Hey, they’re making a sequel to this. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it should be interesting. It’s really hard to make a movie about a serial killer that doesn’t just turn into a silly slasher flick in the end. This is one of the few films which has managed to do it.
Another really stupid Stephen King book that somehow became a movie. Man this was dumb. Don’t waste your time, go clean your gutters instead.
This movie has some of the same problems as Independence Day (see review), which is not a good sign! Apparently, the aliens haven’t invented gore-tex. Also, the atmospheric humidity would slowly-burn/corrode thier skin, but they seem unaffected by that… just walking around naked. Bottom line – if they want to get us, we wouldn’t stand a chance. Also, why the complicated crop circles? can’t they just use radios?
I think this was the Steven Segal movie where he’s the cook… If so, it was his best movie (still not very good). If not, then never mind.
The sickest thing about this was the fact that all the people profiled HAD insurance. What about those who don’t? While I know it’s hard to make a case that an entire system is messed up by looking at case studies, without doing so, the statistics are just numbers. There are people behind the numbers, and they’re in this movie.
I heard this hilarious song once called “Rex and Sid and Nancy”. It was Rex Reed’s audio review of Sid & Nancy over some heavy punk/metal music. A great song, but I never heard it again. Rex Reed didn’t like the grittiness of the movie and annoying portrayal of Nancy (to put it mildly… he went on and on for 3 minutes about how he hated the movie). The stuff that Rex hated was exactly what I liked, and what made this a wonderfully tragic movie. I recently saw the director’s commentary of this – very interesting.
Very unique & splendid. It’s got a little bit of everything: a man who is a professional “color mixer”, a woman killed by a refridgerator that’s fallen out of a plane, a drug dealer, ta our bus rivalry, and the australian outback… what more could you want?
The Dixie Chicks make the transition from redneck pinups to granola heroines. Three chicks are smarter than one bush.
For some reason, I just didn’t laugh so much in this one. Most of the best jokes were repeats of Shrek 1. Still, it was entertaining, and I thought the plot was actually more original & interesting than the plot of Shrek 1.
A great movie – very clever. Don’t worry if you’re not a kid – you’ll still laugh when Shrek farts in the mud… and laughing is what it’s all about isn’t it?
Go see this movie – yes it’s long, but your life is not that interesting so you have the time to spend.
Almost the only decent Stephen King-based movie. And he didn’t like it! Makes me wonder about Stephen King more than anything…
Believe it or not, the actual person who the movie is based on is 100 times more wacko than the character portrayed in the film. It was a great movie anyway, really put together well.
Sure, it was a good movie, but it’s consistently on people’s lists as one of the best ever (and #1 on IMDB.com as I write this) It wasn’t THAT good. Sheesh – get a grip!
Loads of action fun like only Jackie Chan can muster. Never did see the prequel, and only saw this one by accident.
Man, what a seriously dumb movie. Absolutely dreadful. If you’re able to sit through this, you ARE shallow. It’s so full of cliches and horrible dialogue it made me physically ill.
Ok, I’ll admit it, it was pretty good. But “picture of the year”? it wasn’t THAT good. I did like how the whole plot was constructed though, how it was all kind of a mirror of the Romeo and Juliet story. I liked the non-hollywood ending too.
By the way, count me in the camp who thinks someone else likely wrote the bulk of Shakespeare’s plays. Most likely Edward de Vere. It’s possible that Shakespeare did some serious editing and adding though; more so to some plays than others. I like the idea of an everyman Poet, but the evidence to the contrary is just too strong to ignore.
Woof! Aw shucks, I guess it was perfectly watchable and mildly entertaining. They really tried hard to make the events in the movie “believable” – not that the premise is remotely believeable, but little things like the way he has a hard time convincing people he’s a dog, and that fact that eventually he does, and it’s prior to the climax of the movie.
I kept waiting for the movie to “break open”, but it never did. It had a neat ‘look’, some decent acting, a good premise, but there was just something missing.
I thought this movie was a lot better than the “word on the street” made it out to be. I actually liked Brad Pitt in it. I couldn’t believe people were upset that he was a nazi… like the movie somehow forgave the nazis or something. You know, a lot of nazis were really bad people, but most of them were just caught up in the whole thing. BP’s character wasn’t even a real supporter of the nazis either, he just wanted to go climb mountains. If you’re upset about that whole angle, then I guess you hated Das Boot too.
I never really can get into “lunatic” movies because they always make these people out to be geniuses, when they never really would be. Go see “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” if you want to see a good lunatic movie.
Oh, and that title? very clever with the 7 instead of the V. Very very clever.
Some people sigh when they’re very sad, and others sigh when they’re very satisfied. But as I sit here in my one room apartment, typing by candlelight and hiding from the baseball team that would surely like to see me dead, I’m sighing because I just don’t know what to say. Violet, Klaus and Sonny were exactly as I had pictured them, so were their adventures, and general look and feel of their world. But, the movie was missing a certain coherence, a word which here means, something to tie all the bits together. It was a great movie to watch, but difficult to appreciate as a complete film. The problem is the books are just too short, and too dijointed – it’s difficult to adapt them into one story. What this movie needed was a whole new story, but that would have betrayed the whole point of the books in the first place. So, I sigh, because the movie didn’t have a chance in that regard. But, I did like it purely for the asthetic value.
If you actually can pay attention for this whole movie, you’ll find that it’s not too bad – it’s really ugly to watch for some reason. I’m not sure exactly why though.
Seriously boring. I know it was supposed to be some great film or something, but I really couldn’t take the drawn-out pace. And at the end? she’s a seal? what the hell is that supposed to mean?
An animated mouse drama. There’s something that I really liked about this movie. It was almost like an epic or something.