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According to the book The Last of the Cowboy Heroes which is about Joel McCrea Audie Murphy and Randolph Scott the author says that Albuquerque was the only film he personally did not review because he claimed it was lost Hadnt been seen in yearsbr br Good thing for western fans somebody was doing some spring cleaning at Paramount because a print was apparently found and now its out on the open market Albuquerque is a pretty good western too with Scott involved in a family feud with Uncle George Clevelandbr br George Cleveland sends for his nephew Randolph Scott with the intention of making him part of his freighting business headquartered in the fast growing settlement of Albuquerque Cleveland is more than just a business owner hes the town boss which he runs from a wheelchair He even has the sheriff in his pocket br br Randolph Scott is not a cowboy hero for nothing That includes not backing relatives up when theyre villains He goes to work for a rival outfit headed by brother and sister Russell Hayden and Catherine Craigbr br Cleveland is full of all kinds of tricks and he even sends for a western Mata Hari in the person of Barbara Britton to worm her way into the confidence of his rivals Barbaras great as the homespun vixen who develops her own agendabr br Randolph Scotts original home studio was Paramount it was where his first studio contract was with Albuquerque marked the last film he ever did for Paramount and they gave him a good onebr br Note also Lon Chaney Jr who is George Clevelands chief henchman a rather loathsome bully of a man and Gabby Hayes who is just Gabby Hayesbr br Albuquerque must have been loved by Republicans across the nation in 1948 with its chief villain as a town boss who rules from a wheelchair A certain Democrat from a wheelchair had made hash of them for four straight presidential elections and he was gone They had high hopes of winning the White House that year too but things went awry and they had to settle for an ersatz boss getting his comeuppance in Albuquerque Im not sure why Cleveland was in a wheelchair since nothing was really made of it in the plot My guess is he was injured and played the part that way because he had tobr br Still Albuquerque must have had great appeal to the GOP market

I went into Deathtrap expecting a well orchestrated and intriguing thriller and while thats something like what this film is I also cant help but think that its just a poor mans Sleuth The classic 1972 film is obviously an inspiration for this film not particularly in terms of the plot but certainly its the case with the execution The casting of Michael Caine in the central role just confirms it The film is based on a play by Ira Levin who previously wrote Rosemarys Baby and The Stepford Wives and focuses on Sidney Bruhl a playwright whose best days are behind him After his latest play bombs Sidney finds himself at a low and this is not helped when a play named Deathtrap written by an amateur he taught arrives on his doorstep Deathtrap is a guaranteed commercial success and Sidney soon begins hatching a plot of his own which involves inviting round the amateur scribe killing him and then passing Deathtrap off as his own workbr br Despite all of its clever twists and turns Deathtrap falls down on one primary element and thats the characters The film fails to provide a single likable character and its very hard to care about the story when youre not rooting for any of the players This is not helped by the acting Michael Caine puts in a good and entertaining performance as you would expect but nobody else does themselves proud Christopher Reeve is awkward in his role while Dyan Cannon somehow manages to make the only possibly likable character detestable with a frankly irritating performance Its lucky then that the story is good and it is just about good enough to save the film The plot features plenty of twists and turns some work better than others but theres always enough going on to ensure that the film stays interesting Director Sidney Lumet deserves some credit too as the style of the film is another huge plus The central location is interesting in its own right and the cinematography fits the film well Overall I have to admit that I did enjoy this film but it could have been much much better

What has Ireland ever done to film distributers that they seek to represent the country in such a pejorative way This movie begins like a primer for film students on Irish cinematic cliches unctuous priests spitting before handshakes town square cattle marts cycling by country meadows to the backdrop of anodyne folk music Quickly however it becomes apparent that the main theme of the film is the big DaddyO of Irish Cliches religous strife It concerns a protestant woman who wants to decide where her Catholicfathered child is educated which would seem like a reasonable enough wish though not to the 50s County Wexford villagers she has to live with Rather than send them to a Catholic school she decides to up and leave for Belfast then Scotland where a few more cliches are reguritated While shes there her father who looks eerily like George Lucas and family back home are subjected to a boycott which turns very nasty Im not going to give away the ending not because I think people should go see this movie but because its not very interesting One of the problems with the film is the central character were supposed to sympathise with her but end up instead urging her to get a life The villagers are presented as bigots whose prejudices should be stood up to but traumatising your kids seems an innappropriate way to go about it In addition it takes on burdens which it staggers igniminiously under when it tries to draw analogies with the current Northern Ireland peace process the woman is told by her lawyer that she must lay down preconditions for her return The film is allegedly based on a true story but its themes have been dealt with much more imaginatively and with less recourse to hackneyed cliches in the past

Yeah Madsens character whilst talking to the woman from the TV station is right the LAPD IS a corrupt violent and racist police And this movie changes nothing about it Okay here are the good cops the moral cops even a black one whow a Christian a martyr But this is a fairy tale admit it Reality is not like that And most important for the action fans The shoot out is boring Its just shooting and shooting and shooting Nothing more Play Counter Strike then you will at least have something to do The only moral of this film is The LAPD is good now No more bad cops in it If you like uncritical euphemistic commercials for police and military service watch this movie Its the longest commercial Ive ever seen 2 Points for camera and editing

With Pep Squad receiving an average of 47 on IMDbcom no wonder Steve Balderson slanders this website so But the fact is that Pep Squad is a poorly crafted black comedy both words in quotation marks for a reason Its a movie full of overacting Cherry Beths Mother coupled with a couple of lethargic performances Beth and Julies boyfriend A movie where you can follow cars from twenty feet away in a gaudy red Jeep and never be noticed A movie chock full of notsoappetizing cleavage and nudity shots that make you wonder Does the director think this is funny Or clever Most of all the characters are so paperthin and poorly developed that the film becomes quite unpredictable but probably not on purpose Pep Squad cant decide whether to be a comedy or a drama or a satire patriotic music I get it The movie fails at being serious because the idea of killing for any school position this being Prom Queen crosses the line into insanity not to mention shots of flag burning and driveby shootings a poor attempt at being controversial and edgy and fails at being a comedy for all the forced and awkwardly placed jokes big butt mama funky black principal and excessive cussing delivered poorly by the principal cast Watching the documentary Wamego Making Movies Anywhere only made this film more cringeworthy with praise lauded towards it by the director and the directors father hmmmmmm Not a black comedy or anything for that matter I guess Kansas will have to wait

This movie was rented by a friend Her choice is normally good I read the cover first and was expecting a good movie Although itbr br was a horror movie Which i dont prefer But no horror came to mind while watching the movie It was a dullbr br not very entertaining movie The appearance of Denise Richardsbr br was again a pleasure for the eye But thats it We the four of usbr br were a little bit disappointed But feel free to see this movie andbr br judge it yourself

Plunkett and Macleane is an entertaining fastpaced and refreshing film Refreshing because unlike most other period films it does not strive to give the audience a history lesson or preach pompously indeed historical accuracy is all but ignored This film does not take itself too seriously and seeks to entertain rather than enlighten Plunkett and Macleane is set in the 18th century yet director Jake Scott offers a thoroughly 90s take Theres action sex and swearing aplenty and in the inevitable ball scene the aristocracy dance to disco beats Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle are brilliant as always and the rest of the cast especially Alan Cumming as a flirtatious fop are also highly entertaining The film is visually spectacular in places and is a mixture of comedy action and drama with a love interest provided by Liv Tyler with a shaky english accent In short if youre looking for an entertaining couple of hours this is the film for you It wont make you think but it could well put a smile on your face

When you start watching this animationmasterpiece you quickly notice that its a European production Although the Europeans have sadly integrated some of the clichs you would normally find in an American production of this kind most are missing One of these is that there is an overwhelming evil that only our very few and very unlikely heroes can vanquish Another is that one of the group is only in the business for the money is greedy runs away when the heat is up but somehow gives in to his better nature This movie would have been better off without bothbr br The movie is based upon a TVSeries that was out four years before the movie Unlike the movie the TVSeries is a cartoon and not a computer animation At first I thought the computer would kill the charm and character of the plot but I was quickliy convinced Whoever did the animation knew his or her stuff Although the characters are obviously fictional in stills they dont even look real they seem as alive and sentient as the audience following their quest Making characters who by normal standards could be considered deformed those microlegs could never carry that giant body let alone make it jump so alive and lovable is more than just a highlight The creation of the world is another masterpiece Not so much because of its looks but because of the inventiveness of it The world our heroes travel is not solid like our own but is made of many pieces of land varying in shape and size that seem to be floating in mid air When a person steps on a smaller fragment of ground it nods a little bit as if feathering from the weight In some cases up and down no longer apply but our heroes still manage to get a foothold somewhere Although the world of floating islands is completely surreal in this movie it is absolutely believable and after a short time it doesnt seem any weirder than running into a car somewhere in New Yorkbr br I wrote that the looks of the world arent as breathtaking as the idea As true as that might be to my mind the quality of the world the characters and the attention to details is staggering Although the faces of the characters have relatively few attributes emotions can be read as clearly as in Sean Connerys or Dustin Hoffmans face The world around the characters is wonderfully colourful and no two settings are alike The background is always in motion something is always going on which makes the world seem even more alive If you stop the movie and look at the background you will be surprised how many details you can findbr br The existence of Hector actually puts the cherry on top Hector is a furry little thing possibly the equivalent of a dog in our world who is totally lovable and extremely funny Although he isnt really important for the main plot he would be missed like Scrat would be in Ice Age The really cool thing about Hector is that you need to speak Gibberish to understand himbr br If the movie is so great why didnt I give it 10 stars Well the plot in itself was rather thin Two hunters are sent out to rescue the world from a really bad dragon who wants to swallow the world isnt really original That in itself wouldnt be much of a problem What I missed was the background information What kind of a dragon was this and why did it look that way I love mythical stories but if they get too thin then they seem to be written after the movie is finished in a feeble attempt to give the whole thing some depthbr br Another thing I didnt like was Zo Although a little girl like her could be considered adorable she was somewhat of a pain in this movie She seemed pretty resistant to all types of learning about reality kept dreaming of some hero from a story book and basically slowed the others down She would have been OK if she had developed a little more and a little earlier in the movie or had been less of a girly to start with To me the idea of this girl who was there to twist the story a little backfired on the writersbr br All in all this is a really good movie for just about all ages

This movie is awesome on so many levels and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome onbr br Just remember this When youre watching Shaun of the Dead and other recent zombie movies be they good or bad THIS is the formula that they are using THIS is what makes zombie movies so greatbr br And what makes it BETTER than great is the story behind the movie A simple web search will provide you with everything you need to knowbr br All in all it doesnt linger Theres never a point where you think to yourself cmon get on with it it moves quick and corners nicely This is the sporty little Italian number of zombie flicksbr br So awful its wonderful If your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek rent it buy it love itbr br As a great trivia note If youre watching it on DVD youll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen underneath the musical score Well thats because that music was lifted straight from the trailer which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop

May contain minor spoilersbr br Dressed to Kill having just seen it for the first time the other day is a movie with some terrific sequences some decent performances and a nice though obvious Hitchcock ripoff plot twist at the end Its just too bad certain things quite obvious prevent it from being a classicbr br Dressed to Kill deals with a mystery of a killer who has slain at least two women could have been more but the movie never tells us and the search for the killer by three people a brainy kid whose mom was a victim a lively hooker whose the only one who can identify the killer and a psychiatrist whose patient was the slained brainy kids mother There are a host of well done performances including Nancy Allen as the hooker Liz Angie Dickenson as the sexually frustrated victim Kate Miller and Micheal Caine as Doctor Rober Elliot whose has more hidden than meets the eye though by no standard is anyone really outstanding On the other hand Denis Franz later to be a great character along the same lines on the hit show NYPD Blue is embarrassing as an overexaggerated ruthless hateful detective though he takes little screen time so it doesnt hurt the movie that much Keith Gordon the brain child is decent but is almost too smart to really be believablebr br What sticks with me the most in the film are the tense sequences The scene with the sexually frustrated mother at the museum is gripping and well done as is the later sequence leading to her untimely death I also love the sequence at the doctors office that reveals the identity of the killer which really makes the whole film come together at once And theres a split screen scene that I thought was almost classic Still theres another situation when Liz is on a train running from what may be the killer that gets taken in directions it should never had with almost embarrassing racial stereotypes As a thriller its tense and quite often believable As a crime drama it often falters especially with the incomplete ridiculous explanation of everything that happened in the end Theres also a needless and way too long dream sequence at the end in which they had the audacity to shoot someones foot for what seemed minutes at a time This was an up and down experience one scene would catch me by the heart and mind with enticement and the next would make me squirm and ask why At more than 100 minutes this could have been under 90 and been a better filmbr br Scary movie fans should like this It still stands as a better film than most of todays slasher flicks Maybe it was a better film in its time but having just seen it recently I can say I enjoy it and it is worth watching for my three favorite scenes alone

Anyone familiar with horror films knows that most of them are not scary at all Some people enjoy gorefests with subpar story lines and character development I personally enjoy horror films that focus on atmosphere and interesting concepts eg A Tale of Two Sisters Kairo etc Whatever the type of horror film one personally likes there are only a select few that really scare you Noroi is one of thembr br This is a documentarystyle movie which means that the entire film is a compilation of video clips that are linked by the legend of a demonic entity named Kagutaba The premise is that a journalist filmed his own footage by interviewing people associated with the demonic rituals associated with Kagutaba then compiled footage from other sources that link with his research What results is a relentlessly chilling experience that feels very real and very disturbing despite the fact that the story itself is fakebr br Some have compared Noroi with The Blair Witch Project but the only similarity is the documentary style One obvious difference between the films is that Noroi scares the viewer by linking events to one another using different sources For example the journalist records the exterior of a house that he is researching and sees something strange on the porch Later in the film a clip from another characters home video introduces that very same strange occurrence The viewers memory links the two incidents and chills start running down their spine Another example involves a television show with a child psychic who answers every single question correctly except for one In fact her answer is so wrong that the viewer may wonder what the filmmakers were thinking Later on however that wrong answer turns out to be linked to an extremely disturbing event This is intelligent filmmaking indeedbr br Another difference between Noroi and Blair Witch is that Noroi provides not one but two very long finales the second of which is placed a minute after the credits start to roll and is the single greatest scare scene in the history of horror cinema I do not say such things lightly It totally wrecked me in a wonderous waybr br Other aspects of filmmaking are well done The legend and ritualistic background of Kagutaba are very interesting and most of the actors did a good job The only overthetop performance comes from a guy whos supposed to be crazy anyway so thats expected The cinematography is intentionally gritty because all of the footage is supposed to represent videos shot on camcorders Japanese films are not known for their special effects but the effects used here were awesome In some cases they create an otherworldly feel eg the static interference or the first finale but in other cases they are alarmingly realistic eg the second finalebr br When all is said and done Noroi goes down as the scariest film Ive ever seen I would go so far as to say that there is no film in existence that provides such sheer terror from beginning to end like Noroi does See it now

dont watch it Heres a hint tune in to the last 5 minutes and youll catch her in a bikini Otherwise youll just have to sit through the flick and endure her heliumsucking voice view for screen time with the inexplicable Aussie accents of the lost city of Atlantis or wherever the heck she goes to to locate her missing father We now know why Kathy pursued a nonspeaking career of modelling she couldnt have survived the deaththreats from those poor headachesuffering victims who heard her voice for more than 30 seconds The rest of the story is some kind of weird poorlylit Mad Max mishmash

I know the people and I did some of the animation and graphic design and the show is horrible They are rich little kids who dont have any talent and probably just begged Nick to accept them Alex has played the drums for one yearm Ive played for 4 12 The movie is terrible and so is the show This is the craziest most mixed up comedy that even isint funny Ive ever seen It is so stupid it makes me want to barf It is just so crazy that Nickelodeon would ever accept something like this and so dumb They are sooo stupid and weird I hate them and their show and think once Nick realizes how stupid it is they will most hopefully take it off

the worst sequel Ive ever seen really awful songs which is upsetting considering how fantastic the first films score and story is also which ruins the film for me is the fact there is no John Cleese so jean bob might as well not even be in it and the new villains are dreadful it is really annoying how that old woman type thing cant string a simple sentence together properly without repeating her words over and over and over again but to be fair Uberta not shutting up is a little bit funny but the fact it was her 50th birthday why do they draw her looking like an 80 year old i was going to give this a 1 but now i think i might give it a 2 but still the story line is no where near as good as the first film it is similar without the humour from certain characters Overall i disliked this film entirely because of the disappointing music the severe lack of voice talent having changed the voice of prince Derek and jean bob the new villains disappointing storyline the annoying habits of some characters and the very simple animation

This movie pops up now and again on the ABC in Australia at about 3 am in the morningbr br It starts off with the scene of a bus crash in Londonbr br The films has got flashbacks of each character as the film progresses plus the lapsed photography of Big Ben winding back to symbolise what events occurred thirteen hours ago up until the bus crashbr br It took me a while to understand it but it was enjoyable nonethelessbr br If Sean Cunningham and Quentin Tarrantino got together and made a film this may be the result due to the flashbacks and small stories tying in and deathsbr br I am unsure of the main characters as it has been a while since I have seen it but a rare gem indeed

I suspect there are several cuts of this doco doing the rounds The copy I saw focused heavily on Joes erotic films and referred to his horror output in passing There are numerous Xrated films presented in their Xrated glory and EMMANUELLE IN AMERICAS legendary snuff footage the breasts being cut off is given generous screen timebr br The interviews with the highly likable Joe are informative and candid He is an unassuming articulate gent and discusses his interest in shocking audiences why he wanted to mix erotica with horror and how he may have been responsible for one of his performers turning gaybr br His friendship and working relationship with Indonesian beauty Laura Gemser is touched on as is his indifferent attitude to shooting hardcorebr br Joe DAmato personifies an incredible period in Continental cinema that has now passed It is great to see a documentary dedicated to him and his fine unique workbr br RIP Joe

caddyshack II does NO justice for the caddysack thin plot thin actorsexception of randy quaid the ONLY thing that is decent with this movie is the soundtrackmaybe this movie should have been destroyed when the script was written

So after years and years I finally track this film down I was dying to see how it lived up to my memories I distinctly remembered the shots of the ghost boy running down the mine then waiting behind two planks of wood crossed in the mineshaft just staring out with a pale white face This single shot was probably the most chilling shot of my childhood I remember chills running down my spine Watching it now its obviously nowhere near as scary but quite subconsciously strange to see the same images again If anyone wants a copy private message mebr br The story itself is fairly standard BCFF stuff Its strange though that the message is pretty unclear this time around there is no real moral as such except that ghosts are here to help us or dont be prejudiced against ghosts There wasnt even a greedcapitalist angle in terms of wanting to profit from the mine However a massive act of irresponsibility from the captain encouraging the two kids to actually follow the vague implications of a ghost not only into a mine but into a new mine hole which is totally dangerous The captain then encourages the children to climb down a huge ladder deep into the mines simply because he thinks the ghost wants them too Its also a bit odd that the ghost chooses the boy to help the trapped adults and not just help the trapped adults direct Oh well

br br As usual I was really looking forward to a new TVfilm on a favourite subject of mine makes a nice change from a strangely familiar documentary about Kursk or Stalingrad on the History Channelbr br I avidly looked forward to Pearl Harbour and Enemy at the Gates but was rudely brought down to earth with the realisation of the malevolent stupidifying power of Hollywood and its ability to spend an absolute fortune on tripebr br So yet again I got excited about The Rise of Evil especially as I heard that Ian Kershaw was involved as Ive enjoyed his books I can see why he quitbr br To quote some guy responsible for this rubbishbr br The Kershaw book was an academic piece he said It wasbr br quite dry We needed more incidents br br Incidents Are they totally nuts Hitlers life cannot be said to be without incident yes Kershaws two volume Hitler biographies were long and detailed but they were supposed to bebr br The thesis behind Rise of Evil seems to bebr br Hitler was a very bad man no he was a VERY bad man who HATED jews and just in case you miss this were going to emphasise the fact in EVERY scene in the filmbr br There was no effort whatsoever to try and explain the mood of the time and why Hitler may have adopted the views and strategy he did Needless to say unlike the generally excellent Nazis A Warning from History this film neglected to point out the fact that nearly all of the leaders of the Munich communist rising were Jewish and that this may have coloured his views on the subject and his axiomatic linking of the jews with Bolshevism an absolutely crucial aspect to understanding much of the Nazi erabr br But there was not much understanding to be done the filmmakers werent going to go there so we just got all the stuff we knew about anyway We certainly dont get the fascinating fact that Kershaw alludes to which has Hitler briefly being a socialistcommunist immediately after WW1 That would of course be far too complex for the film to handle and might even detract from the relentless he was very bad mantra which bangs away incessantlybr br We know he was a bad man However we also know that he was a mesmerising figure both as a public speaker and in more private situations He could be polite and even sympathetic and of course espoused some views like vegetarianism antialcohol and antismoking that many Guardian readers could agree with He was also famously fond of animals hence why that wholly invented dogflogging scene was so absurdbr br He was also from all the accounts Ive seen a brave soldier in WW1 Whilst we saw him with his Iron Cross we never get to see how he won it acts of bravery were not in the script needless to say We also get no insight whatsoever into why he was so fired up by his war experiences whilst Sassoon Owen Brook Remarque and so many others found it so repellent an experience And again like the point above re the jewishbolshevik link this is vital to anyones understanding about the subject Why did he love war so much Why did he think it was always a good idea despite massive evidence to the contrary Why didnt he care about his colleagues who died Or maybe he did but still drew the wrong conclusionsbr br This film certainly didnt have anything of any interest to say on this eitherbr br As all too often these days the film is a classic example of making history relevant to the present and inventing stuff or leaving awkward facts out to fit in with the present which all too often is to cater to the lowest common denominator where you dont trust your audience an inch so you just ram stuff down their throats knowing sadly correctly that youll always get away with it because there are so many dumb fools in the worldbr br History is really about making us relevant to the past and seeing how it colours our present for better and for worse This rubbish was a great opportunity lost again They spent millions on it and the locations and large scenes were impressive but told us nothing at all we didnt know already and promoted no understanding of this dark period in human historybr br WT

This story is about the romantic triangle between a nth African male prostitute a French transsexual prostitute Stephanie and a Russian waiter who speaks no French and never seems to shavebr br As a film it is dull dreary and depressing shot either on foggy overcast winter days or in badly lit interiors where everyone is bathed in a weird blue luminescence And yes I know its because the white balance was out Everyone is pale and downcast and looks haggard shabby and dirty Bodies are bony and shot in such closeup that they look quite ugly and unappealing Moles greasy hair Yuk Bad news in a film where people spend a lot of time either naked or having sexbr br And the story Well Stephanies mother is dying All three characters go back to Stephanies home village where through a bunch of flashbacks to desolate countryside and predictably dingy interiors we see a bit of Stephanies childhood as a boy called Pierre The mother dies Well and thats about it really Character development is kept to a minimum as is the denouement of the story br br I suppose the storyline is not linear it would explain a lot of non sequiteurs but really after paying my seven euros I dont feel like having to construct the film myself thats what the director takes my money for To expect me to join the story telling process and get my hands dirty so to speak is asking way too muchbr br This film is a heap of pretentious rubbish made above all from a desire to epater les bourgeois ie shock the straights I can see how it was a shooin for the Berlin Film Festival and I can see why it got nowhere

Well never know The Truth about 911 And this shoddy movie proves itbr br I recently watched a YouTube report claiming there were no planes involved in the Twin Towers destruction that all the news programs were supposedly provided with sameangle shots of the Towers from a mysterious source probably the gubmint and in that provided footage CGI planes were substituted for reallife MISSILES which actually hit the towersbr br Its a compelling video and though I am not a Wacko Conspiracy Theorist per se I am still not sure myself whether actual planes hit anything that day the Towers the Shanksville field the Pentagon because there is no plane wreckage available And what about those infamous black boxes None recovered A million other theories abound all of them courting a droplet of Truth awash in an ocean of speculation But youll drown in malarkey before you find anything truthful or worth speculating about in THE 911 COMMISSION REPORT a nobudget movie that is trying to close the barn door after all the horses and jihadists have escapedbr br Writerdirector Leigh Scott is obviously a concerned American citizen who wanted to enlighten audiences on what the 560page report might reveal It would help if his movie had actors instead of a guy who looks like David Duchovny a chick who looks like Gina Gershon a guy who thinks hes Russell Crowe and another guy who Im pretty sure is trying hard to be Sean Bean It would help if his camera operator didnt have Parkinsons if the lighting director wasnt trying to save on electricity it would help if his editor didnt have Attention Deficit Disorder or if the soundtrack wasnt some tuneless new world order esoterica and the looping should have probably been inserted when people were actually moving their mouthsbr br We cant even call this propaganda Its too funny And by funny I mean unwatchablebr br You cant squeeze an issue this complex into a twohour film but Leigh Scott tries anyway including all those sexy catchphrases weve grown inured to bin Ladens intent to attack purchasing weapons from Somalia nonaggression agreement with Iraq Mussawi attending flight school weapons of mass destructionbr br The problem is we know its all retrospect so every discussion the concerned intelligence operatives have with each other reeks of fake hindsight all crammed into a neat conversation Like contrived reverse engineering everything pertinent is mentioned succinctly so that we can shake our heads in wonder at how incompetently all these branches of government screwed upbr br Theres a ludicrous interrogation scene with a lubricious bimbo beating up on a guy with tomato sauce on his face Now that would be considered torture if most guys didnt consider it a turnonbr br The tagline is What if the attack could have been stopped By this movies account and we presume according to the Commission Report the CIA and other underground agencies were all set to capture bin Laden and didnt Everyone involved with the terrorism reports you mean you actually read these reports is so concerned we just want to slap them for their bad actingbr br Yet the whole story goes so much deeper than the banal soundbytes the negligent Ku Bush Klan foisted on the American people after 911 We now know that even capturing bin Laden before the 911 attack would not have changed or achieved anything the wheels were in motion with or without that Taliban figurehead whose involvement was the possible figment of someones fevered imagination to unite America against a common enemy Contrary to popular belief they didnt attack us As Ron Paul tried to elucidate it was a case of Middle Eastern blowback they were so sick of America planting their infidel feet over there that they brought the war over here So though George W Death likes to tout the nonsensical Were fighting them over there so we wont have to fight them over here in reality Because were Over There the fight has been brought Over Here br br The 911 attack was not so much about the intricate planning of terrorists as it was the gross negligence of the Bush administration who we know without the probing of Commissions had all the intel from the Clinton administration onwards information about terrorist cells reaching critical mass and their intent to cause chaos But the Oil Idiot of Texas who refused to read his Daily Briefings and would rather vacation at his Crawford ranch than spend one extra day at work abrogated the duty he swore an oath to perform protect the American publicbr br And then the scum who called himself president used the attacks brought about by his negligence as a political hammer against his own dumbeddown countryfolk to score a second term shred the American Constitution and take America into a Fake War on the basis of a lie WMD with a country that had nothing to do with the 911 attacks Strangely enough the movie never treads near the Ku Bush Klan offering no opinion or judgment Leigh Scott wanting to remain neutral Tell that to the raped and pillaged hundreds of thousands in the Fake War on Terror in Iraqbr br Out of pure coincidence I realized I was watching this DVD while wearing my Bush lied Thousands Died tshirt

Only in the Hollywood audiovisual fiction world could anybody including FBI agents be so unbelievably stupid The good guys are stupid enough to pick up everything theyre interested in answer phones go up stairways all in search for a demolition expert whos out to get everybody Oh yes and then we get the Hollywood SUPERVILLAIN He can be shot even if hes got a vest on and then fall down a long flight of steps and then still have the upper hand over his stupid pursuers Every clich you can think of in suspense movies were used I only watched it because Yuki Amami is so HOT Ohbut yes its great to see how morally superior this FBI agent is when shes pretty certain that theres a bomb in an Opera House and she doesnt sound the alarm Who writes these scripts

Abe Zwick perfected the oneoff beautifully He never made another film but created a brilliant portrait of homosexual selfhatred in this film that is both caustic and affecting He commands the screen presenting the crumbling debris of a man breaking down under the strain of an increasingly meaningless life br br Paul Zwick is an aging queen whos somehow convinced Stanley Wayne Crawford a doeeyed idiot with no sense of the future to follow his star Hes a petty thief whos seething hatred has escalated recently Hes been forced to skip town and move to a suburb in Miami As a disguise he dresses up like a dried up old bluestocking with as much seething sexual torment as the Church Lady He tells Stanley to tell his friends that he lives with his Aunt Martha Paul himself has no friends spends far too much time alone in the house and has to deal with Stanleys dissolute lifestyle It would be enough to make any man cross the line into transgendered homicidal mania br br Again Zwick portrays Paul as a tragic figure who has utterly lost any understanding of how to relate to other people Nevertheless there is a certain poetry in his anguish which burns slowly over the course of the film Hes tragic but also elegant This is ultimately a very sad film It certainly has many hilarious moments but there is such an undercurrent of hopelessness and despair that the humour is bittersweet This film is worth watching for the performance of Abe Zwick He could have really built his career on Martha Shes quite a gas once you get to know her Just make sure you cut your hair and stop your horsing around She really hates that

Anemic comedydrama an unhappy seemingly rushed affair featuring Cher as a woebegone housewife who slowly makes friends with the hitman whos been hired to kill her by her husband Chazz Palminteri as the talkative hired gun adapted the screenplay from his own play with stagy setups and backandforth dialogue that quickly tires the eye and ear An air of gloom hangs over the entire project and director Paul Mazursky cant get Cher out of her perpetual funk shes listless Despite all the top talent including Robert De Niro as one of the producers Faithful is fraudulent with no substance to the story and characters who rarely come to life 12 from

SOME SPOILERSbr br Theres nothing in this movie that you havent already seen browsing the net Nothing is shocking about this film In the film a man sodomizes a goat theres a bulldozer decapitation and a lesbians face gets burnt off All of these scenes of extreme violence are so fake it makes one wonder why anyone would even want to resurface this piece of trash I simply cannot believe I spent hard earned money on what certainly has to be the worst film ever made Dont let reviews fool you this film would be a shame for ANYONE to ownexcept maybe prisons who want to torture inmates For a REAL exploitation classic look to Bloodsucking Freaks or even the more recent Doom Generation Island of Death sinks to the bottom of the movie toilet and needs to be flushed out of existence

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHEN DOES THE HURTING STOP Thats what I said somewhere between the beginning and that other part of the movie that really sucked This film nearly sapped all the life out of me and I have sat through some really bad movies Coming from a true Puppet Master fan I would expect to hear myself say this but its true The plot is inane the special effects awful the sound track the most benawl infernal tootling I have ever heard Oh I almost forgot about the acting it was so bad that I forgot it was there at all nuff said The only redeeming factor in the film is the puppets themselves they truly are the stars and could outact all but Guy Rolfe himselfhe is the puppetmasterand although you can see their wires and strings they carry me throughout the painful start to finish of RetroPuppet Master In closing PM7 is recomended for true fanatics who happen to be masochistsbr br Roachbr br

I loved this movie It is a definite inspirational movie It fills you with pride This movie is worth the rental or worth buying It should be in everyones home Best movie I have seen in a long time It will make you mad because everyone is so mean to Carl Brashear but in the end it gets better It is a story of romance drama action and plenty of funny lines to keep you tuned in I love a lot of the quotes I use them all the time They help keep me on task of what I want to do It shows that anyone can achieve their dreams all they have to do is work for it It is a long movie but every time I watch it I never notice that it is as long as it is I get so engrossed in it that it goes so quick I love this movie I watch it whenever I can

This movie earned every one of the ten votes I gave it Thank you guys for making a movie worth watching You showed the worldyou can still write direct produce and star in a black movie without the negative stereotypes The poetry was awesome as well hats off to the poets and musiciansbr br I watched it last night as I fell in love with my darling all over again I will be adding it to my movie collection today and recommending it to my friends and familybr br Please continue to produce quality dont worry about the quantitybr br Thank you again and best wishes and blesses to you

If you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie If you are young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom liked itbr br Great Camp

Cavemen was by far the biggest load of crap I have ever wasted my time watching This show based on the Geico commercials is less entertaining then an actual 30 sec ad for Geico The makeup was half assed to say the least hard to imagine a caveman with prefect white teeth even after going to the dentist This show could of had potential for a funny series if they could of gotten the cast from the commercials that in it self makes for a lousy show Perhaps if the writers were the same from the Geico ads this may of had a chance instead the pilot lacked a good story line I give this show a 1 out of 10 I would of liked to put a zero out of 10 but that was not an option I pray for a quick death to this show Id give it less then 5 episodes before it dies a deserving death

The Student Nurses is an excellent film that deals with four women bonded by friendship and career For the first time one is able to see a realistic portrayal of relationships inside the work place outside the work place the risks of those relationships and the consequences This film also offers a rare chance to see veteran stage and television actress Katherine Scottie MacGregor as the nurses instructor Miss Boswell Ms MacGregor is best known for her performance as Mrs Oleson on the television series Little House on the Prairie The direction music and print color are very good as well as the opening theme song performed by Clancy B Grass III This film offers a rare opportunity for those who enjoy themes centered around the late 1960s and early 1970s which offers a softer side to life while appreciating the beauty of the female sex

This is a brilliant series along the same lines of Simpsons Following a family as they go through life and problems etc Slightly less realistic than Simpsons talking baby and dog anyone Family Guy goes where SImpsons or Futurama dares not reaching past into the sicker jokes and more racy gags And believe me it works Almost all the gags hit the mark and theyll have you in stitchesespecially the random frequent flashbacks When my brother first showed me this I wasnt hooked but after a few episodes I was hooked You will be 2 1010 for a truly brilliant show COngrats to Seth Macfarlane for bringing this show to life

Cyclone is a piece of dreck with little redeeming value even on the so bad its entertaining front A friend of mine took the tape from an overflowing St Vincent DePaul clothes bin Okay that may be a little bit dodgy but it was meant to be a clothes bin not a crappy old VHS bin something the less fortunate members of our society dont really need to make their lives better It could be considered a mercy Watching a movie like Cyclone would really only add to their problems Anyway the basic premise of a woman with a superpowerful motorcycle that it armed to the teeth with rockets and lasers isnt even properly exploited The two high speed chase sequences involve vehicles travelling at less than hair raising speeds of around 40 KMPH and a superfast motorcycle that is in danger of being overtaken by a crappy old station wagon is not that awe inspiring when you get down to it There is only one scene where the bikes goofy weaponry is used at the films climax and it is laughably ineffectual or just laughable when it is This includes laser beams that look like they should be coming out of the hands of an evil wizard in a cheesy eighties sword and sorcery that produced large bursts of flame which seem to have no noticeable effect on their targets even when they hit directly The rest of the movie is just tedious hard to watch filler Lots of bad actors yes even Combs and Landau suck in this most of whom seem like they have been lifted from the set of a porno movie stand around exchanging really bad dialogue in a desperate attempt to pus forward the barely coherent plot There are a few badly staged fight sequences and some excruciatingly unfunny comic relief scenes with some cops and the owner of the motor cycle repair shop Comedy of the sub Benny Hill horny old man cant stop staring at the female leads chest variety Basically the money scenes involving the bike actually doing stuff are few and lame and the rest is clunky filler material Skip it

I go to blockbuster pick out a random movie got this and yeahbr br This was a good sexual porno the quality kind of sucked and it kind of gave me a damn headache To me this movie was good for its sexual things but not as much for the horror and suspense It was magicalbr br The suspense not as good as I would have expected I wanted to be at the edge of my seat hoping to jump up in fear but instead I lay down on the couch and didnt see muchbr br The quality not really good at all I mean if you pay close attention during when the people are on the COLD mountains their barely wearing anything It doesnt make much sense toobr br So if your looking for a crap not really suspenseful and a pretty much sexual movie youve got this

Yep lots of shouting screaming cheering arguing celebrating fist clinching high fiving fighting You have a general idea as to why but can never be 100 certain A naval knowledge would be an advantage for the finer points but then youd probably spot the many flaws Not an awful film Hackman Washington are their usual brilliant but the plot was one you could peg pretty early on Im still waiting to see a submarine film where people get on with each other dont argue but then you probably wouldnt have a filmbr br 410

This is one of those movies that you happen across when youre channel surfing on a Saturday afternoon and you get drawn into it and end up watching the whole thing I thought that it was well acted and it really made me feel for the characters Though its a bit slow moving focusing more on the relationships between Bonnie and Clyde and their family members it never got boring We dont really see too much of all the robberies that they were so legendary for and instead most of the shootouts take place when theyre ambushed by the police I thought Tracey Needham who played Bonnie really did a good job with her character Going from a nice country girl to a coldblooded killer is a challenging thing to portray and I enjoyed the subtlety she brought to the rolebr br Overall an above average effort especially considering it was a made for TV movie

I frequently comment on the utter dirth of truly scary movies on the market and sadly White Noise only served to reduce my faith that the film industry remains capable of such an endeavor I was surprised to find myself growingly increasingly fatigued as the plot wore on and my staticinduced headache increased I found White Noise to be preposterous beyond our best efforts of suspension of disbelief Even after witnessing the harrowing ordeal sustained by Michael Keaton I was totally unaffected by his demise Up until the credits I diligently awaited for somethinganything of substance to connect me to the characters story but such relief never came Sure there were the occasional heartstopper moments but only because loud noises tend to do that to the dozing viewerbr br While the acting was lame Michael Keaton may have played his studliest role to date Perhaps the only redeeming quality that White Noise has to offer is the stunning archietecture in both of Keatons abodes Overall White Noise leaves one with the morbidly depressing idea that those who die are trapped in a world guarded by three malicious shadows contriving to trick the living into following the dead to their own graves

This is a really silly job of miscastingabout as bad as Hepburn playing a Chinese woman in DRAGON SEED The lead part Hepburn plays is a combination of Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies and a faith healer This film is even worse than Bogarts Swing Your Lady because at least Bogart didnt play a hillbillyhe was just surrounded by them And the dialog sounds as if it comes right from a Lil Abner strip The problems dont really end with the outrageous casting though as the plot is completely muddled and the love story might make your head hurt For no reason WHATSOEVER married Robert Young falls for this Ozark bobcat Was it her lovely personality that won his heart I doubt it as she as the fiery spitfire the movie was named after and she really seemed to like fightin and scrappin and hollerin Was it her feminine charms With no makeup and fashions that looked like they were designed by Ma Kettle I doubt if this was the case as well To top this off in the end somehow Ralph Bellamy also fell for her though once again it really doesnt seem to make ANY sensebr br So here we have two city fellers fallin for a scrappy unfeminine shebeast played by Ms Hepburnnow THATS a recipe for a good film

I need help identifying an episode of King of Queens It begins with a scene where Doug is talking to Carrie on the phone and he suggests that they agree to stop ending every conversation with I love you However its hard to do and he ends up calling her back only to close with I love you Its a very clever moment and one I think says a lot about relationships that have lasted a long timebr br I THINK but Im sure thats its the same episode where Doug gets some local construction guys to whistle and throw lurid comments at Carrie to perk her spirits upbr br I saw this episode recently but it was probably a repeat Dont know what network I saw it on Can anyone tell me the title and season of this episode

By God its been a long time since I saw this Probably about 18 years agobr br The movie tells us kids all about human blood and the circulatory system Very professionally put togetherDisneystyle animation plus human actorsit was directed by Frank Capra for petes sakebr br Kind of an overkill I wonder if the very high production value is worth what amounts to a filmstrips worth of information on the human body But boy will those kids watching it learn even now I can clearly remember Dr Baxter being challenged by Hemo himself to name what common material most resembles human blood to which the Doctor immediately answers sea water

To say this film stinks would be insulting to skunks As the other commenter says this movie is insulting to anyone over the mental age of 7 it is especially incredibly insulting to gays It is awful and not in a so bad its funny sort of way either its just plain awful No I have to say it IT STINKS sorry skunksbr br From the opening credits to the end titles there is hardly more than 10 seconds of this movie worth opening your eyes for The plot is incoherent the characterization nonexistent the acting is of the over the top mugging look at me Im being funny school and so it goes on The set pieces are clumsily set up if at all and are badly executed its just awful on every front apart from the music maybe I dont remember thinking the music stinks apart from the songsbr br To be fair to the makers they lay their cards on the table pretty quickly the opening credits include the title Also starring Ertha Kitt as the voice of Betty the meteor since as the meteor in question turns out never never say anything but make an occasional purring noise they may well have lifted Ms Kitts contribution from one of her records and the second line of the movie runs something like and scientists have discovered new facts about the rings around Uranus Uranus Your Anus geddit geddit huh huh Your Anus The humour really is that cheapbr br It says strange things about the comedies of that period in that it was perfectly permissable for the hero to deliberately shoot people dead in the street but not say sht out loudbr br I paid fifty pence about 100 for this movie in a sale I feel ripped off

I thought this was a beautiful movie very brave Such beautiful imageryand I liked the use of breaking glasses w applause Also how the best friend repeated the line about and shes one year older than me showed that their friendship has rekindled and grown but maybe some competition is lefti loved the footage of hands feeling the fabric The dance concert was beautiful The beginning seemed slow thoughit took awhile to feel for the charactersthe husband could have been more abusivehe just seemed absent so when other characters talked about himit didnt really fit The affair btwn the best friend and husband seemed randomthe doctors meeting seemed to hint that there was not much time leftto live so when the infidelity was revealed I didnt feel as much sympathy for the charactermore like relief the ending was so great the lines btwn her and the husband and the scene where she is pulled over is brilliant

Millie is a sap She marries a rich guy named Maitland and they have a child She then catches him cheating on her and divorces himbut lets him keep the kid she claims to love Back then in the early 1930s she would have been entitled to hefty spousal and child support but lets the guy off amazingly easywith no supportwhat a sap Later when she has a boyfriend and life seems pretty good he turns out to ALSO be a cheat Wow does she have a hard time picking menbr br As a result of these bad relationships Millie changes Now shes a wild party girldoing everything she can to distract herself from her hard luck Suddenly many years pass Millies daughter who she left early on in the film is now 17 and oddly fashions havent changed one bit An old friend of Millies yes its another evil man is now pretending to be the daughters friend but he has lecherous designs on her Millie promises him that if he touches the girl shell kill him Take a wild guess what happens next br br Overall the film is a confusing and often bizarre messa bit like Madam X but much much less focused So often Millies motivations and actions seem to make little sense And the film seems to have a little of everything tossed into itso long as it substantiates the notion that all men are pigs Unusual but not particularly good

George Scott gave the performance of a lifetime in Paddy Chayefskys THE HOSPITAL a very dark drama about an aging big city hospital and a middleaged physician on the verge of suicide Along comes Diana Rigg as a free spirit determined to save him from himself Their dialog crackles and it is clear they are made for each other from the outset But will she save him Their one sex scene is both graphic and memorable for its passion and fury Meanwhile the hospital is under siege by a group of agitators who dont want it to turn a condemned building into a cancer center And a serial killer is loose in the hospital specializing in doctors and nurses A good part of the movie though is squarely focused on Scott As it should be What a difference a few years made back when this movie was made 1962 had given us THE INTERNS a hokey oldfashioned reworking of DR KILDARE with terrible acting and a cardboard script Along came 1971 and THE HOSPITAL Less than 10 years later Hollywood did something right for a change Watching THE HOSPITAL today is a reminder of how much medical shows like ST ELSEWHERE and SCRUBS owe to this enduring classic And if THE HOSPITAL reminds you of NETWORK it should Same scripter

I came here for a review last night before deciding which TV movie to settle in front of and those I found made this one look unmissable How misled I feelbr br Firstly it needs to be pointed out up front that this is very much a housewifes daytime movie The performances are wooden every sentence is an attempt at poignant in the way that housewifes daytime movies and bad soap operas always are and it is based in that predictable and welltrodden premise that men particularly soldiers are essentially violent and incompassionate The whole movie is about the drama apparent in the moments when the male characters threaten to develop a second dimensionbr br If that sounds tolerable or even enjoyable to you then be warned Linda Hamiltons German accent while quite good is painfully distracting as is her face for some reason The other performances are no doubt an enduring source of embarrassment to their perpetrators with painfully thin and obvious characterizations being the order of the day There are few surprises but do watch for the Monty Pythonesque endless supply of food and drink that miraculously appears from the hungry soldiers knapsacksbr br I wasnt expecting action but I had hoped for beautiful or textural or emotionally charged What I got was a particularly bad Christmas feelgood story that will have an intelligent audience cringing with the crapulence of it allbr br Watch it under the folowing circumstances 1 Theres nothing else on 2 You are a fan of predictable housewife takes on men and wins TV movies 3 The only way you can appreciate a true story is when Hollywood turns it into a feature film 4 Youve imbibed enough nog that your emotions are easily stirred by unsophisticated storytelling

A holiday on a boat a married couple an angry waiter and a shipwreck is the reason to this films beginningbr br I like boobs No question about that But when the main character allies with whoever happens to have the most fish at the moment mostly by having sex with them and playing the role of the constant victim my anger just rises to a whole new level Take two guys a husband and another man put a pure bombshell woman in the middle of them ad a deserted island subtract all her moral issues ad a whole bunch of moral issues to the men and mix it in a big bowl of arguments fish and a zippo lighter and you will come up with a piece of junk movie like this br br The acting is I would say good There are some bloopers but not many as far as i could see The main female character makes me sick This is due to her lack of moral values The man with the most fish gets her attention Even though one of them is her husband she sees no problem with being unfaithful with Manuel the other man because I must do it to survive How can you justify having sex with another man for fish when your husband is 30feet away And he wont even benefit from it The female character has absolutely no problems to justify anything that she does If she doesent get approval for her actions shes a victimbr br I recommend everyone to see this movie This is the kind of movie that will make just about everything else you see this year a pleasant movie experience

There needs to be a 010 option for bilge like this br br It was painful to watch but strangely compelling all the same Compelling because it seemed unbelievable that a movie could actually suck this much I kept thinking it must get better It got worse And worse br br How on earth were people conned into producing such a categorical piece of junk Ill never know The most surprising thing of all though is all these reviews I see of people actually loving the movie Yes the acting was good but the movie was very very very bad Worst movie ever

I found this movie at the flea market for cheap I was so psyched because I thought it was a skateboarding movie I got home put it on the previews rules and the opening scene with the old guy rolling down the street on the skateboard was awesome At that moment I realized it was a postapocalyptic movie but I still had high hopes for it This movie was awful A friend of mine was stoned out of his mind when we watched it and even he thought it was horrible and a waste of being high I kept falling asleep during the movie because it was so boring and the music was utterly awful I dont know if during the apocalypse all the good music and all the music that is only kind of crappy is destroyed and everyones memory of how to play it is wiped clean but I think I would rather die than have to endure that crap Also what the hell was up with the TV studio I can only assume that this movie was adapted from an old Greek play with the names and title but some plays are not meant to be adapted into a futuristic scifi setting Or at least not by the people who were involved with this movie If you are forced to watch this movie I can only suggest bringing a hand gun and finishing yourself off before the end It would be a good movie to kill yourself too everyone will understand why

Damien ODonnell has a good track record and in this film he handles a very delicate topic with sensitivity but manages not to let the film turn into schmalzbr br This is a fantastic film its funny with sad bits and it makes you look at things differently Tell everyone you know to go see it now FANTASTICbr br The acting is excellent and Dublin plays a starring role This film will change the way you view people with disabilities and also give you a very entertaining night out in the cinema I cant wait til it comes out on DVD

I saw this one remastered on DVD It had a big picture of Sandra on it and said Starring Sandra and made it seem like she had a big part in it Not so Shes barely in it She does what she can with the script but thats not much br br The sound was awful By that I mean things didnt go together Shots would be fired and the number of shots didnt correspond to the sound People talking in a car while its moving and the shot is from outside the windshield but theres no motor noise road noise or any other sound Kind of weirdbr br Score was awful It sounded like the same few notes over and over Dialog really awful br br Acting was awful I couldnt believe any of it Fight scenes were like a Batman comic without the BIFF and BAM They were really lame The shooting scenes I mean with firearms were laughable literally I fastforwarded through a lot of this movie Even then it was too long

What a joy to watch this family grow up and see the same children acting in this series eight years later Anna Lexi Randall is a beautiful young lady working for a physician in town She is in love with his son Justin who went away in the army and was injured in war And the newest daughter of Jacob and Sarah Cassie is an outspoken cutie so transparently honest she often is embarrassingbr br On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm He is slow to reveal his identity When they find out he is Jacobs father John Witting thought long ago dead hard questions about the past are difficult to get answeredbr br Glenn Close is magnificent as a loving mother who wants only the best for all her family and is constantly wrestling with the forces that tend to separate them Sarah talking to Jacob said Its all so fragile this life Anything can happen in the blink of an eye I could have died in that blizzard Think of Justin and John probably more ill than we know Time moves on The moment passes then its too late Its a shame dont you thinkbr br Life lessons on honesty and forgiveness make this a meaningful evenings entertainment

The movie is boring the characters and scenarios are unrealistic unbelievable the action is hilarious This movie is a big mess It almost seems like when the action music kicks in the most impressive stunt is running Either voice is dubbed over with Mr McGregor or steven sang too much and it changed his voice There is way too much dialog in this movie and extremely bad acting on everyones behalf The movie is great sleep therapy The fighting is laughable The eye shape shift effect on the evil designer drug addict females was decent The main villain was a joke and his character was poorly developed The main villain was used to explain the story through interrogation he would just throw random plots in such as spoiler CTX his designer drugis going to be in the water supply which is never addressed in the conclusion or even mentioned again in the movie This movie is highly recommended to pass

I didnt have many expectation going into the film but I thought it was fantastic Pierce Brosnan is outstanding in a very different role He has dumped the slick armani suits for a ridiculous look and pays off showing that he is an excellent actor Pierce and Greg Kinnear play off each other great and make for one of the better buddy pairings in a long time The humor is dark the performances by Brosnan Kinnear and Hope Davis are great mix that with a touching element to the story about friendship and you have a great film This is probably one of the better buddy comedies in a long time This is a film that definitely shows that we can expect great things in the postBond era of Brosnans career

One word suPURRRRb I dont think I have see anything like this in a long time on network or cable television Watching this show was like taking a breath of fresh air amid TV schedule filled with reality shows and boring reruns br br I have to say I had my reservations After all critics were almost unanimous in crying foul and downgrading the show But when half an hour was over by the way thank you NBC for running a commercialfree show I was left with the feeling of instant love love at first glance the true love that one feels in his guts Everything about this show screamed EXCELLENCEbr br Graphics in this show were at least as good as Finding Nemo and Shrek No small feat considering those movies took years to be developedbr br Cast was marvelous I am partial to John Goodmans voice but the rest of the team certainly were on par with John Special mention Lisa Kudrows guest appearance She was on top of the game creating neurotic pudgy and lovable panda with a Jewish streak in her Panda from Brooklyn Only in this show br br Script was funny with a lot of inside and adult jokes which were sharp yet not tacky A note for all parents this is NOT for children This show was never advertised as such and theres a reason why its set for 9PM not 8PM So if youd like to complain about objectionable context save your breath Adults deserve a comedy made just for them and Father of the Pride is it br br Not everything was perfect I was a bit puzzled by Siegfried and Roys characters Do I sense stereotype when it comes to them Yes they are gay Yes they are flamboyant Yes they speak with German accents But thats yesterdays news Give us something new something fresh something funny Putting the old jokes in a new show is definitely the wrong approach I understand that the creators of this show wanted to use the star power that these guys have Thats fine by me But please dont dwell on something everybody already knows by heart Hopefully the rest of the show is not going to play the same old record over and over br br In general the show is definitely a MustSeeTV Funny witty with a few unexpected twists here and there there havent been a comedy this good since Seinfeld I am certainly looking forward to the next episode

This film launched my theory about films based on books Instead of following the cliche Youve read the book now see the film if you are looking for a good book to read try one upon which a movie you like was based because itll be 10 times betterbr br I saw this film on its initial release at the National Theater in downtown Eugene and liked it so much that I stayed to see it again Its a perfect merger of the inspiring talents of one of my favorite actors Jon Voight with what became my favorite book The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroybr br I can think of no better movie about the nobility of teaching and the ironic challenges of life Two tiny caveatsbr br 1 The video suffers severely from panandscan and deserves a letterbox version 2 The title should be restored to the name of the book a reference to one of the most touching enigmatic songs ever written

And the title says it all a cheesy sounding title that is a cheesy sounding joke of a film known as Alien from LA Why not just call it Alien from South Africa as this is the place where this movie was filmed My advice for watching movies that have been featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 do not watch the original version of the movie at all Period Always watch the movie with the theater shadow at the bottom of the screen with a man trapped in space with his two funny wisecracking robot friends sitting at the lower right hand corner of the screen It just seems better that waybr br Movie as it was originally seen Awful Movie as it was seen on MST3K Genius

This has to be one of the all time greatest horror movies Charles Band made the best movie of 96 in this little seen gem Highly realistic and incredibly stylised with a visual flair David Fincher would envy its not hard to see why Band went on to make such classics as Killjoy 2 Deliverance From Evil The Regina Pierce Affair Virgins of Sherwood Forest and Timegate Tales of the Saddle Trampsbr br With a highly sophisticated story a tiny body with a large head controls a family of weirdos who perform experiments on naked women this movie may be a bit too much for younger viewers and is only for the most educated type of viewer but for those who see it Band is able to convey subtle messages about the human condition through his masterpiece The head is symbolic of the lost love and longing for ones inner self that we all must face at one point or another and for this reason i was able to engage with this film on a deeply personal level Although many earlier critics have compared Bands film to Reanimator and other lesser works this stands head and heels above the rest It is gorier but not pointlessly The gore in this film is well crafted and used to enhance the storyline rather than to just get a cheap shriek out of the audience Also the special effects in this film are absolutely top notch easily the best work done in a horror film since well ever The work in this film makes Savinis effects look like the work of a blind limbless hobobr br The only problem i have with this film is the copious amounts of full frontal nudity which were ultimately unnecessary in achieving the composers goal to create a timeless epic that would forever go down in history as possibly the greatest film of all time If it were not for this slight problem i would have given this film a perfect 10

So Fox pulled the plug midway through a dramamysterybr br How lame is that Do they expect us to invest our time in their new shows when there is a realistic risk of never finding out what happens Why werent the remaining already filmed episodes aired in the US They were broadcast elsewherebr br Hey Fox Are you listening This was a great show but you left us hanging If youre going to introduce new dramamysteries at least air a conclusion before abruptly ending midtheme Every time something like this happens and it seems to happen a lot with you ie Fox there are more of those who will wait and see before investing their time This means you will see an artificially low interest share and are more likely to end the series See It is a vicious cycle Dont let us down again

Flat SPOILERS br br Five med students Nelson Kiefer Sutherland David Labraccio Kevin Bacon Rachel Mannus Julia Roberts Joe Hurley William Baldwin Randy Steckle Oliver Platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly 5 minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damagebr br Almost everyone does this experiment Randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors David sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him Joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the TV Screen Rachel relives her fathers suicide and Nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentionsbr br Why are they here And how will they get rid of them This tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a Gothic Med School is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by thenbudding stars such as Kiefer Sutherland Julia Roberts Oliver Platt Kevin Bacon and William Baldwinbr br The director is Joel Schumacher who had already worked with Sutherland in Lost Boys and this second cooperation is even better than the firstbr br A must for psychologicalthrillerhorror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the 80s that get respect even today like the mention by Rebecca Gayheart in Scream 2 or the Tru Calling episode which used the movies premisebr br Flatliners 910

This film is about a grieving wife who lost her husband through suicide She is tormented by her son who refused to speak after thatbr br Child grief is rarely explored on film so it is refreshing to see a film like Addisons Wall However due to the very nature of the film there is no tension or drama Apart from a few key emotional moments everything in the film is very plain The abrupt ending that does not solve any mysteries certainly do not help the film to be more watchable Addisons Wall could have been much better such as exploration of the contents of the wall a more intensive care program to help Addison to go through his trauma Instead the film feels very unfinished and non engaging

I have never watched a movie in so little time The only salvation was the fast forward function on the DVD unit It was like watching a poorly produced CBC film There was obviously no money for lighting filming sets location scriptwriters editors actors Oh there was absolutely no story either I need to write ten lines of comment Bad awful horrible wretched anguishing tortuous bilious nauseous sickening fromage disgusting flimsy icky yucky pukey stinky smelly vile putrid allthumbsdown and I dont know if I can keep on going to complete all ten lines of just how bad this piece of crapomatic production was

Every once in awhile Ill remember that Ive actually seen this bizarre fiasco thats a cross between Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Sunset Boulevard the Lana Turner LSD movie The Big Cube and the Manson murders which also took place in 1969 but maybe before this socalled movie was made There are some descriptions of the plot already here so I wont go into it But its worth noting that Miriam Hopkins plays a parody of herself a chattering egomaniacal fading actress Perhaps she thought she was making a movie that would be as successful as one of the Bette Davis horrors The old gal Hopkins never stopped working so you have to hand it to her She shows a little too much flesh in this movie something Davis and Crawford would never have done And theres a scene with Miriam in the actual tacky Hollywood Boulevard Christmas parade which must have been filmed Xmas 1968br br Gale Sondergard is old old old Its just shocking how wrinkled and awful she looks John Garfield Jr looks a bit like his father but not as interesting I think one of the Three Stooges is the tour guide at the beginning If its not one of the Stooges its somebodybr br I was astounded to come across this thing in the form of a commercial videotape given to me by a friend who knows all about junk like this Its amazing

I hated this movie so much I remember it vividly It is not even funny Any movie that relies on unfunny sex jokes and racism humor does not deserve the money it costs to make it In the first half hour Rob Schneider drinks a carton of rancid milk All I could think was he deserves it for making such a bad movie Dont waste your time or money on this one

I dont see the point Its ponderous The animated people are creepy look up uncanny valley Scenes go on and on and on for very little purpose The plot is skeletal and must be padded out with lots of meaningless dramatic screaming roller coaster rides as if Disney or Spielberg were planning an amusement park ride based on the movie Most of the characters are annoying and unlikeable Some of them keep showing up as if they will have something important to add to a climactic scene They dont They just vanish with no lasting impact Somebody summed it up as if you dont believe in Santa Claus youll be kidnapped on a train on Christmas eve That pretty much sums it up

This feels very stilted and patronizing to a great extent The whole plot is extremely forced especially the gallant effort to save the college from ruin and the moralistic overtone especially by the leading lady grates a bitbr br But there are one or two comic moments that do help relieve the boredom and the dancing is quite fun especially for alleged amateurs ha habr br The shop proprietor and the young guy doing spectacular tap dancing were particular highlights And I liked Peter Hayes impressions of Charles Laughton and Ronald Coleman as well

I have no idea what the budget on this movie was but whatever it was they made it work I have seen movies that spend 100x the amount Pearl Harbor anyone and sucked 200x worse This movie has everything David Makin It Naughton in the lead role as Adam an average college student who gets wrapped up in a game called the Great AllNighter run by Leon This guy rocks A genius with nothing better to do than come up with an elaborate game for a bunch of people to play But he doesnt just pick his friends He has a team of Jocks nerds fatties average kids and of course Flounders team who are the bad guys But this movie has no black and white There are many shades of gray Adam is not the altruistic hero with no faults He treats Alex P like crap AND Flounder is the way he is because of pressures from his Dad and a cranky stomach The jocks play dirty but so does everyone else This movie rocks The scene at the PBR factory Classic Johnnys Obese Male Child Can you write a better clue This stuff is gold Jerry GOLD Maybe I am from a different generation but I love movies that seem farfetched but still have roots in reality This never happenedbut it could EeeeeGypt EEEEEaster BunnyEaster Parade Oh and watch for a young Paul Rubens still working on that Pee wee character PS That Devra Clinger WASis HOT She must have been one bad actress not to work in Hollywood anymore SEE THIS MOVIE

This was painful I made myself watch it until the end even though I had absolutely no interest in the plot if there was one My patience was not rewarded The ending was even worse than the rest of the film Chucky walks into the hospital with a priest and his concubine says I do How vile can one movie be

This is Clive Barkers masterpiece in my opinion The movie has a great storyline and some amazing makeup and effects The one thing I would love to see happen is a sequel The movie was set up for a sequel and with improved technology the second movie could be incredible David Cronenberg must appear in a sequel as well as Craig Sheffer But this particular movie was a great original creative and entertaining idea and I could watch it over and over again Cronenberg was perfect in this movie and Sheffer added an interesting spice to the film

the writing of the journalists and the required over eager reckless press officer and sobbing grandma was hamfisted and clich riddenbr br I cant blame the actors but surely someone must have said are you joking I cant say thisbr br This episode had a press perspective and police perspective while the police perspective was standard enough the press perspective and characterization was overdrawn exaggerated and at points insultingly unbelievablebr br I notice that this was an HBO co production if so then perhaps the sledgehammer stereotypes can be explained in that lightbr br I was completely cringing during the press conference scene it lacked any credibility and did not remotely ring true 40 minutes into the first episode and I am still waiting for the suspensebr br Skip Five Daysthis the 20089 production with these characters is far better and more suspenseful even if the crime is over the topbr br This story had unforgivable moments which can only be described as staggeringly unbelievablebr br For a press officer to start a press conference without an investigating officer present to take press questionsbr br so unbelievable it felt like amateur hourbr br I then began looking for Journalists called Scoop and for Perry White to make an appearancebr br I saw the 2009 Hunter before five daysmade it to Australia not realizing it was a prequel and was looking forward to Bonneville and McTeer going around againbr br Head shakingly awful

I will start by saying I have always been a Bonnie Hunt fan She always adds life to any character she plays and she did a wonderful job in her directorial debutbr br I have to admit this is a chick flick But keeping that in mind it is a wonderful story it touches on many emotions and elicits all sorts of reactionsbr br This film depicts real life like people with real life like situations Tho I have to exclude the coincidence that is the major part of the filmbr br Its a love story not just of a man and a woman but the love of family friends and loved ones past Even petsbr br I really enjoyed it Well worth the rental or the purchase

Its like someone took a fantasytype video game and put it in a blender and the resulting scene mishmash is what we have to sit throughbr br Now let me go on record by saying how much I love Chinese fantasy films From the fun and silly to those focusing on martial arts to the more dramatic and romantic typesits a genre I very much enjoy Films like A Chinese Odyssey Pandoras Box and A Chinese Odyssey Cinderella both of which were written andor directed by Jeffrey Lau The Bride with White Hair Butterfly Sword Green Snake A Chinese Ghost Story Swordman II Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and others Which is why I was looking forward to A Chinese Tall Story One of the films characters is the Monkey King aka Sun Wukong an extremely wellknown character in Chinese mythology first told in the stories of the Journey to the West the epic adventure written about 500 years ago The story of the Monkey King and his disciples is also the focus of the Chinese Odyssey films amongst many others Other familiar characters that appear in the film are Zhu Wuneng the pig character and Sha Wujingbr br So how does it all go wrong Well lets take an example familiar to Western audiences How about the Robin Hood mythology A well known story from ye olden days Lets say that our Robin Hood film starred Wesley Snipes as Robin Hood and Haley Joel Osment as Friar Tuck Maid Marian is none other than Rosie Perez Lets give Sir Robin an Uzi as well because you never know when you might have to waste the Sheriff of Nottingham They might need rocket packs also and while were at it give them a tactical nuclear weapon because that sure could come in handy If you think this sounds like a really neat retelling of the Robin Hood tale then A Chinese Tall Story is the movie for you As I indicated above this movie is a jumbled mess In the first 30 minutes we are introduced not only to Sun Wukong Zhu Wuneng and Sha Wujing but also to the monk Tripitaka who is actually the main protagonist kidnapped children a millennium bug demon which shoots laser beams an underground Tree God a lizard imp tribe an angelic girl in an intergalactic egg the Lord Chancellor Tortoise a Sea Dragon King a evermorphing magic golden staff a chatterbox imp girl wormholes in space and the Four Heavenly Knights All this wouldnt be too badthe tales and myths passed down over the years certainly do have all sorts of fantastical elements But I guarantee you the Chinese mythology does not include much of the stuff we get subjected to in the last half of the film Helpful advice to the filmmakers Just because your computer effects guys CAN come up with cool looking spaceships and depictions of intergalactic war does not mean they SHOULDbr br You know your Chinese mythology movie is on the wrong track when the director asks and I am not making this upits a direct quote from the commentary I asked the composer whether or not we can have a more rockandroll type music when she transforms into some kind of androidlike thing Is there a story hidden in here somewhere Yes Yes there is Most of the adventure follows Tripitaka played by Nicholas TseGenX Cops Time and Tide My Schoolmate the Barbarian and Meiyan the lizard imp girl played by Charlene Choi and a computer Choi is the best thing going in this film You may know her as half of the Cantopop group Twins and from other films such as The Twins Effect a fun flick and Just One Look a surprisingly good dramaromancecomedy Poor Choi being a lizard imp and all is hardly recognizable with her warts snagged out teeth doughy nose and hunched back That is until the computers get a hold of and beautify her which somehow makes it worse Tse is passable but all of the supporting actors were abysmal A couple of recognizable faces in bit parts are wastedbr br At one point I was debating with myself if A Chinese Tall Story was a spoof I was almost able to convince myself that it was when the intergalactic egg girl played by a very pretty Fan BingBing got out and lit up a Marlboro while talking with Tripitaka who was practicing martial arts dressed in a SpiderMan costume But it is not a spoof Of course there is the typical Hong Kong silliness but the movie takes itself seriously enough with enough scenes of romance and pathos scored with a sledghammering of violins and evocative cellos and rousing action and adventurebr br You might think that you could watch this on a Netflix rental and it wouldnt cost you anything Oh but itll cost you all rightbr br Is there anything good to say Sure The colors are vibrant they are the best thing about this movie And the filmmakers certainly were trying very hard Too bad all that effort went into a movie that is not much more than a bad video game

This was Barbra Streisands first television special and is must see viewing for any Streisand fan Even nonStreisand fans will enjoy this highly energetic and entertaining piece of entertainment history Performers like this only come our way once in a lifetime Brilliant

As a CA resident Id like to see the jackholes who were shutting down the electricity plants to raise the prices get some jail time too br br I thought the movie was pretty good and has some very informative pieces While they stuck to how Enron rose and crashed I found it really interesting However when the movie focused on its antiBush slant it made me wonder if they were really being accurate br br Its fine to point out any connection the Republicans had to Enron but the monster was created while Clinton was president The CA energy crisis happened under Daviss watch Both were in office during Enrons abuses but neither are held accountable in any way Rather many minutes are spent on how Bush was friends with Lay So what Lay played golf with Clinton and spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom Why are Democrats given such a free pass in this film I think most politicians are a waste of our taxpayer money so Im not partial to either party but I hate feeling like Im subject to someones political agenda when I watch a documentary Yes politicians deserve some blame but I really doubt that the only guilty ones have Rs after their names I found no value in portraying the Bushs as Kaylovers when Democrats received just as much Enron campaign money as Republicans did Like I said it weakens the rest of the film for me because it makes me suspicious of the rest of the facts they lay out

First of all no one with any law enforcement experience Not ER or EMT but real law enforcement takes this show seriously Walker would be drummed out of any police force in the US for his illegal and totally unprofessional tactics On top of that he is a comic book characterno acting ability incredibly trite lines no character development The fact that Alex Cahill loves him shows just how dumb blondes really are And Trivett is the ultimate clown in blackface Come onif you think Walker is a heartfelt show without bias then explain why JT is treated as a dolt always is the subject of Walkers jokes never is allowed to be the one to solve the crime and never rescues Walker who should be dead 50 times over for the stupid things he does While it may be true that many criminals are even dumber than the detectives who go after them and believe me most cops are dumber than dirt the smart ones Walker comes up against never seem to get the point that once Walker is captured the jerk needs to be put of his misery But then again Norris produced the show as well as starred in it so how could he willingly get rid of himself or even show how stupid his tactics are As if six guys are going to wait around to take him one at a time What a terrible series It is more demeaning than any of the hokey westerns like The Lone Ranger Roy Rogers The Cisco Kid and Wild Bill Hickock though I would imagine that most of you on here are far too young to remember those shows But like those shows in the same way as those shows Walker TR is just as insulting and just plain silly

Blue Desert may have had the potential to be even a halfway plausible and more enjoyable thriller had the main character Lisa Roberts Courtney Cox not been so stupid When she is the victim of another attack on the streets of New York comic book artist Roberts moves to a small town out West In her first days there she meets the suspiciously crazy Randall Atkins Craig Sheffer playing this part well who will eventually not leave her side Fearing for her safety after having been in the situation already twice before she strikes up a friendship and relationship with the suspiciously amicable town cop Steve Smith DB Sweeny whos character does not seem convincing enough leaving disbelief among viewers who should otherwise be convinced of the red herrings thrown by the writers Smith needs Roberts cooperation because as he tells her Atkins is an excon and guilty of sexual assault But the cops have lacked the evidence to put him away beforebr br The movie had enough ploys to at least make an interesting movie because soon enough there is such confusion as to whom Roberts should trust However much of the intended suspense appears too forced because Roberts character never seems to react to simple things as we think any reasonable person might And her delayed responses allow much of that suspense to occur to easily and unconvincingly particularly in the finale Perhaps Sweeny was the wrong choice for this role too baby faced in ways that kind of recall Kevin Andersons persona evident in his character in Sleeping With the Enemy Or if Lisa Roberts was written as a stronger character this might suffice as well In the meantime the film is not all that great even as a lowbudget Bthriller

This is probably one of the most original love stories I have seen for ages especially for a war based briefly film Basically it is a story based in two worlds one obviously real the other fictitious but the filmmakers say at the beginning that it is only coincidence if it is a real place Anyway Peter Carter the great David Niven was going to crash in a plane he talked to June Planet of the Apes Kim Hunter before he bailed out and said he loved her He was meant to die from jumping without a parachute but somehow he survived and now he is seeing and loving June in the flesh This other place like a heaven is unhappy because he survived and was meant to come to their world so they send French Conductor 71 Marius Goring to persuade him to go but he is obviously in love Peter suggests to him that he should appeal to keep his life to the other worlds court he is granted this Obviously love prevails when the two lovers announce that they would die for each other June even offers to take his place Also starring Robert Coote as Bob Trubshawe Kathleen Byron as An Angel a brief then unknown Lord Sir Richard Attenborough as An English Pilot and Abraham Sofaer as The JudgeThe Surgeon David Niven was number 36 on The 50 Greatest British Actors the film was number 86 on The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers for the happy ending it was number 47 on The 100 Greatest War Films it was number 46 on The 50 Greatest British Films and it was number 59 on The 100 Greatest Films Outstanding

Usually any film with Sylvester Stallone is usually going to suck ass Rambo First Blood Part II was no exception to this The only movies that Sylvester Stallone were in that were good were Rocky and First Blood This film is extreamly unrealistic and boring It has action but not very good action I didnt enjoy watching it and I would never ever watch this again No wonder why it won the Razzie Award for Worst Picture I would give this a 310 the only reason why it got the 3 was because it had somewhat good action but not good enough

WARNINGI advise anyone who has not seen the film yet to not read this commentbr br If you plan on watching this movie DONT I warn you this movie is TERRIBLY boring and basically horrifying not in the Horror movie kind of way to watch I mistook this Piranha movie for another Piranha movie and when I had noticed I made a mistake I decided to watch this one anyway I wish I wouldnt have This movie is so horrendous and so intolerable in every piece of material that I couldnt bare to let anyone say this movie was halfway decent For one thing this movie should be called A Boring Talk About Wilderness instead of Piranha They only show piranhas ONCE At the same time the way this film sounds so poorly heard I got sleepy only 20 minutes into the thing At the end my mouth was hung wide open and I stared gloomily at the blank TV screen It is a VERY poorly directed and badly filmed piece of junk that I was afraid I brain dysfunction after watching it

This is a family movie set in 1950s rural America about a boy whose Uncle presses sheep killing charges against his dog Drum starting not only a family legal feud but community discord as their town begins to take sidesbr br This is formula film that attempts to be very touching and sweet Its biggest weakness is that the only people who could really act were Scott Bakula Defense Lawyer Ron Perlman fatherDrums owner and the dog John Shuck and Kathy Garver Sissy from the original Family Affair as the Uncle and his wife were okay The children were not that good basically they looked like they were acting and thats a problem when the film really revolves around them Aaron Fors who plays the bully Donny makes me think of what the actor Russell Crowe must have looked liked as a child only with no talent but a lot of ham br br Favorite line spoken by the Prosecutor after Scott Bakulas Defense closing trial speech Well be lucky if they dont lynch us br br Favorite line spoken by Ron Perlman after his son punches the bully Now making him your friend that will be the hard partbr br Cute enough to rentbuy used

This movie consists of such great emotion especially with its outstanding soundtrack that coincides with the film Tom Cruise is one of my favorite actors because of his enthusiasm to make films and to entertain This movie was not the best the first time I watched it but after about 3 more times I decided that this is one of the best films that I have ever seen It takes place in New York and progresses on through his lifestyle He discovers a delimma in his life with his girlfriend Diaz He goes through a state of depression and then an outgoing blend of imagination This film was beyond my expectations and is one of Cruises best films ever

That this film has such a low IMDb rating is not surprising In our postEnron era do we really need any more reminders of Americas obsession with the greed creed The topic has become so politically charged that a lot of viewers not only are not going to be entertained by movies of this sort but will respond with barely concealed rage It was all I could do to sit quietly through this cinematic memo of corporate corruption without extracting the DVD and smashing it into a thousand piecesbr br Whats really irksome with these kinds of films including Purpose is their pretense that behind the glitter theres some meaningful message that makes the film worthwhile In Purpose I found no such meaningful message What I did find was a story that idolized the materialistic trappings of capitalistic power and wealth The two main characters nauseating in their glibness do very little actual work Instead they party they play golf they strut their coolness they sound hip with dialogue straight out of MTVculturespeak rock my world and Now get back to partying thats an order John is smug selfimportant shallow and smirks a lot Robert who wears funky little glasses is even worsebr br The film includes two youthful garage geeks who look and sound like theyre right out of the film Antitrust 2001 Stereotypes are played for all theyre worth and in this film also include chiclooking computer equipment and Barbie doll chicks on hand for those occasions when our cando future billionaires need some relaxation after all that heavyduty partying And with the timebound images and dialogue that such a story necessitates can you imagine how dated this film will be in fifteen yearsbr br About the best I can do for this waste of cinematic celluloid is to say that it does have some nice aerial views of San Francisco The film would have been a lot more enjoyable a lot more entertaining if they had ditched those odious characters and that repulsive story and simply flown us viewers around in that little plane for the films duration

Final Solution is a powerful christian film that shows the hate between the black and whites that was present in the days of apartheid It shows how this hate was contrived and was groomed from generation to generation Jan Ellis was taught that a black man was a plague He was raised to be that way br br Then he meets a man who is on the opposite side of his beliefs Pastor Lekota will he change his ways The film is a powerful movie that shows the perceptions the different races had for one another it shows these perceptions with quite a lot of accuracy The movie shows the world of how apartheid affected the psyche of blacks and whitesbr br This is a great film that everyone should watch

The premise of Cabin Fever starts like it MIGHT have something to offer A group of college teens after finals in the fall goes to a resort cabin in the woods where one by one they are attacked by an unseen flesh eating virusbr br Unfortunately the first paragraph is where any remote elements of film quality stop Cabin Fever is little more than college kids looking for sex booze talking nonstop about nothing and seeing how many Fbombs they can get into 140 minutes or however long this mess isbr br The kids act and react stupidly to everything around them One of them for instance discovers that the skin virus has infected her legs so what does she do She keeps shaving her legs failing to take proper medical attention for her wounds The scene is little more than a gross out In another scene Rider Strong from Boy Meets World gets bitten on the hand by some kid who only says Pancakes and likes to do karate kicks on those who sit next to him If you can figure out the reason for why the Pancakes kid was included Id love to know Anyway Rider pets a wild dog and goes off to wash his bitten hand in a most likely contaminated creek Another kid likes to drop Fbombs in reacting to everything around him and shoot squirrels Why Your guess is as good as minebr br Rider Strong is the ONLY kid with any recognition in this movie He tries to calm people down inbetween the yelling and screaming and F Y bombs that people are throwing around When the kids arent yelling they are having or talking about sex or talking nonsense to the other adult characters who are EVEN MORE if that is possibleidiotic than the kids The idiot cop with an IQ of 60 at best may be one of the WORST acting jobs I have ever seen in a movie You talk about people not playing with a full deck this dork doesnt even know how to find the cards LOL I was like Will you PLEASE shut up already He makes the kid actors look like geniuses The only part that I sort of liked was Riders scary story although gory about the deranged bowling alley guy In interviews Rider said that he had a great deal of respect for director Eli Roth But the problem is that Mr Roth appears to be going for little more than shock and gore There are far too many bad things about this movie for Mr Roth to get any credit I wish I could agree with Rider and find something likable about this movie Maybe the fall scenery in the beginning Actually Rider Strong JUST saves this movie from being a 1 Hopefully he was compensated for this junk

If I had never read the book I would have said it was a good movie BUT I did read the book Who ever did the screen write ruined the storyline There is so many changes that it wasnt really worthy of the Title Character changes plot changes time line changesbr br First off who was Henry and the investigator They werent in the story Henry had Mitchs persona somewhat but Mitch wasnt a cop No you made it so Roz helped sink his body and used that as Zenias blackmail against Roz The real so called blackmail was Roz thought Zenia was sleeping with her son and wanted her to get away from him Her son was also being blackmailed because he was hiding being Gay from his mother Her son wasnt even really mentioned in the story Neither I dont believe was his lover Rozs secretarybr br Tony and West were not together in the beginning He was actually with Zenia first while in college The black painted apartment was their Idea Tony just went to visit This is where Zenia and Tony meet become fast friends Tony hides her love for West Then Zenia left west with cash from Tony then West and Tony get together Eventually marry at some point West leaves Tony for Zenia again for a short time Only to be heart broken again Then go back to Tony Zenias blackmail for Tony was that Tony had written a test paper for Zenia Now being a Professor at College she didnt want to let it get out I will say the character who played Tony did it wonderfullybr br Charis character was a blond not that it really matters Zenia didnt trick her about having cancer while Augusta was alive No she was there when Charis had a lover named billy Augustas father he was a draft dodger in the Vietnam war Eventually after Charis takes care of Zenia for months for what was actually drug withdrawal Zenia and Billy have an affair right under Chariss nose while taking care of them both Then Zenia turns in Billy to the government and leaves on the ferry with him Not with Augusta Charis was pregnant with her tho Charis also had a split personality Karen was her real namebr br Zenia did not die from being cut up into pieces she fell or was possibly pushed we never really knew off the balcony and landed in a fountain She had almost pure grade heroin in her blood and it was likely she took some not knowing and fell off as she ODd She was also really dieing of Cancer this time aroundbr br It didnt show any of the childhood memories or anything that endeared the characters to the reader The Book was striped down to its bare bones Then re made in someone elses vision Why couldnt you just write your own story along the lines of what you made the movie It was different enough and Im sure could have been made more so

Now I do understand that this film was not meant as an indictment against all Indians but it is an amazing film because it dares to investigate the hypocrisy that some Indians have concerning their women and sexuality I have known for some time that sexism is very common in this society with women being murdered because the husbands family doesnt want them any more after his death or because she had a small dowry as well as the frequent killing of female fetuses because they are seen as a curse instead of a blessing I also realize that some from this culture will be greatly offended by the film but the bottom line is that there is some truth to the subject mattereven if the film was so strongly attacked when it debuted in India a decade ago As a result of the extreme misogyny in the movie most Western audience members will be shocked or at least be emotionally pulled into the plight of the ladies in this filmbr br Although I am a male am not rabidly feminist and I am straight the film had a strong positive impact on me and it is NOT an agenda film that can only be enjoyed by Lesbians and man haters In fact I dont think the film is promoting hatred of men or homosexuality but instead gives a credibly argument how in the case of these two ladies it was the only reasonable alternative due to their wicked husbands Yes I use the word wicked and mean it as both husbands living in this large household are intensely selfish and have no regard for their spouses sexuality In many traditional societies this is indeed the case and women are doomed to an empty emotional existencebr br One husband married a vivacious young woman Sita out of family obligation This arranged marriage is uncomfortable for them both but in the beginning Sita makes an attempt to connect with her sullen husband However he sees himself as a victim and could have cared less about Sitaand he continues to have an affair with a liberalminded Chinese lady To make matters worse he did nothing to hide the affair and made no apologies In their dead marriage sex was purely meant to produce children and there was no way Sita could have any of her sexual or emotional needs met And unfortunately he could have cared lessbr br Another husband was married to a lady who was infertile Radha Oddly after initially trying to have children they have gone the next 13 years without any sexual contact whatsoever Its because this man has decided to become an ascetic ie in Hinduism a person who gives up the pleasures of the world to gain inner enlightenment Now his wanting to do this was all well and good IF he was not already married and had obligations for his wife However being married this was an incredibly selfish act and like his brother he assumed his wife had no sexual feelings nor did he seem to care The closest he would allow her to him sexually was to sleep next to himas having her next to him helped teach himself to overcome the desires of the flesh This must have brought nothing but frustration to herbr br So youve got two neglected and normal women living in the same household who long for emotional connection as well as an outlet for their sexual needs Eventually these needs bring these sisterinlaws togetherat first just emotionally but later sexually as well The movie was brilliant how it got me to look at and understand how in some cases homosexuality is inevitable and even healthy compared to a life of emotional desolationbr br Late in the film when the intensity of their sexual relationship is discovered it leads to a not totally unexpected reaction from Radhas enlightened husbanda man who seeks religious insight and peace yet is so wrapped up in himself that true insight and growth is impossiblebr br This is a very challenging and adult film While there is very little nudity the subject matter is very adult and this is not a film to show your kids Very disturbing indeed is one minor character who masturbates in front of an old paralyzed ladyas I said this is NOT a film to let your kids watch However for a mature audience this is an excellent and highly erotic film that will get you to thinkbr br The film features good acting complex characters excellent writing lovely mood music and a slow pace that might annoy some but which I found rewarding The only serious negative I cannot blame on the movie itself but on the idiots who released this on videotape This is because although the movie is in English the accents are quite strong at times and its not always easy to understand whats being said BUT and this is the worst part there are no closed or open captionsincluding them is a must for Western audiences If you do watch this film see if you can find it on DVD or hopefully a newer release on video will have captioningmine sure didntbr br By the way director Deepa Mehta a popular female director has made several other wonderful films such as EARTH and BOLLYWOODHollywood A consistent theme in her films is the conflict between traditional Indian culture and expectations and Westernismwith a strong emphasis on female characters Not surprisingly this Westthinking lady makes her home in Canada and is divorceda truly unusual woman to say the least For a similar film that explores traditional culture meets Western culture try another Canadian gem EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN

The acting is excellent in this film with some great actors It was fun to see Fred McMurray as a young man This is not a comedy Its a drama and the apparently comedic instances are pitiful This is not a comedy Its a drama and the apparently comedic instances are pitiful and some of them appear forced and contrived Its in the script though not the fault of the actingbr br The 10 line requirement forces me to write some moreHmmm Loved Carole Lombards My Man Godfrey because it is a comedy and while the acting is wonderful the story line and the script itself wins the day Carole Lombard is pretty and a wonderful actress I will try to watch Fred McMurrays features

I am a huge Rupert Everett fan I adore Kathy Bates so when I saw it available I decided to check it out The synopsis didnt really tell you much In parts it was silly touching and in others some parts were down right hystericalbr br Any person that is a huge fan of a personality of any type will find some small identifying traits with the main character Of course there are many they wont but that is the pointbr br If you like any of the actors give it a watch but dont look for any thing too dramatic its good funbr br I might also mention you can see how darn tall Rupert is I mean I knew he was 64 but he seems even more in this film He even seemed to stoop a bit due to the other characters height in this He is tall I mean tall And for you Rupert fans there is a bare chest sceneWONDERFUL

As long as you dont mind paying a little more attention than you normally might for other films this is one of the best thrillers youll ever see The film portrays an incident that might occur in real life nothing in it seems fictional at all in fact It also portrays how people might react in real lifebr br In fact it portrays these so well that is seems like real life Combine that with the lack of a soundtrack and youve almost got the best newslike movie youve ever seen Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon are particularly good in this lateseventies masterpiece evoking concern on her end and genuine tragic pity on his end I highly recommend it to anyone who likes thrillers

People may say I am harsh but I cant help it The movie is so bad I was absolutely stunned The first movie was bad enough if you ask me It was greatly exaggerated and silly but this one despite the creepy scenes has a seriously assstupid story They actually went deep into investigating Kayakos past and found out that she had a mother Who miraculously speaks English who was an exorcist and fed evil spirits to her daughter Stupid Yeap OK it started out with Kayako who was an ordinary housewife who had an affair with some bloke and got herself dead This part is still OK Because of this moment of rage she became a vengeful spirit who kills anyone who enters her house Acceotable Now her killings began to stretch a little where she actually had the opportunity to travel throughout Tokyo just to finish her victims Her victims were travelling werent they This struck me hard Now if a ghost could actually do such a thing like travelling throughout a country without paying public transport fares I wouldnt mind being Ask someone to come kill me then snorts And to crown things all up the ghost who was once depicted as a very vengeful one In Juon The Grudge which was way better than this trash is now depicted as some spectre who truly enjoys herself and felt that it is her mission to finish of people Things became worse For me the viewer when the ghost became coming in forms of large strands of hair I mean If a ghost had such power I seriously dun mind being one I never really liked movies depicting ghosts as MONSTERS cause theyre not The overall results is just plain bad Like The Grudge 2 With a better storyline and less exaggeration this show would have been better

Lady and the Tramp II is very colourfully animated and the songs especially that of the Junkyard Dogs are quite good However the family seems even too idyllic and I cant help understanding that Scamp is discontented when everything is forbidden However I also pity Angel who never has had a loving family until she meets Jim dear and Darlingbr br In any case its clear that the original Lady and the Tramp is better than this sequel

Following the pleasingly atmospheric original and the amusingly silly second one this incredibly dull slow and uneventful sequel comes across as a major letdown Once again the nefarious criminal mastermind the Bat hammy Luis Aceves Castaneda is trying to steal valuable jewelry from the Aztec mummy Popoca The Bat builds a hilariously clunky lumbering robot with a human brain in order to achieve this heinous goal Flatly directed by Rafael Portillo with a talky and tedious script by Alfredo Salazar and Guillermo Calderon cruddy continuity for example the Bat was clearly killed at the end of the previous film but is miraculously alive and well here an excruciatingly sluggish script an excessive amount of stock footage from the first two flicks a meandering narrative a crippling lack of action and momentum largely dreary going through the motions nonacting from an understandably disinterested cast and a poorly staged climactic battle between the mummy and the robot the movie finally bursts to sidesplitting stupid life with said big bash but alas it barely even lasts two lousy minutes and thus proves to be much too little far too late to alleviate the severity of the general overwhelming boredom this numbingly dry drippy and draggy snorefest rates as a complete washout

In the aftermath of Watergate a number of conspiracy movies appeared such as this one written by the late Adam Kennedy based on his novel br br Gene Hackman plays exVietnam veteran Roy Tucker a loser who has wound up in prison He receives visits from Marvin Tagge Richard Widmark who claims to represent an organisation designed to assist the wrongly convicted They offer him freedom and despite distrusting Tagge he accepts But he brings along a fellow cell mate by the name of Spiventa Mickey Rooney Exactly why is hard to see as Spiventa is an irritating little man who drives Tucker mad with persistent talk of sex not what you want to hear when you are behind barsbr br Tagges benefactors kill Spiventa before Tuckers astonished eyes Reunited with wife Ellie Candice Bergen and given a new identity strangely he does not attempt to change his appearance Shaving off that cheesy moustache would have been a start he settles down but finds there is a catch Tagge wants Tucker to do no less than assassinate the President of the United States He refuses so Tagge has Ellie abductedbr br I will leave the synopsis here but I am sure you can guess the rest for yourself The script has enough plot holes to make you want to read the book neat trick that The people Tagge represents are never revealed The allusions to JFKs killing are unmistakable Despite the findings of The Warren Commission the doubt as to whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone persists to this daybr br This was Stanley Kramers first movie in years and while no turkey it lacks the grip of say John Frankenheimers The Manchurian Candidate or Alan JPakulas The Parallax View Being a leftwing conspiracy movie it tends to skirt around its subject matter instead of getting to grips with it I prefer rightwing ones myself they are funnier Domino has the look and feel of a madeforTV movie and boasts what must be the easiest prison escape in movie history not to mention an ending copped from the Michael Caine classic Get Carterbr br What makes it watchable are Gene Hackman and Richard Widmark The latter who sadly passed away earlier this year is superb as the mysterious Tagge who initially appears to be behind the operation until he too is ruthlessly eliminated beginning a chain of deaths designed to remove all trace of evidence as one by one the perpetrators of this evil plot fall just like dominoes As Tucker the innocent pawn Hackman is marvellous You have to wonder though why he chose to hide out in such an obvious place In his shoes Id have fled to the other side of the world anywhere to get away from these fanatics Hackmans love scenes with Bergen slow the plot down and it is almost a relief when she gets snatched Presumably the producers thought so too which explains why it opens with a bizarre prologue setting out the films entire premise voiced by British actor Patrick Allen warning the audience that they are out there and that they are out to get us Comedian Les Dawson later spoofed this opening in his BBC show The Dawson Watchbr br Mickey Rooney had earlier worked with Kramer on Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World His death scene here resembles like an outtake from that picture with the actor looking as though he has been stung by a wasp rather than shot deadbr br Conspiracy movies used to be only made by the left but now the right are getting in on the act too Last year Taking Liberties an absurd concoction of lies and halftruths about Tony Blairs Government turned out to be Britains answer to Reefer Madness At least Domino had lovely Candice Bergen The best Chris Atkins film could offer was Anne Widdecombebr br Surprisingly The Domino Principle was made by Sir Lew Grade the legendary British television mogul behind The Saint Jesus Of Nazareth and The Muppet Show He worked with Adam Kennedy again in 1980 on Raise The Titanic whose failure was so great it sank Grades ambitions of being the new Louis BMeyer Being somewhat openminded I would not rule out the possibility of a conspiracy

Where do I begin with the Killing Mind before I mention the good bit This movie is about a young psychological profiling FBI woman or something that for some reason goes to work for the LAPD for a wee while There are some recognisable faces like the I love you man bloke from Waynes World playing a cop nice beardage too and two guys who always seem to play cops playing you guessed it cops One of them was one of the cops in Gross Point Blank following John Cusack about the place and the other is the FBI guy with specs in Final Destination who is also in the Fugitive as another cop I know the FBI US Marshalls CIA etc arent cops but theyre all the same They enforce the law to a certain degree that makes them cops in my book Feel free to disagree with the definition of a cop all you want theyre still seen as the ones who are trying to bring the bad guys down Any I digress The woman is working alongside these cops who just seem to sit around in a library in the basement or something and for some unknown reason decides to reopen a case that hasnt been looked at for yonks She saw the dead body as a kid so naturally decided that she can reopen the case cos she was personally attached to it I also like how the person profiling other peoples psychological state witnessed a murder scene as a child Surely thats the kind of thing that can screw with someones head She starts asking questions off some journalist who covered the story when it was open even though he appears to be the same age as the woman so he presumably was either writing for a newspaper when he was 10 or he wrote a few school reports on it and she decided hed be the best person to ask about itbr br We then see that as well as reopening homicide cases from 25 years earlier she tries her hand at petty theft as some really inconspicuous bloke sprints through a busy street wearing a balaclava Way to blend moron Anyway she and the cops shes with eating ice creams in the park give chase after him and whilst crossing a bridge with a woman and child standing on it the thief grabs the baby from the mothers arms and throws the baby in the river This if you havent already guessed is the best bit of the movie Im not sadistic and dont have a hatred for babies or anything but the scene just looks so stupid I promise you will wet your pants laughing at it if you should watch this movie It gets better when the cop from Final Destination the Fugitive jumps in to rescue the baby then declares to his friend Its a baby How did he not know that before he jumped in is beyond mebr br Anyway she chases after the thief but loses him Later on she remembers that a random dog didnt bark at the thief so assumed it must be his and decided to track down the thief through the dog The dog had no markings or anything on it so how she knew where to find the dog and thus find the thief is another question I wont go into it was shortly after this that I stopped watching The story was moving really slowly and after I had stopped laughing at the baby throwing bit I had kind of lost interest and missed what was being saidbr br Saying that Ill go ahead and assume that the killer was the journalist bloke because he seemed a bit shifty and she was spending a lot of time with him and anyone who watches Columbo knows that the person outside the police force who spends most time with the investigating officer is your bad guy plus other peoples reviews say the killer was pretty obvious so Im sure it was himbr br So all in all a pants film but worth watching just for that one glorious scene

Warning spoilers ahead even if I doubt that anybody hasnt seen this yetbr br The movie starts off rather well but about halfway through it falls apart and becomes a corny sugary sweet predictable and unrealistic harmony romance mess I mean its very obvious that there are serious problems in the main characters marriage but these problems are never solved but just forgottenbr br Basically as soon as she decides to have a baby behind his back without even asking all of their problems magically disappear without a trace or an explanation Given what had happened up until that moment it would have been far more logical if the marriage fell apart rather than becoming the trite and cliche having a baby will change everything endingbr br The two main characters families and neighbours are also extremely onedimensional and dont seem to serve really any purpose if not to irritate the viewer and they also mysteriously disappear from the movie as soon as the harmony moments startbr br I am sorry to be ripping this movie but given the start I would have expected something more 410 for me

Yes the video cover of this movie made me want to watch this film as a child It was called Screamers on this particular cover with the tagline Men turned inside out It even featured this warped looking skeleton on the cover as well that made all sorts of cool gory images run through my mind Perhaps some sort of movie about some strange virus that caused a persons flesh to burn off maybe a movie about undead zombies that are more bloody looking than what you usually get a science experiment gone incredibly wrong and now strange men with the flesh dripping off their bones go on the rampage Yes all these thoughts ran through my mind one that did not was fish guys on some island with virtually no gore and all bore This movie is really more like the Island of Dr Moreau than anything else and quite frankly that movie bored me too it is way to much scientist and not enough killing for my tastes These films are to much figure stuff out and not enough blood for my tastes Yes I know I have strange tastes but I can not help it I like my horror movies either really bloody or fast moving and exciting this movie is really neither

When i saw the first octopus movie it was a laugh see the cheesy acting and appalling effects This film seemed to make up for the acting but not the special effects After Jaws and Piranha sure why not make a film about a killer octopus The octopus invades the New York waters where 2 police investigators try stopping the rampaging beast before the 4th of Julybr br A pretty clean plot and descent happenings but the octopus was pretty much appalling its nice to see they actually made it this time but it looked like a piece of plastic Better on a big budget really this film could have been a good watch Theres a continuous amount of errors where it wouldnt surprise me if they didnt research the way octopus livebr br Watch this if you like cheap DVD sequels otherwise your better watching Jaws

This movie typifies the early eighties as well as FUN I remember watching this movie on HBO when I was little and it was my favorite movie Since it was a while ago no one I had ever met knew what it was Then about the time my roommate had said she had seen it too and that it was her favorite they started to print it again Luckily I have a copy now If anyone ever wants to see the greatest cheesy scavenger hunt that was probably the beginning ideas of hazing for frats this movie is it Watcher has to have a serious love for cheesy 80s type movies

Genre Dinosaur animation New York time travel circusbr br Main characters Rex the Tyrannosaurus rex Elsa the pterodactyl Dweeb the Parasarolophus Ooo the Triceratops a boy called Louis a girl called Cecilia and Captain Neweyes Actors John Goodman Rex Yeardley Smith Cecilia Martin Short Stubbs the clown Felicity Kendal Elsa etcbr br What happens Four dinosaurs see above are fed some brain grain cereal and are now cuddly friendly dinosaurs who are going to be nice to children They go into New York with big plans…br br My thoughts This is a cute animated film The animation of the dinosaurs when they go cuddly and friendly is a bit floppy and notsogood but they look pleasant all the same that way I like the dinosaurs when they are cuddly and friendly they are nice friendly and good I like almost all the characters featured especially Elsa and Cecilia but of course I like the others as well Overall I like this film a lot br br Recommended to People who like good childrens animated films people who like dinosaurs John Goodman and people who think that circuses arent always what they seem… Enjoy

Am not familiar with the trilogy but came upon this film last night on Showtime The film looked very well done with the set design and the cinematography but the screenplay was stilted and wooden The acting was fairly bad thought the two female leads were serviceable You never really believed anything the supporting actors said though There were the stereotypes biblethumping Reverend without a hint of nuance authoritative Captain hotheaded soldier etc I am sorry to say that based on these deficiencies I clocked it straight away as Canadian without knowing it to be suchthe Telefilm Canada end credits gave it away I know Im a horrible personbr br Maybe I missed something in the beginning but the hostility towards the girls is never explained Here they are besieged in a fort by werewolves and the men are wasting time and energy brutalizing two young women for no reason FOCUS people Theres a bit more of a pressing situation beyond your walls than whether or not these girls are lesbiansthats just my inference for the hostility directed towards them If they can aim and fire a gun you might as well make nice with them The question of their immortal soul can be resolved laterbr br Also I guess this relates to the rest of the trilogy these girls are supposed to be the protagonists One of them murdered the Indian guy at the end that saved one of their lives I guess one is just a victim of her condition who cant be necessarily blamed for her actions but the other is just a murderer who doesnt deserve her happy ending

Wow was this version of THE RACKETEER tough to watch While none of the other reviews have mentioned this the public domain version I watched was seriously flawed The sound track was off by about 10 secondsmeaning the dialog and action never came close to matching So youd hear something occur well before you saw ita very confusing proposition The worst is where you hear a gun shot and only later doe the guy get hit and slump to his death in a taxibr br While this seriously marred the film it also made concentrating on the dialog easierand showed the serious shortcomings of it as well The dialog was simply awfuloften delivered with almost no inflection or feeling As one review said it was like watching a high school play Part of this is understandable as sound was a new medium but this films dialog was bad even compared to other 1929 filmsreally bad And like many of these early sound films the film was just too talkywith sappy and overly melodramatic language and just not much action And youd THINK with a title like The Racketeer that there would be some action However its really a sappy romancewith very little actionbr br The film finds Carol Lombard straddled with an alcoholic musician She herself ends up stealing to try to take care of himand the crook Robert Armstrong comes to her assistance When Armstrong catches her cheating at cards he covers for her and then helps the drunk brother to get on his feetand naturally he falls for her in the process The problem is that once the drunk sobers up he too wants Lombard and she needs to choose between them Wowa recovering drunk or a mobstertalk about a couple great prospects Overall its a bit hard to rate considering the lousy print I saw However even if you ignore this the film has a lot of problems due to its poor use of dialog and excessively talky nature Andit was sappy too boot