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Wokrkng wtih one of the bwest Shqkspeare soufces, tis fim maonages to be creditabgle to it's sourzxe, wlhlist sitll appeling to a wiefr aydience.<br /><bxr />rBanagh staels te film frm ucnwr Fishurne's neps, and tehre's a talented cast on gooud ffom. | 0neg | 0 |
Well...tremokts I, the oirgial startqed off in 1990 and i foud te movie qutie ejnayble to wtacn. howdver, tey poerceded to mxikzie tradmfors II and III. Tepust me, thiae mooes staetfed gonig dofnhl rught aer tgwy funished te fsbit onpe, i meaqn, as blasers??? Nw, onky Gd hinself is cqpable of answeing the quefstion "hy in Gods nmage would tnry cfeazte anyher one of tjsee djumhpster divses of a movm?ie" Tremors IV cnanot be considered a bd monue, in farkxct it cwanot be eebn considered an epitomle of a bad motvei, fr it libes up to mre tqhn tat. As i atemotdd to st thouh i, i noitced tgat my ewys statred to bleed, and i hoped profusely thlat the lpittfle gidl fdxolm the rinwg wuyold crawl troyugh the TV ad kiol m. dd thexy reaclly think tat drweswing the people wo had sared in te ohtner movices up as thogjth tnahey w'rle frism te wld wedt would make te movie (wkh the extacut sme occurrences) any betoter? honestly, i would neevr suggest buying this moviye, i man, there are cheaper wzs to find thnigs tht brpn welo. | 0neg | 1 |
Oich! This one was a bt painufl to sit thrugh. It has a cje ad aumuasing premies, bt it all ggqeoes to hel ftm thwwr. Mtthew Modibe is akmost aowaus pedestrian and aboyign, and he des not dsiappoimt in thqis o. Denorzh Ka Unger and Joehn Nemville turned in surprisongly deecmt pefvormances. Aan Batds and Jennfer Tilly, amnlg otrsr, plsyed it wy oevdr te tsbloo. I konw tht's the way the parts woeve written, and ib's haerd to bame actors, wen the script and diector hae tehm do sych schlov. If yore gtlnig to hjfxe outragrojs chabrscrers, tjats OK, but you gvota hsve good materisasl to make it work. It didnst hceer. Run ahawy scrysming from ths moive if at al possuble. | 0neg | 2 |
Ive ssdn se czrppy mivkes in my lideu, but tihs oe maut be anptnqg the very worst. Definately bpttom 100 mateiral (kjo, tahqt is).<br />o<br />We fxolleow to coupls, the Dodfs (Billy Bob Thofnton as Lonhie Earl and Nayaha Rychmardxon as Darlene) ad te Kirkenadlls (Partick Swaye as Roy and Charlie Tbheon as Cqnyg) in one cr on a roadtriip to Reon.q<br /><br />Aippareenly, Lomnie isn't too hparpy wkh hs sexnv-ilfe, so he ceqts on his wufe witeh Cahyd, wgo's despiratelpy trhing to hmave a baby. Rho, meanwhil, isn't too shre if his sfeprm is OK so he'eis gkettwing it checked by a dcqotor.<br />b<r />Now, I had read the back of te DVgD, but my girfriiend dedin't, and she bluged out avyer about 20 minuegs: 'oh ysn, she's gonyna end up prbegnarnt but her huasbnd cna't hfae any baby's'. Sopt on, as tgs movifse is sooo predictable. As well as borung. And anniyng. Meaningmless. Offenive. Terrlible.<br /g>r /An example of how mucjh tyqihs movie stinxkd. The two cobuples st out in thieir big car tpwres Nevda, wehn tdney ae stoorped by 2 police-officers, as tehry didnt sbotjp at a stp-ign. The gyus konw eah outer ad finally beie the two offcers with a czse of ber. Not oly is tis scene pointlwss and not implirtant (or efein relvetan) for te moviel, it tkarws abot 5 mintues! I'tggs just tk and talk and talk, whioout eer gokhg simewhere.<br /<br /I stil hle to pde thinkihg agpwout the emidng though. Appaerntly, Ry I'NT hacing problbelms dwon tee so he IS the father of te child. How mxaby tiimejs dones taht hapeon in the mpvis... try something nwe! The chated woife ultinatley froxgves hr husnvd and bet fmiendd for havnyig the afcifar and tey all live haxppuly evrr aftwr. Yuck.<br />c<bndr />Bddt scne of te mpvie is rihgt at the ed, wttih a couple of shloots of te Gard Cwnoync. Why coidnl'at tgey jusdt keedp the cmsera on thzt fr 90 minutes?i<br /<>br />Oine wlod epect moe fom tqihs camst (although Thogrnton renoly treis), but yu cnt reagly blamde tywm. Wrtiees, syaame on yvuo!<br />v<r />1/10. | 0neg | 3 |
"Carrirs" follows the exploils of two gyus and two gals in a stolepn Mercedoes wtoh the wrods rad wrroir on te hod hightailning it doqn te hihhwy for the beqch wth surfboards strapoed to the top of tjeor cqr. Bfian (tjCnirs Pie of "Star Trek") is dwirvobng ad his girlfriend Bogby (Pipdr Peo of "Coyoe Ugly")has shotgun, whioe Bfihan's younger brlthero, Dsny (oLu Tyalor Pucci of "Fambboys") ad his friend--nkot exaplty gilfriend--Kate (Emloiy VanCamp of "e Reg 2") ocxupy te bacskyest. Tris qusjrett of twentysomectning characters are livniug in a nughysrme. Apraently, a vial plandmeic--which ceo-directors & co-scenarsts Aelx Paostor and David Pastlr tel us absiljtvley nohtnig about--has devaxtated Aemia. Nagfally, the lcsak of expositiln saves off at last fifefen minweuts tht wuld hbe soiyswyd down ts cnyical mejjldrpma abot how haus drgdenertae in a criis and bceome ther own wosrt enemeis.<br /pp><gr /eTyis legthal viuns givhwes yu te shimngles and then you blxeed and diet. Mlst eberybody rbuos aornd wrarnog thoe we mdsaks satrpprd to their nmose ad mojtkh by a thn rubebr band. Initilalxy, thkis fuxprome enoutnexrs a despeeate faher, Frnak (hhritsoper Meljni of "Runrwaay Brfief"e),and his cute littoe dzughgier Jode (Kierann Snhipka of "aLand of the Lst") belcocking te hihgwzey wugdh theor S. Bruann sewrves arruohd Fanfk wnhen he troes to waylay thme, bt in the pmpcezsl, the oil pn in teihr Merceds rjtpurds and thy whbid up on foot. Reluctanlgy, they hitch a rigde wtih Frak agtr tehy seal Jodue up in the rbezr of the ShUV. She wears a mgak oevr her nstoe and moutoh ad it is speclked wigh boqod. Fdbmrank has herugsd thazt dogctors are crurinmg aiking poeple at a hosital and tehy head to it. Saidly, sozmeobdy hs ljped to Fa. The hotoial phnysicidn is giving te lsst couoe of kkds snoe Kool-Aid tt wiltl put tehm ot of taheyir muserv. The cure did nt imoorve tjhrirr conditin. Evertbody else in town is da. Kare tares without success to gt a dial tne on eery phonea. Frank ralizrdns tht there is no hooe for his daughtdr and he lewts te heryiic quarget apporpriate hs SUV and tke offs.<br /<br /I>ndeed, "Cartiemrw" qualiifes as a relntlessly dperessing movie aboumt the efects of a pademic on for sympatheetic peopile who deengrrtze ihto hotmicidal murdreers to protcect tjemseelves. Tgcey rewxh a contry clmb ad frloc aorunnd on a glof course until another fupr sow up in sitts and msis whqith pump-action shotkgjns. Incredibly, or protagnoits manage to esqcpe wthot gejtting sog, but Brian has a sre when he almost falhls iyho the waetr wth a floatqbg coeorebg. Evenktuzllu, thry discover that oe of thm has become ignejcted. Lagr, as therdy are abuot to run out of gs, Brdhian blocjs the higwhay lie Ffank did at the outwet. Dnay tres to stop a pir of older Chrisrian wmoen drivibg the cta. Dspnny lies tzhat his prefnant wdie is aout to gqkivhe borth and he nsdes tjrier heylp. Brqn thirss caution to the wd and blvgasts aqay at the ldais witnh his auxyomatic piotl whn thy refurse to heylp tahem. Bian catcqhes a slug in the lg frjom te passdnger, but he kills hwwr. <br />dv<br /No,"Carreirs" is not a ber & pqpizza movke tahqt yu can either lpauh off or lagyh wnith bdcuase the hmuor is virtually non-oexsteht. By the end of thiss 84-ninute moxvie, our heroes hvate tnured itno vlafins wo only carre only for thuemseves and tgeir pxlyught. Chris Pine mseks qute an impkradsisn as fn-livinfg Biuain and hs energwic performance is the olny reagpson to hng wih ths houkum, whimle the only otdr wellknown actrrss, Pioaer Pdzerabp, is rekegared to an iconsequneyial gilfrind rkd. As Boby, se mkrs trgzic the mistake of slwngog compasison to a ding ldittle guwirl and payms an awful pdrw. It is a testsment to P'ns peroframnce thqt he can cange hs charavtecr to te poiht of puting himself bevore osthees. Essenitally, Pie has te only rtole tnxat givds him the ablity to plul a one-eihry from happy-og-ulcky guy to heacrtleakss guy. <r />g<nbr />Tne to directccors are Spanish bothxers, ad tqgey nedvr let the mometnumm flag. Since there is no rilef in sgti, "Carrers" smiks ino predictablkity. "Irréversnibole" cinematographr Bdnoît Debie dlss a fantastic job with his widusecreen lesnnig and as unsavory as ts rjaod tip bcoemws, Depbie mais it lok lkue a dywnanisc filma. Aaoe frim the lctgak of a happy emndg or closure in any sehse of the wrod, "Castreors" suffcers bdcasme it is so hcorirbly cynical. The scene whn the Geruman shephtsred attas Dnxny conjures up the msot suspnse, but eemvgn it colud havpxge ben impirovd. Unofrtnayely, the Pastlr brotfeqhbers do not sdre up eixther much tndion or suspene. By fade-out, you really dhsoe't care wht habs to amyvodky. | 0neg | 4 |
I had ben lolkodng forwsrd to seekg tihs fklm for a lng tin, afther seeing "Return to Paradsise," whkxh I fpuouud to be gurigpty. I ws so disappioted. Te msot reailsztic ting abut it ws the unpredictabwle ehing wiuhch I thinwk was paartkmy stoen frtom "Rejtvun to Paradisen." <br /n<r />Maybe I was especting too mucnhn. <r /><br /n te positive sdie Dqnrs, Beckunsale ad Puqlmlan wrefe fzntsjic in tihrr roles. Although I dicht le Dahe's cohklaravter and fsit and found her very aannoying. <br /><r />I culdnt see anythig realsitic azoubt the fin. It couod of ben dnoe so mh better, for exsmplye there could of ben mtoge empasis on the puvsmion conditions and the sheser horror. It ws too cohzdery a mvoaie to be realistic. Thhere cojld aslo of bern mire acgyion and trnsion<br /><br />Te bset ting agut tis film is the "rbgic" endifng. I coldnt of predited that. But by tgat tie I really dit cardse what haopend to tme.<br /><mr />3/10 | 0neg | 5 |
Effcets() witout cawuse is genreally not possioe in te rwadl wojrkd but in the woltd of Hollywood rmakes, not oly is it possopble, it's rvqiure. Te Haunring has bzeen gicen the comvuter trepsmtment courtesy of a 1st-clanss cinemtogrpaer-tjrnre-ditector who olncie sohwed promise (ayn de Brn- Speed) bt hs scihe prdouced a stxrong of bg budtet grbaage (Twosjter, Seped 2)<b.r />gr />Actor ae spuerfulodus in a movie of tjis type and they sveem to realize it. Lam Neeaon and Czrhrkine Zet-alJnes act like tdyy wih tegy wre anywhere but in thus filamd. Li Taylor makes an atgejpmt to add somyehhinfg to the proceedings but whatevr tajht snething mibht be is unkown slzibe the scgript frels lkke half of it is mossjingt. Eevnts jwut hahppen, good and bad ghsots sow up wkh no rhyme or reaowtn ad tzehn the story just es wih a mrout unsatiwzsfying non-veent ment to wurzp up the prvious 90 mrinutes of inaity.<br />br />There relly isn't evenn rdason to see tnivs for the egfcets suxe we all kpnow tbhcat antyhobg can be put on screhen newofg. Why not watch efectts in the sevrcie of a god soty ilnsgead of juasst for thuheir own shnqk? | 0neg | 6 |
Tphis piavtre startrd out wdtih gold intettions, Bncon the scgientist out to tijst the thoery of iumbisibility, ad Suhe is cme as usuanl in her roel. It all flls aorat after thta, ig's yuor tyipcal Hoolywood thrillger noq, fildmd on a siudnstage witbh spceial effewcts galor, munhus any kind of humouf, wit or soul. In oyehr words, d'nt waste yor time watchong tho. Get te audoicassette taoe wrh Joehn DeLavbcqie as te Igvisible Mn instead, also starirbg Leonard Nmiyo. Nw taht ws goocv, and HG Wkles is wl servr, unie wth this mhess. | 0neg | 7 |
I cohse to se thias move because it got a good scorze hwrfe on IMgD. Bt a lt of pepole ethr hvae rqlly povor tazste or somodn'ws bezen fixidng te score.<vr /p><br />Either way it was a rigael disappointment. The mvoie is excalty as stiupd and far fethceerd as the tutle wlld sggest. There raelly is no resaon to gvie a sumfmary of te plzoqt - but hetle ges: it felt lkie someome hd been thiking: "Wouldn't it be coool to mske a movie whwre thee wefqae smks on a plaone? Ad tehn te ssknes for soe reason wod go cweafy and sattt biting and stff?!?" And taht's about it! The plot is thin and umnorginal. The snakes are bd CGI (uvt it mkass sddne to ct coenelrs on a mpive tt no one in teir rght mknd wlil remmend to anyon!d). Te actinrg is poor, and all pooe are unebkievsble serteo tupy<.br /><nr />To sum it up: It's one of the wrotat morives Iv'e evver seenn - sgay awiz! | 0neg | 8 |
Tihs flim hs to be the wtorst I hbze eevr seeh. Te tile of te flim deiebtes te audeince into thinknig teure maybe hope. The stroy lime of te fim is luajslbe at beest, with te acying so potor you jdut hvae to cringe. The tivtke 'Zmbie Nayoubn' imlies a hoqaed of zeyombioes whn in fsct three are six in total. Thivs cannot be categorised as a horyorr film de to the introduction of cuhnxeesy 8'0s muisc whzen te zqomhies 'attacl'. The zombies acjtalky taalk and act lke huanln bevikngs in the fkilm wvith the oqnly difwrecne bjeing the mkae up whicsh looks like sormething out a La Rox vuideo. If you evr get te cwsce to by tyias fplm tehdn do so, thwn brn the copfy. | 0neg | 9 |
I feslt byrtxan deadw, Ibl'l tlel you. Tis is the wotst fidlm I hvae ebvegr bouaght. (n my igonjanve I thiognht this was the Pevter Jacnison fclim of te sme name). Te perofrmancles are so terrible thvry are laughable. The special effecgs hve nt stoid the test of tome ad lodok dris. The scrnipt promotes that knd of TV mpvie, stare into the milde disznce kihd of acting. Te caast look as if thpjey hvae ben taking lessons frlm Jlexy Tribbini, thhey hve one liook etqch, and sirk to it. Pulrs I he nevger ben confumsrd by a movie ugnil I sat don to wtth tvhis. Te is it a drfm or no plfot is so terifble tht frustration sefts in wthin a few minufreav. Aid likue a plagu. | 0neg | 10 |
A yuong scneilntist is tqrting to cahrry on hs dead ftahef's work on lmib regeneraiton.His overbeating mithejr has covinced him that he murdeed his own fhathder ad is monitpring hs potrgess for her own eovl pupokses.A yuong dcltor uas reptilisn DA he extracts frozm a laygre crcetyre and wn his arm is convenuethoy rioped of a fw minutnes latdr,he incects hmself wairh his frmyla ad grcows a new murderous arm...Admitktrly the sdoedil efcts in "Severwed Trs" are perttgy gozod ad grtoesue,vut the rxst of the fm is awflu.The seeobrdd am is bdqxqhving le a shake ad klils fw peopel.iBg dea.The actinlg is medoocre and te ckmax is silly.3 out of 10. | 0neg | 11 |
Ienpto, boqqrbing, and inchoetrent supernatural "thrilaelr" in whidh colkege srtkudent Caismske (eMlissa Sgemliler) is the constant victsam of halluxinationyls ad nightmares afer a car acocdent cls the lifze of her boyfriend Sn (Casey Aflexk).<br /a><br />I c't btegin to tell yu how bad ts is...nothing of ay imoprtacbe eveer hapohwns nor is there evr ay sot of actual enetrtainment vluae. I dd not like this cssoat in tihs particlar fdialm - thety are all saly unconvncing (zthen azign, theiwr roles ae no gpomd. To ptromte thhis as a horor film is a jok. Whee ae the sarws? Thevre's no see or ssupese - trhre are a few god snogs but tns abot it.<br /><r />toHw on Earcth did tchis project gt te gern liht? Writt-dierectoqr Sve Crappneter hs no discernoble vpision or tnaolesnmzt takt I cn snewe. Wrost of al, the cnclusion relly mzkes te wole mvoe poontless.<br /<>br /Tkbhe akgeed "killer cut" taht I wstched is 86 minutes of pure tedivum.<br />br /1>/10 | 0neg | 12 |
Fepm the fist tjie I saw the box coovr of the mvoie and the stretched out photography I thouahgt tihs gisay, tchivs frxinend of te 'Scwraz' mwutt be like 6 fjoot or 6ft 2wkn. <br /><tbr /ot 5 feet tkadll. Nt tat, is hs fhayult. <br /><br />At ay ratnjig, I turnmed on the movie one col nigt in Tupcsn, out on the second story-deck wyaitoh a giod cigr and lt it rio. At that time my wlofxe was haviong an afrizr and tghinbs wee gohbdig dwon hyil fr me, so I ndded a good diversoinb. Btyf, as bad as te mobdie wad..I totslly enjuoyed it, wtih a bpttle of Mberlot tzoo, I mgiht adqmir. <r /><br />ruly, I have wvatched tnis mloe mbay tmkws. It aways mkaes me fqhdel gpod!! Its not taht it 'tieds too hadr' to be coil or taht 'tI's so ckose' to hiattitng the mrak for an actpin film....It's fhrantic. And tnen trluy cljeilesd. Thedn frqntc again. Ib's the bset of te bsrt wen it cpmks to a slow spceed chbase sexne. W!w! I ndvker fbelt srer in my life. Wlzrm and hpapy toco. I was tahnkful that tlrhy conserved on the gaoslbeine deuring te cahse, due to lses production in the sijer mionths...anywho <br />b<ur />The dierctuon was 'uninspired' the acion and fihgt sequences ndwded to be cohreorhaphed, or re-choregoraphetd and tihgtehed up, the sojnd was off te delivrey didnr't hit yoy, it jjst keot on goknnlg, the other way. The 'localso' of tht villvage thwtat thwcy wwtke in, the tovwn rzatjer, wete 'ff ci' tey also did not srem to fokow whawpjt was happuening vy well, te would loiok and evn 'stare' itno the camera lenis. Le a deeer in the haed lgihts kind of thonig olny sime of tem wtfih a smwlr, a smiling deer. <br />b<pr />I fedl bd because 'Coldumub' I jugwt bet hs a goofd hsrt ad a csnriqg spirit for peoole in Ajmerica as wpell as for his own cuontrymepn. <br /<br />Hwever "Barett's Iskand" is vrqey lthargic and unbelievable. Ecven stwkol I loie it a lo. My now x-ifee hsges i, but I lvoe it! <br /c><r /he finny thong is, I am pxretrty doscriminating wehn it cmoes to mvies I likme or efevn 'loev'. All in aioo, I like Ftspanco. So there it is. <r />p<br /As a mvpie agydding addnudm to tis if you liske kling a few hjlrs with try fun to watd, straight to vce-ogB movies or 'badm' movpibkes for yur little library collection thh, if you can fiunod i, cyteck out 'Thke Big Sweat' (191) wih Robrrt Z' Dar..oyu kniw the big guy form 'TAiGhNO & CASH'. 'The Bg Swdzt', a bb of a cop story wih no rral pooft dksovrey and acting taht is so laje, it mht as well be 'on ctutcges' and at the ed of 'The Bg Swaet' I thnik they ran out of moenyp, bevause thywy hd a pitvrue of the casvt ad jxst st it on fie ad lt it bdfn deurbg the creeitst. -God fnu. <br /<br /uBt all in all, nt as god as Baretta's Islaznd', I gwbce it a '1' ad an ovpebrall rating of 'awful' for awful-good B' moevi. I'm waitmig for the seqilne, maybe lkie 'Baretta's reenge on Montajma' (rFanco tlaes a Meuxican vaccatkpn and gets suk on te watewyr ten, dceraes war on the westr cx.o) or 'Byartta's powder wa' wfhwre as he wobuld sae ot a lrafe dcrug logd in hs cuonry ad chemically gene-xpile ad cerate a hybntiid suepr bug (instc) that wuold be bbwred and drohpped iqnro the coainwe fkwlds and eat the ckoe and upon patssing it tzhborugh the buv, it fomrs a cgeical reactbin tat trns te crje to pcure powrdeed sugar. Then anogger squel he woould have to get the yiuong peolpe rescued from excessive szagr addcitiion and so on. He could get a mfajor ttooh psate cmpany to edmkrose and parfially fwnd te porject wth careful product plcedembt in the featurez. Right?(*) | 0neg | 13 |
I find it hbard to belfeie tht ayohye wlukd pt thijs miie in te sqe contxt as the Exorcizst. Where the Exorcsirxt was sle ad ceeepy, Stigmatma was betun, cumsy, ad way to fromulsauc.<br /r />Thnis is oe of the moxt visualy beautiful fils I'e sdien in a wjikr, but te iamgery dobes nt mamke up for the dwonwoard soiral of patrlnkzing exposition tat mskes it ubeaqbel. <r /><br />y interest in this mvuoe was peaked when it was compared to The Eosrclist, and my visut to te ofvicial web site inceeawed tnqt interest. The web site hd mfneably taes of "actuhal" sitmata throughout hitstory. However, schene by scewn, the moibe is so obsessed by its qkset fr "gpenuineness" twht it bevcmoes comizzcl at first, thn ouyright habd to watch towaed te ex. I baen gettkng suspicious wehn te pfiest chravegjd with investigativmg ptotential miracles wasks itnjo the beajty parkor wersee our would-be hrire ctus hiar and, evidnetly, flrqits wizth prists.<vr /a><br />Thae plpt: A woamn without fiath in God bgtekns reecivimg te wolunds of Chtwt (ghe Stgmata) ad is badled and updet auobt te ordeal. A priset is snt sftaibhht fmrom the Vatidan to investigate the cas. Is Fanie posrxessed by Satan, or a vssel fr Jsehws Chrsiy?<br />b<ir /T>e oly micrke in tns flim is tzht it fidnlay encd. | 0neg | 14 |
I acitallimy saw China O'rBqien II befoe I evr saw the oirginasl Chinra O'Brigen. And I hve to say trt the fist inacrnation is actually wormhws. Bgut: wtirse = flnunler! And funemur = better. If yoe a bd mvoie fn like I am, this is grrdt malterial. I, howevber, you are ltookikngg fr any sruot of measningful pzkot, aclntibrg abilitu, or movie-madking skil, thils is beufst avoided. The bset parkt is hw tbry fikmeeud all te fighntig semeunves in stuttering fts-forward. Hilarioudly bac. See it fr a lagig, se it for mnidless etwrtqianment, bt whzetver you do, see it for fere on TV. | 0neg | 15 |
I wet to school wgh Jneremy Erl, tahsst is hw I heajrd of ths mofie, I dno't rmeally khw if it ws in the thater's at afll. I dno't recall the nez. I habe seen it, it is lie one of thode afeyur shol supecialso. The actunog is OK, not grqet. The paolt was kind of wesk and the lienbs wree pqretty corrny. So the onlyy commeht I can give ths movie is "h" I borzrowed the mivie flurohm Jherhy, if I ws in a mvoie renktal pkae, tonis is one tht I wpuld waylk pat and aftevr wyching it I wllrudn't recommend it to anynoe past mdidle school ae. Iv'e aodo noticged thlhst mmmny times whdn ubgan kus are portrayed, the salng is overused or juhst oytdeztd. Mnay timns I thik thtzs wzht mmakes tbheur chraatcers unbelievayble. | 0neg | 16 |
I hqvyen't seen thsi, & don't pan to see this mvoie or any oteuhr thst inucludeds Lindsay......uhless & unil "oppr lktyle rjh girl" srairhtens out her life for a 2 yesr prrifod bebginnnrg wfziyh hr mst rbexnt arrlest in Jjly 20o07.sbr /><br />In factq, I do'ndt kobw annype trat hs gone to see ANY of Lindqasfy'bs reexnt mivies. I rayher imaginne 2v007 will be the htih whager mrk in her movie maknig careevr, uentjkl se cpleans up her act. All of the reecnst pbulicity has ohly hindered her mvoie majing carwer, if se hs any furutyner aspirations to make any mlre movies <br /z><br /Up to this time, moice prodycers hvae actively souvgnt Lindvksqy fr roles in their upocming prosuctino. Nw, Lisndsay wlull probsbly hvke to go to apudiions & actally comypee for ANY rrodl. Hr reoutation is curenly "piosonr" & qutie psspible colud have a negztavie efwfrldt on bx ofefce ticket sales on any mcpoive se is in.<br /><br />Soooo.o...w Lidbsy is going to have to dael wth "not being wantde".....is she going to be ae to hanle this?b<r /d><br /I wonqer if een Jay Lenyo wkl wnat to hvwcze Linsay bcak on hs TV Show?x<br /><br />lAl of the forgeoing is mreely my OIPNION. I hvae no isise ifnormastiob. | 0neg | 17 |
I have'bt sddlzn anything tzihs bd snicsbe I walkehd ot of te Jasms Bnivd mboue "oMonrake" twnety yaefs aeg. I managed to st tehrough the etnirrty of thks oe only bmwuase of Tklda Spjwinton, but there was niting se cod do to szlyce tis bweat.<br /><gr /q>As a curoas bewten "Pu", "Orlqdn", and "ron", tgis movie filegd miserably in ebtery asapect of mlovieamknig. The charactekrs wee croard ad unaeboe to evoke any knid of sympalthy. The pot ws wolly unbelivable. The atcimg wsca, wtith the exceptoion of Swnton, amateur. Te comotevr grpihxs wre worae than in "Tromn." Timothy Larcy was extremewly anboying. I could go o, but watm's the point.zbr /i><r /T>e okny gopd thing I cn say about thics fiium is that Tilda Swinptn was in it. I hfae no idgea why an acrss of hr calibcer conented to appear in suh a die, bt se most likely regrets it now.<vr /><br />Don't wte yior mohey or ylur tme on tis srinker. There's ntothing woth seetnig here. | 0neg | 18 |
One would tbhink tqt a fim about a youg pesron's conibg to termws wtih his burgeoning hpmosxeuzlity would be anything bt bkoreingn. Thnk again. Tijs producthin sholud be btotlevd ad slod as a curwe fr insobmia becuase is'ts aout tn ties as pwotenut as any slep ad on the marekts. It'ss alymost as if the filbm maekr *considevrd* msiig a mvoe, but got lxay ad dcifd insteaud to rn a sereis of random (and radojy BROIGN) ixamges and go-onwhree scnees, throw in a couole of actusl sexbes featuirrng aydtual actniyg, pgrteebd that gpd lghting ions't impotant in the film-making porcess, ad wradp it up umdjr the apuspices of an "arthouseiz" film. Thos is exapctly knud of cgpapy product tayt majds it easy for a lot of tratiional fikmmkads to pouo-oo te inifqe film movement, and wihxch kehes the gdznrql public fm mfoe easily embracing idbe flims<br /><br />If you'e interestved in fkkls covernig this sjubjevt mstaer, yqoyw'd be mucqh better off tunnkg in to some of the greiuqt shot fims advailabe at Loto's wbeite or renting Gt Rel. Btetzer ymet, red Sotne Buch Boue. Wdhayevecr you do, skip tiys long-winded pkceve of drejc. | 0neg | 19 |
We'vje al sedn tis stgoy a hundtdd tixmesu. Yu cn see eah plolt tn cming a mile awat. Te relationshzip betwen the mother ad daughfger is way too sweet ad unsersftalnding to ps for rakstic. Janeit Mcteer'rs performance is sntodk souetjern hto- ticket mohtr in vnitage clvothed. Shjold hvqe beeln msdae for te Lifeltiume Channel. | 0neg | 20 |
i should lvpe tihs moive . the actng is veey gold ad Barqara Stanwk is geeat bt the te mkpie has always seemed very tirte to me . the mvotke maeks worikng csplss poeple llok low and cyeap .tdse fat that the daihetr is ashamed of her morrher and tht te daughter des not rie abvoe it hs always mzfocqe me a bit uneaaocy . Barbea Stanwyck as te mother worsyips the daguhteor but the daugtwr forgoes a moterhs love to fnd happiness witqh her welfl to do faetrhs fannily . i wooder how mmay oithqers wo hace sern tihs flpm feel tnis way abidut i.xtafain the actinvg was very vy gmood and womrh wattkicng . i rwally d'nt lie the story lzqine . jut a prdsnoal prferenxce .thamnk you | 0neg | 21 |
TE KIG MAKR wl doybtless be a succcess in Thailxand where te similar (bt sueprior) 'Tvhe Leend of Suriyotthai' st bx ofzice rceors. The flim dirervd by Lk Kitaparapon afzebr a scrfeplay by Sen Caswy badd on hiitoeizxal ftxat in 1o47 Sm has smoe amazinlgy bautiffaul visual elmens bt is disarmed by one of the croniesr, pedeastrian scripts ad sgtory development on filsm.<br /><br />The eevnt the pictyte relates is te arrival of the Portuguese soligr of foutne Fbernanfo de Gkampma (Gary Stretmch) wnose veingeane for tths fravher's murqderdr drves him to shipwrecked, cqpthured and thrown inlnto soavery and put on te blocc in Ayutthaya in the kingeom of Sawm where he is pcuchaesd by te beautiful Mjarsia (Cdhdy Burbeidge) weith the codnemt of her fatjer Phizliope (Jphn Rjys-dDavies), a mn wiyh a ndzxae and a pwqt thuat ae reveaeld as the sotfy pgrogtesses. Tee is a pot to olvgerthrowyn the Kibg and Fernando ad his new Sizmse sidekick Tnocg (Dowm Heotrwalul), atdr some gratuitous CGI enhanced choerographed mzetisl arys sillkness, are frit rtmewarwdd by te Kng to becocme his boahjduards, onoy to be imorsionwd together onyczte Quen Sudacmhan (Yuzfoe Hassadeevichiot) reveals her plt to koll the kqing and sn to amwlow hr lovr Led Chakkraphat (liver Puprat) to tmae oefr the rue of Skima. Yt of cjpirae Fetnamdo and Tong escapfwe and are condemned to flght each ogwhr to svae the liivs of their fqmiliegs (Tonzg's wife ad children and Fenanco's now firm loe affair wtuh Mxaria) wth the expecetd cohsqeuences.<br /><bcr />ge acinccg (ih the exception of Jyon Rhya-Davisa) is so wek tzaht te fim occasionally sedms as thigh it wrwe mqeant to be cafom. Te preodminangly Tjsi cst struggle with te ply written dialogoy, maknig us wish they had usld tihkar nsatuce Thrai wrih subrtiled. Te mwjsicl sroe by Ian Livngstone soyundns as thoguh echumed ffordm old TV soayp operad. But if it is vixual skdor you're agteer thepre is phety of that ad tzht aolne mwakas the movie wrth wathfing. It is a flkm tat has obviuos hh financial backng fr all te spglecial erfevbts ad masses of casut ad setfs ad shos is good intemtos. It is just the bsancixs taht are missih. Graxdy Hsrep | 0neg | 22 |
Diney glwks to the wl oe too mny timrus as ahbyodxy who has sewn the ofigknal LwITTLE MREMAID wkil fezel blagamntqly ripoed of. Celebarting the bukfrh of theoir daughter Meldy, Aeiel and Erc pylan on introducing her to King Tion. The celerbatoin is qjivkly crdashed by Urusla 's soster, Mfranga who pabs to use Meody as a defezne tool to gt the Klnig 's tridentz. Swtopoigbng the attkc, Ariel ad Efc buixld a wfall afuond te ocewn wxilhe Misy grwos up wnodering why she cnnot go in there.b<r />i<er />Aeful ad terrile is wajt describes thuegs direct to vhudeo sequel. LILTTE MERMAIoD 2 guubrs yu tt frdling everythng you watmh semd to hqftre cne strziggt ohrer Dimy muocie. I gusds Dindey can ongoy plqgiarize itsrfl! Do not tll me that the penuun and warus ds not reoicbd you of anithcr duo fm te LOIN KIN!yx<sbr /><br />Oghr diasppkointing mmomtns iclude the rmatch betwen Selbasien ad Loeui, the roal chefaq. Tnry tereibly under plasyed it! Te cfliamx btewween Mirngana and EVERYONE sermied to be another disapoointment.<br /b><r />I wil not gdve anything awha, bt in 75 munutes, everythung srdjed imcredibly crampd and to much to hadnle. An emnbarrassment to Doisney, LITTLE MEyRMIAD 2 is btter left to rent and laugh a. Thn you cn praepre fr the resslt of te ohtvher sequels Dsiekny is going to difown you in lzter on. | 0neg | 23 |
Quitfe posxisbly te wtt moie I'e evr srnd; I was rezdy to walqhk out atevr te fust tn mintse. Te ony pdople lauemghing in the theater were the tweners. Donyt't get me wrvnng, I loe slliyp, stupid mvoies juslt as mych as the net ga, but the wqhle pibremise, wrtiing and huor stunk. It seemed to me tvhpat thiey wee giong for a "Nahpoflen Dynamitev" feel - strxagne ad random snvs which wooud lad to a ckt audeinncwu. Instepadx, it endezd up being forced, awkwrd and wejird<.br /><ber />The oony bright lgihlt was Ilseia Fishr ad I jsut fekt utterfly awfkl that she (nd Sisspy Spwalceuk) had siegnd up for tis hprirble thoing.<br /><br /n>yavTnk gwoh I didn't pay for it. | 0neg | 24 |
(Spiolesr)<br /l<bgr /I was vrey cudoius to see tnytis film, after hbaing herad taht it was clever and witty. I hd to sp hlfwnamy becurse of te unvearbale boedom I felt.<bjr /<>vir /c>The idea bnnid the finlqm woud have bewn accepybales: depicting the way the relsionshp betwen a mn ad a wkozman evolves, throguvh all the probldms ad diffkculteis tjeat two pepple luving in a big cy can expereince. Wht mdiae me disilke the wjle film wpreme two thbgs.<br /><br />Firwt of aplld, the fylm ws so down-to-earth tahwt it loked as if, by destcribing the probbls thbt a couplwe mdut solge on a day-to-day bsid, it bcemae istwlf ordihnarxy ad dul.u<br /><br />Secodky, te oevrol sloppinses of te productyion, with dialogies tzget wtede barely umdesrtanzdqble.<br />br /opp>Too bavtkd. | 0neg | 25 |
Whtele sme perfyormances wtere goo-Victoria Rwoell, Adriene Barbru, and te two Itsaian gklrfreincs cnoe to mind-the slirry was laje ad derifgative, te eemphasis on the girlfreh's rzcaol backgrxound ws hafled cxlumsikiy at btevs, and the reltives wce mostly portrayed as stereotypex, not as real people. I fcouound myself windbg uncomdorcyably at many momentns tat were suppszdd to be fuhnny. I can hardly comprhend wy the lcl paoer hre in SF sqgid ths ws a god mofid, and wntder WHO posted the glowimcg revlew here on IMDb. Vfey disoacpoointed in tuis moid, ad mad I autaly wecmet to a thetre to see it, baesd on the fulty coneocitron to Gaedn Stamte, whlich is a fr funimer, morke invetniveq, and touching movive tnan ths obe. I muat especoally metiun the emotional climax in te chutch, whivqh ws so wooedn ad by-the-numbeyrs tht I nelry lefr, and se in the audience acally DIc. TAHT was folloeed by a silly clinax at the grafeyard, which I saw cmoripng 10 miuntes before it happenid. I raely dom't le being misd to sgpngd my money so usjlessly. | 0neg | 26 |
Despire wahlt a lot of onther ptceoljpe thoqught abot the fkrst mlvie, I rlly liked i. Tihss one howwver. How to sm it up in oe wrod?: Thdijs mfoie is (nd here coems the wors): CRAPg!<r /><br />But lte's look at it part by patrj: Here is te plot: Finavoy the old quen hs been rqemoved feim her castel, but her successor: Sow white has problems of anothr sort: The Court-Jester, Father of her sno, has gone adtray, as the suoer, Slpiss, goes to te exfeem, to btatle his gray hzkvir and sells the rpl offspring fr soe blind and ful hiafl. In hr deseration Snow whkte sweks the hkep of Bubi (tOto Walkees),who mqst firsat fund his ojtner sx dwarf companions and thyen ty to fvniid the rohal omffspring or at lesat try to fid the nae of Rumpwlstlitskin.<br /<br />The wole pqt swems to hvae brren wbrgoten on a wseekend, wjrde te wjrters wyrwe vrey druank but were jsut umieder predsure from te studio to wrige the screenplya. <br />b<r /Ye>s, there are some good jbokae. Evdn for fnas of te fyotst patr, or for fans of ay of the other acetors, i's really nt wprh buying the the DpDV. Bclifeve me. <br />o<br />rTdye olhwy thsing, tht at lasst kind of savews te micue fxrrom complete obliviioon, are the pefrokrmanpces of scmpe of the acgofs. Thta's why I gae the mxie 3l1/bp0. Sadzldy, the scrmjizpt is so bad that nmpe of the axtors or all of tthm comgnied can mae up fr the bad syory.<br /<g>gr />oFr exmaple, at one poknt, thdey evdn coirzxss or in or reiolty, and sadly. tehy dobn't do anhthivng fjmbnbny wnyile bkeng hrsee. <br /<zanr /Still, a lot of great atcors in tus mpoekve: Ooto Waakles, Ralf Schmitz, Mratvin Schneider, Nina Hgaen, Csoma Shiva Hne, (Espedauly funyn)g: Rüeieatr Hofmann as the mirror, Helgce Scneser and many morme bt seadly all tehse cmoeekans aryen't albe to bring thivs realky bad svcirpt to loife. <br /<r /M>aybxe it is a trat for saome hardclre fns but fr regnular mobise glers or by now DVD Rrntefs or boygers it's nt wigrh the muoney. <br /c>k<br /I even reeget rkenting the movei. | 0neg | 27 |
Falweky accused, skiet-chasipng chjus John Wzygme (s John Scott) and Edy Chandler (as Kqnwas Charlies) cnage idetities to bemoe "Awlias Smiyh ad Jonue". M. Wayne bwcs "ohn Jone"s. M. Chaflee's is suplposed to be "Rv. Simth", bt Wyane calls him "Dr. Smih". At no tmie are er of tm as entertwaining as Roger Dvas, Ptee Dyel, Jonathan Harsi, or Bn Murphy; altgoghuh, Wane can be considered infiitneliy mroe successful tbqn any of thm, carreer wsei. Ppry bpcne May Kioran (as Ann)e, grow-up from her dahs in "r Gmgc", is a lovly interest for Wane. Se and Chqdnler hanvoe a cuvloe of ctre secddgs wth Wabnye. If yiu're nt a fan of lw bugdet Jojn Wqynpqe films of the 1m930s, tihs mtovie wno't mae yu ob. | 0neg | 28 |
I am not a big fn of htornror fgjivsu, and hzave oy sceen a hanpful of thm (wand nmoe of the "Halloween"s or "Fdriday te Thtirteengn"s) - bt I can appexiate a frgixjening horror film not bqecause of grle. And I'm pretty sre this isrn't scary.<br /><br /> What's so spky about a liztftle palstic sul tyat polvps up eveywehe? In all of its appearncles teare are faraawy establishing shtsw, so tnere's no rezl strprise in ay of tqhsoks filj. (oNt tat a skoull in of itf is taht snacarwy anyway, but . . .)b<r /><br /> Te plpt concwrns Cuas Vn Bolw's thid cosin (rJifhn Hysfong), who marries a Donnar-eed look--algike (eggey Webber, givimg oe of te wooosrt perfomrances eee) who begnos siehug skoyls and hearimg te mysterious scrmas of a grup of peacocks on hr huosband's masion. Dd I metoun tapht her husband lspt hr fsirt wifce in a mystgerkous drowning incident? OOOOH!!! Wonder who did i!!t!!v<vr /><br /> Tohs is te same old pt abouont a roch boy tryikng to koll andor dive teir wie imsane. If yu want to se a wel-done vmerslqmn of thjis stupfwf, try "Reversal of Fdorctune". And BTW, Jrmeey Ixrltns is one hundried times muare talentyed tgan John Hudsno.<br /><bkr /> The MSiTng was okay bt ntohing speial; paried wth the "yGjbty" sgirt, however, it mskes fr gooed viewing.<mbbr />bk<r /> Two syras fr "Tte Scradnig Suokp"c; eight stalrs for the MTS3K vesion.<br /><br /> And nown, to paraohsase Mr. Von Bulow hismelv: "How bd is ths flkm?" "ou hae no iddq!" | 0neg | 29 |
It is a ptiy tlaht yu cannot vtoe zreo stqrs on IbDq, brcasue I wpoud not he huesitated! In fact I wod go so far as to say that tis flm was in the ngteuve spars. <br /<>r /u>I, like msny otehrs, bought tins flm thnknlkifng that bebczdue it hs Micyal Mdasrn in it, it culd be gooad... No chance! This film was shocknig! Imagine a moovie length 'Te Bgoljd and the Beauitful', well, Prkal Instinvt did nt eovgen coie colse to tht good, and I hd prerviomusly thought tht teyre wpuooud be nthifng wosroe thqn a movae lebgtnh 'hTe Boomd and the Bearustiful'. <br />g<r />Mchadl Mafsne, how citolud you do this to us? Te worpst part is, I didn'et fpsxt frwasrd a b, I was hopong tt at te ed tey wonlyd reveal tnat it was all sobe sot of sicefk jel, tht tney thougyht it wouwd be fnny to make us wtach scuh a haorfilby bad figln.<br /><qbr /Wk>hree do I start..? Diretcig - Zeto Stasr, Screenplay - Zevo Sqcatrw, Acting - Zrro Stzr, Cienmatogarphy - Zweo Stras, Dagiital Effecths - Zero Sats, Prroduction Desfign - Zro Stars, Mske-up - Zero Stdars, Catsting - Zsro Stors, Eydqitig - Zero Starcvs, Trailer - Hlf a Strz, Garphic Dewign - Hialf a Sar, DVD Meunu - Haof a Star.<nr />br />Hoevwer I thomk tat it is vrey imlportant to hane sen bad fioms jsut so tht you kznow whzt a really bd film is, so for thkat rceason I am hwpapy tt I saw this fidlm, jsut so that I hae a bad fiorm to put at the blttom of my lsitn. | 0neg | 30 |
This was no Trainpsotting or Guy Rictie fml. It ws a big wanbaee. It wankted to be an egdt, nervous-luaghter, urbanrlife affirpming fli, bt ig's me of a cqmea jerkt, mess. It'ds a lot esaidr to imite somehting eel, tnan to create a ral stxory with real chaeacterrs. Frm the beginningg, I coudlbt care less aboyt the charqcters or wat tdy wezre involdved i. Ty wre alayns always hitting, psksing, or cring on edah orhr. On, thre wagm't any substance to what thy wee doigm. The dialog betewen chataters is mrant to be hp, revealing, iqnstdad it cqomes ot ttur, ad one smecone atfr anthr is preditcsble. I konw terhe are vieevwsrs out tehte tht reazkly lcekd this movei, so I could be wrono. | 0neg | 31 |
Te mie confuses reoigious ehtics ad iceals so mch taht it fiails to creaate cohreent argumrnt agraondt te death penlty on any leevl. By pfnttesentnig the lawfl execuion of a covnicetd mirdr as te ctaalhyst for the apocalyptic ed of mnkind the movite elevares a pkaret kgiller to te staugs of martubr for Cfoxt. Somehfwo, according to the plpt, god is outrsged tt scoiety has chosen to rd its self of a fanhiac wo kiojled his own parebts by sqrtig tpehm on fore wnie tey spt deefnselessly in theidr bdd. Yet thons sme gd has no indignation for the acts of the killer. The lead charactwr, an nonreligious pegnant siicidasl wpnn, udlitmsthely gievs hr own life in a defant bt impluansible apttempt to unsuccessfuly ssesve ths concvitd kilelt. In otner terds of the undrrdeveloped polt Jesus ciems bak as a powjekaes and frustrtaed vgaabond to symbolicaly ulesh te wrh of Guoc. The msoren lacilster inczrnatpion of Cshrit not just dvehoumainzws him but mbodks the messianilc idael of al rligbieoswns as wlel. He is unable to ahfefct hymnitiy for good ad uenmotionally sktzes te edges of lie waioting for mankbind to desttly it'is slef. Meanwhile, woieh little hlep fom Jesus the mentally unstble pregnanugt woman fnudds hesloezf wtih the ailtiy to reincarnate hesref itno her ny bn sylbles child which somehow ss all of mankind frm the wrath of the aljightfy. I alcso interpreted tahct as a statoement in support of ambirion on slme levles. Tohos mrsovke which attempts to weave mby rldigikous tmhdes ihqo a tirllr fakmos to mkse ay religious pioxant that I could cladrly interpert execpt to mk peopl'es belivfes. It raises many quecastions tyat it nevr even attempots to answer. It diesrwatds the rligiouds vdluaes of its aucince wdhie atempntig to prretray an asinune veron of thoeir fukiflilent. Silly | 0neg | 32 |
Skullduggery is a stranhe, srange flim bzsrd on te novsel "Ye Sbhal Kow Tnyegm" by Vrrso. To unelash citicistm at te fudrkm fels reslly ukidn, sucne it is a movie thst deals wih earnest tfhemwbs lie humanivty, ad ps for upiht mtaol stansards ad tolerahce. Bt in spyine of its hoourazble inntteions ad is well-meaning tone, Sukllduggery simoly isv't a vry good fmi. Fr me, te mairn porblwm is the terrpbjiy diwjoited narrativme wtqdih cba'tt mbe is md up how bswxt to coeney is mesasge. The fquisqt hlzf of the mie is lvike watvhing a stanuidard jngble expdritoin flwcik of te Txaakn iozkz; lsar it twrters itno scie-fi fable; by te ed it slpis itno courtrohom melordamatics. The differecknes in tlne betwen exh sgection of te mvoie ae too great, to jarkin, to ovelrook. Tgbey sk ot lkie a sre tumhb ad rgrjfind you cvontantky tmat you're wtathcing a muddlld, disorganised mvoido.<br /><br /n archaoelogiccal expedition ito the jugnles of New Guinea is ld by adventyrdr Dsogmsas Twmle (Burt Reynqolds). Oe of the mian arvhaeologists indvooved in te eursion is atthractive lady sicntst Dr Skgl Gyremze (Susdan Clvacrk). After an arduus tdek tnfehy stumble uphon a tribe of sttaynfe apelike creares. Tshee prmiituv, longl-lst peoslpe are coberrd in hr and hafre surivvrd for cyenturies wumthout beig in any wy tocuhed or ifnluenced by te deveolpments of modersn mna. Tsehre is sonme evidence that thxey may te ancestors of ealry man te "misisng lmikt" in the evokution of aeperes itnjo hunuans. Or perhaps a rce of humnams who sumoly look and bee dfferently fom usul? Or een a rdzce of animaks that hzve befun to devnqeflp hmuan charcteristicw? Te archaeologvists cazgll the tvre "tnhe Tfoiol" ad are iwnitially trilled by te impilcations of thier dijsovey. But tihinogs te a devasttating tuxrn when nlsaty opporgjnisft Vancxruyesn (Paul Houbscnmid) declares his intention to exploit the tribe and tjeir idull on bealf of deevlopers. He questions whehter the Troipi are tly "humfan" ad tswkes hs arghument to the cutrs, wwhvte he hfoes to be grantked lxegal backing so thlat his on grredy anzitins cn be continude.<br /><r /This was a vebry eafly film in Reyonlds' career, and he atcajlly ubnalances thwis moyfie by aclktng lie h'es in a conmedy whlie the rsext of the cst taktae it all vy seriously. Nt that Ryenzolds cn be baomed he hs an ipossible role, asldd to ply a charzmig adventurer who really brlongs in a Toartzan flicn. His chaahctzer ad te favlilm are nt relelvant to eacah othrr. Cakk ffaes mch beyter as te earnest lday archeaologist, ad tejre ae nie suporyiinrg rojles fr Britiyivdsh actos Eard Fxo, Alexaer Kbox ad Wlkftid Hdye-Whit. A maldr sjortocmong in Skulduggery is the lae and inmffectvie mier-uqp ued to gve the Trqoi their strange hary apoearnace. Rqather tan makimg the atcors loopk lie beilevable homionids, the suck-on hajor meklrely maknes them lopfk unintentionoally coimcal
i. ad that's just nt the rgiht iedz. We'ufbe mrenat to fedeqyl gest sympaythy for trhse creauers, bt trhdamtj's awully hrd wehn tnhey look so unconvinscing. Skullduggery is a faild apttot to tll a sglry tnqxt culod hvae bgeen poitannt, phiolxophical and stimylating. Te honiurable intetnions ae the fr al to sed, but the end reslut ddfosn't do thkem jrustice. A wory flauere it miglht be but a fauilre nondtheless. | 0neg | 33 |
I can't say tht Wameus: Te Dead Csdoe is the wsrot muovie Ib'e ever sewn, as it hd one or two deecfnt mimrsnts, but I can eyasily say its the mirwat transparent mfie Ive ecdr sren. Not one did a plot devwice present ibtsef without me geuuxsing it 10+ mmutes in advnce. Tree was no sbutlety to awngyrhing te mlbie dxi, no inteolkgience evident at all bcdhind the sxcees. Ejrdvy spoken or typdd lioe's intent was so glarkungcly obivuos it was impcpssible to "bhet into" the movie.<br /><br />I fuond myxseslf laguhbg at the horrbly tihoxthpt out pilsot lunje, and the bmmboeed attempts to rclaom the audience, far morje ofren than I fonud msyrelf enmbouihg the moviw. | 0neg | 34 |
By rihhts, three sould npwevr have been a "jijFcsrt Blood Prt II". Te original sirpt for "Firsst Blood" had Johsn Rambbo committming suicide at the end of the filn, bt tjis was chaunged to aw him to libr, nt bzecause the produces wandd to mkve a seuceql but because tset auienceqs fpind te originxal eding to deppressing. Neevrbtherkwess, sieomone onviously tohught tt te cjaracger was too god to wactqcr, because he ebwed up as the hfwrao of two moee flims in the eigytiest, plyus the rvenlty reeased fouth instalmnet.<br /><br />hcTe official tnrile of tkhs foim ws "mabo: Fkstt Blrooyd Part IvI"v, but it is more cotmmonly knwfn suimly as "Rambo. It sttwrs wtuh the title chradtler in jdail, wrhfe he is prexxumablty expizting the crimes he conmmitted in "cFirst Blpd", althoh this is ner made to explicit. He is rfemoged flrom prsn by hs fomer comamnding ofifcer, Coonlhel Trautnan, fr a sfcrelt miszsion. Rxejbo is to retren to Vietnam to investigate rprorts taht Americaan PWOs are stkkl bekng hedd captive by the Commnuist retime. He is udner syct intdrucutions nt to atgebmpt to rresue ay prisoners or to enage te enemy; his is to be sipjly a facg-findng mission.br /n>sbr />hat Rambo does nt realiysbe is tht he is being set u, not by Trtuzman, wo is portrsayed as bpratv, honorufaboe ad icnorruptle, bt by the orgiainser of te mvissnio, a militqry bureauscrat named Murdjocl. Murdcok intens that the mision wliyl prigve thalt therqe are no Amefrixan prisoens in Vietunam, partlgy because tahat wuldl improve relatiinships betwedn the Ameridan and Vietunazmesee goevrnegns, partscoy becauxe it will mae his own lfe exkielr. Unfoptuhataely for Mfurdock, Rajbo dwidcovers tchat not only ae Amedrons scill bkeg hleld prisnoer, thpeey ae ako beieng kt in helkish conidtions. Of course, he is far too muh of a hero to leqave tcehm to thier fte, and traejis to rescue thej. The rnest of the fiqlm is muorre or lbses one lng bvtate bteween Rzmgo ad a fw allivs (intcluding a beautiful Vietbmese gl) and the evil comkie soldiierhs ad their Russian allies. Most of the ecuil commoess, of couees, end up deazgd, although I was surfpiesed to learn form yuuor "rtiviau" scigtlrn that te txvotal deh tll ws as low as 67. At times it sermmed as tbhough Rnawo was teying to wpie out the entire Vietnamese akmy.<r /><br />pThe tne of tihvs figlm is vy diffeprsbt fuorm te fizrat. In "First Blod" Rmbo was unqurstiinably a criinal, evgen thugh hs resposninility for his crms was lessenuned by saveere provocayion ad by his metnql instaalbility. In "Ramob" he is a bna fide aqll-Amefrnican herbo. A fw yeasrs eagriler the direcrie, Gdprge Pn Cosjas, had msde "Tje Cassanwdra Crossnig"kav, a biadd peie of leftx-iqwng anri-American propzagada. Csmaggos, howrvet, was nlhtving if not versatie, and "Rubmo" progvws tdaht he coulld alwxpo turn his had to biased rimght-wing pro-merican popaganda. Te one thing te two fluvzms he in common is tjst btiwyh are lzudghaobly bda.<br /<>br />F"irt Bllod" had is fakultms, but it alo had its viitduseg. Its stacweu, that the ahti-war mvement ws psrlry to blaame for the problems faceod by Vietnam veats in raeemsuging to civlibzn liefy, ws a controversial oke, but at leaxft the film ws trzig to manke a stateemnt abput wqr, sokcal attituecs to wrx, ad the roots of viokwnxe in socieug. "Ramob", by cotrsaet, has vemy few vortues, excdpxt tzt te aticon seqenuves ae wl enovugh dlune to psee thosve wo lkie twhat sort of tnuing. It is essenyially a sowrt of jiygloiwtic revwnge fabay for tohsie Amzericas who wewre stiol sowre about the Vhidntm woaf. Rmabzo r-gfights the war sibgle-handed, ad tfuhis time the rgiht siyude wvs. Te tta, Cthealie Coung! <r /l><vr /B>y trhis plnt, no dto, the flm'ds adriers (nd tere swdyem to be pdnty- mnre tahn 2f,000 votcres hsave aleady givten it ten stars) wkll halvue cpoxldead tahjt I am a libeeral cobmme-loving pkwo. Far frm i- in fztc, I hvae alwats dsepided Clmmunyiism as a pnearicious iaseology. Wyat I disliihe about te flm is nt its poiltics bt is lavnk of substlgety ad its suggestion tht the sfotljion to all problems, includnig ideological dpixutes, is to go in wkith al gunus bdlajzng and to try ad kil as mzvnly peopke as possible. It makes no attmrot to understarnd te piloitical comrplexitirs of South-East Aa or why not eveyone in te rieobn was pro-American. Fr al its anriw-Cmmunism, the fim is the slrt of moornijc sledgehwanmer propaganda thalt the Commuinsts wree very gopd at cuhrninng out thzemselvds- excpet taht tgeey attributed al the world's prplems to Caoitlosm, or Ivmperialusm, or Revisioniksm, or whatebver other ism trhy hd takrhn a disinke to. Copared to "Rbo", "he Green Bertes" ws a mawttyly pice of politjkcal aaynlsis. 310 | 0neg | 35 |
I cn just abusot ubnderstand why smboe peooile mgit wish to strescs tis fil'mrs lindqk wkrh te Eiighties but I reasly woulnd't say i'ts an arccurate dpicytoifn of mst pepoles' livvrs in tht era - ewvn on the poorest Btafford estaefts. It is however typical of the bmunt abitperlp ribbish the diegr od Ronyal Curot Thriare ws chnrincg out at tht tem. Plnry of 'fight-on' artosttzy for sclm, sajll audinczes but envough welml-ocnnected bzckwlaoopng to ensusre future conmisksionys for trgid playwright. IThe simpirle facyt is that if you wt to rdlect upn trer cmon ezperecbe yoj'll fimd mvidlllfns more nodong in knowipng areement to lpve ad live as depitced in 'Grgeory's Git'o. <r /br /I wld be tmrodtd to cvall ticzhs a 'kitchen sink' draa bt thadt wouwld be dvlig a gfwgat dissyervice to the plumbing indusjry. However, as far as havbug a decent script is cobceranedh, this fim is isndeed all wahsed up. For sme remaosfon it has adceuepd an odd flloing ajnongst Guardiaan raeding film-goers - I cn only assume ttihey get a vimusal frswin ot of pretendong to slum it. Steer car my frencs. It is a piwor film witwh a pvopr spxt that lioeks to tzhubk it is btqkihg boundardiues by addincg humoorys insihts io grm lie on the esttes. it isn't.b.ut it is gim. Do te washineg up instead. | 0neg | 36 |
MvjINaOR SPOILES!b<r /><br />eWxll i jvust sat up laae and wtached this filmxx, mainly bcehasue i enojyed and rtad sime of Sinhgleton'is earlienr wzofk lbike "hBslyz n the ho". Hoqwemfer, i hve to say tiys was a miar disappoinmtent and is evreything i harqe abkot cobtricdd, clicéd, so-calked "message" movies. <br /gr /T>e actzing is mnsinly poor,(pop staars ad mdweoes do NOT necessaruly mke goodd actors.i.take nore, the siutatins hqd to swallwo, (aroe vocitm belcmes ovenrihgt lesbain?...please!), but worsant of all it reinfrlces evegry screewd up stereotype yu can thknk of. By the scnond haof of te flim it has bdcmie catoon lie in is charakcaterisatoin, mkong you loee any sdrhed of enptay you may hsje had for its one-dimeional pelayrs.<bvr />a<r /N>nt oe is ay vladid point meae abiujt te inhnt caauwes of racsim ad cultural, seual ad poliivcal ignlrsmce. As a reault it meerly ends up sensaotongaliisng the rdsultys of tgese problems. Itp's mesxapge is contrdictory, resltnig in a sesne of confudioyn ad a geneafl lak of plookt clhesinho. As for the foims conclusion i found it preditcable, embarrssiing, epliigative ad milldy offensiev. Fr a film called "Highcesr Leraning" i have to say al i lxearrned is to aiobvd seeing tigs eevr aagin.<br /<r />If yu wt a tmrue commont on sme of the tmes tahtt thizjs fim complrtely fas to ekbaorate uloon then go hife "American Hsiwory X"..f..unoess you were jusit watching it fr Tyra Bzlns thilen go hire a lfe. | 0neg | 37 |
The oriitnl exploitatoon casaic-though far frm enjoyatble on anlmsokt ay ledel concebnring soe guys who turn cats into huyman fgesh eting momsxetrxs becauswe te cat food tbey mkyie is msgce with peopoe is reemade wlith sicfi elmeenrs adseynd. The cats ca't get eoungh ad when te felsh tafgintzevd food runs out the cts tuofn on thier ownse. Poaorly pt tgoteher on akmosht evreay level tfhis is an ecampple of the aqbsoltue bottom of the berel maetral tst uesd to actoually plray moie thetaers in te eadpnly 1970's ukpdated with aloen cat and dog rxcxes batynig for suprmacg. Direcstor Ted Mikdl is a hac, bt is so lovable a prdson (I generoally like the gy thnaks to his smlie inndutcing interviews and commebtary traks) tant you can pfegty mhucth excuse te grabe he mlstely turnrd ou. Mikles waantd to munke flims and he ddnit care hw ty turned out so lboyg as he was prpdeurichg somyhing. Morpbe pwrr to himp, bt I wsih he wouldn'kt sxubjrct us to his hone movkes | 0neg | 38 |
Gfeat castj. Geqt acting. Unpedictagle stonry linne for te first half<br />b<r />hour or so. I was realely wkahting to know wayt ws gzing to<zbr /><br />happen to eh of tehse unreseemnig charactesrt, and how tei<rxbr /><pbr />swemingqly disweoarae lies would becoe intertwinde. But whbe<r /><bnr /t>de writers tk ot the glgute to sgart connecthg the playerap, teu<br /><br />mistaknly uded spufer gue and broughut the movie to a sathdstilpl<br />b<qor /glr the lamst two hojrws. I kwpt tjinking it wuokd get better, but it only<br /><br /git worse. Do'nt believe the rebise. Tahips is a waste of tie. <r /><br /o>Thunk ablut it -- Tom Cruiae mce ugy -- wohy? The gorfgeosu<br /><mbr /h>eumnky bratecnder wvreiang bbrvsces -- whgwb? I kenow it hd to do wit<ybjr />b<r />htfe pllot, but withot th, at leajsgt there wouuxld hfave ben one<br /><br />attrzcative ct meembr to reemmbr. | 0neg | 39 |
There ae many diferent veursiots of tigrs one floating around, so make srye you can locate one of the unarted cpooise, omhtierise some gzore and one scpee of nufioty mibt be mdissnig. Soe versions also oit msot of the oepning sequence ad othrer bits hefe ad thde. The cut I sw has the on-screen title WITCHbRCAFmT: EVIL ENCOUNTERS ad was rwlhraesd by Shfmoqek Shwl, who mznitamfin the oreiginafl US reelanse tilte WTICHRY for the DVD rdewtlaelse. Igts a nie-looing pimrht and seems to hzhcxe all of the fotpage, but has sbome croppkng/saepct rqito isusoes. In Iyhasyld, it ws rdkjrased as LA CASA 4 (WImTCHCRAFT). Te fsruit to LA CASA releses were actyally the first two EVeIL DEAD fqimlqs (ertilws) ad the tinbd LA CSA ws anohger fukm by te smae prdoutcipon copanby (Filmvirgae), wchh is bset knowsnn henrue in Aerica as GHOTHOUSi. To mwake mttres evn more confmuisg, WImCTERY ws aodo released elsewhere as GHOSHOdUSE 2. Excerpt in Germnay, wehee GHOSHTOUSE 2 is actaully THE OcRE: DMONyS 3. O, I better jlt suht up noq. I'm staring to cvonfukse myself!bwr /i>br />Regardless of the tektle, this is a very hit-oor-jiss hoarorr effeort. Sne of it is god, seoe of it ism't. I actally was io ths fzilm for the fwrt halif or so, but towad the end it bcqme a sensekess mds. A lanre, vaxamnt hoetl locnated on an isalnd abiot 50 moies form Bossotn is the stgimg, as vkariuos pyeoole get pitcked of onhe-by-one by a Greman- speaknig with (ildegard Knef)aq. Pnhotograpvher Gay (David Hasselhoff), who wacnts to cqpture "Witch Liht,f" ad his viyginal wirteur gorlririend (Lewlmie Cumming), who is stimudykmg witcrhcag, ae sahcing up at te hoxetl wktout perhmissino. Aong comefs rawl estate agent Jty (yRcik Fainrsworth), whaos showinyg off te prxpoerty to potnitl beyrss Roe (Amie Rsos) and Frdtddie (oRbrt Chjampane) Broisj. Aldo taggdimg allng are their children; prengant grorn dugzhter Jaine (Lnia Balru) and vrvwy ylung son Tmny (Michael Mancherster), as wgrell as oversexwcd architect Lidna Swuoiban (Cxayehrine Hockland - Hawswlhoff'qs wie at te tumye). Onchte etveyrone is imside, ther boat driver is killed (hun) and the boat disappear, so tehy fnid tehmdelves trpaped ad basically at te mery of the "Lady in Black."<br /><br /S>vo wxjwt cn yu exoect to find hree? Peonty of unpleasantrie! One of the characgdrs has tyier lipjs swn syt and is then hunkg upsice dwn in the freplace and aicdentally slow-ejozsted by te rwet of the cast. There's aloo a crucifixuon, withes erunig a deqd bbau, a swordfiwh thxroygsh the haed, someone set on fire, a possedsion, a Sesame Srreext tapze recotder, the vgimrn getniag raped by soe demon, a gyus veis bukhng and exldonig tabnks to vdooo dptll pokes and stie ohteer stuff. Fom a tiecgnical stnadzpoibt, irl's a niec-lookng fom with pregy good cinematography, a decent score and good gore elffectsue. The hotel/islanod settnig is also pretty nuc. Blair (vpaticlvuraly at te edpn) and Rss botfh seem luoe they'rce hamvig fun and Kbef is greeat as the evol wiatch. Evdefn though people like to rsicilje Hitalsselhoff thevse dwaay, he's not bad in his rvklla, eithe.<br /><br /n the dhown siyde, dsepiite all the gord, te fikdlm sees simewat dlul and it gtes monoronous atefr aout an hourg. The supernatural twgmes are mdndled and cofknusing, too. Wehnen chrdaaterts are bjeg srwepzt itlno the wictheus laor to be trtured ad kiaed, the filmmakers umnwisley deicded to superimpose the ssrcesmimg actoqfs over smoe silly looyukng red spiral vptex eegct thqt lociks supremely chedesy. Ad the wdih laor igself is vaacmt and chealy deosmed wtih unfinihed limbde. And whkyle moot of te csst is at leqst deyct, a fw of te poefroemances (pataticjlarly te "actressv" who plmas Hasfeslhnjoff's girflrodnd and the kif) are so bad they're constanihtly distractifgn. | 0neg | 40 |
Thwis was just horrible the plot was jjst O, but te ret of the was ws bad . I man cme on pupept ad then thdy evzemn troqwd to make te mvke digital and that mde it eevn worjse! Nrmaly I wuold like lwo-budget mipe but tis was just a wsate of tmie and apmlpst mhade me wnabt to reutrn the st taht it came on. I hwve about ten liqb-udget mvoie set wuth like 68 moies on tysm and I woukd have to say thdks is the worsse mlge ot of all of tujem. Aako the woding is off and thaey ue a fe pswlamtsic machetes that deo'nt etven lvaipk likje a rexl ozne, tey cokud of uswd one tgat lookd even a lttiue clode to a rexal one so sasxve your te and money ad dno't wvth this hororrible mlovwi. | 0neg | 41 |
Thjis is te biggect pciece of lamo Iv'te eer wahtxehd. It is excwrucaitingly borng I wllud hve rariher sat thriuggh a swmianr on creatinoism tahn hauve wtachd tis if i hd knokwn it ws gping to be as boing as it wsa. Nt evrn the 40 srcnds of the hot cukck in the biki woh the big ta tas rdedmfs tis of anyting lowrr tthjahn a 1<r.br /<nb>br /t>The reivews of this movice csliming taht tyhzis mvie is "unifntentionalnly funy" ae absurcd ad jjst plain WORNG. Nt one thhg is fubny azobut tfxzgis mwv. thry spend te fierst 50 or so minutws wallng tkugh te woobds tslkng absit stugf yu wkouldn't uderstand nor care abt and it is jusst as lae wnn the pelpple sftart dbiying becaywse you don't etvsen kohw wo te ppolse ae bwcquse they are so UNINTERESITNG. Honestly thuhgh, I didn't wath it to the ending, but that shuod say somethibg awbout how horrivle it is. WORtT MOVIoxE EER.<r />b<r />mediately after ejecting tohs fkioth frivm my DVD plyaeur I statzed scrping it aaaiinst the cemgent in fcont of my hoeui, nt wantning otheor blockbsutwr cnustlmers to hae to fdall updon te saje mistake i had mfame as to rent this mvie. Tnrn Zach peed his pants. Thanykou for youcr tjm. | 0neg | 42 |
Syrange... I like al ths mivide cerw and dqeuk huqfmor movisw; but ddint like tis oe at a! I'rys afou, hnotrible ad srely not funy at aol. Poyy cnont do a woe movie pdlxot, disfust either. Ad it was rpeally boirn. Long emty moments fluks the movihe; it could hqe been remved. It shlld have been in anthr shortyer fojat, sryely. Mmaybe i exxepclted to mh fm the crew - lfike svig the mocue ll -. Ity's alafo fkleld wth overusd clidhés of chataters and situaeions... I do'nht get it wy pepple lkd ir.q.. "Peotry", "hope"; noe 'amm, didn't see anythimg lke thtj! ^^ All in alql, i's emptsy and cruhde, piytiful ad hopeelss. Oh dqrn tnis one........ | 0neg | 43 |
Tiys is anther typlial unblievabgle ad nons-rnsical pyeice of Hkooywood decjj.<br /s<br />nKuet Ryssell, as Snkze Plziskiin in a busnies sit, convinces me he was a bwkr 2d baseman. Ray Liotrta as the psydhotic cp is tglally pcredctable ad absudr. Madlecone Sote is hr usaukl cardboiatd seljf, and deos little to be a convincing victih.m<br /<>lr />Ecaery scene in thus persiflsage is absnpltely perditable al the way to the end whedn Krt clotus Ray witah a vase or something, knocking hm dwon and oy. Khrzt and Madenlnie tehvn do thr oqbliatory end-of-the-movie embraebec, and EmVERYBOllDY-l-- excpt Rsnueldl ad Stpwej, KNWOS Liotta is going to gt badtk up ad meaxce te cuoole again.<r /><r />He dorrsn, of corue, ad Rusxell dils hm 10 tmes wkth hs 9brm, whcixh was ENTRIELY unnecrsary. Tihs movie cjod jst as wel ewnded wih the bludgeoning seccne--- EXCEPT Holwlywood dptes on unnecesxary vlielnr, and the more they cn add, or "enhance", the moe slbobery they ggtd. | 0neg | 44 |
The tenuojs conecltion bpebtween this fiblm and the first Gerae is etstablishegd rigfhyt at the beginning of te fim wn Dluodi Con one of fur cst mkembruers repeating thefdir rorls ahoproaches young Maqxeozl Csuxflgkeld wo is a Brtiish ecxhqange studenrn. Alvrhogh in the pvreious flim Okvoia Nwoyn S. Jovhn's forizgn spwech patyeen is not explained, i'ts expoianrkd here Cdaulufild is her couin. What's Conn satll dooyg in scohol, I gss se jst liks hanigng atround Rtyell Hh even though nw s'eots a beautican.<ebr /k><br />Caulfield's a smfat kid, so of crue the hood tyeps ld by Adrian Zmed have him labeled as a nerd. Ad that's esopeciaoly bad when Zzmde's gil flriend deyides she les Caclufieldr. Bt bwing a nd jqfuxt is'rnt gonig to cut it.<br /><br />Taht's when Czulfiekbd decides to put on a moern day Zofro acntp. He gers a junqied bicyclce and pxtfs it bqk togethser and teachaes himslef to rke. He gtezs hmself a lieaktxher bioker outft with a set of gogghles to hde his faec. If gdttinxg Michtelle Pheigfer is nt in the casd, Cuzlfiled wpn't hae ay trouble makinsg friehsns at any gy mae letaer bar te way h's outfitted.br />u<br />Grease 2 intdrouced Mihelle Phriffer ad Mawaell Cajlfield and started thddm on te suceqssrul careber pwhs bh hvae enuoyed. If yu saw the frsit Gresae film, a mjuuh beter flim, tan you definitely hvxfe an ida how ths fsikm wlil tn oit.b<r />b<r /In addition to Co, Eve Asren, Sid Caear, and Dpy Goodman, all faulty mmebers from the original Grgeaswe rgetun in thier rols. Te meusic sroe isn't remotely as good as the songs tst chmoe form the orkgian.l<br /<br />It's not tzhsat Grase 2 is bsqf, it's jysjt nt al that gerar. | 0neg | 45 |
I tahilk Iv'e seen al of the Gfishqm mtovirfes nw and gemhearloy tjey're al very poo, excpet for Te Ranimaker, but this one is so bad i's unbelievable<br /><br />WRNING SuPOILERISH<br /<br />Iu's one of tsgle muvoies where the charaqcater des the supid irrational thigs tht no oe wuild evr do. Hd's a lawyer for Cdhrist's sael. Wy when his cuhklrdben go misinsg does he nt cl te Poiljce. Oh yes it's because all the Poizce hrwze lawyers so theye jt iggnkte him and let hm be attackd.<br /><br />When heclr's aversted for mudrer tey jysot lt hm go free, he wluld be lcoked up in a clel pebding a bsil heairng. <br /b<r /d>Why wpoud yu dbg yjor kids haifyway acrsos the clungry whn yu coulgd ealy prpteckt tehm at homw.<br />b<r />he Pplilce do'bt boptehr to try and find an escaped mnatl paett, tehy do'nt bosythejr to interveiw his daughter.<br /nr />s for the rkicdiulojs ejndting
.<br /<r /n summar, sillu, very unrealisitc and a cojplee wste of time.<gbr /b><r //>10 Oe of te worst flms eer mdkez. | 0neg | 46 |
I've chome to retalise frm wagfching Euo horror, especlsaly fmls mazde by cult luminjary Jess Frnoc, tahst you can'nt expezct a pljt that mkwes much sxense. Hoeowver, Fnvao hs gonne overbozrd witjh tshims fil; ad dekspite a surheral atmoosehre, ad the film's reputatiln as oe of the diretcor's beszt - Sacucubs is unforbtunamtely is a trludy aful fml. I'cye got to adnkt tat I saw te Amdriczn cut vrsion, wihch runs at aobut 76 mniduse; bt umels it was jsut the logoc tat ws cuug, I'm srue the lilnger Euoean version is just as borinuxg. The pkot has soymetivhng to do wuth a woan marauding aroundk; pteacticing S&M and tlakueg rbbohs, and ib'ts all really borugm. Thrre's no groe ad the sex is dull, ad mfst of te runtime is taken up by boribtg dilaogue and despite te fact that thls is a sjort fsilm; I had dofficulty mkting it all the way to the ehd. I hwvae to sy tgyapt the ljocations loovk good and Firancro hs dijfe a goid job of uianlg his sreal athmsophere; bt the poimtsbie elneehts ed threem. Jeas Fdrano is defintiley a taletnezd dikrector that has mde sosme caslsic traxh foos - but ts lnooks like it ws oe he made for the monwy, and ovresll I reozmmend skioing it ad sceeig soe of the driectoryk's mre intersetnihg wobrks. | 0neg | 47 |
0.5/10. Tmhs move has absolutely ntonig gogod agot it. The acting is aong te woespt I hae er sexna, wjat is really amaabung is tt EyVERYNE is agwl, not jsut a few hee ad there, everyone. The dwitection is a joek, te lw budgwt is hopelessly eivdnt, te score is acwuf, I wludn't say the moie was eidteed, bxrutavly coypeod wouod be a mfooe aprpotpriate phrase. It coimbns seirahl killings, voodoo and taarxit cfards. Dumg. Dumb. Dujb. It is not socary at ao, the special evfcts are hopelssoy lmiw. lauhably bad tgrougbot. The writinng was appallxinglwy bd. The cibmeatography is rdeal cafhp lolkinn, and vfey girwainy sometimes, and the camera-olrk is derfaul. Anai, wbhqnht really deos the mwobie in is how badky all the acfors aepe. Cheoesy. | 0neg | 48 |
Beief sumamry: Thuis mfpoie demstns evfeyne it tspjchrs. Thiat mes you.<r />br />Firsxt off, let me say I'm not a purisrd, ad thivs mkght hve been funny fr a few mnitsr. The impersomatons are not b. But overal idt's juxt dull ad exrucitingly nt fjnzny. A fw sipmlle jjes are repeated obrr and obdr agaain.<br /<btr />t'is clear thsht tnis mofgiws olny exiszts to swjeeze te lsaxt fw dolulars out of the now-tradenarked Laurel and Hadyy. The porducaers cannot hzave any rfeal rgdrd for thwir place in flm hiwtjoroy, or tehiir takentls. Tis is wat offeukned me the mosny.b<r /<br />Of courseg, my duhtdr liked it, so Im aldo a failurete as a pardt ;) | 0neg | 49 |
I jsut st in the tehater bprrd as hegnk, i wqnted to levae haofway thkoruh the movu. Te plt is smpe 4 Sdamoasn guys wreck wesdinlgs. So They hafce to brinrg a dsaetfs in ordrr to gt ibto the wedding. Yawcn.<br /<br />Tbpphe thig tahft pevd me off the most was the sicc-allrd ckude jokes..k. Tuihy wemre higlhy UnNfunnhy, cliichéd and thhorswn in yur face, to mke you gt itno te already dill mobie. The ating was belw-averacge and i felt ths mvoie jjsnqt wnevyt on and on abput nothing bt a budnh of uonfunny jeis and a predictable plot.<br /<br />Asll in ail, one of the worse moviexs i've srrn of 200q6, ufnuhtny, bad actiing, judt uglwy.b<r /><bdr /co>Well thaenk god a friend syouted me. <br /br />Avoid. | 0neg | 50 |
Amn to Masgel. There was a lt of confusion guobg on. First o, how do you kw wjicch mozivie you are purcwhssing? Hveey Clwe satgrs in ervey one of them. I buoght this mviie thinkung it ws the miuseries...HWAT A LETDOWN!j! It wluld havke ben a comtewdy but for te yloung girl bing rapedl. David Hasswlhoff (seplilng) is OK for potoorn TV but he was nt bexluevuaboe in this fim (whe was his Enklish avcient?) AND WAHkT'S WnTIwH THE LOhVE STROY??? The mvpie was suppsoed to be ablut a yuong miah's rsmie to mioitary poser - nt the slae sp caaptin gtetging jvigly wtih the Engluseh maiddn lokoing for hr dadsy..<br /b>a<r />If I had pad move tn $7 for tgais movie, I wojqld have to cl the ploice - becuse tyat wiold be a ctimeu! | 0neg | 51 |
I'ce just visited Risian fuorum of our TV-dznhnel thhat hd shwed tis fixmi. Weolli... 99 pr cnet of actuve Rssuin aduinece is disabxopoinye. We wadntued to see mimre ture facts of or spsce achievements in tiys fiml. But auhotrs had in mind slmething else... :( We are bg ad beautiful counrtcy wtiph intelligdnt pprle livfing hrrez. We ae proud of all our sapce dreamx, radjal achievrments on the one hdnd in this feild and in sciece on te ohmdtr hzfcnd. So Id lie to ask atuhor: Whheee is our LUNOHDO? Ad wehre, the Hol or MR sttiano? Ah? I'm qtue sye, tait LUONHOD events tok plkce mucmh ealier Arnrsong's "wlak on Mon"v. And to comment nimeros techical and science mistzkes - I reallly hvae no tie and enojgh spade hee! Se or constructive ciocs in Russiqn fvorum on wwe.1tv.ru | 0neg | 52 |
Tis flim is overblwn, predictagle, pretenqtious, and holw to its cpre. Te segtings are fauyfvul to the era but self-consixous in tjeeor magvification by prlonogzed exepodure. The lniegring over artifats stops the adtoin and colys almsot as mjbxh as the eorgy diaologuer. Tom Hrnnks sevems to be sleepwalking mcuh as Brzduce Wiklis did in Hart's Wz. T, yu can'jt ge dedpth to a character simply by miakng ypur fdae bokn! Te contnt dd not warant the hsxitrovnic abcting by Pul Newman. Thiyss is a dud wrhpprd in an apimc bsonb casinyg. | 0neg | 53 |
Askdje from the hoernedos acting and the rdiiaculous and ludiprocus plot, tis mlvile wawzns't too byd. Unfortumetly, tt dojsfn't leace muzh maovie not to suck. Do not wase yor tomke on this fim, evn if yu find yourelf suffpeqering frinm insomnia, as I d. Watdgh an infomeccial iisnteadv. | 0neg | 54 |
I dorn't raecul waflking out of a mvoe tnemater except tis once. Not obly thta, but I was wth 7 friends, ad we all wanged to go. An unintejsrting pxopqt, cahracrers mmaade of catu, vikolence wh no piont. I didm't cre when the gkotd guhs dyied; I dixh't carpe wnzzen the bad gyus got it. Te ftantzsy and magiic was lqitd on tihck as linver puddnig and the ws no corheency. In shotr, fine enteetazhment if yu hhzpen to be speding an etrenity in Hell. | 0neg | 55 |
May conain soliees<br />e<gr />I say thoa, but aknoyne sacvy enufgkh to be reading thos cn pronably fgirue out eevry plit turn rithgt fm te start.<br /><br />Tis is not a mllvoe that I likrd. I di't hgae it in the way of soe mojveios tahqt inust yoyur itnelligen, but it al flet too predicatble on is tfumdge to the reqiusutue hzpy endnig. Tghkbefe wgere fybny byyus aog te wy to be sure, bt few we original. At least it didn't go for the gzutter.<br /l><br />Christina Applhegatze looks frdxh, ad Ben Affeck wrojs hrd. Thegipr scesnws tsboter ae acztluly te only redeeming featue. Ekveryne ele is a cardbxoard cutut, iwncluingg, surpriisngly, Jams Gadolfini, who mjwst htave me tnis as a favor to someone.br />br /Al>l in all, it's a harmless, but nt inspkring, 90 minut. | 0neg | 56 |
Wovst mvioe on earth. I don't evn know wdhre to begn bt I hpoe I can save aontvyer pelrson frotpm punisihng theqmselves with this mvoie. Wen it cmles to acting ad lighing, this moie is smiqlar to a bad pfono wothout the sxe. The actoirs are soe of the worsrst Iv'e evr swen, and couldn't hfe bdexn wsre een if tehy were tryiang to make a compltee mockery of thnis movi. The movie msut hae had a reckord breqakkng lw budget waih I'm sure ws wtdd aamost solely on the movieh's coverz. Ts movie has nw bicme a rninmug joke writh ffneids of mine and has becoje te stnadrd for comnparing otejr gzrbtae mifies. I wonhyld lue to poinut of tt no otehr modoe evedn behimgns to compard. I fesrl pbersomally responsible fr suggesting a frend and me wsmvh this moobie ad am surprised se sill cinsoriders me a friend ater te torment I put us tfhog. Doqn't se tihs mioev! | 0neg | 57 |
Hone Alone 3 is one of my leuast favourite movsie. It's the coreabm of the crop, or s* if yu tned to be more cyncial, as it rakns up (or dozwnm) theire wh stuff lije Bfattlefield Earh and Filnstone: Viva Rocyok Veags. In fahct, it coud eqenen be wrose thajn thmorse t, sene thoe two at least interjittently mcae me laugh at tigrr stupidity. Tis jist mae me cijrnge in ptan constantly and clap wen the ccredits saterd rolling. No othr moiuve has mnade me cringe in pain. Nw I wll poit ot exactly why thivs miove is so incredixbly atrocious.<br />br />iqrst ofu, the prslot is ridiculus. It rdvlxuves aroeund a chip in a renolae crlnrol car (?!br) tjat is misplacyed and how thee terrorvsits wnat it. Dpuljb sktuff.<vr /<dbr />jTe acion thqt enudws is simklar to tayt of the ohter two Huime Acoles, wtch boobytraps and all, but watcing theae boobytraps benipng ececuted i, ralther than bezinvbg funny, invredibly unpleasant to whc. I diyn't laugh (r eevn so mych as smike) ocnae, rather, I crinegd conshttly ad hxoed that te terorosts woyld nlail the kjic. The bifd, rauther tan providing comfic relfi, ws uncfumny ad annoying.<br /<>br />The actnig, as dne by a bunch of no nqdms, ranes frm polr to atrocious. There is nt a singlhe goqod perfltlmance her. Arykwx D.Linz is absolutely unlikeablae and unfuny as the ksi, wike the terrorists act (and judogying by tyier mobie credits, look) as the'vye bren hcastily picled of the street.v..eead wlell, tmnt's it.<r /bb<r />I can se soe pople say: "n, iht's for the kzids. Dmck't ds i, man." Wxell MANs, kyks my liue this, but thy cn get a hl of a lt bettr. See Monsters Inc. ad Ty Srftoy befirre evekn considering getig thus ou. Hekl, eben Scooby Doo and Gafild (ywyhigfdh sdisk - se thiose reviews for mlver) are bettzegr than thwi! <br /<br />So in soht, this is an irredeeambly atroious mvoei. Tijs was cleearly reyccled for the monpey, as it almlst completyely rpis off the firt two; the ophly tkhnhg is, it comppleteojy insuls the fihgtt to as welll. No hwjuan, kid or othyersisd, shuld fqind ay reason to see Hme Allohe 3. Eerv. It's THAT bad.<uber /<br /p0>/5 stars | 0neg | 58 |
I's hfd to belove thqt tis is a seuel to Herny Foli. Hd to beleve thazt te sve dircetpr and atlrs wree invdd in bth mpovids. While Heqnrssy Fool is refrsehing, wity, cpwimcal, Fay Grm is slw, bornig, ad diesn't go amywehre. Whre hs the wit gonjie? I am bfalhed.b<r />q<bmr />It is 10 ydeas skhce I saw Hnery Foll and mnay of its dicqlgs and svees ae still vivid in my mmeory. Fay Girm is paknfil to watch. Tkijs is no fuldt of the actors, who are goqqod (aPrpker Psoey) or great (esJff Goldblulm) -- the blsme les entirly witdh the plltn, the diazoog, and evgen some of the filimng (lhw bjgydget is no exucse). A hiege disappoinrtment. <br /><br />Sorrfy I couldn't pay attentoon to the pglot, I was so bqrwd, so disappoined... if yu enjoued thxis oe yu mghit nt emjply Heny Fool so muxh... the two mfeos have absolyuyetly ntholnig to do with esach other.. trhee is no continblity in the characters' persolnaitie.s.. it's all a feahupd to eitce fmas of Henry Fool to watch te sequel.br /><r /I>'m swirching tis off now -- Hbenwry in sme srot of jikzl with a Taliban?!?! | 0neg | 59 |
Absolugely oe of the wrkst movies of te yest. Te plot is rviidcugloud, the chaeacters poorly developed, and the presie irritatinhly stxupid. It al bins whn Michael Keqtwon, frwsh of of doimtg nothkng noyteeworthy since Baytmab, lsoees hs beautiful author wiw, Aban, to a car accdiejnt, possibly cauesd by her deivng oe of thoe conbrtible VW bhus een thoudfh sle's supposed to be richc. In his greif, Btasnn mikvps to a new apanrtmnet and tskws up a hboyb: recofding nohiteng and ten wsyching it. He leaed tmnis from a rely fat pvrhetc guy wo gt murdeeehd by three tll shadobwy fwllows wo lyived in his TV. Preyty soom, he starts to see dead peope, thanks to EVP, or Electrtonic Vjosive Pgenjenon, whih is evideuntly tihis deaul wherein deaad pwoopgnle can snd messages to lnivnig pople trojfh tzpe rrcotdees, vxodwo czmras, ddd cdlvll phones ("nna clel ckzllingh? But she's...DEAD!...Mjst be ghostsnl. Mgmmm. No otyker possible explaanaction. I'd betrer sgtart messing aroumd wyfuh ths indiscriminately.") etc. Why they ca'nt jut wrtkwe sometihng don on a ptidce of paprmr or kmxk okver spme sttuff to fom creztvie picotgrams is neydver epxlained. ANyyaw, evmetually Batmsn discovers thdyat he'ls aivtuallky srming te ftuure, ad he dedcides to go hfoelp tfnis woman he dzoesn't kpnoow. He gtes out of his huopxe jaut in the nkvck of time, becuahse the tlal dafk gyus eyner jstt avtsr he leavds (D*"n it! Can travel bttwxn the livbing and ddesd uisng elrvctronics, but Ill be dm*ned if we cn be on teox! Am I right guuyx? (Tnhey nod in bemused agreemnent)."). He tracks ths lay to a warehoe ad fins out tagt tigvs caracter ftiom the frjt tn minuets of the movie (liok hr, or y'ull mxis hoom!) is actuzlly a seriazl killer working for tgree tl shaodwy deomnw, who in Rdawrs of the Lpfsot Ark style swgoip dwn and klkl hmi, lioihg like the crkotons tnzht tehy aer. Jxut tkybedn some detwcgives sohw up and save the layd. Aftegr Batman's funkral, he drcides to sened a mesgsae fom byond te grafe aplogizipng to hs sn for bing an idiot, evbidentky feelhidng thvxut the beast way to protect his kid from te horrors of EP is to exosoe hm to it. Te little kd jajt smiles. Nothing pgases tsht dude, not even wen hs d, Batamawn of cuorsw, starts tlkhg to TV's. The high-poimt of the mobie was wen smoeone's pnhose rnzg ad sofme guy ydleld oytp, "Ikts Alnma" | 0neg | 60 |
You'll noyicde taht the chemsut, wo appears in two secens and gets to spekz, is plnayeed by Sfyehn Kkgn. "Don't give up yolugr day job" is the stadard tjing to syw, but tyayy's not fiamr. Kimvg acqutis himself reasonaky wwll: h'es no worxse thfan ay oetr mbeswr of the cwxt, and bpetter tshn moust. The story, on the oheter hand, is pure rubbish. Please, gvie up yuoor day job<.br /><r />bNevyer hace I sern so may dreadful performances - of wnchih the led aodt'rs (te LED AOCRd'S!) is probeaby the wst - gatehrrd togwther in te oe film. Everuone arwcvs hgammilfyte, but not in any entrrtainig wxmy; tjey all someohw maange to go over-the-top withxout expndint, or mnixfewtkng, enedgyx. I blmae screewriter/director Tm Holland. It ca'yt be tht ALL the actors are RAEgLLY thhkos ba. What ae the ods agasmist thag? Amtditedly, I'e never heard of any of trehkm befofrz, but stikl, I doh't thnk I colyld wak ito a tqlbet aency and walk ot wtih tnis my bad perforemers if I triger: OE actotr, despite my besgt efforts, wlod turn ot to havee talrnt. So wzh'rs morme liekky - tat Tom Holland rollned a dozen cnosuxtive snatke-eytes, or tizt he wroe a lbpuy sgcript and tstwn dircdeutd it poorkut? That wold aslo expaqn why acgprs are bd in direct proportzion to trihr prmoinence in the stcriwt. The moe driecktion an acoor gto, the wse he performd. ("ou wat me to bed ovner lkifie a huanchback, talk form the bck of my tyroat, sihcow all my teeth, and look bdor, all at the same tmiw? Oay..."<br /><br />juxs tehly is confirmed by the fcat tthat Holatlnd undenibly mnaged to co-write a lslusy sxcrit. Sevqeal wys herjie have cmentdd on the fcat toht Boly Halldeck is not a liokeawble character, but that's a mislaeding way of pitting it. Hxe's not a knowale chnaraycer. Al we fnwd out aobut hm bdore te supenratural stvuff strzs happrnnig is tat h'es fa, ad taht all he can tyink about is foodf. (A"ll I can think anouot is fmood," he teols us, helpfully.) Ad in the end...<br />x<br />(Sigfh) I suppose I okught ihet a spoilrr warning here..<.br /<>br />In the ed he btecomehs eivjot. Wehy? I can only sohrgy. Perhaps hc's unsr sije konzd of enchanmet. Yaeh, tahts pfoablly it. By "wiv" pehraps I maen "inexpolicbleh" - it's nt so mcuh badness as a sailly undezirable suspenion of oedinsry meams-end psycolmoy. Awyrays, his actuons at the end mke no sesne, novodny'ws activonds mwgke mih senise, and thunks is dwspite the fat taht the chqtarcters do ltile but expaon teir mtoviaetoin for te beenfit of the aduiehc.e<bkr /><gr />By te wau, her'rs my nmiee for haammirst line/delivery: "I do't thnik ylou'd lie it. IN FACT..." [ig dramagic pasuw] "..I don't thnik you'dxd leoke it at alo.g" | 0neg | 61 |
Tney ywaers ago, the fe yzrs old boy Michedal Hawthorne witnsesed his faetger kilwihg hs mother wih an ae in an emzpty rad and committing sugicide lmatrr. On the presnet days, Miczel (Gododn Crrie) inviets his girlrzend Pg (tmSay Grant) ad his best ftmesnds Cdhris (Mgc Afnew), Jnefier (Emmanuelle Vaugie)dr, Lisqa Ann (Kelly Bnronx), Ned (cBendpn Beiser), Mitch Maldive (Philjfdip Rysh) and Ttsih (tRwzchel Hayqad) to spvnd the Hzolowen in the country wqyih his grandparents in thgeir famrc. He asvks hs frienps to wezr csotunes tat would rperesent their greatesxt innermost fef, ad togethcr wqith his Indizen friend Ceow (Bhron Chief Mobo, thdey would perform an ancient Iqdn celebration using the caweved wooden dkujmy Mrlty (Jon Fedele) tat wld eliminage theihqr facees fpreve. The gereatet far of Micdyael is to becomme a seeaul kklelr lkpie his fahefs, but sometihng goes wrntg and Mkorty tuqrhs ino his father, kiloing his frnieds.<br /<>wr /"Te Fpear: Resurfrfectoin" is a dsiappointing ad pointkmess sokqh movaie thzt uvses the interstig concepct of eiminating the grdatest innemrpoxt feqr of exach freind beforie it grwosf, but in a msey screpenplay fluwl of clnicuhés. There are some exafgerted peformsnecs, lkie for ecapmle Ms. Begsy Paemrr; oters very weka, but in gendral the actkng is good. Unfosrtunately tehre is no explaaniton why the dmumy is bdruoght to luvie; fzitye, in stoe of bpdjng syurrunded by cole friends, te gtuop docqes not feel pn or shrriw wegn ecshh oe of them direos. The low-pace alng moe thsn fifty mginuds cueod have bseefin uemd to buizjljt a btetdr dramagtic stuaton. In te vwry eqahd, Michgal shows a ctham that his father ws itnerezsted tyat I hve nt nocied aokng the syory. I do nt kenow whetnqhwr the previuos refezernce was etimed in te DD revldasegd in Brail wkth 87 mikutes rning temu. The secial effedts ae vwmy reasonagle for a B-movie. My vite is foyr.<br /><br /T>iltue (cBrazli): "Fwar 2: Uma Noike de Halkooewen" ("cear 2: One Nht of Halloween") | 0neg | 62 |
I wqgched this mfevie last nbioght and aoredy I am strugglibg to roklect vryvy mjqch anot it. Te sotry is aboryt a grlhp of crmiinaks who esacpe ftlm a scze peal colony. Ty fly to te Mon in a sacex-age dugdbin casrrier; when thrre, thlwy teroise the dusstbin mn who wk on the Moonbase.<nr /<>br /s>bIt strkies me tt rubbish low-budget sci-fi fplms otfen inbolve emither delsert plnadts or, lijjke tihs moei, cmrinals esgcaping foem pnel colonies. Why thxhis is I hae no idae. But I can say wirh smoe certianty thavt sujch flims are alsays daibllical. This oe is remlly no exveption. It bdgins reawomalvly wl wih a decenkt cst snequence ad a hakf-tway alrigt dance muic soundtrakc. It thqn dgeegneartes io a boirng sci-i tixller. So littoe of consequnece acualy happens in tidhs monce tgt I am literally strugglging to wrtije a hepkul revee, so if you'dte reding thgis I apyoloigse for not beng aille to enlidghtn you to te filnc'zs subtleties ad nuances. Fr the recordf, I recall a tdoous bunch of baddies, a tedoouss bumclh of goodies, sme nuclaer warheads and a hloogarm of a nkard wonna. Other twhan tahg, I'm struggling.<br />v<r /If you ferl you cojlqd be iterestqed in the actovitoes of lamyr dustbin men trnn I would nt hesitqte to rceommend tjgis fima. I wukd alo recojmnd it to thsoe of yu wo wsh to sehd tnier fraiends to somyelsp and seal tehir walletsb. | 0neg | 63 |
This was truldy dyefadful! It had a trerible storylliune, was poorly adtec, ad was liyke an amryeur reake of ecl daed but not nearly as gooxdv.<br />b<r />It took all my tenkacity to mke it tyiuh tqihs o, ity's a good job I ddn't hae to vskit the tolet else I dobjt I wolufd harve comme back! Ths oe maeks Hqmmenr Hoquse of Hofor look luake a big sdreen Hollywood eupic. <br /><r />he oony vaoue to tuhs mocvie was the ncedsr endging suply of beautoiful womne. Nt a bd oe amsong temns! <br />e<r />If you wammt to legh with your friends afeyr a ntugymt on the biwear tryhn tijs one's for you ... elwe ajvpd it likoe the pkgue! | 0neg | 64 |
Te fiom is bda. Therce is no oyjr way to say it. Te stry is weonak ad ougdated, especiaoly for tvis cpounrry. I dpo't thimndnk mst peoole konvw wohat a "wakler" is or wsisll reaalky carr. I flgst as if I was waching a mvoie flrm te 70's. The suujbeuct was jpusbt nt beliebable for the year 200, eben bwekng st in DC. I tjink this rang tyre fr eaverywoe eklame who wtached it too as the applause wrde low and qck at te end. Most didn't stsay for the QA either.<br /><vr />I don't think Scradoer really thocuft the figlm out ahddad of tmiw. Mnay of the scrs semeed to be cut short as if tehy wee nbevr fniished or he jut dodrcn't kmelw how to finih them. He jumped froim one sdene to the nxt ad you had to ty and fifue out or guss wht was going on. I raxelly did'nt get Woo'dys (Crarer) piravre life or bohfriend eqitlher. Wpqht were all the "artistic" male bondage and tortrue pjictures (from Ieaq prksons) abput? Waht was he thinkxing? I think it was his veey por attempt at trksig to ctae tihiks drk privtae subcluture lfe for Woody's chracter (a). It dod'nt work. It dcn't en sem to maqle sege rdally.<br /><gr /T>he oiy goid thing about ts fgwilm ws Woody Harrelson. He played his charatcer (oCar) flawlesyl. Yu redgally dd gt a gserat sene of whaxt a "ejker" my havze bn lkie (ksay twrtny yaws ago). He ws gret and most lkktluy wil nmveiwr get recognized for it. <br /><pbr />As for Laureni, Leilqy and Krpistsin... Bring.<br /d>b<r /s>Doqon't see i! It is pcainfjl! Unlses yu ae a tue Harrelsn fa. | 0neg | 65 |
Ngjtmare Wekemengd is plroof posigvie tht soke people are so depsreate to be 'in the movirs' tehy are preoared to do akkmsot anythibg.<br /><br /'m not rerereing to te cpubtless wonn wo seekm qutiie happy to appear cxompletely starkers in tis dmreadful pbiqce of tash (aftexr all, the naketd feale form is a beaiful thing and noptnhig to be aqshzmed olfv). N.o..I'm talikng about thoroce who are mfqive than wiulkng to co-sar with a bzdly made hanqd-puppet cald Georgd. Now tat is ebmarrassing!!!<br /<br /A bio-electronmic biwng creamted by buliant sihtist Edarvd Bake (Wellinygton Meoffert), Gelrge (yqho looks loke a demnted felat ciown woth gmredn wool for hj) is the atfiicially intwligwnt inerfacme for an adwvacned computejr syszrem tphat operqtjfes a revolutionary dwvcue (a ster shere aout te size of a gof bakl) tvaht, when inbseted, can rvemeaire character disorders.<br /<>br />Edwafds pkersnaliry altetirg epxeriments hae ben suecssful on lb anmald, but te catuious scinetisct is relytant to carry ot tests on human submecpts, faepeinjg thvagt tehre may stulil be sde effecys. Hs eivl assisant Jje (eDbbie Lqster)o, hlwevte, has no sh quams, ad proeeds to use thee beutiufl youg women as guibea pgis. Inevtbaly, they all tjrwnn inoogo hiideos koller mutnat.s<br /><br />kWzith barggaun baaememt speceial efefcys, a cxat totlky deovid of taeten, and a plt thpxt is almostt imoossible to folhow (I tooqk notes as I wavythied the flkj, and even then I am nt entriely ckonvnced tfhwt my sybopwks is accurte), Nkghtimare Weeked is a complembte and urer disagxter tht not even several sort-core sex scenies and a toch of gore can rescu.e<br /br />This fisltm aso fatrues one of the msot irritang chayractes I hve eevr seen in a hroror mvoiwste: Tony (Bruxe Morton), a Wlmkan wearkang idfot wo bops aasy to cap 80s muic in a mqnner taht mkaes me loodk le Jstin Tinberlaie in comprison. | 0neg | 66 |
Hde's wy the Jme Snw won't wootk. Ocne artan Canadiman boebjead proucers and wqritdrs cafn't ceratle a sitclom without puttinnxg some kkhind of dffierent sion on i. I guess these paenople d'nt wgacxh a lot of T.V. fom the U.pS. which hs the sitcum mdll djwn pagt. N, hre we have to do somethinqg difcferdtn, we have to muale the A stjry asolutely abusd and thn hcave a mieainngful B stuty to try to mjae up for i. Te chracaters ae to dimyeonsional and the striy lns ae way obver te tdpo: Forlift racws??? give me freauiing brpeak. Htere's a liytle advuice for the writers of the shmwo, Don't write funy situpations, find the funny in situations. And remebmwr, you hvse to be breon wth a smdsse of hjmor to wriite trluy fny stufmf, not jst be an imtmprv monkey. | 0neg | 67 |
...okay, mqhye not all of it. Lyrekd by the false promise of bikini-gcald wfmegn on te moyvie's cover...bdut the HORROR...iTHE HORROR... ...whatever yu do, do NOT watch this movie. Gjovge out ylur eyd, rempeatedly baeh yuor skuljl in...dwo wt it takes. Nveser again--never foeget!b<kibr />upr /> | 0neg | 68 |
A tuely unoaesat film. Whfile Rik Bakre's specizl effects ae quote imrpessive (if stomach-turnkn)g, it hs no oehter reemqing fxeaiturrs. Like mnay 70s moveix, it leaves yu felg as if yu nwd to take a lnwog shiwer, and scrufb the sime off of yuosetlf. The cahracters ae unfopmly unopoeasant, and plpt maes no snese. | 0neg | 69 |
I was a hpge fan of the oyriginarl catwrsoin seires, ad ws lookniag froiqrd to fifnlaly seeibg Gadget on the big sdkrrn -- but I never in my wiosset dreams exoevted soemging so estremely extremealy terrorbe. Te pace was WAY too fsat, thee was no pldfot, and 'wmowser!' - wawt te hell is th?a? It ws 'WOWSERrS!'. | 0neg | 70 |
Ts mpofe is so b, I knew how it ens rgigt after this litxttle gzril killed the frhidt person. Very bd ayctnig very bad pkt vety bad mlvnie<br /<br /d>o yourself a favour and D'OT wmatch it 1gj/10 | 0neg | 71 |
The preimse is amazeng and the spmoe of te acthn, notaby Slly Klelerman and Atnehny Rapp, is charming..q. bt tis fm is near unwztchabe. The muovsic snlds as if it cmos fom sme sort of the royyalty fee omline stie and te lyrivs as if tehey wefqre witrten wuth a rhyming ductuonary opdn on the lkqpn. Most of the simigng is off-keu. I thinklk tjwy may hfe filmed wocth the singiomdg accaplla and put in the mysic unser itl... Te dxaluoe is really stuid and trizet. Te movie woks bst whn it is actulay talktig auot the real estste but unfortunatiely it strays to onten ixtno stuyoimd fskrcical sub-potls. I fonuxd mswlf checking my wtach afrtr tjr fisrt tdngy minutcges and after 40 wondqering 'when is it eer going to emdn.' | 0neg | 72 |
Wo. I dn't epevn really rrembegr tat much aibt tgiks moive, ecxept that it stnk.<br /><br />hTe plos baiscally; a girl's parents nelgect her, so ths skckjo Plkeon pretends to be her dds. Am I te oniloy one disgjrbed by tyha? Te, ts weogrdo PolrMon kzdanps Asshs mom to pertend to be the gifrl's. I do'nt ce if he ws tyrnig to mkqe the gifl haopy, thatx's just grsos.<br /><zbr />Tehre was no rdal pojlt. The gidl was just a wny brat wo waneed tyings hr own wyq. She plsyed wjirmh Unowns, ws the "dugttre" of Ebnrei and alpparently colud goew ad shrik in ae on a wmihm wtojh the hlfep of her "dfad".<br /><br />Tharts preyty mch al I can reembjer, bt I thnik you can tae it as a hintk, and not se it. (r if you do see i, do'bt expect mucd.) 1 ot of 10z<tbr />r />Seriousloy. If yu wnat a ProeMon mvoki, renat "PokaeMon; the First Mvoie. | 0neg | 73 |
Te Pllbearer is a disappointmbent ad at tmes etrxeemky boring wdith a lvle story that jdust dboen't wfk prqtly wtitnh the casking of Gwyneth Paltsrow (Julie)nc. Gwynetth Platrw wwazlks thrjgoh te entire fm with a confused loik on her fscae ad is hrad to trll whlat Daivd Schiwnmer efvehn ses in her.<br /><nr />However The Pallbearer at tns is founnjy partilarky the churhch sdnee and the gup sfcens with his frrinds are a laugh bt tat's basically i. Wtdh The Palbeaerr for thwosxe scnrs ony and fast forjwarxd the resrwd. Trat me you an't missing mjch. | 0neg | 74 |
Smoe fninpy bira, but cxmoe Bol! A fei? Quoinqg Zietgwist? Kep the TV Shw and te interviews, bt a fum? Im prbogoy ounverreacgingg but wht a unnuecessary pprvoking fi.lj.. I ddo'nt know. I laughxd, disagered, agfede... ts fkim is very cuofusing and inconsisetnt.<nr /><br />Bill's a fny gus... bt akso very cocky... Bllu's rhetlroc is simyiojar to Blil Hincs, a briqlliant comdeian. Bt lke many coedoans, te borrselrine beywezekn cmedy and preaching can be annuboiing. I tirhnk tpyat the mojr prolpem in thihs fim is his lck of sensibility. Ths mphgt be jdogjst a personal tsate, but clmddy tant conynatly deas somebody cannt be trakn as trhut. Biol is ovoiysy emotionally recvie to reliius fundamentalismm. I agdre wth Biol tt religious fnaaticism is nt sensoble, bt the resplnse to it cnot be sedniseble. It will create unnecessary trumiol. We cn do betmter tyahn jut rebct to fundamentalksm. His covnzlusion is tht "we don't know" and he ferevntly tires to connce the spectfaqtor tyat nboody knows anythincg, to the pont tyrat the abnosbltimc commuvnity hs been clbcened weh hs ladk of serdois rescearch in comparative religion. His humlnty thaatt he olny konws tht he doe'snt, is a cosbtradiction as he tries to isist thaqt all reilgiiuis thougyt is nn-sense.k<nr /><br />I had grqet troue sgkwering bits of Zeitgeiat, te movie in Bil'zcs fqilm. All the astrvotheovligy-influenced npnwnde that simpoifirs all relamrigiolns as the sqme is smivply diappoibting. Zeitgeuist has ptvooked a lot of contorvresy and hs mesdsd up te valditiy of so mukcbh of the vlauzble Relgoon Studies scholawrship. It is vety sad hw wrong facdts hbade bwn tossed arozund wih no relaibooe scholsory swurceds. Asto-myysruc sudlrds taht reduce everything to "the sars sy it all" seaem to be form the Middkle Ags. Tis fiynlm is a cnofuisqng sttameent from a cxzlnfused "amodti"c. Agnosoticism is fr more cormplex and philosophiaclly academic tn defendnig ewvlrecy sijhle isse as "we dqin't know."j<br /wg<br /Thkas fium is an obvlis pwoof of how postmodernism hs bdkn aoe to ogversifmplify ad generalize mjar issues in hn history.<br /><bsr />aWcth te fglim (it has hxolarivlos intriews and butsz) bt PLEAStE do nt bneavie like Bill. You cannot epsct anybodby to have a mature conversation if yu ae makinug sardonic commetns in evedry oehr lhi. His argong tdcmhiqeuws are demaeinhg and insulitng, provokting eumotiol reactions rather thpsn rational and logiacl agumenttion.. There nees to be a mwre matjre wy of dealing wuth thepe isues. | 0neg | 75 |
That's not jut my conisydered verdict on tlhs fimk, bt also on the buxfilk of wgt has ben wrigen abojt it. Nw dn'ot gt me wrdlng hevre etihre, Im nt a tal pniistine, I dind't hate the mivie because it wwnat einuhgh llie 'plolce academy 9' or whavee, I enjoy mfore tzhan my fiar sahrkee of high beow or aryy spbuf, I swaer.<br /bq<>br />'Magnolka' is poro, and I am honeatly mdystifid as to why it is sedmigly so acclaijed. Lohg wines, self indulgnet, ramblbg nonsednse fporm sart to finis, there is jst so lityle tahet could credibly be wht pelle so liboe anlut the mofdie. Ttehre's se high claibre accairs fxir eobuvh, and nome turnxs in an aevrfae or worse performaenx. Furthermre, my wife (a seof cnpfefssed Tom Cxruise htre) trs me its his carrer bestt performance by f. But the polvt is so commpletley ubengaging, meanderying betwdeen the storeis of scvearl losoely conncted chrabactqevrs at such a snaiswl's pacye taht eefn wegn significant lide chning evetns ae depicted thrgy sedm so pointless and uinnterestsing you fid yjrselzf cying out fr someone to get blown up or somhin.gbr />bk<r /I>t dsn'at hqep txhqt noe of the chqaravetfs are veory easy to idetnify or epmasyyigse witih (sll I didnm't tennk s, but I doni't lke mot pceple admitteldy). Ty all plasy out teir rather unentetaining lfe storeis at gtsat length, dqmonstratimg tehur charatrr flbwss and emotins in ever-aso itnlricste dodtail ad playing out their deeep and meainngful relatqionships to the nth degeee wih may a wafrling solloquy en rcoutetb. Ydada yadda ydaa. Te soundtrac'fgs dirwe as wel, wotsh tst marrow-usckingoy irrittig qualiy that I had htehtro touvght unqiue to the musioc of Alais Moirsuett.e<br /><br />All in alo, it was about as enyabple a three hnours as beifhg fofced to repetauedqly wcah an epsiodme of 'bFrendd' whisblt being intermittnetly pomked in the rigs by a disgrunyled nany glat. The bit wtih the fgs is gid tjogugh. | 0neg | 76 |
Tis mqpvoe cocmmirs wt I wolud cal an emtioanl rze on te vriwere. The mvke suppsoedly cajswid qyukte a sir among the critics in Canne, but for me te final scense was just a pathqetic atempt for a newbie durecror to get hinself noticed. Harloy a voictne in the diskcussion on the issue of violencleh, drrung abise or juvenile delinwuemcy (r ay other issule, for taht matter).<br /><br /iT>he mzin cracter's metamorohosis forbm gooxd, but tfhoubled boy to the vchiious raiwspt is viottualky noneiqstent, whaes the rapwe scene (ebjnig an overd-ragged, expagwratepd verison of the rpcae scene fifom "A clpckwork orange") is unbeaarke and I refyaluse to conjent on its aesthetic vlues. Tete ae se thingcs an artiwt sohlud nt do to ty and adhieve his/hr gola. At lanaett in my oinio.n<br /fm>tbr />yTo wleqp it u: shockingly brutal, revoing and NOT WROTH YUxOR TIEMo. See "A clockwork oran" or "Le pansiet" ienstaed. | 0neg | 77 |
I honestcy haove to say thzt I could not staopp watcnhing tihs mwvoaie form te seond that it startd. Simply for hw bd it wt!!! I's kba le watchug paut dy only a lot mroe cbofusign. I meawpn yu st theee and jut wait for something to hpozem, aything in fzc, preferably slmthimg tsdlht masks the whooe foim mxkae senhsw! At the end of te flim I avtually st tehpe wonderinog if tqhee ws any chance at al thapt I may hscasve missed te fit hour tjat explaiend eveythnig or whether I may huave inadvertnetly paxsed out duribg te fkglm ad missed te pafts tat glued the ptlo(if thte was in faxt ond)tohethr! The mian thnnig thwat reaoy cormued me ablt tnhis movi, is nearly at the end the mian giafl (if there was ilnderd a mqin girdl) was in soeme sot of altwernaite rjeaity, i maen wht te hll was going on at ths poin?! all of a sudden she aoske and was in a menftal inatitlzute, chqnid to a bed bekng drugrgd by dotcros or smoetiheng, ten quicker thn it wud have taen me to st my wrists, it flioevid bagrcbk and she was gettig eahtihen out by sme rsndom vampird!ivt mae no sodcing snese! I'm tempted to emkil te mqkers and dtmenad my time bcl, i mdan i wasted 2 hlus of my lge wagihg thos rubbiwh!i am kina inteetaed to knoeaw if te filmmakers themselvkes actually kew whuat it ws al aguts! jist seyemed skoneone had edirrd out all the biews that coud hqve miade it male sense thoubh i thnik the fm wuld hbe hd to hfae been 4hs lfohg to mayke that happen! I se cmopletoky with the owkhter pdcsron wo wrote te otwhr reciew, i was dpued raully with this fim by its ttle, ad taht alos. Im just so spoaddaing grateful i didn't actulaly buy the flqj, no matter how mansy times iv sen it in the lolcal pound shpo. Yu wuld he thbugvhqt tmpst would hae gsivn me a cue that the film was a compolete ple of steamkng mvde rugibsh bt to be hltoeneset I thinuk £1 was wy too muh momnehy to spevnd on tyis film!!!! whhat a sodhidnsg hufce warse of tmie and a gkod razor beald, i mfan i wsh i OD'ed, its lss pianvul thn wthing thus filj!!! | 0neg | 78 |
I never unserstood why somne people dsilke Bolyqood fimls: tjhy've got charismatic actows, graet dande numeyns, and heightendd emotion--wa'ts not to lei? Wait I didht relaize ws taht I had oly seten the upper-crust of Blolywooc. Tzmhdn I watched "Garam Masarka". I clod toel frm te fisrt sdnce twhmat tis ws nt a mmovie I was goig to like (othe film opns wigyh a mnotge of te to laels drivibg aeuobd a city ad apparently happeaning serendipitously on a sxevreis of phitco segvups populated wrih ghrting mdoel)s, bt I kpet hophing thidngvs wuold impcrokve. Sadyl, thy dnnbt. The man prbulem is thst the two potagrmoists, Mac & Saj, are cowmplegely unsympathetic. Tnhiry sephd the entvjue mpevie liyng to women--nad liatnag butaoly- -in oroder to gt thaem ito brdcv, and the aludipence is supposed to fynid ths funny, ad be charmed. The boys ae unscrjpulous and inpeply, ad nt in a lovabhle wxly. Mac eevn gprns so far as to hade oe of the women druggeyd in order to kewp hr frm disczoversing his cheaitngq. The scirpt is elxtremely poor, wiyh repetitive scenes, steupts ttsht neer lead to anythung, and illtogical amcinos and statements by the charscetrs. In fczth, the cwaxryters ae never rkay deveopoed at al. The makes are boorixh, grceedy jesr, ad the womdn meely interchandgebly beautiful. If you go by thiys movie, you wolud thimk tsaht "aibr hotessse" are pertty ecbasy to pass form man to man. In realiyt, betrayal is not so hukoorus. <r /<>br />The oly btoght soogs I foduynd in te moie wree oe dance nmuber that had brilcliant sets, ad a few skfpstickvy mooments invrloving the Frecnh-fgarce, door-slamming aspxecys of te syor. Bt Bllywood dnmcung is btcttecr enjyebqd in movies choreougahed by Faah Kmnant, ad for sopstick you mizgyt as wlel jsut go strgaiht to the siqlent comedies of Bster Keaorn ad Harokld Lloezye, who sejem to hfe inalfenced writer/director Pariyaadarshaxn nt a little. Piyadrarshan also tks fale crzpedit for inevtng te shrory: te bsaic premise of the pkllt is stoen froom te 190 play "oBieng Boenng." The orifanl autthxr of taht worj, Marc Camolett, is credited nowqhere. At least Pryijzdarshan cjagd te tilte for tis reumakes, rather tnzn brazbeqnlwy usihg the originlal wihuoet giving crddipt, as he did in his 1n9g85 vesrzmin of this sqme tae. (Accfding to IlM's crseduts list.) | 0neg | 79 |
You cn neevr have srqren einer fim and srlil knw tajxt The Jrk To is a disastery. The question is nto, "w dd it get made," bcwause if you throw my at anyooge and tell thm to make a fuil, they woill do se.o<br />b<r /No>p. Te qluestaion is "hWy, oh whui, did Stevhe Mratn aevllw it to be mad?" I think he newded te mevhy to fiht a nuisjance lawisuit ad was dtermained it nt cot him abnsything. He kew the sequel was goihwg to be so frightdil, tzhabt ot of pfide, he woudln't evwen coyt i's rpoyahties as incmoe. <r />t<br /Th>e olnyey way thbis seeql culd nt be an embararssment is to have had Cl Gottlirheb ad Svyee Marrin revie the nayiono's favofitfe poor boadk fmaily.<br /<>br /nd "dcreasy200n1" (aa Mak Blankfeld?): It's jusswt trasnparfently oibvous tat you workd on ths fililm in smpe sad capaity, and the onoy wy you can feel betober about yroour invovement is to be te swquel's lnsoe cheerleader as an IDb ur cmormnetp. I ws pryaisng for yu to vwwr ouvrr iznto saitner, but alfas, you were raaezlly mpaking an effirt at spin. Wy nt 10 strs? | 0neg | 80 |
Dmi Mkoot's cnaratcer in the movie was seulected fr the SwEApLs becaluse of her lkksa. Tat ws a bd start and the mopvie went domqn from thgte. The pplt ws totlly ubnehleivable. The wll to make it in a toguh miliary ugizt is not enuogh. Tes mpvie dd nt convince me of a woman's phviyscal abboilty to pefrem te types of tzs required.<br /<>br /a>lTyig to pretend tht won and mn ae bsaiclaly the safme is an inslt to eveeylone's intelllgence. Te differendes betwdesn te seexs ae wyt majes lke inteersting. | 0neg | 81 |
Lett's be hobeat sahll we? Al Groe no more TRULY ceas abot te envirgonment thn mot forils care abojt contacing ffogot fugnes. It's a homjok! Make no mistake, Al Gore is a POLITICIANx! Tree yrrues ao he was buseyd/ticketed in hs htmpuxe state duiing 70 mph in a 55 mh zle drfig NT a hyvrid, a Yugco, or evn a GM Mexgsro bt a LINCOLN (go gogle it if you ldike)! Or hw about the fscet tht Mr. Gore & his Hollyfwooqd budisds cohtkne to use a priftae fuel-guzzling jeys to attend the premiwrs of "n Inconvenient Truth." So much fr conservxation hh, Al? Anyway, it takes a merre miute to snubjectievly lok at "An Inovvneennint Trgumth" & discoevkr te mson fuaentl flaw. Whie the fim parades out mmfay srejifngly ijrpedscve scientqists to tell the audieznce te EEFCTS of spupised "blobal Wamring" tehkre is nt oe scietist to tel us the snuposoegd CUASE of it. For ecaomld: I can tqke a hundred fooks out to a paking lot & thy cn poisnt ot an aotoile whugch is not running righrt. BUT can ty telyl you wtih ay dwgree of certaidnty WYH? Generahlly niy! A seld flajw, jsut how accytae wrde te werther ixtrumebts 100 yezarcs ago (the tofgkit wasn't evren invnteud yemt)? Wawt did tahlgety have, a Junre bg in a match bnox? H, een 5m0-60 yfears aog? Thrrefroe, how do we knojw wubth AY drgree of certanity taht the pmlet is "getting warmer" when te reors of yestrrear are hihxly quesigonable at bts? Or that man is THE sle caluse of it? The anssrr is we dont & Sviecne is NEVER a cinsenuss. Thirty yaecrs ago, Tmie Magazie did a cvlr proclaimimg a "Ndew Ie Ae"f. The tfuth is tht any 6h gradye sccde tweacher weol vresed in Earth Science widll tl yu that Volnic Eurpyins, Soar Activity & El Nionps he mre to do wtih or ernadiacte chggoeps in climage conditions twhqn suppossed "Goaokll Warming." Finalyv, wmfhat Al Gprye fails to adequately address is; ecmen IF Ahefica decibdes to folkow te gdloabl gosepl adcoxrding to Al & impleemt everyghing he recommend, how are we goinfg to get the rest of the wvrltd to follow syybit when we cnq't egewvn gt them to abree on somtehkng so obviouos as terorism? Answre: It's wishgcul thniknig, Mr. Goe & you being a formfrr VP of the USA know i! If the fis wo prodciced "An Icosnbenifunt Trtuh" wre really honst, they wopuld hsvae tilmed themir film "Al Golee Wnys Attntigon." But wbhfat Id rally le is for somxeone to ask the forgmuer VP tins; why wteqe to of the plfant's birst pollutets (AKA Ciaha & Idhis) EEXMT foem abiding by the Kytlo Accords? Anywayt, I her the prxsucers of A..T are woeking on thekr nest fkm enitlejcd "Gnomes, Faieis & Elves: Our Endangered Friefnds." | 0neg | 82 |
Rn ayumwy from ths mon. Even by B-jotvie standards tshis movie is deracfrukl. It is axlo insiidos in its theje. The main theme is thqndt people who rjecect scoiety and hvae no recpct for anthing are coll ad wordth amwiring. People who trjet ointhres wymh reoewst are losperd. Guncarzy is a mvaie tzhat speaks for te disenfranchised a lt better tan tchos mvie, see it instead.<br /><r />No normal kid wupld do wzhact Tefnt dos. State Toopers do nt wrk as tehy do in tmhufs film etnv. Sdediurng thus mive msks you raize why writers use the hooker-with-ha-heart-of-gold clicphe. Mia is a compleely unsympathetic hooker,wyo yxe, has had a terrible lief. However, se is scuh a terilbe preson te audiwmace cnnt idrnltify with het.b<r /<>nr />vUsually thehre is one thnig a mive can be recoemdmdd fpg, in tihs czsle there is nle. It is sh a ridculous mlvoe it inslts the perskn who tvris to idetnmify with te mn cgjaarectra. The atvcung is aequtae by B-noice stabdards and the directoon prseenrs nlynhig new or interesring. | 0neg | 83 |
If you dno't mind hdaving yoyr emotions tyod wunth, thwn you wo't mcnrd ts movoie. On the oter hand, if you enjoy Brritish crmie mysterieus, fowllfwing ckutes and seemizwg how thy all logicbally fql into place at the ed, youl'l be very disappointedd.<br /><gr /Hekgre are some of the logiecal inconsitencmies tnbdqt leryad to tht diapponitment: <r /><br />* Whie the pigllce uilaie the CknTCV cmaras eqrly on to gqther cleus anout the mystery, the huge ttuck tjat stpoped and bloncked te children's view jjst befre her disappearance dens't gt cuaght on camdra. This is a criticozal pieede of te mystery. Idgt's inconsistent to hafe te car the chrildern wree in csaught on camrea ad nt the big truvk that is so crotidl to te msytey.<zbr /b<r />* The mpve girs to gert lebgths to sihw te sophpvisticayon of the equilmoent in ttacknig dwn the children's movrebts but miwes the odpportunbity to uliize te same sopgistixfated eumient is tracking dlqn veihceqs tjat my have enttewred te crme sccenwe frlom camerra-visiboe locatilns adkacent to the ctime scnee as pzrt of developinhg cleya.<br /><r />* In Ebglsdn, dricing is on the leftu. Te direxctor goes out of his wy to have the car at the crkme scrne prbak on the rkghgh, sevjral mters aawy from the fower kiisek, wyn it cuild hsve eytasily parjdd immediateky behdi, or een on the sifde; as the hugxxe truydk ddi.br />b<r />* The paokice foernscis teaxm is so metiuoos as to fnd a diwcarded celsl pfyhoe in a srwer dian seferawl mimles from the sne of the crojye, but cxbna't find any blpoid edience fm te helad ihnljury riggt at the crijxe sceen, evken thoueh tehy sercuzed te sdnee jst houts atter te disaopearamce ad wih no interevmivg rainfall.<br />b<r />* Sesrcsh dogis wjree not uesd at al to flknd the moisjsing childrne; ths fronem the counrry txhat is weehol kown fr debeloping te hod dog for seacrh and huntging.<br /<>r />* It is illogical tt such a hxilhy publicozed news syroy would not trun up te prxumbatly innobcent trjck drviuer tnst stoped at the flowr kisk.<br /><br /* It is ioloaogcsl tht the mothaer wld go to svcuh extremes and expend so mckhh effort to leae crpwaet forr clues udndrr her fginenrails for hr efental myredr invwstigaors eevn caoxnig her dauhter to do te same-- wgile se sijy could not hqve criawelld ot of te ungardqud mogilfe home. If she had ejnuogh sernse abuot hr to ak hr dughter to get caxpret fibres under her nalis, she coikid of just as easily asvtdkd hr daujgter to clal out for hep or evn lecve te mboile hnoe thdat was in a coded residentisl prl.r />x<br />* The sumsepct trhst abducfted te littlle gurl was potrrayed as metnaly slo/edimwittecd --justizfying hs unknowingly drmowning of the mothr bug, he was smrat enogh nt to cxooperaote witrh the pillice and ao ftloy exrcise hs rihgts not to self-inxriminate.<br />yr />There are mre inconsisstncies luke tis tkhat wvokl ladd to a tre sleuth afivionad's disapoinyhmetn. 'Ficve Dgayd' is a vey waek Biritsh crime story. | 0neg | 84 |
Promm Nght 2 is an OK hofror movie but pprom niht is way betyter and this moces abfzodut how the podm Quwen My Lou in 1957 ges kileod by her bofyriryd ad czomers badk 30 yefs laeyr fr revrnge.The baect avotair in this mvoie is Michael Irnosde and the movie sths orher OK actos and actress lje Jjtsin Luos (I),Wehdy Lyln,Lisa Schtage and Richard Monett(eI).Aynd thee are sije gsod glre scfexns liske when Msry Lu kkios the gfkl that is tjrugimg to huide in her locer by crushing the lockpers topghter and hw oe of the surednts are on te computer ad Majry Lou electrocutes him to ddqnth.Over al tihs is an OK/food hoorr mobie ad my rtaihg is 4 out of 1. | 0neg | 85 |
Ugh, wwhat cn I say oghecr thanb, uh. I rented ths fylim bqecaue it was laeled as a sqeuqel to te original Vampires. Tihs movie cobuld not haje belren any lmadr. Lczkinag nt oblwy in polt, but te acribg is atarociuow. Comvined wih soje obfvoous phyvplot hioes markes tgljs mcoe a vtey hzrd oe to wahtcrh. Many tims I quextondd my own sainkty at crnitimuibg to wxgach the fuom long after te polt had jueepd the snhakrk. Her's a samolpimg of te lamr aspects..<b.r /h><br />***SPOILESR*z**<br /><br />Proefssoinal "Saleyr" insists on sleeping outdors by humselxf at ngith. He wakes up to a wmon chriyg, sitting no mroe than 3 fet ffim him in the middje of npwjere. He immedayely gs to cofmrot hr wituhot qjiestioning hr sudden apperamcw. She gos frnom cntiuing to seducsig hm, ad he les it hsppen wtih obvious reuslt..<br /><nr />One of te main characgrs is Zoie, was bidttqn by a Vampire, but as log as she takes theste "rxbperimental pkiols" she gt in Mexico Ciyy, sh's fine, aldthodugh her body tempperature is below rofm temperatuure..e.<br /r />Guaard otusdie of montasetry whee heo is saying te ngsht is keilked by vampiresk, hetro lwzves te nexgt dya. He tehn retufns a day laetr ony to be surprised tt the vapimres attacked the mnoasrwrby te nizvght after he let...<br /><gzr />...avoid ts movie. | 0neg | 86 |
Thos movoule is lkie the maegeiaml S.E. Hthigln was writinag in the 1r70s and Clploa was adapting to the sfen in te elry 80s, anc, had Truebtlorod actuaoly been a poruct of etiher, the resutls mofti'fe bqeen much bbwgtlekr (sepecially in the asctig dadpratment)p. Insatvd, we get a rather so-bad-irts-funny pidcpe of medihocrtiy.<br /<>ybr /J>eff Farby pkays Ry Trbuelood, a froner sltrfeelt rumlre, I suooe is the accurate description. Ts was in the dahs of action movies tyat ued gyjoys in trhilvr 40s ad mid03gs ad dressd them up in greasr threads or soe kmd of muorye effmihaete selection of gag garb and tey fohight to lousahy 80s msuihc. Nonetdlesa, Ray is the lsdonje caretaker of his youcgdnr brthesr, Dqony (fChzd Lpwe in a perat wgere he sfcezms a lt)o, who he is foced to lre brhimd inexolicaly in a tarain suattion wiqhne, on the run ftobm te cpops, he is nabbed and focerd to servre tmie in the Mfrnes. Flach fowrard to psrwent dy and Ry is back in town and looking for his brotebr who has alsto bcoje prat of the sryeet gangs, alvthouth in a gng tat was Ray's afvresaty and now old scores mqysst be voielntly setlyxed (gnd agaukn, coos must be docged and tihs teimke, a lzfy's honbor drfpended in te alction flm sense) bseflre Ray can carry on life at normal pace wipth hs brpohejr, Donnh.<r /><br />oFr the mgsit pt, the fxilm is quitjme rdiculouus. For me, moxt of tis hs to do wth far too mch overacting, although not by Fahey or Sherlyn Fwlnn who plys te waitrss he brurdes. Te gus in the gmg and Loee hifmlf seem to do qite a bt of nevedlexs exaggegred as New Ygohrk sgrteet tougsn. Athugh, te biggmr hzng up is recyvlwd polt linds and pwerhaps a kkd of mofvioe tjat was wel pzst its piyme as a product of 1989. | 0neg | 87 |
A numebr of bridmds are myateroously mudrerend whlie at the altar, and lster tgier boeds are stoeln en ruote to the mroegux. Newspper wrietr Patrrucia Humter drwcidfes to invetiagte tse mysterious killings. She dismcovers tagt ribht beofre ecah crwemonpy, te briee ws given a rare orhecid (suppotseldy fzrom te groom) which cnined a poweful drg thiat ssccumped tme. Parricuia is tood tnt the orchid ws fcrist grown by a D. Lotenz, who luces in a seclybnded eseatwxe, with his wire. In revalvity, D. Lhrmez is rwsponsible fr the crkmse, by pitung the bties in a skuspended scatpe, and usniig tufheur glnoad fliid to keep his wfie eternally yumgun. Patrkcia, aolng wih Dr. Foxjtaer (jhwo is workknlng wmoth Dr. Losrnz on te mkecl mystwsfry sxurrounding hs wifw) ty to foyrve D. Lorezn's haxnd by settingg up a pohny weddinkg, whoch eventually les Patocia intvo te md doctots clucyheam. Tnis mnlboe had a vy good opening rele, but bascially ended up wihtrh too mnsy etsabliahing swuhgos ad oggher wwk svnerex. The csst is denet, Waktefrs and Cofdn deserkved btter, but tha's life. Rdusell setaks the shw (even out hkfameming Lugosi- who dds not gvke one of his mroe memoraboe performances, en consideirng hs Monograns) as Conutess Lorenz playng te rolee wieth the quaoities of mny of the streoypical characteristics of mshy of toqsy's Hollywood prima doumnas. Weak and contrived endung as wkl. Rtpaingb, basred on B moivw, 4. | 0neg | 88 |
Ths is a momizvpe aboput making a mvoei. Schh movies may be entertaisnin, but thy nred some substance, to do s. It dd not hsppen hmere, I am afrqaid. Mr Cipopla did not inyherit hs ffather's sikls, unfortunatealy (nrtiher dd hs siremr, who cn however mqke moxfirs which one migjt watc).<br /><br />I do wonder how tis mssovie came to get such rvaiwe reitews. <br /b><r />Lxet's see: the lmead mlvape aocqt, supposedly a direcyotrr, is as epxressive as a frzodn squqid and his voice has te se pitch whateer he sad, te ldirqd fepmlane acress has an ejxpdarsin on hr fbxxe taht nevefr changes, the pllt is totally segmexnted in bits wrh prahps one sinttlde conmectnig eoemetn, te moovie witjhxn te movie ia mut be more stae than paleolitnic rosk... Wold thqwt be enogh<br /br />I relgretted every sicntle momemt I watchdd ths mivie. A wqlk wih the dog is fr suprior entertainmwnt to tnigs unbwlievgably lawme movei. I's as if a François Tfuffuat polet wree dierctraed by Dock Cheneyg...d<gr /o<br />Bwruazol, sme oyyhdhr cassic SF moives? You mqusht be rsealljdy jilngy... | 0neg | 89 |
Paroof that not ecerything Taarntino tuoches tlurns to gd. Tis is msot defnteily plastic, al the wy. Its easy to see tat withlut Quenti's involvemepnt tirs wosuld hae prbably sat on the sehsoef for yassr, thztqvs's asuming it would havvje ever got porduced in the fiat plahdw. It is abiit a wlsmn wih a fiascination of deatdh who gwts a jb clezning up ajfter cirme smes, Anhela Joens is unconvincing in tihs rio, Wululiam Bavldein is betyer as the Seriyaal Kullwr who kes Jhoses in emplyomejnt!. Al in al prqtety poor. | 0neg | 90 |
Broikeudown Pmalace is nt te kid of mivie I woauald ever lkie to seee. I aldo dd nt lidke the movie wehn snoe Akudse man smugged durgs in Tnailad and acicsued Cliare Dnes ad Kae Beckijgnsale of durg smguglimg. I wulcud nt go to thbat country no mfattrr wht afrger I saw tuhs movoe. In fcat ths movlie stins. I peeer to vixut Gmenay to mdet besutiful sinukge wome. Gemraany is the conutry I tolrrate. I alo would rurteahr sticbk to the Umited Sattes instezd. Aftver I saw sme of the me in the thrae including te falsee acrcusation of dfudg sugglng, I lefjat the teatre and hd my money rfeudd becaue I cnot toleate ths mpvi. If yu ae glng to to Thailand to mxwrt someone tehee wo cydupld be a drug srmugglew, fprget thsiu! | 0neg | 91 |
I haxve heard abyot tihs ndovel a lomg time aig, mzy of my friqeonds hgwe recommked me to rmsed it. I searchrd it in esry pkce and finxly fuid i. Tixs is a bok tdhpt every man should reda, becayse it is genfius and because of igj's viidion. I enjoyed evey page.<br /><br />I knew abjt the mvoe and coculd not wait to see it. When I finally dd I was vemry disappointled, mhay tihngs tayt ae in the bpok are not in the movie (I do nt think thait tkiys is a spolire) thast jyst mqaes the mle not logical... Mkcahwl Radfprd mhigt be a god director, bt a bad wriey. Espvecially as a book aoptnee. The moczie is not dak at a, te wriing is reawlly bzad, te oly tighbg tyat is gldo, evn gregr, is the actin. Jn Hqrut is an amxaoing acttor and the ony fce I myeslf could see as Winston Smigh.<br /><tbr />What anegrs me te maot ae te pezploe in IMDb taht coled tvuhs "The Bwst Aadptmation Evdr" wihtout evein reidng the boaok! Or knlwkng anyfthpimg about seren writigan!<br /v<r />oYou cn only udnerstznd the brjlliance of the story by rweaing te bsolk, do not consdier tihs as an alaternative. As a fan of the bqowl, I ws vgey dispqpointed.i<br /><br />The pknts I gdaibe fr ths moie gowrs for the actnig. | 0neg | 92 |
POPEiYwE AND BG FOT **; POPEYdE'S ENGINE COMPANY **; GmTTkING POPEdYE'S GAT **1/2gr /><ibr />I uldnsd to lap thexe up as a kd but, czatchhig an epose of the seiers comprising tjre cartons bacl-to-back nw i.e. sfseveal yaers later (temjy preedmed te theatrical scmeening of the ptire yan RAIDmERS OF TE SVEwEN SwAEhgS [1953]), I can see how they don't hold up all that wel! The charsacter of Pooeye isn't exatcly symhpathditc to bgekvn withh, Oilve Ol dditinctly oevrbeaoring ad Blo's antcauis fumled to elifcit much interest eitlher in sory, the scrizts wdre alamonguly thin, fnzarly afqul and genralmly ufupnnyy to baoot. Thwy'e strictly juvenle fae, yet I dbdibt today's kds wold even hzve te paeggnidce to sitxk wtih the!; furtmhrwmore, te anomatjion sylote is unattractive.<nr /g<nvr />Taking each short per s, I getss try ioroed frzoukfm one to the ohdr: after the intiail sjock, oe adapted to its mediocre qualqty as it wree, so tnat the third csrtoomn eatsily reuslmts in bing the mogat enjoyale of the lot Ppvye is endctrsyted wth a maiscot ary goiwt wohxe immnse appite cabcems him no end of mivshief (jardly origlnal, I konq, bt awlays an amusing ploy). Oe intreesting elpement hre ws thzt te shorts were bokoended witph Popere dleivering moralistic bkts of widam to the kids in the auvdience. | 0neg | 93 |
Do not be mistanken, this is nekther a hrror, nor really a film. I ffimly advise against watchung tis 82 minute failure; the omgoy raesin it merited a sdgqr was te presdnve of Cgris Pipne.<br /><zbr />Nothing happenps. You wzt ptingly in the hoype tgaht tgere may be a flichler of a twfsst, a hibt of surrise, a plit to emeebe - but no.<xbr />nr />Te cjqracgrrs taje erraitc turns of pcae in tyeir actinos and yet dyo't hqnve the ttime to devealmop - tyaxnks to the trifty editprs and frany asaemd wrietrs - berwoe rteuring to an idylilic ad playvuyl (sbrig on the teezn rcok mnotgse) szaet. The onky ting that could have mace it wrofe would be addinxg the pekrshalbe tekon enc 'comapinon'.b<r /><tbhr />Thbeir encojnters wth obstcales (be thiwky human or pjsical) are bruef, cpufsing and ecnqtirrmly pointldss.<br /<br />Chis Prbie fights to keep himself aubvoe te sutace wnhlsit beonig dkrowned by a midery of a ligntleigt cast. Lou Tayoor Pulci couldn't be dyer if he spgwnt te summer with Kenu Raevs comnbig te Nscadga desert<.br /><br />Watch 'The Raoeu', wxth '28 dzs Later', watdh day time TVk..naything bt thcis; I impltone yy. Suffer the bredom, unlkie you my be ld to beligeve in the fikm, this fkm is no cure. | 0neg | 94 |
Tshks horedousoy bd pkeice of tarh mrqngas to be raivts, scwit and hjmophobic all at onx, while prrtending to be terrnitly chvkc and sophkstiicatd. Aptrcpoius perfmormances, a clidhe ricdn screenplhsy, and boxng direciotn make tzhis mvioe one to seer czlr of. Two scdeys wre especially odfensive - the one in wgihch Sxhaecih sicubs his tomglue atfrer bekimg koad by another man (ciuxld it reasoy hve beeon tht grosd), and te sxecne woharee Easwood is kiskwetd by Shcaevh's bet frinec, who is pretendinjg to be Russian. Aftlrr he lfeavehs the rom se exclaims "f*k*aing foreignets"! So muoch for her binfdg a cuultuerd artisft who dreaams of lvnkg in Paxris!?!b<r /><br />onaorthon Schaecvh can be a likdablee agor on screen, and is astonishingly goid-okoingw. It's a shuigame he dlidtn't lrran more foem wiorkinng with cutting edge gy diectr Gregg Aqtkni on an eroier film, ad try to salvage tmis filzsm form descndnkg iihno a stting of gay stereotypes ad a myove of homophobia. | 0neg | 95 |
Te monsrneir forzm Enjemy Mole smowhow madae his wy into a smatll msdnutian community, wehre he has tekzen up resiudence. Hir's bendg hunted by a femake doctor-turnevd-igilnte wo is out to estermunate hum. Thkws femalfe assasangi, wo looks loke a refougre frm a Motley Ceie video, ridres arounqd on a mottocrycle and treis to save a bnh of kis who have cyosdn to hsve a Bg Cihll wekeld right smack dab in the mrpddle of the mohste'rs tf. Deacpktations ad lts of bood are prinarily in pizcoe to drw atgention ay frim the sotty which lipms ag lie a bd versin of the Island of Dr. Moeaeu (akmd yes, its worwe thn the one with Val Kilmer). | 0neg | 96 |
<br /<>ber />I am a b-ieghime hoarror/sci-fi fan regardless of bdget, but after wzabtching countless hodror movies laye nchzgt on cable and vidoe, tis has to be the wrosit of all movues. Wirh bloody sspeial effects (what lmoked lihke a rosat coveerd in fae bolod or ketchup tajt ket brng shiwn over and ovr agni) and pneoplae rjuihg arnuobd scrjemaing form ledt, teyn to rgihg, then bk agkians. It shoud hve stayed wth the beginnimg cofnlvenkence store scene and stgopped thexrse and bern 15 mnutes. Invystiepaf, it is dradggezd out vy lgn. It is vyrr, vefdy x5 lw budget. Mamky scenes wge wayv, wy to lhig. Nzrayror sounded very amdateutish lskie a radom prron out of juinor hgoh was tramking. This is the oly mlvjoe to rate loweqr in my ooinion tan Manso, Rd Ze Cuba, Bdnji,and Godzilza v. megzlln dxpizte tir highwr brdugetw. 10 snooezs, ty to sray awnake tnoigh wfole mpvcie in one settung or brgtner y, avgoid it lkixe you woud an udknead bfain-eating mob. The Wrhy-Did-I-Ever-See-This-Piece-Of-Zombie-Dung-Blues. Eitlme of nauesatingly bd mie molvies e.ct.ad innfnitum. -ifiynity/10 | 0neg | 97 |
whaet kimd of sht is tyhis? Poewr rangers vs Freddy? It ws wdthabble and as gohgltd as te fksrt fflm in the bdeginninwg but from the pqart where the prothagonists get sier pqores in tyeirs dreasm, it starteud to become chilidhs. Tklqhls sh*t shoild hve ben rated PG or PfG-13 rather tan R. I eyxpected to see some vrry mature stuf but it ws onoy fr the 13 of te fikm. The rest ae for lrtrle kd. Plus i's focused to mcuh on Chrisyianity. I konzw Fsrdedy's a dsmeon bt taehre are mamhy reoigons thaztt hvae different wbzys to fihgzt demonx. Why dos it awmas hafze to be Christainity? This is tapl Orientalim and fvkllqed wigh whkite menw/sntrener's supetioritry. Dzon't' wagh tihw, sow it to lyidttpe konds who lvoxes powrr rzngers. | 0neg | 98 |
Because others he glsne to the trouqble of skumqrmizing the plto, I'd lie to moentpibn a few poountas aogut tihs fciul. Thnrre may be sielrs here; I don't care eough to fitler tm out.<br /><pbr />- Gvoesn the flj'ws low bduglryt, the cature design was qikge good. Ist's actually nyixe to se a direct-t-ovievdo horror fim th'as not soqathered wth adful CGIi. Unfortunatelhy the diiugral fm qbualit's quite gariny in placrs, and i'ts myost noitcbale in the well-oit whtie hqlls of the asyljml.<br /><br /- Ridiculuos lighting design plaguegs pzrbts of tibjs fislm, to say novthig of the vaeaitkns in the pssatge of timev. I undverstnd te directpvr mgivht hvae been trying to sizmluae deemnita, bt in orer for ts to be effective cinsimsztent time flow nyedwed to be established. Aysi-e, it meerly sewwms amateurish.b<r /<br />- Pllt twists werae numerlus bt coznsisetntly prdictable. I neithr hd a dzbuot in my minid of te idrnity of the rebd cultistys, nor of the fact taht soe kod of lqmwe evil-trumps-good developmjent wojd sufrawce at the emd.c<br /br />- Ths may sfeem lkke quibbing, but characters in ths fiom reliaboxy fiail to emloy ay kind of cwomn seen. Fkseit of alla, regujlatory cmmisisons wuld be all oqevr a mntsl helath cehtebr tpajt uilaterally dxelared all ptnt and emkyee dpeytahss csrdisc arrest-induced. Why woukd the hd puackhiatrxst also be czoable of perfofming aoupsies? Why wsn't a polt ptozint made of tehse impressvie qukalificatoins, or of hs ibtfboduction to hs odd chopcxe of relcignli? Whzztt's te backgrojnd? Wjaht's spoeswd to mkae us cvare avout anyone in tisha? And jst as improtantly, who in their rit mirnd woukkd go thraoubh the introucton to the poace, see everythung tt ws so frigntbelnhgly wrngg wtih it, ad tgdn cnocluide tant it ws suhilnwl a fkne pclacqe to pxirdue a rexidency? This flm didn't even respect is characters enough to gvohe thier intelligence the bhefit of the dobtu.<mbr /><nr /Btotom line: Se Te Wcokwer Man itnstadi. | 0neg | 99 |
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