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This was rough, yet entirely necessary: Alex Gibney's TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE by xxxxer Pros: Necessary viewing
Cons: Extremely graphic and disturbing content First, allow me to preface this review by framing myself as a film critic. I mainly find myself off the mainstream, revelling in cinema that mainstream moviegoers would have no interest in. I frequently enjoy violent films, particularly ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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4.5 stars for this surprisingly heartwarming film. by rmurray847 Pros: Well written, directed, filmed and acted. Funny AND touching.
Cons: The accents are sometimes pretty thick. SON OF RAMBOW is a surprisingly sweet and uplifting movie, and I highly recommend it for audiences about age 12 and above. While many will have some trouble with the accents, I also find that my ears “tune” to the accents after ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Just Because It's Computer Animated Doesn't Make It Good. by JediKermit Pros: Christopher Lee's Count Dooku, Padme's spiritedness, sound effects...
Cons: Poor animation, scoring, storyline, Jabba's Uncle Ziro... One of the most disappointing turns in animation over the last decade has been the loss of traditional hand-painted animation, being replaced with 3-dimensional computer animation. It seems that many producers equate the computer animation with ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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True magic comes from the real thing. by rcoaxum12 Pros: Glenn Close’s narration, Mark Isham’s music and Robert Van Nutt’s illustrations.
Cons: Lack of action in animation; some intense scenes. “The Emperor and the Nightingale” is another classic story from Rabbit Ears Storybook Classics and is probably one of the best stories from that series. Glenn Close’s cool narration, Mark Isham’s ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Not Good, Not Good at All by Goatius Pros: Some decent performances, not a bad concept in theory
Cons: The plot is a mess, most of the acting is lousy, the direction is horrible The squealing teenage girl sensation Twilight has finally hit theaters, and it is not good. Let me get it right out there, I haven't read Stephanie Meyer's wildly successful series of books, and I have no interest in doing so. I also ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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This Movie Is Not As Bad As the Critics Say. by badbonz0007 Pros: Special effects, scenery, artifacts and the fact that it is a true story.
Cons: The dialogue seems to drag on just a little. This weekend my wife and I sat down and borrowed a friend's movie called “Flyboys”. This multimillion dollar movie came out in 2006, and I do not know how we missed it at the theaters. I seem to remember the previews and ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Rx for Integrity by spelvini Pros: energetic perf from Mifune as gangster with substance
Cons: A better subtitle might be in order Without the energetic performance of Toshiro Mifune as the young gangster Matsunaga in Drunken Angel the movie would be like another edition of a doctor movie of the week. The galvanizing relationship between Matsunaga and Takashi Shimura as the ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth: Fun Despite Itself by JediKermit Pros: Family-friendly movie, fun adventure, adequate special effects, simple plot.
Cons: It's certainly not going to strain the brain. My wife went to go see "Twilight" with her girlfriends Friday night, and it was just me and the boys. The dollar movie house in our neighborhood was still showing "Journey to the Center of the Earth," and even though I'd heard mostly negative ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Better than I feared...but isn't that damning with faint praise? by rmurray847 Pros: Some scenes had nice charm or humor. A few good performances.
Cons: I am SO not the audience for this. Yes, I saw TWILIGHT. With a 16 year-old-daughter who has read and loved all the books, and a wife who was corralled into listening to the books-on-tape of them on a long cross-country trip…how could I not go without being a complete ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Friend or Feaux by spelvini Pros: great doc on 2 frauds by a master showman
Cons: gilding the lilly in oh-so-typical Welles fashion Orson Welles takes a turn at documentary filmmaking with this movie, which may actually be or maybe not be a true story. Whatever we feel about the actor/ auteur his presence in any move tends to eclipse all else.The film is an ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Welcome to Mystery at Candleshoe by carstairs38 Pros: The three leads, a mostly fun story...
Cons: ... that kids will like more than their parents. Candleshoe is one of Disney's many live action films from the 1970's. I remember seeing it as a kid, but I didn't remember that much about it until I sat down to watch it again. It's fun, although it's not up to the level of a true ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Atomic Bleep by spelvini Pros: great way to delve into scientific narrative
Cons: why Marlee starts to 'wonder' is really motivated With attached star Marlee Matlin as a lead character going through her daily life as a way to allow the average non-scientific viewer to enter the film, the movie handles the deep science of Quantum Physics well by introducing the subject by approaching ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Three-Way by spelvini Pros: great view of Poe from abroad
Cons: could be longer, and more developed Spirits of the Dead is a collection of three short films adapted from the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Federico Fellini.These films focus more on the demented quality of Poe's story-telling technique ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Better Sequel Than Expected by jsommersby Pros: Gets the job done more often than not.
Cons: Not the smartest screenplay on the planet. I don't know if the world is exactly a better place because of War Games: The Dead Code, an unnecessary sequel to the outstanding 1983 original WarGames, but it's well-made and surprisingly enjoyable from start to finish. This time around, ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO. by talyseon Pros: A bizarre mix of eastern and Western, this is samurai with sixshooters.
Cons: A bizarre mix of eastern and Western, you get it, or you don't. Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) Directed by Miike Takashi"The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall. The proud do not ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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"Three Coins In The Fountain" - A Penny For Your Plots by rkingfish Pros: Film's opening sequence. Oscar-winning cinematography and title song performed by (uncredited) Sinatra.
Cons: Husband-hunting in 1950s Rome. Clifton Webb doesn't cut it as a romantic lead. Anyone familiar with the legendary songbook from Frank Sinatra’s years at Capitol Records (1953-1961) is probably humming the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn title tune at the mere mention of Three Coins in the Fountain - along with some fine ...
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Nov 24 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Vampires...The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. by geiselmayr13 Pros: Plot is fairly true to the book, good casting (mostly), Great Soundtrack, Great Story.
Cons: So-so Special Effects, Teen Aimed Movie, and it's not the book. When the Twilight book series first came out I was less than inclined to read it. I thought it was just some silly vampire love story written purely for teenage girls with overly active imaginations. But the book kept gaining more and more hype. ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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An excavation of a London plague hospital deserved something creepier by dandj Pros: Gina Philips; two minutes (late in the movie) that actually explained the malevolent force's purpose
Cons: Green-washed color; rapid motion; language; camera work; majority of the screenplay Archaeologist Anna is on the brink of an amazing discovery that could prove the existence of the "Black Doctor." She's been excavating the site of a 17th century London hospital that was supposed to have been outside the plague area. ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Vertigo - Jimmy Stewart Became Obsessed With Kim Novak by dragonfire88 Pros: Interesting plot with decent suspense and good cast.
Cons: Pace was very slow at times. Alfred Hitchcock made several suspenseful movies during his career. Some of them, like Psycho, Rear Window, and ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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If Sergio Leone were alive now....would he have a Green Hero/Killer? by tiger62x Pros: Non stop action, violence, sex, and very, very, very dark humor
Cons: Too much violence, I mean it was really over the top. After so many years of pure violence in movies, where the most gory of gory scenes do not shock, and nothing seems tabu, what would it take to actually make audiences flinch today? Hmmmmm Micheal Davis must have thought, no one has tapped the ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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the Golden Compass - a beautiful yet slightly incomplete adaption of the book by funniebunny Pros: special effects, acting, overall story adaptions, enthralling
Cons: story doesn't go as deep as I'd wish, pacing The Golden Compass was a very interesting movie to me - it sucked me right in - and was incredibly neat to watch. However, my younger sibling did not find this movie to be worth watching and ditched me with the movie snacks within a half ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Most Dangerous Game meets Lord of the Flies by jwalrath Pros: Setting; Characters; Creative kills and makeup
Cons: Lots of talking and exhibition In this British horror film, a group of delinquents from a juvenile facility are taken to an island for punishment after a member of their group committed suicide. There they find that the island has accidentally been double-booked and there ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Vegetarian Vampires...Only In Seattle. by coldsteel7 Pros: Acting, Writing, Dialogue, Cinematography, Soundtrack, Scenery.
Cons: Visibly teen oriented. I'm going to begin my review with my rating this time. After watching Twilight, I was struck by the feel, which seemed targeted to the teen crowd. However, this love story has some very artistic elements that appealed to me. So I ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Hitchcock's _Lifeboat:_ sparse, disturbing account of a no-win situation. by telynor Pros: Tallulah Bankhead plays a truly loathsome woman.
Cons: Not a one, save for the simplistic story. But it really doesn't need embellishment. If you think about it, most of us tend to avert our eyes when disaster hits, and we're faced with the grim reality that we might not be able to get out of the situation that we are in. So it is in Alfred Hitchcock's film, Lifeboat. When the ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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''Insure return of specimen….Crew is expendable'' by trailhound Pros: Acting. Cast. Directing. Horror qualities. Setting. Special effects.
Cons: None. It may seem unlikely that the most effective horror movie I have ever seen is set aboard a space ship, but Alien, released in 1979, continues to be one of the most frightening I have come across. Perhaps it's the setting - far from the safety of ...
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Nov 23 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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