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More like 10 STARS
Ms. Day should have received an Oscar for this.Miss Girl Next Door really showed what she was made of.If you like suspense, glamor and real singing and acting, this is the movie for you.The restoration is wonderful and the sound terriffic.One of my favorite movies of all times. Cagney is at the top of his game and he and Day work GREAT together. This movie was produced when all the big musicals were coming to an end. SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN AN OSCAR, I'M TELLING YOU.

Why are some films so memorable even if we don't identify with their main characters?
Why do certain movies stay in the mind even though they do not have characters the viewer particularly identifies with?
Doris Days Greatest Triumph
One of the most talented performers to come out of the big band era a wonderful singer, and pretty good dramatic actress,
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pretty good
This movie was pretty good. I liked the witch.She is my favorite character because she is a pretty bad villain and I like villains. The parts of the movie that I liked best were the parts with the Wizard and the Munchkins.Once Dorothy and the scarecrow, lion and tin man reach Oz, it gets very interesting.You finally get to see the place they've been following the yellow brick road for.It's cool.I am six.

The Best Version of the Wizard of Oz yet
Known to all,this is the story of Dorothy Gale and herjourney to the magical land of Oz. She meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a cowardly lion who desperately needs courage.The most popular film of all time , seen by over a billion people. It's timelessness is proof enough of its value . Certainly flawed when scrutinized and written about for 56 years, but still most beloved. In 1998 rereleased on the big screen: magic. And admittedly the most important film of my life: As a child I was obsessed with the film and only a little less now.

It Never Gets Old
"The Wizard Of Oz" is a film truly worthy of the title timeless. No matter how many times, you can't help but be amazed by the sense of wonder and inspiration this film creates. Even after 67 years, it's still one of the most impressive and uplifiting moments in cinema.
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Wonderful episode, haunting melody
I agree with everyone else - this may well be the most wonderful episode of TV drama ever.I have seen it again and again and I always love it. I am a lifelong Star Trek fan and I wanted to share a wonderful recent experience.My daughters and I went to see the National Symphony Orchestra perform "To Boldly Go, (narrated by Leonard Nimoy)" at Wolf Trap in Virginia, and they included the melody from "The Inner Light" in the program.
A quiet ode to a lost people
Overall setting: The U.S.S. Enterprise is the flagship of the Federation's Star Fleet, and is captained by the somewhat aloof, intellectual, but also passionate Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Almost one hundred years after Captain Kirk led an earlier Enterprise on its trek through the stars, this Enterprise continues to explore the galaxy and seek out intelligent life.
By far the best episode of this series.
I agree with other 5-star reviewers. This is not only the best episode of this long-running series, but one of the best hours of television, period.
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Great Pre-Code.
This film is short (68 minutes) and superbly entertaining. It tells the story of a Chinese evil scientist/warlord (Boris Karloff) who wants to seize the golden mask and sword which belonged to Genghis Khan, to dominate the world and impose the supremacy of Eastern Cultures over the "Western World".
KARLOFF AND LOY AT THEIR FIENDISH BEST
After having completed Frankenstein and The Mummy, Boris Karloff turned his considerable acting talents to playing Sax Rohmer's firendish Yellow Menace, Fu Manchu. Karloff in this picture is a sadistic monster. Even by the standards of the period, The Mask of Fu Manchu is VERY racist, but it is an exciting movie which has all the benefits of an MGM production, with cinematography by Tony Gaudio, and sets by Cedric Gibbons. Especially notable is the beautifully photographed and staged sequence of the opening of Genghis Khan's Tomb.
Fiendish fun
The Mask of Fu Manchu easily could have served as inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark. Archaeologists dash to retrieve a relic to save Western Civilization from the diabolic Dr. Fu Manchu. There's feats of derring-do. Scenes of despicable torture and heroic bravery.Read more

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This science fiction blockbuster from 1990 began its production life as a very different movie than the one that was released. An adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," Read more

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Great movie, lots of twists.
Total recall is a great thriller! It has many twists and turns, and the acting is superb. Predator will always be Arnold's best movie, but Total Recall is in the top six. Please note that there are some very, very, disturbing images that will keep you awake for weeks!

Total Recall.
Need to see this movie.Rated R for persuive strong bloody violence,strong language,and some comic nudity.

Definitely not science fiction
I've seen cheesy and I've seen wannabe with the difference between the two being the level pandering to a more intelligent audience. This movie is definitely for guys that like to get their Shakespeare from WWF. Schwarzenegger's best movie will ever be Terminator. If he could have ended with the classic "I'll be back" and not really come back to make any number of horrid films we might actually have some decent science fiction. Last good science fiction I saw was Gattaca. Total Recall definitely ain't science fiction and isn't even very good action as compared with say the mindless gore of predator. Now that was action you could taste and you knew there wasn't much pretense of science fiction going on. I'd give Total Recall a 0 or less but they only let me enter a 1. ... Read more

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Gus Van Sant made his name with this offbeat story of a small group of drug addicts who heist pharmacies to feed their habit. Matt Dillon completely broke with his juvenile persona as Bob, the grungy ringleader and jittery mastermind of a junkie crew. With his frustrated wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his loyal partner, the easygoing Rick (James Le Gros), and Rick's juvenile girlfriend Nadine (Heather Graham in an early role), Bob plots ingenious heists and spends the rest of his days sitting around the house getting high. When the heat becomes too intense in Portland, the quartet hits the road for small-town drug stores and hospitals, but when their luck runs out it does so in grand fashion. Set in the Pacific Northwest of 1971, Van Sant so effortlessly re-creates the period that you'd think the film was a time capsule--except for the attitude. Van Sant refuses to moralize and lines his sympathies behind his characters. They're no heroes, but Van Sant can't cast them as villains either. His low-key direction concentrates on the flavor of day-to-day life for a crew of junkies living from fix to fix. Even his drug imagery is inventively placid, a dreamy set of floating visions that suggests their own disembodied states. James Remar costars as the dogged police detective Gentry and cult author William S. Burroughs makes a memorable appearance as the aging junkie Tom the Priest. Read more

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I Was Still Alive. Hope They Can Keep Me Alive.
Drugstore Cowboy is Gus Van Sant's 1989 motion picture, responsible for launching his career. The film was widely acclaimed at the time of its release and is still held as one of the top in its genre.
An intense film, the peak of the director's career.
Gus Van Sant had one and only one talent: he could pick the right people to act in his films. In Drugstore Cowboy, all the actors fit their roles perfectly. Matt Dillon is ideal for the role of Bob, the main character. Even though he's a junkie and thief, he becomes a halfway sympathetic character through a kind of con-man charm and a willingness to accept the consequences of his actions. At the very least, he knows what he is. He has no delusions about himself. This puts him above someone like the pathetic junkie Dave, who grovels before Bob when he thinks he can get drugs out of it, and then fancies himself to be a tough guy when he gets his hands on a gun.
real, hilarious, and absolutely crazy...
The story of Bob and his drugstore raids through various cities is a very real story. This movie, however- doesn't so much offer into the insights of what it is like when you get drugged up or high. This is a movie about the lifestyle Bob and Diane lead- the drugstores they raided, the scores they made, the encounters they had along the way, and what eventually led to Bob going to rehab in the very end.
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Set in an unmercifully rugged, coastal village in Scotland in the 1970s, this extraordinary film by Lars von Trier stars British actress Emily Watson as a barely contained naive named Bess, who holds regular conversations with God and whose pure and intensely personal faith is hardly tolerated by the gruesome Calvinist elders of her church. Bess marries an oil-rig worker (Stellan Skarsgard) and comes to believe that erotic discovery is a part of God's grand plan. But after her spouse is hurt in an accident, she decides that divine instruction is leading her toward the life of a prostitute--with disastrous but somehow beautiful results. Von Trier (Read more

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Most Powerful Film On Von Trier's CV.
Breaking The Waves is quite possibly one of the best, and most powerful film of the 90's. It is considered one of the films in the Dogme movement started by Danish filmmakers including this film's director, Lars Von Trier. The Dogme movement was started in 1995, and is a set of rules, that director's can follow which allows the filmmaking to be at it's purest for cheapest, with no special effect and no big budget, this allows the filmmakers to focus more on the story and the actor's involvement with their characters. Although this is not a proper Dogme film, it does follow some of the other rules Lars Von Trier vowed to keep. This is Emily Watson's first feature film and definately is one of her finest roles to date. She achieved an acadamy award nomination for best actress as the leading character Bess, and the film also won the grand jury award at the Cannes Film Festival, along with best film of the year at the european film awards. The film was written by Lars Von Trier, Peter Asmussen, and the uncredited David Pirie.
extremely mixed emotions
I have never had such mixed feelings about a film. I think the film in and of itself is one of the worst I've ever seen: Lars "von" Trier is in my opinion a very sick individual, and the whole "Dogma" movement is an extraordinary exercise in silliness. I felt dazed and down for days after seeing this film, due to its twisted psychology, and the ending (with the bells ringing in the sky) is one of the corniest ever - pure kitsch. On the other hand, Emily Watson's performance in the leading role is possibly the best I've ever seen on film (up there with Brando as Vito Corleone and Anthony Quinn as Zorba). For that alone it's worth seeing.

Von Trier 'Breaks Boundaries' in one of the most bizarre love stories ever filmed!
"Breaking The Waves" may be one of the weirdest love stories ever, but one that perhaps best details how love can make us a bit insane.
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WOW
There is almost nothing else to say. The Duke is wonderful, so is the plot and overall the movie was superb!!!

WOW
There is almost nothing else to say. The Duke is wonderful, so is the plot and overall the movie was superb!!! ... Read more

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A weak flick that has not aged well since the 70s.
This is one of the weaker efforts that emerged from thenostalgia craze of the 1970s. It is interesting to see the work of a very young Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler, and as one might expect, Winkler shows great potential while Stallone's performance is excruciating to watch. The young ladies who play Stallone's love interest and her best friend are hilarious Brooklyn stereotypes. Beyond this, however, the film is nearly unwatchable. The first half hour is a series of pointless vignettes meant to establish that the Lords (a quartet of New York street toughs) are indeed some dangerous dudes. The rest of the movie tries, in a ham-handed way, to cobble together some sort of character development, by showing that these four fellas have feelings and are sorta sensitive beneath the surface. To this end, a bizarre scene is inserted in which Sly Stallone waxes philosophical to his pal Chico about letting one's mind fly free, while standing in a coop of homing pigeons. As in many of his future performances, his character inexplicably flies into a sputtering rage and comes across as either mentally retarded or brain-damaged.
A film that somehow defied the odds & become a cult favorite
"The Lord's Of Flatbush" was made on a budget of less than $100,000 prior to any of its stars becoming household names.Derivative of other similar and better movies it has still managed to garner a strong cult following in the years since its release.Technically crude, the film has a grainy quality and some scenes are very badly lit; most of the movie seems fuzzy and unfocused.Speech suffers the worst as it is very soft and distant in different spots throughout the film.That's too bad because the filmmakers display a good use of color and the period detail and flavor are among the best of its kind.But that's not what keeps this movie from achieving all it could have - the main culprit here is the story, what little there is.
A glimpse of a typical leather-clad friends in the '50s.
I have recently seen "The Lords of Flatbush" on an older VHS copy which started out in widescreen until the opening credits were done. I wish I would have seen this widescreen DVD here. It probably looks spanking good. Stanley (Sylvester Stallone) is at a crossroads with his steady girl who feels they should get married. Bike-riding Chico is at odds with the new girl in town, Jane. Henry "The Fonz" Winkler makes his pre-"Happy Days" appearance in this film. He is the man! His voice sounds kind of funny at times. In one shot it looked like his dialogue wasn't matching his mouth movement. Was his voice dubbed? The soundtrack consists of songs written for the film that sound like typical '50s songs. Read more

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1.9 "Deathwalker" and 1.10 "Believers"
Contemporary legal problems extrapolated to a futuristic setting are the common denominator for the two episodes in this five volume from the first season of "Babylon 5."Episode 9, "Deathwalker" (Written by Larry DiTillio, Aired April 20, 1994) has Babylon 5 ready to explode when a notorious war criminal shows up.Known as the Deathwalker, Jha'Dur (Sarah Douglas) is a member of the Dilgar and a scientist who has invented an immortality serum, which explains why she does not look her age.Most of the species represented on the station what the Deathwalker tried as a war criminal, but the greater powers want to get a hold of her immortality serum, which puts Commander Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) in the middle.Meanwhile, Talia Winters (Andrea Thompson) is hired by Ambassador Kosh to sit in on negotiations with a strange fellow named Abbut.The problem is that while the telepath is being paid handsomely by the Vorlon she picks up absolutely nothing from Abbut's mind at this meetings. Decent Babylon 5 Season 1 Episodes
Although neither episode is part of series creator J. Michael Straczynski's 5 year long epic chronicling the Shadow War and its aftermath, they are fine introductions to the Babylon 5 universe, and especially, in the second episode, an excellent look at Dr. Franklin's compassion and love for other sentient beings. Indeed, the second episode, "Believers", was one of the finest during Babylon 5's first season. It is a sobering examination of religious zealotry and an insightful look as to how religion can conflict with science. Science fiction writer David Gerrold, best known for his classic Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", wrote this episode. I believe that it is one of his finest tales ever shown on film; if the video was released without "Deathwalker", I'd give it 5 stars, otherwise I have to rate it 4 stars.

Not the best, but still fun to watch.
In the first episode, we meet an interstellar war criminal, which just happens to have a drug formula that can reshape the galaxy and the creatures that use it. As the various races try to get hold of her and her formula, it all comes to an end through an unexpected intervention. A good episode that shows how easily cruelty can prevail.Read more

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excellent latin play
I HAD SEEN THIS PLAY BEFORE WHEN I WAS A CHILD AND I WAS FASCINATED WITH THE CLOTHES THE ZOOT SUITES....AS I BECAME OLDER I WOULD TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE MOVIEBUT NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE HAD EVER HEARD OF IT SO I THOUGHT MAYBE I HAD THE TITLE WRONGWELL LO AND BEHOLD AMAZON HAD IT AND THE NAME WAS RIGHT....THE MOVIE IS EXCELLENT THE TALENT OF JAMES ALMOS IS SUPURB THE MUSIC AND DANCING ALSO MADE THIS PLAY ENJOYABLE ..IT IS A MUST SEE FUN MOVIEMY KIDS ( 3TEENAGERS AND 1 5 YEAR OLD ) SAT THROUGH THE ENTIRE MOVIESO IT MUST BE GOOD

Edward James Olmos makes this movie!
This movie is worth watching if for no other reason than Edward James Olmos' tour de force performance as the mythical spirit "El Pachuco".
Luis Valdez is the Mexican American Shakespeare!
This movie is California history
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One of my favorites...
This episode is a wonderful mixture of scientific "technobabble", battling with moral and ethic issues, and character development.The initial premise of the crew having lost their memories was probably greeted with the reaction "sigh, another alien influence episode?" by many viewers.However, it exceeds these expectations and is well rounded. Clever Plot, Good Acting
This is a well-written, thought-provoking episode, which was not something unusual in the fifth season of The Next Generation. Les Landau's direction is competent and helps explore the surprising love triangle in a very effective way - and the performances by the three actors involved are as good as they've ever gotten. The other highlight is Patrick Stewart, who takes this unique opportunity to show how well he knows his character and flies with it. The mystery of Commander MacDuff
This episode begins with an interesting throw away example of the title's meaning as Troi beats Data in a game of chess, relying on her "intuition" as opposed to his positronic brain that probably contains every 23rd century chess program available.But I digress.The Enterprise picks up sporadic subspace transmissions and traces them to a small craft.A probe launched from the ship takes down the Enterprise's shields and then emits a yellow beam.The next thing we know everybody is standing around looking at each other: they no longer remember who they are.Fortunately they can still remember the basic tasks of running the ship. Although the ship's computer has some major problems, La Forge is able to access a partial roster of the crew.So "Picard" learns he is captain (to the surprise of most of the crew in a delightful moment of ensemble acting).But what the audience wants to know is: Who is Commander MacDuff?With this mysterious figure on the bridge the crew discovers what is supposedly their current mission: the Federation is at war with the Lysian Alliance, who has been using a new weapon that affects both human and computer memory.This would certainly explain not only what has happened to the Enterprise but also why they have been ordered to destroy the Lysian central command center.However when the Enterprise enters Lysian space and easily destroys the warship that attacks them, Picard begins to feel quite uneasy about their mission.There is nothing to suggest the Lysian can give the Federation any problems whatsoever.However, Commander MacDuff argues vigorously that the mission should continue.Read more

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This somewhat patchy drama never quite comes to life until late in the episode, when Patrick Stewart gets a chance to play Captain Picard as a man literally possessed. While escorting delegations from two feuding planets to a Federation outpost, the Read more

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suspenseful moments
Two species want to join the Federation, but both are deadly enemies, and close neighbors, so each planet's delegation is aboard the Enterpise to go to a neutral location called Parliament so they can hash out their differences. The Selay look like humanoid cobras - they rattle like rattlesnakes and hiss, plus they have the large hooded heads like a cobra ready to strike. They hate their enemies, the Anticans, so much, that they ask to be put "upwind" of them so they won't have to smell them. The anticans look like the cross between "Alien" and an Afghan dog - lots of long hair coming from all over their heads, with this large skull-like, egg-shaped head that sticks out in the back. Both these species (dogs and snakes) are pretty laughable, but forgivable considering this was only episode 8.
An attempt to do too much in an hour
This episode suffers from attempting to do too much, and what it chooses to do is predictable. The mission of the Enterprise is to transport delegations from two different warring planets to a peace conference. One species is feline in nature, using live animals as food and obviously playing with that food for some time, as a cat does, before killing and eating it. The other species is reptilian, and each would much rather kill the other than make any attempt at peace. "Sorry, wrong species."
If there is any lesson to be learned from "Lonely Among Us," it is to steer clear of strange clouds in space that have the ability to travel at faster-than-light speeds.You never know when a discharge from the cloud will attempt to take over your body so caution is strongly advised.Read more

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