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100 | 0 | 'cq may one day be fondly remembered as roman coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about |
101 | 0 | the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . |
102 | 0 | . . . stale and uninspired . |
103 | 0 | a dreary movie . |
104 | 0 | . . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . |
105 | 0 | instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser guns actually hit something for once ? |
106 | 0 | it just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . |
107 | 0 | this action-thriller/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . |
108 | 0 | mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happens . |
109 | 0 | no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . |
110 | 0 | blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . |
111 | 0 | boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon . |
112 | 0 | there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination . |
113 | 0 | jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . |
114 | 0 | a moving picture that does not move . |
115 | 0 | ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture ! |
116 | 0 | its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . |
117 | 0 | i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . |
118 | 0 | 'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' |
119 | 0 | . . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . |
120 | 0 | is it a comedy ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartoon ? |
121 | 0 | ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . |
122 | 0 | did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray . |
123 | 0 | it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . |
124 | 0 | has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . |
125 | 0 | eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . |
126 | 0 | it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . |
127 | 0 | who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . |
128 | 0 | a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . |
129 | 0 | contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . |
130 | 0 | starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . |
131 | 0 | the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . |
132 | 0 | the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid . |
133 | 0 | this movie is so bad , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad . |
134 | 0 | a crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing . |
135 | 0 | this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . |
136 | 0 | overall , it's a pretty mediocre family film . |
137 | 0 | love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . |
138 | 0 | in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . |
139 | 0 | the very definition of what critics have come to term an " ambitious failure . " |
140 | 0 | it's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . |
141 | 0 | the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . |
142 | 0 | worthy of the gong . |
143 | 0 | while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . |
144 | 0 | i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . |
145 | 0 | the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . |
146 | 0 | the movie doesn't add anything fresh to the myth . |
147 | 0 | as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . |
148 | 0 | comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . |
149 | 0 | moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . |
150 | 0 | it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . |
151 | 0 | once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else . |
152 | 0 | oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . |
153 | 0 | it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . |
154 | 0 | a chiller resolutely without chills . |
155 | 0 | for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . |
156 | 0 | the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . |
157 | 0 | " bad " is the operative word for " bad company , " and i don't mean that in a good way . |
158 | 0 | though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . |
159 | 0 | drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . |
160 | 0 | the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . |
161 | 0 | the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . |
162 | 0 | pompous and garbled . |
163 | 0 | billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . |
164 | 0 | it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . |
165 | 0 | merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . |
166 | 0 | if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . |
167 | 0 | traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . |
168 | 0 | the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . |
169 | 0 | . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . |
170 | 0 | i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . |
171 | 0 | aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . |
172 | 0 | none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . |
173 | 0 | as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on . |
174 | 0 | the whole film has this sneaky feel to it as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product . |
175 | 0 | there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . |
176 | 0 | the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers . |
177 | 0 | this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . |
178 | 0 | coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . |
179 | 0 | bad and baffling from the get-go . |
180 | 0 | a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . |
181 | 0 | at a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . |
182 | 0 | the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . |
183 | 0 | a well-acted movie that simply doesn't gel . |
184 | 0 | like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . |
185 | 0 | there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . |
186 | 0 | both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told . |
187 | 0 | it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . |
188 | 0 | other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . |
189 | 0 | jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . |
190 | 0 | outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken |
191 | 0 | was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's next . . . ghost blimp ? |
192 | 0 | a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . |
193 | 0 | by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . |
194 | 0 | since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . |
195 | 0 | wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the sad schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . ' |
196 | 0 | sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . |
197 | 0 | it's one long bore . |
198 | 0 | it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . |
199 | 0 | it's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking . |
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