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but i can't say how i really feel about this pile of steaming dung where to begin the film quality there isn't any i've seen clearer pictures on america's funniest home videos! the acting is substandard the gore effects is okay the clown mask is the best part of this movie the story is repetitive the same thing over and over again at least in a friday the 13th or halloween we stick with one main character for the most part there is no main characters just victims man now we come to the worst part of all the final survivor kills the clown and finds out it was one of her friends then when the police finally arrive they don't believe her and she is locked up in a rubber room what kind of ending do you call that crap that's what in my opinion there is no excuse for a bad ending in a horror movie that was just sloppy writing the excuse it has to ending badly it's a horror movie or we need to end it badly to leave it open to a sequel are just lame excuses and that is all i must give the camp blood the thanksgiving turkey
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from the opening scene aboard a crowded train where a ruthless pickpocket is at work richard widmark stealing from a woman's purse jean peters pickup on south street is relentlessly fascinating to watch partly it's because the acting is uniformly strong from the entire cast the b&w photography is crisp and adds to the starkness of the story and characters and because samuel fuller's direction puts him in the same league with the biggies like john asphalt jungle huston in fact it has the same urgency as the huston film about a heist that goes wrong but the payoff is not quite as strong jean peters is excellent as the hard edged girl whom widmark describes as being knocked around a lot she gives a lot of raw energy and sex appeal to her role of the not too bright woman carrying a micro film in her purse for her boyfriend richard kiley something the fbi already knows about they're on her trail when the theft occurs thelma ritter adds realism to her portrait of a woman called moe who buys and sells anything to make a profit and ends up paying for it with her life she's particularly touching in her final scene with kiley this one is guaranteed to hold your attention through its one hour and twenty minute running time good noir from fox and notable for the performances of widmark peters and ritter
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i have seen a couple movies on eating disorders but this one was definitely my favorite one the problem with the other ones was that the people with the eating disorders towards the end just automatically get better or accept the fact that they need help and thats it this movie i thought was more realistic cause in this one the main character lexi doesn't automatically just get better she gets better and then has a drawback i think this movie shows more than the others that i've seen that getting better doesn't just happen it's hard work and takes time it's a long path to recovery i think this movie shows all of that very well there should be more movies like this
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h o t s is not for those that want hardcore porn instead this film is a precursor to many 80s era cult classic college frat films like revenge of the nerds and porky's and a post cursor to the world renown animal house a good time if you dig a lot of big titted 70s 80s playboy type chicks and cheezy slap dick comedy but nothing too notable if you wanna use it as whack material h o t s is an unauthorized sorority of sexy outcasts doing battle against the popular and trendy pi girls this one has pranks an aunt jemima ish house keeper and even an over heated robot that makes it relatively fun viewing if boobies are your thing well i like tits as much or probably more as the next guy but with all the sleazy sh!t that i've seen i couldn't help but wish for a few hardcore scenes to make this one truly worthwhile i knew it wouldn't happen but i still wish that h o t s had a bit more sex and a bit less cheeze not quite as notable as nerds porky's or animal house but worth a look for fans of those types of films 7 10 p s and i forgot this one has consummate douche rag danny bonaduce in probably the best role of his career outside of his reality show
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that's certainly a strange way to promote a film upon which a great deal rested and it seems like plain suicide on the part of the studio given that 1 the feuds between the cast were well known long before the movie's release 2 the feud between the producer robert fryer and director michael sarne was also common knowledge 3 the cast made no secret of their contempt for the film and made it public at every opportunity with daily bulletins from the set gleefully reported by gossip columnists everywhere and 4 the author gore vidal hated it practically from day one nevertheless that tagline just about sums it up raquel welch does give a decent performance as myra and she looks lovely besides john huston is very funny as buck loner the ex cowboy star who runs a phony acting academy mae west in her first screen appearance since 1943 naturally rewrote her part to suit herself and she is great as ''oversexed'' and that's putting it mildly ''talent agent'' leticia van allen still she must have wondered after waiting so long for a good vehicle in which to return how she ever ended up in this mess tom selleck in his film debut is one of her ''clients'' john carradine and jim backus as doctors also amble in briefly rex reed as myron farrah fawcett and roger herren as the victims of myra myron's sexual passion are neither here nor there the same goes for the script which not only fails to focus on the basic plot of the book but seems to head in at least three different directions at once although west's part was originally larger she was reduced to a cameo role by the time sarne was through with the editing and partly because of this she seems to be in a different movie apparently at some point the producers realized that mae was going to be the film's big draw and unable to replace most of her cut footage they rushed her back to the set at the end of filming for the second of her two songs both of which come out of nowhere the device sarne used of throwing in old film clips of bygone stars to emphasize whatever points he was making doesn't work at all by the time the movie concludes all a weary spectator can do is wonder what in the hell it was all about not surprisingly just about everyone connected with the production felt the same way and it died at the box office a technically flawless dvd includes among other extras separate commentaries from both welch and sarne each of whom have completely opposite opinions of just what went wrong no doubt it's home video re release was prompted by a 2001'' vanity fair'' piece which attempted in great detail to do the same thing true the structure of the novel made a screen adaptation a dubious undertaking but with sarne at the helm of what was obviously a ''troubled'' production it really never had a chance
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aaah the thing to see a horror film in which not only is every character over the age of thirty but distinctly unattractive makes a refreshing change and reminds me of those distant times when actors were chosen because of their talent and their ability to play realistic characters rather than because of their teen appeal on a magazine cover and carpenter chooses a production designer and a cinematographer who can actually create realistic environments rather than over styled parodies and there's no gimmicky 'twist' ending or cameo celebrity appearance or lame pseudo romantic subplot and i really miss on set physical effects with all those 20 year old kids trying out crazy new ideas with vats of blood and latex and early animatronics in the 5 years between 1979 and 1984 we saw alien the elephant man poltergeist the howling an american werewolf in london the thing the company of wolves a nightmare on elm street what an era for horror effects! and don't get me started on the death of matte painting the matte work in this movie is beautiful and seamless what do we have now third rate cgi former music video directors and professional stylists that makes even 'gritty' horror movies look like glossy mtv videos now i'm going to go netflix 'the howling'
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spend your time any other way even housework is better than this movie the jokes aren't funny the fun rhymes that are dr seus aren't there a very lousy way to waste an evening my kids 4 16 laughed a little at the beginning the younger ones got bored with it and left to play barbies and the older ones left to play ps2 and surf the net my wife left and did dishes so i finished it alone it was the worst kids movie i have seen if you want to watch a fun kids movie watch shrek 2 that movie is fun for kids and their parents avoid this movie it isn't funny isn't cute the cat's makeup is about the only good thing in it and you can see that on the disc label
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i'm assuming the filmmakers heart was in the right place but frankly this movie is truly unconscionable i was offended by the tone and the total cop out ending you cannot take issues like this so lightly! without knowing the final caveat of the movie we watch as a guy guns down his 9 month pregnant wife and two sons and are supposed to follow him for the next 2+ hours as he tries to establish a new life you cannot have sympathy for a character who does this cannot! not to mention we're given nothing until the last say 1 2 hour of this unnecessarily long movie as to why this guy is suffering so much no flashbacks no sudden reactions to noise or movement stuff that real vets are suffering from all we know is he has a pain in the ass wife and can't financially take care of her and his 3 kids there really didn't seem to be any research whatsoever into what current iraq vets are going through additionally the movie suffers tremendously from a heavy handed and totally inappropriate score its a catastrophe it is truly harmful to some actually good acting on the part of the male lead and at times joe morton it foreshadows everything you're supposed to feel and sometimes gives you the wrong clues entirely! again this was a brutal thing this guy did and so seeing him get a new job meet a new blonde struggle behind the counter making toast is not appropriate! and really the ending what a freakin cop out! how dare you there are far richer films dealing with the affects of war on returning soldiers please don't bother with this one
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i occasionally let my kids watch this garbage so they will understand just how pathetic the show's contestants are they are pathetic not because they are fat but because they whore their dignity for a few minutes of fame and fortune for anyone to appear on national tv and blubber sniffle and whine about being fat entirely their own fault is nauseating what does this say about us as a nation does it suggest that your lifestyle choices and the consequences of them aren't our responsibility the biggest loser is an appropriate title but it has nothing to do with one's weight absolute trash
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gerard phillipe is absolutely perfect in this movie funny tender brave and lover he gives a superior dimension to a movie which is even a masterpiece as much by the other actors gina lollobrigida miaoooou!! as by the story or the rhythm never boring always creating new emotions for me the best french movie of all time
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this worldwide was the cheap man's version of what the nwa under jim crockett junior and jim crockett promotions made back in the 1980s on the localized big 3 stations during the saturday morning afternoon wrestling craze when ted turner got his hands on crockett's failed version of nwa he turned it into world championship wrestling and proceeded to drop all nwa references all together nwa world wide and nwa pro wrestling were relabeled with the wcw logo and moved off the road to disney mgm studios in orlando florida and eventually became nothing more than recap shows for wcw's nitro thunder and saturday night worldwide was officially the last wcw program under turner to air the weekend of the wcw buyout from vince mcmahon and wwf today the entire nwa world wide wcw worldwide video tape archive along with the entire nwa wcw video tape library in general lay in the vaults of wwe headquarters in stamford connecticut
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one of my all time favorite so laughably lousy that it's totally lovable el cheapo and stinko nickel'n'dime independent horror creature features an enjoyably dreadful marvel that was released by the formidably fecund exploitation outfit crown international pictures so it could play numerous crappy double bills at countless drive ins back in the 70's and eventually wound up being rerun like crazy on several small time secondary cable stations throughout the 80's i naturally first saw this gloriously ghastly abomination on late night television one fateful saturday evening while in my early teens and have had a deep seated albeit completely irrational abiding fondness for it ever since a meteorite falls out of the sky and crashes into the still waters of a tranquil country lake thereby causing a heretofore dormant dinosaur egg to hatch of course the baby dino immediately grows into a gigantic waddling grunting teeth gnashing prehistoric behemoth with goofy flippers an extended neck and a huge mouth full of little sharp jagged stalagmite like chompers our southern fried male cousin to the loch ness monster promptly starts chowing down on various luckless local yokel residents of a previously quiet and sleepy hillbilly resort town it's up to drippy stalwart sheriff richard cardella assisted by the painfully idiotic hayseed comic relief brotherly fishing guide duo of glenn roberts and mark seigel feisty gal pal kacey cobb and terminally insipid nerdy scientist bob hyman to get to the bottom of things before the over sized gluttonous jurassic throwback ruins the tourist trade by eating all the campers and fisherman that the hick hamlet makes its cash off of director co screenwriter william r stromberg displays a wonderfully woeful and thoroughly clueless incompetence when it comes to pacing atmosphere taut narrative construction and especially eliciting sound credible acting from his hopelessly all thumbs rank amateur community theater level cast the performances are uniformly abysmal cardella is way too bland and wooden to cut it as a solid heroic lead while the pitifully dopey redneck comic antics of roberts and seigel provoke groans of slack jawed disbelief you aren't laughing with these two atrociously mugging clods so much as at them particularly when the insufferable imbeciles discover a severed head bobbing up and down in the murky lake water better yet a clumsily integrated sub plot concerning a vicious on the loose criminal leads to a spectacularly ham fisted supermarket hold up scene which degenerates into a hilariously stupid mini massacre when a young lady shopper interrupts the stick up artist in mid robbery! a subsequent car chase is likewise severely bungled as well it's so limply staged and unimpressive that one feels more relieved than scared when the monster abruptly pops up to devour the nefarious fugitive moreover david allen's funky herky jerky stop motion animation dinosaur is the authentic gnarly article projecting a certain raw charisma sneaky reptilian personality and overall forceful screen presence which makes all the horrendously underwhelming human characters seem like pathetically unbecoming nobody bores in comparison and as for the rousing conclusion where the sheriff takes on our slavering beastie with a bulldozer the operative word for this thrilling confrontation is boffo all the way
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after reading only two of the comments herein as a lifelong bronte fan beginning with olivier's heathcliff and enduring with the many versions of charlotte's rochester it is more than eye opening to see that it is the unsung bronte sister who gave the lie to the male chauvinist period the trio inhabited of course the miracle in all three versions of 19th century british domesticity is that the girls were all spinsters and their only realistic brushes with men were their vicar father and their wastrel brother that said finally it is anne bronte who has in her single assay proved the feminist point way way ahead of contemporary types and including the voting franchise ranks however history evinces more than a few who preceded including the greek heterai and sappho and the likes of an ancient emperor's yang kuei fei and how about eve and her apple
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a very funny east meets west film influenced by the closure of gm's flint michigan plant in the eighties and the rise and integration of japanese automakers in the us set in western pennsylvania it features great performances by michael keaton gedde watanabe and george wendt music by blues legend stevie ray vaughan
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the defining scene to this movie is when the fat guy quits but the evil doctor just gives him one more duty check on the dinosaurs keep in mind that he no longer has this job and so is absolutely not getting paid for this also keep in mind it's a goddamn dinosaur and the doctor he's supposed to trust is evil and doesn't like him but he's still like yeah okay that just defined the stupidity in this movie one melissa brasselle proves that seriously anyone can bolt on some breasts and be in movies i can go ride a mountain bike between them but hey aside from that the people of paraguay are very nice eric roberts gives his absolute worst performance so far there's no adjective to describe how bored he is throughout corbin bernsen saves what there is to save and you start rooting for him but they have to stick to the formula of course and i wonder how much your life sucks when you play like one of the army guys in this one how low can your acting career go the special effects are so embarrassingly bad you expect a sign saying studio 3 to get into the frame it's not even honest pulp it's all taken from carnosaur which even sucked all by itself and then i wonder why just anyone is allowed to make a movie
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this may well be the worst remake hollywood has ever produced and that's saying something i'll take it further than that and say this movie is so stunningly deliriously bad that it must be seen i don't know if i'm even capable of tackling all the things wrong with it like the fact that the casting director appears to have pulled names out of a hat or the mind blower of richard gere's character being allowed to walk away scot free at the end i'm sure the people saying it's just fiction who cares would have no problem if it was a former al qaeda operative who just wants to return to his home country so i'll just devote my review to the utter hilarity which is mainly the scene where bruce willis is testing out his gun in the original version you'll recall the jackal practices his kill on a pumpkin the pumpkin explodes on impact an effect known as understatement in this version willis sets up a pumpkin target but he doesn't use a sniper rifle he uses a gigantic remote controlled cannon which costs tens of thousands of dollars and can only be stored in the back of a huge conspicuous minivan this man likes a challenge he reveals the cannon by pulling away a tarp at which point jack black who is there to observe jumps around and says that rocks! this thing rocks! about 18 times i guess willis didn't have to disassemble it first he just lifted it tarp and all out of the back of the van despite it probably weighing several tons the scene then turns into an austin powers movie as willis misses the pumpkin and takes out a tree then has black run through the mud with his pants falling down finally blowing off black's entire arm the pumpkin falls to the ground unharmed if i can recommend this movie for one non ironic reason it's for the diane venora character as a tough russian major who becomes romantically linked to gere despite having a facial disfigurement a bold move for a hollywood feature by mid movie i was really liking this character so it was a shame when she had to be killed i would have liked to see a movie about her other than that this pile of crap is only useful as an objective intelligence test 3 10
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with all due respect to joel fabiani and rosemary nicolls and their characters department s will be forever associated with peter wyngarde's jason king most people remember him as this camp flamboyant and debonair womaniser cum detective in the mould of austin powers but that will do a disservice to the character he's far more nuanced than that jason king is lazy he often lets stewart fight all the bad guys and only chips in at the end he is egotistical his appreciation of people is based on whether they've read his novels or not a lot of his detective work is speculation without facts to back them up and he sulks whenever annabelle is right and she often is he's clearly a man having a mid life crisis and drink drives but jason king is brilliant if wyngarde had played him purely as a dashing hero it wouldn't have worked but he shows king often as a paper tiger led by his libido love of finery and prone to grandstanding and it gets in the way of his detective work at times but he has some of the best lines and put downs in tv history and by not playing him as whiter than white the chemistry and interactions between the three lead characters is all the better for it watching it again on dvd recently you get to see just how much depth wyngarde put into jason king
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i saw this 1997 movie because i am a fan of lorenzo lamas and of his father the late fernando lamas in my opinion lorenzo looked his best in this film mostly due to his hairstyle and the preppy wardrobe that were flattering to him as the plot progressed i realized the movie was more than just entertainment or a reason to see a favorite actor the story was about a ring of serial killers and the attempts of law enforcement to investigate the ring and bring the members to justice there was adequate suspense and i believe the violence was necessary to relate the story to the viewer at the end of the film i was shocked to learn the film is the true account of horrendous murders that occurred in utah furthermore lorenzo and his leading lady were portraying actual fbi agents who solved the disappearances of many young women and contributed to the apprehension of the ring i believe the film is worthwhile as it informs the public about the dangers and capabilities of the criminal element
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alright! a sci fi horror action b hybrid directed by jim wynorski and in the final scenes we get to see a cyborg with a defleshed metal head killing off multiple people! as with any wynorski flick he throws in a whole bunch of crazy ideas and subplots that mostly don't lead to anywhere but storm trooper is more like a two movies for the price of one kind of deal on the one hand we got the drama thriller part as such the film opens with carol alt killing her incredibly annoying & ungrateful husband a plot that simply leads to nowhere and on the other hand we got the 'escaped cyborg on a rampage' part night of the living dead style with carol and the cyborg being the ones trapped inside the house and a bunch of special ops bounty hunters playing the role of the zombies trying to break into the house needless to say this flick is not up there with the greatest zach galligan of gremlins fame especially is painfully bad and corey feldman in a small supporting roll is once again completely wasted on this movie wynorski even rips off one of his own movies here since i am 99% sure he used some stock footage of his previous film 976 evil ii the scene with the exploding truck and the motorcycle yes it's so not good and so much fun this is strictly for wynorski fans only and i am one of them in case you didn't know already
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i thought i had seen this movie twice in fact then i read all the other reviews and they didn't quite match up a man and three young students two girls and a boy go to this town to study alleged bigfoot sightings i still feel pretty confident that this is the movie i saw despite the discrepancies in the reviews therefore i'm putting my review back if you like the occasional 'b' movie as i do then return to boggy creek is the movie for you! whether it's setting the sleep timer and nodding off to your favorite movie bomb or just hanging out with friends boggy creek the mute button and you've got a fun night of improv look out! is the legend true i think we just might find out along with a not so stellar cast will there be any equipment malfunctions at particularly key moments in the film does our blonde manly young hero have any chest hair will the exceptionally high tech technicolor last the entire film you'll have to watch to find out for yourself
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i usually like zombie movies but this one was just plain bad the good parts girl swimming topless with thong bottoms sonya salomaa's topless and ona grauer's boobs jiggling in a skimpy top when she ran the bad part too much video cuts too much matrix slow motion it drags the action not enough blood and guts bad acting and no story the only other person in the theater was smart and left right after the topless swimming scene a total waste of $6 and time i give it a 2 out of 10
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why is it that when a star reaches the top of the star chain they ruin all the good work by making a bad movie burt reynolds peaked then started making dreadful hal needham car chase flicks arnold schwarzenegger became the hottest property in hollywood only to invite derision upon himself with the appalling last action hero and here loquacious eddie murphy erases memories of trading places and 48 hours with this family adventure flick which is an unbelievably tedious childish and generally plain awful misfire in which the chance to see charlotte lewis's great big breasts in a tight blouse is the most appealing aspect of the entire film the story is pure humdrum it concerns social worker murphy contacted by mysterious types and told that he is the chosen one chosen for what i hear you ask his job is to rescue a tibetan boy with mystical powers from a race of demons who want to rule the world as the main demon classy actor charles dance looks terribly embarrassed to be in the film but hey i'm sure he was well paid for sacrificing his talents of all murphy's films this is easily the worst i've read some reviews which suggest that it is nice to see murphy in an atypical role in a non formulaic kind of film and while both points are loosely true there's no forgiving the fact that the film however atypical and non formulaic it might be is an absolute load of garbage
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ok before i get into this let's go ahead and get the warning out of the way this movie is the quintessential cinematic definition of sleaze! there are movies out there that can definitely out shock or out disgust this movie that have way more artistic validity than can be said for this turd of a film so what makes it so sleazy let's take a closer look at wet wilderness for a moment made in 1974 for practically nothing this roughie has no real genuine plot to speak of other than portraying what would happen if a family went into the wilderness to relax and spend a day while being accosted by a fat dude in a ski mask wielding a machete looking for kicks the kind that end up with everyone being forced to have sex with each other while being systematically murdered by the masked creep so those sensitive to themes dealing with incest are encouraged to look elsewhere then to really either add a level of surrealism or just demonstrate a complete ineptness for the art of film making the daughter of the group runs away after being forced to have sex with her brother and finds a random black dude ! tied to a tree branch that fat sum bitch left me here for 3 days with virtually no explanation whatsoever!! he is saved or is he of course not!! they are caught before they can escape where our killer forces them to have sex as well while forcing the mother to join in ending up with a dead black dude courtesy of a hatchet through the chest when all is said and done then our killer forces the daughter and mother to give him oral sex when one of the women grabs the machete and the movie abruptly ends!!! just like that! no warning no tied up loose ends it's simply over now there might be a proper ending to this film i honestly do not know but i have only seen the extremely crude alpha blue archives version their version appears to have the ending either cut out completely or this is how it ends if this was intentional then in film making 101 i'm sure there is some sort of rule of thumb on how to end a film but it shouldn't be done like this! fans of the film psycho should rejoice upon hearing the soundtrack music as it's all through the film! i'd be willing to bet no rights were licensed or anything also even though this is a violent film there's not a hell of a lot of it so gorehounds will find nothing of real use here none of the violence is graphically shown only the results one of the victims gets stabbed with a machete right above the vagina area also the sex is some of the ugliest sex i've ever seen! the interesting thing about this film is it's too ugly a film to work as an effectively erotic porno or turn on anyone but those with a tendency to like things sleazy nasty and ugly but not violent enough to garner any real notoriety with those looking for something really brutal like cannibal holocaust or other flicks like that the only notorious thing about this steaming pile is that violence was added to an adult film a fairly new concept at that time especially when you consider than porn chic was all the rage and the grindhouses that filled 42nd street played stuff like this to a most jaded group of porn mavens this wasn't and isn't mainstream porn at all if you were in film making school and there was a list of movie making don'ts this film would be a shining example of that lesson! this cinematic swill demonstrates what happens when cerebrally challenged filmmakers are given a budget in this case probably about $142 cuz it looks it! and ignore all the don'ts and turn them into do's yes this film is that bad!! one more thing those who get offended by racial epithets are also encouraged to watch something else the black man in the film is constantly being verbally abused about his color and the killer is obviously racist but there was no political correctness in the early 70's i'm not sure a film like this could be made today to be honest this won't shock anyone or titillate anyone but those who get off on ugliness actually i got bored the sex is so ugly and mundane it's hard to watch with any sense of eroticism so if you chance this you will thank god for the fast forward button! the acting if you want to call it that is amateurish at best i mean it's even bad for porno! with not one reason to care about anyone or anything in this!! if you just gotta see this anyway then download it as you'll really feel like a heel if you buy this some things are simply that worthless and wet wildernes is the only thing more unpleasant than watching this film would be watching this film sitting in a theater and looking around at the others in attendance watching it too and suddenly feeling unsafe probably not society's greatest collection of thinkers and intellectuals but if you're up for some stupid yet sleazy porn garbage give it a crack it's 54 minutes and yet it feels much longer!! crackheads would love this! then again maybe there's something wrong with me for seeking this out in the first place lol! caveat emptor sleaze lovers!!
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oh wow the character shares my name first name! nick! this movie as bad as the first one if not worse well at least there's an actual octopus in this movie an actual octopus that makes a better appearance in this film by better i mean longer the acting is pretty dry and it's hard to sit through just to let you know when this ninety minute film ends not only are you freed from your couch but you get your ability to breathe back not only that but you realise how stupid you are and then commit suicide realising how horrible life is after watching this film really it shows how desperate horror movies are today more crap like this is being realised and where the hell have the real masters of horror been lately this film should have been the final straw so we can bring back cinematic geniuses in horror cinema that could make some actually good modern horror films this movie bites
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you know you're in trouble when the film your watching has numerous alternate titles generally it means that they tried and retried to hide the turkey in various markets such a turkey is the brain machine which has seven different titles its about some super secret government project that is suppose to be able to use a computer to read people but instead it drives people to kill each other or themselves or something like that its filled with b level tv actors sitting in paneled room with lawn chairs trying to act a script that makes almost no sense its a turkey of the untastey kind avoid it
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i saw this on dvd with subtitles which made it a little frustrating to get through because of the film's length but i was riveted throughout all of it that i was fascinated by the characters and always engrossed in the story despite the subtitles is a testament to the film's power it's an amazing piece of work i have it on my list of ten favorite films of all time it's easily the best foreign film i've seen in the last twenty years or so i would like to know the full story behind the making of this film it must have taken a very long time and required the use of hundreds of locations its use of some hardcore scenes on the tv in the motel room may unfortunately make some people choose not to see it but if you don't mind those you'll be deeply moved by all the stories in this one!
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well this was my first imax experience so i was pretty blown away about that primarily although with hindsight i can't help wishing that it had been some other less monochrome film magnificent desolation very much had the programme for schools feel the way it listed all the astronauts and this made it feel a lot like reading national geographic magazine in 3d weirdly it actually had a very two dimensional quality that only occasionally exploded into reality and a lot of time it felt like some powerpoint presentation there was a moment in the film when an unnoticed abyss opens seemingly at your feel that had a bit of a wow factor but to be honest that may have had more to do with me being an imax virgin the commentary provided by tom hanks i personally found very what's a nice way to put it flag wavingly nationalistic which didn't go down too well in central london judging by remarks overheard as we left over all i loved the imax experience but dearly wish a different film had been on on that day the moon isn't a particularly colourful subject and to be honest a lot of the 3d effects were lost in the monochrome scenery all that would have been well were it not for the documentary inserts and distractions like the interviews with american schoolchildren which spoiled it a bit
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so when bob and marion boxletter see a guy at a hotel marion believes it is her long lost brother brian but when she approaches him he appears to be someone else just with the exact same face marion manages to get his fingerprints and takes it to the police and when the identity is confirmed that it was in fact her brother brian she and bob leave for new york after tracing his whereabouts they get a hold of brian but still he doesn't know what they are talking about but all the couple really want to know is where brian has their 8 maybe 9 year old son joey and even when they see joey he doesn't know them either the plot thickens and they find themselves one day thinking that they are someone else as well experiments made out on people only to make the perfect assassins yet the question of why they would bother putting bob and marion in the same building as each other is beyond me personally gregory harrison played his 2 parts great but i have no clue what was wrong with the other actors they seemed bored and lost 3 out of 10 a little suspense yes but that's it
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when i first saw this show i was 9 and it caught my attention right away when stewie was trying to call lois on the phone in the hotel i laughed and kept on watching when the episode was finished i wrote down the name of the cartoon and watched it regularly this separates itself from the simpsons and other shows on say cartoon network because the jokes are more mature not too much but it's tv 14 for a reason the quick film cuts after each punch line and cute funny movements and behavior of the characters make it special talented seth macfarlene is the creator and the voice of quite a lot of characters in the show a good theme song and a crazy family that there's always something funny makes this my favorite cartoon along sealab 2021 and aqua teen hunger force check it out it's funny stuff
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this show paranormal state has an almost blairwitch project feel to it as in you're watching a 'documentary' that's actually just a scripted movie made to look and feel like a documentary my biggest problem with the show is their 'go to' outside advisers of the warren's who were made famous for their 'investigations' of the amityville murders which were shown to be completely fraudulent just based upon the police reports of the family's deaths! such as the eldest daughter actually having been involved in the entire thing to the point of possibly even helping with some of the deaths! then there's the way they constantly jump to blaming demons for everything not to mention how haughty the group is about what cases they take they don't want to help those who need it most they just want the weirdest cases that will get them the most press and attention they're complete frauds plain and simple
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i actually didn't start watching the show until it came on fx i was bored and had nothing to watch and saw that the show's reruns were premiering so i decided to watch it i was so upset that i had not watched the show when it first aired on t v i loved the show so much!finally a show for everyone to enjoy i remember full house and family matters and step by step and they were okay shows but just not funny enough they would make dumb jokes and laugh over things that were just plain stupid but not that 70s show that 70s show was hilarious smart and so real i think it was the best show ever made and i'm very sorry that it ended although i love this show i do think it should have ended on the seventh season when eric and kelso leave the last season was just not right eric was the main character and the show should have ended when his character leaves i still love this show and i hope tv starts making more shows like this one
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if another hitler ever arises it will be thanks in part to nonsense like this film which propagates the absurd notion that he was a visibly deranged lunatic from the start far from following such a person and electing him to the highest office in the land sane people would cross the street to avoid him and he would have died in a ditch nameless and unknown anyone who reads the accounts of hitler's close companions the autobiography of his secretary traudl junge for instance will be struck by the fact that people found him a kindly intelligent generous man he was also a brilliant orator and the fact that his speeches seem overblown and ranting to modern ears ignores the times in which they were made when strutting pomposity was common in political speeches ditto the overstated anti semitism which was neither a central plank of the early nazis who were primarily anti communist nor uncommon or unusual for the times the film makes it look as though hitler's sole ambition from the start was the holocaust if you want to identify the next person who will cause the death of tens of millions you can ignore fleck lipped ravers life the one portrayed here look instead for a charming charismatic man whose compelling speeches inspire the entire nation and whose political work visibly and materially benefits the country i'm afraid his personality will be much more like barack obama's than fred phelps' i hoped for much here and got nothing but caricature the fools who made this thing perpetrated a crime against reality this is the historical equivalent of 'reefer madness'
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this movie has a look and feel of many fresh directors closeups and focus on the emotions being experienced by the actors the point of the film was presented from many angles and expressed well by the relatively inexperienced cast the point being have faith in jesus christ and the morman church oh and if you read or hear anything contrary to the teachings of the prophet it is just haterade fuel for hatred
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kurosawa fresh into color losses sight of his usual themes of truth and perception of reality and opts for a depressing take on tokyo's slums kurosawa stretches for a style that was in my opinion his antithesis that is to say i feel as if kurosawa wanted to make an ozu picture poorly paced poorly conceived this movie is a rare dud in this auteur body of excellent work while ikiru while being mundane and depressing was still interesting and well paced and while stray dog depicted the slums and social poverty of japan without being too heavy handed or boring do desu ka den has all the somberness that one could expect with its content with none of the redeeming qualities of earlier kurosawa pictures be warned this is not a movie that kurosawa should be judged by
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the year 1983 saw a strange phenomenon two rival bond films octopussy starring roger moore was part of the official cubby broccoli bond franchise never say never again made by a rival producer is apart from the awful casino royale the only bond movie which does not form part of that franchise its big attraction was that it brought back the original bond sean connery its title reputedly derived from connery's remark after diamonds are forever that he would never again play the role some have complained that connery was at 53 too old for the role but he was in fact three years younger than his successor moore who not only made octopussy in the same year but went on to make one further bond film a view to a kill two years later the film owes its existence to the settlement of a lawsuit about the film rights to ian fleming's work it is perhaps unfortunate that the terms of the settlement included a clause that the new film had to be a remake of thunderball as that was perhaps not the greatest of the connery bonds a remake of dr no or goldfinger might have worked better the plot is much the same as that of the earlier film the terrorist organisation spectre acting together with a megalomaniac tycoon named largo have stolen two american nuclear warheads and are attempting to hold the world's governments to ransom by threatening to detonate them unless they receive a vast sum of money it falls to bond of course to save the world by tracking down the missing missiles the film is fortunate in that it has not just one but two of the most beautiful bond girls of all barbara carrera as the seductive but lethal fatima blush and kim basinger as largo's girlfriend domino who defects to bond's side after learning of her lover's evil plans a number of the bond films have a plot that hangs upon the hero's ability to win over the villain's mistress or female accomplice there are similar developments for example in goldfinger live and let die and the living daylights in the official series bond's ally is normally regarded as the female lead but here carrera playing the villainess is billed above basinger who was a relatively unknown actress at the time basinger of course has gone on to become one of hollywood's biggest stars whereas carrera is one of a number of bond girls who have somewhat faded from view of the villains max von sydow makes an effective blofeld the head of spectre but klaus maria brandauer seemed too bland and nonthreatening as largo except perhaps during the domination game a more sophisticated variant on those violent computer games such as space invaders that were so popular in the early eighties brandauer can be an excellent actor in his native german in films such as mephisto and oberst redl but he does not comes across so expressively in english one of the film's features is that it both follows the normal bond formula and at times departs from it there is the standard world in peril plot chase sequences a series of exotic locations glamorous women sinister villains and a specially written theme song based on the film's title there is however no extended pre credits sequence and we see some familiar characters in a new light for example bond's boss m becomes a languid supercilious aristocrat his american colleague felix leiter is shown as black for the only time and the scientist q is portrayed by alec mccowen as a disillusioned cynic with despite his characteristically upper class christian name of algernon a distinctly working class accent there is also an amusing cameo from rowan atkinson as a bumbling british diplomat although connery was perhaps not quite a good here as he was in some of his earlier films in the role this ringing the changes on the familiar theme makes this one of the more memorable bonds 7 10 a goof rowan atkinson's character states that he is from the british embassy in nassau as however the bahamas is a commonwealth country britain would have a high commission in its capital not an embassy
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a roger corman rip off assembled for what appears to be virtually zero budget all of the special effects were originally used in battle beyond the stars and i suspect a fair amount of the props costumes and sets were re used from other sources as well the story seems to have been written around these elements so this isn't really a movie as much as it's a recycling project third rate star wars junk wasn't needed then or now
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opposing force [1986] wasn't as good as dr strangelove and it wasn't as good as the bridge on the river kwai heck it wasn't even as good as g i jane which is pretty sad the film revolves around a basic ethical problem in a simulated prisoner of war situation how far can you go before you start breaking the law what exactly is the law in such a situation how can you simulate the torture of someone without actually torturing someone can you intentionally inflict pain how about breaking bones mock executions sexual abuse severe blood loss real guns with bullets death somewhere between these is a really fuzzy line dividing acceptable from atrocious now what could you do if you found yourself in such a training program and the lines between simulation and reality begin to vanish what could you do this movie attempts to portray this dilemma i found it interesting to see the types of tactics used in resistance training i have a brother who went through the usaf's pow training program according to him it was pretty close to the mark technically the film has a fairly good premise but it doesn't have a particularly good story i wondered if it might be based on some actual event but it became pretty apparent that it wasn't when the explosions started they must have changed scriptwriters three quarters into the film because it takes a real extreme turn and devolves into a somewhat pointless shoot em up with lots of distracting explosions i found it to have a rather unsatisfying ending again kind of pointless i'm left wondering what the point of the whole thing was i'm beginning to suspect there simply wasn't one it could have been much better with just a little more story to go along with the fireworks
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any person with fairly good knowledge of german cinema will surely tell that numerous films about a young girl having troubles with her mother as well as her boy friend have been made in the past if such a film is shown to people again it would surely click provided if it has something new fresh and captivating for today's challenging audiences this is also true for german film maker sylke enders as her film's principal protagonist kroko has been mistreated by everybody around her including her mother and boyfriend she is bold enough to face any punishment as she has tried her hand at all kinds of criminal activities including shoplifting kroko was originally shot on dv to be blown afterwards to 35 mm format its technical virtuosity does not hamper our joys when we learn that kroko would like to become a policeman as she feels that she is averse to the idea of becoming a run of the mill hairdresser if someone were to state a positive aspect of sylke enders' film it may well be kroko's involvement with handicapped people as a result of a punishment it is with kroko that we learn that punks are human too with their unique joys and sorrows
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horrible i see many user comments on how great this show is it truly is a wanna be friends made in taiwan knockoff the jokes are lame as and the plot is ridiculous the actors are obviously struggling to be funny and are probably cringing when they hit those awful punchlines if you can call them that the bulk of the other users who have commented are obviously from another planet or at least another continent there are obviously reasons that tv companies cancel shows and none of then are when shows are doing well make sense anyway steer clear even if it is raining and there is absolutely nothing else on this planet to do go stand in the rain instead more fun
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i don't think this movie is for everyone but i saw it this weekend in seattle and i thought it was so funny i haven't laughed that hard during a movie in long time i thought the entire cast did a great job you will find yourself laughing from the first moment through the very last scene i suspect some moviegoers especially the ones who take themselves way too seriously will be turned off by this brand of humor not me the movie was a real surprise and the entire theater was rolling with laughter throughout the showing i went to which makes me think that a lot of people enjoyed themselves and were happy to have a good time at the movies for a change i cannot wait to see it again! if you're in the mood to lol then this is for you funny funny funny funny!
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i was hooked in by the premise that the show was about demons from hell and a doorway to hell what i didn't realize was that i would be watching some guys run around tunnels chased by small children who may may not have been demons for the entire movie sure there was some dialogue in between and great underground scenery but the lack of a plot developed characters any twists or development in the story at all was sorely lacking oh and out of interest there were no special effects the entire budget was spent on actors salaries sets and lots of time running around with a camera underground the ending was one of the typical lackluster boring endings that makes you say i endured this film of boredom for that! if you want to see demons and a doorway to hell i promise you that you would be better off served watching the trailers to the game hellgate london which while shorter than this movie at 5 minutes pack more dialogue character development action plot and satisfying conclusions than this the second star is for effort but overall a low score for failing to make a movie that stands out and for promising in the tagline much more than what was delivered
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engaging characters nice animation dynamite songs all this and cute kitties too there's a lot of excellent humor but no real menace so don't worry about your little ones the two farm dogs steal the show even though they only appear in two scenes the artwork has a linear quality that may put off some people but i find it charming
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ted v mikels's film corpse grinders 2 is 103 minutes of excruciating cinematic swill the plot is pretty much a mixture of nonsensical business dealings among people who grind corpses into cat food while cat aliens who are losing a war with dog aliens looking to get some of this cat food watching this movie i began to look for any kind of distraction anything to reassure myself that i was doing something else besides losing my mind from the inside out several scenes go on for far too long as characters take forever to do simple things i've heard that mr mikels doesn't like to use jump cuts too often fearful that they will confuse his audience i'm not sure if this attitude is avant garde or just stupid try as i might i could not bring myself to care about any of the characters in the unnecessarily huge cast well with the possible exception of the old men who are the caretakers of the factory the majority of the cast are a bunch of no talent amateurs who don't even bother to learn the lyrics to amazing grace before they have to sing it on camera although perhaps the blame should go to the poor sound quality since i only actually heard around 80% of the dialogue while watching the dvd this is quite possibly the worst film to ever be shot i've listened to snippets of the commentary and mr mikels comes off as a surprisingly sweet old man what the hell was he doing making this kind of trash i'd like to hear the explanations from the old men who had to lie shirtless on a metal conveyor belt waiting to be ground up movies i've long hated suddenly seem a lot better i long for the intermittedly appropriate music of excalibur and the consistent lighting of dawn of the dead i need to go do something anything don't see this movie
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a bad movie but with one reel that is worth savoring for most of the film the jokes are bad the songs are bad even w c fields is bad then there is one sequence with bob hope and his movie ex the dialogue is witty and the song a version of thanks for the memories light cynical and delightful who parachuted in for this one bit yet it makes the whole thing worth the original 25 cents admission
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well now here's the thing for this movie to work you'll have to accept the following a woman who's murdered is alive again at the end of the movie a detective stops interrogating the dead woman's fiancée because a newspaper reporter asked him not to and that same reporter smitten by a good looking blonde hauled into night court for suspicious behavior winds up getting married to her in exchange for the judge letting her off the hook are you following me on this i can't tell you how many times i paused and rewound the picture to repeat scenes that just didn't make any sense in the end the blonde claudia dell and the reporter richard hemingway remained married but i have no idea how they came to that decision in fact i can't figure out how the film maker came to the decision to make this flick oh i suppose there's some entertainment value here for just the sheer nonsense of it all but it would have been nice if even a couple of the pieces fit still i'm not ready to add this one to my top ten worst list i think that night club scene with the feathered ladies might have saved it but why was it in the movie i just don't know
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oh yes! hollywood does remember how to use the good old formula and when lightning hits it's a rather wonderful feeling rarely hollywood creates a masterpiece because lately there seems to be more concern with hurrying up and getting the most rewards in a hurried manner or there is the matter of too many cooks in the mix usually good screenplays are the result of a talented writer who is in full control of his her property understand his material and is a good writer then there is a little important part often neglected by the marketing geniuses that so often lack creativity and vision a good actor a good actor can make the difference between a mediocre half cooked try and a fully realized film that might not be an important and relevant movie but one that contributes to its genre and might eventually become a classic of its type we get very few romantic comedies and we are people who are starved for them buried in the sexy humor of sex in the city is the romantic yet stormy relationship of big and carrie and people flocked to mamma mia because it had some romance skillfully played by streep and brossnam it could have a silly musical but it did touch us because it was played with intensity and conviction nights offers us more of it with the amazing talents of a woman who does magnificent work in romantic films ms diane lane ever since her days as a child actor we could appreciate how her talent combined with her appreciative soul allowed us to see into the hearts of the story's protagonists a few years back she teamed up with mr gere giving us a tormented romantic and sexy performance as the wife who is not too sure of her actions' consequences in unfaithful work that should have garnered her at least an academy award she is back doing more formidable work in this romantic gem as a woman who has given up on her romantic prospects and suddenly she realizes there might be another chance around the corner ms lane makes this film pulsate with intelligence and passion her facial expressions communicate volumes about the different emotions her character undergoes we can read frustrations yearnings desperation anger hope loss and a range that is way out reach for a lot of the marketable types that hollywood constantly push down our throats here is a mature performer who has the gift to project real emotions and allows us to connect with the material in such a way that we are moved as we become part of the experience ms lane is such a triumphant joy to watch as she goes through transformations from the first scenes of the film until the very end her discoveries become ours as we celebrate with her the power of hope and love she is able to bring back the unsurpassed joy of a person in love much like a teenager does and yet she never lets you think of her character as silly or irresponsible her eyes are expressive gems that can move even the cynical in the audience she is one of the stars that can do wonders with just one look in her the classic feel of those grand movies of yesterday are back her work recalls the passionate and intelligent work of hepburn davis garson women who played everyday types and made them memorable because they created complete characters we admire those superb actresses who recreate real life legends and are rewarded for it half their work is done by the mystique of the figures they impersonate however as much as anyone might make you think it is the roles such as lane's in this movie that are a more impressive achievement because they are created from scratch given a personal imprint and are able achieve heights without any previous theatrical material support such as plays and the background of a famous legend whose life is paid tribute on the silver screen lane's character is one woman whose experiences could be any of us she represents our dreams and emotions with much quality class and just the right amount of sentiment it is quite a remarkable achievement and we should be grateful that we are still able to find such a remarkable performance nowadays there are a few adjectives i could use to pay tribute to her work but i can only say that in my humble opinion every single frame of her work in this film is testament to one of the greatest performances ever put on celluloid by a living performer thank you ms lane
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really touching story of a recruitment camp in america where young men are prepared for the vietnam war the human study always appealed to me when it comes to war movies because it translates personal subjective opinions on war opposed war action movies where action and technical data are being analyzed to the prejudice of the human factor the movie manages to put a new spin on an already ancient subject and manages to distance itself from usual war movies especially by focusing on an anti hero from the view point of traditional standard the movie focuses on the tragic character of bozz who smartly avoids being sucked in by the dehumanizing war machine and refuses to give up control over his destiny and fight for something he doesn't believe in spends his energy in searching ways to avoid being sent overseas both for himself and comrades and ironically ends up finding his own just reason for finally going to war perfect irony the acting is truly exceptional and the documentary style shooting almost makes you feel transposed into the movie also the movie will provide food for thought for those exhilarated by the action in usual war movies or war games enthusiasts hopefully awakening some minds of a generation which luckily escaped the terror of being drafted
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i first watched the walking tall movies when i was about 8 years old and i thought both joe don baker and bo svenson did a great job they must have anyway because since watching the movies i have tried to learn as much about the real sheriff buford pusser as i can all 3 parts of the movie gave me chills and buford pusser was a true hero i only wish he were alive today and that there were more people like him i would love to thank him for getting rid of all the crime and being so brave i am very sorry that his family had to go through such horror and pain my heart goes out to them so from a 30 year old fan of sheriff pusser and of the 3 part walking tall movies and the actors that portrayed him please do not be negative about these movies and actors they were only trying to let us know what a wonderful man the real buford pusser was and what a great family he had and to all the young people who may have not heard much about buford i suggest you watch the walking tall movies and learn more about him
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i would never have thought that it would be possible to make such an impressive movie without any music but it is just the pictures watch out for that picture anne talking with that little boy benny 'bout the soul really strong might make you feel different
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let's face it there is no perfect production of hamlet it's simply far too long and varied and cerebral to get completely perfect across the board especially what with the challenges of elizabethan english and shakespeare's abstruse dialogue in any staging of it there are bound to be certain moments scenes or intonations that one disagrees with i've seen a lot of filmed hamlet productions olivier gibson branagh scott and now this bbc film with jacobi in terms of faithful full length productions this one ranks up there with the very best most hamlet productions are drastically cut because to perform the entire play takes a stage time of four to five hours this production appears to be complete that is all of the original shakespeare dialogue is intact and so it's essential for scholars and shakespeare lovers and though the lines seemed rushed on rare occasion for those less completely familiar with the text for the most part the script is well acted well spoken and well performed subtitles are available and very helpful although upon occasion they lag slightly behind jacobi does a quite admirable job with theatre's longest and most impossible role i actually cried when hamlet dies and i don't think i've done that before patrick stewart as claudius and claire bloom as gertrude are excellent as are lalla ward ophelia and david robb laertes and the rest of the very on point cast sets are minimal so we can thankfully concentrate on the play without distraction or attention paid to non essentials at 3 hours and 45 minutes this full length hamlet is a long haul to sit through but again if you want the real deal it's 100% worth it even if one needs to take an intermission for oneself i highly recommend this production to all shakespeare lovers and scholars
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i finally found a version of persuasion that i like! anne doesn't look like a scullery maid in this version just a very thin aging pretty woman quite like she's described in the book captain wentworth doesn't look like he's 50 nor does he look perpetually angry but rather as he's described in the book he hasn't aged as much as anne and is quite handsome and they play their parts with such conviction and realism that's what acting is all about they were believable they created real characters and it was like the characters in the book came to life if you haven't seen this version i urge you to find it order it or request it from either a bookstore or a library if you must it's worth the price and worth the wait i watched the 1995 version and the 2007 version and this one towers over the other two why it isn't rated higher is beyond my comprehension the book conveys the tenderness of their relationship and this movie makes the book come to life
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i always liked this movie i have seen it so many times but i always enjoyed it the story is interesting and special but the only thing i have to disagree with is that i don't think max lived in a romanian monastery or what was that p they don't look that way in romania anyway back to the story ghita muresan played pretty well but as someone said before me his english needs to improve and there were some funny moments and some tragical sad parts too it worths being seen i thought it was sweet that the giant wanted to find his love i recommended to you all it's not the best movie ever but it was nice!
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beautiful coming of age romance about an english boy and french girl who run off and grow up i saw this movie as a teenager and loved it i saw it again this year and loved again
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the comic strip featured actors from 'the young one's' a student based sitcom from the 80's comic strip features included parodies of westerns 'the famous 5' and the professionals all a lot funnier than this having said that alexei sayle puts in a good turn as a traffic cop with ambition and the soundtrack features great music from the era 5 10
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just below the surface lies what a simply awful movie is what as other viewers have justifiably commented the storm sequences are just plain ridiculous chopping already sodden firewood in the pouring rain now that's smart menace foreboding sexual tension for those read dull & contrived dull & contrived and dull & overly contrived i want to say thank god for mia sara's shower scene but in retrospect i think the producers of the film having seen the completed mess realised that they had to put something in to make it half way worthwhile at all so it just becomes yet another contrivance do yourself a favour and give this a miss
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okay so there were the odd hole in the plot you could drive a zeppelin through but how well was the emotional stuff handled it would have been so easy to descend into cheesiness but the writer pulled it off the image of the ex female cyberman making crying noises as she it saw her reflection after regaining her emotions is one that will stay with me forever that's twice now the monsters have shown a soft side and been presented fleetingly sympathetically the previous being the last dalek from series one but by jove it's worked add to that the other ex female who had been upgraded on the eve of her wedding and jackie tyler recognising her husband after she had become cyber and you have a permanent throat lump keep it up!
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the production value of avp2 can be described by one adjective awful the script is ridiculous even in the fictional area of avp what are the facehuggers good for on the predator's ship why is the predator cleaning up all signs of his influence and than wasting precious time with eviscerating and even presenting the body of an insignificant human cop why is the predator alone why is the predator equipping himself only on earth but on his home planet why does the predator make his job so uneasy for himself by hunting down the aliens rather than bombing the whole countryside like the humans do in the end why is the predator dropping more & more of his few weapons rather than collecting them to keep them together after using one in the end he is even dropping his armor before fighting the predalien in hand to hand combat what a bad plagiarism of the first predators final fight between arny and the predator the predator's gestures are so exaggerated that he is moving more like a japanese sumo than like highly skilled extraterrestrial safari hunter as one can see immediately the whole story is a mess but it gets even worse because this botched up job is filled up with boring patchwork of senseless interludes like a lengthy pizza ordering episode or some detailed information about the criminal past of the two brothers dallas & ricky the sheriff is of course the friend of these two criminals who he puts regularly behind bars not convincing & absolutely superfluous for the plot in addition to that the cast of actors is horrible compared to the high class of directors & actors of the former aliens or predator movies avp2 is an embarrassingly bad piece of crap at last the action of the movie is really poor there is not a single scene of action combat in which the audience can see the whole set each and every fight is filmed in short & shaky bursts with close up zoom at nearly full darkness that results in an atrocious experience for the audience because one can mostly see nothing but a dark shaky screen i suggest the two directing brothers strause to buy themselves a steadycam and get a lesson in modern cg so that the next film contains some visible action of visible figures and might not need to disguise their bad directing abilities in such a manner i would advise anybody even die hard avp fans against watching this film prefer the first one or the original aliens or the original predator films but avoid disappointing yourself by wasting your precious time on this failure
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brief marital infidelity comes back to haunt loving wife grace needham portrayed by the always sexy nastassja kinski she had left town and her depressing husband to embark on a trip to sunny miami where she was pursued and ultimately seduced by julian grant a handsomely evil and manipulative business executive who is portrayed very well by william baldwin why do all of the baldwin brothers play evil people so damn well the seducing of grace took place as the two drank champagne on a deserted beach they reached privately by sailboat grace admitted she drank too much for her own good and revealed the many problems in her marriage julian gained her confidence by claiming he would never allow those types of problems to occur if he had a relationship with grace julian's manipulation continued as he described a lost at sea fantasy involving the now uninhibited grace who sat near listening to his every word and becoming more and more engaged with his romantic dream his manipulation paid off as a few subtle nudges led to grace's soft kisses paused momentarily by her pulling back as if suddenly thinking to herself `what am i doing i'm a wife i'm a mother i have a real life real responsibilities sure the two of us have talked about being together lost at sea but that is just a fantasy look at what we're doing here the consequences are real we're really alone on a secluded beach am i going to let this fantasy really happen ' she succumbs to the dream as her kisses became more passionate the once guarded grace who used to respond to men's propositions by saying i'm married enjoyed watching as julian unbuttoned her shirt leading to more kisses body caresses and her climbing onto julian's lap! she smiles kisses moans laughs and frequently looks up at the sun throughout what unfortunately was a brief love making scene in which everybody seemed to have most of their clothes on while i thoroughly enjoyed the look of illicit passion on grace's face as the once devoted wife was being thoroughly satisfied by having sex with a man that clearly enjoys manipulating others i will say that on the whole the scene was undeserving of the movie's r rating julian returned home to find her husband rejuvenated from his securing of a high paying job and she is excited about being able to return to a normal life where she can once again be a loving wife and caring mother but the evil julian grant reenters the picture and is not willing to give up so easily on grace grace has a plan to rid her life of julian but will it work obviously i don't want to ruin the remaining story line for you however i will say that i always enjoy movies involving sexual pretense by a wife especially when she exhibits uninhibited attraction and behavior that is normally reserved for her husband but in actuality is seeking revenge against the antagonist this movie would have been much much better if the movie had included more of that in the story line my feelings are if the movie brings it up then the movie should finish it and this movie definitely brought it up unfortunately certain constraints in the story line prevented this from being significantly pursued there are many other movies available that succeed with that very point and i'll include their titles in the recommendations portion of this section i'm also open to receiving emailed suggestions of other movies that contain a good story line involving sexual pretense on the part of a seemingly devoted wife overall nastassja kinski and william baldwin are both very good the movie is not
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it takes an eternity for this typically over simplistic and idiotic stephen king based film to finally get out of the starting blocks about half an hour is spent on needless introductions to various boring characters and their irrelevant little personal problems that might excite bored housewives and apathetic pensioners in soapy dramas but this is supposed to be the horror genre or so i naively thought the mutt fails to look all that fearsome which leonard maltin the notoriously clueless hopeless and always grinning film critic would disagree with he considers cujo to be genuinely frightening i often do have to wonder if maltin is genuinely thick or merely likes to do favors for his hollywood friends it's both illogical and inconsistent the way wallace survives an attack with only a leg injury and naturally her car breaks down just when she needs it to save her life this is one of the oldest horror film clichés trust king to use it to minimum effect the premise is imbecilic too banal even for a horror film a rabid mutt attacks a family is that it this sort of thing barely constitutes a 3 minute sub sub plot in your average zombie film i think even cujo must have sensed that he was starring in a turkey mutts have terrible agents but what i really don't understand is how people can actually throw themselves at the cujo book and read it from cover to cover these sk fans must be immortal that's the only explanation i e why they treat time as such a meaningless commodity bodycount 3
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having loved stephen king's novels and short stories for many years i like most reviewers have been consistently disappointed in the adaptations to film from his printed works a few notable exceptions are stand by me from the body carrie from the novel of the same name and the shawshank redemption from rita heyworth and shawshank redemption this movie is by far the worst thing that has ever been produced with stephen king's name attached to it in any way it is no surprise that mr king has pretty much disavowed any connection with it i feel the thing that most offended me about this poorly acted cheaply filmed hideously directed piece of garbage is that they had the audacity to completely change the ending don't waste your time or money on this amazing bow wow of a movie!!
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a wonderfully quirky film with enough twists for a sack of pretzels parker posey plays fay grim as a sexy vulnerable loving mother who may or may not be what she seems the story is very tongue in cheek and the dialog skillfully understated hints of humor and intrigue neither of which overpower the characterization posey pulls off so well the supporting cast is stellar the downside this film needs your full attention almost to the point of stopping the film and taking notes posey has more sex appeal in her lifting of an eyebrow than most actresses have in their entire body she's worth your time even if you don't understand the denouement
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did they use their entire budget paying the porno stars or what ! sound effects background music and the editing in general was so bad you'd think some 12 year old wanna be made the film most of the acting was good considering the script the innocent virgin played her part really well the mutants look really cool and this actually could have been a really cool flick with the right brain behind the wheel but unfortunately for all involved that's not the case turn left was made better than this movie and those guys didn't even have any money!!! good thing i didn't rent the movie myself!
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matthew mcconaughey is a mysterious man waiting for agent wesley doyle powers boothe in his fbi office he claims to have information about a serial killer chased by fbi when agent doyle arrives in the office he tells him that the serial killer is indeed his dead brother agent doyle requests some evidence and the man tells the story of his life since his childhood they were a simple family of three his widow father meiks bill paxton his brother and himself one night his father gathers the two brothers and tells them that an angel of god had just visited him and assigned his family to destroy demons what happens next is one of the most scary movie i have ever seen i watched this movie four months ago on vhs and yesterday i watched again now on dvd although being a low budget movie the screenplay is sharp with no flaw the cast is outstanding but i would like to highlight the performance of matt o'leary as the young felton it is a very difficult and complex role to be performed by a young teenager the direction of bill paxton is remarkable there is no explicit violence in this horror movie a great debut behind the camera i regret the brazilian title of this movie 'a mão do diabo' the devil's hand' if at least it were 'the god's hand' it might be acceptable but calling this movie as 'the devil's hand' is indeed ridiculous brent hanley the screenwriter did not deserve such a lack of respect from the brazilian distributor this film is highly recommended my vote is eight title brazil a mão do diabo the devil's hand
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i'm not going to criticize the movie there isn't that much to talk about it has good animal actions scenes which were probably pretty astonishing at the time clyde beatty isn't exactly a matinée idol he's a little slight and not particularly good looking but that's ok he's the man in that lion cage we know that when he can't take the time away from his lions to tend to his girlfriend he will end up on an island with her and have to save the day someone said earlier that it is a history lesson the scenes at the circus are of another day especially the kids who hang around i didn't realize that even back in the thirties they sailed on three masted schooners it looked like something out of 1860 i guess that's the stock footage they had no wonder the thing got wrecked they're always talking about fixing her up there's even a dirigible it tells us a little about male female relationships at the time a kind of giggly silliness but if you don't take it too seriously you can have fun watching it
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a high school track star falls dead after winning a race shortly after her older sister patch mackenzie returns home in time to notice that all of her sister's track team members are disappearing who could the killer be you may not care enough to want to find out crude cheap amateurish slasher is just about completely worthless although top billed christopher george as the nasty hard driving track coach tries to give it a lift with an intense performance not even the gore is worth mentioning the whole thing is lame from beginning to end starting with opening the movie to a track meet montage set to disco music and the casting of e j peaker once a co star of the movie hello dolly as a character named blondie ! that's right blondie this may mean that we aren't supposed to take the movie seriously but in any case it's a shambles it's the kind of routine slasher junk that makes the friday the 13th movies look like works of art in comparison the only point of interest may be wanting to see an early film appearance by vanna white of all people 2 10
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i love horses and admire hand drawn animation so i expected nothing short of amazement from dreamworks new animated picture spirit stallion of the cimarron i guess you could say i was a little bit disappointed you have wonderful animation and at first what seems like a perfect story a story about absolutely nothing but a horse in nature the animals don't sing cute songs or even talk a major plus sadly the film has an uncalled for narration by matt damon a sappy soundtrack by bryan adams and enough action scenes to compare it to a jerry bruckheimer production if the film makers would have just stayed with simplicity we'd have a masterpiece here this is not a great film but it is good entertainment for small children i would recommend this film to families because it has its heart in the right place and its the only thing out there right now that isn't offensive to small children not bad but could have been much better very pretty visuals though
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this movie of 370 minutes was aired by the italian public television during the early seventies it tells you the myth attributed to homer of the journey home of odysseus after the troy war it is an epic story about the ancient minoan and mycenaean civilizations told at list 500 years after those events toke place around 1100 bc this is a 1969 movie so if you buy the dvd version you would find that the sound is just mono and there is no other language than italian even the close caption is in italian pity many people would enjoy this masterpiece if it had at list the english subtitles but if this is not a problem for you than i would strongly recommend to watch this movie
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in my analysis of trois couleurs blanc i wrote that its tone is much lighter than the tone of trois couleurs bleu i think it's the same with this film this time it's not because of a tragic comedy element but much more because of the main character valentine although her boyfriend is living abroad and is ridiculously jealous she manages her life with lightness and optimism it seems to me that she might be kieslowski's image for a carefree youth the opposite seems to be the judge who is very pessimistic a grumpy old man who experiences big loneliness in my view valentine and the judge are pretty similar to each other the judge is just much older and has experienced many more disappointments they share a different kind of naivety and they both discover that they can learn much from the other one finally i would like to stress irène jacob's performance she rounds off the run of amazing female contributions to the three colours trilogy
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this production build on real danish crime stories is a experience through excellent directing acting on all levels and has a nerve not often seen in crime series every episode is a thrill because it's seems like the hole team believe that this is my life right now this murder or murders are my responsibility to solve and the output is brilliant as a viewer you just have this wonderfully filling of being entertained cause it feels like their focus on purpose or not lie on that they wont you to have a good time o don't miss this one it's just right under 'band of brothers' quality and is a must have seen experience what a wonderful crime time !
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was excited at the opening to hear part of chevaliers de sangreal but wanted more so i bought said hans zimmer piece possibly the most inspiring and beautiful 4 minutes of music ever written! this movie is an exciting thriller masterpiece even w o the religious considerations you get to tour the vatican and parts of rome with excellent cinematography the opening at cern where the god particle or largest quantity of antimatter is created with stunning visuals is an immediate clue which foretells the excellence of this movie who doesn't love hanks the storyline and twists in this film are just superb and well drawn out until the amazingly twisted climax this film suggests a satisfying compromise between science and religion though plenty of closed heads will persist on both sides science without religion is lame religion without science is blind a einstein
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what to say about a movie like rock star a lot actually! this is the type of movie that is almost tailer made for the critics to slam it is also a movie i as a major hard rock fan enjoyed no loved actually while all the while being very consciously aware of its many flaws and that the movie while a decent effort in some respects missed the chance it had to escape into greatness and become a rock movie classic oh well i loved this movie and would see it again and again but i know that's purely based on my own personal tastes rock star is a movie that will appeal to anyone who has experienced elements of the rock or hard rock lifestyle and wants to go down the road to nostalgia it was a great time for metal heads and it's nice to have a movie that effectively captures that long forgot by many non rock fans time effectively as i think that rock star has done that is one of the film's strengths the concert footage you will feel like your right there with them and how could any hard rock fan not love that as far as setting the atmosphere rock star gets a 10 of 10 it also gets a 10 of 10 for pure entertainment if you want a movie to just let yourself go and free flow into some great memories of good times past then this is the movie for you it is also the reason why i loved this movie so but it isn't a great movie i understand that and were it my actual job to review movies professionally i'd probably have to be a bit hard on this one the problem with rock star is the character development what is wrong with the character development is this there isn't any none the movie has certain scenes few and far between but they are there that do touch on greatness warning brief scene spoilers 3 examples 1 when izzy makes his debut on stage including the fall he takes 2 the first after show party with emily anniston and izzy 3 backtracking a little in the beginning when the original lead singer is casually dismissed fired the whole business as usual tone sets the stage for what's to come it's played very effectively but the problem is nothing ever does come there is little to no character development of anyone in this movie peoples' persona's are merely touched on but never fully explored i don't think that's the fault of the actors actresses particularly anniston who tries hard they just are not given much to work with it's just that the script was weak and lacked the ability to go beyond the formula feel into true movie depth rock star was so sugarcoated at times including towards the end it was almost ridiculous and though those scenes i mentioned were outstanding and very believable sadly much else in the movie wasn't another reviewer mentioned the lack of buildup towards the end and i agree but there was actually a lack of buildup about anything why does izzy leave at the end because he misses his girlfriend and the band won't let him write songs it tests the limits of believability and frankly the end was just corny made no sense and had no reality to it at all watching this it's almost like watching a movie where the makers of it said ok this happens here and then this happens and then this etc etc etc by the end it's no longer a movie about a boy who's dream came true it's just another thickly formulated love story and you wonder why so much detail is left out i hope i'm not being to hard on rock star because i truly loved it but not for the right reasons i would have liked to love this as a great movie about the highs and lows of rock fame instead i loved it for it's 80's period feel the clothes the hair the lights the life although many others loved it to i suspect most are people who lived the life of a rock fan like i did or some who play i'd have liked to see the movie cross over and just be respected for being a good well told movie instead of a cliché i think one of the problems was the length i myself hate over long films but this was one that really should have been longer if a movie is done really right the length is not even felt there is just to much to the story for it to be as short as it was that's one reason why there doesn't seem to be much development of either the story or the human beings portrayed in the movie so to wind down this is a movie you can greatly get into but not a great movie see it for fun see it for entertainment see it to go back to that great great space in time when metal wasn't just a part of life it was life and for those non rock fans see it to get a little glimpse into a life that meant and still means so much to so many of us
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i'm not a writer or an critic i'm just a student that has seen this movie few minutes ago and i want to thank people that worked on creating this movie!it is not the best or the most but it touched my heart why i would like to understand it myself it is easy and accessible it is a movie that makes you feel good after a bad day without any regret about the time wasted on watching it!it is about love and caring about the life that we have but we miss it sometimes because of material stuff look at all the time that we have but we miss it why a fu*k do we do that we need to live like were dying care about every second and remember if we do good things good things come back to us!happiness is real and it has a special taste in new york i love this town and the world the we live in!!!!thank you very much for the movie and sorry for my mistakes english is my second language
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this may very well be the worst movie i'll see if i live to be 100 i think a group of first graders could have come up with better plot lines as a class project than this i'm dumber for having watched it and god have mercy on the souls who were paid to produce this film and after i finally turned it off i actually had the urge to vomit no one had a clue about photography when made this no one had a clue about acting no one had a clue about just about anything i can't believe f x shows this crap on occasion the only time i had seen it was on one of the starz! channels not even the main one and it was on at about 3 a m at that
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if this was the best dutch cinema had to offer these years my worst fears have come true i have never even in dutch movies seen worse acting i couldn't get myself to watch it for more than 40 minutes so if that's the cause of me missing the genius so be it
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as a child i preferred the first care bear movie since this one seemed so dark i always sat down and watched the first one as i got older i learned to prefer this one what i do think is that this film is too dark for infants but as you get older you learn to treasure it since you understand it more it doesn't seem as dark as it was back when you were a child this movie in my opinion is better than the first one everything is so much deeper it may contradict the first movie but you must ignore the first movie to watch this one the cubs are just too adorable i rewind that 'flying my colors' scene i tend to annoy everyone by singing it the sound track is great! a big hand to carol and dean parks i love every song in this movie i have downloaded them all and is all i am listening to i'm listening to 'our beginning' also known as 'recalling' at the moment i have always preferred this sound track to the first one although i just totally love carol kings song in the first movie 'care a lot' i think the animation is great the animation in both movies are fantastic i was surprised when i sat down and watched it about 10 years later and saw that the animation for the time was excellent it was really surprising there is not a lot of back up from other people to say that this movie is great but it is i do not think it is weird strange i think it is a wonderful movie basically this movie is about how the care bears came about and to defeat the demon dark heart the end is surprising and again beats any 'pokemon movie' with the care bears moral issues it leaves an effect on you again this movie can teach everyone at all ages about morality
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let's not kid ourselves this atrocity is not plan nine or cat women it is bad period! the performances vary from drama school theatrics marla english to a 'couldn't care less' walk through tom conway the photography even in a good print is so murky it is occasionally hard to see what is happening the real problem however is the aimless pointless nearly plot less story and the leaden paceless direction at a brisk 77 minutes it still feels endless the screenplay is especially inept there are two story lines that only intersect at the very end of the picture tom conway is trying to create a super race using voodoo and modern science although there is little science in evidence which he can control telepathically he is keeping his wife prisoner for no discernible reason meanwhile a couple of petty crooks and a white hunter type guide are trying to find the village in which he is working in the expectation of gold and jewels when they finally arrive tom conway decides that one of them the woman is the perfect subject for his experiments she is turned into a monster kills conway natch! and then reverts to normal she sees a gold statue half drowned in a boiling pool tries to retrieve it and falls in the water and apparently drowns the white hunter rescues the wife in the final shot we see the supposedly drowned woman emerge as the monster again threatening a sequel now that really is a scary thought! the aip producer samuel z arkoff in a lecture included on the dvd prides himself on spotting the teenage niche market and satisfying it with ingenious low budget movies however it is difficult to see how anyone could think this rancid concoction would satisfy any sort of audience what appeal do they think it could possibly have the monster appears so rarely that it could hardly be called a horror film the jungle action is tepid and tedious there are no teenagers in it and no characters that teenagers could be expected to identify with the producers exposed 77 minutes of film but they didn't make a movie this is a con trick and arkoff should be ashamed of his association with it
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the above seemed a much more appropriate title when me and my suicidal underlings decided to watch this masterpiece of modern bullshit erotic scary suspenseful well thought out these are all the things this film fails to be it is however incredibly funny the slow sound effects and bad dubbing add to this to make one of the greatest comedies i have seen in recent years and yet this film doesn't even try to be funny and that is one of the movies grand achievements it becomes a comedy without even attempting to amuse throughout the film an old guy who looks amazingly like santa claus goes around ploughing over zombies and smashing vampires into the ground this made me fail to believe the films title if this was vampires vs zombies why were the vampires and zombies not fighting oh well whatever besides there were more flaws to this rental than the title such as this one there has been a virus sweeping through america creating zombie like beings who go around acting a lot like your average tourist and yet there's only four zombies in the entire film another problem is besides one shop everywhere is deserted surely you'd see zombies roaming about in the woods or in the background a bit in fact i believe they just drove around in a circle of forest over and over again since they didn't have a high enough budget to film in a wider location that or the director didn't want to waste his precious time filming in different areas of wood he was to busy sitting in a trailer jerking off to be bothered with such trivial matters in fact the director had so much fun doing this that he didn't have enough time to hire a big enough cast or even an editor and so he told the eight members of the cast to dress up as different people and try not to act inconspicuous whilst i assume he changed his name and began randomly snipping at the film reels editing isn't a hard job anyway right the only reason this movie found it's way into our bag was because somehow we got it confused with freddy vs jason strange how these things happen isn't it and the only way we made it though the night was by strapping gas masks on and bolting them to our skulls to avoid the stink of this nauseating mess oh yes we did laugh at the end but i'm sure one does that a lot when he has lost his sanity
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this movie is god awful not one quality to this movie you would think that the gore would be good but it sucks bad the effects are worse and the acting if you can call it acting is the worst i've ever seen this movie was obviously shot on a camcorder and runs on a budget around 500 dollars probably if you want to watch a good zombie movie than watch dawn of the dead or day of the dead if you want to watch a good cheap shot on video zombie movie like this but way better than watch redneck zombies please avoid this movie at all costs it is unwatchable and pointless you've been warned i've got nothing else to say about this stupid movie
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a colleague from work told me to watch this movie since he considered this movie to be one of the best movies ever so i did watch it first i have to admit that i dislike mainstream movies and prefer to watch movies with a real meaning and this is the point why i dislike this movie it doesn't have any meaning it's just a combination of funny stupid boring entertaining absurd and thrilling pieces at first i thought that this movie could be a real mystery thriller as the german packaging read but the movie was too mysterious for me david lynch may be able to make a combination of the most different images but the composition tastes to me as awfull as a combination of milk with beer both for themselves are pretty good but together
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first of all i think the casting and acting were excellent the problem is the story there is basically no story here worth telling and thus basically no movie here larry mcmurtry has done lonesome dove and i can't fault the original though it probably didn't need sequels he did hud with paul newman which is one of my favorite movies mellencamp is supposed to be a country singer but the only song i hear him sing is an old buck owens song the movie makes a big deal out of chicken farming mellencamp's character has a good wife and it's utterly stupid of him to stray from her the incident with riding in the sliding cage is utterly stupid maybe people do that for fun in some parts of the country but i never heard of it
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this movie has the most beautiful opening sequence ever made i've seen this movie for the first time a week ago since then every day i see the opening and every time i feel as thrilled as i felt the first time i heard david niven uttering the immortal words from sir walter raleigh's the pilgrimage give me my scallop shell of quiet my staff of faith to walk upon my scrip of joy immortal diet my bottle of salvation my gown of glory hope's true gage and thus i'll take my pilgrimage
do you know why it would be a truism to say michael powell's and emeric pressuburger's lives are thoroughly justified for having crafted such a wonderful opening because they had been already admitted in the paradise of poets long before they made this movie i imagine both of them facing trial during doomsday and saying nonchalantly to an irate god i beg your pardon sir so do you want to know what have we done during our lifetime well well you'll see we've written directed and produced i know where i'm going colonel blimp red shoes
do you think that enough sir it is rather obvious that these two great artists had already fulfilled their duty with god nature the muse or whatever you may call it when they shot a matter of life and death the fact that other people's lives would be justified for their deeds could be not apparent to everybody notwithstanding i feel my life would have a meaning had i never done anything else that to see this movie of course old timers will be tempted to say they don't do movies like this one any more they'll be partially mistaken they didn't make movies like this in the past times either i've have already quoted keats here but i'll repeat his words a thing of beauty is a joy forever
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well where to begin i guess i can start with the general complaint regarding the way in which this film is marketed call me ignorant for not knowing of schneebaum's book before viewing the documentary that has been based off of it and decide that i have been living under some kind of a rock but don't blame me for picking this movie up since the title and the description on the box makes no note of the fact that this documentary is actually a companion to said book yeah i felt quite stupid after viewing this little flick seeing as how the reason as to why i sat down to watch it in the first place was to get a good serving of a modern cannibal tale i mean am i a fool for expecting this film to actually cover most of its story on the behavior of cannibalism in jungle tribes i certainly didn't expect an hour and forty five minutes of one old geezer kissing his own ass by whining about every little detail of his dull and worn out life i certainly didn't expect the insipid directing and i most notably did not foresee myself laughing so hard at tobias schneebaum and all of his off putting glory schneebaum is indeed unlikable the old man just rambles and bitches the entire film making the whole picture a personal tale of his even though he isn't even that interesting a character to fill a story oh really he was a cannibal ninety percent of the movie is focused on next to nothing regarding schneebaum's dirty past the only time that we really get to see some cannibal action is when tobias finally breaks his little silent treatment about what happened to him in peru and say that he had a small piece that's it folks ninety minutes of bull later and tobias schneebaum is a cannibal by three inches it's like calling a movie the life of a true don juan only to see that the only the time the protagonist of said film did something sexual happened during college when he once played just the tip unbelievable the directing is indeed superbly ghastly as there is no flow or rhythm to the story that is being told alright i understand that i didn't read schneebaum's volume before watching his celluloid tale of it but i can still recognize some bad pacing and even worse editing one minute schneebaum is talking about cruise ships and tourism and the next he's going on and on about how he can't drive and then jumps to talking about some dead relative or some failed and miserable saga in his life i mean jesus can you at least slam his back story to the first part follow up with some stuff covering his homosexuality and then end it off with a hearty look into his visit to peru also i don't particularly care much for schneebaum's insipid little quips on life and living but i at least implore the old man to keep consistent with his ramblings if i hear a guy talking about how he prefers life in the jungle i don't expect him to suddenly bitch and moan about wanting to go back home twenty minutes later absurd another note on the directing is the random clips from the story at hand to the small little television appearances in which our hero has appeared while some might find the clips to be fancy little breaks from the story the director has overused the gimmick and broken his entire film into pieces by seemingly attempting to place most of the efforts of telling the story on the old reels the bottom line here is that tobias schneebaum is a fraud pure and simple i know that i haven't read the book but i'm still holding on to the argument that this film is totally useless by noting that a good film must stand on its own this documentary relies way too much on the assumption that the viewer is already an avid fan of schneebaum's work and instead goes on from that assumption like a supplemental disk found on a dvd schneebaum is both arrogant and bitchy striking a sour combination when mixed with the fact that his story is remarkably un riveting if you're looking for a solid piece on the nature of humans and cannibalism turn away because keep the river to your right is an embarrassingly hilarious self serving rant over a man who is long overdue for a straight jacket and a gag
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so i don't ruin it for you i'll be very brief there's some great acting and funny lines from the attractive cast a young graduate of harvard med school brian white finds out he doesn't know as much as he thinks about people he goes to a small hospital in florida for his internship because a girlfriend mya left him for a job as a tv producer his senior resident wood harris helped marvelously by his 'creative collaborator' zoe saldana bring him up to speed they help protect his career and show him the wider possibilities that come from being a compassionate doctor instead of a player who just wants to make money as seems to be true for many of my pre med friends
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i can only think of one reason this movie was released to capitalize off the upcoming fame of guy pearce this movie has no merit at all and needlessly trashes errol flynn's memory the homosexual encounter was pure speculation the disdain shown for flynn in this movie is palpable an easy way to slander an actor who died years ago horrible and embarrassing very disappointing don't waste your time on this utter trash watch my wicked wicked ways if you want to learn about this fine actor or read his autobiography this movie is not the way
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hellborn starts as a young psychiatric doctor named james bishop matt stasi takes up his residency at st andrews insane asylum or 'mental illness facility' as they like to call it there with nearly 600 patients bishop meets his boss dr mccort bruce payne & is put to work he gets ward 'a' where some seriously deranged & dangerous patients are held if that wasn't bad enough during his first round of visits bishop finds a dead body & has threatening sounding graffiti messages sprayed over his room bishop starts to hear stories from the patients about sinister goings on at the asylum & soon finds out for himself the stories have more than a hint of truth about them known as asylum of the damned in the us this supernatural horror film was directed by philip j jones & i sort of liked it but in the end there were too many unsatisfying elements for me to totally enjoy it the script by matt mccombs takes itself pretty seriously & i quite liked the basic idea behind & some of it's ideas but there are a few things which work against it for a start the film is just too slow the story is pretty good & doesn't give itself away too early but it takes an absolute age for it to get going & i was rapidly losing interest with each passing minute i also thought the so called twist ending was far too predictable & the ending itself far too bland & forgettable it's a shame because i liked the story the character's the setting & some of the ideas but it's simply too slow & frankly dull to keep one entertained over it's 90 minute duration it's one of those films which i would like to recommend but in all honesty i can't director jones does a good job this is actually a well lit & quite atmospheric film i wouldn't say there's anything scary here i'm not sure if hellborn was shot in a real insane asylum but if it wasn't they did a great job on the sets & the film looks pretty good overall unfortunately there is a real lack of gore or action there are two hand print shaped wounds & a severed tongue & that's it absolutely nothing else in terms of blood or gore which has to go down as a disappointment depending on who you believe & which review you read the special effects are either the worst ever or very good well as a devoted watcher of low budget horror i was very impressed with the effects especially the demon thing which looks mightily impressive & is a man in a suit type effect rather than a terrible cgi computer graphic although it's an impressive suit it all depends on your expectations i suppose technically the film is good it looks nice enough & the lack of cgi computer effects is something i welcome the acting isn't great though it certainly could have been better hellborn is a film that disappointed me there were some good stuff about it but at the same time some terrible stuff which unfortunately outweighs the good i sort of liked parts of it but as a whole 90 minute viewing experience i'd find it totally impossible to recommend to anyone
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it seems to me as a recent film school graduate that in these times of new zealand film reaching new heights the general public seems to think every new zealand film made is great sione's wedding proves this is dead wrong it's completely overrated and not funny and far from the 'hilarious' film other users of imdb have commented the only really funny thing i found in this film was derek the wannabe black guy but other than that the jokes were recycled crap that we'd all heard before being of half samoan decent i wanted to see how the film was going to deal with polynesian representation it was a complete balls up i know it's a supposed comedy but i didn't feel like the characters had anything new to say about polynesian identity even if it was in a tongue in cheek manner i was most disappointed with the ending of the film and the resolution of the character's relationships mikaele was the player who only messed around with white women comes to slightly turn his ways when the 'dusky maiden' comes to town has an epiphany that maybe he should start looking for a stable relationship then at the very last minute rejects it and accepts his position as a polynesian playboy for palagi women i didn't understand why they did this all in all it was very disappointing my whole family went to see it expecting to have a good laugh but ended up being really bitter about paying to see it at the cinema the jokes are lame at best the acting particularly of sefa's girlfriend appalling and honestly i would've been happy if i had got my hands on one of those pirated copies of the film to save myself the $15 ticket price i think the only good thing to come from the movie is that it's the second step behind no 2 of course a far superior film to this one in the birth of polynesian cinema i hope pacific filmmakers in the future can learn from sione's wedding in how to not reflect polynesia and have something more meaningful and sensible to say even if it is done in a comedic fashion
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hard to imagine what they were thinking of when they made this movie i e the writers directors producers actors editors etc christopher plummer veteran of 129 movies frolics along among scores of other actors with apparently no more motivation than to collect a paycheck i guess there is nothing wrong with that but once they are paid that doesn't mean anyone has to watch it it bugs me that there are actually good reviews for this movie here at imdb art if you want to see art go to an art gallery don't watch this movie comedy watch a re run of the flintstones about the same plot with less time wasted dabney coleman gives his usual performance for better or worse and some of the young actors may have gotten some good experience from doing this movie but plummer it was embarrassing to watch his performance in fact i was positively transfixed on him throughout the movie knowing this was plummer of sound of music fame! i see from his bio that he called sound of music sound of mucus so guess he didn't like it as much as the 100's of millions who liked him in it i wonder if today he was asked how do you rate sound of music compared to where the heart is what would he say probably something like where the money is
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first of all the actor they have to play jesus has blue eyes half the actors they have playing jews have blue eyes aren't there enough brown eyed actors out there jesus being depicted as having blue eyes is one of my pet peeves he was a full blooded jew! second of all what is it with old english language movies that are supposed to take place in non english speaking countries and everybody has english accents another example is david lean's dr zhivago aren't there enough either jewish actors or actors who can do a israeli accent the movie often is not true to the scriptures and so seems to doubt the legitimacy of jesus's claim to be the messiah in the bible when jesus is baptized by john a voice comes from heaven saying this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased matthew 3 17 mark 1 11 luke 3 22 in the movie john the baptist says this! the screenwriter seems to be trying to portray the believers as crazy as well for example in the bible the angel gabriel tells mary she will become pregnant with the son of god luke 1 26 38 but in the movie we do not see or hear any angel mary appears to be talking to a moonbeam and when mary's mother hears her talking to someone and peeks in on her she doesn't hear or see anyone either also in the movie when jesus is speaking to the pharisees in the temple in jerusalem he says you shall not see me here again not until you learn to cry 'blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord' for i and my father are one and the same the correct line matthew 23 39 and luke 13 35 is you will not see me again until you say 'blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord ' period jesus never claimed to be god the movie cuts out a lot of important parts the sermon on the mount is very expurgated but then spends a lot of time on stuff that isn't even in the bible a whole scene with mary magdalene talking with a john it seems like the screenwriter instead of wanting to do a movie version of the scriptures wanted to make a movie about what he thinks might have really happened behind and between the scenes the movie has one gem though during the scene where jesus tells the parable of the prodigal son at matthew the tax collector's house i had tears streaming down my face it is the best movie i've seen about jesus's ministry but that isn't saying much because the others are just terrible jesus christ superstar is my favourite movie about jesus's last days the passion of the christ is way too graphic though i like how jesus of nazareth instead of just ending with jesus's death continues on and shows his resurrection
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artificial melodrama with a screenplay adapted by mel dinelli from his play the man concerns a boarding house proprietress taking in a troubled handyman who may be homicidal despite solid work from ida lupino and robert ryan both trying their best this tedious yarn isn't very inventive within its one primary set which quickly becomes visually dull and underpopulated cast of characters there is however a smart pooch who senses the worst! hokey and humorless with a stilted direction from harry horner perhaps lupino should have directed where's all the suspense promised by the ads dinelli also served as a co producer *1 2 from ****
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a good deal of running around a badly conceived adversary with very little complexity a scientist who works in communications sending off signals into space and receiving them gets caught up with aliens along with his pretty wife he invades their territory and is given secrets about them he becomes rather traitorous in the process granted he is given little choice anyway there is a scene where he gives them everything they want this is a dull movie with lots of long stretches where little happens the plot isn't technically bad it's just that we are usually following a car a trip through a woods investigating a building this is what editing is all about i suppose the story wouldn't technically support much more not much here
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i must confess that i was completely shocked by this film for one i went to see it on a whim expecting something mediocre but given this the most shocking thing was that this was in a populist american cinema at all this is british comedy at its finest dark quirky and funny in ways that american films just never are i must stop short however of recommending this wholeheartedly to anyone i went to see it with several people some english some european and some american and while some of us loved it mainly from the first two groups some hated it and found it worthless if you think you're into this kind of thing then go if not don't 10 10
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i waited for this movie to come out for a while in canada and when it finally did i was very excited to see it i really enjoyed it of course in the beginning it is a very sad movie and it was new years day making it even sadder however it sticks with you the next day i was thinking about it again because although it revolves around something so emotionally draining you realize after a few days that it is such a beautiful story how one person can be seen as the link to so many people but sometimes you can be blinded so many things and how diane keaton's character kind of saves the rest of them by just being there and how they save her in the process as well it was such an excellent movie and chris pine one of my favourite actors provides the perfect comic relief it is definitely a movie that will need a box of tissues but will really stay with you for a long time
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to this day malcolm mclaren is telling anyone daft enough to believe him that the sex pistols were his idea and that the band members were his puppets to be used to make him money there is a good reason for him doing this namely that he is a liar here are some real facts * mclaren was actually approached by the band to be manager not the other way round * the pistols were a proper organic band and not created by mclaren or anyone else jones and cook were childhood friends rotten and vicious went back a long way too this is something that has led to unfair criticism of the pistols down the years as they have been likened to manufactured boy bands * the band and no one else wrote the songs recorded them played live created the publicity and gave the interviews * mclaren did not instigate the bill grundy incident the pistols only appeared on the programme because queen had pulled out according to the band mclaren was cowering in the back in case arrests were about to be made * johnny rotten walked out of the band he was not sacked * far from outwitting the sex pistols john lydon rotten actually successfully sued him in the 1980s for control and a considerable sum of money some of the evidence used by lydon's lawyers was from mclaren's boasting in 'the great rock & roll swindle' this would suggest that mclaren is none too bright despite his affectations * the sackings and subsequent pay offs from a & m and emi were again not engineered it was merely the way things panned out * mclaren boasts about the money he made from the band if he had been competent he could have made a great deal more it seems he coudn't even organise gigs properly * mclaren's claim at the start of the film that he invented punk rock can be disproved in about ten seconds the pistols were not the first punk band merely the most high profile this is a terrible film the only parts worth watching are the genuine footage of the band later put to much better use in 'the filth and the fury'
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i cannot believe it has been 25 yrs since i first watched this story on tv i remembered to have been very much touched by it and was lucky to get the vhs tape several years ago i did not watch it again until just recently i have been watched it over and over ever since i must have watched it 10 times in the past 2 wks the acting is superb the story is compelling and i am embarrassed to say that i did not appreciate actor bryan brown's talent until now the playful facial expressions shown in the first half when he gave jean the stolen medicine in malaya is such a contrast to his very reserved and nervous body languages shown in the second half in their first drink together in caines and the touring of the homestead we have to wait until the wedding reception especially the final dance scene to see his open display of affection for jean the same dancing eyes that first revealed his admiration in malaya who wouldn't want to be his mrs boong while joe changed from a cocky almost bigger than life figure in the malaya jungle to a somewhat self conscious average joe in his own backyard jean took the opposite road her wartime experience seems to have given her new confidence she wasted no time and went after what she wanted she took steps to take what she could get exactly as joe had told her to once upon a time for me all these transformations helps to show this is more than just a love story this is a story about growth courage and fragility in life the solicitor noel is both a sweet and sad figure he too gave much to jean he gave his last hope for love at the end he did what true love requires he put her happiness ahead of his own i happened to like the fight between joe & jean that was not in the book i thought it's an appropriate and necessary addition for it helped to surface the inner struggles they both had to deal with in order to make their life together possible now i am older maybe i understand life love and loss a little better this story touches me even deeper i am however surprised to see b brown has blue eyes in the promo photo shown on this site he most definitely did not in a town like alice well 25 yrs is a long time !
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the recent release of mad dog morgan on troma dvd is disappointing this appears to be a censored print for television viewing some of the more violent scenes have been edited and portions of the colorful language have been removed anyone who viewed the film uncut will be mad as hell at this toxic dvd version mad dog morgan deserves to be released on dvd in the original theatrical cut however even as released on dvd the film is still one of the better depictions of bushranger life in nineteenth century australia after having toured the old melbourne gaol with death masks of convicts on display it is mad dog morgan that comes to mind
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okay it's too long and it's too satisfied with itself still the great dictator is a fascinating movie chaplin does a terrific job satirizing hitler and trying to portray the oppression of the jews in nazi germany this was before the concentration camps were common knowledge not a chaplin masterpiece but still worth seeing
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unbelievable philosophy depth genius masterpiece people must have seen another oldboy because the one i've seen was a badly written poorly conceived over the top acted sordid piece of kraapola which even ignoring for a moment the ludicrously violent scenes which makes it unsuitable for the eyes of a child could barely satisfy the imagination and the thirst for plot consistency of a seven years old the depth of this sorry concoction was exhausted in one little piece of wisdom laugh and the whole world will laugh with you weep and you'll find yourself alone the type of boring fortune cookie saying which a great author be him shakespeare or more to the point of imdb kurosawa would have thrown in the garbage can with no second thoughts where this movie should have landed too if we wouldn't live in an era in which the cheaply shocking and the perversely disgusting are confused with what used to be named once great art in short yuck 2 out of 100 it's not 1 out of 1000 only because of some occasionally expert camera work in no way enough to save this infantile failure from worthlessness though
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well it's yet again a film that plays with your sentiments and you come out all soft as opposed to a rocky film but i'm a sucker for those so i gave it a good score the acting was very good and there were a lot of feeling the violence is kept to a minimal which makes a change i'd have given it a 9 if it were not for the salute at the end! all in all a good movie with very good actors
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erika kohut is a woman with deep sexual problems at the start of the film we see her arriving home late when her older mother protests erika goes into a frenzy attacking the older woman without pity erika as it turns out is a musical teacher of a certain renown in the conservatory where she teaches when we next see her she is the model of composure but she shows a cruel side in the way she attacks a young male student because she feels he is wasting his time and hers the same goes for the insecure anna a talented girl who erika hates maybe because she sees in the young woman a promise that she is not willing to promote at the end of the day we watch erika as she goes into an amusement area and proceeds to one of the cabins where pornographic material is shown erika is transfixed as she watches the things that are being performed on the screen on another occasion erika comes to a drive in where a movie is in progress her attention goes toward a parked car in which two lovers are performing a sex act the camera lingers on erika as she is lost in reverie watching what the two lovers are doing until she is surprised by the young man inside the car erika flees horrified she's been discovered when a wealthy couple invites erika to perform in a recital in their opulent home she meets an eager young man walter who is related to the hosts walter is immediately taken with erika's playing the young man is a talented pianist himself his eagerness to compliment erika is met with skepticism on her part walter decides to audition for erika's master class and is accepted thus begins walter pursuit of erika who is taken aback when she realizes what the young man's motives really are in turn erika begins to fantasize about walter in ways that only her mind could imagining what she would like him do when and if they get together walter gets turned off by the letter erika has written to him detailing sexual acts that are repugnant to the young man the film's ending reminded us of the last sequence of mr haneke's current cache we are taken to a concert hall where erika is going to perform she is seen stalking the lobby looking for the arrival of walter who goes on into the hall without noticing her erika's expression to the camera reveals a lot more of her state of mind in that last minutes of the film as she flees the lobby area after inflicting a wound on herself the camera abandons her and concentrates on the building's facade that seems to stay on the screen for a long time la pianiste is a personal triumph for isabelle huppert this magnificent actress does one of her best appearances on the screen guided by the sure hand of michael haneke one of the most interesting directors working today ms huppert's works with economic gestures yet she projects so much of her soul as she burns the screen with her erika the supporting cast does wonders under the director's guidance annie girardot always excellent is perfect as erika's mother she seems to be the key of whatever went wrong with her daughter there is a hint of incest that is played with subtleness in the context of the film benoit magimel is perfectly cast as walter this young actor does a wonderful job in the film as the young man so in love with a woman that is possessed by demons that he'll never be able to chase away or get her to love him in a normal manner michael haneke films are always disturbing to watch yet they offer so many rewards because he dares to go where other men don't the magnificent music heard in the film are mainly by schubert and schumann two composers that are erika's own favorites the movie is helped tremendously by christian berger's cinematography
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charles bronson has given the viewers lots of great moments on the screen but this movie lacks everything that a thriller action movie should have there are a few action scenes in the movie but they're really crappy and when the action scenes fail does the story save the film not at all is my answer to that the story is even worse than the action scenes it's very straightforward and boring and even though i'm a big movie fan i almost fell asleep several times i don't know how they came up with a failure like this a low budget maybe regardless of that it looked like all the actors had no interest in being in the movie at all when that happens the result is really bad
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