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If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Read more

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One Of The Greatest Movies Ever
Terry Gilliam is my favorite director and here he is at his best. At first the movie just seems like a dark comedy but as you watch later on you realize the absolute genius and how close this is to reality. Even if you don't really understand Brazil(and I don't quite understand it either) you can still admire the amazing art in the film and just some of the amazing visuals.

Ehm...what the hell?!
This is the sort of movie where if you go "nah, didn't really like it" people will just say that you didn't get it as if you're some sort of moron, who's incapable of comprehending a movie with a more complex plot than Star Wars. The movie does have a couple of upsides (that's why I gave it 2 instead of 1 star) namely Michael Palin and the stunning visuals. The rest is dismal at best. The movie is way too long and I felt no connection to the characters whatsoever. I also don't think that Gilliam is some sort of visionary for creating this movie...does the # "1984" ring a bell? Now that was a visionary book while this is a halfhearted attempt to copy it (along with some personal additions here and there).
An exercise in futility of conveying message
this movie is not worth to be watched. it aims to be sophisticated satyre with total failure. ... Read more

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Ho ho ho!
Director Ken Russell has never been accused of understatement, and this in-your-face character study of a jaded streetwalker is no exception. Theresa Russell chews major scenery in the lead role. The film has been misunderstood by viewers who miss the black comic undertones (I find it interesting that in 2006, no one blinks at Amy Sedaris' broad portrayal of a 42 year-old ex-hooker going back to high school on Comedy Central's "Strangers With Candy", but we still have reviewers tsk-tsking over Russell's 1991 treatment of the subject!) There are pacing issues that betray the story's stage play origins. Russell's character addresses the audience throughout, making the story a bit "talky" at times. In fact, characters in the film spend much more time TALKING about sex than actually engaging in it! Definitely a cult item. Currently not available on DVD, but used VHS copies can tracked down. Beware of the butchered "R" rated prints; the uncut "European" version contains 7 extra minutes (the excised scenes are actually tame by current standards). A note to my fellow reviewer regarding Ms. Russell's marital status: She is NOT married to Ken Russell, but to director Nicholas Roeg.

Hellish camp or campy hell?
This film is self-defeated by two opposing currents: it's much too silly and poorly acted to be taken seriously, much too sad and brutal to be considered good campy fun. I don't know what effect the makers were shooting for, but suffice to say that their aim was off by miles.

Hilarious
I think all of you are missing the point here. This film is first and foremost funny! It comes off all serious and trying to be "hip" (for 91' that is). I think my favorite part is when she gets stopped by two bike police and she makes fun of them saying, "What do you want me to do? Run alongside your bike? Or were you just going to cuff me to your spoke?" Defiantely makes me want to see "Whore 2"! ... Read more

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holy hot potato batman!!!!!!
This films so hot you cant grab it off the shelf, cause if you do your in for the burnout day, waste of time, money and brainwaves.
I... that... what was that?
Oh man. OH!My Aching Head!
How did this movie ever make my local video store shelf?I too, love "B" movies, but this one left me in shock!Are we to take this flick seriously?One question..........how did Rhino keep that toy car under that poncho as he traveled through the jungle fighting off armies of little men dressed like cavemen???What about the scene where the armies run out in pairs and stand with their backs to the camera looking at the forest??My mouth was hanging open throughout this film, trying to figure out if it was a martial arts movie or a comedy.I told my son that he was in for a thrill when he watched it after me.He's the one that paid the 50 cents to rent it anyway.I liked the other reviews and laughed when I read them too. ... Read more

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What does it tell us that Sam Peckinpah's most joyous and life-affirming movie is also his most underappreciated? Read more

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The elusive dreams !
Cable Hogue is the most poetic film of an epic filmmaker as Peckinpah was. This is the portrait of human being who will make the best he can in order to achieve his personal bliss, far from the madding crowd. Intense, lyric and heartfelt rendition of the most representative North American genre: The Western considered as a mythic universe.
A Classic
The ballad of Cable Houge was an excellent movie.At times it is funny, heartwarming, and sometimes sad. Aside from it's entertaining value, there are other elements that make it somewhat of an epic. So if inclined, you could value this film as an entertaining movie, or also appreciate it for it's symbolism. Also of mention are the memorable performances by the actors, and (as the the special features reveal) the dedication put forth by the director, photographers, writers, and crew. I highly recommend.

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
A hard movie to find.Directed by the late Sam Peckinpach.Jason Robarts is very good in it.Very entertaining. ... Read more

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Frequently given short shrift as a blue movie (which it is) and as mindless (which it isn't), director Adrian Lyne's follow-up to Read more

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Strawberry Fields (and Mickey Rourke) Forever...!

SEX GAMES
I love this movie for the blindfold scene in front of the fridge, it is a classic scene very erotic, but for me the movie is a bit slow but nothing that KIM BASINGER can't change, watch her striptease. The soundtrack is awesome. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

Stormy And Love
9 1/2 weeks, as a frank depiction of the dynamics of sexual power, is a thought-provoking exploration of these aspects of eros.This film reveals the anatomy of a stormy and obsessive love affair between a recently divorced art dealer who is quite repressed and a rich, emotionally chilly stockbroker.The film is distinctive visual and aural textures by the artful direction of Adrian Lyne. ... Read more

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Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are rich, beautiful, and oh-so chic as denizens of the night. Dressed in sleek outfits and stylish sunglasses, they haunt rock & roll clubs on the prowl for young blood, whom they bring home to their impossibly luxurious mansion for a late-night snack.Being a vampire never looked more sexy, but there's a price: Bowie starts to age so fast he wrinkles up in the waiting room of a doctor's (Susan Sarandon) office. The agelessly elegant Deneuve, evoking Delphine Seyrig's Countess Bathory from Read more

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It Went Downhill
I wasn't really expecting much, I just wanted to check out David Bowie, but to my surprise, the movie actually started out interesting. I was really excited when Bowie's character, John started to age right before our eyes as he waited for Dr. Roberts in the hospital. Unfortunately, I was interrupted by a phone call just as Dr. Roberts came to visit Miriamto enquire about John. When I resumed, lo and behold, Miriam and Dr. Roberts started going at it.
Brilliant Retro-Vampire-Film Noire
A fine retro vampire film-noire movie with absolut great cast. The extraordinariest movie of Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie!

A haunting film.
There are so many similarities, borderline rip-offs of Blade Runner, yet The Hunger achieves an ethereal sense of horror that it can call its own. It is a magnificent achievement, and one of the essential early 80s hyper-stylized films. It is too bad that the story is so vague, and that we could not delved deeper into the subtext of its twisted pathos. ... Read more

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Billy the Kid is reimagined by director Sam Peckinpah as a kind of Old West rock star, a young man who wants to do his own thing but constantly runs up against the objections of the establishment--in this case, the cattle barons who run this part of the country. Peckinpah indulged in some quirky casting, including Bob Dylan as an outlaw named Alias and most of Kristofferson's band as Billy's gang. He also draws exceptional performances out of a cast of old veterans, including James Coburn as the reluctant Pat Garrett, R.G. Armstrong, Katy Jurado, and Slim Pickens, who has a terrific death scene to Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Look for this longer version (122 minutes); the shorter version is the one that MGM recut against Peckinpah's wishes, removing all the character development and Peckinpah's elegiac sense of the Old West in favor of action and violence. Read more

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A Masterpiece That Can't Seem To Escape Controversy
I am very conflicted in praise for this special edition.
Ranks with "The Shootist" for "Best Ever Western"
Sheriff Colin Baker's (Slim Pickens) death with his wife (Katy Jurado) by him stunned me.I had heard "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" hundreds of times, but now, with Bob Dylan singing the ballad in the background, it truly made me feel what was going between these two excellent actors.

A Tale of the Christ
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the darkest of films; death and loss seem to pervade every scene.The film mourns the death of the western film (it is the last great western), the end of the frontier period, and is the last film of many western actors.
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Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly make a cute (if not exactly convincing)couple in this Hollywood soap-opera version of Herman Wouk's coming-of-ageromance. French/Russian Natalie Wood is decidedly non-ethnic as MarjorieMorgenstern, the starry-eyed Jewish college girl who falls in love with summerresort small-timer Gene Kelly (who never quite sells himself as a show-bizdreamer with limited talent). A stolid mix of modern, clear-eyed romance andold-fashioned melodrama, it nonetheless manages to slip in some frank (for 1958)discussions of sex and the single girl and sketch out an intriguing portrait ofJewish life in New York's upper crust between the romantic complications.Everett Sloane and Claire Trevor are excellent as Marjorie's success-obsessedparents, pre-Read more

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High-Grade Curd
Never read the book and, after seeing this, had a hard time imagining why anyone ever did. That said, this misbegotten saga of a Jewish teenager trying to crash show biz (think That Girl with bar mitzvahs) is a semi-forgotten Cheese Fest of the highest order, a real treat for bad-movie buffs who've grown weary of Jackie Susann and Ross Hunter movies. See Natalie Wood spew "You rotten tramp!" to two-timing Gene Kelly. See miscast Gene acting his toupee off during a hissy fit with some Broadway producers. And see wise-cracking Carolyn Jones waltz off with the whole show in the inexplicable role of Marjorie's slutty galpal, a knockout who's somehow unable to hook anyone better than Jesse White (The Maytag Repairman). Vintage Brie gone horribly, odiforously, delectably wrong!

Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Sister #2: Our family had become regulars at the Admiral Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard where we saw "Marjorie Morningstar."
So Bad It's Good
My wife and I laughed so hard we GUFFAWED at this sublime example of cheesy 1950s film-making at its cheesiest. Gene Kelly blowing his stack at a trio of Broadway producers is so off-the-wall and over-the-top it's worth the price of admission by itself; all that's missing is his stepping out of character at the end of the scene and exclaiming "ACTING!" a la SNL's classic "Master Thespian" gag. We truly did not want this movie to end -- and never for a moment believed it was what Herman Wouk had in mind. ... Read more

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A worthy sequel
I just saw Dawn of the Dead for the first time. I actually saw the remake first, which I liked. And, of course, I've seen the terrifying Night of the Living Dead many, many times and will probably see it again this Halloween. So going in, Dawn of the Dead was a little behind the eight ball, so to speak. But considering the large number of preconceived notions I had regarding the film, I did enjoy it and would recommend it. A con and a pro:
The Shopping Mall is filled with flesh-eating zombies.
With the success of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), a must-see for every horror movie buff, George A. Romero, 11 years later, in 1979, made a sequel, DAWN OF THE DEAD (1979) in living color (and dead too).This time, he could really be bloody and gruesome.
That scene with the biker in the mall...
The single most horrid, gory, bloody, gutty scene ever in a zombie movie that I know of, and it deserves a play-by-play:
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Great SciFi of the time
Great movie to add to your collection if you like Jules Verne or H.G Wells.Cannot wait for it to be remastered on DVD.

Jules Verne's; Master Of The World DVD
I have tried everywhere to purchase this movie on....DVD....
Vincent Price is the master
This film could be classified as a fantasy adventure with horror elements when you factor in Robur's wish to end all war. His method? He'll simply fly over oceans and seas in his airship Albitraus and bomb war ships until all war has stopped. Vincent plays Robur in this mad-cap film that begins with a history of aviation. Henry Hull is cast as a cynical judge and the great Charles Bronson is cast as a mysterious passenger who appears to be Robur's accompolice... but looks can be deceiving. Mary Webster and David Frankham play the other "prisoners". David's character isn't likable and you'd wish that Vincent or Charles would throw him off the Albitraus!! The film is sort of an in the air version of James Mason's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" with it's stop all war message. ... Read more

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The reigning masterpiece of Italian horror cinema, Mario Bava's Read more

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Seek the Les Baxter version.
By all means seek out the version of this film as scored by Les Baxter for release stateside by American International Pictures.
Mood Piece
I was very encouraged during the opening sequence of this movie.The opening scene involves the unique and horrifying execution of an apparent witch. But then we are quickly off to the land of 18th century carriages and castles.There are some amazingly chilling visuals and the cinematography and production design are first rate.But the story and the godawful dubbing are what ultimately sinks this movie.Call it heresy, but this movie is over-rated.

Great Movie, Lousy Video
I was 11 when I first saw Black Sunday.It was very scarey and I thought about it nightly for months.I think Barbera Steele was my first love.
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For those too shy to buy hardcore pornography
Zalman King makes "erotic" movies, by which I mean he has relatively good-looking white people groping at each other and fancy angles that don't show any of the good stuff. This softcore porn is the sort of crud they broadcast on cheap cable networks. Usually they star Shannon Tweed or other C-list actresses who were hot-lookin' in their 20s and aged badly but still need work. The films are often labeled "erotic thrillers" because there is a pretense of mystery or danger. They are made for paunchy, aging, balding white men who can't get a date and lack the gonads to go to the hardcore porno shop and get some decent material for their Onanism sessions. Poor suckaz.
Two Moon Junction - Guilty-Pleasure List Worthy
This one is on my guilty-pleasure list. It's a soft-core romance/drama, 1988, starring Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks fame) and Richard Tyson (the dad in Kindergarten cop). Sherilyn plays a southern belle from a wealthy family, engaged to Martin Hewitt - hmm, I'm remembering him with Brooke Shields in Endless Love with the same-named theme song - the approved rich boy. She winds up having a torrid fling with Richard and ultimately has to choose between what is right for her heart, or maybe just loins, and what her family has endorsed. Her grandmother is played by Louise Fletcher (an older, sophisticated and very platinum Nurse Ratchet from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!). Burl Ives is the Sheriff assigned to break up the lovers. Kristy McNichol is all grown up and makes an appearance vying for Richard's attention too.
hahahhahahah...
...hahahahahha, boy what a retarded movie! This is the stupidest thing ever...what's that music? Everytime it go's in-sync with what the actors are doing it's so emberessingly bad I cant believe anyone would take it seriously. See the second one if you must...melinda clarke is hotter than shirlyn finn. :p ... Read more

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A besmirching of Nathan Arizona's true character refuted
Hi, I'm not one to rain on any one's parade, but if you watch the movie again, you will notice that Nathan Sr. does not and would not ever hire Leonard Smalls to retrieve little Nathan Jr.
'RAISING ARIZONA' a comedy beyond 'any'
Raising Arizona is one of my favourite comedies of all time. Nic Cage & Holly Hunter work well together. They are two of my favourites as well. The film never gets boring. It is full of low IQs, surprising twists and non-stop humour. The film is supported by John Goodman and Trey Wilson who do a great job as two escaped convictes who crashes at Nic & Holly crib.

RAZING RAISING ARIZONA

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This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film societies. A tiny UFO lands on the roof of a grungy penthouse apartment inhabited by androgynous model Anne Carlisle and her drug-dealing lover Paula E. Sheppard (the former child star of Read more

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LIQUID SKY
i stumbled across this movie years ago (1985). i had signed up for Columbia House and bought it from the reviews it seemed pretty good. let me tell you nothing prepared me for the shock of a lifetime. obviously the reviewer had never seen it because it was nothing like what was listed in the book. what we're they thinking!!!
You'll Love it or you'll Hate it, but you'll always remember it...
I have a special attachment to this movie in that a) I met Ms. Carlisle personally at a family function and discussed the film; b) In the neighborhood which the movie takes place, I saw one of the first screenings; and c) I own and listen to the vinyl LP to this day.
INTERESTING, BUT JUST OK FOR A CULT FAVE
My biggest beef with the film had everthing to do with the overall cheap production values.
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A ringing instance of a sequel far outstripping its predecessor, Sergio Leone's Read more

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Best of Eastwood/Leone Collaborations?
The Helpful Part:Actor Clint Eastwood and director Sergio Leone team up once again after the success of "A Firstful of Dollars."This movie is often mistakenly considered a sequel to the first film, but that's not the case.Eastwood is playing a different (though similar) character with a different name (he's Monco here and Joe in the first film).Gian Maria Volonte is also playing a different role, though he is still a bad guy.
Good but German version from Amazon.de is better.....than UK SE
Just received the German 4 disc digipak. GOOD NEWS. played 10 mins of both - no problems. Menus are all in English (or German) all the extra's on the English R2 SE's are here except for the photo gallery.
Best of the Leone/Eastwood Films
Despite the legendary status afforded "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", "For a Few Dollars More" is considered by some to be the best of the Leone/Eastwood collaborations.This film certainly lacks the epic scope of that more famous picture, but the more limited focus is in many ways truer to the roots of the "Spaghetti Western" genre Leone popularized.
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Director Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) solemnly alerts us to the glory that was Spinal Tap in his introduction to this "rockumentary" about the legendary British heavy-metal group, featuring lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), lead singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), and a succession of drummers whose careers were cut short by spontaneously combusting on their stool, drowning in somebody else's vomit, or otherwise perishing in untimely fashion. Under DiBergi's studious interrogation, the band and their familiars retrace the band's evolution from head-bopping Mersey Beat poseurs to head-banging metal poseurs, each change in musical direction or tonsorial chic having little effect on the surviving trio's sublime idiocy. For, as St. Hubbins (he's the "deep" one, relatively speaking) sagely observes, "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."Read more

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THIS BAND IS GARBAGE!!!! THAT'S WHY THIS MOVIE IS SOOO FUNNY!!!!!
Most people doesn't realize that this band SUCK'S!!!!
11/10
How to be a part of real Rock History without being a musician, singer, producer or someone in the music business? Answer: Make a movie as this one. Almost every serious Rock fan and rock star must have seen this movie or if they haven't, they had better see it before they go out and give another interview. Believe me, there are bands and performers who still talk and give interviews like Spinal Tap did in this movie. This movie is made for these guys. Like me, if you have watched countless interviews of rockstars, popstars and movie stars you cannot do without this classic. The Lead guitarist was my favourite. I could give him an Oscar for his brilliant performance. If Jimmy Page used a bow on his guitar you must wait and see what the lead guitarist ofSpinal Tap does.
"No One Knows Who They Were Or What They Were Doing, But Their Legacy Remains"
A seering exploration of life behind the glitz and glamour of rock and roll