The slow pace of this movie just about made me scream. Ok, I understand that some movies have an intentionally slow pace for effect, but this movie didn’t need it. For example, there’s a 5 minute scene where Bruce Willis figures out he can lift more weight than he thought. It just didn’t need to be so damn long. I dunno, maybe I’m just an impatient media glutton.
Great cold war movie about the every-day dreariness behind the iron curtain. I especially liked the gloomy ending, very non-hollywood. Life is filled with sad endings, I wish people had more of a pallate for them in the movies.
I had really expected this to be a good movie, it was entertaining, but I’d hesitate to call it good. It was really predictable & overplayed the tension – like the actor’s tension was more important than what was going on in the movie… I guess that means I think it was overacted? I dunno. If you want to see a good WWII submarine movie, see Das Boot.
A bunch of high-school kids think they’re mature, and instead are just clueless.
Nobody had made a tornado movie (I’m not counting the wizard of oz), so I guess it was just a matter of time. I heard that a tornado actually hit a drive-in movie theater in Toronto while this movie was playing. I don’t know if it was during “that” scene though
It was Ok, but it could just as easily have been a TV special. So many have tried to redo Rod Serling’s famous formula, but I have yet to see it work. What made the original show so special was Rod’s commentary at the start and finish of each episode, not necessarily the episodes themselves. He had a way of pointing out the essence of the story without talking down to the audience or coming across as a nerd.
Terry Gilliam is a genius again. I think he could make a film about paint drying and I’d love it.
Jim Carey is an arrogant dork. He was funny once, but now he’s just so damn full of himself that I can’t even stand to see him. This was supposed to be his big breakthrough role or something, but I just thought it was dumb. It just didn’t get past my suspension of disbelief filter. The plot of this movie would never EVER happen!!! NEVER! I had a hard time taking anything in it seriously since I just couldn’t get past that simple fact.
Man, which one was this? It was one of those slick bad-boy road movies. I think it had Christian Slater in it. I do remember that I liked it.
There was some neat stuff in this… but tell me, what was with the whole interrogation scene? That went on way too long… I mean, what an ass this guy is. Ditch him, honey! Also, the end with Ahnold’s daughter was really really hard to believe. They could have come up with a more believable, yet just as “action-packed” end.
All the younger actors in this movie were great – I really liked Brad Pitt in it (and Eric Bana, etc… even that wimply guy who woo’d Helen was OK). But the older Kings? They were too “unkingly”, and “unwise”. Maybe that was part of the point, but it really made the movie frustrating to watch. As for its adherence to the “true story”? Get over it! It’s not a truly told story anyway, so who cares? People who get all worked up about “the classics” miss the point I think. The classics were never classics when they were written – they were just the pop fiction of their day.
Neat, but perhaps a little ahead of its time? It was completely original – that’s always good.
A woman cures her son’s malaise with the gift of a new bike, then molds him into a mid-rate champion bike racer, only to have him kidnapped by a mafia boss who hooks him and two other bicyclists up to a machine that makes them race against each other so other mafia types can gamble on the outcome. His only hope of rescue lies with his mother and overweight dog, who fall in with a group of aging lounge singers that now perform music on houshold appliances and subsist on a diet of frogs which they acquire by exploding dynamite in a swamp. It’s amazing what one must dream up to make an original movie these days. This dream is worth getting lost in for a couple hours at least…
More than meets the eye… Sometimes, you just need to see a silly movie with giant robots smashing things.
Yes, the plot was mostly predictable, and a bit contrived, but thanks to a stong performance by the lead, it actually works.
I wasn’t too impressed with this one. It’s your typical “heroin movie”. I guess I would have enjoyed it more if I had once been a Scottish heroin addict. There wasn’t anything about trainspotting in it either… unless they were trying to equate heroin use with the activity of trainspotting, they’re both rather pointless.
4 different takes on the drug “trade”. It was a bit overly-dramatic and preachy at times, but still worth a watch. Some scenes and bits were very watchable. I especially liked the actor who played the Mexican cop. By the end of the movie, I couldn’t help but think… “so what’s the solution?” Someday, this issue will settle… it may take a hundred years or more, but someday… So, how do we get from here to there? is there any way to speed the process? or do we just have to wait for history to unfold and tell us the plan?
Now this was a comedy.
This was probably just as good as the first, but it suffered just a little by being a sequel – the characters weren’t as new and fresh, I knew what to expect going in. Although, I guess every sequel has that… that’s why they’re sequels in the first place. Ok, so it was incredible too.
Every so often a movie comes along which completely redefines what cinema is. I had been waiting for a 100% computer animated movie for years. What makes this movie absolutely amazing is that it’s a great movie regardless of the animation. The animation just made it totally classic.
A forgettable movie that tries to be a musical comedy I guess… but just ends up being dumb. One word review: “Huh?”
What ever happened to Tromaville movies anyway? did somebody die or something? This was one of the better ones, but none of them were that good.
Finally, a good climbing movie, no… an awesome climbing movie based on the legendary true-story book.
I still think it was all just a dream. Watch the scene where Arnie is getting implanted with the fake memories, they totally describe the plot of the movie, and they even show some of the alien technology on the video screens. There’s no way they’d “know” what that stuff looked like because nobody had even discovered it yet.
The best “pearl harbor” movie… plot-wise. The real story of pearl harbor was the war & bombing, etc… not some silly love story (like that other movie). Too bad this was filmed a number of years ago – with today’s special effects, it would have jumped into the incredible category.