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I hate this movie so much, I hate John Carpenter. I hate Kurt Russel's character so much I can't watch Kurt in ANY movie anymore without thinking about MacReady and wanting Kurt Russel to get off the screen or his character getting hit by lightning and dying on the spot. It really is that bad. I get so mad when I think about how this movie was handled!

*****SPOILER WARNING****

So 12 men are trapped in Antarctica with a thing-monster that spills some DNA and, oops, suddenly somebody is infected and then they randomly turn into a monster to make the few outstanding special effects this movie has to offer.

So the OBVIOUS thing would be sticking together at all times, always keeping the flamethrowers with you and make sure nothing gets contaminated?
Not these guys.

The problem is, I LIKED the characters (except for Macready and Garry), they all seemed really interesting with good qualitys. Especially Windows and Nauls are my favorite because they seemed like very caring and fun to be with persons, my third favorite is Palmer because he is just too cool.
The rest of the characters are hard to find things to like about, because they are not given much personality. Childs seemed to be a cool character, but he rarely gets any lines and he dosen't do much. In the original script for the movie (which I've read), he is a COMPLEYELY different person.

Anyway, just leave it at that I liked the characters and want them to survive.
Except for Macready and Garry. Garry is so ¤%#¤% stupid, he shoots a Norwegian dead.

The movie starts off with "a thing" clone kills almost all the dogs, the monster gets burned and people go back to normal, but they agree to always stay together. (which is, surprisingly, Macreadys suggestion)

The first thing they do is starting to leave characters by themselves. DUH!
Bennings and Windows leaves a body they found at a camp in a shed and Windows leaves, leaving Bennings alone. He gets instantly "copied" and becomes a monster. Windows discovers him and gets Macready and the others.
The monster hasn't completely copied Bennings, so they start burning him.

The scene cuts to Macready getting some more gasoline and some more flamethrowers, because he loves frying people (ironi).
Garry comes in and tells him that he and Bennings have been best friends for 10 years (which you could NEVER guess, because you only see them together when they play some cardgame for a couple of seconds, and you can only tell Garry is by the table if you want to notice)
Macready says they have to burn the monster - what does Garry do?
NOTHING!!!!
He just kind of accept they will burn his friend!!!
That is so stupid and unrealistic, it also makes me angry with John Carpenter. Would he REALLY not care about his best friend dying this way?
So they just burn Bennings and he is never mentioned again for the remainder of the movie.

Then I don't remember in which order things happen, but they discuss a blood test on how to find out people are this thing.
Now here is a mayor plot hole.
Later in the movie Palmer is discovered to be the monster, but they don't show where he is, he dosen't do much things, he has 2 small arguments with Windows, that's about it.
Anyway, they have another group discussion and they discover the blood has been contaminated and the blood test can't be done.
Windows runs away in fear.
Now here it proves just how bad John Carpenter is at character development. If you've watched "other movies with Windows actor, you know Thomas Waites can act. In one movie, his character panics, sits in a corner with a gun and cries.
Carpenter was obviously inspiried by this, Winows runs away, grabs a gun and refuses to put it down. They just randomly talks him out of it and he puts the gun on the floor.
No crying, because John Carpenter don't want to show men crying, so Windows just stands there quiet until they leave.

Many clues are left that indicates that Macready is the monster, but of course Macready can't die, because John Carpenter loves him, so anytime anybody accuses Macready, it is instantly forgotten.

Nauls and Macready goes to Macreadys apartment, Nauls cuts him off and gets back. Of course Macready gets back safe, because WHY would the monster hurt Kurt Russel???
Anyway, big argument, Macready threathens to blow himself up and the others with dynamite.
Norris gets a heartattack, they take him to the infimary.
In the infirmary, Clark gets suspicious of Macready and tries stabbing him with a knife, macready shoots and kills him!!!
The famous "doctors arms get decapitated" scene happens, monster scene, then they burn Norris.
When he died, the first time I saw the movie, I cried so much I had to leave the room. Nobody in the movie cares though.

Oh yeah, Fuchs randomly commits suicide because HE IS LEFT ALONE!!!
Do I need to stress this enough???
And nobody cares.
And Blair is locked up in a shed, so of course he is a monster now.

Then they find out that they can do the blood test by cutting their fingers and get fresh blood. Palmer turns into the monster and attacks Windows.
Palmer dies because Macready kills him, then Windows starts turning into the thing and Macready kills him too.
That's three people!!!
Then they find out Clark wasn't a monster, but still human, so Macready murdered him and Clark was innocent.
But who cares? Because it's Kurt Russel!!!!

Anyway, then they decide to burn the whole camp down, because the monster don't like heat. Of course Macreadys idea.
And what do they do?
They are now 4 people left, of course THEY LEAVE CHILDS BEHIND!!!!!!!!!
***headesk x56 times!!***

Nauls, Garry and Macready goes to the shed, Blair is gone and they find a hole and go down. Blair-monster has started to repair its spaceship. How the hell did he do this in 1-2 days???
Where did it get the parts???
How did the UFO get there???
Anyway, guess what?
The men SEPEREATE.... walks DIFFERENT PATHS... and Blair kills Garry. What happens to Nauls is never shown, I guess Carpenter wanted to avoid racism, because nothing monster-like happen to the black men.

Anyway, of course Nauls and Garry die, but MACREADY, Kurt Russel, survives!!!
Then you expect a nice monster-scene for the ending because now you know Blair is the monster.
Well, the animation couldn't be done, so we see 4 seconds of Blair-monster, Macready says "go to hell" and blasts the monster to pieces.
Then Childs shows up, they talk.
The End.
An if it was so EASY to just BLOW UP THE THING................. why did it TAKE SO LONG TO DO IT?!?!?!?!

This movie is just horrible, I only like the special effects, but the movie is so stupid I can't watch it.

The story about one of the most important persons in history. Very touching, excellent acting and the music is beautiful too.

Imagine you are the kindest of person, all you want to do is show your kindness and love to other people. But everybody is disgusted by you, they hate you. Why? Because you look like a monster...
That is the life of Joseph (incorrectly called John in the movie), until he meets Dr Treves who tries his best to give him a decent life.

I always get so upset watching this movie and see what people do to Joseph, happy for him once he gets accepted and I still believe he did not try commit suicide, I believe he wanted to try to sleep like a normal person, then was unable to recover from his dream, which caused him to choke to death. At least I feel a sense of relief knowing he died without being in pain... in which he had spent most of his life being.

Rest in Peace, Joseph, you were truly an angel sent from heaven to earth.

I read a good review about this movie and wanted to give it a chance... teaches me to read the BAD reviews and listen to them!

The story was odd, Lance Henriksen plays a guy, his son gets killed by some teenager/young adult that hits him with a motorcycle. Blah blah, then Lance character asks a witch to summon a monster to take revenge on those people... but then he regrets it.
Most stupid plot ever.

The acting was piss-poor, it has to be the worst I have ever seen. Even Lance Henriksen didn't do his best, and he was one of the better actors... that says a lot about the movie.

The effects were silly, and it was distracting that the monster looked like the alien from "Alien" and sounded like the dog-thing from "The Thing". It reminded you there are better movies out there than this crap...

I can understand why many people don't like this movie, many things are left un-explained after the movie ends.
Like why do Eric and Ariel fall in love?
Why is Ursula evil?
For me though, I don't mind it, I think the fast pace of the movie makes up for the things left un-explained. It's not like we got to know why all the other female elephants are bullies while Dumbo's mom is kind, but the movie works anyway.

The songs in this movie are great, I love "Part of your World", I sing it almost every day.
The animation is beautiful too, I always love the opening sequence.

Beautiful songs, but the movie is just hideously boring. Nothing really happen except for Pocahontas and John talking.

I also found the artwork a lackluster, it dosen't have any shading and honestly dosen't look very interesting. The characters don't move naturally, they look stiff and don't portray feelings with their bodies. Especially the scene "Colors of the Wind" is ruined by this. Pocahontas barely moves at all in some scenes.
Just compare Pocahontas movements in "Colors of the Wind" with Ariels when Ariel sings "Part of your world". Ariel has more life and moves naturally, while Pocahontas seems almost like a stone.
It makes the animators look lazy since The Little Mermaid was all handpainted!

***SPOILER WARNING***

There were too many similarities with "The little mermaid", it seemed that the artwork and story "leeched" off of it. Especially the beginning where they end up in a storm and John saves a crewmember, it was like it was taken directly from The Little Mermaid when Ariel saves Eric!

The movie Poster makes Pocahontas look so lovely, but all the shading is gone when she is in the movie. It made the movie look like they didn't spend much time on the artwork at all.
The only real impressive artwork is when Pocahontas sings "Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?" and she becomes colored with pink and blue colors in a wind.
But that's it.

Pocahontas personality is basically Ariel 2, a girl who wants to go on adventure instead of being home (or hey, the usual princess girl) and she seems just... dull.
In the second movie (which I liked better), Pocahontas stood up for what she believed in, her she just seems to want to "try" to make John like the things she likes. Especially when John tries to shoot a bear and she just points his gun into another direction!

The chemistry between John and Pocahontas was zero, I see no reason for them falling in love. I'd take Kocoum anyday - at least he was hot!

The soundtrack however was beautiful, I enjoyed all of the songs, so I ended up buying the soundtrack. When the songs don't play, the movie is terrible, but there are plenty of songs to keep the movie going.
It was very sad they never released the movie version of "if I never knew you" on the soundtrack, but at the same time, I can see why they felt they needed to cut that scene out (as if the movie wasn't boring already)

Another good thing about the movie is that the "annoying sidekicks" (the two characters that are always f-ing annoying) were silent and didn't have much screentime. I actually laughed at them at one time. (Meeko jumping over the waterfall, grabbing Flit and hold him under himself to "ease" the fall - lol!)
I know they removed some turkey sidekick. Don't know if the movie would have been better with it in.

My biggest objection to this movie however is the scene where Pocahontas and John (during "Colors of the Wind") follow a bear mother and her cubs into a cave. Pocahontas picks up one of the cubs and places it in the arms of John.
If you did that to a real bearcub the mother would kill you!
The bearmother in the movie is shown to just shy away a little, but in no way aggresive.
This scene in my oppinion should have been removed or edited, it's dangerous for a child to think s/he can do that in real life!

Beautiful animation and songs, and I just love the personalities of the characters in the movie.

The beast, who is actually a prince, isn't "perfect" like all the other princes in the other movies, they step out like from a dream and instantly love the princess and have no personality what-so-ever.
Beast however is rude, loud, selfish... you name it, he is your worst nightmare.
But Belle's kindness changes him, slowly, but surely. And it's not your average "I'm sorry, let's kiss and make up" stuff, the beast refuses to admit he is wrong, but after a lot of arguing with Belle, he realizes he is. He realizes he gains so much more from being kind. Because he was spoiled as a child, he never learned about kindness. But Belle is persistent and she and the Beast falls in love.

I also like the Belle has personality, unlike the other princesses she isn't shallow, she is smart and she loves to read. And when somebody does something that she dosen't like, she speaks her mind.

The only thing I don't like about this movie is that there only seems to excist two men in Belle's age, Gaston who is rude and selfish, and then there's Beast.
Come on Disney, just because there would be a third guy who would be nice dosen't mean Belle would instantly fall in love with him!
They just made it very convinient that there was only Gaston and Beast and not a third guy.

This movie is great, it makes fun of Disney and other kid-movies with all the musical numbers. The songs are great, they are not just create within minutes, all the songs have great rememberable melodies, all without sounding just like the other. I especially loved Satan's song, which makes fun of Disneys characters always singing a song about wanting to be somewhere else.

Scary??? Where??? When??? Did I miss it????

This has got to be the most overrated movie of all time. The best horror movie ever?
Candyman is more like Freddy Kreuger Junior, he comes out and scares the heroine every now and then, but even though he got the powers to appear anywhere he wants to, he dosen't do anything. And a lot of times he "chases" the victims, why not just slash up the whole town if you're gonna kill people?
It's just sooo silly.

The acting was pitiful. It truly felt like made-forTV acting. Virginia tries to act concerned, but she just fails. And when she hears the story of Candyman killing a child she looks like somebody told her the flag was blue. It's like "Ok, so what? Tell me more!" look.
The other actors weren't good either, Tony Todd looks too nice, he has the exact same expression all the time, not looking very manipulative or evil by the way. He looked like a random dude in a fur coat, taking away that Candyman is supposed to be scary. If you never saw Candyman but only heard the voice, then it would be more effective. I couldn't picture the voice and the killer being the same person.

The story was silly and didn't scare me one bit. Who is Candyman? Why does he come and kill people? Why dosen't he just slash her throat and end the movie? Lots of whys. And who is she? She's just a random nobody I'm supposed to feel sorry for, there was no character development what-so-ever. The only person I felt sorry for was the young woman with the baby and she wasn't even a main character.

The pacing is SLOW. It takes forever for her to get anywhere or even figure things out.

The movie tries to cheap-scare you a few times and tell you the ridicolous "Say his name 5 times and you will die, tralalala" story. The only thing I found "scary" was the actual bees, but that is because I hate bees.

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen and I don't understand it's popularity! The only good thing about it was the soundtrack.

It's a very well made movie without a doubt and I love the beginning of the movie. The ending is however way too long, stupid and ruins the movie. It's sad that they changed the ending so much from the book, when they followed the book so closely in the first place.
I hate the macho ending so much, if the ending would have been like the book, this movie would get 5 stars

I was too scared to watch this movie when I was younger, I used to be extremely afraid of scary movies, but after getting used to them, I could finally watch this.

Truly a fantastic movie. The story was awesome and I thought Geena Davis was great!
I thought the ending was the best way to end this movie.
You really feel sorry for Seth Brundle and I really felt like crying at times. ;_;

***SPOILER WARNING***

What I love most about this movie, it's in the end when Seth realizes he isn't going to be human anymore, he becomes so desperate to become human he even sacrifices his love and their unborn baby.
That is pure desperation of a man who is loosing his life and it's just not something you see a "good" character do.

I also love how the "bad guy", Veronicas ex boyfriend, Stathis Borans (who is the jealous, seriousy annoying guy) steps up in the end to save her.
If this would have been the regular Hollywood ending (ala Fly 2), you'd know that Seth would have switched DNA with the "bad guy" and become human again.
Instead, Stathis saves Veronica and her unborn babys life.

The ending is still so sad. ;_;
Oh god, I get so sad when Seth is merged together with parts of the broken telepod.
When the music plays dramatically and it says "Fusion of Brundlefly and telepod successful", that leaves such a big lump in my throat.
When he crawls out in agonazing pain, unable to talk anymore, he crawls over to Veronica and puts the end of the gun against his head, moaning in pain, begging her to end his life. ;_;

Ironically, I was watching this movie because I was irritated with Jeff Goldblum from watching Jurassic Park 2, I wanted to see him in agony.
I could never imagine being this sad instead. ;_;

I can understand why Jeff Goldblum didn't get an Oscar for his acting in the movie. I thought he was dull when "normal", it is only when he slowly transforms his acting is shining.

I also thought the movie worked as a love story, though it's not so much screentime for the love, because you can instantly see what Veronica likes about Seth that she dosen't like about Stathis.
Seth is a goof, he is funny and just an overall fun guy to be with.
Stathis is very serious all the time and waltzes into Veronicas apartment and takes a shower, so yeah, I kinda get why she broke up with him.
He wasn't that awful of a person per se, he was the one helping Veronica make all the decisions when she was crying and frustrated, but i can see how she and him wouldn't work as a couple.

This is the kind of movie, just like all else: Oh no, the ugly character fell into the water, suddenly the monster gains superpowers and eats him!

The acting was below abysmal. The main guy acted drunk (!) when he wasn't. I'm sure he was supposed to act like normal, but he looked and talked like he was completely smashed!

The love story was sooooo plastic, even worse than Barbie and Ken. Woman reads a boy's "I lost my dog note", basically asks "You got a brother?", kid says "yeah" and she goes over to his house and she and the big brother falls in love. X_X
Ewww?

*****SPOILER WARNING*****

I also need to add this to "Most stupid character" list.
A female scientist is shown keeping an eye on a room where they are raising 2 killer dinocrocs.
One of the crocs kill the other and she see's that through the camera.
What does she do?
Of course she yells to the other croc to stop (!), then she opens the door (!!) allowing the croc to escape, then she walks into the room and waits for it to eat her, her only weapon is just an electrocuter. It would be one thing if it was on a long stick, but it's about the size of her hand. (!!) So the croc kills her. Then the janitor finds her, but because the door was open the whole time, the croc escaped into the wilderness. (!!!)

Oh, and I need to mention.......... THE KID DIED.
When the "drunk actor" brother finds out, it looks like he has worst case diarrea.... the acting is sooooo bad!

Strangely enough, this movie had an AWESOME soundtrack.
The music was truly haunting and should have been used in a vampire movie.
It's so sad it was used for such an awful movie.