just wish this was a better filmbr br Lots of these reviews praise Arcands direction and especially the cinematography I liked neither The film itself is rather prudish and preachy I didnt believe the characters personae and I was never involved with their on screen lives The play within the play is very much dated and would not I think carry its own weight in a real time production But thats beside the point What I really needed for this to work would have been stronger development of the characters and the plot to support the philosophical and theological questions the film would like to be about And the musical choices are obvious and unoriginalbr br There were two examples of this that come easily to mind Firstly there is a reenactment of the parable of Jesus driving the money lenders from the temple the lead actor who has fallen for the woman who will play Magdalene and who is also a model and dancer becomes enraged that she must debase herself by auditioning for a commercial with a wicked producer and plenty of panting men in the audience with her pants off He trashes the place and chases them all out I guess this is the level that the film wishes to reach The romance between these two is entirely arbitrary and not at all emotionally realized and the scene is played out like a highschool rendering of Death of a Salesman ie not well Please stop hitting me over the head with this highhanded significance The other is the relationship between the other female lead and the priest who has asked them to do the play and who eventually turns against them and betrays them to the nowadayscorrupt Church Why Why does she sleep with this guy It brings him so much pleasure and me so little pain Ah the saintly whore and the lovable old coot It seems to be just enough for Arcand to signify but not worth the trouble to enrich and enliven these characters They are going through the motions and Im reaching for the eject buttonbr br Feel free to write me off as bored jaded or just not interested Feel free to watch this movie and see the Passion in all its beauty sadness and inspiration delivered as an amateurish and gimmicky charade Feel free to have all your preconceived ideas affirmed and see any shred of artistic integrity forsaken for monotonous drivel But dont say I didnt warn you

I had stifled high hopes for this David Lynch whom I really like film but the very poor acting by everybody but Naomi Watts was the first clue that this was a wasted effort Some Twin Peaks characters are recycled into this film but it wasnt eerie it wasnt interesting except for the topless Watts scenes and the quirks were poorly executed br br I will probably give Lynch one more chance but the hype around this film just doesnt pan out especially for those of us fans who saw Eraserhead when it first came out

Sequel to The Kingdom is bloodier and even more twisted I only saw half I was exhausted and couldnt sit through all 5 12 hours but I loved what I saw Ghosts blood murder poisoning mutated babies voodoothis has it all If you have a strong stomach and like weird movies this is for youbr br Also you dont have to see Part 1 to understand thisyoull figure it outbr br Does anyone know if Kingdom 1 and 2 are available on DVD Sitting through these marathon movies in a theatre is tiring br br Sadly there probably wont be a Kingdom 3ErnstHugo Jaregard Sig died a year after this was filmed But you never know

So it starts with a beautiful old house in the country You have a group of people who get asked to come to this house and not surprisingly the caretakers always lock the gates at night for no apparent reason Anywhoo the people laugh joke etc This Dr tells them a spooky story of this woman and some kids They get scared they start to feel stuff Oh no a girl sees s ghost Some more talking then this huge ghost comes and etc etc This girl finds out that this ghost killed little kids and that she must free their souls yeah yeah blah blah She does but oh no she dies as she does And goes to heaven whilst this evil ghost goes to hell Two people survive and escape the house The script is terrible because a guy gets his head chopped off and Elanor the one who dies saving the kids says oh no The acting is wooden the effects are crap and the set is a couple off rooms used over and over again Basically if you like laughing at badly made films watch it but if your looking for a scare then definitely give this film a miss I was extremely disappointed when I watched this A very big let down My sister who gets sacred very easily got bored in this film it is appalling

48 out of 278 people found this comment useful and countingbr br People are such suckers for image and looks as much as for the intellectually hollow idealism that lurks behind Communism Ches charisma and looks have as much to do with his iconic stature as the misinformation that has been spread by Leftist propaganda such as this movie about himbr br I dont know whats worse being captured by one of Ches murdersquads or having to sit through 4 hours of this typically Soderberghian garbage The question isnt why this petproject was made but what took them so long By them Im referring of course to Leftwing Hollywood and its secret love of Marxist tyrants Lenin Castro take your pick I am fascinated that it took decades for one of Tinseltowns least talented liberal directors to finally take on such an irresistibly biased propaganda project Where was Oliver Stone all these years Robert Redford Tim Robbins Warren Beatty Alan Pakula George Clooney Barbra Streisand even Its a mystery All these overrated artists have often indulging themselves in similar politically onesided projects yet somehow Che Guevara who is arguably the most popular and wellknown Communist hasnt been a film topic of theirs yetbr br Guerrilla has all the hallmarks of an American truthbending story of an epic scale there is as much factual detail to be found here as in other similar Hollywood bigbudget political fairytale bios such as Malcolm X or Gandhi ie almost none The movie stars Del Toro as the famous Argentinian revolutionary Nevertheless however controversial and criminal this mans actions may have been one thing nobody could take away from him he was an intelligent manipulator who came from a rich family which is why Del Toro fits the bill only visually Del Toro may be an interesting charismatic actor and he may resemble Guevara physically but he exudes no intellectual qualities whatsoever hence he makes Guevara come off as too primitive Casting such mediocrities as Bratt Philips and Franka Incompetente only underlines the directors lack of sound judgmentbr br The movie is to the most part extremely slow no surprise there and visually uninteresting Even a director as brilliant as Kubrick would have carefully considered releasing a movie that goes beyond the 3hour mark so its quite telling that this Soderbergh who has only made one or two solid movies and early on in his career would think that His Oceanic Grandness was up to the task If you think the films length indicates that a bulk of Ches life has been shown here then think again Soderbergh focuses on Ches last phase and a lot of the movie is tedious jungle nonsense full of Guevaras alleged idealism Psychopaths dont have ideals I do wonder what kind of a mind this highly esteemed director has to have to actually choose to ignore some of Ches earlier life Did he actually consider it too uninteresting A massacre of 600 people holds no interest for the viewer huh Amazing Some much better directors than this overpraised charlatan would have easily fit not one but two complete biographies into a 4hour moviebr br Soderbergh in a sense becomes an accomplice by never addressing the negative dark side which is more than 90 of Guevara By spreading this kind of historical inaccuracy consciously ignoring the ugly truth God forbid he should taint the holy image of Che Soderbergh proves himself not a humanist a fake image which most Hollywood and pop music personalities struggle very hard all their careers to uphold but the opposite that he cares only about ideas never about the people on whom these ideas are tested like on guinea pigs Soderbergh and the like are elitists of the worst kind such people often have a latent contempt for the proleteriat what a stupid term theyre supposedly siding withbr br Half of all students around the world wear Ches image on their red and orange shirts but without ever knowing why He has become an iconic figure for clueless uninformed very often young people who think that by having this mans face on their chest that somehow makes them appear edgy intellectual hip or interesting In reality wearing a Che shirt only underlines ones overall shallowness and total disinterest in selfeducation Wouldnt YOU want to find out more about a person before you start advertising hisher face to the world Wearing Ches bynow clich image has become as common as having a Bart Simpson coffee cup All those Chewearers probably know more about Marges blue hair than theyll ever read up on about Fidel Castros dead allybr br After everything thatd been done in the name of Marx one would think that these mongrel ideals would be finally laid to rest It seems mankind will never learn Stalin Mao Kim Il Pol Pot Castro Milosevic Ceausescu the Iron Curtain a hundred million dead more than a billion ruined physically andor mentally through this system so none of that matters huh br br The fact that Del Toro won a Cannes Award should only surprise those who are absolutely clueless as to how Cannes and other European festivals work and vote Hint Sean Penn headed a jury not long agobr br For my musicrelated rants go to httprateyourmusiccomcollectionFedor8

When I first watched this we borrowed it from our local library about a year ago and watched it about 3 times Weve just watched it again and I liked it MORE than I did the last time Id watched it br br The film is mainly about two dogs called Charlie and Itchy voiced by Dom DeLuise and I love Dom DeLuise Charlie is half a gangster and half a goodie which I like Itchy is his sidekick Charlie is killed by his friend NOT and sent to heaven When Charlie comes back to life it is the start of an amazing adventurebr br The five main reasons why Im absolutely CRAZY about this film One I love the characters except Carface My favourite three are Charlie Itchy and a little girl called AnneMarie who comes slightly later Two I love the period of history in which this film is set It is set during the prohibition in the United States Three The Don Bluth animation as usual is superb The backgrounds are good too Four There is a strange excitement in this film that keeps me on the edge of my seat Five The songs in this are lovely My favourite song starts with I need Brazil the throb the thrillbr br So watch this lovely film when you can you wont be disappointed

Be warned the next time you see Richard Kelly involved in any production run away Fastbr br Kelly proved to the world after his last movie Southland Tales that he is one pretentious director It was indulgent and convoluted In The Box not much has changedbr br I can picture what his pitch to Warner Bros must have been and I bet the executives at the studio ate it right up a fullfeature film based on one of Richard Twilight Zone Mathesons old short storiesbr br Big mistake Do not read any further unless you want this movie COMPLETELY spoiled for you br br Norma Cameron Diaz pushes the button br br Turns out that Arlington Steward Frank Langella has an Alien using his body as a vessel to conduct experiments in which the fate of mankind rests His face is scarred because he was struck by Alien lightening which killed him but then brought him back to life to do all of this red button testing Obviously since Norma pushes the button knowing full well that someone may die she must suffer the consequences for failing to consider someone elses life instead of her own In the end she and her husband James Marsden choose to kill Norma instead of having their son grow up deaf and blindbr br Kelly dances around his films message trying to make the audience figure out what the moral of the story is Obviously any person with a brain is saying at the beginning What if I was the person who dies Richard Kelly doesnt even let his characters have this normal HUMAN conversation In fact they avoid it all together They appear to both be educated working at a prestigious school and also for NASA so why wouldnt they both have a better ability to LOOK OUTSIDE OF THE BOXbr br If he had the main characters actually have this conversation the entire movie could have ended right there Instead we have to watch weddings go on forever NASA and the NSA be complacent to Arlington Stewart taking over these government programs teleportation to show Marsden life beyond our world so it will be easier to kill his wife and drones controlled by Steward which can be anywhere and nowhere at any timebr br The most painful part of this movie is the pacing Nothing really happens Its a muddled mishmash of ideas that are laughablebr br It is insufferable how this film is being marketed The commercials make it look like Saw and even use the music from those films to sell it In reality what you get is a slow dull laughable yes half the theater was laughing at the acting and visual effects and messy film which is neither imaginative interesting nor cohesive At one point Cameron Diaz and her son are abducted and then suddenly she is back in the NSAs big black car with her husband on the way home Where did she go Why did they take her Do we really care Not anymore you wontbr br By the end you really wont care what happens to any of the characters You will be rooting for all of them to die so the film will just end Go see anything else thats playing Dont waste your time or money

I came out of Rendition with a list of flaws a mile long so how is it that my overall impression is that it was a pretty decent movie Its definitely a film whose sum is better than its partsbr br Those parts include a cast of big name stars not one of them giving a memorable performance Omar Metwally a relative unknown is the one youll remember serviceable if undistinguished direction and a screenplay thats both too complicated and too simplistic at the same time Metwally is an Egyptianborn American citizen who gets kidnapped by the US governments rendition program otherwise known as the process by which America tortures suspected terrorists into confessing information whether or not its remotely true Reese Witherspoon plays his pregnant wife who calls in the favor of an old college friend Peter Saarsgard who works for a senator Alan Arkin and helps to track her husband down Meryl Streep plays the head of the rendition program Jake Gyllenhaal is a young agent assigned to the interrogation and whose conscience gets in the way Meanwhile a whole parallel storyline follows the daughter of a top Egyptian official who is allied to the American rendition program and her boyfriend whos in training to become a suicide bomberbr br Ayyiyi thats a lot of plot to pack into a twohour movie and I was about to wash my hands of the whole thing especially the Egyptian Romeo and Juliet subplot that felt like nothing more than a distraction But then near the films finale a twist of chronology brings all of the plot strands together in a way that makes you want to reassess everything you thought you knew about the motivations of the various characters and makes Rendition a much more interesting movie than it seems like its going to bebr br Witherspoon Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard all look like high school students playing adults twenty years older than they actually are Gyllenhaal in particular usually a fine actor looks so bored that you wonder if hes going to muster the energy to deliver his lines And the screenwriter should be arrested for having an actress as good as Meryl Streep at his disposal and giving her nothing more to work with than this onedimensional dragon lady The movie of course strives for relevancy but instead of addressing the tangled web of arguments surrounding the national security issue it charges right down the middle of the debate in a predictable fashion There are moments when you think maybe the film will veer off in an interesting direction what if Witherspoon did actually begin to doubt her husbands past for instance What if Metwally actually had been in contact with terrorists as his interrogators accuse But no the movie takes the path of least resistancebr br But like I said upfront I recommend this movie I know Ive done nothing but list a bunch of its faults but its got its head in the right place and it is entertaining or at least as as entertaining as a movie about torture and interrogation can bebr br Grade B

This movie is one of the poorest adaptations of a fabulous book that Ive seen Jean Georges novel is a fantastic book that I think is an outstanding read for any child I cant give the same endorsement to this movie

Fred Gwynne Al Lewis Sid Caesar and Yvonne De Carlo star in this funny funny movie The late Fred Gwynne is truly wonderful as Herman Munster who lives with Grandpa Munster Al Lewis wife Lily Yvonne De Carlo and his son and daughter Sid Caesar is hilarious as the owner of a wax museum that has a whole section dedicated to the Munster family When the wax figures of Herman and Grandpa begin to terrorize the town everyone blames the two The two now have to clear their names before its too late Youll laugh out loud just like I did

This is one of those cheaply made TV Movies were the characters seem to lose all sense The premise of the story the kidnapping of a son by the boys fatheris very good But the story just seems to beggar belief Whenever the mother is advised not to do anything you know fine well she is going to do it It is a bit far fetched and not worthy of a viewing

When I reviewed the video for a local magazine I called it the greatest achievement in the history of the American cinema That was not wholly tongue in cheek TWTL remains Milius best work and its sad that he has so little opportunity to work anymore However TWTL remains a striking exposition of what once was known as The American Character largely on the strength of Brian Keiths superb portrayal of Teddy R Obviously Miliusand Keithadmired TR tremendously to make two films about him including The Rough Riders Its hard to fault this film at any level a splendid balance of action levity relationships and the serious topic of America coming of age in the world Furthermore TWTL has exceptional appeal across the board note the stats showing it rates best with under18 males females 1829 and over 45 Clearly Candy Bergen struck a responsive chord with women as well as men

This show will succeed because it appeals to all adults no matter where they are in their relationship As a man married for 26 years I empathize with Patrick Warburtons character he loves his wife but he assumes she knows that I also enjoy his monotone delivery never gets too excited or too low A nice ensemble of characters This will be a nice addition to the Monday night lineupbr br I dont know how David Spade will be in his role He is best enjoyed in small doses He also seems a little old to still be trolling for womenbr br I enjoyed the pilot and I look forward to seeing how the series develops

Despite some mildly thoughtprovoking oddities in the script and the films overall curiosity value Fury of the Wolfman emerges as a dull uninteresting excursion into lycanthropy saved only by the statuesque presence of villainess Perla Cristal The rest of the players including the hammy Naschy are a complete writeoff though admittedly none are helped by often atrocious dubbing Although the screenplay packs in enough variations on werewolfFrankensteinDr Moreau themes to flesh out a dozen movies the plot is so unevenly developed the characterizations so feeble and the dialogue so verbosely ridiculous at least in the English version that any latent interest in the turgid proceedings is soon quashedbr br Zabalzas direction seems jerky even amateurish His staging is clumsy and ineffective He is not helped by Villasenors overbright lighting Even promising sets are so unatmospherically photographed that the directors few attempts to give the audience a fright are signaled far in advancebr br Other credits fall into a similar pattern of ineptitude though the stridently overemphatic music score and the laughably crude totally primitive special effects deserve special condemnation

In Hong Kong 1962 the editor Chow Mowan Tony Leung Chiu Wai and his wife and the secretary Su LiZhen Chan Maggie Cheung and her husband simultaneously move to an old building Each couple has just rented a room in apartments on the same floor Their wife and husband stay most of the time away from home and Chow and LiZhen have the same habits they like kungfu stories and noodles and soap from a restaurant nearby the building Their close contact becomes friendship and a sort of platonic and repressed love Later they realize that their mates are having an affair Chow falls in love with LiZhen but her shyness and probably repressed condition of married woman keeps her love in a platonic level In the Mood for Love is a very slow beautiful melancholic and romantic love story with a wonderful photography and soundtrack and a very unusual edition The film had not had a screenplay and the actors were never sure about what they would be shooting Later the director edited his story based on the footages When Chow moves to Singapore there is a gap of many years in the story until 1966 when its conclusion is intentionally open and not well defined leaving questions such as who is the boy with LiZhen My vote is eightbr br Title Brazil Amor Flor da Pele Love on the Surface of the Skin

The plot is straightforward an old man living off a main road in woodland one day witnesses a man murdering a child in the woods Soft For Digging follows the old mans attempts to try and convince the police that what he saw was not a figment of his imagination However there is a problem each time the old man guides the police to where the murder happen no corpse can be found Soft For Digging has a diminutive dialogue which reflects the majority of the scenes of the film an old man living by himself in a house During the film I found that I was scared twice namely when the murdered child abruptly appears before the old man The rest of the film I have to admit did not engage me I found the tempo of the film a little too slow The limited dialogue was not a problem However the development of the story and its conclusions after watching the film took too long I feel more could have been made of the relationship ghostly encounters with the child and the old man Alone in the woods at night unsure of your own mind can lead to some eerie situations children are always scary as ghosts see Dark Water

The whole setup of this contrived Disney family film adexec gets his teenage daughter a horse because she wants one more than anything else in the world is just an excuse to film the big climactic horseshow at the end All the other ingredients the ad campaign for the stomach pill Kurt Russell as a potential boyfriend for the youngster Lloyd Bochner as a potential rival for Dean Jones over the affections of Diane Baker are shelved near the end simply to showcase the horse Over half the picture is padding and worse it is whiny and obnoxious The kid is the ninnysort who cries on the couch with a dog in her arms and as usual she gets her way from

i dont know what they were thinkingby theyi mean anybody even remotely connected to this disasterive seen so bad moviesive seen so really bad moviesand then theres thisbut i will say one thingwhoever wrote the script has manged to put what could possibly the most inane dialogue over writtenonto the screenthere is nothing good about this movieeither from a technical standpoint or any other standpointwhoever allowed it to be made and then released should have been fired immediatelythere are a few fairly well known names in this movieactually i hesitate to use the word movieits more like a collection of random scenes that have no relation to another and make less than 0 senseanywayi fail to see why anyone with any dignity would appear in thisi got it really cheapand i still got ripped ofeven if i had gotten this movie for freei would still have been ripped offthis is an absoluter 010

Yes I call this a perfect movie Not one boring second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives I could sympathize with perfect lighting crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works Its one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of Hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reachbr br Barbara Stanwyck is simply stunning There was nothing this actress couldnt do and she always went easy on the melodramatic side No hysterical outbursts with this lady I always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford and this movie confirmed my opinion Always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments It is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career and this one is by far the least interestingbr br The title fits this movie very well It is about desires human desires I think everyone can understand Actually no one seems to be scheming in this movie all characters act on impulse everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else The sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which I will not go herebr br I liked what this movie has to say about youth about maturing and about the necessity to compromise The movie I associate most with this one is Alfred Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured Small Town America The story has a certain similarity with Fritz Langs considerably harsher movie Clash by Night made one year earlier where Stanywck stars in a similar part I can also recommend it

When I saw this film in the 1950s I wanted to be a scientist too There was something magical and useful in Science I took a girl friend along to see it a second time I dont think she was as impressed as I was This film was comical yet serious at a time when synthetic fibres were rather new Lessons from this film could be applied to issues relating to GM experimentation of today

What is it with Americans and their hangup with religious gobbledygook To think this was a bestselling novel is incredible but to pull it off as a movie you really need good acting and a script that delivers In this case all the good actors have gone to heaven and were left with Kirk Cameron as a CNNtype journalist trying to discover why a lot of people have simply disappeared Oh yeah theres a subplot about an evil world conspiracy and famine or something The good news is that this is done so cheaply and with such inane dialogue that it has sheer entertainment value in all of its unintended laughs Not recommended for anyone with a 3digit IQ

Virgin is selected to marry rich guy Rich guy urinates Woman on boat likes sailor Sailor urinates Virgin attends grossout commune dinner Man urinates on dinner table Boatwoman does strip tease for little boys Man pretending to be baby urinates There is an underlying theme here Makavejev is trying to say that he is pied off at the world To say that this is a bizarre movie is an understatement To justify the title there is a scene where Laure who hardly speaks ten lines the whole movie bathes in chocolate syrup It is a sweet scene indeed but the rest of the movie leaves a bad taste in ones mouth unless one happens to share the directors fetishes

As I watch this film it is interesting to see how much it marginalizes Black men The film spends its time showing how powerless the most visible Black man in it is save for an heroic moment For much of the film the other Black men and darkskinned Black women in the film are way in the background barely visiblebr br Vanessa Williams character was strong and sympathetic The viewer can easily identify and sympathize with her There are also some fairly visible and threedimensional support characters who are lightskinned and some White characters of some warmth and dignity But 99 of the Black males in this film are nothing but invisible men Voiceless shadows in the background of no consequence Such a horrible flaw but anything but unusual in the mainstream media

Seeing as the vote average was pretty low and the fact that the clerk in the video store thought it was just OK I didnt have much expectations when renting this filmbr br But contrary to the above I enjoyed it a lot This is a charming movie It didnt need to grow on me I enjoyed it from the beginning Mel Brooks gives a great performance as the lead character I think somewhat different from his usual persona in his moviesbr br Theres not a lot of knockout jokes or something like that but there are some rather hilarious scenes and overall this is a very enjoyable and very easy to watch filmbr br Very recommended

I have watched this movie quite bemused I am not sure whether it was attempting to be a horror gore fest in a Rob Zombie type affair or an exploration of real eventsbr br In either case it missed its mark Its not particularly historically accurate with characters being chopped and changed for the sake of the story br br The performances were neither compelling nor badbr br For me I would have preferred a more psychological approach and this film could easily have gone down this route without spoiling the overall effect

A partyhardy frat boys sister is brutally murdered by a street gang sending the young man into a sudden psychotic rampage He and his buddies massacre half the city to bring his sister back to lifebr br SAVAGE STREETS was released a year after this film and was more entertaining Linnea Quigley who has a costarring role in this film as the sexy and briefly nude girlfriend of one of the guys also starred in SAVAGE STREETSbr br This film is subpar though it delivers enough escapist entertainment and gratuitous nudity to please its intended audience mebr br MPAA Rated R for strong violence nudity language and some sexuality

Now I have seen a lot of movies in my day but out of every single one there have been a very select few that have been really good to me And Im a 19 year old man which is impressed by this movie directed towards a younger audience This is a very underrated gem for those who watch foreign movies Almost all the acting is believable the graphics are decent for which you wont even be caring about as you watch the movie Trust me bitching about the graphics would be a stupid thing to do the story is well written and its a movie that everyone can enjoy not just the kidsbr br Heres basically what this movie made me to It one made me laugha lot two made me feel for the characters like youre suppose to and three its a very uplifting story By the end of this movie you will feel good Sure what anime out there hasnt featured some young kid turning into a great warrior and whatever to defeat some great evil Its a formula that is used a lot But in this case it is forgivable because even though they use puppets for some characters and some average graphics youd see 5 years ago the appearance of it is not to be judged Its very touching the ending is original and it keeps you into the movie like it is suppose to If you however try comparing this to other movies like The Neverending Story or whatever it will diverse your opinion Watch it as it is and you will enjoy itbr br It has been a good long while since Ive been impressed like this The only other movie where I have gotten this feeling is when I saw TMNT way back when it came out There is something about this movie I felt about TMNT that really made me love it So dont overanalyze or take this movie too seriously just enjoy it

This is the sort of thing that only now thrills the film eggheads After all Feiersteins Flex Crush will have you know that Real Men dont watch anything by Truffaut br br It might have been interesting if Truffaut had anything to say here The cameraasvoyeur motif was nothing new Have we all forgotten De Sicas Bicycle Thief Or anything by Hitchcockbr br So all we get is the extended metaphor of the juvenile as Truffaut who spends all his free time screwing up his eyes at the movies who wrecks schoolroom discipline gets accused of plagiarismthe many petty thefts and ultimately escapes societal confines to make his own movie Sorrybeen there done that too many times for this to matter

Set in Japan Ashura is the story of Demons taking over the earth The premise is far more complicated but the arching storyline should not be forgotten Japan is in turmoil with Demons occupying human form roaming the lands Generally speaking Demons look and act like humans but are evil The Japanese word they use is not just demons but rather the classical form of ogre which is a mythological creature of some historic stature Were talking about creatures that would appear more like gods than simple ugly childeating monstersbr br However in human form all that remains is the green eyes and green teeth which appear when put under any sort of stress In order to save the world from Demons there are Demonslayers Trained and skilled warriors who can spot and defeat most every kind of demon and who guard the passageway between the realm of hell and that of the real world These are the basic premisesbr br The story begins with a festival in a local town Amid these festivities 3 men ride in dressed in all black seemingly intent on doing harm The villagers run excepting those which are demonic in nature who turn greeneyed and try to kill them The DemonSlayers end up killing off the majority of the demons From here the story gets interesting The whole essence of the story begins when at the gate to hell a fortunetelling demon appears before the 3 gatekeepers revealing the arrival of Ashura With it comes the end of the reign of man and begins the reign of demons Ashura however requires some form of birthing process the first step of which occurred during the opening battle but which wont be revealed to you until you see the film The 3 demonslayers are a wise old man a powerful yet unprincipled man and a skilled and compassionate warrior Immediately you can see the split between them the old man wanting to stop the demons the powerful one wanting to bend them to his increasing ego maniacal wishes and the third looking to stop the second Along the way he meets a woman who he begins to take fancy to and believes himself to have a special relationship with She in turn is a brigand who is goodnatured sought after by authorities When the two finally meet face to face he places his hand on her shoulder and suddenly she is scathed by a mark on her shoulder Needless to say the mark is not a good sign What ensues is a battle for earth a battle between both good and evil as it should be but also between good and good itselfbr br The point for me of this film became something other than what I thought it would I came in thinking it would either be a fastpaced action style film with demons or a horror film with macabre evil and foul creatures the likes of which would be seen in Ringu and Juon I was however mistaken in the best possible way The story it seemed to me is an adaptation of a very old Japanese play and it plays itself out as such combining the essentially action driven adrenaline scenes with a great concept an amazing narrative and a style which makes you compelled to think rather than just sit wallowing in gore Many scenes are painted with luxurious dialogue between two characters the likes of which will never be seen in a Hollywood film It becomes a practically theatrical experience which takes your breath awaybr br The film makes use of some immaculate scenery and camerawork comparable to many great Samurai films of our days but adding to it a wellthought and classical plot With great acting great music and thoroughly stunning scenes its a must watch in my bookbr br That being said it does need the disclaimer that it is not for everyone Its not cheap thrills horror its not balls to the wall action Its a horror style play thats been filmed It has very much to say and takes the time to do so flying in the face of the conventional oneliners Like Japanese plays the exchanges between the characters can last for many minutes before they come together for a quick yet marvelous battle scene If you can enjoy such a thing this is a masterpiece If your idea of a good film is slasher flicks with little plot and excessive nudity then you can easily watch something elsebr br Overall this film to me is a unique and amazing one which keeps you riveted and amused it has good writing good acting and good direction It is all in all a solidly great film

I would love to comment on this film Alas my search has always endeth in vain If any good citizen could help a desperate inhabitant of this ailing planet and restore his confidence in humanity by offering the whereabouts of either a UK VHS or loan him a DVD copy of the VHS he would without reservation be eternally grateful br br Blake wrote The road to excess is the path to wisdom one hopes my weary road of excess will offer the path to fruition If not I will have to replay the excellent Mr Russels Gothic in the knowledge that those who have seen Haunted Summer for better or for worse have enriched their viewing pleasure of the events of July 1816 whilst I a fellow member of this melodious plot rests his lonely case in solitude

First the positives an excellent job at depicting urban landscapes to suit the mood of the film Some of the shots could be paintings by De Chirico Sophie Marceau beautifulbr br The negatives the stories are hard to believe Unreal unidimensional characters preen and posture 100 of the time as if they were in some kind of catwalk This is neither the Antonioni of his earlier much better movies nor the Wenders weve all come to know and appreciate Malkovich is excess baggage in this movie

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is about the discovery of a planet on the other side of the sun which shares the same orbit as earth and therefore has been undiscovered until a space probe on the far side of the sun photographs it Of course two astronauts Roy Thinnes Ian Hendry are sent to explore it but due to a malfunction they crash find themselves back on earth only 3 weeks into their six week journey Of course theyre berated at least Thinnes is Hendry is gravely injured and grilled and asked why they turned back on their mission but its claimed that they didnt Until Thinnes seems to notice a few very odd things about being back home This is excellent if somewhat talky at times and the sets and feel arent a far cry from Thunderbirds territory but will live actors for once Its no big Star Wars type production but more quiet science fiction that one has to think about a bit Well worth seeing and its criminal that the DVD is out of print 8 out of 10

Before watching this film at a screening attended by the director herself we were informed this had won the short film prize at the Galway Film Fleadh Surely this result will give filmmakers hope anyone can do better than thisbr br How anyone cannot notice the flagrant ripoff of Donnie Darko in this Ill never know The film is pure drivel the acting cardboard the dialogue ridiculous the ending just flat The only crumb of comfort we enjoyed after seeing this rubbish was to loudly comment on how dreadful it was in front of the director Yes that was mean but liberatingbr br At least Irish filmmaking cant sink any lower

The storyline seemed fine the actors seemed fine the movie shouldbr br have been fine But it sure wasnt It didnt lead us anywhere thebr br scenes are weird Maybe it was meant to create something new to makebr br us think That atleast it did Where is the rest of this film To me itbr br was waste of money time and talent Someone might want to see thisbr br for curiosity to see if they can figure it out Other I personallybr br wouldnt recommend this to anyone

Its a shame that this piece of work wasnt acknowledged as a piece of work It has everything a historical film must have a serious historical research outstanding performances of every actor involved and a discrete but great directionbr br When I saw the movie I knew it should be a prototype for every biographical movie

I loved the original Scary Movie Im a huge fan of parody it is my favorite form of humor It is sometimes regarded as the most intelligent form of humor The Wayans boys seemed to grasp that concept perfectly in the original film then temporarily forgot it when making the sequel I think the Wayans are a family of comical geniuses Alas even geniuses make mistakesbr br The movie begins with promise I liked The Exorcist parody especially the come on out ma gag Now thats Wayansquality material But other than that I can only think of two other times I laughed 1 when Tori Spelling is seduced in the middle of the night by a spirit then becomes clingy and starts talking about marriage with him Meanwhile hes saying It was just a booty call That was kinda funny 2 The Save the Last Dance parody where the Cindy character inadvertently beats up a girl while practicing her new moves But even the shortlived giggles are no match for the sidesplitting laughs of the first Scary Moviebr br The rest of the movie is pure trash filled with cheap grossout gags Jokes from the first movie which were subtle or implied are magnified and overdone For example in Scary Movie I several innuendos are made to imply that the character Ray is gay This was hilarious But in Scary Movie II the whole penisstrangulation scene with Ray under the bed was mindnumbing and incredibly unfunny This is the pattern of the whole film Shock humor alone doesnt take a movie very far This was a trend in 2000 and 2001 unfortunately br br As much as it pains me to rate a Wayans movie so low I have to give this one a 2 out of 10

Generally I am not a huge fan of stopmotion films and at first RUKA didnt capture my attention However knowing that this film was made in the repressive Czechoslovakia during the Sovietdomination era the more I watched the film the more I realized just how subversive this innocent looking little film was This subtext really made the film come to life and gives it real staying power as both a work of art and a political statementbr br The sad little film is done without any dialog but its pretty clear what is happening A cute little wooden man is making a clay pot and having a lovely time when suddenly a meddling animated hand appears and destroys the potmaking it into a sculpture of a hand instead Well the wooden man tries again and again to chase away the hand and do his own thing However over time the hand becomes more and more insistent and eventually cages the man And by the end the man is dead thanks to the meddling hand and the hand in a sign of real hypocrisy gives the man a heros funeral br br As I said this film is an obvious attempt by the brave Jir Trnka to criticize his domineering government Not surprisingly though Czechs loved the film and gave it critical praise the state ie the hand banned this little parable Sadly Trnka did not live to see his nation liberated a little more than two decades later during the cocalled Velvet Revolution

And again Columbia Pictures decides to merely make hash using the original version with Curly and without any of the gags or jokes to boot Toward the end of this pitiful flick when Joe gets stuck riding the bull the studio didnt even make much of an effort to rerecord the sound for if you listen carefully you can still here Curly going Woo woo woo woo Also when Moe and Larry throw the darts in order to slow the bull down so he can get off thats lifted right from the original because you can actually see Moe and Larry magically appear 15 years younger Why oh why did Moe allow all this to happen Its a burning question that probably can never be answered because as far as I know in real life he was quite sensitive to any type of criticism and had rather high standards for his work as also did Larry Curly and Shemp Dont waste your time on this one

This is one of the best films Ive seen from the silent era sad to say Ive yet to see too many with the exception of ChaplinKeaton stuff Very visually brilliant with insanely influential style in editing and composition Really unique especially for its time camera angles and extremely hectic editing Definitely a must see for the film nerdbr br The downside is that it is a bit too in your face about its politics I have no problem with politics in film as long as they are subtle or at least somewhat ignorable as a backseat to the story Also its not an entertainment film which is fine but its not something Im going to watch a billion times This is art plain and simple like it or notbr br Worth an A for influence alone but based on personal enjoyment I give it an A

The animation was good the imagery was good although not totally original however the story was too long way too confusing and over the top dramatic After about an hour I couldnt wait to get it over with With so many characters that have nothing to contribute and plot elements that either come from nowhere or go nowhere this movie really wasnt one movie at all and would have been better of as a short series or possibly two movies If you like this kind of typical story maybe you will like it but frankly Ive been spoiled by much more creative stories that actually have some sort message to tell Go rent a Miyazaki film and watch it twice youll get way more out of it

Okay first of all I got this movie as a Christmas present so it was FREE FIRST This movie was meant to be in stereoscopic 3D It is for the most part but whenever the main character is in her car the movie falls flat to 2D What Its not that hard to film in a car SECOND The story isnt very good There are a lot of things wrong with itbr br THIRD Why are they showing all of the deaths in the beginning of the film It made the movie suck whenever some was going to get killed Watch it for a good laugh but dont waste your time buying it Just download it or something for cheap

This was the first Ewan McGregor movie I ever saw outside of Star Wars Since then I have become a very big Ewan McGregor fan but I still cant bring myself to forgive this movies existencebr br My sister has always been a huge Jane Austen fan and because of that I have been subjected to various of the classics Emma being one of them Ive always considered them irritating stupid and boring However after watching this terrible rendition I was forced to admit that the original Emma was delightful and charming Ewan McGregor scarcely serves a purpose in this film after they hacked and mutilated the part of Frank Churchill Gweneth Paltrow is ridiculous in an already ridiculous character and the rest of the film is unremarkable and stupidbr br My recommendation to anybody who is remotely interested in English period drama go see the originals If youre a Ewan McGregor fan believe me by skipping this film you havent missed anything but five minutes collective of him in a silly hat and a bad haircut

Firstly Ill admit I havent seen Vampires Los Muertos but Ive seen the original Vampires film and love it I rented this film having heard nothing about it I didnt expect to be impressed I wasntbr br I love the idea of shifting the action to the far east which should have opened up a lot of new avenues for the action sequences as well as the story line but not enough was made of this The fight scenes and the motorbike chases were painfully boring br br There were some parts I liked like the way the slayer team werent shown as heroic good guys as they were in the first moviebr br Id been hoping since I saw the old Hammer movie Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires a few years ago that someone would one day make another good Asianbased vampire film This was not it

Now infamous Western that was at its time the biggest budgeted disaster in Hollywood history I was lucky enough to see the full 220 minute version at a theatre in 1990 It was truly staggering how BAD the film wasbr br They had a great cast a story based on a true incident a fight between foreigners and Americans in the 1800s magnificent sceneryso what went wrong Three wordsdirector Michael Cimino He was so full of himself after The Deer Hunter he went out and made this god awful Western Hes not totally to blame His previous film The Deer Hunter was considered a masterpiece and United Artists gave him free reign to do anything They let him all aloneand everything went wrong The cost went barreling out of control and Cimino insisted on redoing sequences again and again until they were perfectbr br First off the sound is horrible Entire sequences go by and you cant make out a word the characters are saying For instance Jeff Bridges character is introduced during a dance sequence but I STILL have no idea who he was The dialogue in his introductory scene is incomprehensible Thats the directors faulthe should have made sure the dialogue could be heard Some scenes are shot with so much dust flying around you can barely make out whats going on The story line doesnt make a whole lot of sense and Cimino took great liberties with the factsin the real story only one person was killedCimino turns it into a massacre There is some admittedly beautiful sequences here totally destroyed by lack of story and incomprehensible dialogue Also the bad sound was not the fault of the theatreall the prints sound that waybr br This garbage effectively closed down United Artists and was the end of Ciminos career A textbook example of a director so full of himself he doesnt realize what hes doing Jeff Bridges has said this is the worst movie he ever did This is from a guy who made Tron A definite mustmissbr br There is a pretty good book called The Final Cut which details the whole disaster This gets a 1 I wish IMDb had negative numbersthis deserves it

I purchased this film on the cheap in a sale having read the back of the DVD case and assuming that either way I cant lose it if was rubbish then no loss if it was any good then bargainbr br Then I watched itbr br I am normally a fan of Christopher Walken but in this film he commanded very little screen presence seeming not to do a whole lot even the death of his friend near the beginning which sparks off the action in the plot seems to affect him very little and his eventual revenge is just boring and undramaticbr br Normally a film which has themes as grand as revolution and revenge are able to capture the audience and snare them into feeling something for the characters however watching this film felt more like seeing a series of confused and almost random events that loosely tied together towards its eventual conclusionbr br At this point I weptbr br I thought this film was the most horribly painful piece of viewing I have ever been subjected to the scene where the pilot sacrifices himself by refusing to jump out the explosive laden truck due to not wanting to kill any civilians is not so much tragically sad as it is unnervingly horrible and painful although not quite as bad as the emergency surgery on the wounded girl The acting was poor all round the script and story was weak the action was even weaker and the visuals were but bluntly not all that visual To summarise there are films which are good films that are bad films that are so bad they are good films that are terriblebr br And then on a whole new level is McBain

I saw Bandit Queen in 2005 over a decade after it was made amidst widespread controversy in India The language the stark treatment and the natural acting by a relatively unknown cast for that time might have been even more shocking at that time for an Indian populace more familiar with fantasy cinema The film the cast and Shekhar Kapoor deserve accolades for the breakthrough effortbr br The plot is not very different from a typical revenge drama made in various forms in India In fact there have been several fictional accounts of this particular story itself The reason why this stands out is that its supposed to be a first person account of someone who actually went through all this and a lot else that doesnt find place on the screen and survived to tell the tale Survived long enough to see her story made into a movie at least Phoolan Devi didnt live very long after being released from prison in 1994br br The film scores on several counts The cinematography is brilliant The music is apt The cast many of whom became more familiar names later is very good But the screenplay is patchy Things move too fast and in jerks at times Its understandable though because there are just too many strands that need to be tied together to make it all cohesive Or maybe I felt that because I have read Mala Sens book which is a more detailed and better though obviously not as shocking as the visual account of Phoolan Devis travails and which is purported to be one of the main sources for the filmbr br There are some factual ambiguities too According to Phoolan Devi she wasnt present when the Behmai massacre took place and despite claiming to be the dictated account of Phoolan herself she is shown to participate and in fact initiate the massacre Then the final scene where Phoolan surrenders shows her touching the feet of the Chief Minister while in reality she had surrendered to a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi Symbolic value only but shows that Phoolan didnt want to show servitude to a living ordinary person It would have been nice to show the Chief Minister to have some resemblance to Arjun Singh who many remember was the CM of Madhya Pradesh thenbr br But these are small chinks in this eminently wellmade movie a rare gem to come out from the mainstream Indian film industry made by a man who before this was known best for the ultimate masala movie of the late 80s Mr India

Valentine is another horror movie to add to the stalk and slash movie list think Halloween Friday the 13th Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer It certainly isnt as good as those movies that I have listed about but its better than most of the ripoffs that came out after the first Friday the 13th film One of those films was the 1981 Canadian made My Bloody Valentine which I hated alot Valentine is a better film than that one but its not saying much The plot a nerdy young boy is teased and pranked by a couple of his classmates at the beginning of the film Then the film moves years later when those classmates are all grown up then theyre picked off onebyone The killer is presumed to be the young boy now all grown up looking for revenge But is it him Or could it be somebody else Valentine has an attractive cast which includes Denise Richards David Boreanaz Marley Shelton Jessica Capshaw and Katherine Heigl They do what they can with the material theyve got but a lackluster script doesnt really do them any justice There are some scary moments throughout however br br out of four

In complete contrast to the previous correspondent here I thought Shoppen Munich as it was billed when shown with English subtitles here in London at the German Film Festival in November 2007 was very funny very well acted and excellently scriptedbr br Its quite audacious to design a 100minute film that consists exclusively and relentlessly of talking heads But I think Ralf Westhoff succeeded with wit and lan No standard filmic devices of say following a characters soulbaring pronouncement with some meditative minorseventhchord music and longshot nature cutaways But when someone said something that revealed their souls well we were hustled on by the man with the timer for yet another superficial introduction Which is of course the point the hurtling tickbox superficiality of thirtysomething urbanites where everything is down to a quick question and answerbr br Maybe most films are so clichd and stupid that we English are ready to laugh at any vaguely intelligent and uncontrived cinema but I can promise you that at the screening tonight Curzon Cinema Sun 25 Nov 2007 the full audience bellowed with laughter most of the way through So I wasnt the only one guffawingbr br My girlfriend who speaks German and has lived in Munich thought it was hilarious I who dont speak German and have not been to Munich I think thought it was hilarious Id recommend Shoppen Munich to anyone especially couples looking for a smart witty original wise film about the superficiality of modern relationships and the bewilderment of the generation who feel theyve missed out on the happyeverafter stuff first time roundbr br NB In the English subtitled showing in London the subtitles which were very good were shown completely underneath the slightly reduced picture not inside it I thought this was a Good Thing

Although I have enjoyed Bing Crosby in other movies I find this movie to be particularly grating Maybe because Im from a different era and a different country but I found Crosbys continual references to the Good Old USA pleasant at first trite after a while and then finally annoying Dont get me wrong Im not antiAmerican whatsoever but it seemed that the English could do no right andor needed this brave oh so smart American visitor to show them the way Its a fish out of water story but unlike most movies of this sort this time its the fish who has the upper hand To be fair to both myself and the movie I have watched it a few times spaced over a few years and get the same impression each timebr br I watched another Crosby movie last night The Emperors Waltz and that too produced the same reaction in me And to my surprise even my wife who for whats its worth is American found the in your face attitude of American Crosby to be irritating One too many references to Teddy Roosevelt as she put it br br As for the premise of the movie its unique enough for its day and the supporting cast is of course very good The scenery and the music is also good as are the great costumes although I agree with a previous reviewer that the wig on William Bendix looks horrid picture Moe of The Three Stoogesbr br All in all for me this would be a much more enjoyable picture without the attitude of Bing Crosby but because he is in virtually every shot its pretty hard to sit through this movie

Exceptionally bad I dont expect much from Garcia since he is one of the most overrated actors today but Keaton really should have known this movie would suck and gotten out while he could not that Im especially fond of him but hey he did batmanbr br In one scene Keaton is transported to a hospital chained down and wearing a Hannibal Lecter kind of face mask when two attack dogs bark at him dogs can sense evil you know puke and Keaton growls back at them making them back off and whine with their tails between their legs Did the movie turn comedy right there Garcia makes a fool out of himself in an interrogation scene with dialogue only a complete retard could find plausible and the kid is too annoying to feel sorry forbr br If you are gonna make a movie with as poor a plot as this you need some charm humour some solid action Take Die Hard for example which is great despite its rather crappy plotbr br Even though Keatons character was a joke i routed for him all the way I wanted to see Garcia cry over his dead kid and Keaton sipping martinis on some paradise island however This movie makes for a good laugh Watch it with a witty friend and you can have some fun as this movie begs for wisecracks in almost every scene br br All in all its an insult to ones intelligence and a huge waste of money Greed made this movie and thank god it bit its own ass

If you want a film with the full range of emotion look NO further dramatic and funny and scenes of wrenching emotion I can safely guarantee VERY few will be able to view this warm and VERY human film without shedding a tear now and then The acting by the two leads is hard to believe you would swear the two young men really DO suffer from Muscular Dystrophy Rory and Cerebral Palsy Michael quite simply two of the FINEST performances I have EVER seen these are two very believable characters as well and you never have the feeling things have just been tossed in for dramatic purposes or to evoke sympathy In the DVD release as extras they have deleted scenes including an alternate ending and an extended party sequence why these clips were not included in the final film is hard to understand as they tie in with the rest of the film perfectly and are in NO way superfluous But without reservation I can heartily recommend this film to anyone one of the very best I have ever seen

Sometimes its hard to judge how bad a film made in Italy or Spain really is because they all seem to use the same stable of 910 ESL trained voice actors to supply the English voices for release in the US And things are always lost in translation anyway dialog character shtick and plot elements written for the expectations of European audiences may not go too well with our American ideas of what is funny hip or dramatic I imagine that the team responsible for making the translation for the sound track of this movie to English had about 3 days to do it from start to finish and they probably each earned the equivalent of an installment payment on their used Fiat to do it In other words pure hackwork tossed off in one or two takes and never reviewed or redone by someone with a real ear for the American languagebr br Watching Devil Fish I can imagine that if you were an Italian watching this presented in your native language you might find it a mildly amusing little piece of fluff Youd laugh at the in jokes and the amusing drunk youd gasp at the monster and the villainy of the bad guys and youd ogle at the attractive pair of Peter and notquiteDaryll Hannah as they couple on the beach for no apparent reason in the middle of a search for clues about a maneating monster who has already killed one of their friendsbr br But since the jarring voice acting and tineared dialog keep yanking we Americans out of the film experience we cant help but notice that the editors had serious Attention Deficit Disorder that no one on screen can really act so much as project an Attitude that the stated reason for the creation of the monster makes absolutely no sense that the action sequences have all the impact of a cereal bowl full of cooked oatmeal and that the director screenwriters and producers really hate womenbr br Dont even THINK about buying or renting this movie watch only on cable TV on Saturday afternoon with one of several beers in your fist or with the help and protection of Mike and the Bots on MST3K

Someones at the Door OHHH How I miss this show so bad but we are lucky to now have Invasion Thank You Shawn Cassidy American Gothic had it allIf I had to pick one thing that I liked best about the show it has to be its not predictable plotlines Favorite actor was Lucas Black I adore that southern accent I bought the DVD asap and my kids are fans too There is some hot n steamy scenes Some Devilish ones too So if kiddos will be watching you may want to editfastforwardskip It has humour on a Joss Wheedon level which so many shows lack Adult wit and adult situation that are handled with finese The DVD has some extras but I wish it has many more If you want to get thrilled and enjoy a great show come watch American Gothic

Most families will recognise similarities between their own family and that created through brilliant acting by Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon Natalie creates an on screen image that justifies her as one of the best actresses in America and one worthy of a Golden Globe Nomination The control of her emotions are so in tact that at any point in the movie she can tap into them and release an unforgettable scene Susan is also amazing in this movie as yet again she chose a role that is so different to any other and carries it through with true professionalismbr br Any Natalie fan wouldve seen the film based on her past successes but you should also see it for the emotions that are released during the film It is a truly humbling experience

I am surprised that so many comments about this film are positive Having read the book several times and all the other historical novels by Mika Waltari there is no way to say much good in this film If I forget the origins of the story I might consider it a reasonably good epic Of course to bring such a brick of a book to the big screen is a task not to be envied but it could be done with class I cant understand why even the name of Nefernefernefer had to be shortened to just Nefer I love Peter Ustinov as Kaptah and Marlon Brando probably would have made a better Sinuhe but the overall attitude is too Hollywood to ever make justice to the book Mind you Mika Waltari left the Premier of this film in the middle of the showing Thats how much he liked it

To me A Matter of Life and Death is just that simply the best film ever madebr br From beginning to end it oozes class It is stimulating thought provoking a mirror to the post war world and the relations between peoplesbr br The cinematography is simply stunning and the effect of mixing monochrome and Technicolour to accent the different worlds works seamlessly The characters and plot development are near perfect and the attention to detail promotes a thoroughly believable fantasybr br No matter how many times I watch the film and I have watched it a lot it never fails to touch me It makes me smile it makes me laugh it makes me think it makes me cry It is as fresh today as it was in 1946br br If I were allowed just one film to keep and watch again A Matter of Life and Death would be that film

Shah rukh khan plays an obbsessed lover who would go to any lengths to get his lady Juhi chawla does a wonderful job of making the best of her character and sunny deol plays the hero and action man this film is very good and id reecommend it to anyone

Like most I rented this after I heard the universal praise And despite COUNTLESS bizarre unexplainable moments along the way I was very interested and entertained through 100 minutes of the film Then the two women went to the performance late at night The rest of movie which is another 40 minutes by the way is even WEIRDER than the first part AND completely contradict and dump on what I had already seen Then the movie abruptly endsbr br Baffled I wandered over to my computer to see if I could buy a clue as to what just happened Nothing made sense and Im a pretty clever guy None of these other user comments made sense even when they say SPOILERS I still have no idea what theyre saying Someones dream Not real Then whats the point of a 2 hour 30 minute movie if its not real Or is it real Im forced to make a choice Eitherbr br The movie is a work of genius on a MENSA level and Im simply too stupid to understand itbr br The movie is weird for weirds sake and just doesnt make sense Everyone who loves it is trying to save face and pretend like they get itbr br I choose Screw you guys Im going home

This service comedy for which Peter Marshall Joanne Drus brother and later perennial host of The Hollywood Squares and Tommy Noonan were hyped as the new Lewis and Martin is just shy of dreadful a few random sight gags are inserted everyone talks fast and nothing works quite right theres one scene in which Noonan is throwing grenades at officers and politicians in anger theyre about five feet apart Noonan is throwing them in between and the total reaction is that everyone flinchesbr br In the midst of an awfulness relieved only by the fetching Julie Newmar there are a few moments of brightness Marshall and Noonan engage in occasional bouts of double talk and argufying and their timing is nigh unto perfect clearly they were a well honed comedy pairbr br It isnt enough to save this turkey alas

First of all Id like to start by saying its a refreshing start to see a British Drama that finally looks and feels believable br br Patrick Stewart does the role justice as Ian Hood the government Science adviser with his constant and unwavering views on authority and thoughts about the future of real world science and how he feels Its either being used or abused by others br br Not only is the casting thoroughly maintained all the way throughout the Series but it makes its characters seem more believable than most other British Dramas br br Ashley Jensen also delivers a first rate performance as Dr Hoods Appointed bodyguard Rachael Young she brings a refreshing take on the unscientific Uninterested everyday views of science and her constant battling with Hood makes for some very funny and memorable moments between thembr br The way the series keeps all the scientific elements more realistic I Find positive and more engaging than the psychobabble we are so used to in other Fiction or Science Fiction TV shows br br There are however notable disappointments with the series every time an Episode ends I find myself disappointed that they didnt seem to cover all aspects of the plot and sometimes leaving openended stories unclosed br br Although bearing in mind that this is still the first series I hope that we see a return to form in the near future where these open ended stories can finally be given a significant conclusion they so rightly deservebr br For those who enjoy more slow paced science related plot lines this is the ideal show to watch as it always manages to stay believable and more Importantly to the point