One of the worst and most hyped films I've ever seen. I absolutely don't get what this flick wants to tell me.
Besides that, it is neither thrilling nor entertaining, so I can only hope that there is a message and deeper meaning to it that I just don't get... However, I would recommend to stay away from it if you expect a SciFi thriller because I know for sure that Blade Runner is not thrilling at all.
I thought I couldn't get more disappointed by Indiana Jones after watching the (in my opinion) absolutely hyped "Raiders of the Lost Arc". But then I saw "The Temple of Doom" and it's even worse! I will never get how this franchise got such a huge fan base: a mediocre plot at best, mediocre acting, laughable characters combined with special effects and stunts that let you tear out your hair (at least in the year 2015)! I suggest you skip this crap-fest and watch another one of the 1001 decent action/adventure flicks available!
I don't get the plot of this "classic". The best thing about this movie, for me, is it's soundtrack...
The movie begins interesting, promising a quite intriguing story and it ends in a superb way. However, and this is very unfortunate, every thing in between is mediocre, partly even worse: the plot has holes (e.g. why and how do the rebels know about Brightwood after going underground and turning even their cellphones off, why is Joe the AI professor suddenly leading military troops or why are a few single cores for PINN hooked up to some rag-tag equipment in a desolated building enough to analyze Will's mind?), the story is mostly predictable and the performance of the support cast is poor (especially Max (Paul Bettany) and Bree, but also the wooden and lifeless Joe (Morgan Freeman)). All these weaknesses along with same hilarious assumptions regarding quantum- / super-computers and AI make it sometimes nearly unbearable to continue watching Transcendence.
However, as mentioned in the introduction, the ending is superb and makes up for a lot. As a fan of Nolan's films a have to say I am quite disappointed in his 2014 work: Transcendence is nowhere near Prestige, Insomnia / Memento or the Dark Knight movies and Interstellar is the even bigger disappointment! I really hope that his future work will improve again!!!
One of the worst movies I know! I have absolutely no idea how this rubbish can be hailed as a horror classic, because everything about it is so silly: the plot is laughable, the characters and actors a joke, the SFX really, really bad and there isn't a single scary moment because everything is so very predictable! DO NOT WATCH THIS, there are so many good horror flicks out there, but Braindead for sure isn't one of them.
While it's not a bad action / adventure movie, I just don't get why a lot of people think this is one of best movies of this genres! For me it is a mediocre action flick!
What the f**k?! This is a terrible, terrible Japanese trash horror flick: a ridiculous plot, bad acting, terrible characters... To watch this unrealistic and not even funny (B-movie, strike that) movie through, was nearly torture.
Although not a bad sci-fi action movie, it shows that the flick is over 20 years old. Especially the animations of the killer robots are very bad and somewhat kill the "sci-fi" setting of the movie... The plot itself is mediocre.
A huge disappointment: weak plot, not very funny and all the singing was just too much for me. There were so much better animations flicks made 2010 (e.g. Shrek For Ever or How To Train Your Dragon).
After seeing the 2010 remake of Tron, I had to watch the original (or at least I thought I had to) but it was unbearable for me and i quit after 20 minutes. The special effects were really , REALLY bad (even for 1982 in my opinion) and the dialogs so cheesy that I just cannot understand how this flick got it's cult status...
Crap! Why this Korean flick (originally titled Gwoemul) created such a hype I absolutely do not get. The monster looks mostly ridiculous and the (for me) unbearable way of telling a story including absolutely silly dialogues and situations ruin what little potential this action-shocker could have had...
I think I am not made to get the drift that a lot of Asian movies have when it comes to story telling. Perhaps that's the reason why I do not like The Host, Battle Royale or House of Flying Daggers.
Good action movie with excellent SFX but nothing more (at least that's what I thought after watching it for the fist time).
However after watching it again, I have to say that I begin to like this one more an more!
The movie offers a lot of room for speculation and is sometimes very strange but also very compelling.
One of the best sci-fi thrillers I know, although there are some plot holes (Why does the time machine work as depicted? What's the real reason one can't change the past? ...): After the murder of his fiancé, the college teacher Alex Hartdegen builds a time machine and travels into the future only to discover that man managed to nearly destroy planet Earth and that a part of mankind lives in slavery. He then decides to help free the slaves from the grip of the Molocks and sacrifices his only chance of returning to his time: he destroys his time machine so that the Eloi can escape slavery.
Nice flick! One doesn't realize that Commander Dunne is responsible for the assassination until one is told. I also liked the ending where Rick gets honored for saving the "woman in white" but has to go to prison anyway because of his past as a corrupt police man.
Some of the drifts, stunts, gunfights, etc. are a little too much (-1 ) and the soundtrack is mostly shitty (- a second *) IMHO. Man, think about how great this flick would be with solid rock&roll tracks instead of those mainly annoying bepedy-bop rap and pop sh*!
Watched Dunkirk at a movie theater and was disappointed: without knowing anything about the movie besides that Christopher Nolan has produced it and that it was a WWII movie, I hoped to see something with a brilliant story like "The Dark Knight" or "Memento". That is not the case here, there is not match to be had here storywiese (however, it is accurate historically according to: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/07/20/what_s_fact_and_what_s_fiction_in_dunkirk.html).
From a technical point of view, Dunkirk is a good if not even great flick: good acting, minimalistic but great / creepy soundtrack and bombastic sound effects. You have to be at a cinema to feel those bullets fly, the motors of the Spitfires howl or the torpedo hit in your guts! Wow!!! Additionally it manages to make you really fear for the life of the soldiers from the get go to and there is this certain claustrophobic feeling about it throughout the whole time.
While Dunkirk reminded me again of the cruelty of war and how happy and thankful all of us, who live in western Europe, should be that there is currently now open war raging here, I still found the movie lacking and wished for a much better plot.
While not as bad as some of the other Marvel movies as Iron Man or The Avengers (personally, I only like their X-Men franchise and Spider-Man 1-3), Thor is no must-see. It is a no-brainer that you can watch once, but that's it IMHO.
Well, after having finally read the book and watching the movie again I have to say that it, the movie, could have been quite a lot better and that there are a lot of weak aspects to it. Therefore I altered my rating from 8 to 7. This is mainly because, and I know a lot of his fans won't like to hear it, I think Kubrick left a lot of potential untouched:
- The casting is mediocre, clearly the people involved didn't read the book of King. While Nicholson fits the bill perfectly IHMO (and on this point I strongly disagree with King who calls Nicholson a mismatch), Wendy and Ullmann are so far off that it is laughable. While Ullmann is a support character only and the sloppiness can be forgiven, Wendy is one of the main protagonists and its a shame that no better match than Shelley Duvall was found because she just does not fit the movie!
- Why Kubrick opted to kill Halloran will be beyond me forever as well as the fact why he let's Wendy get of without so much as a single scratch. I think King's version in the book is much better and I think it is also the much more believable one.
- A lot of small (but important to the story) details are omitted. While this is of course normally to a certain degree, I think Kubrick made quite a few bad choices as to what details to skip. Because of that it seems to the audience that the hotel possesses Jack the moment he starts working there which is a so much weaker version than the gradual descent into madness as described by King. Also, one never feels Wendy's and Danny's love for their husband / father, which is absolute and devoted beside all his weaknesses.
- And last but not least the ending is way weaker than it could be. Give the book a try and see (or better, read...) for yourself what King describes. Kubrick's idea with the mace is OK, but I think King's hedge animals that already attack Halloran on his way to the Overlook are much more suspenseful and the exploding boiler resulting in the burning down of the Overlook is the much more satisfying end then letting Jack simply frees to dead.
For all these aspects and because of the fact that movie feels drawn out, especially at the beginning, I totally get that King wasn't happy with Kubrick's screenplay and movie and I'm definitely going to watch Stephen King's own Miniseries The Shining hoping that it does better (although Nicholson's absence will be clearly a loss!).
Boring! Didn't watch more than 30 minutes...
A "classic" maybe, but absolutely boring, stupid and with only 1 (!) scary moment during the whole movie... I suggest you never even think about watching this one, even if you are a fan of zombie movies!
Extremely unrealistic and "over the top"! Forget this crap, there are so much better action movies out there.
A too long runtime and the few action scenes make this movie boring most of the time.
I don't get the bigger picture here, what is Mel Gibson trying to tell us? That the invasion and the eradication of the American natives by the Europeans was all right because the natives were corrupted cannibalic monsters anyway? It's the only thing I can come up with when I think about the meaning of the sentence displayed at the very beginning of the movie, the landing of the Spanish ships and Jaguar Paw's last sentence at the end of the movie. But that would be really, really sick and disturbing...
Otherwise we have a very brutal, gory and 2 hours long historical movie about the Mayas which never really gripped me...
One of the most stupid movies I have ever seen! Black drug lords are battling the Italian Mafia and the Police in New York City to establish a new drug cartel. The actors' performances are lousy, the plot seen already a hundred times and the lines so fucking bad that one wants to tear out one's hair (or at least fast-forward the movie).
The ONLY good scene is the last one where Nino lies dead on the floor and the appeal to fight drugs and especially drug dealers as hard as possible is shown: "[...] If we don't confront the problem realistically -- without empty slogans and promises -- the drugs will continue to destroy [... the] country".
A nearly perfect thriller with one huge downside and absurdity in the form of an absolutely unbelievable part of the plot: a no-body in the form of a lowly CIA analyst cannot only convince a high-ranking US military person to let him communicate with the Russian president (during the midst of the beginning of a nuclear war between the USA and Russia nota bene (!)) , no, he can even convince the president to abort further nuclear attacks on the USA. Absolutely rubbish and I will never understand what director Phil Robinson and his colleagues where think when coming up with this particular aspect of the plot!
One of the best anti-war movies I know, even though it tends a bit towards cheesiness (e.g. when Captain Miller dies and tells Private Ryan to earn his life).
If you combine a low budget and Luc Besson, trow in a crazy-ass plot and characters à la "Clockwork Orange" or "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", then you get Nikita! I am highly disappointed and can recommend this flick to no-one because it is neither creative nor funny nor entertaining.
As with "The Raiders of the Lost Arc" there is nothing wrong with "The Last Crusade". I just don't get why a lot of people think this is an outstanding and hilarious movie! For me it is just a mediocre action flick.
A very strange flick: Coraline, a young girl who is sad because her parents have not enough time for her, finds a door into an alternate reality where her "other mother" and her "other father" seem to be perfect. But Coraline discovers soon that her "other mother" is an evil witch that tries to steal her soul. The message of the movie: be careful what you wish for!
But it's not only the story that is strange, the animation is, too. The people behind Coraline are skilled, there's no doubt, but I just don't like the "puppet"-style everything is presented in!
