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first of all this is one of the worst soft core straight to cable erotic thriller i've ever seen in my life of course like all erotic thrillers are want to do it's about a brothel madam and is set in a brothel this of course makes the softcore simulated sex that pops up every other 10 minutes seem in context whatever forget for one moment that this was never meant to win any awards the actors are terrible and their line reading made me cringe the woman who plays the female cop is so bad it's beyond description she must be a really really good friend of the guys who put up the movie for this terrible adventure if you know what i mean the production values are only slightly higher than porn other than that i suppose if you're really drunk and you need something to laugh at this would be a perfect film and if that's the case i recommend fast forwarding to all the scenes with the female cop what's that accent brooklyn hilarious!
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beforehand notification i'm sure someone is going to accuse me of playing the race card here but when i saw the preview for this movie i was thinking finally! i have yet to see one movie about popular african influenced dance be it popular hip hop moves breaking or stepping where the main character was a black woman i've seen an excessive amount of movies where a non black woman who knew nothing about hip hop comes fresh to the hood and does a mediocre job of it breakin breakin 2 save the last dance step up but the black women in the film are almost nonexistent that always bothered me considering so much of hip hop african influenced dance and breaking was with blacks and latinos in massive amounts in these particular sets and it wasn't always men who performed it so i felt this movie has been a long time coming however the race does not make the film so i also wanted it to carry a believable plot the dancing be entertaining and interesting to watch pros i really enjoyed this film bringing jamaican culture i can't recall ever seeing a popular mainstream film where all the main characters were jamaican had believable accents and weren't stereotypical with the beanies the steppers family friends and even the thugs were all really intelligent realistic people who were trying to love live and survive in the neighborhood they lived in by doing something positive even when the audience was made aware that the main character's sister chose an alternate lifestyle it still didn't make the plot stereotypical i was satisfied with the way it was portrayed i loved the stepping the romantic flirty relationship going on between two steppers the trials that the main character's parents were going through and how she dealt with coming back to her old neighborhood and dealing with crabs in a barrel i respected that she was so intelligent and active at the same time and so many other sistas in the film were handling themselves in the step world they were all just as excellent as the fellas i don't see that in too many movies nowadays at least not those that would be considered black films cons i'm not quite sure why the directors or whoever put the movie together did this but i question whether they've been to real step shows whenever the steppers got ready to perform some hip hop song would play in place of the steppers' hand feet beats at a real step show there is zero need for music other than to maybe entertain the crowds in between groups and then when hip hop songs were played sometimes the beat to the song was off to the beat of the steppers' hands and feet it was awkward i was more impressed with the stepping in this movie versus stomp the yard another great stepping movie because the women got to represent as fierce as the guys in stomp the yard meagan good got all of a few seconds of some prissy twirl and hair flip and the deltas let out a chant and a few steps and were cut immediately even when there were very small scenes the ladies tore it up especially in the auto shop and it was without all that music to drown out their physical music i know soundtracks have to be sold but the movie folks could've played the music in other parts of the film i'm not a keyshia cole fan so every time i saw her all i kept thinking was is it written in the script for her to constantly put her hand on her hip when she talks she looked uncomfortable on screen to me i thought they should've used a host like free or rocsi instead deray davis was funny as usual though also i groaned when i found out that the movie was supposed to be in the ghetto like stepping couldn't possibly happen anywhere else hollywood as usual however only a couple of people were portrayed as excessively ignorant due to their neighborhood and losers which mainstream movies tend to do i would've given this movie five stars but the music playing killed it for me i definitely plan to buy it when it comes out and hopefully the bonus scenes will include the actual step shows without all the songs
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it's the worst movie i've ever seen the action is so unclear work of cameras is so poor actors are so affected and this lamentable 5 minutes of arnie on the screen my advice from the bottom of my heart don't watch it unless you like such a low class torture
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excellent writing and wild cast the tech is poor but it's obviously very low budget looks like they didn't cut the negative but had to release on a video output in any case one of the most inventive comedies i've seen lately the screenwriter in particular is fine
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contains major spoilers on the off chance you would actually care about the story line ok we have storms that destroy a city and a computer hacker who clobbers the power grid predictable schlock from the start and if that weren't enough the 5 second action bumps between the movie and the commercials kill what little suspense there might have been for example will they make it to the airport in time things look dim as we go to a commercial
and the action shot before the ad shows them bouncing around inside the plane! well i guess they're gonna make it after all
but then again they had to because they're good guys the acting wasn't any too impressive exception and welcome relief randy quaid as tornado tommy the effects were kinda lame the bad guys got it and the good guys came through the real disaster of this movie was the script especially the ending not only did they wrap things up happily as quickly as a soap opera given 24 hours notice of a cancellation but they glorified the hacker as well intentioned so he caused a bazillion deaths
he meant well and of course an uplifting final tv report about people coming together barf it was everything i expected from the commercials and i'm glad i wasted my time watching it it will make great conversation at the lunch table tomorrow is cbs insulting us by making this sure
but we watched it didn't we did you count many ads there were for home backup generators during this pig here's hoping for the next plan 9 from outer space which gets better with each viewing this isn't it 1 star
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another indian legend you never heard of before is let loose as the name implies this is a vengeful wraith who likes to absorb the skeletons of people while they're still using them as usual ancient burial grounds can you say poltergeist have been disturbed by clichéd greedy land developers building stuff the cgi if it had been better might have made the effect more treacherous looking but they skimped on the budget and it shows to comical effect the unleashed creature probably should have been kept off stage during its first several killings that might have added some mystery or impending doom atmosphere but the inept director decided to show us in the first five minutes what it looks like and it wasn't impressive the deaths are just poorly done again with shoddy cgi i guess ancient spirits always kill by using cheap special effects as for the victims they look they're going to laugh any moment while they do goofy screams it's always obvious who's going to get it a character with only a few lines shows up strange noises are heard cgi dots fly exit character repeat several times still there's a few chase scenes featuring the monster that actually made this thing watchable unfortunately the director seems to be using these as a device to fall back on so it's used too often when he can't think of anything else for his characters to do overall it's pretty silly but i've seen worse this flick is cheap but it's oddly fun to watch
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when i really began to be interested in movies at the age of eleven i had a big list of 'must see' films and i would go to blockbuster and rent two or three per weekend some of them were not for all audiences and my mother would go nuts i remember one of the films on that list was a chorus line and could never get it so now to see it is a dream come true of course i lost the list and i would do anything to get it back because i think there were some really interesting things to watch there i mean take a chorus line a stage play turned into film i know it's something we see a lot nowadays but back then it was a little different apparently and this film has something special most of the musicals made movies today take the chance the camera gives them for free to create different sceneries and take the characters to different places a chorus line was born on a theater stage as a play and it dies in the same place as a movie following a big audition held by recognized choreographer zach michael douglas richard atenborough directs a big number of dancers as they try to get the job everything happens on the same day the tension of not knowing the stress of having to learn the numbers the silent competition between the dancers
and it all occurs on the stage where douglas puts each dancer on the spotlight and makes them talk about their personal life and their most horrible experiences there are hundreds of dancers and they are all fantastic but they list shortens as the hours go by like a movie i saw recently a prairie home companion the broadcast of a radio show atenborough here deals with the problem of continuity on or behind the stage things are going on and time doesn't seem to stop again i don't if atenborough cut a lot to shoot this but it sure doesn't look like it and anyway it's a great directing and editing john bloom work but in that little stage what you wonder is what to do with the camera
with only one setting ronnie taylor's cinematography finds the way making close ups to certain characters zooming in and out showing the stage from different perspective and also giving us a beautiful view of new york in one crucial moment douglas tells the ones that are left before we start eliminating you're all terrific and i'd like to hire you all but i can't this made me think about reality shows today where the only thing that counts is the singing or dancing talent and where the jury always says that exact words to the contestants before some of them are leaving even when they are not good it's hard you must imagine at least here where all of them really are terrific to tell some of the stories the characters use songs and in one second the stage takes a new life and it literally is 'a dream come true' the music by marvin hamlisch and the lyrics by edward kleban make the theater to film transition without flaws showing these dancers' feelings and letting them do those wonderful choreographies by michael bennett the book in the theater also becomes a flawless and very short screenplay by arnold schulman which is very touching at times so if it's not with a song it will be with a word but in a chorus line it's impossible not to be moved during one of the rehearsal breaks in the audition cassie a special dancer played by alyson reed takes the stage to convince douglas character that she can do it the words let me dance for you never sounded more honest and more beautifully put in music and lyrics
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the movie follows the events of the novel cel mai iubit dintre pamanteni could be translated as the most beloved among humans written by marin preda a very controversial book and movie a novel which became something like the bible or the story of hamlet very popular and hard to get due to its satiric contents over the communist regime it represents the drama of the intellectual man the humanist in a red world a movie filled with passion fear sexuality all the great ingredients for a great movie recipe one of the greatest romanian movies despite its psychological charge after all it is an european movie
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if it weren't for the editing out of curse words and a superimposed blur when one character give another the finger it would be easy to mistake this low budget snoozer for a sci fi channel pilot the plot about the government's attempts to destroy a group of telekinetics it originally trained as military weapons ends ambiguously enough with the hero himself gifted in pursuit of a telekinetic survivor bent on revenge alas the movie is talky boring predictable and even devoid of interesting special effects top billed louis gossett jr has a minor role as the evil government bureaucrat who originated the program and now wants to eliminate all traces he walks through the part and it is hard to understand why he bothered other members of the cast do a decent job with a script that demands little
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i have seen the running man several times as i am a stephen king fan and have all his movies but now it is even better because up until 2 days ago i didn't know about this website and i didn't realize that the paul michael glaser that was involved with this movie was the same paul michael glaser that i grow up watching on starsky and hutch television show for me this is a pleasant surprise because i can't tell you how many times i cried when starsky or hutch got hurt the episode where starsky kill starsky almost died i cried so hard my dad had to turn away from the show what to you expect of a kid at age 12 now i intentionally look for films and programs involving paul or david soul and anything that stephen king has his hands on i'm so there!!!!!!!! just got to say happy birthday paul!!!!!
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a stuttering plot uninteresting characters and sub par to say the least dialogue plagues this tv production that could hardly have been interesting even with a billion dollar production budget the characters aren't believable in their motives actions or their professed occupations the plot reads like a bad dungeons and dragons tm hack but with plasma rifles and force fields there are severe continuity issues and the degree of pointless interaction between the characters has this author at least wincing avoid it like the plague watch any episode of dark angel and you will have better acting dialogue and plot yuck
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yes this movie is a real thief it stole some shiny oscars from avatar just because politicians wanted another war hero movie to boost the acceptance support for the wars u s is still fighting today i do not really want to go here into politics but come on this is more clear than the summer sky hurt locker does not really have anything outstanding no real plot at all i really feel myself in the 50's of hungary when the party told the people what to like and what not to like the same propaganda movies were produced that time only with the exception that those were black and white even if we consider this title a reasonable piece of the u s wars are cool genre you surely have much better movies to choose from
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whilst this is most definitely a well crafted piece of film making it's thoroughly without any entertainment value whatsoever if you're depressed already this film will send you over the edge if you're feeling somewhat depressed this film will be just one more thing in your life to feel bitter about you'll feel that it's just your luck to have chosen to watch a movie that turns out to be a complete waste of time otherwise you might be able to make it through this film unscathed i didn't btw safe in the knowledge that your life is so much better than jim's then again you might consider that you have been fooling yourself and that are in fact in a much worse situation than you'd previously realized you might feel a bit annoyed at jim for bringing this to your attention you may want to slap him around a bit with a wet fish the sad truth is much as i wanted to like this movie i hated it it took rather a long miserable road down the path of oblivion and then suddenly for no reason whatsoever looked back at itself and then stopped jim does not have an epiphany at least not one that is conveyed on screen jim has a miserable life and a miserable set of options he discovers nothing that one can relate to and fails to make any significant progress on his journey of self discovery of course no one alive could write a happy ending to this movie as others have said it's no hollywood tale it's gritty and it's real it's well made life is quite a struggle at times if anyone were to know the answer they do well to shout it from the rooftops still i feel cheated because this movie pretends to have something to say you feel that it's going to say something that if you just suffer through a little more of it it'll have something to say it'll make you stop and think it doesn't again i do submit that this is a well crafted film and therefore may be of value to a film student with a penchant for e g lighting techniques of the use of colour palettes for the rest of us it's utterly miss able
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i have to admit to enjoying bad movies i love them i watch all of them horror especially my friends and i all gather after a hard week at school and work rent some crazy tapes order a pizza and have a blast one of the ones we got at hollywood video was this one zombie bloodbath this one had a great box so i was expecting less than usual the story is about a housing project that is built over a nuclear facility that has had the above ground layers bulldozed and the other underground layers are simply covered up the inhabitants of this neighborhood find the covered up facility when some kids fall into a hole inside a cave this wakes up some zombies from this point on it's chunk city the gore effects and action never stop until the end credits roll ok it's not great art but this one with it's in joke dialogue and over the top gruesome stuff was our favorite of the evening actually it was one of the best party tapes i have ever had the pleasure of watching and you could tell it was done on no money with a bunch of crazy people there are hundreds of zombies and the director looks like brendan frazer he has a cameo and it is just a wild trip
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during world war ii two byelorussian soviet russian soldiers try to avoid being captured by occupying nazis as they trudge through snowy terrain searching for food and safety if you happen not to like black and white foreign films you may still enjoy voskhozhdeniye retiled in english the ascent director larisa shepitko paces the film extraordinarily well despite its being a largely introspective piece of work her untimely death in a car accident made this ms shepitko's final film unfortunately after the opening mission is declared there doesn't seem to be much that could happen in the snowy woods but shepitko and a changing setting make it unexpectedly exciting leading players vladimir gostyukhin as the spiritually wounded rybak and boris plotnikov as the physically wounded 'sotnikov successfully avoid being crushed by the ever increasing symbolism their allegorical performances under shepitko's sharp direction provide a memorable and thought provoking take on a familiar story ******** voskhozhdeniye 4 2 77 larisa shepitko vladimir gostyukhin boris plotnikov lyudmila polyakova anatoli solonitsyn
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1904 the north african nation of morocco is hanging onto a tenuous independence as the various european powers france germany britain russia spain and now the united states are vying for influence in the region the sultan marc zuber is a weak puppet his uncle the bashaw vladek sheybal who is being manipulated by the french and germans is the real power behind the throne enter berber chieftan raisuli sean connery the leader of the rif tribe and the last of the barbary pirates who kidnaps an american missionary eden pedecaris candice bergen and her two children and takes them hostage back in the us president theodore roosevelt brian keith threatens to go to war over the issue pedecaris alive or raisuli dead! seeing the issue as the perfect way to exercise his big stick diplomacy though secretary of state john hay john huston is not so confident however the raisuli has less sinister plans for the pedecarises who are more than capable of handling themselves in any event john milius's great historical film based very loosely off of a true story i e pedecaris was a middle aged man is a wonderful bit of escapism it has some amazing action scenes a witty well written script a fine cast enjoying themselves with the material and does not overstay its welcome like say pirates of the caribbean or the lord of the rings movies it's not really an epic film in the strictest sense but it's one of the best pure action movies ever made while the historical context is shaky the storyline is interesting and as some reviewers point out it is even more pertinent today than it was when made as president roosevelt says america is like a grizzly bear fierce strong but a little blind and reckless at times at the time of the film's setting america has just been propelled onto the world stage as superpower following their resounding victory in the spanish american war and roosevelt seizes this incident as a way to prove america's worth in real life it didn't quite work out that way but allegorically it works well while written from a right wing perspective milius's screenplay is pretty accurate in assessing america and its place in the world he admires roosevelt and his method of big stick diplomacy and correctly recognizes in the words of roosevelt that while america may be feared and respected they'll never be truly loved by the world no matter what they do and there are some scenes like roosevelt's target shooting of european leaders and the almost comic surprise attack by marines on the bashaw's palace which show america's reckless and violent side while others the climactic showdown with the germans show their heroism the historical political context of the film is of course merely meat on the bones of what is essentially a rousing action adventure film there are some brilliantly done action scenes such as raisuli's rescue of the pedecaris's from double crossing tribesmen which features some of the best swordplay in any film the opening entrance of the raisuli and the aforementioned march and attack of the us marines are brilliantly done bravura set pieces and the final battle which combines elements of lawrence of arabia and the wild bunch while a major historical fantasy a three way battle between germans americans and the rifs is a superbly staged adrenaline pumping sequence the excellent cast gives some wonderful performances everyone seems to be having a fun time with the film and it shows sean connery is surprisingly convincing as a berber with a scottish accent but manages to pull off his interesting well drawn and chivalrous character who comes to respect his hostage and abhors modern uncivil warfare candice bergen an actress whom i've never been fond of gives a fine performance as the feisty eden pedecaris who is every bit as tough as her captor brian keith is an amazingly convincing tr you really feel he must have been like this an athletic blustering yet practical and intelligent man with an admirable sense of self the scenes of roosevelt boxing and target shooting while discussing foreign policy are some of the greatest bad ass moments in movie history and who can forget lines like why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality john huston provides solid support as the weary cautious hay acting as a perfect foil to the much more impetuous roosevelt among the fine supporting cast the best are geoffrey lewis as samuel gummere the cynical ambassador caught in the middle of the political intrigue and steve kanaly as the gung ho marine captain who cheerfully advocates and carries out military intervention! as the blunt and simple solution to the whole complex situation other familiar faces such as vladek sheybal nadim sawalha roy jenson larry cross marc zuber and darrell fetty also do fine work no matter how small their role spaghetti western fans will recognize antoine saint john a fistful of dynamite as the german general and aldo sambrell as one of raisuli's tribesmen the wind and the lion is all around a wonderfully done adventure film it has something for everyone wonderful gun and swordplay a lot of humor a tough feisty heroine and her two cute children a nice if unconsummated romance and an interesting if fanciful political historical context it's not a masterpiece but hey it wasn't trying to be i give the wind and the lion a stirring nine stars and my highest recommendation
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gilmore girls is a hilarious show with never ending sarcasm wit and charm at age 16 lorelai gilmore gave birth to rory gilmore she left her parents house and got a job now lorelai and rory have a relationship that many mothers and daughters envy they are best friends the girls have an extensive knowledge of movies and tv shows and are constantly quoting them in the first season lorelai needs money to send rory to chilton a very highly rated high school so she reluctantly has to turn to her parents they are happy to give them the money but in exchange rory has to come have dinner with them every friday night i highly recommend this show i love it!
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a found tape about 3 guys having fun torturing a woman in several inhuman ways yeah spoiler first of all the acting made this short not scary at all the woman seemed to have orgasms not suffering some of the punishments were so ridiculous! what's shocking about throwing some meat or spin her in a chair if you are shooting a nonsense tape at least make it good the only part to remark is the end the hammered hand and the pierced eye the rest of the film is really poor to end the boredom the supposed story about the tape being investigated extra bullshit
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the biggest one that bugs the hell out of me is that they say zues takes dutch commands but she is speaking german to him the 2 languishes are completely different its like saying well he takes french commands and start talking spanish james belushi gives more the feeling of being a comedy actor not a detective in the slightest the role just doesn't fit him even if its mend to be a comedy to many stereotype predicable stuff typical comment or comebacks if you don't look at those things i think it could be a nice movie to watch if its ever on tv but i wouldn't suggesting renting it
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where to start i think only three other films have led me to post a review on imdb and all of those were positive as for this mind blowingly hideously tragically embarrassingly catastrophically stupidly irritatingly completely and utterly beyond awful i am stunned this got made never mind given a theatrical release i think i am literally in shock i'm no snob i didn't expect beautiful film making or intense character depth but this is truly beyond a joke we simply must demand more from the films we see avoid like the black death
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nothing about this movie stands out as either being great or terrible in the end that is what kills it the blandness is just not good i can't say i expected better from will smith but i definitely did from kevin james of the king of queens but hey i'm getting used to saying that a lot lately this film attempts to make its mark as a witty romantic comedy but it never hits the bull's eye in fact it never hits *anywhere* within the target the allergy scene is disturbing the fact that kevin james can't dance is something that wouldn't exactly catch anybody off guard and is therefore in a movie like this not funny this movie constantly tries to win your heart but always with the wrong ploy at the wrong time some parts are okay but i'm searching my brain for examples but i really think this movie should be avoided
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quite unimpressive the 'twists' are all pretty predictable if you've seen any movies within the last ten years and the few somewhat interesting parts wherein someone utilizes context clues to make a decision are few and lack much punch since the 'secret' has already been shown before these clues are explained spoilers sorta the acting is decent enough the story simply isn't very interesting the whole 'still awake' premise becomes nullified by the astral projection stuff not kidding the surgery scene is initially tense a bit discomforting but then becomes utterly banal not horrible but not memorable terrence howard's least interesting role to date so far as i've seen kind of boring overall
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bad actors terrible script totally unbelievable ending this film had it all after seeing films like this you wonder why the makers bothered at all this film has absolutely nothing to say all the methods used to create a scare have been used over and over again in previous horror films a total waste of time
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i can't say i enjoyed this as much as the big lebowski or raising arizona and felt a little slighted but o brother is an enjoyable film worthy of some good laughs and a taste of the coens' brisk twisted sense of creativity the dvd edition contains the featurette and i was interested to find out that the coens are pretty simple in their directorial techniques that surprised me! of course this movie is not the best example and i'm only saying this in comparison and it wasn't worthy of any oscars many feel it was robbed but maybe it depends on the appeal though i enjoyed the coens' previous work i've never been a fan of old westerns or the dukes of hazzard or any of that stuff they show daily on tnn i guess that's why i didn't feel as enthusiastic about checking out this movie seeing that it revolves around southern folk for all those from the south who are reading this i don't mean to offend any of your people! i'm sure you guys feel the same way when you watch movies about urban areas like a bronx tale when you live in the city all your life it's hard to get accustomed to films of this nature but all apologies aside i found the characters fun and quirky i think john turturro nailed the accent perfectly and seeing the way he talks in real life i find that amazing tim blake nelson was also good of course george clooney who i assume is not the best at feigning accents judging by his decision to chuck the idea of working with a dialogue coach and developing a new england accent for the perfect storm naturally seems a little miscast and continually struggles with the accent his performance was good though you can also spot coen regulars like holly hunter in a short but sweet role and john goodman also on screen for a short time but steals every minute of it though i don't normally dig country music i liked the title song a man of constant sorrow the dvd also contains the music video for that song overall i found the film entertaining and original but it doesn't have that in your face quality that the coens have shown to us in the past it's a slighter effort but a good one i still suggest you check it out my score 7 out of 10
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god what an awful thing ! oliver stone probably wanted to experiment or something see the terrible use of music and pictures here but what for really the whole thing behind natural born killers seems to be a clever look at how medias can turn into complete trash but unfortunately the movie turns into trash itself please mr stone next time you want to criticize the fascism of tv shows using violence to get high rates avoid doing the same with your movie ! michael haneke said quite cleverly about this film that it was denouncing media fascism with fascist cinematographic ways how true only he forgot to tell us about the massive headache you get after sitting through this overlong load of crap !
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stars hayden pantierre there have been so many movies that have this exact same plot and this one is just a poor rehashing of it populer white girl moves to ethnic school doesn't fit in soon becomes accepted originality is nonexistent in this and neither are the laughs it uses so many old poorly executed jokes it's annoying i don't know why they think it's a good idea to make made for video sequels to mediocre films but it isn't with that said the positives in this are that all the people in it are fairly competent actors and actresses my rating * out of **** pg 13 for language and sexual humor
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first let's get it out of the way yeah this film steals a lot from 'darkness falls' 2003 the plot for 'darkness falls' goes something like this the tooth fairy a murderous woman who hides her face due to disfigurement kills people who look at her out of revenge in 'the tooth fairy' 2006 the disfigured tooth fairy who yeah hides her face unleashes her furious vengeance on just about anyone a little too similar to be coincidence but what must be asked is this if you're going to directly steal the exact plot from a movie why choose something as mediocre as 'darkness falls' sure it made a few bucks at the box office but that was strictly for the fairly okay theatrical experience the film delivered a low budget straight to video movie will not have that same effect and it didn't as i watched the opening 15 20 minutes of the film my expectations actually rose there seemed to be at least some production value the story didn't seem terrible just blatantly ripped off past the first scene we get an okay cast of characters including an ex doctor with secrets played by that guy who looks like a busey and some hot veterinary student jenifer from argento's 'masters of horror jenifer' after those few minutes however the film just slowly goes down the drain it serves all the basic horrible clichés including but not limited to some crazy old person with an unheeded warning the buff dumb jock the psychic and the stripper with the heart of gold one of the biggest problems this film had was its inability to stick with a target audience it's kind of like the filmmakers wanted to change the tone for whatever character was on screen at the time when the adults were on screen it had a more mature feel when star the stripper and whatshisface the jock were on screen the dialogue went down to a more stupid err immature level when the kid was on screen it felt like an episode of 'are you afraid of the dark ' only less scary technically the film is all over the place the visuals range from fairly good to plain boring the writing is subpar as is the acting for the most part on the plus side there's some excessive gore at parts including a fairly cool yet painfully predictable woodchipper scene and a pretty vicious nailgun scene also if you're looking for a bit of the sexy stuff there's a brief topless scene but if you want to see this chick topless there are better films to do that other than that there's not much to bother with when it comes to this film if you're a huge fan of 'darkness falls' do those exist maybe you can check it out to see the story done in a different way but that's about the only reason i can find to see this one final verdict 3 10 ap3
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like those who listened to radio reports about the attack on pearl harbor every one who has ever seen pink flamingos can tell you exactly where they were when they first saw it and some thirty years later the movie is still one of the most unspeakably vile obnoxious repulsive and hilariously funny films ever put to celluloid guaranteed to test the strongest stomachs and the toughest funny bones filmed with a close to zero budget and some of the shakiest cinematography around pink flamingos tells the story of two families that compete for the tabloid title of the filthiest people alive just how filthy can they be plenty the film includes everything from sex with chickens to what i can only describe as a remarkable display of rectal control to a heaping helping of doggie doo and i guarantee that you won't want to eat an egg for at least several weeks after seeing it the cast is either wonderful atrocious or atrociously wonderful depending on how you look at it the star of course is divine and to describe divine as the biggest drag queen on the planet would the understatement of the year she is a mammoth creature given to big eye makeup big orange hair and big expressions she is the charleton heston of drag and whether she is almost running down a jogger pausing to use the bathroom on some one's front lawn or startling real life shoppers by taking a stroll along a baltimore sidewalk she is both unspeakable and unspeakably funny others in the cast include mary vivian pearce danny mills and the ever appalling edith massey as members of divine's family and mink stole and david lochary as the white slaving baby selling couple who challenge divine's status it should be pretty obvious that pink flamingos is not exactly a movie that will appeal to just every one and viewers who know director john waters only through such later films as hairspray and crybaby will be in for a major jolt but if you want to see something so completely different that even monty python couldn't imagine it this is the movie for you just make sure you eat before you see it because you probably won't want to eat afterward and you might want to keep a barf bag handy just in case gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
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this is one of those movies where i just want to move my feet and dance around the house it's a very positive and happy type of music the movie has some sad parts but mostly the music is what makes me happy gary busey did a great job as buddy holly buddy holly kept on going even tho his pastor his parents and the nashville record producer told him no buddy holly didn't give up on what he liked i didn't know much about buddy holly until i watched this movie i've been to the surf ballroom where he last played but didn't give much attention to it until i watched this movie it's an incredible movie with lots of fun so get on your feet and see this movie
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wow what a great cast! julia roberts john cusack christopher walken catherine zeta jones hank azaria what's that a script you say now you're just being greedy! surely such a charismatic bunch of thespians will weave such fetching tapestries of cinematic wonder that a script will be unnecessary you'd think so but no america's sweethearts is one missed opportunity after another it's like everyone involved woke up before each day's writing shooting editing and though you know what i've been working pretty hard lately and this is guaranteed to be a hit with all these big names right i'm just gonna cruise along and let somebody else carry the can so much potential yet so painful to sit through there isn't a single aspect of this thing that doesn't suck even julia's fat suit is lame
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nice movie with a great soundtrack which spans through the rock landscape of the 70's and 80's radiofreccia describes a generation it describes life in a small village near correggio hometown of ligabue the singer who wrote the book that inspired the movie it describes life of young people and their problems relating to the world it reminds of trainspotting with a bit of italian touch
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i'd waited for some years before this movie finally got released in england but was in many ways very pleased when i finally saw it there are a lot of great things to the film for a start the acting its not something i have all that much need for in a horror picture but the people in this film all put in fine work this and the constantly gripping and interesting script with a nice sorta lovecraftian feel to it give the film a real solid backbone add to this the doses of surreal nightmare imagery and occasional gruesome gore and the films a winner it has my favorite kind of gore too supernatural and splattery also the characters of marcus the angry bodybuilding transsexual and daisy his mentally retarded lover plaything are genuinely freakish and unnerving at times and give a far out anything goes sense of morbid grown up craziness which works well with the frequent freudian overtones this is one of the most impressive recent horror movies far more shocking or out there than anything hollywood can produce my only gripe was that i wanted the ending to be darker in tone but it still works so on the whole i'd really recommend this to serious horror buffs
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this movie has one or two slightly interesting gags but they are not worth the wait after an unexplained argument between two guys picking up litter in a drive in movie theatre we cut to a family leaving! hollywood and driving driving driving driving their camper van across the screen again and again as inane dialogue is voiced over at least i think it's inane the terrible song that accompanies this montage is mixed so loud it renders the dialogue at times almost inaudible finally the camper van arrives at night at a gas station where the family get out have another inane conversation before driving off the camera then pans across to reveal the actor we have just seen drive away he talks straight to camera and we realise he is the director of the movie we are watching which is about him and how he came to make the movie a nice idea which almost but not quite makes the previous sequences worth the pain as the movie unfolds he encounters the two characters we met picking litter at the start of the movie and they all form a motion picture company all sorts of not very funny and clumsy comedy ensues as they put together a crew and attempt to raise the cash needed to start filming this movie was obviously put together on a shoe string and a promise and there is a nice little idea in here struggling to get out but the execution is so inept that the idea gets lost comedy is more than things just falling over and everyone talking or shouting at once so much of the dialogue here is shouted by several actors simultaneously robert altman can do this sort of thing well because he has a script rehearsals decent sound techies and editing facilities everyone shouting at the one mike which by the sound of it was hidden in a dustbin in the next room does not make for clarity
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i can honestly tell you that this movie is the most awesome movie ever!!! if you are in the mood for a comedy i totally recommend this movie! so here's the summary there is this girl nikki who is fourteen and a half and she goes on a vacation with her father andre whom she hasn't seen for about two years she expects the vacation to be totally boring until she meets this boy ben who is much older than she is so to try to impress him she says that she isn't on vacation with her father but her lover this is a hysterical movie from beginning to end and i highly suggest it so rent it and enjoy!!!
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well here comes another well romantic comedy but unlike all others movies of this genre this is by far the best i have seen in a long while i'll admit at first i wanted to watch this movie because of megan fox and a little because of simon pegg first of all if you have watched a decent amount of movies you will know that sidney and alison would be together at the and of the movie one way or another but from the beginning to the end of the movie you won't know how okay now this movie is just made for simon pegg i can't see any other actor in the role of sidney and i'm sure this would be a very weaker movie if not for pegg's great performance there is a number of great gags and jokes in this movie that kept me laughing really hard courtesy of simon pegg's character sidney but i think everyone in this movie is good for example kirsten dunst is really solid in this movie i usually don't think of her as any more than an average actress but she was really good in this one then there's jeff bridges there's gillian anderson and of course megan fox who plays spoiled bitchy star sophie maes great role for her all in all while i usually don't agree with ratings her on imdb this time i would completely agree with them go and see this movie it is really light hearted and positive and i recommend it deeply my rating 7 out of 10 well 7 5 actually
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with the advent of the imdb this overlooked movie can now find an interested audience why because users here who do a search on two time academy award winner glenda jackson can find 'the return of the soldier' among her credits so can those checking out oscar winner julie christie fans of ann margret can give the title a click as will those looking into the career of the great alan bates not to mention the added bonus of a movie with supporting heavyweights ian holm and frank finlay any movie with so many notables in it is rewarded by the imdb given all the cross referencing that goes on here so why isn't this movie out on dvd don't the producers realize the internet movie database is a marketing gift for such a film and 'the return of the soldier' is definitely a gem waiting to be discovered get with it people
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[warning contains spoilers] written by husband and wife wally wolodarsky who also directed and maya forbes this indie film is one of the better romantic comedies in recent memory jay mohr takes a break from playing smarmy weasels to be the nice guy faced with the fact his fiancée wants to bed other people and he's allowed to do so too julianne nicholson who was so good in tully plays spunky and vulnerable with great gusto too bad she doesn't get the recognition she deserves good supporting performances help immensely too lauren graham who made last year's bad santa memorable plays the jaded cynical sister to perfection bryan cranston the dad on tv's malcolm in the middle gets a few funny raunchy moments and andy richter plays a genial guy who falls for a single mother helen slater in a credible albeit familiar role as a mousy woman what surprised me most about seeing other people was how funny it is there are some genuine laughs here ed's first attempt at meaningless sex gets some great lines and there's a ménage a trois that elicits one of the most truthful reactions from a man as the male fantasy gets tweaked the film's premise isn't unusual but i liked that it was alice nicholson who thought of it much to the chagrin of ed mohr given the genre you know that no matter how good her intentions are alice's plan is doomed we see how the couple works through this strange situation initially alice and ed are turned on by the idea but then the human element sets it i appreciated forbes and wolodarsky not turning this into a cheap sex romp yes there's sex and nudity but there also are real emotions at work here the other people alice and ed befriend don't want to be the objects of casual sex they have feelings too in one case too many feelings granted some scenes run one joke too many the richter slater subplot isn't necessary and alice does something truly uncharacteristic but that's forgivable because mohr and nicholson generate such tremendous intimacy and honesty check out the scenes where ed rummages through alice's underwear drawer or his reaction to her announcement about ending the experiment that no matter how much we might enjoy their little game we root for this couple to succeed unfortunately this film got little if any publicity and a limited release hollywood studios whose romantic comedies often veer on the unfunny turgid and unsurprising would do well to learn from this intelligent and funny film
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what a terrible movie! it represents perfectly the state of degenerateness of french society where the most elementary respect for wholesome values and traditions has completely disappeared the plot is nonsensical the movie is not funny at all and the characters are completely shallow and uninteresting to say the least the direction and the cinematography are very poor and uninspired catherine deneuve is as bad an actress as she always was even when she was directed by bunuel in belle de jour the rest of the usually good cast vincent lindon line renaud jean yanne seem completely lost in an ocean of vulgarity platitudes and restlessness i cannot help to draw a parallel with the wonderful james ivory's le divorce with its thoughtful depiction of french and american mores its superlative cinematography and stellar cast put to good use having watched le divorce you can feel a kind of empathy with the french regardless of their foibles belle maman leaves you with only a nauseated contempt for its morally bankrupt and clueless protagonists
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this film's kind of like conan the barabarian but with more sex rape and murder there is a plot somewhere underneath all this debauchery but the filmmakers don't do a good job showing it which is a shame because it 'could' be a decent story richard hill gives a solid performance in the lead role as does the villain who sadly didn't appear in anything else of note the fight scenes aren't too bad either i love the way deathstalker lets his sword 'drink' the blood of his victims and there's plenty of nudity and sex to temper the general level of machismo throughout all in all not good but not necessarily that bad either
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this may just be the most nostalgic journey back in time & through time to when one's childhood starts a journey to reminiscences back & forth onwards & upwards forwards & backwards up & down & all around the boy jimmy h r puffinstuff dr blinky cling & clang ludicrous lion & even the evil witchie poo too through & through the latter day inspirations of lidsville the brady kids saturday morning preview special sigmund & the sea monsters and land of the lost both the new & old are what this very show bridged the gap to as well as the donny & marie show the brady bunch variety hour a k a brady bunch hour & even the paul lynde halloween special maybe even other things in between & beyond the buck just keeps on moving on & on & even beyond expectations & as well as unexpected bounds now as we get updated in march of '06 we know that jack wild's gone & so now it make's it even more symbolic for us to really get nostalgic including now in august of '06 both when jack wild guest stars as himself on sigmund and the sea monsters as well as when on a latter episode h r puffinstuff does too and to recall all of the other nostalgic journeys of all the syd & marty kroft characters as well including the h r puffinstuff goodtime club the donny and marie show the brady bunch variety hour a k a the brady bunch hour etc truthfully stephen steve g baer a k a ste of framingham ma usa
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the film had it moments but was disappointing in my eyes anyway it was a reworking of trespass walter hill and so the treasure of the sierra madre with less tension bite and human emotion there was some nice acting but the story was limp and lacked any real depth i watched the movie for mr reno and mr fishburn neither were inspired and both had little to say or act out of their skin for this movie has been done to death in the past and did not have to be made eats up money which could be used on better movies for an action movie it was sparse of action and as a thriller did not thrill better than watching snow fall but not for me
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even mst3k couldn't make this painful long and ultimately mind bending drek funny or entertaining while most bad movies in and of themselves are hilariously bad this one is one of those few videos that uses the word bad in its literal sense the element that makes this so painful to watch is not the lack of story but the fact that soooo much background is crammed into the first half hour that it is utterly ridiculous and harder to follow than a highway while driving with no headlights the hero of the film ator is no more than eye candy for this literal energy sucker of a film dressed in a loin cloth and sporting pecs like melons as joel put it he belongs more in a fitness magazine than here i would recommend this only to die hard and i mean die hard followers of cheese if you have an enemy recommend them this film if you make it through this i commend you you should be able to make it through anything
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square really landed this one they didn't try to please everyone and instead focused exclusively on final fantasy 7 fans and boy are those going to be happy fans when they see this movie! the story might not be all that interesting or credible but it ties in neatly with the story of the game and has several honest to god funny moments!! a total surprise there and a welcome one too there are lots of cameos and funny references to the game too and most important of all the fighting scenes rock so hard they could cut through diamond! they are truly the total awesomeness and would have made the movie worth it even if everything else sucked i mean they are some of the best ever created period see this movie bye ps i know my review sounds like the ravings of a teenage girl it was like totally what i intended
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watching the wagonmaster is not likely to result in deep thoughts unlike many other great ford films like the searchers my darling clementine the man who shot liberty valance and the grapes of wrath among others but it is likely to produce a feeling of awe and deep satisfaction the story is very simple two cowboys decide to help a wagon train of mormons get to california along the way they run into a medicine man whose mules ran away a group of bank robbers and some navajos there's a lot of adventure and excitement on the trail and the film is imbued with fun and beauty the music is absolutely beautiful the scenery again from monument valley is as beautiful as it ever was plus how can you go wrong with james arness the wagonmaster might not be one of john ford's better known films but it is nonetheless a must see if you get the chance 9 10
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this was the most unrealistic movie i ever seen i can't believe that the writer and director didn't see that almost all the movie looks like a sf one for example 1 it is impossible for the killer to stay on cold glaze and after 10 hours to get up so quickly 2 you can't get electrocuted trough a water pipe like in the movie believe me it's my domain 3 with a saw you can cut 10 pipes in 10 hour very easy let's say that the chain was made from steel but the water pipe was rusty and it was made from iron 4 if you try to cut your foot with a saw you faint in the best case it's more likely to die because your hart fails before to get to the bone shin and there are more other examples
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a very great movie a big love story lots of sword fighting huge battle scenes heros and villains real history few in the west know much chinese history chin zchaundi founded china the country is in fact named after him some are familiar with the terra cotta army recently unearthed this is a historical epic of how he ended the period of contending states and unified china he founded a dynasty that only last 14 years but it was immediately replaced by the han dynasty that permanently defined chinese civilization ever since chin or the king of zheng as he was known before he founded the empire was roughly contemporaneous with scipio hannibal and fabius in the west the parallel roman world dominance west and east worlds was achieved without a single towering personality like chin it would not be for another century before the west produced caesar the nearest comparable western figure chin is shown very sympathetically here in the beginning but he develops over the course of the film into a ruthless despot history only records the ruthless despot part but the sympathetic beginning leaves room for real character development over the course of this long film the famous story about the meeting with the assassin is as true as any two thousand year old anecdote can be gong li is lovely she is the emotional core of the story it all makes for great movie making
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i saw this movie partly because of the sheer number of good reviews at netflix and from it i leaned a valuable lesson not a lesson about ethnic diversity however the lesson i learned is don't trust reviews yes racism sucks and people are complicated but the people who actually need to see this movie are going to be the ones who are the least drawn to it and least affected by it if they do see it the only reason that i can think of for the number of good reviews is that it's being reviewed by people who aren't used to thinking or who've seen their first thought provoking movie and somehow think that haggis invented the concept in fact he basically made this film which should be called racism for dummies as emotionally wrenching as possible seemingly to give people who don't spend a lot of time thinking the impression that they've discovered some fundamental truth that's never been covered in a film before zen and the art of motorcycle maintanence it's not an after school special for the unthinking masses cut into bite sized overwrought ham fisted pieces to make it easier to swallow without too much introspection it's as if they portrayed everyone as being the worst possible extreme simply to make us happy that we're such good people because we don't identify with the characters let's face it people nobody identifies with these characters because they're all cardboard cutouts and stereotypes or predictably reverse stereotypes it's well acted even if the dialog is atrocious and cleverly executed so much that you don't think to ask where's the beef until you can tell the film is winding down the flaming car scene was well executed like much of the movie but went nowhere in the end the messages are very heavy handed and from the behind the scenes blurb the producers were clearly watching a different movie because there is very little to laugh about in this movie even during the intended funny parts i have to stress that this is not entertainment more like a high school diversity lesson call it the blood on the highway of racism they could even show this in high schools if it weren't for the side nude shot of jennifer esposito in this film everyone's a jerk and everyone learns a lesson except for michael pena who gets the best role but the most predictable storyline this is a bad film with bad writing and good actors an ugly cartoon crafted by paul haggis for people who can't handle anything but the bold strokes in storytelling a picture painted with crayons crash is a depressing little nothing that provokes emotion but teaches you nothing if you already know racism and prejudice are bad things
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as a westerner watching another culture's view and tradition of marriag i found just married mesmerizing and delightful the idea of marrying a stranger through the mutual arrangement of parents is difficult especially in this modern age yet this is the case in this hindi film told with humor and fresh perspective we learn of abhay and ritika who have only met once and are now on their traditional five day honeymoon as said it is difficult to believe in this cell phone affluent age that such an archaic custom as an arranged marriage still take place we see the awkwardness that this young couple feels as they come together on their first night and how they try to forge a bond even though they do not know one another we see different views of marriage and commitment as presented by the other couples also on holiday from a couple of forty years married to others still unsure of making marital commitment there's song witty dialog poignant moments blending and comparison of new ways and tradition watching the movie with subtitles definitely loses some of the trueness of the story yet it is still a delight to watch granted some of the plot is a little trite and the bus incident a bit drawn out and contrived however the overall movie was worth watching
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my nose is bent slightly out of shape as i write this i had sent a previous comment on this film some weeks ago that has not yet appeared so i assume it was rejected even though it met all the usual guidelines i found this film interesting for the first thirty minutes particularly the performance of jordi mollà a veteran actor who has appeared in such major productions as blow and the alamo leonor watling is also quite good unfortunately everything sinks eventually under the weight of a truly awful melodramatic script there is also an abundance of gratuitous nudity that does nothing to advance the narrative or lend even an impressionistic nuance to what is otherwise a beautifully filmed piece of art an actual day trip to the beach at valencia would be much less arduous than having to encounter these fictional characters again anywhere anytime
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this is an interesting movie i think it's very humorous although the humor is very black fulci is good and funny acting himself it's a really funny and truly crazy self portrait of an artist i make horror films if i would make love films no one would buy tickets and it's really sexy movie also almost all the time there is some action or tension going on and many sexy girls women maybe it goes to the core of why anyone starts to do movies art in the first place it's a real psychedelic trip maybe best seen a little drunk or some similar state of mind there is some really nasty gore scenes also of course because it's lucio fulci as a matter of fact some of those scenes are quite disgusting anyway it's one of the three best and most complete fulci films i've seen the others are house by the cemetery & zombi haven't seen the beyond actually the script is overally to my opinion quite ingenious you could see this movie as a portrait of an extreme neurotic or a person who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder fashionable words the character has a compulsive need to confess crimes or bad thoughts especially crimes he hasn't even done and he questions himself all the time what if i have done it what if i want to do it have i done it do i want to do it he overreacts and exaggerates his thoughts i'm sure fulci has been interested of psychology and maybe even read something of the area in his house by the cemetery movie for example there is a character named freudstein this is maybe the most concentrated and straightly personal movie fulci did i also like the simplicity of the photography pictures in this film only thing that disturbs me a little bit is the sadism especially towards women i don't quite understand why is it entertainment is it art is it horror anyways and overall this is really interesting and well made movie definitely recommended classic film at least for fans or anyone interested of this genre for the others it may be too much
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i could not watch more than 10 minutes of this movie it has set the standard i will never again give a movie a 1 unless it was as horrible as this one i fully agree with the other comments about this film but since i'm dutch i watched it with dutch translation apparently they didn't have money for a proper translation so they decided to babelfish it with sometimes hilarious results don't smoke don't drink don't do drugs don't watch demon summer i was surprised that the actors wow i can't believe i just said that didn't hold the script was there any in their hands while shooting i think they also did a good job on well uhmm no they didn't do a good job at all
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okay i had watched this movie when i was very little and the day that we were cleaning out the closet i see this!i thought i have no idea of what this movie was like so i went ahead and put it in oh my god!!!!!this film is so darn bad!i never thought that this film could ever get as close to my least favorite film as it did but i did laugh because all the jokes were so corny and ridiculous not funny!!!!so much stuff in this movie was funny because it was so stupid!!!!this film is not anywhere near good i would have to say if you want to watch this movie you definitely better not expect anything big and if you've already seen it trust me i feel your pain as well!!!!
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i hadn't planned on seeing this movie however i wasn't disappointed when a friend dragged me along although there are no real surprises here the guys do reasonably well with their obviously modest budget if you've seen the trailer you probably know what to expect from this type of movie and there's a pretty constant stream of jokes here with a couple of classic moments with the highpoint probably being an excellent flashback to what the guys were like in the 1980's also i've read elsewhere that the ending was a disappointment but i found it refreshingly different from what i had expected from this genre overall this movie wont change your life but it's got enough laughs there to keep you entertained throughout
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yeah that about sums it up this movie was horrifying two minutes in i wanted to gouge my eyes out this has been praised as an innovative lds comedy but it's not even good for members of that church! i don't think any human being should be so victimized as to watch a movie of this low quality first of all you can tell that absolutely no effort whatsoever went into this movie it seems as if the horribly drab glib trite plot was thrown together by two crazy weasels somehow imbued with the gift for coherent at least semi coherent thought then there's the acting which is dismal from *everybody* involved even the cameos fail to liven anything up and let's not forget the fact that our protagonist is a shallow jerk who we would like to believe can change but that road is full of embarrassingly bad dialogue appallingly hideous gags and a lot of mormon in jokes that anyone in their right mind lds or not should consider purely *stupid*! this has to be one of the worst films i've ever seen!
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infamous horror films seldom measure up the hype that surrounds them and i have yet to come across a worse offender than wes craven's the hills have eyes having held back from watching this for years i was really pleased when i got it for christmas and waited for an evening when my girlfriend was out to settle down and watch it knowing her extreme dislike for anything genuinely horrifying i needn't have bothered after a promising if familiar start that firmly sets the film in the 'desolution usa' world of survival horror things rapidly go to pieces when the protagonists and antagonists meet in the deserted wasteland looking like it was shot on a budget of $5 with the cannibal clan's costumes hired from a dodgy fancy dress shop that specialises in faux caveman and red indian attire the story follows an annoying bunch of unsympathetic wasps who take a detour on a road trip to california to look for a silver mine in a nuclear testing zone ! when they break down they are set upon by the local family of flesh eaters and have to fight to survive while hoping for another deliverance texas chainsaw massacre wrong turn or devil's rejects i actually realised i'd stumbled across something that should have remained dusty and unwatched in a backstreet video store's bargain bin with gallons of tomato ketchup for blood and a couple of gruesome wound close ups i can kind of see how an 18 certificate in the uk is justified but with those close ups trimmed this wouldn't have looked out of place as a saturday afternoon thriller on itv the whole silver mine nuclear test site subplot is just a mcguffin to justify pitching the 'civilised' family against the primitives but given how easily the savages get their asses whupped it stretches credibility to think that they had survived for a generation preying on passers by and then there's the ending or lack thereof the hills have eyes seems to be missing either a third act or at the very least a satisfying denouement instead i was just left wondering yeah and
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although at first glance this movie looks like the story of your parent's high school life and many people will try to tell you that this movie is way outdated and i admit that that was my first impression but honestly the 'lessons' that are learned by the heroes heroines are def not outdated who doesn't want to be famous and who doesn't want do be accepted my their peers and the homosexual guy isn't there a whole controversy today about gay marriage blah blah this movie though released in the 80's still addresses some of the biggest issues in today's world this movie does have a little too much profanity and nudity for my taste though thus the 8 10 rating
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there are not many films which i would describe as perfect but rififi definitely fits the bill no other heist film has come close to it before or after the plot is simple but engrosses you it never ceases to amaze me how absolutely gripping the film is every time you view it you care for all the characters even though they are bank robbers because they are presented as human beings with all their problems and flaws it's hard to imagine any other actor besides jean servais in the role of tony le stéphanois when the members of the crew are each talking about what they are going to do with their money and finally get to tony his answer and the expression on his face says it all while the 30 minute heist sequence is the most famous part of the movie and rightfully so the film actually gets better afterward the director jules dassin knew what he was doing when he decided to not have any music during the heist scene or the final shootout but instead inserted a great climactic score during tony's final ride towards his destiny to think that if dassin an american director had not been blacklisted in hollywood and forced to work in france this masterpiece of cinema would never have been made the way it was it certainly wouldn't have been as good if it was made as an american film during that time it was absolutely horrible what dassin had to go through but he did achieve his greatest work because of it to the benefit of all of us i'm just cringing at the thought of the upcoming al pacino remake most heist films since rififi have already borrowed from it in some way or another there's no reason to remake this masterpiece other than money leave the classics alone!
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soul calibur has always been my favorite fighting game series of all time and sciii is my favorite one of the series the graphics are very well done much bigger improvement over the choppy polygons in soul edge soul blade the characters have facial expressions hair blows in the breeze and they even blink soul calibur has always been known for it's interesting plots and characters and sciii is no exception each character has his her background story that is detailed and well done my favorite character is chai xianghua she's cute she's funny and she's a strong female character yeah i know she wears pink and has a boyfriend who she ends up saving btw but there seems to be more to her than that xianghua like all the other characters have flaws and upsides to their personalities so no character is perfect not even the good guys the music is beautifully composed for a fighting game series it doesn't sound kitchy the vampire series nor does it sound like old school porn film soundtrack mortal kombat the characters have their own themes and a lot of the themes are done to match the culture of that certain part of the world i don't think there is a song on this soundtrack i don't like another cool thing about this game is to create your own anime like character create a soul you could make him her look as cute or as sexy or even ugly if you like however if you found a character customization that you like remember to take notes or else you won't remember how you created that character i found myself being very addicted to cas overall i think soul calibur is my number one fighting game series of all time it has everything i asked for what more could i want
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yes i know that this movie is meant as a comedy! and the humor is over the top! but the theme about people getting less intelligent in future time might not be so far fetched! i cannot say that it will happen but if we don't take proper care of our educational system than this could be a possibility! i have noticed that some schools aren't teaching facts anymore! like history geography basic stuff the focus is more on learning practical abilities! the theory behind most subjects may be boring but is essential in understanding how things work! in the movie there is this ridiculous example of people growing crops with gatorade in stead of water! well we can laugh about it! but if you never been taught that water contains minerals necessary for plants to grow so how would you know! to me this is a scary notion! so now you understand why this subject isn't funny anymore! it could be that mike judge is making fun but at the same time is warning people for a real disaster if education doesn't improve fast! am i taking this movie too seriously! yes of course! to each his own fun! i loved mike judge's work beavis and butthead and office space ! in these he was able to be critical and funny at the same time! in idiocracy i missed this! most of the events are too absurd and as i said earlier very scary! i do think if you are in the mood you will like this movie!
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the original animated dark knight returns in this ace adventure movie that rivals mask of phantasm in its coolness there's a lot of style and intelligence in mystery of the batwoman so much more than batman forever or batman and robin there's a new crime fighter on the streets of gotham she dresses like a bat but she's not a grown up batgirl and batman is denying any affiliation with her meanwhile bruce wayne has to deal with the usual romances and detective work but the penguin bain and the local mob makes things little more complicated i didn't have high hopes for this 'un since being strongly let down but the weak batman sub zero robin isn't featured so much here! but i was delighted with the imaginative and exciting set pieces the clever plot and a cheeky sense of humor this is definitely a movie no fan of batman should be without keep your ears open for a really catchy song called 'betcha neva' which is featured prominently through out it's a shame the dvd isn't so great don't get me wrong there are some great features the short 'chase me' is awesome and a very cool dolby 5 1 soundtrack but the movie is presented in pan and scan batman mystery of the batwoman was drawn and shot in 1 85 1 but this dvd is presented in 1 33 1 an in comparison to the widescreen clips shown on the features there is picture cut off on both sides i find this extremely annoying considering mask of phantasm was presented in anamorphic widescreen warner have had to re release literally dozens of movies on dvd because people have complained about the lack of original aspect ratio available on some titles why they chose to make that same mistake here again is beyond me i would give this dvd 5 5 but the lack of oar brings the overall score down to 4 5 it's a shame because widescreen would have completed a great dvd package
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if you asked me to pick the best acted movies ever made this movie would be on a short list along with 1951's streetcar named desire i imagine i'll discover some others that qualify but kramer vs kramer is an outstanding exercise in naturalism so its a very satisfying experience on that level just watching the marvelous probing performances of dustin hoffman meryl streep and the child justin henry in particular one of the best child performances ever but i also find it very satisfying to watch because its such a thoroughly involving story it always makes me forget my own problems it has such excellent narrative drive once you stick kramer vs kramer on and alice kramer leaves ted to juggle work and their young son telling him nothing more than she has to discover herself you keep watching to know that everything turns out okay for them and even once you know how things do turn out each moment of the ride just rings so brilliantly true that its a joy to watch it happen again and again make no mistake kramer vs kramer is not light entertainment its a very realistic portrayal of the effects of divorce on everyone involved 10 10 for one of the best scripts born out of conversations between benton and hoffman who was going through a divorce at the time ever written executed and performed beautifully and faultlessly not to mention what a great involving story it is put simply a perfect film
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let me say at the outset that i'm not a very artistic person and that i don't get new art that being said this film is absolutely crazy and in my opinion not crazy in a good way filmed entirely in black and white with a series of very loosely connected stories avida is a film for those who can look at modern art and say wow i feel the energy and passion of this painting the only reason i give this film a 3 out of 10 is because i actually did manage to laugh at some parts though mainly laughing at the sheer insanity of the film two of the characters throwing chairs on a lawn as to do what these characters were doing i have no idea i wouldn't recommend this film to anybody
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wonderful film that mixes documentary and fiction in a way that makes the spectator question what is the extent of truth in documentary films or is there such a thing as an objective documentary
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it has been some years since i saw this but remember it and would like to see it again it kind of became a therapy for me with a personal experience of my own a thirty five year old man laments over a high school baseball game in which he missed the ball and his team lost he thinks about it 20 years later if only i'd hit that ball and how his life would be better because of it then he gets a chance to find out and gets a little more than he bargained for it reminds me so much of when i was in high school i twice tried out for our drill dance team and didn't make it this team was the closest thing to a sorority in my school if you were on it you were all that i didn't try out till my last two years of hs and after the second time i took it really hard i'd hit and bruised my leg badly just before tryouts and wore tights to cover the bruise and that caused me to not make it that was in 1987 through the years even now sometimes i think if only i hadn't hit my leg i would've never worn those stupid tights now i don't sit and think my life would be any better or even any different had i made it but seeing this movie made me realize that we never really know how different things may be by changing one little thing way back in the past who knows it could have changed the course of events to the point that i wouldn't have met my son's father i would recommend this movie to anyone who has that one moment in the past they wish they could change be careful what you wish for!!!
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not really a big box office draw but i was pleasently surprised with this movie james i did some things to farrah fawcett orr co wrote and directed this movie about an ordinary average guy named larry burrows who thinks his life would have been incredibly different if he hit a homerun at a key baseball game when he was 15 but thanks to mysterious and magical bartender mike larry gets his wish yet soon realizes that his new life isn't exactly as he hoped it would be i must say this movie really impressed me critics have given it mixed and i must say the concept is really interesting and pulled off well yes it is a little standard but packs enough funny moments drama and excellent acting to make it really good james belushi i think was oscar worthy for his role jon lovitz is perfect and linda hamilton plus renee russo shine in their roles michael caine is perfect as the bartender it's just a good movie with a good lesson if you've never seen i highly recommend you check
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this is another sci fi channel original movie staring rhys davies where its hard to decide whats worse the acting or the writing directing producing john sheppherd helms all three basic story obsessed exobiologist captures chubacabra monster smuggles it in a cargo container aboard a cruise ship it escapes and the blood bath begins clichéd sci fi cast of the sturdy captain with the beautiful daughter handsome hero and mad scientist captian calls in a terrorist alert for the ship since of course wouldn't believe a monster story no dramatic helicopter drop of the navy seals here budget only allowed for entire force force of eight seals to arrive in a fiberglass fishing boat and ride a ships wench aboard puleeze also cheesy computer animation of the ship you could do better on your computer i also loved when the seal commander looking thru standard binoculars from ten miles away was able to see three people jump of the ship if the sci fi channel is going to continue original movies i hope they realize there audience is not kindergarten level and purchase better scripts and directors if this were direct to video you would find it in the 99 cent bin
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and that goes especially for lawyers & cops puerto rico which boasts of a small but potent film production firm brings this multi layered tale of corruption due to the on going drug cartel that starts in south america makes a pit stop on the island commonwealth and then northbound into north america steven bauer the most recognizable face on screen here leads a cast of top notch actors in a story of can you spot the only respectable face in the crowd ricardo mendez matta moves up from directing mainly action adventure fare for american television in a screenplay written by matta along with poli marichal the rest of the cast elpidia carrillo magda rivera jose herredia luz maria randon to mention a few turn in oh so fine roles in a film that will keep you wondering is there any respectable characters here spoken in spanish with english subtitles rated 'r' by the mpaa this film contains outbursts of vulgar language brief flashes of nudity adult content & violence some of which is quite lurid
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in a lot of ways this film defines the essence of everything i love about cinema in terms of capturing those strange elusive moments of unguarded truth in other ways it is undeniably an amateurish unfocused result of junkies self indulgently fooling around with a camera ultimately it comes out somewhere between pure brilliance and unwatchability thankfully much more so the former than the latter part of me wants to reward it solely for it's absolute innovativeness and moments of pure sublimity but at the same time i can't completely ignore the occasionally downright awful acting and overtly bad production values at first the editing seems overwhelmingly sloppy and needlessly distracting or maybe just wrongheadedly innovative but after a while i got used to it which is in the end the true sign of whether a film succeeds on it's own terms or not i guess that answer basically sums up my all around feelings for the film that is despite it's in ignorable flaws on a whole it does work very well and if nothing else a film like this really shows how false and contrived the faux documentary shaky cam style can sometimes be when it so obviously applied purely for effect such as in films like the otherwise admirable roger dodger here the aesthetics are plainly derived from the necessities of the filming situation and are not just used arbitrarily to make it look cool
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children love dinosaurs it's somewhat part of their culture but they've got the land before time the original at least that movie had heart this this movie is just plain pathetic just because kids love dinosaurs doesn't mean you can just slap together any old story and show it to the children this movie has no plot the whole premise is stupid and it's more by the numbers stuff not as soul sucking as theodore rex but it's lightyears away from being a land before time
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last week i watched a royal shakespeare company production of macbeth it was 25 years old filmed w no props except swords no furniture except chairs it was riveting the acting was super all the actors trained brits contrast that performance to this yawn yawn yawn al pacino as shylock was tragic heavy and couldn't quite lose the new yorker accent despite the long pauses between lines the whole thing was soporific even the comic scenes were barely even worth a smile let a lone a belly laugh this is supposed to be funny they tried to make it tragic it was neither just boring i give it four points for costumes scenery and jeremy irons who is good at playing a dull depressed deep voiced guy can he be anything else
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i just love this film it totally rocks! nicolas cage looks hot and tommy does not! i definitely feel that fred and randy should have had a little more time together on screen cause they're totally cool my favorite part is when he says peter piper picked a pepper i guess i did!
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in the first transformation scene what is the music i've heard it was the greeks don't get no freeks is that right i really liked that sound i also liked the hyde's got nothing to hide in the final scenes truly a doper movie but with many laughs and puns sight gags and slapstick madam woo woo's place was reminiscent of some places i have visited myself ivy venus has appeared in some other stuff that is truly amazing she looks much different in the movie we're talking about but her maturity didn't hurt her a bit mark blankfield reminds one of gene wilder in some ways bess armstrong was beautiful and maintained her beauty for a long time
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i've seen this movie quite a few times and each time i watch it the quirkier and funnier it becomes perhaps its the lack of research that went into nicolas cage's character's 'punk' persona or just the cheesiness factor because it was such a typical eighties film nonetheless it's a cute love story with extremely funny unique characters i think it's right up there with fast times and weird science quintessential eighties flicks!
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watching this i mainly noticed the ad placements dhl aquawhite strips rockstar and more it's one product placement after another it's quite obvious how this movie got its funding jessica simpson's acting is laughable any dick shouldn't ever get work because he plays the same lame character the story is just a backdrop for this very long commercial i can't believe this movie was even considered for theatrical release the longer you watch this movie the more you're embarrassed for everyone involved the only minor saving grace is larry miller and rachael lee cook who gets almost no screen time as jessica's cousin i'm embarrassed i watched the whole thing i would recommend avoiding this one
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i'm not tired to say this is one of the best political thrillers ever made the story takes place in a fictional state but obviously it deals with the murder of kennedy a truthful and honest district attorney played by yves montand does not believe that the murder was planned and executed by the single man daslow oswald and though all other officials want to close the case he continuous to investigate with his team the screenplay is written tight and fast and holds the tension till the end just the part dealing with the milgram experiment about authorities is though not uninteresting a bit out of place the ending sequence explaining who icarus really is partly shot in slow motion and intensified by a morricone soundtrack is the most powerful sequence i have ever seen in a movie
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elvira mistress of the dark 1988 cassandra peterson daniel greene william morgan sheppard susan kellerman edie mcclug jeff conaway phil rubenstein larry flash jenkins tress macneille damita jo freeman mario celario william dance lee mclaughlin charles woolf sharon hays bill cable joseph arias scott morris ira heiden frank collison lynne marie stewart marie sullivan jack fletcher robert benedetti kate brown hugh gillin eve smith raleigh bond tony burrier alan dewames timm hill read scot james hogan derek givens director james signorelli screenplay sam egan john paragon elvira mistress of the dark was an 80's tv icon who had her own late night show on cable she hosted and presented classic american horror films many of them campy while providing her own quips and humorous remarks actress cassandra peterson has to this date ridden on that success in 1988 her first film was released playing herself she's stuck hosting monster movie shows but longs for her own show in las vegas and make big money her agent manny proves a disappointment it's not long before she inherits a mansion from a deceased relative a pet dog and a book of recipes she comes to claim her inheritance in a small nevada town she was on her way to vegas and became lost and soon stirs things up in the sedate community outspoken conservative town council woman chastity pariah edie mcclurg soon sees her as a threat to the decency and values of the small town her voluptuous figure and winning personality soon draws the youth of the town she falls for bob redding daniel greene the town handyman carpenter but before any real relationship can bloom she finds herself in deep trouble vincent talbot william morgan sheppard an eerie older man who is also set to inherit part of the fortune of elvira's relative is in fact an age old sorcerer who has a personal vendetta against elvira's aunt and elvira herself he is aware that the so called recipe book is actually a book of powerful magic a power he wishes to claim for himself he schemes to bring down elvira by having the town burn her at the stake how will elvira get out of this one the movie was no real success at the box office drawing a crowd of mostly young audiences familiar with the elvira show on cable truth be told this is a funny and feel good movie the script is chalk full of all kinds of jokes some bad some good lots of sexual innuendo visual jokes and overall campiness i e the hilarious last scene in which elvira has finally got her own strip show in vegas this film is a cult classic of sorts catering to elvira fans you couldn't enjoy this film otherwise it's also a look back at pop culture of the 80's elvira was as much an icon of the 80's as was alf vicky the robot hulk hogan mr t and madonna
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after two long long opening skits one of which my brother saw the conclusion coming of and the other totally joke free we start the fast forward fest that it groove tube proper naturally uber stupid frat boys who still mainline jackass or tom green will find the idea of fecal matter coming out of the some tube sex olympics i really don't need to give you details do i and a clown who basically does the not very endearing clown bit i think i've seen approxiately ninety times now will eat this up like dung beetles well more power to you i just want to express that despite what you've heard this movie was in no way a model for the many infinitely funnier movies like kentucky fried movie or what not the skit movie had already been done in and now for something completely different everything you always wanted to know about sex and so on and done way better
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this movie had lots of great actors and actresses in it and it addressed some very noble issues it's full of emotion and the direction is done well the storyline progresses very quickly but i guess that's better than having to watch a 3 hour movie this is an easy movie to watch again and again and enjoy
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give director stanley tong of jackie chan's super cop and rumble in the bronx and what do you get you receive a series of kung fu fights and a lack of magoo like madness the limited plot has magoo leslie nielsen put into an international plot where he steals a world renowned gem of course he has no idea what he is doing in fact he has no idea that he had the gem within thirty minutes you could get very bored watching this there are some very funny moments though like when he is cooking the chicken you will wish that you were as nearsighted as magoo its a fun movie to watch but its quite a disaster! you have to love leslie nielson because he was made some very funny movies this isn't his best but he does a good job playing magoo i thought it was a funny film and it should be recommended to young children because they will probably think that its very funny
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alexandr sascha luzhin john turturro is a former leading chess player attempting a comeback at an italy hosted tournament his brilliance is unquestioned but his obsession with chess has stunted his growth in all other aspects of his life natalia emily watson is a beautiful heiress who has come to the same resort with her mother vera geraldine james to scope out possible marriage partners vera leans toward a handsome count but astonishingly natalia is more fascinated by sascha whom she met on a walk sascha too is taken with natalia and proposes marriage at their second meeting but with the concentration that sascha must give to the chess matches and with other happenings in his past still causing problems will he win the heart of natalia oh and can he become the chess champion also this is a lovely film based on a novel by nabokov the acting is amazing with watson very fine as the beautiful little rich girl and turturro utter perfection as the shy awkward chess enthusiast james gives quite a nice turn as the overbearing mother and the other cast members are wonderful as well as for the look of the film it could not be better the scenery is of the put your eye out variety the vintage costumes are gorgeous and the cinematography is deserving of much applause yes the story is unusual and told with the use of flashbacks at times making it a film not everyone will appreciate then too the ending is bittersweet however if you love romance period pieces great acting knockout scenery or the fine art of motion picture creation don't miss this one you will be defenseless in resisting its multitude of charms
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i bought this film on dvd despite the stale review and that was idiotic that review was completely accurate and i have never seen any worse erotic film in my long life! even if it partly was lovely filmed and had interesting surroundings plus a nice cover but my own extreme erotica c films are over 100 times more erotic just in the soft delicious aspect with probably less than 100 times of this films budget! the story have no logical connection with the first film or the famous book or any new exciting element of slave training except some very strange and sad developments then did the main male character klaus kinski not look a bit like the second master of o he try to play and not even lovely arielle dombasle did look delicious in any scene!
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this film was one that i have waited to see for some time i was glad to find it has been everything anticipated the writing of this film has been so finely crafted and researched far beyond what is seen by the audience i found it amusing that so many people watching will not read between some very important lines but indeed if not the movie will make sense in a different way and is very brilliant the film has many stories and characters woven together around this one character kilo a man whom has rose from the streets amidst many woes and become a very powerful criminal after spending some time in prison kilo finds a loophole in the justice system and through a disturbing turn of events is released only to find everything is not at all what it seems kilo finds himself going up against the higher realm of society and political royalty in order to make clear how important a man's word is and stands for a war begins as the street is in arms against lords of wealth and corrupt power a build up to explosive and powerful non stop twists and turns this film will leave you riveted i found the cast of this movie to be outstanding and is not a movie to be ignored excellent go rent it today!!
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in retrospect the 1970s was a golden era for the american cinema as demonstrated and explored by this documentary directed by ted demme and richard lagravenese this ifc effort serves to illustrate and clarify the main idea of what that time meant for the careers of these illustrious people seen in the documentary the amazing body of work that remains is a legacy to all the people involved in the art of making movies in that period the decade was marked by the end of the viet nam war and the turbulent finale of those years of jimmy carter's presidency one thing comes out clear films today don't measure against the movies that came out during that creative decade because the industry as a whole has changed dramatically the big studios nowadays want to go to tame pictures that will be instant hits without any consideration to content or integrity as long as the bottom line shows millions of dollars in revenues the other thing that emerges after hearing some of america's best creative minds speak is the importance of the independent film spirit because it is about the only thing that afford its creators great moral and artistic rewards this documentary is a must see for all movie fans
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the name frau of the main character is the german word for woman i don't know if that was intentional or not but if sure got some giggles from the german audience at the fantasy film festival last year when it was shown but those were the only giggles the movie got not that it was aiming for giggles it's a horrible movie for heaven's sake! a horrible movie in more than one meaning it's a shame that a premise like that was wasted with horrible even unbearable moments for the viewer definetely not for the faint of heart!! ! and it wasn't even necessary to show all the things that are shown i'm not even going into a moral obligation because movies don't really have that kind of task or function discussion of what is shown here but this is a new low on the whole torture movement that has grown in the last few years!
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ah the classic genre of 80s sex comedies this is set on two beaches one a nude beach featuring myriad fully unclothed women the plot something about a bunch of dimwits attempting to get laid the usual fans of gratuitous t&a and p should hunt this one down
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it's unbelievable but the fourth is better than the second and the third after the third that was awful it's incredible how they could have an unexpected sequel with new ideas chuck is the same nasty doll of the previous movies interesting the final that lets know that a fifth can be done
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yes said title line does actually appear in this movie why i'm not sure when the line was actually being said didn't somebody in the crew filming at some point laugh i would have liked to see the outtakes from this movie mostly because i think they would be more entertaining than the movie itself helmed by director jim gillespie i know what you did last summer comes a teen slasher movie that seems to assume we haven't ever seen a teen slasher movie before of course he's not to be given all the blame there are also three writers responsible and this is somehow based on a video game that's still in production the title of said game is backwater but upon looking for information on it i came up with absolutely nothing and so we begin the movie i would like to say before i continue that i wasn't expecting this to win an oscar when i am in the right mindset i enjoy a fun horror movie to pass the time i think there exists an opportunity for an effective original and smart slasher movie venom is not this movie there is almost no character development at all that's fine you don't expect a whole lot however instead of a well knit cast of a few this movie decides to introduce us to the following many horror movie cliché characters 1 the final girl she has just broken up for her boyfriend this means that at some point in the movie when they are in peril they will decide to get back together again which more than likely means he will die and she will be the last remaining survivor of the movie eden is played by agnes bruckner without much enthusiasm i might add 2 the boyfriend he's just around to co exist with the final girl until his demise sure he can save her but he's doomed and we know it eric is played by jonathan jackson 3 the bimbos usually horror movies only feel the need for one of these but here we have two they shoplift they steal they might show their breasts not in this case or they might possibly be alcoholics a staple of the genre they also wander around in dimly lit areas all on their lonesome usually saying things like hello is there anybody there tammy and patty suitably named are played by bijou phillips and davetta sherwood 4 the jackass sure he looks pretty but he's the idiot in the movie that's inserted purely to be an idiot he says stupid things does stupid things has obviously never seen a horror movie and is one of enjoyable kills you watch this kind of thing for sean is played by d j cotrona 5 the girlfriend she loves the jackass even though pretty much nobody else does and she's usually the one left alive for a while so she can scream and cry until she starts tripping and gets left behind rachel is played by laura ramsey 6 the creepy janitor in this case the creepy gas station attendant enough said ray is played by rick cramer i could continue but i think you get the picture the remaining characters aren't so much common as they are equally killable there's the gay guy pawel szajda as ricky who definitely got robbed as far as screen time is concerned and the one who knows what's going on of course none of that matters because at first everyone always thinks that one's crazy cece is played by meagan good there are a couple other characters namely a deputy played by method man but he and others are killed off pretty quickly and get even less character development than the following clichés so you're probably thinking why does this movie require such a deep analysis it's just a summer horror flick for cryin' out loud! based on that question does it deliver the goods yes and no the acting isn't particularly convincing even given the amount of talent involved bijou phillips was hailed for her performance in larry clark's bully and agnes bruckner has been an up and coming talent for a while now so what about the gore there's some that's really about it a lot of the juiciest bits are cut aways namely a scene involving somebody's face and a sandblaster used to remove paint from cars to the filmmaker's credit there are a couple interesting scenes i liked the bit where part of a house was literally ripped off so that the unstoppable villain could get to the characters if this had all been centered around a smarter screenplay in which the characters didn't make the same dumb mistakes literally hundreds of horror movie characters had made before them it might have made for a more enjoyable experience all of the most interesting characters are immediately killed off in the first third of the movie and then it just becomes a not particularly interesting countdown until we know it's just the creepy janitor and the final girl i suppose i must be a little jaded but as a horror film fan i'm left wondering why i should have bothered when i could easily have written a better screenplay myself i won't even mention the numerous instances of terrible cgi
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the script was very weak w o enough character arcs to make you care one bit about the characters or what happens to them the script is way too talky and not enough gore or action to even call it slow paced the story gets to the point that you just want everyone to shut up and die as quickly as possible so you don't have to listen to them talk this very muted stiff dialogue on a technical note the music mix is way to high and makes it hard to understand what is being said most times then again this could be called a blessing overall this same story could have better been told in a short film w a running time under 30 minutes the obvious in your face homages to sam raimi and evil dead would have been good had they been more subtle but here they seem more like a bald faced rip off c'mon this kind of 35mm budget and this is the best that could be done still the cinematography lighting design and shots were very well done indeed
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pathetic worse than a bad made for tv movie i can't believe that spacey and freeman were in this flick for some reason morgan freeman's character is constantly talking about and saying pussy when referring to nsync boy's girlfriend morgan freeman calling women pussy is just awkward what the hell were the people behind this film thinking too many plot holes to imagine combined with the horrid acting confusing camera angles a lame script and cheap background music made this movie absolutely unbearable i rented this flop with low expectations but well it really sucked
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franco proves once again that he is the prince of surreal & erotic cinema true much of his work can be viewed as entertaining sleaze but with succubus necronomicon he shows what he is truly capable of when he lets his warped creativity run riot and gives us a film that is both hypnotic and enigmatic whilst still maintaining the delirious eroticism intrinsic in his work jerry van rooyen's splendid score pulsates as the viewer is thrown from one bizarre scenario to another as we follow the trials of a striptease artist reynaud who may be schizophrenic or may indeed as one mysterious character states be a devil attempt to come to terms with the world she inhabits a beautiful and enigmatic piece of cinema highly recommended to anybody with even a passing interest in alternative cinema
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peter cushing and donald pleasance are legendary actors and director kostas karagiannis was the man behind the successful greek giallo esquire thriller death kiss in 1974 and yet when you combine the three talents all you get is this complete load of drivel! god only knows what drove the likes of peter cushing and donald pleasance to star in this cheapie devil worship flick but i really do hope they were well paid as neither one deserves something as amateurish as this on their resumes the story focuses on a group of devil worshippers that kidnap some kids leading another group to go after them the pace of the plot is very slow and this ensures that the film is very boring the plot is also a long way from being original and anyone with even a passing interest in the horror genre will have seen something a bit like this and no doubt done much better the obvious lack of budget is felt throughout and the film doesn't manage to overcome this at any point this really is a depressing and miserable watch and not even a slightly decent ending manages to up the ante enough to lift this film out of the very bottom of the barrel extremely poor stuff and definitely not recommended!
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please don't waste your time this movie rehashes the worst of bram stoker's dracula van helsing anne rice's vampire lestat rock music and silly biblical references and blade high tech toys i really like vampire movies and novels and there are many out there that are very good but not this stinker not even the soundtrack helps it mostly because the movie resorts to ridiculous scary classical music rather than the kick ass metal some reported only a few times did i hear any metal mostly it was tortured violins avoid it like garlic and crucifixes
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i have seen already fantastic stories but the premises of this one are so unbelievable that it comes very close to being ridiculous a rich and young guy undergoes a heart transplant the day after his marriage and he is somehow witnessing his own surgery and the plot of his surgeons to kill him even if there is a medical explanation to such a phenomenon what next happens is a mixture of dialog among say souls maybe and real life where the dedicated mother will do everything to save the life of her son there is no shade of suspense or thrill just a combination of a bad and simplistic plot with a series of coincidences that can never happen in life this is not to say that the film is completely lacking quality actually first time director joby harold does a decent job in directing a good team of actors that includes hayden christensen at his first major role after having taken off the anakin skywalker costume fabulous jessica alba and super gifted lena olin all would have deserved a better story
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that's pretty ridiculous i hope many people are exposed to muslims who live all over the u s u k and all over the world the religion has over a billion followers i myself born and bread in america and through my religious classes and teachings i have been taught to cherish my country and work to contribute to the society i am very dedicated to the followings and teachings of my religion have been stressed through out life to educate and prepare oneself for success through education in order to contribute back to the world i have know many muslims from all over and i have traveled to countries like pakistan i have yet to meet one person who believes that we should hurt anyone or not accept any other religion except from the people in the media i wonder why also its sad that these extremists are the ones the media use to represent a whole religion its a religion of one billion people and these are less than one percent i am sure the other people of other religions would not like to be represented by the kkk ira and many more which are simple small percentage extremists who use outdated and not literal passages from the respected books in order to pursue their own revenge personal or business matters through their so called religion
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despite a small handful of nicely executed scenes this entry the fourth feels tired toshiharu ikeda who directed the superb mermaid legend and the seminal japanese splatter film evil dead trap shows little enthusiasm for the stale premise a miscreant becomes obsessed with an outwardly conservative woman who reluctantly appeared in a porno photo shoot predictable stalking harassing assault and rape ensues the staple of roman porno is sex and sex mixed with violence both potentially exciting subjects to be sure but not when so little effort is made to make them fresh a masturbation scene in which a woman forces pencils up her opening via condom is too little kink to late the series' rain motif continues and the film's final scene brings relief
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this review is based on the english language version orson welles' legendary unfinished epic was just that unfinished it should have been left as such not thrown together in this clumsy boring compilation of whatever material was available while i'm sure it was done with the best of intentions the filmmakers have not only failed to do justice to welles' vision they've also managed to discredit it by inflicting this version upon audiences the first thing that strikes the viewer is the amateurish quality of the audio not only are the newly dubbed voices rather poor performances they're also inconsistent welles' original recordings using his own voice as he often did have been retained in a handful of scenes & they don't match at all there hasn't been the slightest attempt at consistency add to that an extremely empty sound mix which has only a bare minimum of sound effects & atmos a long sequence during a huge festival including the running of the bulls sounds like it was recorded in a deserted suburban street with about three people making the sound of a crowd that's meant to be in the thousands however the real problem is the unavoidable fact that 'don quixote' was incomplete & it's glaringly obvious from watching this the film consists of a handful of scenes strung together & dragged out to ridiculous lengths just to make up the running time case in point the sequence where sancho searches for don quixote in the city goes on forever it's just sancho approaching people in the crowd asking them the same questions over & over again there is no way that welles could ever have intended using every single take in its entirety but that's what appears here it lasts over twelve minutes when in fact it would most likely have lasted about two minutes absolute maximum in a proper finished version of the film while the start of the film is relatively complete & rather well done the rest has massive holes which simply can't be filled with endless overlay of spanish countryside & still more shots of don quixote & sancho going back & forth there's also no ending no resolution no conclusion no punchline no point although there is material in private collections that was unavailable to the filmmakers that couldn't possibly account for what would be required to make this into a complete coherent work welles simply didn't complete shooting largely due to the fact that his lead actor died before they could finish however putting aside the fact that it wasn't complete & never could be one would think that just seeing a collection of footage from this masterpiece that might have been would be enough unfortunately by putting it all together in such a slipshod manner one is left with a very negative impression of the film overall in particular what was clearly a terrific performance from akim tamiroff as sancho is utterly ruined with the new voice & with long drawn out scenes that eventually cause him to be simply irritating orson welles' vision for this film was something far more ambitious & complex than a simple retelling of the story of don quixote but that's what has been attempted here & as such the point is lost the only person who could have assembled all the material into anything worthwhile would have been welles himself & he didn't the footage could have been put to far better use in a documentary chronicling the whole saga of welles trying to make the film welles himself even came up with the perfect title for such a doco when are you going to finish don quixote
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saw the move while in paris in may 2006 i was debating between that and mission impossible i am very glad i choose oss 117 not only because it was funny but might as well watch a french movie while in france i had a great time would recommend it it is important to have some understanding the french society of today to really enjoy the humor of this movie cannot wait for the dvd to come out i don't know how some of the 'jeu de mots' 'puns' would be translated in english i 'll certainly buy it when it is out! p s i saw on 'brice de nice' which is a movie starring dujardin that all kids were talking about in france this movie is a comedy but sillier than one can imagine in comparing both movies i have to say that dujardin did a good job in oss 117
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i saw this recently on a cable channel the movie is great it's one of the few musicals i have seen that doesn't shy away from the light and dark it portrays some of the splendour of the age along with a lot of the squalor some of the set piece dance sequences so much is going on i didn't know where to look next one day i shall go and see this on the big screen just so that i see what's happening but what really lifts this to another level is oliver reed's performance as bill sykes not only is a thoroughly mean and menacing man but there is something else some inner demons he gave me the impression that if you pushed him into a corner he was capable of anything it was almost as if the sykes character was on the edge of madness just awaiting the trigger i have seen the robert newton's bill sykes from the 1948 movie and i thought he was 'just' a bad egg but oliver reed's performance intimidated me in my own living room
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lcdr tom dodge despite having a reputation among submariners as a renegade and maverick *note to reader maverick does not mean tom cruise maverick means non conformist is actually an intelligence operative for the vice admiral of his submarine fleet the vice admiral is concerned about our old friends the russians hosting yard sales with their old diesel fleets countries like lybia north korea or iraq would love to get their hands on this baby and slip a nuclear warhead into norfolk harbour or mayport florida and this was 6 7 years before 9 11 the admiral assigns dodge to assume command of a moth balled wwii diesel sub and mount an exercise against the surface fleet and the uss orlando a top of the line fast attack sub dodge takes command and in no time whips up the bad news bears err i mean his lovable group of oddball submariners into warriors despite having welcome aboard tattooed on his penis he is a competent and fair commander he does not choose favorites and he delegates authority in a responsible manner the us navy could not have come up with a finer piece of recruitment propaganda than this handsomely made under appreciated gem from the creator of police academy
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what an awful adaptation the worst part was the music saxophone muzak and synthesizers playing in a story set in the early 1800's the only character that didn't bore me to sleep was robert hardy i had to fight to keep my eyes open on this one and i love jane austen movies usually i didn't even rent it i borrowed it from the library they should have paid me to take it i don't quite understand how catherine and henry managed a passionate kiss at the end when throughout the movie they had no chemistry or indication whatsoever that they cared for one another isabella and her brother were way overdone it was no secret to me immediately that she and her brother were the bad guys and part of the excitement of jane austen movies is the discovery that who you think is good isn't this is probably on my list of the ten worst movies i've seen
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