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The Number 23 (2007)
4/10
Awful Film...
25 July 2007
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First off, do not watch this film under any circumstances. Let me elaborate... Okay, well I just watched this. And I absolutely hated it.It sounded good when I heard about it, or at least fun to watch at a theater with friends or. But it wasn't even fun to watch, just annoying. Even the great cast: JimCarrey, Virginia Madsen, and John Noble, were terrible, or not right for the role. I really don't think this was the right role for Jim Carrey. I thought he was terrible. Plus it's far to serious. How could anyone take this seriously? The story and plot are at most times, really dumb, with stupid and silly twists, that are all over the place and messy. Messy film-making. The only really positive thing about this movie is the visual, it did have quite amazing visuals. But that's the problem with most movies these days(mainly horror films). There's far too much stylish movies, with no substance. And this movie is a shallow, empty, emotionless pit. There's no substance to it at all. Especially Carrey's performance, it was totally empty. It's weird that someone like Joel Schumacher could make such a bad film like this, when he's made pretty good films such as Falling Down, Phone Booth, and A Time To Kill. But then again he did make Batman & Robin(1997). I mean come on, batman with nipples, are you f ucking kidding me? He made batman less of a superhero and more of a faggot. Do not watch this film.
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Videodrome (1983)
8/10
Flawed, But Great Movie
24 November 2006
like i said its a flawed movie, like all of cronenbergs movies, but is still a great movie, and very very worthy of a viewing

the main character is James woods, whose great, who plays a low life TV producer who starts to watch a pirated channel called videodrome but soon finds out that its not what it seems, and it brainwashes him and gives him hallucinations

its a great unique one of a kind movie, that gets weirder and weirder, with great acting, photography, sick special effects, etc. definitely a must see for everybody, you'd better have a strong stomach though

Max Renn: Death to Videodrome! Long live The New flesh!
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Elephant (2003)
7/10
One of The Most Beautiful Movies Ever Made
20 August 2006
like i said it is a very beautiful movie, but it also has a few flaws that are a big deal it has some of the best photography/camera-work i have ever seen, it has a wonderful plot and story, very clever too, but his has absolutely terrible acting/dialog, i am glad Gus Van Sant casted unknown people, but i wish he would have found some talent, because pretty much everybody sucks, and that is what ruins the whole movie unfortunately even though it has terrible acting which destroyed the movie, it was a very very good try from Gus Van Sant, who gave it wonderful direction, so i recommend you check this movie out some time, everything is good about it except for the acting
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6/10
Not As Good As People Say It Is
14 August 2006
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like i said its not as good as people say it is, it really isn't that good at all it has no originality, its just like every other movie about courageous stories, people, etc., the acting is okay, but most definitely nothing special, or Oscar-worthy, everything else is flawed, and it really just doesn't have anything good about it, except that it has a good message, and costumes, and it is fairly realistic to that time period, but otherwise it shouldn't have such a high rating or be on the top 250, its all just overrated garbage, which is what Ron Howard has been making lately, I've seen one too many of his bad movies, and i just don't think ill go to any of his other movies anymore i guess i recommend this though, because it is an OK family-like movie
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5/10
Wait A Minute, So What Is So Good About This Movie
12 August 2006
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this is a terrible movie and most definitely does not deserve a high rating or to be on the top 250 it has a lot of action and effects, but everything else is flawed, the acting is terrible, probably the worst of that year that I've seen, with a bunch of other flaws, this movie totally ruins, the whole trilogy, and is a huge huge huge disappointment to me, and i can not see what is so good about it............................................

i do not recommend this movie at all, well only if you want to see tons of action, which is the only thing people go by anymore, if it has tons of action and great effects, its a masterpiece, i just don't get it!!!
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5/10
Absolutely Terrible, Total $h!t
12 August 2006
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like i said this movie is terrible, one of the worst of the year, and i cannot get why it has such a high rating.................................

its predictable, horribly made, it probably could have been good if it was made by Bryan Singer like all the other x-men movies, but instead this total dumb @$$, who hasn't made one good movie in his pathetic, useless career, the acting is absolutely terrible, especially Berry, the only good thing about this movie is the effects and action, which is the only thing people pay attention to anymore, so as long as their is tons of action, blood, guts,good effects, its a master piece, if the rating ever goes over 6.5-7.0 i will trash my computer if you want tons of stupid action, full of cheesy tag lines, that i guess are supposed to be funny, go ahead and watch this movie, i don't even feel right calling it a movie
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8/10
Overrated, Reasonable Try Though
12 August 2006
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it was a good try but has many flaws especially acting..................

David Cronenberg did a pretty good job, but the movie was terrible, all of the acting was forgettable, except for William Hurt's performance, and the story had flaws, and everything went to quickly and messy, among a whole bunch of other flaws, there are some good things about, i think, i just don't now what.............................

it is kinda fun to watch though so i guess if your a David Cronenberg fan, i recommend it, but don't be looking for a good movie when you see it
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9/10
A True Masterpiece, With 2 Great performances
12 August 2006
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like i said it is a masterpiece from John Cassavetes, with two amazing performances and wonderful photography.....................................

it has very good photography, and possibly the best performance from an actress, Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti (definitely her best performance), and another great performance from Peter Falk as Nick Longhetti(one of his best performances), the rest of the acting is flawed, but still pretty good, and overall it has very few flaws........

its about a family...the rock hard husband is married to a woman who has problems and has been acting very strange, then the rest of the film shows the madness getting larger and larger, and very challenging, definitely one of the best film of all time, about that kind of madness.........................................................

i strongly recommend this!!!!!!
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United 93 (2006)
9/10
The Best Film of 2006!
12 August 2006
like i said its the best film of 2006, a true gem, worthy of remembrance for along time, and should most definitely win an Oscar......

it was shot wonderfully,and cleverly, it makes you feel like you were there, and makes you uncomfortable, the actors are so good, it almost doesn't seem like their acting at all, it better win at least a couple Oscars, it is much better than the recent movie world trade center, which is total crap, the last 10-15 minutes are very difficult to watch, and almost everybody in the theater has tears in there eyes( i admit! so did i) when they overpower those worthless mother f***in terrorists is the hardest to watch, especially when the they show out the window and the plane gets closer and closer to the ground, and the it goes blank, they couldn't have done those few minutes better............

i strongly recommend you see this and not the world trade center
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8/10
Another Masterpiece From Martin Scorsese!
11 August 2006
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like i said its a masterpiece, and is definitely underrated, but i guess i get why some people don't like it.................................

all of the acting was great especially from Cage,Goodman,Rhimes, and Sizemore, but for some reason Patricia Arquette really annoys me, but i guess she was OK, it was shot wonderfully and cleverly which is the main highlight from this excellent film, but sometimes i guess it does get a little to weird but it always changes and gets better, when it starts to wander around, mainly the performances and the visual of the movie save it, it is definitely a strange kind of film for Scorsese to experiment with, but he did an excellent job, definitely does really compare to any of his other well known movies, but is probably one of my favorites of his........................................................

this film is about an exhausted, little eccentric paramedic, who is seeing ghosts, a spirit of a little girl that he didn't save is what haunts him most and wont go away, the film itself follows him in three days,with three different paramedics and a daughter of a man he brings in to a hospital..........................................................

i most definitely recommend this movie to anybody, but don't be expecting it to be like anything else Scorsese has made
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5/10
It Was a Good Try
11 August 2006
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like i said it was a good try from oliver stone, worthy of remembrance, but man this movie bites!! it was shot pretty well, and Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena were great, especially Pena, those two performances were the only real highlights of the movie, everybody else pretty much sucked(except for Maggie Gyllenhaal), it had some talent but it was all wasted, even Maria Bello wasn't all that great, and that kid, Anthony Piccininni, was absolutely terrible, he almost destroyed the whole movie, do us a favor a just stop your career here, be like a lawyer or doctor instead, I'm sure in time this movie will probably have like a 7.8 rating or some other bull $*!@ rating that it doesn't deserve, and maybe an Oscar, probably because what its about,9/11, and how important i guess it is, and that its about two very courageous men, but its pretty much is just a romance like every other dumb movie lately, if u wanna watch a movie about 9/11 thats good, watch united 93, which is probably the best film of the year!!

this bull $h@! film is about a few cops who go in to rescue people from the twin towers, and some of the building collapses, killing them all but two, John McLoughlin(Cage) and William J. Jimeno(Pena), who are trapped under rubble for hours, but then are saved........................

so it was a good try from Oliver Stone, but just really wasn't a good movie at all, so i don't recommend this movie
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5/10
wonderfully made, but has many flaws
2 August 2006
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like i said it was made wonderfully, but the movie has a lot of flaws in it, mostly the story, etc.

it was shot brilliantly, which i think is the best thing about it, some of the best cinematography I've seen from a movie this year, Paul Giamatti was excellent as Cleveland, but hes good in pretty much every movie hes in, Bryce Dallas Howard was good too, the rest of the cast has a couple good actors but then some aren't very good,it has a very simple, disappointing story line, you'd think M. Night Shyamalan could come up with some better stuff, but he takes the movie too seriously and forces us to take it seriously, and at times its just plain stupid, and just ruins the whole movie, it would have been good as like a children's fairy tale or something for little kids, its also the first movie I've been disappointed with that M. Night Shyamalan made, but it was a good try, it can be enjoyable to watch at times, so i guess i recommend it, id wait till it comes out on video though
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5/10
its OK , just like most musicals back then
18 July 2006
its an average corny musical,from the mid 40s, that has many flaws, but can still be kinda fun to watch, if you're in to older movies....

it has an OK cast including Joan Davis, Jack Haley, Philip Terry, Martha Holiday, Ethel smith, Margaret Hamilton, Glenn Tryon, Jane Greer,Audrey Young.......

the musicals parts of the movie are OK but very corny and kinda stupid, like most musicals back then i guess, so i cant totally say i recommend this, but it wasn't totally bad i guess, if you do want to see it, good luck finding it.....
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8/10
a great movie!
18 July 2006
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like i said its a great movie, one of the best movies to come out of France, and if you liked Delicatessen you'll love this movie too, its better too

its great visually and so is the sets and little gadgets they made up, great acting from the whole cast,especially Daniel Emilfork. it has some flaws and rough edges but overall a really great, funny, enjoyable film, that is very underrated, i strongly recommend it

the film is about a man (who is tormented by not being able to have dreams), Krank(Emilfork) who decides to kidnap very young children, to take their dreams, but since they don't like him and are scared of him he instead of good dreams gets their nightmares, and when a man from a circus,One(Perlman), gets his little brother stolen from him he tries to find the mad man, with help from a little girl (Vittet)and some other very strange and unique characters he puts and end to the madness and saves his little brother
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7/10
Funny and Good Documentary About Sexual Matters In the 60's
22 June 2006
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like i said its funny but its pretty darn good too.......................

the film is about people being filmed without knowing it and getting their reactions to unusual encounters mainly with nudity, like a naked lady asking for directions, one asks some ppl to kiss her, and a naked girl in an elevator, and then has video of ppl discussing the film after they watched it...........

so if you haven't seen this and you like stuff like candid camera and things like that you'll like this, but this is also more than that, so ya i recommend it, if you can ever find it
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6/10
Pretty good family flick
21 June 2006
its pretty good but then it has a few flaws, mainly acting, but still good........

the photography was amazing and very very well done, the acting was kinda cheap, it was like the acting in most of these family films i guess, William Hurt was great too, but the little kid really annoyed me because he sucks at acting, and it also has a good story, and a good meaning among a few other flaws and some other things that are good about it.....

so if you want to see a pretty good family film, you should check this one out
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10/10
One of My Favorites!!
16 June 2006
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One of my favorites, just an excellent, thought provoking movie, with some flaws, but still good.........

One of the first movies where Jim Carrey proves he can act, very well. Most of the cast is good, highlights include ed Harris as the Truman show creator and laura linney as Truman's wife. Visually stunning, and very very very fun to watch. Its a good thing Peter Weir directed it, because something like this takes a lot of creativity. It was also shot very well and the cameras barely move. The movie has some other flaws but is still a masterpiece, it doesn't matter what kind of movies you like, this one is fun to watch for everybody!!! Watch it!!!Two thumbs up!!
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Cube (1997)
7/10
Its Watchable
16 June 2006
its a very watchable movie, it has its moments, every once and awhile.....

the story is great, and visually the movie is amazing, but the movie suffers from underdevelopment, the acting, which is OK but not that good, surprisingly Wayne Robson is good for this kind of role as the fugitive, and its just too stupid sometimes, and unbelievable but i guess overall its pretty good.....................................

so if you are like a die hard science fiction fan or whatever i guess i would recommend this film...............................................but otherwise i don't now if i would recommend this for other people
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10/10
A Strange But Great Movie
16 June 2006
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its strange but very very very good.......................................

a great movie, superbly acted, definitely Jim carrey's and Kate winslet'sbest performances ever!!and everybody else was good too, including, Elijah woods,Kirsten dunst,mark ruffalo........,with great story,great photography, and a great perspective of things, but if Jim carrey wasn't in this i probably wouldn't like it as much.................

its about a couple who to take a procedure to erase all of their memories of each other and their relationship, but it isn't that simple...............

great movie and if you like carrey go get it now, i strongly recommend it!!!!!!!!!!
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City of God (2002)
10/10
The Best Movie I've Seen For A Long Time!
16 June 2006
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like i said its definitely the best movie I've seen for awhile, and i have it on my top 100, its disturbing but still very very good.........

it was shot very very good and cleverly, the acting was amazing!!! some of the best I've seen for along time, and every other thing was just as great

its about city of god, a housing project, that became one of the most dangerous places in Rio De Janeiro, that tells the story about a lot of different people, mostly very young, growing up in a very very violent place where children kill children, adults kill adults, children kill adults, and adults kill children.....

very disturbing, but maybe not disturbing enough, but still very good, so go watch it now, if u don't mind a little blood
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9/10
A Knockout Thriller!!
16 June 2006
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who said people cant make any good thrillers these days...............

unlike so many others like this that have failed, this is by far the best thriller for along time!! robin Williams gives one of the most creepiest best performances ever, i had no idea Williams could act to this extant, and the rest of the cast isn't the greatest but still good, shot wonderfully, makes the setting very creepy, like the store Williams works in was greatly made,just everything about it is great!!!!!! its about a very lonely, but nice man who works at a one hour photo lab, who starts to become absolutely obsessed with this family that comes by the lab every once and awhile, and even starts to spy on them, watch them...

so if you like clever thrillers you should most definitely watch this amazing thriller, two thumbs up!!
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4/10
Not Very Good
16 June 2006
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it actually turned out to be a little better than i thought this cheap budget would be, but still very bad...............................

Dennis hopper was pretty good, and the rest of the cast was OK, it was shot pretty well, and has a storyline, that makes you want to see it, but don't please..........

its about a serial killer known as the prophet and has killed again,and sends a postcard to Vincent swan(detective, but detective swan(hopper) had killed him a few years ago, but he come to a conclusion that hes a copycat or he actually didn't kill him, so in the rest of the story the prophet leaves clues with his mutilated victims and detective swan tries to solve the mystery
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Rashomon (1950)
9/10
A Storytelling Masterpiece
16 June 2006
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Another masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa.....

i just rented this, and at first i didn't like very much, but then it starts to sink in for how good it is, the acting is great especially Toshirô Mifune, it was shot very good for an older movie, and great storytelling, and just everything else, the chick kind of annoys me though, she was bad, but everyone else was great, which is why its #62 on the top 250

so if u haven't seen this and you like older foreign films, i recommend you get it right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!two thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Waking Life (2001)
9/10
A Great Accomplishment
16 June 2006
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this was i great movie and i don't now why no one wouldn't like it...........

the animation was really cool,and I've never seen anything quite like it, but id like to,kinda makes you sick sometimes, but still really cool, and the story is great too........................................

its about a guy and his dream, that he cant seem to wake up from, meeting lots of strange unique characters, discussing strange but interesting things about life and everything around them may be a little boring sometimes but still amazing, i strongly recommend it!!
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The New World (2005)
9/10
a great piece of art
13 June 2006
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i rented this thinking it would be another one of those OK action-romance films that are kinda fun to watch, but its a lot more than that...

its an amazing piece of art,the cinematography was amazing, i cant believe it didn't win that Oscar, the acting is good, especially the newcomer who plays pocahontas and so is colin farrell, and the rest of the cast, yes its kinda long and i guess i kinda understand why people think its a little boring, people who say that probably went to it expecting it to be non stop action, but it isn't, its art, and to weird for their stupid brains to grasp

it might be historically incorrect or whatever but its still an amazing accomplishment, and maybe not for some people, but i loved it
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