Reviews

After watching the first 3 in a two period to see what was so good about the series, I decided to watch this as an off-chance. I was horribly disappointed. While it might have come out before Shanghai Noon, this was just plain unbearable to watch with painfully BAD stereotypical dialogue with a plot thrown in around the last 2/3rd of the movie. Do yourself some justice and skip this movie if given an option. Only watch it for morbid curiosity, but you'll only be disappointed. I feel like this horrible film tainted my eyes after watching the first 3, which were full of movie magic. The action scenes in this one didn't even keep my attention at times.

Usually an Asian film based on the mafia/yakuza or the police with nothing but gunfights will be instant crowd pleasers with most men. There is not much to it as all you need is good choreographed scenes, high body count and a lot of bullets flying throughout the movie. This film took a rather simplistic formula and completely botched it. In real life, you'd never give a child nor an idiot a gun and just tell them, "Go kill people with it." This film lets 4 bumbling idiots go shoot at anyone they want. At times, I wasn't sure if this film was trying to be a serious film or just a bad comedy. If you want to play a cruel joke on your friends who are into Asian action films then have them watch this film. For anyone else, avoid this film.

Family Guy <> Simpsons. Family Guy >= South Park. I been a fan of The Simpsons since day 1 just when I a kid and grew up on The Simpsons. I lived through Bartmania. When The Simpsons went popular in early '90's, all the other channels tried to jump on and failed miserably. Then in '95, a cult cartoon became a national phenom with South Park, and I also became an immediate fan. Lastly in '99, right after the Superbowl I became a fan of a new series called Family Guy. While the animation is nowhere as good as The Simpsons but not as crude as South Park, it is not comparable to The Simpsons. The dialogue & jokes seem to definitely be more South Park influenced than The Simpsons. At times, Family Guy pushes the envelope a lot more often than South Park (movie & series).

The first season was tamed compared to the 2nd and now finally the 3rd season. Family Guy has become a cult hit even after it was pulled off the air in mid-2000. I tend to find Family Guy to be way more offensive with its jokes than South Park. Its unbelievable the amount of sexual innuendoes and no-hold barred dark humor on just about every subject possible to be offensive on has been poked at in this series and this is aired on a public channel. Cable can be a bit more lenient, but just watching this series on Fox I'm just utterly amazed what it gets away with. While it's tame on the cursing, the humor goes to the absolute absurd. One particular example is when the character Meg is talking to guy, and to keep his attention she blurts out, "Well I can't taste salt." While younger kids who watch this show won't some jokes, adults should be able to pick it up quickly and will just have you rolling on the floor laughing. Actual actors could never do the material on this show. That's what makes it brilliant since its not done by actual actors it allows the extremely creative writers to find things to poke at. This show it tailored for 18-34 male audience with frequent pop culture references from 70's-90's but seems also to have racy humor that I don't think women would find to be humorous.

The last several years of The Simpsons have not been great and at times down right weird and South Park has been hit & miss with each particular episode in the last 2 seaons and they seem to be missing the original formula. This can not be said about Family Guy as it just keeps improving with each episode. If you like your humor very dark with no sugar or cream, this is a series you just can't miss.

There doesn't seem to be enough good movies about the mental asylum anymore. While this film will inevitably be compared to Girl, Interrupted, it really shouldn't be. Girl, Interrupted focuses on girls going crazy, while this movie is mainly focused on three young adult characters trying to figure out how to deal with traumatic amounts of pain after losing a significant other.

The quick story is that a person named Jonathan cracks after his father passes away and attempts to kill himself by taking a stolen car and driving off cliff yet still manages to survive. He is sent to a place for the criminally insane to get rehabilitate. This movie tries to be both a love story & a coming of age story, but I don't know at times which its trying to be. The main plot is that Jonathan is attracted to a patient named Rachel who also has a thing with blood. Jonathan becomes a friend with Toby and they seem to become best friends. Whenever the two would be together, Toby would end up getting in trouble and Jonathan would have to bail him out. I found this subplot to be much stronger in the film and feel it should of been explored a lot further. Another turnoff was the relationship between Toby and Rachel that was barely scratched on yet was a major turning point (no spoiler here) during the film.

The main point of the film was Jonathan learning about himself, how he affects over people, and the changes of good & bad things happening to people. With a great soundtrack of music put in this film, this is recommended film to people who are 16-28 dealing with issues about life, death, losing someone important, and suicide. Just be sure not to bring a significant other, as this is not a date movie.

This film had all the elements I usually can't stand of singing, dancing & Bjork (not a fan of her music). Usually, musicals will snore me. After seeing this was on iMDB's top 250, I decided to give this movie a chance. I was absolutely floored by this movie. This had me moved and I was actually shedding a tear at the depressing ending. I never knew Bjork had it in her to be this multi-talented. I definitely see why this is on the Top #250. While this is truly a love/hate film, this person is now convinced that it is possible to see a totally unexpected film that is actually worth every minute of your time.

I saw this movie the first time when I was eight years old. It still holds a dear part of me of comedy classics, even now at the age of 23. This movie is a true rare classic that leaves no rocks unturned. This movie even stands the test of time, as the jokes are still hilarious even after 25 years. This movie has so many quotes & scenes that will stick to your mind like glue, its amazing. This movie just got re-released in widescreen to theaters, and if you can catch it, do so. Afterwards, be sure to grab the DVD, and grab your friends to watch it. You will watch it, LOL, ROFL, and other acronyms until your gut hurts watching this film. This is about as good as a comedy can get with being too disgusting.

Typically when I see a movie, I see it once, then never really think about it. If I really like a movie, which is not often, I'll watch it again if the chance is given. Anything past twice, is a rarity. Only a small select list of movies I can stand watching more than twice and never get bored. Requiem for a Dream is now on that list. I saw this movie three times in the theaters, and ended up weeping every time at the end. This is truly one of the best films I have ever sat down to watch. Screw D.A.R.E, give this movie to schools, and watch the drug problem disappear. You feel like when watching this movie that you know these characters. These are your brothers, sisters, mothers, blood relatives. It is one of the most gut wrenching films ever. While people are wonder how some films are able to be R when they should be NC-17. The MPAA did a grave injustice of making this NC-17. This is a must see for anyone who wanders the dark side of drugs. While Traffic, also a good film, covered the broad range of drugs from different views, this took the side of the actual user and showed the cold hard reality.

Never heard of it? Good. This is your typical straight to video type movie. While it is watchable, it is so boring, so predictable, and uses about single cliche in film about corrupt cops & seeking revenge. Be sure to skip this along and actually find something with REAL actors and a REAL story.

I know all about the Mitnick story, the "Free Kevin", the story from both sides. I'm well aware how the hacking scene thinks this paints an unfair portrait of hackers. Compared to what is usually painted, this doesn't really paint them too bad. Compared to the really atrocious movie "Hackers", this does a lot better at showing what hacking is really like. You don't hack with a Mac, you hack from a PC in different ways. You get to also see the other try & true techiques of Social Engineering & Dumpster Diving. While any true hacker could point out the blatant lies in the movie (Mitnick & Shimomura never met in person until after the arrest), it was cool that the film made some clear distinctions in terminology. If this movie showed actual hacking, it would of been a snoozer. This was able to keep it a bit more interesting without making it look cheesy to the semiliterate computer user. It's funny how this won't appear in the United States, maybe the US Government is afraid of the truth about how afterwards Mitnick was stripped of his constitutional rights. Watch this film, and be entertained, but don't believe it, as most of it is really fiction.

You ever watch something that you thought was so bad, that for some reason, you couldn't stop watching? It's why we like B-Movies, and just about everything that Aaron Spelling can throw at us. It's also why Undressed is so good to watch. It has 3 simultaneous storylines of different people in relationships, and it's not always completely heterosexual. While most of the time its completely unrealistic (if I myself was getting as much action as the people on this, I wouldn't be watching!), and it has everything that makes it such a bad drama/soap opera (and typical MTV drivel) of bad acting, bad storyline, and cheap 2nd rate actors. It's fun to watch the predictability of the whole episode. This is also what keeps it interesting, as each situation lasts a few episodes, and you just pant out loud wanting to see what's going to happen next. Just when it ends for one story, another starts up in its place. This is something the 16-28 year old audience can watch and relate, maybe for a present relationship, or something that's happened in the past to them.

I should mention before I give my point of view that I had never read the books or comic series before watching this film. I'm just an average anime fan who has watched a fair amount of anime.

After I saw an ad in the paper of it being shown at the independent theater for a showing, I decided to give this a try. I've seen some great anime films in past, and some bad ones. This slides towards the awful side of anime. While I'm sure rotten fruit will be thrown at me for saying that, I just couldn't like the film no matter how much I tried.

While the animation is stellar, the story line and character development never really develops maturely. You constantly see the ending and the struggle of the protagonist & antagonist constantly. The first 40 minutes is seeing dream sequences, then the ending. You don't see it once, you see it over and over again. The ending is at the beginning. They rushed through the magna's, just random people showing up and saying "Hi, we have special powers to save/destroy the world. Nice to meet you." Time was wasted on long drawn out scenes and the battles would be too abrupt.

Now I'm sure the true anime fan will look further into the movie and give better insight. I didn't nor couldn't get that analytical about the movie. While anime tries to do this many times, I just want a good flick, not a lesson in life.

What really irks me the most is that while watching the movie you expect a spectacular ending that'll just floor you and instead it just slaps you in the face while the credits appear saying SUCKER. While admittedly it has fantastic animation, that's all that it really has. Maybe the subtitled version is better (most of the time this is true for anime) but until then the decision is not recommend this film.

With no blood, no sex, just the mighty power of words slithering out of the two main characters. Previous comments has tried to analyze and disect this films intentions, but after being recommended this film, and stumbling upon it while looking for a film for the night, I was for sure not disappointed at the slightest bit. After just watching the first 40 minutes, I had to stop the film just because it was so tough to sit through. After getting back to it, I had my mouth opened and was just dumbfounded and stunned as it continued. Then, at the end, it was truly one of the cruelest things a so-called "friend" could do. While at least "Cruel Intentions" had a semi-happy ending, this was one of the most malevolence (and everything else in the Thesaurus with similiar synomyms, because I could fill this entire page with synomyms) films I'd ever sat through, and not one business shirt was stained with blood. We all say OMG & OMFG a lot on the net to some things, this film gets that abbreviation. You will appreciate it like I did, or will think this is one of the worst films you've ever seen. Gritty, honest, evil.

If there was movie that was to satarize the low end scale of white people of America, this is it. It's like "Ringmaster", only actually worth a couple bucks worth seeing (at the cheap theater or matainee, not full price). Set in New York State, at the place where Yugo's were made in the USA (forgot the town name), you quickly figure out who dunit, but it drags out. Nothing memorable, and some good laughs, but definitely not as good as the hype.

Oh joyous, a film about the false prophet and decyphering the bible code.. with car chases. This was one of the worse films I ever saw produced in 1999, and even had a hard time keeping myself awake to actually finish watching it. Bad acting, no direction, horrorfic storyline, and cheesy action scenes, it all adds up to terrible movie. If I wanted to waste the amount of time I did seeing this movie, I would actually gone to church. The word "crap" should be inserted in the title.

After waiting quite a while to see the preview for this movie, I had wished I had picked better plans. This movie does have some good jokes intertwined with just an overall ho-hum movie of serious predictable cliches and a storyline that reeks. The running joke during the entire movie is the vibration (as seen in the ads), and by the end of the movie you just want to cover your ears by its annoyance. Shandling, Kinnear & Bennett had been in much better flicks in the past, and had better performances. You could tell they didn't put much effort in this film at all. Avoid this film unless you're bored.

I was one of the lucky ones to get into an overbooked preview of Fight Club, and I got to say this is definitely one of top movies so far this year. Even worth it to see several times. This got tons of praise, and they are all right, for once. Men will enjoy the extreme violence in the movie. While the commericals/ads push about the bareknuckle underground fights, that's only about 1/3 of the movie. The rest is a very well-crafted plot along with excellent actors. So skip one of those pay-per-view fights on TV, go see this instead!

Okay, so I might not be able to critique as well some of the past other comments about the film, but I have to suggest this film. I had seen reviews, saying to give this film a try. When I saw it available for rent, I gave it a try, and wasn't disappointed.

This is one film where you'll be laughing out loud, then also covering your face with your hands when horrified by some of the scenes. You aren't horrified by the graphics, but by its content. The scenes with the father/son chat about not able to come, very original. It makes fun of the hollywood cliche of father/son chats, by talking about something completely out of left field.

This is one of the darkest comedy/dramas that I've ever seen so far. The sad truth is, this is also reality. The pedophile, the thief, the loser phone pranker, the lonely neighbor, the artist.. dark truths of what really does happen in society here in the states. Get it, but this isn't for people with the faint heart or easily shocked.

I saw this at a special screening in Austin, Texas. The place was packed (I guess everyone will show up for a free movie) and barely got in. After I sat through the 2 hour movie, I thought I just saw a bad black & white version of Swingers. Right after the movie, Adam Goldberg was doing a Q&A with the audience, and complaining he couldn't get anyone to pickup the film for distribution. He says that Swingers was filming at the same time Goldberg created this film, and scoffed at that film. You know which film was a success, and which one didn't get the nod. There is a reason why. Scotch & Milk attempted to be an artsy-fartsy film, but almost made me fall asleep. It's a film about relationships, friends, barflies, love, and trying to get out from the rut. The character development never established itself, and the flow of the film was jagged. This film will likely never reach past film festivals and private screenings, and you'll be glad it didn't. Goldberg is a decent actor, but directing.. just let the pros do that.