So in other words, everyone up until September 25th who has the collected status of this movie here on Trakt has a crappy cam version....
Movies like this one should not be viewed from the recordings of a camcorder someone managed to hide in his jacket or bag or whatever. I have not seen it yet, but i refuse to let my experience of what i hear is an awesome kick-ass movie be ruined by a cam version with a shaky view, people who get up and stand before the camcorder and a sound that just doesn't do my ears or my expensive headphones any justice.
Watched it randomly when it came on the TV, I actually enjoyed it
Absolutely weird and creepy
I don't know why everyone thinks it is so incredibly terrible.
Okay, it's not super awesome, but it is not awful either.
It's a nice adventure familyfilm.
The Fabelmans is a great movie. While Sam Fabelman is the main character, this is still an autobiographical story of Spielberg's childhood, his family, discovering movies, and his growth in making films. Spielberg wrote, produced, and directed the film, and it is a masterpiece of direction, sound design, and editing. While I'm not a huge Michelle Williams fan, she was amazing as Sam/Steven's mom, giving an amazing performance in a very physically and emotionally wrought role. Plus she shows off her real piano playing skills.
John Williams did the music, so the sound design and editing of the music with the scenes in the movie, and in Sam's films is beautifully done.
Well worth the watch just as a movie, but all the more for anyone who is a fan of Steven Spielberg's and would appreciate how he came to love making movies.
men will literally direct a 2½-hour Oscar bait movie before going to therapy /s
Am I the only one who loved this movie?
Sure, it's not perfect. But it shoots for the moon and, in my opinion, mostly succeeds.
How do I watch this
Absolutely boggles my mind that people were actually EXCITED to go to war back then. Brilliant film.
It is hard to find words. Brilliant. Acting is from another planet as well. Strongly recommended.
One of the best anti-war movies of all time. I was shaking and had heart racing the whole run-time.
One of the most memorable cinema-experiences I ever had. After the credits rolled, no one made a move for two minutes. Everyone sat quietly and thought about what they had seen. At one point early in the movie almost everyone had also stopped eating their popcorn.
Watch it in Cinema if you can. Watch it in german if you can. Watch it in german with subtitles if you must. Or wait for it's Netflix-Release. But watch "All Quiet on the Western Front" no matter what. And learn from it.
One of the most intense movies you'll ever see.
Surprisingly few (bloodless) kills and not really scary but great fun with friends/family. Probably boring for those who have already seen all chucky-movies or hundreds of horror movies, but a well made movie for everyone else.
This is a family-friendly film about children discovering that they have superhero-powers.
If you love music, you'll love this film too.
This is a full length documentary about the stars who aren’t stars, the backing singers. Anyone who loves music has heard them over the years on many, many records, hit or not, but not many of us can name them. This film strives to put this right and also to put the spotlight on a group of mainly African-American singers and how they coped with their talent and their lack of recognition.
The stories of the various backing singers across the running time of this film are fascinating, sad and funny but I was not really sure what message I was supposed to get from the meandering film. The music is the most important thing, yet nearly all but one the backing singers featured seemed to want to be a big star and have a solo career. Most of them tried but did not succeed. In the end they still had successful backing singing careers.
Sting, Bruce Springsteen et al add their views on film and everyone interviewed in the ‘business’ know that backing singers have great voices, great talent and deserve to be famous but to be successful as a pop-musicians talent does not always mean you will make it.
Thanks for that but non-in-the-know members of the general public having been saying that for years as tuneless, off-key and toneless ‘artists’ rack up hit after hit. Also when a ‘vocal contractor’, a job title never explained, gives us an anecdote about a record producer needing time to ‘tune-in’ the backing vocals, rather than just using backing singers, you know that pop-music really is a manufactured money-making business and little else.
The most balanced singer throughout the film is probably the most talented, Lisa Fischer, who just wants to sing and could not give a fig about fame, stardom and lorry loads of cash. I like her. This neatly brings me back to something I found out about this particular documentary post-viewing, to include it in a film review after I watched the film without knowing about it seems a cheat and bit churlish but it puts a big question mark over the whole integrity of the story telling.
Apparently, Darlene Love, one the singers featured heavily and frequently in the film, did not sing on tracks she claims she did and seems to have bent the truth to the point of breaking throughout the film. After filming, Morgan Neville was contacted and put right on some of the ‘facts’, he apologised but for some reason left all the ‘exaggerations’ in the final cut. Maybe because the story of an underdog with talent being manipulated by a now convicted murderer makes for better box-office than a singer who wants to be a huge star not quite making it.
There in a nutshell is the problem with this film. With some great archive footage, some great music business anecdotes, story of backing singers contributing to some the greatest music in the world regardless of fame and fortune could have been uplifting and inspiring, instead it seems more like a whinge-fest about how some of them are not famous and stinking rich despite their talent. Well the space at the top of the ladder is very small and the club they are in is very, very, big. Not only that but most of them did contribute to some great hit records, earn a living doing the thing they love, and seem to be well respected in the industry if not with the public. More upsetting is perhaps the saddest and probably most upsetting story of the film is fabricated. Excuse me if I do not burst into spontaneous tears and applause.
So once again we seem to have got a good film with an interesting narrative and interesting characters but as a truthful and insightful documentary not so much. Not the first time that the viewing public has been led by the nose to the truth, only the find out that ‘the truth’ is what the film maker specifically wants you to see and not actually might have been what is actually there to be seen.
[AtlàntidaFF] Her condition as a prisoner of Auschwitz allows the director to show life in the barracks from her own memories. There is a greater interest in showing the decadence of the Nazis, to reinforce the virtues of communist liberation. This status as a propaganda film limits its value as a pioneer in the representation of the Holocaust, but does not cloud the visual discoveries it achieves.
"Violent Night" is more fun that the critics would let you believe. There are many plot-holes (and not just the one with the "christmas-magic") and a few cringly-scenes, but overall the acting is pretty solid and the action and gore are great. This could become your new yearly christmas-flick. Just send the kids to bed before.
A few good laughs and ideas, but all in all pretty average. Okay with kids or if you like animated movies.
Way better than expected. Worth a watch. But at least watch the Original first.
I'm old enough to remember the original Hellraiser (1987). That was a true horror film. There were horrible people, doing horrible things. It left you feeling really quite disturbed about the worst aspects of human nature.
The follow-up Hellraiser 2 (1988) managed to recapture a small part of that. But after that it was downhill fast. The sequels were nothing but parodies.
Well, for some reason, Hulu decided to remake it.
Shamefully, the film fails on nearly every level. It's not well written (terrible dialogue) and poorly acted. There's little horror and you simply do not care about anyone or anything happening in it. It doesn't give you a reason to care either. The Cenobites are not scary, or grotesque looking... they just look like cheap make-up and some bad CGI.
Like the later Hellraiser films It has more in common with trashy slasher flicks than anything else. Poorly done ones at that.
As is common today they gender-switched the main role. Did it add anything? Nope. In fact, I keep hearing about what a good performance Jamie Clayton was as The Priest. I don't know what they were watching. There isn't a performance, it's literally all make up and some lines read out flat. Look at the originals: Pinhead's character is all about small, slow movements and looming dread. He's literally an overwhelming threat and you are the prey. Not in this one though.
Or look at the secondary villain. In the original it's Uncle Frank, who is an awful person who fully deserves his fate. Even in the end as he's pulled apart by the Cenobites... he's drawn to it, and much as he tried to run he still wants what the Cenobites offer. In this new version... there's none of that same grimy, disturbing look into subcultures. It's all clean, boring and badly acted.
Watch Hellraiser (1987) and Hellraiser 2 (1988) and stop there. They did it better on much smaller budgets.
Some say "Athena" has little substance in terms of Story. While this may be true, this didn't stop films like "The Raid" to be great either. Athena has strong imagery and an impressive 10 minute opening-"plan-séquence". Sadly it couldn't hold my attention the full runetime. Amazing camera-work too.
This movie is garbage. The lead actor (Nick Eversman) is absolutely horrible.
Why am I watching this again… I remember it as one of the grossest movies ever released when I was still a kid; everyone at school was obsessed with it. I am alright with gross-out comedies, but this was just too dull and generally unpleasant to watch. Shorty and the caretaker are some of the most obnoxious characters I’ve ever seen in a comedy.
The funniest joke is that the movie was shot like shit and edited even worse. I would lie if I said that it didn’t make me laugh at all, though.
If you thought this movie was scary, then here's something even more scary....a pedophile directed this.
I like the movie, but hate the guy.
I felt like I had to hurry up and watch this before someone tries to get it taken off Netflix
I had to shift this up my viewing priorities because he said the LGBTQ community gets triggered too easily and it triggered the LGBTQ community. Get it while it's available!
Speed is one of my favorite action movies of all time, just a notch below contemporaries like Terminator 2 and Die Hard. The premise is so simple that it's almost a parody of movie pitches (Homer Simpson's line was "I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'."). Fortunately this film came to be much better than the sum of its parts, and it's deservedly remembered as one of the most entertaining films of the 90s.
Old characters are brought to life in this live-action but it feels... lifeless! Some minor changes but really nothing new added to the story. The CGI looked good in some parts but terrible in others. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth does a good job as Pinocchio's voice but the highlight for me was Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket (although his CGI model looked lazy and weird). Some of the dialogue was awful! Overall this remake really lacks heart, originality and feels unnecessary. I would definitely rewatch the original instead. Fingers crossed for del Toro's version!
