March 13, 2010 - 11:21 am
Fatal Attraction is one of those films that everyone you know has seen, and when someone in the class as a “boiler holiday ‘you know exactly what they mean, however lol.I never seen it.Watched last night and thought it was a very good movie, Glenn Close played an excellent, no wonder he chose to play Cruella De Ville is truly frightening! I can understand why this is a classic, I was a little disappointed in the end, as Good thrillers are just kind of good …. ended.Worth a watch if you’ve never seen before and worth have.Glenn Close second clock if it really is a woman scorned! PS: Does anyone else go through the thought that any child of Michael Douglas movie was a child? I did it!
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I really do not have a lot of good things to say about this film.It ’s a kind of run-of-the-mill TV movie’. A lame police / action thriller with good actors in it that if basically.I Ray Liotta and Willem Dafoe was not brilliant in this movie, then have already been shown on Channel 5 for now.
I was fooled by the trailer that actually make very original and fascinating. A psycopath on death row, (Liotta) is given another opportunity, in exchange for new evidence, mind-altering drugs to help suppress the anger and make patients look good and evil and remorse for reformed man “any doing.A evil” which is released back into society only to his former life to catch up with him, and trends pscycopathic to return. I saw all the way through, but mainly because Liotta and other characters.
It is nowhere near as exciting and original as it could have been and the whole thing feels budget and is misdirected. Watchable … but only a little.
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I saw this series when first broadcast in 1990, so I was really looking forward to seeing again. I am happy to say that is just as good if not better than I remembered.
Set in Thatcher’s Britain, the story and characters did not come at all. The cast is excellent and stronger than I remembered - it’s great to see Stephen Tompkinson, Susannah Harker and
Sean Pertwee early in his career giving excellent support to a convincing Clive Owen. Another bonus is seeing Leslie Phillips in a serious quality paper - which is in good shape with some bright lines you just made laugh out loud.
I enjoyed watching this series again so I have decided to buy the DVD. It makes you realize how television is today’s poor in comparison.
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Stephen King writes novels now most of them read like great movies, all black and white, all on paper. And therein lies the problem with this film. It must not only be a nightmare trying to film something that we already have a frame by frame the movie clip on the ability of our minds by courtesy of King of making us turn the pages, but The Shining (1997) also need to live up to Stanley Kubrick, before ‘Monster-in-one “matching.
I guess the card you play this new version to follow the plot of the original novel, with more force. There is nothing wrong with that insurance, but often less is more.
Many of the additional background and subplot we came here with Kubrick not read very well, but does not burn so great in the movie (not in this version anyway). But the action, but surely can not match the heights of God, Jack’s Big-like performance, no matter how high in the clouds arrive.
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March 12, 2010 - 12:27 pm
I know that London Underground staff are not the best in customer relations, but this is ridiculous … I fear that this “horror” does not suspend their disbelief. Disbelief is suspended is not primarily the script was deemed worthy of public spending.
Actually, I can not believe it. When I see the Film Council logo UK at the beginning of a movie, I know it will be bad. They must act together and start spending our money to make decent scripts.
As Eric Morcambe once said, after he was accused AndrĂ© Previn playing the wrong notes, “I’m playing the right notes … not necessarily in the correct order.” That’s more or less how this script - all the cliches of terror are there, I just do not seem to be in the correct order.
I laughed when he was supposed to be on the edge of my seat, because the plot is so absurd and people acting irrationally. Except when they are expected to behave irrationally. For example: (SPOILER) Two characters have been locked in a cage subterraneous in two feet of water, by a bloodthirsty murderer.
Then discuss what to do next, as we have heard of the Northern line is closed and they need to work how to get to Camden from Leicester Square. It’s lazy writing.
But that’s what you get from the UK Film Council.
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F.requently A.spiring, Q.uirky and S.exy. I liked this film, which had a very endearing quality to it.
It was obviously filmed on a budget (F.requently A.udio Q.uality is S.hocking!), But the script is excellent and quality very safe - the director has a true feeling of camaraderie that emerges from the various characters. It’s tongue in cheek and very gay-centric (I doubt my male straight friends enjoy a lot), but once you accept that it is intended to reflect real life (although only one looking man turned out to be gay), then you can just sit and enjoy it for what it is.
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March 11, 2010 - 10:58 pm
In my veiw Harry Potter 3 was by far one of the best books. The plot wove into his car so well that I could read it 5 times and still smile as explained in the House of Screams. But for some reason many of the good bits of this film fell and the flood of the film with horrible mistakes (the Whomping Willow has moved from film 2 for instnace).
However, people still go out of his room at the front saying “read the book, no, I know the story!”. No, do not. The story is broken in this film.
No game quiditch cup? A crepe effect completely protronus special charm? But apart from that, the movie is brilliant.
the dementors are creepy and horrible. the Whomping Willow is humorus Hogwarts is dark and scary episode for this particular HP.
The soundtrack is something of the epic and the quality is very well done. If this was not the adaptation of a book, and it was just a movie it would get 5 stars, but is not, but still brilliant.
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There is much to like about this movie, but it is Liljedahl flaws.Marie as Eugenia would be great if it were not for the evil that makes the dubbing (a film English language, but English was not their first language). The voice does not fit the character and the cries of pain, fear and despair sound incredibly fake.
Plot however.The Maria Rohm and of course Christopher Lee are excellent loosly based on a story by De Sade, so there should be no surprises about the content. However, the application is surprisingly tasteful.
It’s more pornographic than erotic in a disturbing sort of way. The story focuses more on characters and plot, rather than displaying plenty of naked flesh, despite being a Franco film, there are still quite high meat count.At times but also tries to be Franco (unsuccessfully ) arty for its own good. In particular, the red light is more massive disc is pretty basic done.The for Anchor Bay.
There is a trailer and 15 minutes worth of interviews with director Jess Franco, producer Harry Thompson, Marie Liljedahl and Christopher Lee. Comments of Christopher Lee in particular are rather see interesting.I “heard other adaptations Franco De Sade Eugenie de Sade Justine de Sade is much better.
This version of Eugenia is undoubtedly good enough for me want to try.
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March 11, 2010 - 12:14 pm
Seriously amazing special effects - but they can compensate for what must rate as one of the most trivial, formulas, cheese, making plots sick forever? Do the writers-in fact the director set out to make history this bad? Or simply not care? Or do you think the public would relate to extra-large portions of cornball? Everything is here - child and parent re-union after years of not seeing eye, mother child hospital cancer care, children rich and poor boy who compete for the same girl, plots, characters and dialogue unearthed from Hollywood Reserve ‘cliches for directors and writers with CGI too busy to think of a story. “The only way that this garbage was working as a kind of pastiche of” The Towering Inferno and “Poseidon Adventure films Disasters of 70s.So, is returning to the special effects and surprises everyone - from hurricanes in Los Angeles, and the tsunami in Manhattan should be among the most spectacular things so far put on the screen.
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