sunnuntai 3. marraskuuta 2019

The Lighthouse (2019)

My girlfriend made me see this with her & I'm contemplating if I should break up with her because it was that bad.

I rarely go to the movies. I vastly prefer watching a brick wall at home. I'm trying to think of an adjective or noun that's worse than dumb: pretentious, bloated, boring, pointless, nonsensical.

The majority of scenes were either the two if them drinking heavily (to the point where neither of then are sober enough to care) or taking turns pleasuring themselves to the image of mermaids, squids and slimy sea serpents.

Could have been a really great movie, but it made no sense. Two guys in a lighthouse. one weird, the other going crazy, and a mermaid.

It's in black and white. They drink; they fight; they both are insane.

I gave it a rating of 1.

All the 10 star reviews must have been from people involved with the film. Defoe's "aarrgg" speech quickly becomes tiresome.

Plot: 1
Story: 1
Sanity: 0
Final verdict: 1/10

maanantai 22. toukokuuta 2017

Twin peaks (1990)

"I would read some books rather than see this show anymore!"

 

All of the characters are very odd - like in the movie "Fargo" - but not humorous like in that movie. I hope wisdom prevails and this kind of nonsense should be avoided in future.

Absolute nonsense, even though the first season to some extent was o.k. I watched it 3 times just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. It was so weird and I had heard so many comments about how wonderful Twin Peaks was...

 

Season 1 was tolerable I guess, but James Hurleys drive tour was total waste of time. I literally could not force myself to watch the entire second season. Only the first 10 and then the last maybe 3 episodes - because this is the most overrated title ever made and I have it on DVD.

 It was so boring and frustraitin and the ending was just more than enough to take for. Why did I not just Quit?

The frustratingly-slow pace of the show seals the deal. slow, slow, SLOW-moving story... people must feel obligated to rate it so high. Or surely for some elderly folk this brings back memories... but how come they come to imdb to give a vote, its beyond me! Being old is simply not a good argument alone.

 

So many unnecessary scenes... so little proper criminal investigation... This is not life imitating art, as much as art doing its best to imitate completely mindless ideas. What exactly is their criteria of what is original? Sure, compared to the "Bill Cosby Show" it's original...but its alleged wild ingenuity, or whatever... more like rather silly stuff with dwarfs and other Fellini-eccentricities.

Kyle MacLachlan (I should get a medal for bothering to spell his name right)... the apparent quirkiness of the disjointed characters was just too much to bare more than 3 times.

 

some people have given it 10/10, so I tried it. But I could not care about those people, except agent Cooper and Gordon Cole... and maybe the sherif and deputy Hawk. And Lucy and Andy were rather funny, and Leland Palmer was well played, and Shelly and Donna and Annie were cute and/or pretty. The main cast did not irritate me that much.

 

Glad I watched it 3 times so now I can talk about it when somebody brings it up.

maanantai 4. marraskuuta 2013

Ghostbusters (1984)

"The best part is the song."
"Who ya gonna call?!"
Another popular film that to me is simply awful.

Beware of all the positive reviews, of which I have no reasonable explanation.

It was so boring I felt like shooting myself... couldn't they have made it less freaking boring?

I sat down to re-live the magical experience with my children (aged 6 and 8), but to my disappointment, discovered that the film really hasn't aged that well. Despite some classic moments of dry humour from Bill Murray, and the impressive sight of Sigourney Weaver's lovely, long legs, the film just isn't as great as my memory had led me to believe.
This film is witless - it's true; it has no wit.

The ghosts are nothing like what real ghosts are
 
beasts that yell out Zuul.

The great Gozer's plan that started with the Hitites in 6000 B.C. What is that about?

The Marshmallow Man'?!? What the hell is that?!

When the final showdown between the good guys and the bad guys is taking place, they sort of just stand around there, cracking weak jokes, and then shooting off some low-budget flames.
Before I first saw the movie I had noticed that it had a huge success in box-office and,also,the "imdb" users had given a rating of about 7,5/10.

I think that it deserves a rating of 3.5/10

If only more people would take off their rose-tinted glasses, they'd be able to see this for what it really is.
I understand that this movie is pretty old.

There wasn't nearly enough action to keep me interested.

The film starts in a satisfacory way,with some good jokes-especially from Bill Murray.

Bill Murray is hilarious. Peter Venkman is one of his great character, a scientist for whom the pursuit of knowledge comes second to chasing girls.

Badly written, but could have been an ok film had it been done slightly more seriously.

Yes, it has a great theme tune.

Theme song is very catchy, but it is not going to be a part of my DVD collection any time soon.

maanantai 28. lokakuuta 2013

Back to the Future (1985)

The most overrated film ever made. Definitely not worth the hype.

I always regard the eighties as the weakest decade for movies.
"There are of course the kind of complications that usually follow from time travel."
Weekend movies are made just to make us have some fun while we watch It.

This one is about time travel, time travel to the past.

But there are of course the kind of complications that usually follow from time travel.

Science Fiction = Fiction based on scientific facts.

Flux Capacitor and time traveling dogs are hardly supported by science!

This film is not science fiction. It is fantasy. Science fiction should make some attempt at plausibility.

It's 1955 now and we note that the state of the town is rather better in most respects. No garbage on the streets.
"It was irresponsible for a film to show such potentially fatal activities as skateboarding on the back of vehicles."
J. Fox tried to look ultra cool, but he couldn't.

He is constantly on the move, frenetic and frantic, forever running to or from one thing or the other, and shouting "Doc!" a lot.

You can't help thinking someone as boyish and short could never really be so cool.

Christopher Lloyd was cool but not properly utilized!
The thrill of this movie for me begins when Marty travels back in time.

Teenage girl who will become his Mom falls for him.

The movie Back to the Future (1985), allowed me to live this fantasy.


Pros:
+ The famed Delorean automobile... he was driving away at a heightened rate of speed in the automobile.
+ Biff gets everything he deserves.
+ Anybody who hates this movie probably hates babies and laughs at people when they're a few dollars short
+ If Sigmund Frued saw this movie he'd be foaming and frothing at the mouth

Cons:
(-) I was annoyed by the background music.
(-) Marty's continual, idiotic 'slip-ups' with 1985 references in 1955 give me a headache and make me wonder if he's not mentally defective.
(-) "Marty's" father (Crispin Glover) was a disgusting wuss.
(-) The close relationship, between mother and son, was a little over the top for me.
(-) Lloyd's overacting could also grow irritating for some.

Summary:
I like this movie okay.

Overall the idea of going back in time was awesome! However, the whole idea of my mother being attracted to me was very creepy. I believe that many of the movie goers would agree with me.

Not something that I would really want to have in my DVD collection.

keskiviikko 23. lokakuuta 2013

Silver linings playbook (2012)

"bipolar is pretty much curable if a person meets the right hot girl"
AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

Terrible,terrible,terrible.Don't waste any penny on it.

One star because zero stars isn't an option, nor is a black hole icon.

This is my 1st review because I had to say something about this movie just to warn others about it

What's not to hate?

This film endorsed gambling, rewarded incredible stupidity and risk-taking

mess of a movie in terms of any sense of reality, common sense, and human behavior.

both unbelievable and uncomfortable!

a lot of "blá-blá-blá", and so on...

You want to make a movie about mental illness, fine. You want to bill it as a heartwarming comedy, NOT fine.

Avoid this sickening film at all costs... It will disturb you to the point of tears!

The audience I was with didn't laugh that much.
"these two do not a happy & balanced love match make"
Not at all a good representation of people

From the first minute of the film you are subjected to people shouting at each other

boy and girl get thrown into a situation where they have intense prolonged contact

She is mean and unlikable

They were playing ugly characters: rude, vulgar, lots of foul language and bad behavior, mistreating and abusing each other.

I don't understand why people are analyzing it way to deeply and enjoying

Try as I might, felt zero affinity for most of these characters.

I must be missing the point somewhere???

Every thing you can imagine is found here, but you will come out with nothing.

enough to make me physically ill to watch (my wife couldn't even sit through the entire film).

I was ready to leave after about 40 minutes

it's unimaginable why anyone would enjoy this film.

There is a apparently a large, devoted audience for maudlin, feel-good romances involving annoying people

there really isn't anything groundbreaking here. There are hundreds of mental patient movies.

I can't believe people clapped at the end, morons.



Maybe they were depicting a clinical condition accurately or brilliantly, but that ain't entertainment to me.

the lead characters bond during discussion of psychotropic meds that they've been taking for their various mental disturbances. This is a new low in cute-meet.

I went to see an Oscar nominated comedy. I got a grown man punching his mother in the face.
"such a shame the movie focused so heavily on these two sad sacks"
So confused as to what about this movie is so amazing

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrh... this frustrates me.

film's primary protagonist is portrayed in such a disturbing way

not all depressed people get manic and destroy things at the drop of a hat or run out and sleep with a bunch of people.

He wears a trash bag to work up sweat...but never seems to sweat. He was supposed to be out of shape, but is definitely not out of shape when they show flashbacks.

deNiro's character is willing to throw away his entire family's future based on nothing other than an idiotic hunch

dad who obviously passed his mental issues on to his son

characters were either too aggravatingly loud and/or lame to keep me interested or root for them.

I sincerely do not understand what it is the academy saw in this movie to nominate it for 8... EIGHT Oscars! Are they paying them to nominate the movie?

I wanted to like this movie, I really did.

Most films I hate only draw comments from idiots.

Truly speaking, it is unfair to rate it 1/10, but I did so just to lower its general rating

I didn't hate it before, but people were appreciating it way too much which I think this movie doesn't deserve, so I hate it now.

But to be honest, the movie is a crap.

torstai 4. heinäkuuta 2013

The Watchmen

"This movie is about a bunch of washed up HUMANS with no powers."
"B u t i t m a k e s n o s e e n n n s e !!!"
"Watchmen" is a very bad movie, and I am one of the few people who have the guts to say it!

I consider myself a very open-minded person, I can enjoy over the top violence, gore etc. but this???

After watching 300 my expectations were ridiculously high but I did not expect this from Zack Snyder.

A boring plot that moves along like your Grandma's childhood memories.

I've never been to a movie that spent this many hours being bad.

There were all these silly side sub plots that totally confused the storyline! The movie jumps around way to much, doesn't have a solid plot line, bored the hell out of me!

There were just too many plots happening all at once, very very very long introduction.

The plot is dizzily boring and confusing.
"never-ending series of meaningless dialogues"
The book may be very good (friends tell me it is), but I can verify that the movie is awful.

Events and character choices just didn't make sense to me!!

It is a constant and never-ending series of meaningless dialogues

I just could not wait for the impending nuclear holocaust because then I would be able to go home. And I'm actually a very peaceable person...

I really don't understand people who are saying they will watch this over and over!?
I don't dislike Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel or Leonard Cohen.

I cared less about the blue penis

the giant blue Smurf who's genitalia seem to make their appearance with ever increasing frequency for no apparent reason.

The constantly flashing big blue penis was already quite disturbing/distracting in itself, but not as much as the script itself.
The "heroes" allow millions to die because they are too crappy at being heroes 
The movie does not manage to make me feel connected to any of the characters. This is the main weakness to me.

The Comedian is the only one I loved straight away but he dies within 5 minutes.

I found myself caring only about Rohrschach.

'Rorschach'. The only character that you actually felt anything for.

The one shining light in this movie was the performance of Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. Of course he sounded like a conservative so they had to kill him off before the movie ended.

Nite Owl is a geek. He's the kind of classmate who's name you wouldn't remember after 1 year.

Silk Spectre II was horrible. All she does is have sex with the guys without too much of a pause between them.
"Worse than Shakespeare!"
It amazes me how much emotional baggage these people in their stupid costumes can carry around with them.

a bunch of boring people who think that they can save the world.

it has hardly any plot to speak of! Both my girl-friend and I vented our anger about this fact after the screening

Silk Spectre II's life was a joke and so was this movie.

The rescue scene followed by the sex scene just about sums up the whole film - it was just non-arousing, boring and pointless.

Recall that extra homework you got after behaving badly at school? Well, I at least do, and this movie is it. Worse than Shakespeare written on paper, if that means anything.

The only time I paid attention was when someone's bone popped out or someone's arms got chopped off.

PS.
I found more than 150 reviews with 1/10 rating at IMDB. I only had the time to study 50 of them.

torstai 13. kesäkuuta 2013

Where the boring and depressed things are (2008)

"bizarre behavior which totally embarrasses the viewer"
"The monsters on the island are nothing more than large Muppet like creations."
I honestly didn't get it. The wild things were mean to each other, the wild things were mean to the boy, no one was happy (especially my kids).

Our nearly seven-year-old daughter and her friend were bored to tears, our two-year-old was freaked out, and our whole family felt simply awful afterwards.

I think Saw VI would have felt more uplifting than this.
"growling and wearing the stupid wolf costume -whoa now that was disturbing."
the wild things had scowls on their faces the whole time and walked around in a kind of trance like state glaring and yelling at each other.

It's not wacky or funny. Not colorful or exciting. There's only about 10 minutes of what I'd call "fun".

It's troubling, confusing for children, confusing for adults (as in WTF?), and overall pretty pathetic.

Max never solves any of the monsters problems by the time he leaves

he comes across as a neurotic schizophrenic who suffers from ADD and multiple personality disorders,he also looks like he's on drugs half the time.
"why don't the monsters try and eat Max when he was one of the worst kings they ever had?"
It looked like a fun book for a kid when I looked at the cover illustration, but when I read it, it came across as silly nonsense.

I remember reading "Where the wild things are" many, many times.

how do you turn a nine sentence children's book into a movie?

I thought that the reworking of the story in this way was unnecessary.

This movie did not follow the book! I understand the book was short, but come on, at least it kinda made sense!


PS.
Carol's model of the island did not actually match the island.

PPS.
it is never explained what Carol has against Terry and Bob

lauantai 16. helmikuuta 2013

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Official Tag-lines: 
"Avoid this film at all cost."
"Stay away!"
In my long career of watching movies I have built a strong immunity system against terrible films.

In the theatre, probably 15-20 people walked out before it was even over. I kept watching because I COULD NOT BELIEVE that any movie could be this bad.

In fact, I didn't see anything I liked.

Boring! A movie about two men on a drug binge is boring! And lifeless too.

Unpleasant to watch, unpleasant to think about afterwards. I'm surprised it's not in the Bible as a Missing Plague.

uuuuuugh.

Benicio Del Toro was alright though.

Johnny Depp's acting was good.

Depp and Toro are both considered two of Hollywood's sexiest men
I did like the monsters in the bar scene.

the carpet pattern swirling, that wasn't bad

The cinematography, set design and location were great.

two heavy drug addicts are somewhat funny to watch.
 
how mega brilliant is Hunter S Thompson's original book?

If some day any of my kids try to use drugs, my punishment will be forcing them to watch this movie

I give this a 2/10.

(Each line is taken from individual review with 1/10 points rating and nothing else. There is no shortage of negative reviews.)

lauantai 29. joulukuuta 2012

LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

"Is this movie based on a book?"

This film is perhaps a good movie

This was like watching a very prolonged game of dungeons and dragons.


a 3 hour Sinbad-Hercules-Xena Warrior Princess sword & sorcery adventure

Some of the fight scenes are good in places



There are now only two movies that made me sleep in the theater. They are "Wag the Dog" and "Lord of the Rings."

BORING with a capital B!

The hobbits are dumb and small, the wizards are not magic.

As for the rest of the cast, a good bath wouldn't hurt them.



You´re all victims of a great advertising-campaign.

I have to give this 1 out of 10 just to counter-act all the perfect scores that the geeks have awarded it.


I beg of you people on this site to vote 1/10


Am I the only person in the world?



I can not put into words the hatred I have for this movie. The hatred comes from the depth of my soul. I HATED it!!!!!! The first half hour was pretty cool.


This movie has a very disappointing ending.


this movie has no ending!


people said it is a trilogy and has three parts



in the long term, it will be another Willow.

It is impossible for me to tell you how

sunnuntai 16. joulukuuta 2012

The Elephant Man (1980)

"To see a man, who has a troubled life"

If you're looking for sad drama about a freak, and doctor who tries to make him act like a human being and socialize him, then this is a movie made for you.

The difficult life of a man who was mocked by all and sundry solely due to an inexplicable deformity of his face.

Grotesque vision of 19th century England as an era of absolute inhumanity.

The dark cold streets of the 1880's East End, streets filled with the unfortunate, the dirty, the poor...

Hideous old times which were truly horrible in which a human being had no qualms about making mockery of another human being... It was a tough time for mankind.


If Merrick wasn't in his room, which was specifically made for him, he never had it easy.



He didn't look like an elephant but his head looked more like fresh ginger

And that's probably what Lynch tried to accomplish.

The elephant man has always been a marvelous character to comprehend.


The high society of ancient times wanted to be in the company of "The Elephant Man"
"Nice story, but it could have been nicer."
I would expect more people to find this movie a bit boring and not entertaining... I am sure that pretty much nobody finds this movie entertaining and enjoyable.

It is fair that this film will be tragic because it is explaining the life of a tragic individual.

Apparently, plastic surgery was far in the future when Treves practised medicine.


Moralising narratives are at the heart of many

Call me shallow if you will, but I don't look to Hollywood to teach me the meaning of life or reinforce my moral values.

I stare at people with abnormalities even though I know it is wrong of me to do so.


LINK TO ONE MORE COOL PICTURE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrfoxy/4416585939/

keskiviikko 5. joulukuuta 2012

Planet of the Apes (1968)

"roam free, roam naked"
Simply awful! It doesn't deserve even one star! 5/10
Yoke who falls into a time zone and comes out nude and cursing

"Get your stinkin' paws off me you damn dirty ape!"

shouting all the time


Astronauts land on a planet where apes are in charge

Charlton Heston's pants come down a few times


The world is being invaded by apes, but this movies portrays the invasion so poorly that it's hard to know Earth is being invaded.

'Planet of the Apes' just kind of ends at one point, nothing really happens... "You Maniacs! You blew it up!" ...and you wonder, what happened


There were a bunch of seqeuls... and then there was a remake

the first time I ever remember feeling depressed.

lauantai 1. joulukuuta 2012

Clockwork Orange (1971)

"What is everyone talking about?"
"Was Kubrick On Crack?"
How come they talk so funny?

Does this film take place in the future? (i mean the future for the people of the time when the film was made)

Set in the future is it?


Anybody else get a few chuckles from this movie?

Is it a reasonable response? Is it over the top?


Why does Alex's mother have purple hair?

What is meant by "a clockwork orange"?
If it's nor Cockney, what the hell is it?


why did Roger Ebert give this film a bad review?

Did we watch the same movie?"

Does he really want us to identify with the antisocial tilt of Alex's psychopathic little life?

get my point?

is there anybody else in this ward with you?

"Is this some sort of sequel to 2001?"
Alex is living in a society we don't really see (in the movie at least). So how can we judge "society values?"

What am I supposed to feel?

Is it to show how bad we are as people?


Should I be more disturbed by the violence?

Did Anybody else find parts of this Movie Hilarious?

a guilty person, perhaps even someone guilty of a horrible crime?


Is Alex a villain?

do we really care about what happens in the end?


Was the above review usefull to you?

Do you get it now?

Let's move on, shall we?

perjantai 23. marraskuuta 2012

The Shining (1980) 2/2 (what?)

"the ghost make dad go crazy"

"the poster has his face sticking through a hole in a door."
just walking around endlessly looking at kitchens.

suspenseful music

Somehow a black man enters the hotel

Could this be the same mind that gave us Easy Rider? and Dr. Strangelove?

(i really gotta watch 2001 again cause i really didn't get it)


The little kid is weird

Why is he yelling "redrum" instead of just "murder"???? 

why it's backwards and requires a mirror

I drive to work and back (and sometimes to the store or to visit my cats) almost every day 

after so much time behind Riding Danny the last thing you were expecting to find was two murdered sisters.



Can someone please explain

This movie is about a man who likes to shout things through gaps in doors.

the poster has his face sticking through a hole in a door.


I am not convinced that Jack Torrence is a sane man


The young boy putting on that voice was really annoying and there was no need for it although the voice is probably supposed to symbolize a invisible friend

if you want to let a child see this, even if they are tough, make sure that they understand what they are watching.

Jake saw a naked "ghost" and he was so happy. that's not right, he is married.


It is weird that the movie is so different than the book

I made a little research and I found out a logical explanation to everything that happens in this film

Hotel seems a lot scarier due to the 70's interior design.

The Shining (1980) 1/2 (Hated it)

"I'd like to smack the people who tell me it's the scariest movie ever made."

"Heeeeeeeeeere's Johnny"
it shouldn't be considered a horror film but rather a comedy

He is a caretaker and must take care (duh) of the hotel during the winter

The only horrifying thing about it is how it became so popular.

I found this rubbish film in the horror section. If I owned a video store I'd put it in the BORING section. 


I never understood what is the big deal about Stanley Kubrick.

A Clockwork Orange had so many ugly scenes and unlikeable characters. The music was horrible too.

"if the filmmaker is a genius, then the film is a work of genius and must be excellent."

He is one of those directors who produces very long, boring movies

Try watching a few scenes on fast forward, and you'll get the joke.


fans of the far larger Stephen King world were severely disappointed.

Stanley Kubrick f*cked Stephen King's book big time!!!


I ask again, how is this scary? How?

Friday the 13th was nominated for worst pic the same year and the movie is 100% scarier and better than this movie.

Everyone talks about the bicycle scene with amazement. Yes, it was interesting, but...

The hatchet scene is the best (the only best) scene of the movie.

Then there is that ridiculous hedge maze.

yeah, there is no maze in the book


The end is the worst ending ever possible

SHELLY DUVALL=Deserved to die, she was that annoying.

She looks like Olive Oyl from the POPEYE cartoons.

She was just annoying and I was pleading with the movie for her death.

What can I say? I would have killed this mealy mouthed, butt ugly, whiny woman long before he did.


There really was nobody for me to cheer for.

The kid talking to his finger is another idiotic

being locked up with those two would put anyone's nerves on edge.

torstai 15. marraskuuta 2012

Dead Poets Society (1989)

"I had a teacher who told us that we really needed to watch it"
He wastes no time making an impact on his students, saying "Carpe Diem," or "Seize the day" to them.
a film that explores the idea of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day)

the simple motto of "carpe diem"

which is Latin for 'Seize the day'.

Carpe Diem, because the days don't stand still

seize the day

enjoying life, and thinking "Carpe Diem"

It has a good message: "Carpe diem"... I completely agree with that

those moments, aha, life was "WOW" then. Carpe diem, indeed!

Poetry on the screen

not only "Carpe Diem", but a certain phrase from a Walt Whitman poem will take on incredible meaning and be remembered forever.

my barbaric YAWP over the rooftops

over the rooftops of the world!

the lesson has been learned; carpe diem, seize the moment

lives worth living and beautiful - Carpe Diem, Seize the Day!

realize " Carpe Diem "

carpe diem! Go rent this movie!
One of the things that John Keating emphasized was "Carpe Diem"
a cliché, a cinematic masterpiece

will leave you chanting Carpe Diem

and still "Seize the day!"

Seize the day! Carpe Diem! Fine words

Carpe Diem everyone

I mean it! Carpe diem!

I could watch it over and over

philosophy of life, summed up by the Latin phrase

Carpe diem. Even if it kills me.

The spirit of Carpe Diem

got a tattoo on my arm that says "Carpe Diem"

the iconic 'carpe diem'

the whole "carpe diem"

I'm never bored with it

keskiviikko 14. marraskuuta 2012

Jurassic Park (1993)

"I only watched it to see the dinosaurs"

who haven't seen this movie (there are people like that?)

Directed by the mighty Steven Speilberg

I remember being a kid when I first watched it

Never before 1993 had dinosaurs been so breathtaking

Park bedazzled us with dinosaurs. Dinosaurs that are EXTINCT.



awesome T-Rex

Behemoths, Spinosaurious, Stegosauruses... triceratops and Brachiosaurius accompanied by a herd of Parasaurolophus.

Grand Revelation with the brachiosaurs

raptors and the T-Rex, the scene with the T-Rex

T-Rex chases the jeep

they are chased by the T-Rex

see the dinos and enjoy a relaxing time at the park. Could anything go wrong, at the time it doesn't seem like it



I even had a backpack with a Velociraptor 

1993 was perhaps the best year

maanantai 12. marraskuuta 2012

Vertigo (1958)

"basically, no one does anything logical in this film"

"terribly annoying with something continuously spinning."
The movie is hard to understand and it drags on for too long.

It's all about an old guy in a car who is chasing a woman

I know all film plots are naturally goofy

Jimmy Stewart on some wild goose chase following a friend's wife to see if she's possessed by a demon(?!?)



The actors are either plastered or made of wood.

as if they're half-asleep on drugs.

How anyone could begin to fall in love with such a frigid, boring personality as played by Kim Novak is beyond comprehension.

She is consistently out-performed by trees, buildings and props

I sat in my seat wishing it would end



James Stewart was about to faint after standing on a chair

clearly far too old to be playing romantic leads at this point in his career

slow moving character

he's mute, staring and unresponding in the hospital

Scottie's problems go deeper than his understandable fear of heights.



An amazingly sexist viewpoint

Stewart's character becomes so obsessive and controlling

Why would she allow easygoing Scottie to coerce her into wearing all those new clothes and unraveling her disguise after seeing that he was suspicious?

a man's attempt to reshape a woman into the image of a woman he thought he loved and lost, not realizing they are the same woman

He ought to have been served a restraining order.

Every movie I've seen him in he's been the same idiotic dimwit. His intended affable, lovable goofy exterior only irritates, frustrates and makes you want to set fire to the videotape



There were so many unnecessary camera shots

embarrassingly silly plot

The use of colour is probably the only good thing about this

Each time I watch it I find less and less

I've actually seen it three or four times

I wish this film had stayed away from me.

torstai 8. marraskuuta 2012

Jaws (1975)

"Sharks aren't frightening if you have enough sense to stay out of the water"
"a silly, made-for-kids adventure"
I haven't seen the whole movie in a long time, but from what I remeber it's boring.

just a shark moving around, and killing people

However, there was only four shark attacks

only 4 actual shark attacks over the course of the film

I never felt particularly connected to any of those characters

There was no struggle between the victim and the shark and hence the intensity of excitement was very low.



Lots of talky dialogue

the unlikable and stupid three-man crew does all the wrong things.

I wanted Jaws to eat them all

A real shark wouldn't do the things that mechanical shark did



I was 6 when I first saw this

'Jaws' did a great job in terrifying people

it traumatized an entire generation

no one I knew would go out to the deep water anymore after seeing it.

we were all afraid to go into the water

on many vacations to Mexico and Hawaii, as well as to Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, etc., I didn't go in water past my knees.

keskiviikko 7. marraskuuta 2012

Grizzly Man (2005)

"I think the bears just got sick of his shenanigans."
an hour and a half of people with awkward expressions on their faces

resorting to animals as friends

Tim Treadwell is off of his rocker. He is delusional, arrogant, hostile, belligerent and quite insane.

painful to watch

lunatic goes to Alaska and is eaten by bears
"the idiot who thought bears were fluffy harmless things"
it was obvious he was a delusional half- wit. When I see people like him on the street, I walk to the other side.

This was a terrible attempt at making a raving nut case look like some type of naturalist martyr.

His death was inevitable.

You play with bears, you get eaten.



watching Herzog listen to the audio on headphones. Herzog selfishly keeps this audio to himself

coroner who describes the death scene graphically and with suspect enthusiasm.

I found myself continually wanting to punch the filmmaker, and the people he interviewed.

The entire movie is filled with the pretentious voice-over of Mr. Herzog--where he selfishly promotes his tiresome opinions about hunters and the universe.

I felt dirty afterwards.

My DVD of it was promptly smashed and thrown in the trash.
"zooming into a bear's eyes"
Most people end up hating Treadwell... who deserved to get ripped to bloody ribbons.

a small-minded American idiot

spend 13 summers of his life living among grizzly bears

"Hello bear, hello, I love you bear, thank you for being my friend!"

one must wonder why it didn't happen sooner.

Ghost world (2001)

"Only plus point is Steve Buscemi who is always good."
There is nothing in this film that isn't annoying.

The writers try to provoke laughter with cruel social commentary.

The central characters are a void with nothing interesting to say or do.

Basically, this movie is MTV's "Daria" just more smug and self-loathing.



It was funny at first, and Steve is in it, but besides that...

it was about the selfish actions of one pathetic girl.

Steve Buscemi was being antagonized throughout the movie and I felt nothing but sympathy for him as Enid used and discarded him.

the girl goes to bed with Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi of all people.

cruel girl

When will there be a movie that has teens that act like human beings?

Enid was a snotty, conniving, selfish, self-centered bitch

she is, by definition, a sociopath.

An odd tale about what can happen if you poison your friendships and life with negative attitudes

I can't understand nor can I empathize with a person who hates everyone

If she did commit suicide at the end...

We definitely know that the other people in her life would have been better off without her.

What went through the directors mind!?!

FOR GODS SAKE DO NOT MAKE MOVIES LIKE THIS. THEY ARE NOT GOOD. THEY DO NOT TELL ANYONE ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING!!!

But the movie did have Steve in it.

He's one of the best actors out today and the fact that he isn't exactly the most handsome man makes me like him even more.