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musically speaking irving berlin gave fred astaire and ginger rogers another pluperfect musical after top hat if that was possible although in this case like that jerome kern confection roberta that they were in follow the fleet retained randolph scott with another singer this time harriet hilliard randolph scott is a career navy cpo and fred astaire is an ex vaudevillian who enlisted in the navy to forget ginger rogers his former partner but now the two are on shore leave fred and ginger take up right where they left off and randy accidentally meets ginger's dowdy sister harriet who blossoms into a real beauty but randy's a typical love 'em and leave 'em sailor again irving berlin wrote a hit filled score with him tightly supervising the production ginger gets to do some really outstanding vocalizing with let yourself go which she and fred later dance to but the real hit of the show is let's face the music and dance which is a number done at a navy show sung first by astaire and later danced to by the pair let's face the music and dance is one of the great romantic numbers ever written for the screen their dancing on this one is absolute magic i'm sure that when i mention harriet hilliard a few younger people might ask who that was but they will know immediately when i mention her in conjunction with her famous husband ozzie nelson that's right ozzie and harriet it's something of a mystery to me why harriet stopped singing when she just became david and ricky's mom on television then again she didn't even keep her own name neither ozzie or harriet sang on television ozzie was a pale imitation of rudy vallee as a singer but harriet could really carry a tune she sings get thee behind me satan and the moon and i are here but where are you both with real feeling and class i recommend you see follow the fleet if for no other reason than to hear a dimension of harriet hilliard incredibly forgotten today
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i can never fathom why people take time to review movies that they have not understood fully i know people will read scathing reviews on these pages of this film and it will keep them from seeking copies of this quite forgotten late '20s style but 1932 movie which should probably be referred to as indecent as that is the name on the main titles myrna loy best known as a comic actress in countless genteel roles shows herself to be miscast in all of them she was a true dramatic actress something that i did not know before watching this film which predates all of her famous roles she is exciting and moving here two things she never was opposite the graceful and refined william powell i'm still rather in shock over how good she was becky sharp 1935 the first three strip technicolor feature is more familiar but this one is far better artistically and an adaptation it is also very poignant as an expression of a film style that was about to die you cannot take my word for it you must see it
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i'm always surprised about how many times you'll see something about world war 2 on the german national television you would think they don't like to open old wounds but there isn't a week that goes by without a documentary or a movie about the horror and atrocities of this war perhaps it's a way of dealing with their past i don't know but you sure can't blame them of ignoring what happened and it has to be said most of those documentaries are really worth a watch because they never try to gloss over the truth and the same can be said about their movies think for instance about der untergang or the downfall as you might now it which are also very realistic one of those movies is rosenstrasse it tells a true story and deals with the subject of the mixed marriages during the war even though the movie starts with a family in the usa at the present day after hannah's father died her mother all a sudden turned into an orthodox jew even though she hasn't been very religious before she doesn't know where the strange behavior of her mother comes from but as she starts digging in her mother's troubled childhood hannah understands how little she has ever known about her mother's past the fact that this movie deals with the subject of the mixed marriages during the nazi regime is already quite surprising for as far as i know there hasn't been another movie that deals with this subject for those who didn't know this yet being married to a so called pure aryian man or woman meant for many jews that they weren't immediately sent to one of the concentration camps but that they had to work in a factory but it does not only tell something about the problems of the mixed marriages it also gives a good idea of how these people were often seen by their own parents and relatives how difficult it sometimes was for them during the nazi regime and how these people most of the time women did everything within their power to free their men once they were captured and locked away in for instance the rosenstrasse the acting is really good and the story is very well written although the way it was presented in the beginning didn't really do it for me and that's exactly the only part that you'll get to see in the trailer perhaps it's just me but i would have left out a big part of what happens in the present day at least of the part that is situated in the usa because the part where hannah goes to berlin and talks to someone who knows more about her mother's past definitely works if you are interested in everything that has something to do with the second world war and if you aren't necessarily looking for a lot of action shots than this is definitely a movie you should see this isn't a movie in which you'll see any battles or gunfights but it certainly is an interesting movie because it gives you an idea about an aspect of the war only little is known of i give it an 8 10
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christian propaganda lots of fear mongering this is not scifi this is chrifi christian fiction the movie started out ok but took a sharp christian right turn from then on it was all about god jc the holy bible and the devil the ufo's are really just demonic deception to fool people in to believing that there is other intelligent life in the universe satan's idea is to trick you in to thinking that there could be more to life than what is in the bible the abductions could be used to explain away the rapture the people left behind would believe it was a mass alien abduction instead of god taking all the christians to heaven no reason to repent if its aliens the deeper message in the movie is that if you don't believe in god and have jc in your life than you believe in nothing and your life has no purpose
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this dvd is missing its calling as a heineken coaster this is a great example of why no one should ever go see a sequel with a different director writer than the original two hours of this turkey left me begging for exorcist 2 reruns no legitimate laughs not one decent scare the script was just a mess and i felt bad for the actors who had to perform it they must have had sick relatives at home or monster coke habits or something the original was a makeup effects landmark so naturally the producers of the sequel thought it would be a great idea to to scrap makeup fx and do cg werewolves instead these cg werewolves had me laughing a lot harder than any of the comedy it was just a total miss if ya want a night's entertainment go rent the original again or go take a film class and make your own horror film you're bound to do better than these fools did
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this incredibly formulaic flick from the walker texas ranger squad contains some of the most unbelievable scenes ever witnessed within a tv movie in addition one can pretty much predict the outcome from the get go however it's a fun little movie that gets the job done it entertains that's all it was meant to do and it does so the stunts and explosions are fun and exciting and the plot isn't half bad the acting is also decent which isn't much of a surprise because everyone knows that chuck norris is no steven seagal if you're a fan of the genre and of walker texas ranger you will definitely love this if not then don't waste your time 8 10
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karen sarah michelle gellar an exchange student in japan who is just beginning to do some social work is sent to aid an elderly semi catatonic woman emma grace zabriskie after her previous caretaker yoko yoko maki disappears karen soon learns that something is not right in emma's home and she attempts to see how deep the rabbit hole goes maybe it's a delayed influence from the success of m night shyamalan's films but slower paced understated horror films are a recent trend in some cases such as hide and seek 2005 the approach works remarkably well and in others such as white noise 2005 the pacing tends to kill the film i didn't like the grudge quite as much as hide and seek but this is still a very good film it earns a 9 out of 10 from me the grudge has a couple significant differences from other recent examples of that trend however one it is well known that this is a remake based on the japanese film series that began with ju on 2000 in particular it's extremely close to the first half of ju on the grudge aka ju on 3 from 2003 two as with many japanese horror films the slower pacing here isn't so much in the realm of realist drama as with surrealism as is also the case with a large percentage of european horror the grudge should be looked at more as a filmed nightmare director takashi shimizu also the director of the five japanese entries in the ju on series to date the fifth is currently in production and writer stephen susco have largely dispensed with linearity and are not overly concerned with logic or plot holes when it comes to the horror behind the story the idea instead is to present a dreamlike sequence of scenes with dream logic where the focus is atmosphere creepiness the uncanny and for many viewers scares how well the film works for you will largely depend on how well you can adapt yourself to or are used to this different approach to film making although admittedly some of the seeming gaps are filled in by previous entries in the ju on series traditionally american audiences consider as flaws leaving plot threads hanging and abandoning rules for the monster a more poetic metaphorical surreal approach to film isn't yet accepted by the mainstream in the u s however even if you're not used to it it's worth trying to suspend your normal preconceptions about films and give the grudge a shot this is a well written well directed well acted film filled with unusual properties such as the story interweaving a large number of main characters which is done better here than the more episodic ju on 3 good cinematography subtle production design touches check out gellar's clothes which match the color and texture of the exterior of emma's house when gellar first approaches and beautifully effective horror material even though it is more slowly paced that your average horror film of the past the pacing usually enhances the eeriness and there is no shortage of bizarre events to keep horror fans entertained the supernatural premise of the film is absorbing and based on interviews on the dvd with shimizu have prodded me to pay more attention to japanese beliefs and folklore although the most interesting subtexts would probably arise with a more intimate knowledge of japanese culture it's interesting to ponder why so many japanese horror films feature scary children and adults who look like scary children i subtracted one point for the film slightly veering into clichéd mystery thriller territory with a here's what really happened flashback but even that was fairly well done and otherwise this would have been a 10 out of 10 now that i've said all of the above let me finish with a mini rant it's not that i'm anti remake but it is ridiculous that u s distributors and studios feel that we need remakes of foreign films to make them appropriate for consumption the original versions of these films should just be playing in u s theaters in wide release there is no need to present an almost identical film but just substituting white american actors for non white or foreign actors yes the grudge is a fine film but ultimately i'd rather see something original using this talent and be treated to the latest foreign horror films not just japanese but also indian spanish chinese etc at my multiplex in the hope that someone with some pull at the studios reads this it is also more cost effective to do this as 1 you can completely avoid production costs and simply make domestic distribution deals from which you receive profit and 2 you can make money off of fans like myself who otherwise pick up the foreign film dvds in foreign manufactured or even bootleg versions
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this movie is pure guano mom always said if you can't say anything nice but even mom would say i had to do my part to warn others of this movie i can guarantee this is the film that geoffrey rush wishes would just go away i would hope that greg kinnear fired his agent from a cannon for giving him the script after this ben stiller is probably praying for someone to pitch there's still something about mary i have always been a fan of wes studi's thank whatever you hold holy that he wore a mask through the film so maybe people won't identify the film with him it starts of promisingly with a stylistic spoof of the cinematography of the batman films and then just loses something like a coherent plot and half decent effects the jokes are telegraphed an hour before the punchline comes and even then they fall flat if you want to see an effective spoof of the comic book world see chasing amy run! don't walk away from mystery men !
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a group of young filmmakers with virtually no budget set out to make something clever and original and while there is a bit of originality and some skilled drawing in this slacker puppet show take on dante's inferno there is nothing especially clever dante's divine comedy was a brilliant piece of social commentary this film is a vaguely moralistic student film with pretensions to high art i suspect those who loved this film were those readily amused by the sophomoric pokes at some icons of the political and or religious right and that those who hated it took offense at seeing their favored icons poked be that as it may few of those pokes actually rose to the level of satire the high point of the movie is a sudden outbreak of schoolhouse rock on the subject of lobbying and the revolving door it's really a shame that the entire film couldn't have been a musical that would have stripped away a great deal of the annoying film school pretentiousness and added a far stronger element of fun
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the title of my summary pretty much covers my review this is to me what teenage mutant ninja turtles was to someone 5 years older while i missed out on that little pop culture wave i embraced the toy line and t v series that was mighty max with both arms you wanna know how into this i was i went as mighty max for halloween thank god for the internet thanks to demonoid last week i was able to watch this great show from my childhood for the first time in over a decade i'm watching this right now having just been blown away by recognizing rob paulson of animaniacs and am also loving the celebrity humor in tar wars 4 minutes in and they have already mentioned by name clint eastwood governor arnold dustin hoffman john wayne and ace ventura hells yeah damn it is only upon writing this that i realize there is no way in hell i can give this series anything less than a perfect score any imperfections have been lost in the fog of time this is my childhood this is awesomeness this is the mighty one
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i have never seen a comedy that was this much of a chore to sit thru not one laugh in it ok maybe one little chuckle for the michael clarke duncan bit as the big black bald gay virgin but the rest of it was shockingly un funny on top of being void of any laughs the skits go on forever! steer clear of this one if you value your time and money dreadful!!! the worst!!!
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this is a great small film i say small because it doesn't have a hundred guns firing or a dozen explosions as in a john woo film great performances by roy scheider and the three bad guys john frankenheimer seems to have more luck with small productions these days the film is very easy to watch the story is more of a yarn than a washing machine instead of everything going around and around it seems as though things just get worse as the plot thickens wonderful ending very positive i never read the elmore leonard book but it can't be much different from the film because it feels like i'm watching an elmore leonard movie
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a very sensitive topic 15 y o girl abandoned by mother as a baby and who goes to visit her continues to be ignored is raped by her mom's boyfriend becomes pregnant there was not enough depth displayed of this situation too much of time is taken up on the chase with the truckers transporting the baby interesting this baby with asthma you never see him cry except once be fed have is diaper changed during the whole truck transport ordeal i would have liked to have seen more of the interrelationships more focus on the fact that this girl was a minor this should have stood up in court immediately and this was a true story! it deserved a better telling than that!! if it weren't for the subject matter i would have given this closer to a 0 rating i rented this from the library only later i found out it was a made for tv movie oh well
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i'm glad some people liked this but i hated this film it had a very good idea for a story line but that's where it ended it was badly written badly acted and badly made it had some interesting plot points but they were just skipped over too fast the writers needed to realize what to keep in and expand on these bits like lying about why she was kidnapped and ditch the dross instead it was what's going on 5 seconds later they tell you this film had no suspense and i was bored from start to end i just wanted it to finish go and rent misery or best laid plans if you want suspense or twists that keep you guessing to the end
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what fun! bucketfuls of good humor terrific cast chemistry skelton powell lahr o'brien dynamite dorsey driven soundtrack! miss powell's dance numbers have exceptional individual character and pizzazz her most winning film appearance
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the palestinian situation is fertile and as yet largely fallow soil for film making 'divine intervention' tries hard and gives us an insightful peek into the almost surreal life of those caught up in the troubles but the film amounts to little more than a handful of admittedly lovely visual jokes thrown onto celluloid while the links between them become increasingly obscure as the film progresses a missed opportunity to say something more coherent about a very topical issue
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this film stands head and shoulders above the vast majority of cinematic romantic comedies it is virtually flawless! the writing acting production design humor and pathos are all wonderful! even the music from dean martin to la boheme is captivating and delightful! every character is peculiarly delightful and memorable from the leads played by cher and nicolas cage to the many supporting roles olympia dukakis vincent gardenia john mahoney danny aiello even grandpa with his dog pack! each of these performers plus norman jewison as director performs above their normal quality in this ensemble work for several of the actors this was an early major exposure in film so the casting is also exceptional and we have many current acting powerhouses whose careers were altered by their effectiveness in this film i've seen this film several times all the way through which can sometimes deflate the impact of a film substantially more tellingly i realized some years ago that whenever i channel surfed my way into a scene from this film any scene the scene was compelling and beautifully crafted there are so many stunning and memorable scenes the original meeting between the cher and nicolas cage characters where cage tells his tale of woe vincent gardenia discovered with his paramour at the opera amidst the splendor generated by his gold mine plumbing business olympia dukakis scolding john mahoney for philandering with his student in the classic line about liaisons with co workers don't sh t where you eat! danny aiello at his dying mother's bedside nicolas cage taking cher as the rapture of an aria soars in the background! there are of course many great romantic comedies among them sabrina both versions but especially the audrey hepburn humphrey bogart william holden original when harry met sally the apartment none quite equals moonstruck!
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in many ways the filmic career of independent film making legend john cassavetes is the polar opposite of someone like alfred hitchcock the consummate studio director where hitchcock infamously treated his actors as cattle cassavetes sought to work with them improvisationally where every element in a hitchcock shot is composed immaculately cassavetes cared less for the way a scene was figuratively composed than in how it felt or what it conveyed emotionally hitchcock's tales were always plot first narratives with the human element put in the background cassavetes put the human experience forefront in every one of his films if some things did not make much sense logically so be it one can see this even from his very first film 1959's shadows filmed with a 16mm hand held camera on a shoe string budget of about $40 000 in manhattan with cassavetes' acting workshop repertory company and touted as an improvisatory film the story is rather simple as it follows the lives of three black sibling manhattanites benny ben carruthers a trumpeter and no account hugh hugh hurd a washed up singer and lelia lelia goldoni the younger sister of both the film's three main arcs deal with hugh's failures as a nightclub crooner and his friendship with his manager rupert rupert crosse benny's perambulations in an about manhattan with his two no account pals and lelia's lovelife first with a white boy tony anthony ray who does not realize light skinned lelia's race even after bedding her then with stiff and proper davey davey jones who may be a misogynist in the first arc nothing much happens except dark skinned hugh gets to pontificate on how degraded he feels to be singing in low class nightclubs and opening shows for girly acts he dreams of making it big in new york or even paris but one can tell he is the type of man who will continue deluding himself of his meager skill for the one time we actually get to hear him sing he shows he's a marginal talent at best that rupert keeps encouraging him gives us glimpses into how destructive friendships work but this is the least important of the three arcs
while this film is better overall than say martin scorsese's first film a decade later who's that knocking at my door another tale of failed romance and frustrated new yorkers it has none of the brilliant moments acting wise nor cinematographically that that film has it also is not naturalistic for naturalism in art is a very difficult thing to achieve especially in film although the 1950s era manhattan exteriors at ground level is a gem to relive while shadows may indeed be an important film in regards to the history of the independent film circuit it certainly is nowhere near a great film parts of it are preachy poorly acted scenes end willy nilly almost like blackout sketches and sometimes are cut off seemingly in the middle all in all it's a very sloppy job especially the atrocious jazz score that is often out of synch with the rest of the film as cassavetes proved that as a director at least in his first film he was a good actor the only reason for anyone to see shadows is because cassavetes ultimately got better with later films and this gives a clue as to his later working style the national film registry has rightly declared this film worthy of preservation as 'culturally significant' this is all in keeping with the credo of art cassavetes long championed as typified by this quote 'i've never seen an exploding helicopter i've never seen anybody go and blow somebody's head off so why should i make films about them but i have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way i've seen people withdraw i've seen people hide behind political ideas behind dope behind the sexual revolution behind fascism behind hypocrisy and i've myself done all these things so i can understand them what we are saying is so gentle it's gentleness we have problems terrible problems but our problems are human problems ' that this film is 'culturally significant' is true but that truth is not synonymous with its being 'artistically significant' it is in the difference between these two definitions where great art truly thrives
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the distribution was good the subject could have been interessant and comic whereas he described the wandering of an old non credible communist looking for loving sensations instead of this the atmosphere is nor lively nor heavy
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this movie starts out hilarious from about the 15 second mark and continues it throughout the movie i cannot recall a scene where i didn't turn to look at people laughing with me he is the perfect actor for this roll because of the way he looks and the way he dressed the comedic parts were great to see from actors not very big or popular as you can see people do like this movie it is currently rated 7 9 on imdb i think it should be in 250 lets put it this way i haven't seen this funny of a movie since american pie or the original vacation see it if you want a laugh i give this movie 2 of the highest thumbs up i have ever given since i found out about imdb great movie site
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this story is dedicated to women according to the introduction who have been fighting for their rights ever since adam and eve started the loose leaf system when politics was filmed the nineteenth amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was only a decade old and the film deals with the wielding of political power by women as a voting group advocating prohibition and shutting down speakeasies was a main concern for women at the time good natured marie dressler as hattie burns becomes politically active after a young woman is shot and killed coming out of a speakeasy she wants the liquor selling joints closed and is drafted into a mayoral run after delivering a powerful speech at a women's rally ms dressler is supported by her tenants best friend polly moran as ivy higgins and her stuttering husband roscoe ates as peter higgins dressler's run for mayor of lake city draws opposition from men in town so dressler orders the women to go on strike denying them everything in the parlor bedroom and bath the film sounds much better than it turned out the humor frankly isn't too good and it features some unfunny and moderately offensive situations you look like madame queen refers to an amos and andy character and the mixing of shootings and slapstick doesn't mix well this time producers might have considered making the film more dramatic focusing exclusively on dressler and the characters played by william bakewell as benny emerson and karen morley as myrtle burns **** politics 7 25 31 charles reisner marie dressler polly moran roscoe ates
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at the beginning of the film you might double check the dvd cover and re read the synopsis a couple of times but no worries it's not memoirs of a geisha that you purchased just a movie with an intro that is much more classy and stylish than it has any right to be still the opening is by far the best thing about the entire movie as it shows how in the year 1840 a samurai sword master catches his wife committing adultery he decapitates the two lovers before doing some hara kiri ritual suicide through disembowelment cut to present day when the american ambassador in japan welcomes a befriended family and drives them up to the same house where the aforementioned slaughter took place nearly one and a half century ago from then onwards this becomes a seemingly routine haunted house flick yet the utterly retarded and implausible script still makes it somewhat exceptional let's start with the good aspects namely the original japanese setting and the presence of the delicious susan george who is my all time favorite british horror wench well together with britt eckland linda hayden and ingrid pitt the bad aspects simply include that the screenplay is incoherent imbecilic beyond repair and full of supposedly unsettling twists that only evoke laughter the restless spirits of the house soon begin to entertain themselves by perpetrating into the bodies of the new tenants and causing them to do and say all sorts of crazy stuff the spirit of the massacred adulterous woman particularly enjoys squeezing into susan's ravishing booty and transforming her into a lewd seductress! in this possessed state she even lures the american ambassador outside to have sex in the garden of a high society diner party full of prominent guests so strictly spoken it's not really evil that dwells in the house just a trio of sleazy ghosts with dirty minds and far too much free time on their long dead hands! obviously these scenes are more comical than frightening especially since the light blue and transparent shapes remind you of the cute ghost effects that were later popularized in ghostbusters the house where evil dwells is probably the least scary ghost movie ever throughout most of the running time you'll be wondering whether director kevin connor who nevertheless made the excellent horror films motel hell and from beyond the grave intentionally wanted to make his movie funny and over the top like motel hell maybe but then again everyone in the cast continues to speak his her lines with a straight and sincere face so i guess we are nevertheless supposed to take everything seriously and feel disturbed the house where evil dwells is never suspenseful or even remotely exciting and it doesn't even contain any grisly images apart from the massacre at the beginning i am fully aware of how shallow it sounds but the two scenes in which susan george goes topless are the only true highlights well those and maybe also the invasion of cheesy and ridiculously over sized spiders or are they crabs in the daughter's bedroom how totally random and irrelevant was that if you ever decide to give this movie a chance notwithstanding its bad reputation make sure you leave your common sense and reasoning at the doorstep trivia note for horror buffs keep an eye open for the demon mask that was also a pivot piece of scenery in the brilliant japanese horror classic onibaba
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this is the follow up creation to better off dead in a competition better off dead would win hands down but for star power one crazy summer outshines savage steve's better script problems with one crazy summer ocs casting better off dead bod was cast so much better friendship ocs shows cusack giving hateful looks to bill murray's little bro trouble on the set more outrageous friends in ocs but more genuine friends in bod plot was good you'll predict some of it but even the predictable parts go further than you think they could so even though this is better off dead's ugly stepsister it's worth a look see demi moore before the plastic surgery if for no other reason john cusack fans you gotta see it just to say you have if you don't like bobcat golthwaite i'm sorry i don't like him either but you can't escape him in this one at least he does a great job in the film doing a tribute to another movie monster editing needed help on the beach but for most part not much to complain about overall it's good and funny but try not to compare it to bod or you'll find it lacking *sigh*
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if this film had a budget of 20 million i'd just like to know where the money went a monkey could make better cgi effects then what was wasted for 3 hours on this dreadful piece of garbage although i must admit the machines and the martians would have looked really really cool on an original play station 1 game and early pc games from the mid 90s if a game had ever been made what puzzles me is where did the money go pendragon films could have made a great film with good old fashioned models and computer controlled cameras a la george lucas circa 1975 83 and actors who actually look like they care about what they are doing or ruining in this case for about the same 20 million this is quite possibly the worst film ever made! i would rather sit through a 24 hour repeat screening of ishtar than watch this film again i hated it completely! i regress i say this is the worst film ever made because unlike other bad movies like plan 9 or killer tomatoes or santa claus conquers the martians these are films that are so bad you have a special place in your heart for them you love them there is no love for this film and no place in my dvd library for it i sold it to a guy for a dollar i'm betting the money for the film was spent on booze and other vices for the cast and crew shame on you pendragon films! i want my money back!
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if you want to see a movie about two utterly unsympathetic characters this is the one the acting is superb both from john cassavetes as the insane paranoid whom as the saying goes they really are out to get and from peter falk as his lifelong best friend to whom he turns for rescue big mistake but since they're both amoral mobsters and misogynistic bastards to boot it's hard to decide whom to root for less only writer director elaine may could have gotten away with this one i thought it interesting that in a lengthy interview with producer michael hausman included on the dvd he disclosed that the two stars had very different ideas about the script that the director was nearly impossible to work with that the director of photography had impossible demands made of him that the crew was constantly angry about being made to sit around waiting and so on this mood of one big very dysfunctional family comes across clearly on the screen
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good boring or bad it's good worth your money if you can spare it for a ticket sure better than the trailer makes it seem yes oddly there isn't much to the script guards working at armored truck company move vast amounts of cash guards see opportunity to retire as millionaires one of them is too honest to go along with it all and a well laid plan goes to hell this could have been a poorly executed reservoir dogs ripoff but the skill of the cast and the director's ability to make just about anything tense pull it out of that realm and put it onto a solid footing
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the movie seemed a little slow at first but it picked up speed and got right to the point it showed exactly how the government and the scientist argued for humanity and the reasons of the gadget i enjoyed it it is very close to reality as any movie about the atomic bombs that were to be dropped on japan i have recommended it to friends i was particularly pleased with the acting ability of dwight schultz
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my rating refers to the first 4 seasons of stargate sg 1 which are wonderfully fresh creative and addicting when the cast stepped through the gate you never knew what lay on the other side! starting around season 5 the show took a different focus still good but different the series follows the adventures of a team of humans and one alien who regularly venture into a planetary transport device called the stargate the backstory of the series is based on the characters and events of the movie stargate in which the device is discovered during an archaeological dig in egypt the episodes are light innocent and easy to watch and very creative many of the inventive stories could easily have been made into great sci fi movies of their own what happens next was always unpredictable the characters on which the show rests are also well defined and brilliantly performed their tone is serious but the dialog is flowered with incredible wit and humor they are simply fun to watch starting somewhere around season 5 the series started to evolve into a continuing storyline based on fighting a single foe the goa'uld then the ori the plots become more complex a lot more political strategic oriented and interdependent the characters were still as great as ever but the show was different in nature one thing that must be mentioned is to watch the episodes that commemorated the 100th and 200th episodes they are simply can't miss shows they exhibit the creative and wildly humorous genius that carried the series through 10 seasons if you are a sci fi fan watch a few episodes of the first 4 seasons and you'll likely be hooked if you like evolving story lines between two opposing sides you have 10 seasons of shows to look forward to
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this movie should have never been made what a shame of the budget please hire convincing actors and make a proper movie very thin plot and unconvincing lines almost hilarious and that is a shame for an action movie definitely not worth watching they keep replaying the same shots of an stealth airplane flying away you have seen it ones and that was not worth re running 3 or 4 times it is time for steven seagal to retire from movie making his movies are getting worser every time black dawn and submerged were already bad but this movie is even worse
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every kid has that movie that he pops into vhs when he has nothing to do or when there is a babysitter around this was that movie for me i can tell you the whole plot exactly i must have seen it 100 times at least and i can say it is a good kids family movie i still have the tape i haven't watched it in 5 years but maybe i'll get around to it this week and be a kid for the day you just have to love the care bears and their messege
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idea is great spoiled big time by the judges why make fun of people if what the inventors say is true and as most of them say they spent their life saving on the invention the minimum is to reject the idea without making fun out of the people also it shows when they want to accept an idea by the crier that they added to the judges the only one i respect out of the judges is the one who always sits on the right of the table he is a respectable person of course the english snob who claims to be a business man wearing a suite doesn't make you one pal last but not least the big guy who sits between the english and the crier wake up man the is no job called and inventor for you to call yourself one an inventor is an attribute not a job man i think they wanted to add someone like simon from the american idol they thought it worked there it can work here as well the context is different and the idea is totally different it is a good idea and they could have done a good show out of it if they just change the judges and remove their act and attitude just stop making fun of the people
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although i don't like cricket at all and i have seen this movie 13 years ago i still think it is one of the best coming of age movies i remember the day i returned home from my school and sat down to have my lunch i saw the opening titles of that movie and then i was so immersed in it that i felt i was there it really affected me personally i still remember how i felt when i first saw it i felt that the poor boy was a friend of mine going through the same adolescent experience we were having in those days what i really liked about that movie is the main theme of a shy boy fantasizing about kissing his dream girl no offense but if that was an american movie you would certainly see at a certain point mainly climax the shy boy making love to his girl and i really can't grasp this contradicting concepts till now i have a simple request if anyone knows how to get this movie on a dvd by mail please let me know cause i need a shot of memories thanks
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late night on bbc1 was on my way to bed but curiosity piqued at a contemporary set irish film so i stayed to watch for a few minutes and then stayed to the end i have to admit that the main attraction was the only english actress kelly reilly who is stunning to look at this is billed as a black comedy which is one of the hardest things to pull off it should be the perfect blend of horror and horrible laughs so that in the end you don't know why you're laughing for me martin scorsese's after hours 1985 is the best example dead bodies is more black than comedy but the plot rattles along and spirals down towards further blackness i didn't spot the final twists in the tale as some other posters here did so i was suitably surprised as a snapshot of the irish film industry in 2003 it all seems rather worthy it doesn't look like they spent too much on the making of it so it had a chance to make its money back the script could've been a whole lot sharper but the acting was on the whole pretty good i'm glad i watched it flaws and all tho i don't think i learnt much about ireland today especially their policing methods!
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hi i'm a friend of werewolf movies and when i saw the title of darkwolf hitting the shelves i was like hmm simple and nice name to it at least althou i wonder why i haven't heard of it before first of all the movie starts with tits lots of tits tits are pretty much all this movies budget went to who cares about a werewolf effect just pay the actresses enough to get topless shots! so about the mysterious darkwolf character a little spoilers ahead but who really cares he's your average everyday biker not even super tough looking but like the old wise woman says in the movie he is far more powerful and dangerous than you've ever faced before just by describing her a tattooed biker type of a guy pretty original i even had look twice when they first used the red glowing eyes special effect! i mean my god that lets plant red dots on eyes with computer effect has been used since the seventies it looks plain ugly here! and don't get me started with the werewolf 3d cgi as said before like an bad and old video game and finally as i do like werewolf films like i said they prettymuch always build a werewolf legend of their own darkwolf does build the werewolfworld as well about some silly legends of hybrid werewolves and the ancient bloodline but it almost instantly after creating the rules of engagement the darkwolf kills anyone the girl has touched starts random slashing which just doesn't make any sense why even bother telling us the rules of killing when they aren't even gonna play by them aplus the wolf point of view shots are made with a sony handycam or something filming mostly the floor and walls just add growling noises and you've got a super werewolf effect the gore is partially ok but when the wolf slashes everyone with an open hand just by basically laying the hand on top of the victims it just doesn't do the trick for me truly who gives money to make these heaps of junk straight to video horrortitles they aren't even funny kind of bad movies just sad
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i had noticed this movie had been on cinemax a lot lately so this morning i decided to watch it i had just finished the infiltrator which is a great movie and i thought this looked good as well from the description the cable had atleast this film was awful it's slow the pacing is horrible it feels as tho it lasts 4 hours there's no real plot to speak of agh! how can anyone say anything good about this movie rickman is good but he always is the other two characters work well but there's no real story to support any of it after 2 hours and you sitting there wondering what on earth is going on where on earth is the plot it ends with a surprise that frankly just made me sick don't bother with this one
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tenchu aka hitokiri directed by hideo gosha starring shintaro katsu and tetsuya nakadei belongs together with goyokin hara kiri & rebellion to the best chambara movies existing its the story about shintaro katsu who plays okada izo working for nakadei who wants to become the daymio okada being the cleaner for nakadei is being treated like a dog and after quite a while he realises what he realy is to nakadei but there is so much more in this movie every fan of japanese cinema should have seen it !!!!!!! tenchu means heavens punishment
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wow did this episode start on a stooooopid premise! the enterprise is chugging along when all of the sudden abraham lincoln is floating around in space and welcomes the enterprise!!!!!!! is it just me or is this a really lame brained idea ! lincoln comes aboard and they welcome them abe suggests they beam down to some barren planet where they meet other famous dead folks both good and evil it seems that a really cheesy looking rock monster has assembled a team of good and evil people to battle it out for supremacy the whole thing seems really daffy and inherently unfair as the good side is saddled with surak a vulcan who makes gandhi seem like rambo!! despite a totally awful premise the action is pretty good and it's great to see overhead shots of obvious doubles fighting it out in this grudge match but don't mistake this for high art or deep sci fi the bottom line is that the series was on its last legs as a first run series and this really looked like they dusted off this turkey and filmed it regardless of the absurdity of the premise
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this pile of sh!t is tied in my book as the worst thing ever made i can't believe that someone actually relased this crap let alone acually made it horrible horrible horrible not even worth mentioning the damn story or any details about it that's how bad it actually is avoid it like sars!
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all the kids aged from 14 16 want to see this movie although you are only allowed at 18 they have heard it is a very scary movie and they feel so cool when they watched it i feel very sad kids can't see what a good movie is and what a bad movie is this was one of the worst movies i saw in months every scene you see in this movie is a copy from another movie and the end it's an open ending why because it is impossible to come up with a decent en for such a stupid story this movie is just made to make you scared and if you are a bit smart and know some about music you exactly know when you'll be scared when the movie was finished and i turned to my friend and told a bit to loud him that this was a total waste of money some stupid kid looked strange at me these day i could make an oscar with a home video of my goldfish if only i use the right marketing
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claire denis's movies seem to fall into one of two categories the violent and bloody or the quiet and intimate l'intrus definitely falls into the first category but it's not so awful as trouble every day or j'ai pas sommeil now ever since i saw chocolat i've made it a point to see every new movie denis makes and i have always been disappointed l'intrus was no exception she has yet to make a movie as personal and as moving as her first one you get a lot of the denis regulars an older but still magnificent béatrice dalle who seems to be in the movie only to show off her full lips the gap between her teeth her ample cleavage and a couple of nice coats the black guy from trouble every day and j'ai pas sommeil grégoire colin and that lithuanian or russian girl michel subor's character was interesting enough but the camera lingered on him at such length that i got annoyed by that curly forelock of hair hanging over his forehead and was relieved when somewhere in korea i think he finally got it cut there was certainly some action gruesome murders a man's search for a son and there may even have been a plot but one viewing wasn't enough to figure it out and two viewings are i fear out of the question for one thing the score was jarring and obtrusive as in beau travail for another the seasons changed too abruptly leaving you even more confused about what was going on oh there were a few pretty shots and if you liked friday evening with its shots of the folds in heavy drapes and bedsheets you might appreciate the aesthetics of l'intrus otherwise steer clear i saw this movie in french and it's possible i missed something crucial but the dialogue in a denis movie rarely amounts to more than five pages double spaced and with ample margins in chocolat the silence is sublime in l'intrus it's just dull
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this film was on last week and although at that time of the day around 6pm the quality of the movies is almost never good at least here on mexican tv i couldn't switch the tv off the story about madelene moore really touches you she doesn't come across as a very sympathetic character at first but seeing the whole film you just want her so succeed this film really leaves you thinking and i think that basically due to the great acting of brooke johnson i had never heard of her before nor knowingly seen her in another film but this was great great acting compliments to brooke i hope to see her in another film soon
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i agree with the other comments i saw this movie years ago christopher plummer is hilarious as a dandy the ribaldry is unsurpassed if this comes out on video i will definitely buy it
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i have had the opportunity to catch this independent film and was impressed with it despite the lack of excitement in the plot the acting was very good by everyone involved amy madigan played the part of a guilt ridden mother who is tired yet well intentioned and determined to make up for her younger daughter's condition yet in the process she has neglected her older sister who is more interested in playing with her savant syndrome sibling and living in a world of escapism the men in the movie are very powerful in their secondary roles christopher lloyd in a very understated role shows us why he has such versatility he plays a teacher who is dedicated to his profession and literature research yet starved for a meaningful relationship he and madigan connect very well in their scenes together yet both know nothing more can come from their friendship their wordless goodbye is nothing short of brilliant an acting lesson for aspiring performers and in a small role fred savage is fun to watch you can tell why this movie was based on a play it's probably very good on stage on screen it's not particularly exciting but it's nonetheless very thoughtful and powerful in its subtleties
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still the definitive program about the second world war the world at war isn't just long but also very informative the series contains 26 episodes each episode lasts for about 45 min and includes the events leading up to and following in the wake of the war most episodes are about the war in europe and there are several episodes about the war in the pacific other episodes include information about the wars in africa burma the atlantic and the home fronts of germany great britain united states and soviet union there is one episode that's dedicated to the holocaust the series starts off with the episode a new germany 1933 1939 and tells about the rise of the nazis in germany and german territorial gains prior to the outbreak of war the series ends with the episode remember the war's influence in a post war world remember is a fitting episode to end this great program every episode begins with a short introduction and then with opening credits the credits are accompanied by a powerful music theme there are many fitting music pieces throughout the series each episode is like a mini film the footage is fantastic and so is the way it was put together in addition some of the footage is in color the information included also makes the episodes memorable and entertaining the series was produced by jeremy isaacs for thames television uk commissioned in 1969 it took four years to produce such was the depth of its research the series was narrated by laurence olivier one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century the series interviewed leading members of the allied and axis campaigns including eyewitness accounts by civilians enlisted men officers and politicians amongst them albert speer karl donitz jimmy stewart bill mauldin curtis lemay lord mountbatten alger hiss toshikazu kase arthur harris charles sweeney paul tibbets traudl junge and historian stephen ambrose jeremy isaacs says in the making of the world at war that he sought to interview not necessarily the surviving big names but their aides and assistants the most difficult subject to locate and persuade to be interviewed according to isaacs was heinrich himmler's adjutant karl wolff the latter admitted to witnessing a large scale execution in himmler's presence the world at war is often considered to be the definitive television history of the second world war some consider it the finest example of the documentary form in a list of the 100 greatest british television programmes drawn up by the british film institute in 2000 voted for by industry professionals the world at war ranked 19th the program has everything that the viewer needs to know about the war after watching a few episodes i liked the series so much that i tried to watch the remaining episodes one after the other i've seen some of them several times there are two other great documentary series that i know of that may be of interest to the viewer one is called the great war 1964 that's about world war i the other is called cold war 1998 that's about the cold war obviously
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i have seen 'the sea within' today and i loved it the actors of the movie are wonderful specially javier bardem of course but i thought that belén rueda would have a better role lola dueñas clara segura and specially mabel rivera perform excellent interpretations and i cannot forget celso bugallo and joan dalmau brother and father of the protagonist there are two technical aspects i loved very much aguirresarobe's photography and the score by amenábar himself i liked the song 'negra sombra' 'dark shadow' by luz casal with music of carlos núñez in short i think that the spanish academy should choose 'the sea within' in order to compete in the oscar awards i liked other spanish productions such as almodóvar's 'bad education' but amenábar's film is much better than them 'the sea within' deserves all the awards
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as someone who has read the book i can say that this is vastly inferior to the big american version starring gwyneth paltrow there are various reasons for this firstly emma is too unpleasant yes she has faults and isn't the easiest person to like but the viewer shouldn't downright start to despise her secondly mr knightly is miscast his brooding and melancholy in this version are better suited to a bronte or gaskell adaptation than austen and throw the mood of the whole affair off thirdly samantha morton is too strong an actress to be relegated to the role of harriet and why was she made to look so sickly harriet is supposed to be blonde and blooming not to look as if she's going to be carried off by consumption in the next scene fourthly the structure has been mucked up and scenes cut at the end when emma decides she loves mr knightly it comes across as utterly baffling because this narrative hasn't been adequately shown and carried along throughout the film fifthly what was going on exactly with mrs elton's accent she went from sounding like an american actress trying to suppress her own accent at the beginning to all out american half way through and then back to english at the end finally this dragged at the end the book and the big film version end with the wedding of emma and mr knightly this version drags on confusingly after the announcement of the wedding without actually showing us the ceremony all in all a rather haphazard attempt read the book or rent the paltrow version instead
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i'm not a huge fan of lucio fulci's films most of his 80s gore films had their moments but often came across as second rate dario argento imitations with the exception of the entertaining zombi which was a george romero imitation i didn't really enjoy them i know italian horror often disregards the plot but the storyline and characters in his films were just far too thread bare even by the standards this is why don't torture a duckling surprised me its actually a very well made film with an engrossing murder mystery its possibly the best giallo ever made only seriously rivaled by dario argento's entries into the genre and unlike fulci's previous giallo a lizard in a woman's skin this never drags fulci's direction here is quite good he keeps the story moving at a good pace and maintains the viewer's interest throughout also the conclusion to the mystery comes as a complete surprise to the audience plus he adds some clever touches such as the upbeat soul music during a particularly disturbing graveyard beating sequence overall the violence here is restrained and only used when necessary for the story the acting is good for the most part also full of familiar faces from 70s italian exploitation cinema both thomas milian and barbara bouchet are super cool throughout the only weak link is florinda bolkan whose performance is just far too over the top its the only laughable aspect of the film don't torture a duckling definitely comes with my recommendation and may be a good introduction to the giallo subgenre as a whole 8 10
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this film without doubt is one of the worst i have seen it was so boring that i simply could not wait for it to end i talked my girlfriend into watching it after this site had good reviews and after even 30 mins in she looked at me as if to say your nuts the scenery was as boring as the film with nothing but driving around in the car looking at the wind blowing bits of bush around the acting was un inspiring and the film was simply a waste of what have been a good idea into a waste of a dvdr guy pierce should have stuck to neighbours as at least he washed his hair all he done was talk on his phone but yet sold nothing as a salesman he would have been sacked weeks before his girlfriend once in coyote ugly should have remained dancing on the bar as at least she looked hot in that the guy who played vincent those who watched know was so annoying with his phone calls that any normal person would have drove to his house and hit him with a bit of 4 by 2 i do not on this earth know what anyone liked about it i actually want people to watch this to suffer the torture i went through
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unlike another user who said this movie sucked and that olivia hussey was terrible i disagree this movie was amazing!!!!!! olivia hussey is awesome in everything she's in! yeah she may be older now because many remember her from romeo and juliet but she's wonderful! this story line may be used quite often but it's a unique movie and i'll fight back on anyone who disagrees! i enjoyed this movie just as much as i have any other olivia hussey movie olivia's my girl and i love her work i saw this for the first time on saturday 4 14 07 and fell in love with it not only because's it's an olivia movie but because of it's unique story line and wonderful direction
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if you speak french or can put up with sub titles you will really enjoy this movie if on the other hand you just want to see god's most beautiful creatures this is a must see not an ounce of silicon in sight zalman king eat your heart out sophie marceau's body is the epitome of perfection and everything i had ever fantasized about her part is even in english even the fact that she was nude with john malkovich did not detract for her beauty sophie is a ten if ever there was one chiara caselli and inés sastre are 9 5s oh yeah it is a pretty good story several little vignettes are woven together in a sort of six degrees of separation style
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this is the first porn i've ever tried to review it demands a different approach than usual since the allegory will not reward dissection i'm american i'm a prudish virgin we are european we are cultured and sex mad it is nice when we all screw each other lots to talk about! well there kind of is in fact relative to your average 60s topless volleyball number anyway and the enervating patina of 'class' at least delivers clean detailed compositions but what the hell kind of thing is that to say about a porn ok then the only scene i really rhetorically got off on was the first time brigitte maier steps in there are efforts to toss in a nice variety of race and age while letting no two men anywhere near each other the one black guy suffers a premature bout of editorial coitus interruptus and multiple takes or not one perhaps undescribable on imdb act does look like it was partially simulated by a surgical hose still i stayed awake and it was eight in the morning but what does the last shot mean !
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i have seen many many movies and this just totally blew my mind the trauma the suspense is just amazing i ended so wound up in the psychological fear and philosophy of it and relating it to reality movies that play and challenge your mind are movies you don't forget those that make you doubt your reality a problem could be the quality but that doesn't bring down the essence of the movie the idea it self is brilliant and the ending leaves you just completely shocked and with the question for you to seek the answer i just totally loved it! so many clues and twitches and puzzles one of the best movies ever hands down
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this film stands as one of the most amazing examples of compelling and artful film making i've every seen herzog seems to capture the almost transcendent tragedy and beauty of dieter's story as well as his endearing personal character by the end of the film i was left wishing that i'd had the opportunity to meet dieter before his passing on a technical note the cinematography is intimate and astoundingly beautiful the narrative is intricately woven with great awareness of the subject and his capacity for reliving and reenacting traumatic events few documentary directors have so strong an ability to so thoroughly invest the audience in the character this film is a must see!!!
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a small town is attacked by a horde of bloodthirsty vampires the only hope is a lone avenger and a group of ragtag survivors released in 1993 darkness garnered something of a cult following upon release it's easy to see why it's loaded and i mean freaking loaded with gore and it's energy and enthusiasm like that found in other no budget cult horror flicks like the dead next door and the children of ravensback is actually rather infectious while that may be true that's sadly not enough to save it the film was shot on a super 8 so the image is grainy and dark making things very difficult to see it would have been great if it had obscured the protagonists dreadful mullet also grating is the soundtrack made up of annoying casio keyboard and even more annoying death metal seriously what is it with these no budget horror flicks and bad death metal while one isn't expecting oscar worthy performances the acting is still strictly amateur hour as the actors sometimes seem almost confused instead of frightened or threatened in the end i'm sure fans of no budget gorefests will love this everyone else though will wish there was a little more meat on the ribs
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i can understand after watching this again for the first time in many years how it is considered one of the worst laurel & hardy's for me it isn't as close to as bad as air raid wardens and the bullfighters but there are some definite huge flaws in it the film is set up to show laurel and hardy as the owners and instructors of the dance studio hardy is funny as the prancing lead of a london bridge dance surrounded by 20th century fox starlets while in the next room laurel teaches the beginners ballet while wearing a ballerina outfit a clumsy carpenter spills glue on the floor leading to a predicable gag where hardy ends up the looser then in come the racketeers now selling insurance covering up their protection racket one of them is a very young and handsome robert mitchum but no sooner do they bully the boys into buying insurance they are arrested this is the end of the gangsters and the last time we see the dance studio the rest of the film is devoted to laurel and hardy's support of wealthy patron trudy marshall and her inventor boyfriend robert bailey they first try to help them hide their relationship from her disapproving parents matt briggs and margaret dumont and hopeful suitor allan lane whom we can tell right off is a no good swine this leads to briggs' hidden bar being revealed to tea totaling dumont and a gag where a rug is literally pulled out from the wealthy patriarch which crashes his bed into a pond below when bailey uses the boys to help display his ray gun pandemonium ensues the dead pan butler announces to case and dumont that their house is on fire later hardy wants to use the insurance policy to gain money to pay their dance studio rent and hopes to get laurel to break a leg to do so there is no reference to the fact that the insurance salesmen were gangsters and that the policy would probably be invalid even if they were to have become legitimate insurance salesman after being arrested their licenses would have been revoked laurel ends up getting off a bus which had been abandoned by the driver over a supposedly rabid dog only a frosting covered cake devouring toto look alike or possibly the actual pooch causing oliver to end up on a huge beach roller coaster that somehow the bus has ended up on perfectly fitting its wheels onto the tracks roller coaster gags can be exciting as evidenced in abbott and costello go to hollywood and this one is amusing but anticlimactic as the story wraps up all of these gags seem to have no point giving the impression that this was simply a series of one reelers put together to make a full length feature hopefully part of a double bill l&h as i've mentioned in other reviews of their later films had lost much of their luster after leaving hal roach's employ but surprisingly here they do not come off as old and tired looking as they had in films made in the same year had the gags not been as amusing as was the case with some of their other films this surely would have ranked a 2 as opposed to a 3
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sadly it was misguided this movie stunk from start to finish it was hard to watch because i used to watch clarissa explains it all every day on nickelodeon i loved her then the next thing i found she did a spread in maxim and she was gorgeous! i haven't really heard anything about her until i watched this movie on accident i couldn't believe she would even let something like this be seen with her name all over it everything about it was wrong but it still looked like someone somewhere in the team was trying really really hard to save a sunk ship too bad i hope she continues to act and i would love to see her with a real cast in a real movie
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if you have beloved actors peter falk rip torn george segal and bill cobbs you don't need billy burke coolio or any other distractions massive talent is totally wasted in three days to vegas with the blame falling squarely on the script my neighbor's vacation films are about as interesting as this misguided road movie if you want to see how to utilize a veteran cast with a good script check out the crew there really are no redeeming factors here and watching these wonderful actors struggling with such weak material is a crime i wanted to like it but the shallow script cheats the audience by essentially giving the actors nothing to work with merk
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i just can't understand the negative comments about this film yes it is a typical boy meets girl romance but it is done with such flair and polish that the time just flies by henstridge talk about winning the gene pool lottery! is as magnetic and alluring as ever who says the golden age of cinema is dead and vartan holds his own there is simmering chemistry between the two leads the film is most alive when they share a scene lots! it is done so well that you find yourself willing them to get together ignore the negative comments if you are feeling a bit blue watch this flick you will feel so much better if you are already happy then you will be euphoric ps i am 33 male from the uk and a hopeless romantic still searching for his princess
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rock star 2001 *** out of four by blake french rock star is the story of a nobody who becomes propelled into fame only to realize living his dream is not the way he imagined it we have seen all this before in better movies but this human story does capture the world of rock and roll with a brutally honest and insightful edge it garners a recommendation because of its visualization of the atmosphere the script by crazy beautiful director john stockwell portrays the hard core universe with memorable images it doesn't explain what it is about it shows us rock star originally titled metal god stars mark wahlberg as chris izzy cole a pittsburgh office supplies salesperson who dreams of becoming bobby beers the fiery lead singer for the heavy metal rock group steel dragon although chris already sings for his own tribute rock group called blood pollution instead of writing his own songs he insists on performing only those by steel dragon and only in the exact way they perform them his group becomes irritated with chris' obsessions and gives him the boot this devastates chris as well as his supportive parents and faithful girlfriend emily jennifer aniston from tv's friends he then receives a phone call it's the steel dragon band they have seen chris' tapes and want him to replace the recently fired lead singer in an instant chris rockets into the dizzying world of sudden stardom from the biggest rock fan to the biggest rock star unfortunately it's not as rewarding as he expected a true story inspired the rock star concept an ohio supply salesman tim ripper owens really did replace rob halford the lead singer in judas priest after initially singing for a tribute band the rest of the film is probably fiction although most of what happens must represent the experiences of many other bands the film details the various ordeals of being a rock star it explores the aspects of touring personality differences the danger of drug abuse and violence struggling relationships sexual freedom dishonesty and the extreme measures of the producers all to please the fans and keep popularity high i have seen all of mark wahlberg's movies and this is the first that has earned my affection wahlberg a former singer model has made movies like fear boogie nights three kings and most recently tim burton's lacking remake planet of the apes i am starting to admire the young actor more and more although he has not performed in many successful films he has taken many chances and done a variety of roles rock star is his best film to date i can't think of many actors who could have convincingly portrayed chris cole's struggles and aspirations wahlberg truly makes rock star rock jennifer aniston lights up the screen as well she creates a chemistry rich relationship with chris that induces audience participation it's tragic of what happens to their relationship we care about these characters a great deal during the film concert scenes director stephen herek who also directed holy man and the live action version of 101 dalmatians creates a gripping atmosphere he captures the scenes with an intense urgency and a raw unmistakable energy the musical numbers provide the film with the best most involving scenes unfortunately herek cannot sustain the energy and zest throughout at the three quarters mark he looses the spark as the movie becomes dull and unpleasant i understand where the story needs to go in order to portray the negative side of fame but this movie loses everything it previously had going for it in almost famous a much better film about rock and roll there is a certain amount of interest and life in even the most sorrowful scenes here it feels as if the filmmakers lose their passion the message comes a bit too late and suddenly in the story the film turns into a morality tale that wants to provide us with a sappy destination the filmmakers might as well stop everything appear on screen and say now audience the moral of the story is
we understand the theme but it's too instantaneous the personal discovery for chris' must be gradual fortunately all of this happens in the last twenty five minutes of the film hardly enough to completely destroy an entire eighty five minutes of a reasonably good feature rock star is not a great movie see almost famous if you want a remarkable film about rock and roll but for marky mark it's a turning point in his career
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i just found out before writing this review that komodo vs cobra and another movie called curse of the komodo were both directed by the same guy jim wynorski that might explain why they are films of nearly identical premises they both feature a military governed island a colonel whose concerned more about covering his tracks than the lives of his employees people racing to get to a chopper that is conveniently lying in a field somewhere on the island and giant komodo dragons created through genetic experiments running amok what differences are there well the intruders on the island are now capitalists wanting to expose the government secret and there's a giant cobra on the island as well hence the title komodo vs cobra even though the conflict between the two monsters is hardly relevant to the 'story ' komodo vs cobra is more or less what you'd expect given its title and its channel origin the sci fi channel although every now and again you will find one that for one reason or another may appeal to you i liked a movie called komodo i hardly doubt this one will komodo vs cobra is not only a boring film but it's also one of the least enthusiastic sci fi flicks i've seen in a long time in some of these movies there is an air to them that indicates the filmmakers were giving at least a certain level of effort but i see very little here that's indicated again by it just being a rehash of curse of the komodo the cgi for the monsters look as if they came straight out of a second rate video game the cinematography and misc en scene is poor the acting ranges from passable to poor the action scenes are dull and then there are some parts that are frankly put unforgivably bad i see a lot movies where a person will shoot a gun many times without reloading and i can deal with this but in this movie where michael paré takes a single thirty eight handgun and fires it approximately fifty times nonstop without reloading once
well at first i laughed but even then it just became tiring that would be the 'action ' a monster appears people scream paré fires nonstop without reloading his gun once throughout the entire picture and somebody gets eaten komodo vs cobra is a very bad movie the only thing in the movie that is worth mentioning in a charitable manner is an actress named michelle borth who is not only very beautiful but a surprisingly strong performer even with the trashy dialogue and lack of enthusiasm in the screenplay she was given michelle borth managed to pull off a surprisingly good performance and it just appalls me that an actress as good as her can get stuck in a film as junky as this she obviously took it for the paycheck but it won't boost her career any i'm afraid
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yes it feels and for the most part plays like an after school special for a slightly more adult audience alright maybe a teen audience but add in bill murray already showing some dramatic as well as his usual comedic talent a nice supporting cast and an unexpected sweetness about growing up and remembering those great or not so great days at summer camp and you get a heartwarming funny sleeper hit it does get a little too smarmy for its own good but that is also one of its charms when you hear the title meatballs and see the poster you expect a teenage sex romp but what you get is a sentamental yet sometimes sexy look back at those formative years at summer camp the sentamentality and the remberances of simpler times reminds me of a christmas story which i also love the rememberances of summer camp were never so well stated the only movie i've seen that comes close is indian summer which i like almost as much as meatballs and also stars matt craven let's hope he completes the trilogy maybe he could come back for return of the meatballs and bring some dignity back to the franchise meatballs 2 through 4 bare no resemblence to the original classic meatballs is easily on my top 10 guilty pleasures of all time not really guilty either it's a wonderful little film that always makes me smile
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i think this show is screamingly funny! it's not for every taste and i'm not going to elevate or denigrate the folks that don't get it i'm sure they're wonderful bright people that operate at a different wavelength but if you like it you really like it sarah plays a self infatuated loser named sarah silverman who often finds her self in homerian predicaments that's homerian as in homerian simpsonian i remember sarah silverman from her brief gig on saturday night live in the early 90's i liked her immediately then and i go out of my way to check out anything she's done this show is choke on your food and wet your pants funny therefore i always fast before watching it and wear adult diapers check it out!
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okay so there is a front view of a checker taxi probably late 1930s model it has the great triangular shaped headlights there also is a desoto cab in this black and white character driven almost a musical love gone wrong story the real pleasure here is the look at 1940s room interiors and fashions and hotel elevators the hair styles male and female are gorgeous if dolly parton had victor mature's hair she could have made it big there is an artist loft that would be the envy of every andy warhol wannabe if you watch this expecting a great casablanca storyline or sound of music oom pah pah you will be disappointed there is a nice little story beneath the runway model approach in this film my copy on dvd with another movie for $1 was very viewable the title sequence was cute but not up there with mad mad mad mad world or the pink panther this was an rko movie but it did not have the nice airplane logo that rko used to use i liked victor mature in one million b c and sampson and delilah and especially in violent saturday see if you can find that one he was wonderful in the comedy with peter sellers called caccia alla volpe or after the fox richard carlson went on to do i led three lives on tv in the early 1950s vic mature was offered the part of sampson's father in the remake of sampson and delilah he supposedly was asked if he would have any problems playing the part of the father since he was so well known as sampson victor replied if the money is right i'll play sampson's mother tom willett
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the original female convict scorpion is an all time masterpiece the first sequel jailhouse 41 was not quite as good in my opinion though it's still notable for the fact that it took the idea from the original and created something in a completely different style director shunya ito has managed to do the same thing again with this film the story is a bit different here but still he's managed to take what made the previous entries excellent and better than many films of this type and craft something fairly original around it again the action focuses on nami matsushima a k a scorpion and this time she's out of the jailhouse and not too keen on the idea of going back after escaping from pursuing police officers one thing leads to another and scorpion finds herself getting it together with a prostitute and her retarded brother the prostitute ends up getting impregnated by the retarded brother while scorpion is kidnapped and caged up by someone who she made an enemy out of in prison but scorpion doesn't like spending time behind bars and it's not long before she's back to doing what she does best the film gets off to a great start as we see scorpion hack the arm off a copper intent on taking her back to jail from there however the film slows down a lot and beast stable ends up being more of a drama than the previous two films that's not to say that there isn't still plenty of action scorpion still spends a lot of time in 'revenge mode' and the film isn't exactly short on general sleaze meiko kaji once again reprises her role as the sinister title character and it's another understated almost wordless performance her screen presence is great however and she manages to have a menacing presence despite being only small physically the plot structure for this film is similar to the other two in that it all builds into a crescendo of revenge there are more people who have angered scorpion in this film than in the previous two so this section takes up a fairly large part of the film there's a few surreal sequences not as many as in the first film and nowhere near as in the second but the film stays in with the rest of the series on that point overall i would say this film is between the first two in terms of quality not as great as the original and slightly better than the second
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1 thing this movie sucks big time i was into singaporean comedy when chiken rice war came along but this time even gurmit singh well done acting cant pull this one of a total failure of following hk's shaolin soccer next time do ur own thing!
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everything is idyllic in suburbia when the little family moves in as the father have got a new job in a computer company there but no paradise would be complete without its snake strange things happens as the family joins the local country club without the husband as it certainly holds secrets the father is not a joiner but pressure is on him to join as everyone who is anything in the neighborhood and at work are members robert urich's good guy part is a bit tepid but joanna cassidy as good natured housewife turning nasty sizzles suspenseful and well made chiller with a bitchy susan lucci as club chairperson look out for cult favorite michael berryman in a bit part as a valet the movie captures the sense of paranoia and the special effects final is worth waiting for i have seen this movie quite a few times
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neil simon's the odd couple set up a model for many of his later plays felix unger and oscar madison were the unsuitably paired roommates in the original the former being picky and neat the latter being slovenly and loose simon would rewrite less successfully the play in the 1990s as the new odd couple with female roommates he made it a mixed couple a woman with her daughter and a man in the goodbye girls he also gave it an additional twist in 1973 with the sunshine boys a broadway hit starring jack alberson and sam levine as al lewis and willie clark the aged semi retired vaudevillians here the apartment problem is reduced to a teaming of two men who can't stand each other the 1976 film starred walter matthau as willie and george burns as al in actuality al probably does not think totally badly of willie willie is pathological on the subject of al first al had little habits such as accidentally spitting slightly when pronouncing words beginning with the letter t and slightly jabbing willie with his index finger on stage secondly al retired when his wife died willie was not ready to retire and has been forcing his nephew and agent ben richard benjamin to try to get him jobs in commercials but willie can't remember lines unless they are funny and keeps flubbing them so he rarely is able to stay to the end of a rehearsal for a commercial ben is asked to get the two back together for a live scene of their most famous sketch on a television show about american comedy he does bring al to see willie and the sparks begin flying as neither can figure out what the other is doing and this is just in rehearsal on top of that willie is insisting on changes minor ones but they throw off al such as saying enter!!! when al knocks on the door the initial rehearsal is a failure but ben manages to get them to the taping of the show the question is if they will complete the scene in the finished program or will willie wring al's neck the three leads matthau burns and benjamin do very well with the one liners frequently reminiscent of vaudeville patter example chest pains i'm getting chest pains uncle willie every thursday i come here and get chest pains! so come on fridays! benjamin strives to prove his deep affection for his uncle although matthau's rough outer shell makes it difficult he only smooths down when he discusses the glory days of vaudeville matthau has a little better grasp on reality at first than burns who seems senile by his repeating himself but in actuality matthau's sense of rejection by the world that once applauded him make him less willing to behave properly burns is not senile he takes things slowly but he seems far happier in accepting his retirement i call this a final voyage of discovery for our modern lewis and clark al and willie transcend their old skits as they gradually end up realizing that they have more in common in their old age than they thought even the irascible willie admits that al may be to him a pain in the ass but he was a funny man burns was not the original choice for the part of al lewis supposedly dale of the team smith and dale jack benny was benny probably would have done a good job but ill health forced him out he died in 1975 burns whose last involvement in any film was in the solid gold cadillac in 1956 as the narrator turned in such a fine performance that he got the oscar for best supporting actor and was to have a career in movies in the next decade in such films as oh god! oh god you devil and going in style he died in 1996 age 100 having proved that he was more than just a brilliant straight man for his wife gracie allan
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this astonishing waste of production money is filmic proof that the rich and famous can be just as stupid and wasteful as politicians from a silly play by tennessee williams and directed with a dead hand by joseph losey and starring taylor and burton and noel coward this project filmed in a spectacular cliff top mountain island mansion in the mediterranean must have seemed a sure fire winner when presented to universal in 1967 the result is so absurd and tedious that it almost defies belief visually the film is spectacular but that is the force of nature that has allowed the setting and the fact that a real home is used instead of a set the shrill antics of a screeching taylor burton's half asleep wanderings the loony dialog noel coward laughing at himself the ridiculous story and plot devices and the absurd costuming simply irritate the viewer boom is a disgrace a waste of money and talent and clear proof that lauded famous people can be idiots just like the rest of the planet's plebs not even fun just terrible and mad shocking waste
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this film is self indulgent rubbish watch this film if you merely want to hear spoken gaelic or enjoy the pleasant soundtrack watch for any other reason and you will be disappointed it should be charming but isn't it's just irritating the characters are difficult to care about and the acting is poor the stories within the film are also charmless and sinister i was expecting a heartwarming family film but this also held no appeal to my fourteen year old daughter it is rarely that i cannot see a film through to its conclusion but this one got the better of both of us although the film is set in current times it has the look and feel of a cheap east european film made during the cold war there isn't even enough in the way of beautiful scottish scenery and cinematography to redeem it a real shame because as a film this is an embarrassment to scotland
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a plot that is dumb beyond belief however that said it must be admitted the lead actors go at their roles as though it were shakespeare and that is as it should be it isn't their fault the writer seems to be in a coma hats off to what is really a very cunning performance by joanna kerns she proves that just because it isn't on the page doesn't mean a role can't be seized and dug into and she does so with gusto good for her ditto to christine elise who is called upon to be little more than confused and weepy but goes way beyond what is asked of her by the script and to grant show as well a graduate of daytime and prime time soaps ryan's hope melrose place he is always versatile and underrated his primary drawback seems to be his impossible to ignore good looks he is a sturdy well grounded actor capable of much more than he is generally given the opportunity to do the rest of the cast is basically window dressing the direction is adequate and the script as i alluded to is fairly idiotic watch this one to enjoy three good actors in the leads taking delight in performing some much needed scenery chewing it's fun
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excellent movie in many aspects vicente aranda has succeeded in depicting the time 1830 with meticulous care the light the places the feeling are perfectly perceived from the very start of the movie and along with it in opposite to what happened to mad love juana la loca a rather episodic historical movie all of this beautiful photography music clothes is wrapping a very fluid screenplay that reaches its climax in the only possible way concerning the actors paz vega as carmen is outstanding liar seductive agressive totally sexual so beautiful carmen sbaraglia is a little less convincing the audience about his instant mad love for carmen but he succeeds in conveying the proper tragic mood to the whole movie i recommend it to everyone the best spanish movie of the year
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as a premise this backwoods version of the dead calm storyline had promise however director eric red's inability to render a convincing hurricane leads to a deluge of continuity and lighting errors ultimately the viewer is more spellbound by the bizarre weather effects than the intended storyline intermittent spates of ham fisted over direction are similarly distracting charles dance doing an 'inbred backwoods hardass' schtick does his best to save the movie but ultimately undertow squeals like a pig and has more ham to boot
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mickey rourke who was once a famous movie star plays martin fallon an ira terrorist who accidentally blows up a school bus full of children who is so disgusted by his actions decides to leave the ira and goes on the run in london !!!! mild spoilers !!!! the movie's opening is rather disturbing as the lives of little children are ended in a fireball things like this happened throughout the 1970s and 1980s and into the 1990s in northern ireland which gives a prayer for the dying a stark realism however as soon as fallon decides he's going to give up violence what he's a terrorist and he's never blown up innocent passerbys before realism disappears and clichés and ridiculous plot twists take place martin is employed by the london underworld don't they have their own hit men to commit a hit while he wears an ira uniform never knew the provos wore uniforms at a cemetery in broad daylight wouldn't an ira man use a bomb placed under a car where he's spotted by a priest who recognises him while he was in the sas hands up who thinks i'm lying i'm not and we're half way through the running time and there's still several clichés to come this all sounds very silly and it is but what do you expect from a novel by jack higgins everything is clichéd contrived and stereotypical and the bits that aren't are just plain bizarre the critics slaughtered this movie when it came out most notably they stated that it might have some potential if the movie had bob hoskins playing gangster jack meehan and alan bates playing the sas soldier turned priest and for once the critics would have been right they should also noted the film might have been less dire if fallon was played by someone who was capable of doing an irish accent rourke might be hunky and macho oh gawd another movie with an ira uberhunk but accents aren't his strong point any more than character acting is to give you an idea how disappointing prayer for the dying is the director ended up disowning it which is always a bad sign as a footnote the original release of prayer for the dying in britain was delayed for several months because of the enniskillen bombing in november 1987 the provisional ira exploded a bomb in the centre of enniskillen where a remembrance day parade which commemorates britain's war dead was being held eleven 11 people were killed and scores more injured it wasn't an accident and no one left the ira because of it
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in the literal sense reminds you of those cops and robber or cowboys indians role playing games you played with your 8 year old friends tedious and un inspired the storyline was obviously written to make bad acting and dialogue seem as part of the plot but all it does is showcase it i cant believe john badham let his name be associated with this piece of crap this could have been done better by a high school film buff who had been given the camera lighting filmstock and editing destined to be a time filler on sci fi channel when they've overused everything else from their library and barely better than the paid programming shill downstream
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1 aliens resemble plush toys and hand puppets while having arms that don't function 2 aliens mastered intergalactic space travel but they don't know how to push an unlocked vault door open yet can push open a door being held shut by five people 3 old security guards know how to get a hold of c4 and are just waiting for the right time to use it say when they are suddenly fired for no explainable reason 4 apparently us army boot camp in the 80's involved several sessions of garden tool combat including the pirouette spin of death 5 to impress your prudish girl friend you have to save the world err neighborhood from aliens 6 all women are sluts either openly or secretly 7 scummy night clubs look like bad diners 8 scummy waitresses double as dancers for the fontanelles how did they get talked into this who can only do bad 60's dance moves 9 army privates secretly dream of being rambo 10 grenades apparently have a setting for flash bang 11 being burned alive apparently only leaves one with minor burns on their arms 12 us army staff sargeants apparently happen to always be in the area and do nothing about aliens in the area 13 aliens apparently always go home which means back to the vault they were un locked in 14 aliens are attracted to bright lights which apparently means in the los angeles area one would assume the protagonist's house is the most brightly lit thing in the area 15 showing 16 parking scenes in a movie makes the audience clamor for more 16 vans from the 80's apparently have horrible suspension systems 17 comedy is supposed to happen in this film 18 horror is supposed to happen in this film 19 spoofs and homages are supposed to happen in this film 20 this film cures insomnia 21 apparently garden tools make electronic keyboard noises whenever they are used not just in fights tell me i'm not the only one who noticed this the simply truth is this film just came out wrong period there isn't much meat on the bone nor does it do anything really well even average it's just bad however i've seen far worse and the rake fight scene is pure comedy gold intentional or otherwise 2 10 jaws 4 was worse then this at least the film never took itself seriously
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i would give this movie high marks for the cinema photography and performances i just read a user comment concerning the performance of the actress who plays a conniving courtesan who fleeces sinuoeh the lead character i remember a mini biography of this actress following the movie the last time i saw it apparently she was a holocaust refugee discovered by a french husband and wife in the movie industry who were taken with her extraordinary beauty she died very young and under tragic circumstances gene tierney is also outstanding in this film like other neo biblical films of the 1940's and 50s the egyptian reflects the morals and values of that time but is still great entertainment because the performances are terrific and the story so well told
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one of the worst movie i have seen in 2009 so far the story hesitates between a silly thriller or a dumb comedy as nothings happens the void is filled with long boring dialogs that don't make any sense! the cast is famous but doesn't bring any emotions except to fast forward the play! and it happens in a plush seaside hotel that looks really gloomy in comparison the one of the shining is funfair! nb a lot of users think that it is located in the french riviera! they are wrong! it isn't the south of france nice cannes but totally the opposite cabourg & normandy to be simple the beaches of the d day! that's why the sea is as grey as the sky and there isn't sun!
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i had no idea what this movies was about it jumps from plot line to plot line erratically linking incoherent ideas with one another it simply doesn't make sense the chopped up time line doesn't help either we start in present day get a flash back to the past and then return to the future only to go back into the past this movie is also filled with horrible sappy lines and cliché themes such as princess and the pauper you cant have me even in my death lines you don't even love me enough line cliché to the max! fighting scene were horribly corny lighting was constantly misplaced which offset the cg with the actors meanning you could tell some of the backgrounds were clearly cg although the society in di moon was quite interesting i wouldn't really recommend his to anyone avoid if possible if you found this comment hard to follow the movie would be equally as bad
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the folks at aardman have done a cool cute and wild adaptation of their short films of wallace and gromit to feature length as the man and his dog inventors who seem to have more of the intelligence or practicality for the latter in this case they've invented a machine that can capture all of the bunnies that are eating up the crops all over a quiet english village in particular for mrs tottington or 'totty' for those who are 'intimate' much to the chagrin of victor quartermaine who just wants to kill all the rabbits with his trust rifle wallace and gromit seem to have success with their machine but wallace has a mix up a machine he's made to make more food suddenly criss crosses himself with a rabbit the curse is on! a lot of this is about as much light hearted fun that a kid's movie could ask for but it also tips its hat to the oldest tradition in classic cartoon slapstick looney tunes which in turn is indebted to much silent comedy and vaudeville granted the aardman guys nick park and steve box have a bunch more gimmicks and tricks and ingenuity with their material it's never less than amazing to see how they put the stop motion to use even when a joke or a gag might be a little on the funny ho ho not funny ha ha side a tired criticism but i'll say it curse of the were rabbit works so well on all fronts for the audience in its warped story and sudden dips into exposition the golden bullet story is a doozy park and box and company never lose sight of glee in the material it's fuzzy and warm hearted and completely off the wall for the kids even the very youngest will love the adventures and strange gadgets such as the truck wallace and gromit drive around in and for adults there's little barbs of funky absurdist tones in the midst of a classic english farce only and i'm probably a minority opinion here when compared to chicken run it's almost a little slight a work there's less any plot than there is a series of running gags and of course lots of puns involving bunnies and monsters and carnivals and cheese and horrible men with egos in their guns like the fiennes voiced quartermaine but when it strikes best it's one of the most entertaining films of 2005 it gives me a big goofy smile anytime it's on tv
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another weak third season entry 'is there in truth no beauty ' nonetheless has at least one key plot element that is very different and as spock would say fascinating the main character is an alien who must be carried around in a black box because his appearance is so horrendous that it drives humans insane it's too bad the episode cannot live up to this incredible premise obviously i think it was a mistake to ever 'show' the alien as its actual visage in no way even approximates such a daunting build up all we get is the standard star trek psychedelic light display used for any number of things in different episodes usually when the ship is passing through a magnetic storm or something similar in any event kollos' appearance can at least be tolerated by mr spock and then only if spock is wearing a special visor for the longest time i thought the alien's name was 'carlos ' which i found humorous but i digress spock is required to mind meld with kollos at one point so that the alien can pilot the enterprise back to safety this is accomplished but when spock kollos go back to end the mind meld by golly spock forgets his visor uh oh he goes crazy but eventually recovers with the help of kollos' assistant a blind woman with psychic powers this might have been a really bizarre excellent episode but it is poorly directed and comes across as yet one more badly executed show of the series' last season
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this movie is trash poor it has horrible taste and is pedestrian and unconvincing in script although supposedly based on real events which doesn't add much of anything but make it more of a disappointment direction is not well done at as scenes and dialogue are out of place not sure what robin williams saw in this character or story to start williams is not convincing as a gay in a relationship breakup nor is the relationship itself interesting what's worse his character is compelled by an ugly pedophile story that is base and has no place as a plot device you have an older rory culkin tastelessly spouting d_ck_smker in good fun which is annoying enough and then laughed up by the williams character finally you have sandra oh as a guardian angel adviser to williams and a thrown in explanation of the whole fiasco towards the end toni collete's character is just plain annoying and a re hash of her 6th sense performance with poorer direction very miss able
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this movie vampires the turning isn't even really worth the 2 out of 10 i'm giving it the movie is very predictable from beginning up to the very end when our hero kills the leader of the vampire slayers the use of music in this movie was even bad it kept playing as if you were to expect something significant to happen at any second though it never did the acting was b rank at best and the movie was just dull the only reason i give this movie a 2 out of 10 is because the story had potential though it ended up unable to deliver oh and did i mention the wardrobe the wardrobe for this movie was obviously cheap to non existent because our hero and his girlfriend whom he's trying to save throughout the entire movie wear the same outfits through the entire movie i'd suggest this film only if your really bored and don't have a good wall with fresh paint to watch dry dave the horror cowboy
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a new guard in in the armored truck gig is recruited by his co workers to steal 42 million from the truck no bad guys so no one will get hurt right of course things go wrong and the new guard decides to have a conscience and make things right by saving the life of a dying man i'll admit that i didn't really have any interest in this film but i didn't have any interest in fantastic mr fox either and that film made my top ten of the year armored is even more of a disappointment then i thought it would be as a heist film it fails to deliver the goods it's boring and full of plot holes and leaps in logic that one will hurt themselves thinking about it despite this the film somehow has a really great cast but the film doesn't even use this to it's advantage everyone seems wasted in wooden characters that make stupid choices columbus short is an uninteresting lead that is never charismatic and never makes the audience want to give a crap matt dillon is the mastermind behind the heist and he plays mr nice guy at first then when things don't go his way he quickly becomes the villain the rest of the impressive cast include lawrence fisburn jean reno skeet ulrich fred ward amaury nolasco from prison break and milo ventimiglia from heros non of them do much and when they actually do something it's without much reasoning behind it the film is relatively short but even with it's running time under 90 minutes it felt dragged out how long can you make a movie about a guy trapped somewhere phonebooth did a decent job and it was even more restricted the leaps of logic concerning the plot here are tragic 42 million and all the security they have are check ins every hour or so the entire plan from my understanding was to drive the trucks into an abandoned warehouse and hide the money pretend to get hit and burn the trucks they would then walk away with the money of course something goes wrong or there would be no movie right through a series of unfortunate events out so called hero has trapped himself inside the truck with an injured officer the rest of the movie is dillion and his crew banging on the doors to get in how very exciting the script calls for our hero to have financial problems he might lose his house which would in turn make him lose his brother you see both their parents died and it's just the two of them looking out for each other so now he has a reason to join the heist at first he didn't want in but his money problems is just the right push to throw him in the thick of things how convenient armored's whole spin on the heist genre is that it's from an armored truck from the guys who drive it after that basic premise the film falls flat on it's face i found myself wanting it to end sooner and sooner each time someone spoke speaking of the ending it sucks skip it
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for a really wonderful movie you could also try seeing the movie about saint francis of assisi good for any audience best thing i liked about this movie was the mexico landscape & it gets the movie up to a 2 i was surprised that these actors didn't have terrible sunburn they were so were not desert dwellers and moses is said to have a speaking impediment but certainly not here even the miracle scenes were contrived & un believable and what's the point if you can belief anything in a tv story talk about dumbing down i thought this hallmark made movie was pathetic & i can see why others hate hollywood i don't just some of these corporate profit grubbers you don't have to be any kind of religious to benefit from jesus of nazareth but for this waste of celluloid you need to be bored with nothing to do dumbed down & religious and for a real movie experience try short cut to nirvana a very highly rated film
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i saw the movie last night here at home but i thought it was too long first of all second the things i saw in the movie were way too out of text to even have in this what i thought was going to be a comedy type movie like the rest before the things isn't funny in the movie fiancé hitting his girlfriend beatings the movie was way too long talk about wanting to go to sleep and wondering when it will end when you wake up and still have it playing! some of the things at the reunion were too much to capture like the lady singing i felt like i was almost watching a spiritual song show here! come on perry you can do better then this!
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does anyone know where or how i can get a copy of this film !! i've been searching for way too long someone help! back in 1997 my girlfriends and i were extras on this long island based film and we actually never got to see it i was hoping i could find a copy somehow so i can finally check it out and share it with the girls! is there anyone out there who knows where to get a copy of this so i can stop driving myself crazy also it doesn't matter if its in in vhs format i'm still in the ice age myself if you or anyone you know has a copy of this film please help i would be willing to pay for a good copy of it!
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this show was not only great human drama but portrayed racism in this country in a raw all too true to life manner when one show can be so witty and entertaining and yet so poignant and educational all at once this is television in its highest form the acting was phenomenal the writing was exceptional not only did the show portray race relations in a straightforward manner that seems unmatched by any other television series but its ability to depict this subject matter as it existed in the 1960's alongside how it exists in the beginning of the twenty first century powerfully demonstrates the ways we have changed and sadly the many more ways we have not
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a young couple father ben solid charles bateman wife nicky the lovely ahna capri and their daughter kt the cute geri reischl of i dismember mama fame find themselves trapped in a small california desert town populated by hysterical lunatics worse yet there's a pernicious satanic cult that's been abducting little children for their own diabolical purposes director bernard mceveety working from an offbeat and inspired script by william welch and l q jones devil times five director sean macgregor came up with the bizarre story relates the compellingly oddball plot at a slow yet steady pace and ably creates a creepy edgy mysterious ooga booga atmosphere strother martin delivers a wonderfully wicked and robust performance as doc duncan who's the gleefully sinister leader of the evil sect the top rate cast of excellent character actors qualifies as a substantial asset jones as gruff no nonsense sheriff hillsboro alvy moore as friendly local toby and charles robinson as a shrewd fiercely devout priest jack john arthur morrill's bright polished widescreen cinematography jamie mendoza nava's spooky score and the wild rousing climactic black mass ritual are all likewise up to speed the idea of having toys come to murderous life is simply ingenious the opening scene with a toy tank coming real and crushing a family in their car is truly jolting nice eerily ambiguous ending too a pleasingly idiosyncratic and under appreciated winner
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absolutely nothing is redeeming about this total piece of trash and the only thing worse than seeing this film is seeing it in english class this is literally one of the worst films i have ever seen it totally ignores and contradicts any themes it may present so the story is just really really dull thank god the 80's are over and god save whatever man was actually born as james bond iii
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if you're a t rex marc bolan fan i recommend you check this out it shows a whimsical side of marc bolan as well as ringo starr apparently having a pretty good time shooting some of the scenes that aren't part of the concert but fun to watch leaving you with a sense of getting to know them as just people and when the concert is shown a talented musician both playful and professional that rocks and seems to impress the screaming girls watching him in concert you would never know that being a rock star is a job but just having a great time playing some great songs with some good friends like elton john and ringo starr appearing in some of the live performances true there are a few songs missing that i would like to have seen on there but like any album it can't have everything i just bought this in 2006 but if i would have know it came out in 1972 i would have definitely bought it years ago sad and strange that a man with so many songs about his love for cars would never learn to drive and would die in a car crash!
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i was at the same screenwriters conference and saw the movie i thought the writer sue smith very clearly summarised what the film was about however the movie really didn't need explanation i thought the themes were abundantly clear and inspiring a movie which deals with the the ability to dare to face fear especially fear passed down from parental figures and overcome it and in doing so embrace life's possibilities is a film to be treasured and savoured i enjoyed it much more than the much hyped 'somersault ' i also think mandy62 was a bit unkind to hugo weaving as a bloke about his vintage i should look so good! i agree that many australian films have been lacklustre recently but 'peaches' delivers the goods i'm glad i saw it
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from the very opening scene you will notice just how hard they tried to mimic the very smart and powerful 'cruel intentions' and how flat it landed you'll also notice what a terrible choice they made by casting robin dunne as valmont then in the second scene you meet the two best things in this movie amy adams and mimi rogers as kathryn and her mother that is if you can get past the fact that kathryn wasn't blonde in the first film then the movie goes on you see the cheap romantic story from miles ago and you notice sebastian has already met an anette in the past here called danielle and a cecile here called cherie how original is that for a prequel then it turns into a low budget 'wild things' type of film with lots and lots of oh my twists as i mentioned robin dunne was a very bad choice not that he is a bad actor he's good he just doesn't have the charisma ryan did amy adams who is in my opinion one of the most talented young actresses of our time once again delivers but with all the talent in the world there is no way one could save this trash as a whole this movie feels like a 'beverly hills 90210' episode the score has been stolen from 'cruel intentions' and 'jawbreaker' yes they used the score from jawbreaker couldn't they at least leave that one alone ! you'll want to pass this one if you want more cruel intentions watch stephen frears' dangerous liaisons
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the chipmunk adventure is one of the greatest animated movies of the 1980's alvin and the chipmunks have always been of some interest to me since they were what really got me into rock and roll neither one of the chipmunks has any bad traits alvin's really the star and has all the cool looks theodore is the lovable sensitive one then there's simon my personal favorite the smart one who is often a party pooper i also like the chipettes a lot there's brittany who like alvin is one who is always trying to be so popular then there's eleanor who like theodore is sweet sensitive and loves food janette is the only chipette who is not much like her counterpart she's very naive and really clumsy in the chipmunks' very first full length movie david seville is going on a business trip to europe and he's leaving the boys with miss miller while he's gone while playing an arcade game alvin loses against brittany and then says that if he had the money he'd race brittany around the world for real unbeknownest to the kids a man named klaus furschtien and his sister claudia who have been trying to come up with a sneaky way to deliver diamonds around the world in exchange for cash overheard this conversation and said that they'd let them race around the world for $100 000 alvin and brittany accept it and go on the race this adventurous movie has a lot of great songs off to see the world made for an appropriate theme song for the movie then there is getting lucky one of my favorite songs in the movie my mother is most likely the sappiest song in the movie but it always makes me cry wooly bully is the only cover song used in the movie the rest were completely original then of course there's the boys and girls of rock and roll which in my opinion has to be one of the greatest musical numbers in movie history i used to watch this movie very often until my recorded tape of it died i still watch the movie though this is actually a fun movie for people who are about to go on a vacation to a foreign country for the first time it'll give you an idea of what kind of stuff you'd expect out of world travel definitely one of my childhood movies and one that i'd recommend to 80's fans and alvin & the chipmunks fans
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if you can watch a bond film from 1983 that isn't as good as octopussy and still enjoy it if you can accept production values which aren't that much above the level of a tv movie if you can look at sean connery with wrinkles on his forehead beneath an obvious toupée and still see james bond if you can get past an inexperienced basinger a weaker largo and a jolly q if you can learn to love an idiosyncratic score not up there with barry on his worst day if you don't believe the hyperbolic reviews that it was greeted with on release if you can meet a poker battle and a video game face off and enjoy them both the same yours is never say never again and everything that's in it and what is more you'll probably enjoy it my son!
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while in the barn of kent farm with shelby waiting for chloe clark is attacked and awakes in a mental institution in the middle of a session with dr hudson the psychologist tells him that for five years he has been delusional believing that he has come from krypton and had superpowers clark succeeds to escape and meets lana martha and lex that confirm the words of dr hudson only chloe believe on his words but she is also considered insane clark fights to find the truth about his own personality and origin labyrinth is undoubtedly the most intriguing episode of smallville the writer was very luck and original denying the whole existence of the powerful boy from krypton the annoying hum gives the sensation of disturbance and the identity mysterious saver need to be clarified my vote is nine title brazil labirinto labyrinth
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this was allocated to the fans as the winner takes all match occurred between two separate companies the world wrestling federation and the alliance an amalgamation of former wcw and ecw superstars because the final match to duduce the superior company was a tag team match the wrestlers were confined to tossing opponents from each side of the ring to another each wrestler concludes that in order to debiliate their opponents and to intensify the match interfernce is necessary each wrestler merely pummels an opponent with punches executes a special move and tags in a partner the storyline had previously been tarnished by the subterfuge of vince that a member of the allance would be fradulent and join the wwf it was obvious with that statement that the wwf would prevail overall very innovative storyline but poor execution which is not the scarcity of the wrestlers because the match format is tag team the remaining matches are just revolting edge versus test potent big boot by test but this did not display the true talents of both stars al snow versus christian good match but superflous to the pay per view taji versus william regal the worst match of the night immunity battle royal this was an outstandingly fun match to watch but because the main stars of both companies were involved in the main event only a wrestler who characteristically appears on heat and is probably a wcw light heavyweight reject i e the hurricane who is merely hired as an entertainer hardy boyz versus dudley boyz the best match of the night jeff hardy executed a swanton bomb from the summit of a cage and through a wooden table and matt was wedged into the cage which appeared to be extremely painful because stone cold was the wwf champion rob van dam was the hardcore champion and kurt angle was a mole in the alliance all fundamental stars in the main event on the faction of the alliance were granted work after the match's outcome except for booker t who recently attacked a wrestler on raw and will inevitably be given work shane mcmahon will return to television somehow and everyone desired to witness the downfall and demise of the alliance to see stone cold out of work the wwf has done much better a match in which all tiltes were brought to one faction would have been better and what ever became of casket and iron man matches
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this movie offers nothing to anyone it doesn't succeed on any level the acting is horrible dull long winded dribble they obviously by the length of the end sex scene were trying to be shocking but just ended up being pretty much a parody of what the film was aiming for complete garbage i can't believe what a laughable movie this was and i'm very sure rosario dawson ended up in this film cause she though this would be her jarring break away indi hit a wowing nc 17 movie the problem is no adult is going to stick with this film as the film plays out like a uninteresting episode of the oc or something aimed at teens pathetic
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che part one was a fascinating experiment which did not only tell a very interesting story but it also tried to do something different with the biopic genre che part two is the excellent culmination of this experiment this movie offers all of the same attributes from the first one from the extraordinary performances specially from benicio del toro to steven soderbergh's brilliant direction without forgetting its intention of breaking with the conventional rules from the biopics that is what i admire from soderbergh's experiments they always try to do something different and unusual and they succeed most of the times the final message from this film is perfect and it includes everything we have been told about che guervara's life the only fail i found on che part two is that a few parts felt a bit irrelevant in summary i give che part two a very enthusiastic recommendation because as the first one it is a brave and fascinating experiment which challenges the spectator and leaves us thinking
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as much as i dislike saying 'me too' in response to other comments it's completely true that the first 30 minutes of this film have nothing whatsoever to do with the endless dirge that comprises the following 90 having been banned somewhere doesn't make a film watchable just because it doesn't resemble a hollywood product does not make it credible worse yet in addition to no discernible plot other than there are lots of muddy places in russia and many people even very old women drink lots of vodka a number of visuals are so unnecessarily nauseating i'm in to my second package of rolaids as for spoilers well the film is so devoid of any narrative thread i couldn't write one if i tried don't waste your time or money and don't confuse this with good russian cinema
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before seeing this i was merely expecting another mediocre soft core copy of the much imitated emmanuelle series starring sylvia kristel it was really surprising how good this one turned out to be it actually has a story and it is very romantic indeed what makes 'yellow emanuelle' so good is it's leading heroine the beautiful and exotic chai lee she plays her character emy wong so sweetly that the viewer just has to feel something for her when her dreams crash down around her emy wong is a much respected doctor statuesque with a regal quality she comes from an important old family where ancient customs are still practiced emy will remain a virgin until she is married to a man she has never met the beautiful doctor seems ok with this arranged marriage it is simply how it is done in her world however she does not plan on meeting and falling in love with the british pilot who ends up under her care in the hospital where she works emy decides to do away with custom and she gives herself to her western man but only after a very long courtship as doctor wong is anything but an easy woman her pilot george is a good guy and promises to marry emy so that she doesn't lose her respectability and place in her rigid society neither one counts on a third party one ilona staller who destroys their relationship through a series of vicious games emy is made to believe that she has been abandoned by her man that he only played a game with her in order to sleep with her her place in society is gone she has been debased the film takes a surprisingly dramatic and depressing turn as this proud elegant woman gives up her career as well as a sweet relationship with her caring father and succumbs to a life of drinking and prostitution i was surprised to find myself so engrossed in this operatically tragic tale i was on the edge of my seat when george blows back into town and unknowingly walks into a hotel where his beautiful emy is working as a prostitute! classic drama i imagine many viewers were a bit frustrated by all this drama one would expect lots of sex and nudity here but there is not much and when there is it is totally non exploitative and very artsy and soft core if you are a fan of the first emmanuelle with sylvia kristel than you most likely will appreciate this lesser known classic i was especially impressed by the extra attention to details the whole segment where emy takes george to her fathers house on the island is really nice her father shows george and the viewer his impressive collection of bonzai trees he has a whole miniature forest built out of these amazing trees totally unexpected after catching it on late night cable tv years ago i spent much time searching the internet for a copy of the film when i finally got it i found that the video version was longer more sex no more melodrama for the dvd release there is a subplot about george suddenly keeling over with some unknown deadly disease! i actually preferred the cable version better i am glad that this rare gem has been released finally on dvd i must also mention the beautiful cinematography and the bizarre and catchy 70's soundtrack while watching this one you just get the feeling that you are watching something very rare and quite special i recommend it to thoughtful viewers who don't need sex and violence to maintain their interest
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