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#676 Old 23rd Sep 2021 at 1:07 AM Last edited by ScaryRob : 24th Sep 2021 at 2:20 AM.
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) - 4/10
The title sounds like a cross between a horror movie and a porn flick. Cheesy and melodramatic.
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Theorist
#677 Old 1st Oct 2021 at 6:36 AM
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) - 5/10
Too complicated with too many similar characters intertwined. Had to read the plot description on Wikipedia after watching it. Real life is not that complicated.
Field Researcher
#678 Old 1st Oct 2021 at 1:03 PM
Hot Fuzz (2007) 9/10

Couldn't stop laughing - shut my eyes for all the bloody bits. Second time seeing it, which is always the better one when it comes to movies, being accepting and unconcerned about quality.
Test Subject
#679 Old 2nd Oct 2021 at 3:53 PM
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Mad Poster
#680 Old 9th Oct 2021 at 8:27 PM Last edited by simmer22 : 11th Oct 2021 at 6:07 PM.
The Call

Decent story, but apart from the second teen who gets kidnapped, nobody in that movie has an inch of basic survival instinct and/or survival 101 skills. The 911 operator sounds like she knows what she's talking about when on the phone (after she gets a second go, that is), but when she's in the field she's almost as bad as the rest of 'em... Even the police is blundering around a bit, always 3 steps behind. Also, that ending... That's just begging for future trouble
Theorist
#681 Old 14th Oct 2021 at 5:31 AM Last edited by ScaryRob : 15th Oct 2021 at 12:22 AM.
Southern Comfort (1981) - 3/10
The first hour or so is a cliche cringefest and, frankly, boring. The last half hour is okay.
Edit: Actually, I'm going to lower my ratings by 2 whole points because after further thought, this entire movie is garbage.
Theorist
#682 Old 28th Oct 2021 at 1:05 AM
City of Fear (1959) - 4/10
A vicious killer escapes from San Quentin, heading to Los Angeles, with a canister of what he believes to be heroin but is actually a radioactive substance that is dangerous enough to kill everyone in the city. What he does not know is that exposure to the element is slowly killing him, as the authorities try to locate him and the canister.

Sounds like an interesting plot, but this movie just plods along, boringly.
Theorist
#683 Old 28th Oct 2021 at 6:22 AM Last edited by ScaryRob : 5th Feb 2022 at 7:44 AM.
Brainstorm (1965) - 3/10
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but falls in love with her and plots to kill her husband by pretending to be criminally insane.
Goofy, boring, dumb.
Theorist
#684 Old 6th Nov 2021 at 7:19 PM
Deadline (1980) - 2/10
A popular horror writer whose family life is falling apart struggles to write his next horror movie.
Never heard of it? That's because it's effing stupid.
Test Subject
#685 Old 7th Nov 2021 at 12:08 AM
Black Swan (2010) - 8.7/10

super interesting!!! beautiful shots and concept - i love the cast
Theorist
#686 Old 14th Nov 2021 at 4:20 PM
Gattaca (1997) - 2/10
Dumb.
Theorist
#687 Old 21st Nov 2021 at 6:56 AM
A Haunting in Connecticut (2002) - 5/10
Apparently this is a TV movie and should not be confused with The Haunting in Connecticut (2009), a motion picture, although they both tell the same story of a family that moves into a Connecticut home that is, well, haunted, obviously.
For a TV movie this isn't too bad. It is filmed in the style of a documentary, with a narration that explains the events, along with the acting. It's got me curious to see the motion picture version.
Theorist
#688 Old 21st Nov 2021 at 7:03 AM
I was wondering whether someone could help me remember the title of a movie I saw about 10 years ago. It was Sci-Fi/Horror and dealt with a creeping darkness that gradually envelopes the entire earth. I don't remember for sure, but I guess this darkness kills anyone caught in it. It wasn't a particularly good movie, kind of dumb actually, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It was probably one of those movies that was released only on DVD, never in theaters.
Anyone have any idea?
Theorist
#689 Old 22nd Nov 2021 at 3:42 PM
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) - 5/10
Not to be confused with A Haunting in Connecticut (2002), from two posts above, this motion picture version is gorier, but not overall better. I think the TV version might be a bit more suspenseful, and not just because I knew what to expect with this one. I think it's because what the TV version has in suspense, the movie version has in gore, because they probably can't show as much of the latter on TV. I give this one the same rating.
Lab Assistant
#690 Old 22nd Nov 2021 at 11:41 PM
Apex (2021) - 1/10

Boring, Has been done many times before with much better results.
I am a Bruce Willis fan, But in this he does nothing but walk through some woods on an island with a few crazy people who are out to kill him for sport.
They kill themselves while Bruce is getting high on berries he found and that's about it.
Field Researcher
#691 Old 24th Nov 2021 at 4:14 PM
The Breaker Upperers (New Zealand, 2018) 10/10 for this joke:

"- Just because I don't have a boyfriend does not mean I'm gay!
- I'm just saying, you already live together, you might want to consider it.
- I'm not sure it's something you can actually consider, Shoz. I think it's more like something you're born with, like, a genetic mutation, like X-men, but, like, in vaginas.
Like, boom (forming an X with arms), Vulvarine!"

Ah, I love Wolverine.
Test Subject
#692 Old 26th Nov 2021 at 6:37 PM
Moon (2009)
9/10
This movie was amazing. Sam Rockwell really plays the main character well (or should I say characters without spoiling too much)
It was truly a hidden gem for me as I didn't expect much of it as it was a movie made with just 5 million dollars.
Theorist
#693 Old 27th Nov 2021 at 6:42 AM Last edited by ScaryRob : 28th Nov 2021 at 1:05 AM.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - 1/10
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

Something stupid this way comes. The premise of this "Mystery Thriller" never grabbed me, which is why I never watched it until now - and I really had to force myself to see it through, over the course of three evenings. Ughh. Just goes to show how bored I am sometimes.
It's set in the 1920's, an era I find decidedly uninteresting. The fashions are ugly, the technology is ugly - cars, telephones, radios, etc. - and American small town society still has many of the trappings of the late 19th century, with gas-lit streetlights and some homes still using candle power. After all, this was just 50 years after cowboys on horseback still rode through most towns in the Midwest and West. Just an ugly era, in my opinion, in many different ways.
Another thing that irritates me is that this is one of the countless movies of the 1980's that had child characters that were smarter than the adults, which is why I've never watched E.T., The Goonies, Poltergeist or similar Spielberg garbage. In this movie, this is exacerbated by the Jason Robards character, a septuagenarian, or nearly so, who is the father of a 10-year-old boy. Now, just doing the simple math means that the father character was around 60 years old when the boy was born, presumably to a woman of child-bearing age, so no more that 40 at most. That's a 20-year age difference between husband and wife, if not more if she was younger. In order to make the plot work, they needed an old man with a very young son, but the somewhat weirdness of it really irritates me.
Then there's Jason Robards, one of the most overrated actors, in my opinion. Every movie I've ever seen him in he plays the same, plodding, monotoned, excruciatingly boring characters. I'm really starting to despise this guy.
Robards is similar to Jack Klugman in this regard, who, no matter what type of character he played, always came out as Oscar Effing Madison, from the Odd Couple TV show - very irritating to see. Even before The Odd Couple, he exuded Oscar Madison when he was in a few Twilight Zone episodes, always reverting to the same obnoxious demeanor and mannerisms. Maybe Klugman's excuse was that he had a face like a chewed piece of bubble gum, so he was never suited to play a leading role opposite a beautiful woman, or any woman really. I can't think of a single example of him kissing a woman on screen. The mere thought is cringe-inducing and at once laughable. Even in real life he was married to a hag, although she at least had a pleasant personality and sense of humor. Oh well, tough luck on him and I'm digressing anyway.
Anyway, this movie sucks.


Why always the long effing face?
He'd probably make a good match
for Sarah Jessica Parker.
Theorist
#694 Old 10th Dec 2021 at 3:23 PM Last edited by ScaryRob : 16th Dec 2021 at 4:31 PM.
The Time Machine (2002) - 3/10
Remakes are rarely as good as originals, and this one is no exception.
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#695 Old 13th Dec 2021 at 3:22 AM
The Man Who Used To Be Me (2000) - 3/10
A made-for-TV movie about a man that travels back in time to try to solve his father's murder.
Nothing to write home about.
Theorist
#696 Old 13th Dec 2021 at 3:32 AM
Wayne's World (1992) - 2/10
I made it to 8 minutes into this drivel before calling it quits - specifically when they're driving and put on a cassette of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, a pretentious ditty I never liked and which is way over-referenced by just about everyone.
Mike Myers can be funny, if taken in limited doses. This is why he was successful in Saturday Night Live. Too much of him though quickly becomes obnoxious. I'd normally rate this a "1", but I'll make it a "2" for the "Ex-squeeze Me?", "Baking Powder?" and ""Sphincter Says What?" one-liners I believe came from this movie.
I also cringe whenever movies use actors who are well into their 20's to depict teenagers. Myers was 29 and Dana Carvey even older, at 37 - just stoopid.
Mad Poster
#697 Old 15th Dec 2021 at 9:55 PM Last edited by simmer22 : 23rd Dec 2021 at 2:28 AM.
Rerun of The Matrix on TV.

Just found it funny that the ads directly in front of the breakfast scene (the "bowl of snot" porridge) were of an energy company, a roomba, and a food delivery service... It's almost like they planned it to be a bit on-the-nose .

It's not my favorite movie series, but the first movie is well made for its time. Only fully saw the movie series once, and that's a long time ago, so I only partly remembered various scenes.

While the first one had me watching throughout, Reloaded feels like it suffers from "Who-are-all-these-new-people?", "some-time-has-clearly-passed...did-I-miss-something?", overdone actionscenes (not helped by Neo's Matrix powers going from 99% to a million in whatever timeline I must have missed between the movies), "Some plot stuffeths because it's supposed to be a trilogy and we gotta fill the 2nd one with something", mid-movie chrisis. I think that was true the first time I watched, too. Maybe it's just because I'm struggling to pay attention. There's too much focus on action and effects in a lot of places, and it feels like the story gets lost somewhere in the "let's make this look AWESOME!", and it makes me lose interest. Also, after a while, that clearly fake stage fighting kinda gets on my nerves...
It did get a bit better the last 30-ish or so minutes, though.

Hoping the last movie can take it up a notch, but that'll have to wait a few days.

EDIT:

Watched the last one, and it was alright. Better than the middle one, but not quite as engaging as the first one, and the usual kind of feeling with movies that have an ending you start expecting already during the first and second movie (I've seen it, but there really are extremely few surprises in this one). Hero "is the one", he gets the job done, everyone is happy, end of story (ish?).

I guess it makes me a little bit curious for the next movie now when it's here, but it's not like I'm going to run to the movies (I'm more likely to watch the new Spiderman movie, although I've missed out on a couple Marvel movies in between).
Theorist
#698 Old 16th Dec 2021 at 4:30 PM
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) - 4/10
We are all just computer simulations, and it's all very confusing.
I do get hankering for a grilled cheese sammich now and then. Well, grilled ham and cheese.
Theorist
#699 Old 16th Dec 2021 at 6:29 PM Last edited by ScaryRob : 19th Dec 2021 at 8:26 AM.
A Bucket Of Blood (1959) - 5/10
A mentally challenged man accidentally kills a cat and covers it in clay to make a statue. After customers at the beatnick cafe where he works laud him as an artistic genius, he uses his newly found talent to model other "subjects".
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#700 Old 17th Dec 2021 at 6:02 AM
Don't Tell A Soul (2020) - 4/10
A pair of thieving brothers cause a security guard who caught them in the act to fall into an abandoned well hole, and they argue about whether to save him. Just when the story gets totally absurd, there's a major twist.
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