system.I put Siskel and Ebert to shame.....
I will present to you a review of most of the movies I have seen or plan on seeing. I base it on a 5 system.
An absolute and instant classic....will watch while in the theaters hundreds of times!!A very good movie. Worth seeing more than once.A good movie. Worth the money. Would watch again only if on TV or someone pays for it.A decent movie. Shouldn't have spent $7.50 on it. Should've seen it in the dollar theater.A bad movie. Shouldn't have seen at all. Appealing to those who enjoy pain.
Shouldn't have even THOUGHT of making this movie. The director and the producer should be brought out and shot.
The most recent additions....
OK. Here's a movie that's been hyped for years. I kid you not, I saw a trailer for this way back when I saw Dragonheart a few years back. I was thinking....'COOL!!'. But it never came out...so I thought.....'DAMN!!'. But when I heard it was FINALLY coming out, I took my free movie pass and went to see it. In the weeks preceding my trip to the theater, I didn't see any advertisments on TV, so I figured it was a PG-13 movie. Little cute insects being shot with lasers and maybe a swear word or two. NOPE!!
What I saw was a deadly show of force with machine guns tearing into many violent, killer praying mantis and a few lady bugs as well. I saw NAKED PEOPLE!!!! not just topless women(which isn't too bad...heh heh) but guy's ass as well!!(it was a shower scene, so both sexes will be treated to a show) Even a semi-erotic love scene. WHOAH!!!!
I was chewing some popcorn....and then suddenly a bug pops out, dismembers a bystander, and then we see the other people blow that bug away...and that was just in the lobby(I'm joking!!!!)
Not that this is a terrible movie...it started with a wonderful plot. Several friends go and join the space army. They promise never to stop being friends, even though it's obvious that they will change as they go their seperate ways in the space army. But then all heck breaks lose as the aliens attack....and then the special effects take over and the plot is dropped all together.
To top it off, there were several cheesy parts, that I thought the movie could've done without.
To summerize.....it wasn't what I expected, and if your going to start with plot......end with plot.
WOW!!! The series that everyone thought would end hasn't, and finally it comes (almost) full circle. Very few trailers until the week of release (GOOD IDEA). I mean, when ALIEN 3 came out, and the main character DIES....it's gotta be the end. When Darth Vadar died, Star Wars ended. When the time machine was destroyed, Back to the Future ended. When Jason died, Friday the.....oh wait......he died at the end of every movie.
One of the greatest things about ALIEN 4 is that...yeah there is BLOOD and GORE and ALIEN SLOBBER and GUNS and FLYING BODY PARTS and ALIEN SLOBBER and FLAME THROWERS and ALIENS BURSTING FROM PEOPLE'S CHESTS and MORE ALIEN SLOBBER......but there is not a sense of terror....more of entertainment. There were several one-liners or even comical scenes that lightened up the movie(compared to the other ALIEN movies) Not that this movie is wimpy or anything. You MUST have a strong stomache for some scenes and a semi-avid sci-fi fan.
Another good thing is that you don't have to have seen the other 3 movies preceeding this one to understand the plot. If you have seen the other 3 movies, you will be treated to a very entertaining show!
For those of you who are familiar with any of the 45 million James Bond movies there are, you know that there wll be an evil rich guy, cool cars, impossible weapons, wide sweeping and wierd evil plans, action(explosions, gun shots, etc.), and ACTION(explosions, sweaty naked people, flirtations). And this movie delievers all of the above....except too much action and not enough ACTION that truly makes Bond a great series of movies.
As we move into the ninties and we all get PC, Bond quits flirting. In Goldeneye, he flirts through out, but not in here. OK OK he scores in the beginning with a speach teacher (Bond is a cunning linguist....hehehe), that chick who played Lois in 'Lois and Clark', and then with a the co-star(the female co-star). But there was no suave Bond flirts, no multi-girl chase after Bond, not even an evil sexy woman who wants to kill and screw Bond at the same time.
And as for the other action.....HOLY POOP!!! When did Bond become Rambo? They should'vew called the movie BOND NEVER DIES. I mean he shoots everyone but their mother, everybody and their mother shoots at him, and I think he gets hit once...in the arm....FLESH WOUND.
Not that this is a bad movie. I liked some parts....but others were just so non-Bond-traditional it felt like the script writers had one too many that was stirred and not shaken.
200 MILLION dollars!!! What would you do with 200 million dollars?? I would....ehh....spackle the den......martinize my shorts. Forget that!! I'd buy out Bill Gates!! But is this movie worth 200 million and COUNT 'EM of my stars??
The answer is a resounding HELL YES!!!!!! Obviously since it has won a shload of awards, has grossed about 300 million so far, it is STILL number one in the box office after 4 weeks(a hard feat to accomplish this day and age!). OK, there is something about Leonardo Dicrapio that is just electric on the screen, especially when he's around a female. That is what makes this movie good.....class A acting by all roles, supported by great special effects. That's a hard thing these days. I found myself getting into the movie.....thinking.."how can they treat people like that??" "I can't believe the wealthy are treated like they were?" How inhumane!!??!!" I tell you, if you don't cry or have to hold back tears at some point, you have no heart. It's a great date movie, too, as I've found out recently. :-)
By the way.......the boat sinks at the end.
A very thought provoking movie that brings out the pain and injustice suffered by Africans during the slave trade. And, I think it is based on a true story. It starts off bloody and gory with a slave revolt, and moves to a clean(?) courtroom. I don't want to ruin plot, I'll just let you experience it for yourself. But, of course, I'm never short on opinions!
Matthew McCougnahy(i misspelled it)seems to be stuck in a lawyer rut....he played one in 'A Time to Kill.' Also, the movie does drag...at times. Another thing you should notice is that Morgan Freeman is in this movie. You don't know about my theory about Morgan Freeman? Well, basically, movie with Morgan Freeman is an excellent one.
Well, what can I say about the Little Mermaid? With it's re-release, not much has changed. It's still cute. They still sing. It still turns out good in the end. But now that we're older, we begin to see the negative things about the plot.
I'm just joking. It's a cool movie.
Well, I did see this in the cheapie movie theater. It is not a bad movie....just....not much of anything. The acting is good, the plot is decent, it's just the action is.......so-so. There was basically a lot of gunfire and a lot of gunplay.....but no car chases...no helicopters smashing into buildings...no aliens sucking people's brains out.
This is a definate VCR movie.
OK, this movie is NOT like Armageddon......this one makes you think. There aren't any MTV models, no one gets naked, no one makes jokes before the world gets destroyed. This movie is a little more somber as well. There is also some very good acting in it. Problem is...the movie is a little too somber. I had to get three cups of Pepsi just to make it through awake.
On a side note, Morgan Freeman is in this movie....a plus to the picture.
Action movies at it's finest. Plot twists, difficult scenerios(flood), light humor when needed, Morgan Freeman....who can ask for anything more.
The basic premise of this flick is that there's a lot of money loose in an abandoned, flooded town. Whose gonna get it? The guard Chrisitian Slater, the thief Morgan Freeman, or the police led by that loud-mouthed, annoying, no talent actor, who mugged for the camera and ruined Independence Day.
It has been a long time a movie has come out and just ripped your heart out of your chest and expects you to put it back in after the movie is over. If you don't cry at the end of this movie, you have no heart and are doomed a lonely existance living in your parent's basement. This movie will have you thinking above and beyond where you are. Really deep stuff.
Nicholas Cage is an angel who falls in love with a mortal.....and what happens next...I won't ruin it. A MUST SEE....cool soundtrack, too.
What another great movie!! Robin Williams is at his best as man seeking to rescue his wife in the after-life. This movie has you tormenting the thoughts of life and death. It also has you thinking about the entire grieving process.......first-loves......marriage......blame......forgiveness......love......divorce.........Monet paintings.......life in general.
The story itself is a little hard to follow, since there are a lot of flashback-type stuff.....and the scenery can be a little bit distracting, but also essential to the overall feeling of the story.
One complaint......if Robin Williams is in one more movie as a doctor............
When was the last time you saw a good remake of a classic character?? The recent Tarzan(that I saw on HBO) stunk. Batman 4 was a worthless husk of what could've been a great movie. The recent attempts by ABC, NBC, and CBS to show Joan of Arc, Gullivar's Tales, Cleopatra.........CHEESY
Mask of Zorro delivers!! Good casting! Antonio Bandaras is wonderful as Zorro. Anthony Hopkins......WOW! The girl-lady-type figure/heroine with three names and a hyphen to boot.....ZOINKS!!! The villians......SUPERB!!! The story....unique and original. The soundtrack....HYPNOTIC!!! A good date movie? You bet......Romance for her....action for him. And some "ACTION" if you know what i mean.
Disney has done it again. Mulan was a good movie, even though $$$-wise it didn't do as hot as Lion King and Alladin. Still, a very good movie with humor, action, and your typical romance.
But, this movie brings up sensitive issues.
Not that this movie is deep. It'll have little Johnny wanting to pull out a sword and little Annie wanting to prove the world wrong.
My God, this movie was horrible. The only reason i saw it was because it was the 2nd half of a double feature at a drive-in(and I was watching Godzilla on the other screen in the rear-view mirror).
This piece of crap, made for PBS, poorly written, excuse for a love story begins with the painful accident of two horses and their riders being hit by a truck. CHEERFUL, AIN'T IT? Then the surviving daughter hates her mother(who is a terrible stereotype of 'the working mom') and blames herself, and the nearly dead, crazy horse. On top of that...the father and mother fight about simple things.
So the mom can get on the good side of the girl, she takes the family mini-van, the horse, and the daughter from New York.......TO WYOMING or MONTANA or some other state with plenty of scenery.
The movie lasted 3 hours because of the scenery. Every scene had 5-10 minutes of......'waving grass in empty plain'........'tree at foot of hill'.........'clouds floating across the sky'.....
And Robert Redford is this miracle horse worker from heaven. He cures the horse, but the mother falls DESPERATELY in love with this cowboy, and winds up sleeping with the guy and CHEATING ON THE LOYAL, SUPPORTIVE, AND MISUNDERSTOOD HUSBAND....simply because Redford has a stable(no pun intended) family life. WHAT A CRAPPY ROMANCE STORY!!!
OK.....Everyone I talked to really, really, really, really loved this movie
Me? I thought it was a load of crap.
I can understand why people like this movie. Cool special effects, good plot, Liv Tylor, Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis....Those alone would make this a 4-5 movie.
But I thought it sucked. And the more I talked to people, the more they realized it sucked. Here's the main reason why.....
This is quite possibly the most moving, awe-inspiring, thought provoking, emotional stirring movie I have EVER seen.
The only thing I will say is that it will give you a totally new view of what the brave men in World War 2 went through. It wasn't the cheesy Black-and-White movies....it was REAL. Not for the weak-of-stomached, but take some pepcid AC and watch it anyways.
This is a decent movie. I went in, never watching an entire episode on TV, and managed to follow along. There's a bunch of crap, though, that you may miss if you've never seen the show(like me).
Basically, there is a plot to have aliens take over the world. Exactly who, when, how, and why will be covered in the series on TV(or a sequel....but there would be a lot of gaps to fill between the movies).
I thought it was interesting, but repeated viewings will make you see cracks in the story and horrible lapses in acting all around.
A good movie....but aren't sequels supposed to be about the hero? Harrison Ford was the hero in THE FUGITIVE, but a sequel about the cops?
Believe it or not, this one can stand alone and still be a good movie. They do this by not yapping about the previous movie. Good action sequences, but Tommy Lee Jones's character goes a lot outlandish towards the end chasing Wesley Snipes in the grain pile. Took a star away for that crap.
This visually stunning, but mind numbing tale attempts to bring Godzilla 'back to life' in the 90's. A good entertainment movie, but that's about it. Funny parts, with action and adventure.
Everyone I talked to said "Truman Sucks". Its not even funny. Well.....it wasn't. Jim Carry doesn't have to be funny all the time, just like Christian Slater doesn't have to be the wise-cracking sarcastic hero of every movie he's in.
Give the man some credit for delving into some different roles, especialy after the bomb called the "CABLE GUY." Look for more good script choices from this man!
PROBLEM--Saw all the 'funny' parts on TV.
This is possibly the FUNNIEST movie I have seen in awhile. This is the type of flick that you either love it like I do, or hate it because 'it's disgusting'. Well......yes, it was....but that's why it's FUNNY.
This charming little flick is predictable, but enjoyable. Basically, Brendan Fraiser is isolated since the 60s and pops out during the 90s. Odd...but it works. Good supporting staff!!
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