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"Blackadder" Holds Up Remarkably Well, Despite The Limited Nature Of The Series! by wlswarts Pros: Hilarious, Wonderful acting, Interesting characters
Cons: SHORT! Looking over my DVD library, there are dreadfully few comedies. I think this is largely because comedies tend to hold up poorly over time because humor tends to rely on surprise. We find funny what is unexpected, not what we see coming. A DVD ...
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Nov 22 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Scifi Classics: Kong Island (11/50) by cdm72 Pros: Technically, it IS scifi.
Cons: Watching our hero go-go dance. Yeesh! Soldier of Fortune Burt Dawson is visiting old friends in Nairobi when one of them is kidnapped by mind-controlled apes while on a safari. The remaining sibling, Robert, returns with instructions to bring Burt on the hunt if he ever wants to see his ...
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Nov 22 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Werewolf Hunter (Romasanta) - Based On A True Story. by coldsteel7 Pros: Acting, scenery, storyline.
Cons: Rough cuts and hard to follow. I was intrigued by the concept of Werewolf Hunter. The fact that this movie was based on the true story of a man named Romasanta who terrorized Spain in the 1850s easily captivated my imagination. Romasanta believed he was cursed, as ...
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Nov 22 '08 |
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Buster Keaton's masterpiece by SKAD13 Pros: Beautiful story, photography...pretty much everything
Cons: Critics and audiences despised the movie when it was first released -- the fools! Buster Keaton's classic -- dare I say epic? -- silent comedy The General (1927) has just received a sterling DVD release from New York's Kino Video ($30). I can't recommend a better stocking-stuffer for your friendly film buff.The movie is ...
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Nov 22 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The True Story of THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK by xxxxer Pros: A fascinating story and a very effective depiction of it
Cons: The film is definitely slanted towards homosexual viewpoints While most documentary films embrace a view that examines a person more or less from a biographical point of view, Robert Epstein and Richard Schiechen's documentary about the first openly gay elected official in the United States takes a somewhat ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Sleeping with the fishes by trailhound Pros: Acting wasn't bad.
Cons: Plot didn't ring true for me. Coincidences upon coincidences. They seemed like the ''prefect couple''. They were both nice looking, had a beautiful beachfront home, and he made lots of money while she took care of the home and worked just part-time. Ooops, but wait. Not all the cans in the kitchen cabinet ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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CZW's XTREME ACTION Delivers Just That by xxxxer Pros: The Lobo vs. Zandig blood bath and the Cash/Joker spot fest
Cons: Other two matches kind of pale in comparison Ah, the vibrant Philadelphia wrestling scene... More or less put on the map in the mid 1990s by the rise in popularity of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Philadelphia quickly became known as being home for some of the most rabid grappling fans in the ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
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Pretty much useless by paulsavage Pros: Nothing at all.
Cons: Flat characters, story that doesn't quite make sense An American Crime is an apt title; that is exactly what the film shows. Let’s focus on one word, crime. One of the main elements of a crime is motive. That is my focus here: what is the motive behind making this film? In ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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"Gotham Knight:" Lousy Animated Batman "Movie" Leaves Viewer Irked! by wlswarts Pros: DVD Bonus features with "Wonder Woman" featurette
Cons: ANIMATION style, Plot, Lack of character, virtually everything Do you ever have a DVD in your player that you wanted to get out as quickly as possible for fear that it might somehow crap up DVDs you put in later? I don't mean physically dirty or ruin future DVDs in that way, but rather the content of a DVD is so ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
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"You just killed a helicopter with a car!" by alexdg1 Pros: McClane is still in top form; Olyphant is a great villain; good effects
Cons: The unrated version is actually better than the theatrical release. In 1988, 20th Century Fox introduced us to New York Police Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis), a wise-cracking, sardonic, yet likable Everyman-like cop who is "at the wrong place at the wrong time" and facing off almost single-handedly bands of ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
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Plain and simple: boring and not many scares. Skip it! by rmurray847 Pros: The initial concept was promising.
Cons: Utterly fails to deliver on that promise. I saw PULSE (the “unrated” version) just 5 days ago, and I feel even now that I can hardly remember half of what happened in the film…so generic and uninteresting did it turn out to be. The film has a promising premise. ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
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The Bob Newhart Show, Season Four by mrroland Pros: Like 24, CSI or ER: TV the way it is meant to be.
Cons: None. Who TBNS is set in Chicago and stars Bob Newhart as forty-two year old Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley, a successful psychologist who gets lots of laughs playing off of the eccentric characters around him: his friends and ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
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The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story - 2004 by susidee34 Pros: Dean Cain
Cons: writing, poor development, lackluster ending So many times I have watched a movie that claims to be based on true accounts. Since most of those are in a time or place I was not involved in, I have to take it on good faith that they are telling me the truth plus embellishing it a bit for ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
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It's all in the reflexes! BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA by talyseon Pros: Campy over the top action adventure with Chinese ghosts and demons!
Cons: Way campy. Is that a con? Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Directed by John CarpenterWhen some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Best of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by George_Chabot Pros: Story, Action, Characters, Music
Cons: None, really The Empire Strikes Back (1980)"May the Force be with you." Star Wars (Episode IV) was a space opera that featured state-of-the-art analog special effects, long before the advent of Computer Generated Imagery. ...
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Nov 21 '08 |
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Don't just be a man, be a Melon! (Extra-Curricular Edition DVD review) by deadmilkboy Pros: Dangerfield's good humor and one-liners; a strong cast; some classic moments.
Cons: The movie does logical cartwheels and remains somewhat formulaic. Here's an entry in Captain D's The Good Movies Epi Guide 2 write-off: http://www.epinions.com/conten
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ten highest grossing movies of 1986 included Aliens and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Mom, meet my blow up doll! by andaryl Pros: Touching and emotional story with a few laughs. Gosling is great
Cons: Slow paced Lars and the Real Girl is a comedy drama from 2007. It stars Ryan Gosling in the title role, with Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider and Patricia Clarkson in support. It was a directorial debut for Craig Gillespie ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays in A Hobo's Christmas by bilbopooh Pros: Hughes and McRaney, sweet story
Cons: clearly made for TV The other night was a snowy November evening. Though Thanksgiving was still a week away, it felt like the perfect time to officially break out the Christmas movies, so when a friend proposed one of her favorites, A Hobo's Christmas, Mom and I ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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Kurosawa's Modern-Day Tale of Hamlet in the Post-War Japanese Corporate World by thevoid99 Pros: Kurosawa's Direction, Script, Editing, Suspense, Cinematography, Music, & Cast.
Cons: Starts Off Pretty Slowly. Reknowned Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa has been known for taking on various genres while incorporating into some of his films, most notably his samurai features. Yet, whether its noir, western, or even Shakespeare, Kurosawa always had found ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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Sam Peckinpah's Eulogy for the West: PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID by xxxxer Pros: Music, performances, writing, mood, many memorable scenes...
Cons: A few problems with pacing and with the story's development Having more or less revolutionized the western, and indeed action films in general, with 1969's The Wild Bunch, director Sam Peckinpah would tackle the genre several more times. While his work was frequently marked by controversy, ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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Paradise Lost and Found: Billy Corben's COCAINE COWBOYS by xxxxer Pros: A comprehensive study of 1980s drug culture in Miami
Cons: Sometimes quite morbid and graphic Miami, Florida of the 1980s was a place both glamorized and demonized in various ways by film makers and various media sources then and now. Films like Scarface and the TV series Miami Vice depicted Miami, perhaps correctly, as a drug ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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Scully's Death Sentence Begins With "Leonard Betts" And "Memento Mori!" by wlswarts Pros: "Memento Mori" is an amazing Scully episode!
Cons: Special effects in "Leonard Betts" While doing some research on "The X-Files" for one of my reviews, I came across the little factoid that "Leonard Betts," which aired after the Super Bowl in 1997 became the most-viewed episode of "The X-Files" ever. Go figure. I suppose it was a smart ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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The Transforming Power of Love: Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" by befus Pros: Story; music; voice talent; animation; the lovely way it's all put together
Cons: A few frightening scenes for young children I'm old enough that I can remember when seeing a Disney movie was still a fairly major event. Before the advent of videos and DVDs, the only time one saw a Disney film was either at the theater or on television. And yet, for all the charm and uniqueness ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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Napoleon Dynamite Meets Bad Santa by coldsteel7 Pros: Great Casting, Side Splitting Funny.
Cons: Weak Character Development. Director Todd Phillips teamed up with his co-writer from Old School, Scot Armstrong, to create another offbeat comedy. Phillips and Armstrong took a 1960 comedy by the same name and created a fresh look School For Scoundrels. If ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
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A frothy concoction...a real treat. by rmurray847 Pros: Wonderful sets & costumes. Frances McDormand & Amy Adams.
Cons: It's a very insubstantial film. Over the year’s I’ve seen many film reviews that will label something as “frothy” or even a “frothy confection.” This description never really spoke to me…but the other day, I watched MISS PETTIGREW LIVES ...
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Nov 20 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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