My Favorite Movies

Great film. the pacing is very different than most/all Western films and can be challenging for the 21st century ipod on the go crowd, but the acting and direction pays off in unbelievable ways and takes you on a journey you're not prepared for. It'll make you think and care about the characters.

All time best Trek movie! KHAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! khan.

"but for the British, very, very simple."

ang lee's best film

hilarious and very original

good heart warming story

makes me miss the cold war

i really thought this was the best of the modern disney anime cell flicks. a travesty it lost best picture to silence of the lambs

funny flick

sequel funny make me laugh

this film is so under rated by so many people. It is probably one of the best cold war propoganda films ever made and could give Leni Reifenstahl a run for her money. And on top of that extremely entertaining for the popcorn friday night crowd. Between this film and First Blood 2, Stallone was chanelling the American angst of wanting to beat the tar heels out of the "evil" Soviet Union "empire." When the line is uttered "He's cut! The Russians cut." The theatre exploded with applause as if everyone really was ringside watching Rocky punch Ivan Drago. One measure of a great film is when the filmmaker gets an emotional reponse from an audience. In this Stallone achieved that goal.

In some ways I liked this one even more than the first, and not because of the happy ending where Rocky actually beats Apollo but I liked how Stallone developed the question of what happens to Rocky's life after the fight of his life and he did a really great job of directing the drama and capturing life in Philly in the late 1970's. He stayed true to the character of an uneducated/ learning impaired man trying to cope in a society where his only real skill was fighting. The commercial scenes are classic, which Stallone unfortunately drops this part of Rocky's character for the third film and he's suddenly charismatic and articulate. Still the films for me could end with just Rocky one and Rocky two together tell a complete story.

A mildly interesting sci-fi film but an interesting Cold War 80's film. Lets face it how can you possibly do a sequel to Kubrick's 2001? Even Arthur C Clarkes' sequel novels lacked the intrigue of the film. How can you show the face of God? Answer you can't. When I saw this on the big screen the real star for me was Jupiter. This was as cloase to Imax as you could get in the 80's. 2nd was the tech. It was fun to see the spfx and the hypothetical design departure as the "Soviet" approach to deep space exploration relying more on manpower and less Automated control. The storyline relies heavily on Soviet- American conflict over a "Cuba missile" style crisis in Central America. This was obviously to avoid as much as possible the problems with trying to pick up after the 2001 evolution of man/ supreme being storyline. The movie hints at a Haunted House story briefly when the crew boards and with Bowmans appearances on Earth. A real shame this was not indulged in more and the film amkers could have dumped the Cold War plotline as the space crews would've had bigger things to worry about and really would add the spookiness the film needed. Like in Aliens which followed up on the haunted house on the hill storyline from Alien, it kept the creepiness of the first film but was then later able to change to its' own rules. The space crews in this film dismiss much of the action to quickly and seem more concerned with the possible nuclear war on Earth then being face to face with an apparent supernatural force millions of miles from home. It would've been interesting if for some bizarre reason that if Kubrick could direct this film I imagine "the Shining in Space."

Just a great film and marvelous film making. A real test of patience with the current 21st century nano second attention span but worth visiting. It's a film that challenges to ask questions. Tried it out on my young kids and they liked the "monkeys." The younger ones held with the film while the older ones fidgeted and muttered "boring." Until HAL went bonkers and the space warp sequence etc... After that they had tons of questions about the film, the Solar System, HAL, life, etc... Thanks Stanley.

my life's story with a few hundred changes

I've always liked this movie. Its very much a film of the 70s' aimed at the blue collar crowd much like my family minus the ape. Although it coud be argued a few of my cousins are closely related to Clyde. Outside of that its a very effecient comedy of straight story telling. Boy meets girl, girl runs away with his money and boy goes after girl for love.

not as good as the first movie. basically a happy ending remake to get the gang together again minus Beverly D'angelo which while she wasn't a huge presence in the first film is really missed in the sequel and could've provided some cat fight comdey with Sandra Locke. But if you liked the first film you pretty much buy into the sequel.

schwing!

only one that is funny

Been a long time since I watched this ( I actually saw it in the theatre.) Looks very dated now but if you buy into the Duck suit much like you had yo buy into the premise of the Comic Book it's based on, you can have a fun time watching it. The Ultralight chase was a lot more interesting than say the Podrace scene. Tim Robbins was really good as was most of the cast. In the DVD bonus material it was mentioned this was originally planned as a animated film in the style of Fritz The Cat. I wish Lucas had done it that way. But even then if it was Heavy Metal lite I don't think most audiences would get the source material of Howard and especially it being from Star Wars/ Indiana Jones creator Lucas. This film for me falls into the what could've been cool category of sci-fi movies: Buckaroo Banzai, Howard The Duck...

This film is so ridiculous and funny. A bit formualic but this was a Friday sitcom and music show for the family spending a night at the theatre. We had popcorn night and the kids loved it. Sort of like WB Bugs Bunny cartoon a little something for everyone in the family and both Dean and Jerry don't disapoint in this film.

This movie is so much fun. Especially for boys who loves cars, gadgets and a good adventure. My guys can watch this over and over. It's a decent family film with somthing for everyone and is an odd production when considered it's produced by Broccoli the famous producer of teh James Bond films. Sort of a cross between another favorite movie Blake Edward's The Great Race and Mary Poppins.

My favorite movie of all time. It has everything: good guys in white, bad guys in black, fast cars,comedy, action, music numbers, a bar fight, a pie fight, storming the castle, a polar bear, gadgets, a race around the world, cowboys, bolsheviks, and the struggle for women's rights.

Sad that this was thier last movie as a duo but what an ending. Funny, goofy and an adolescent 1950's male fantasy road trip movie. The scene with dog driving the car is still extremely funny.

Simply, one of the greatest movies ever made. Still holds up with the younger crowd nearly a hundred years later.

I always liked these sort of rambling animated travelogues of Disney. This one in particular was produced during WW2 and in the original version had a scene where the word CENSORED popped up as the Disney Team flew through the Chilean mountain pass as at this time charts and photos were precious strategic info. It was later edited out for the DVD release. I wish Disney and other companies would quit tinkering film like that. It's not that big of a deal and would not confuse the viewer. if anything maybe they'd big up a history book and read about things. This is a great film for kids to learn about other cultures and of course is entertaining.

A good collection of animated shorts sort of hosted by Roy Rogers and his singing cowboys along with some children. Captures the feel of pop culture America transitioning from post WW2 stress into the 1950's pop cowboy culture. The Peco's Bill melody is a classic. DVD is great for road trips.

Sort of 2001/ Short Circuit/ ET/ Day The Earth Ended for kids. And that's really being fair as it pretends to be a kids movie but again showing why Pixar films are great film making comapred to most contemporary Disney animated features, is that Pixar is willing to take risks regarding storyline. A completely trashed Earth and culture in the form of a mega corporation that runs everything and has turned the human race into bland non-thinking/ constant need to be entertained sheep. The parallels to Mike Judge's film Idiocracy(2006) were very inertesting. It made me wonder how in a hundred years or so people would look back on these two films produced around the same era as people do now with Fritz Lang's Metropolis. All films at thier core ponder the fate and evolution, social structure of the human race. In the more practical now, I hope that Pixar creative team will inject this kind of daring and quality film making back into Disney and spare us direct to DVD sequels of The Little Mermaind IV: This Time It's Personal, that the Eisner Disney animated machine cranked out.

Great Epic film making. The film is long and the story takes it's time in developing but sets the scene 2000 some years ago very well. I like to watch this once a year around Easter weekend along with The Ten Commandments as while spring tends to bring the promise of a renewed future it's interesting in looking at the past. It's interesting to see how the echos of the Roman Empire's struggle for economic power and the Judean's struggle for liberty and an un-occupied land free of Roman soldiers play in context of modern day events. Watch the opening scene of Judah and Messala and draw your own comparisons. It made me think of how fleting all of it was thousands of years later. It's interesting to see how much did get shown or played on screen considering the 1950's era of censorship. In battle scenes we same mamed and disfgured men without hands and feet. Torture. Charlton Heston's character Judah is a slave owner. Religion in the film there are 3. Judaism, fledgling Christianity ( it really wasn't even that until hundreds of years later) as Jesus was still preaching as a rabbi within Judaism and the Roman Polyteism (or multiple Gods.)

Jesus while important to the story is played in the back ground and woven into Ben-Hur's life at key events. The films conveys a sense of the times: as the Mediterranean World battles for economic, military and even spiritual power. And of course the chariot race is still one of the best moments ever captured on film. Sorry George, the pod race doesn't hold up.

Every Easter I'd watch this religiously on ABC Sunday night movie. Noy only is a great biblical story it's just a great movie to watch. Yul Brynner's famouse line: " Kneel before Zod!" Ok, just kidding. But the casting is awesome Brynner VS Heston. Even Edward G. Robinson worked in this film as the Chicago sounding gangster slave strongman. A fantatastic event movie that reminds you of the old Hollywood glamour of film making.

extremely intelligent and insightful look at the current economic and power structure of the American economy and ergo: it's culture. The scene when then VP Cheney calls McCain while being interviewed is priceless. McCain actually adjusts his tie and his appearance for a telephone call.

While main stream "journalism" went along for the ride, it took small time film makers to take the mantle of American journalism seriously and explore the various reasons why we were in Iraq and what was happening to the people there. Interviews with soldiers and contractors. Want to see the real Iraq War then watch this film.

An incredible doc about American war/ foreign policy from WW2 thru teh Cold War in McNamara's own words. A gripping film that everyone should watch.

A great piece on the Cold War between USA and USSR.

Hadn't seen this one in awhile and picked up a copy at the Circuit City OOBSale. For me it's one of those odd early 70's anti-hero westerns like Butch & Sundance, the 70's Kodak film stocks give it a particular look and feel along with John Williams score unique to that period. Storywise agood solid western, a bit disturbing now being a parent and seeing the young boys plan an ambush and kill the rustlers, but very true to the hard life of the frontier and even parts of the world today. Bruce Dern was down right creepy, Roscoe Browne amazing and the Duke gave a solid performance as the Duke. By now he was so molded as the iconic Western hero that there wasn't much else, tha's not to diminish his acting, in fact this is his genre and he played the defacto patriarch to the boys well.

The music really tells the story. ( rock me Amadeus)

This is just one of the best popcorn flicks ever made. Saw it one lost summer many years ago and still have fun watching it.

THis movie is just so solid in it's story telling. It's really hard to find a fault in it. One of my favs since watching it years ago n the the theater with a few people by the time I saw it for the 15th something time on the night in Oct 1985 that Marty goes back in time it wasa genuine word of mouth phenom at the box office. Has all the elements of a great film good plot, great characters, genuine peril, and good filmmaking craftsmanship. I oen an early script where the story changes and it's a very interesting evolution from that script to the final product.

The 1st film generated a huge fan base so that when the sequel finally came out in Dec 1989 droves of fans went to the theaters but something went wrong. The 1st warning sign for me was the recasting of Jennifer with Elizabeth Shue. I like Shue i think she's a fine actress but I liked Claudia Wells in the original role. The film jumped the shark for me early on with the tranq of Jennifer's character to get her out of the Marty/ Doc duo storyline and although amusing having Michael J Fox play multiple parts kind of worked against the story in the long run. Plus the film takes a much darker tone. In some respects way to dark in respect to the 1st film. But sometimes I like that and at other times I hate it. Somehow it feels against the grain. I don't hold the film maker's version of the future against the production as they were projecting some 30 years so they went with the fantastical version. This part 2 feels like Temple of Doom were the film just went to far into the darkness with Indy. By the time you get to the cliffhanger ending you feel warn out from the adventure. Not as good as the first one but ambitious in some respects for storytelling risks.

I like the Back to the Future film and I love Westerns but by the time this one came out (granted it was only 6 months between this and part2 as oppossed to 3 YEARS between EMPIRE & Jedi) but the film felt like a hang over. The 2nd part had a frentic pace and the 3rd slowed it down again like the original and I guess my biggest pet peeve was the don't call Marty "chicken" plot point established in the 2nd film. It felt contrived having never been an issue in the 1st film. It was like the filmmakers were in a corner to come up with some kind of fault for Marty and under time pressures for production settled on this device. For me that's weak story telling which they use in the 3rd movie for Marty to confront with the gunfight and grow -up and actually do the manly thing of walking away and not be bullied into a stupid confrontation again revisted with the car crash at the end of the film. I think if they had more time they could have come up with some better logic for Marty's motivations in part 2 & 3. Another problem was the gas issue powering the Delorean. It was established in the 1st film that Doc turned the Delorean into an electric car more or less and that the flux capacitor needed 1.21 gigawatts of power. PS: although heart warming ending I hate the locomotive time machine. For me a favorite part was the ZZTop cameo and end credits song. Final result was a film that echoed the original.

It was to watch this again and I forgot how it shared similarities with WATCHMEN but on a much more family friendly level. Superheroes with super powers = super consequences: property damage, people getting hurt and dying, and this causes the super heroes to be outlawed. That and remote similarity between Syndrome's fake attack on the city and that of Oztmadias's scheme. There the similarities stop. WATCHMEN's universe's tone seems more in kinship with the DC superhero universe and plays more on the "strangers" or masked crime fighters coming all together to form the Justice League. Incredibles seems to borrow more from the Marvel Universe where the crime fighters work sometimes in concert but more or less fight seperate villians and events. Of course the greatest parallel is The Incredible family to the Fantatsic Four sharing very similar powers. Another film source of inspiration that surprised me was how much it borrowed from the Bond films. Which makes a lot of sense as super heroes fighting super villians with henchmen and secret bases. The violence level is high for the under 8 crowd but the film is a great movie for comic book fans.

Saw this in the theatre and have since worn out 2 DVDs. A great race car film for boys. Not one of my favorite Pixar films but great for young children.

This is one of my favorite baseball movies. Forget logic, this film just pulls you into it. Saw it years ago at a mid-night show and had a ball of fun. Looks dated now to some degree but still catches the fun of loving the sport as a fan and a player.

This film combines 2 of my favorite things: baseball and Japan. Set in a time before Japanese players became powerful stars in the MLB, the Japan leagues were where American ball players basically went to see thier careers die. I think the film catches that drama well. I like Selleck and he's in good form here as an American big NY Yankee ball player forced to face that his best ball playing days are behind him. The film gets akward with the fish out of water storyline and I think a lot of the American audience can't relate to the Japanese setting. Having spent some time in Japanese ball parks I found the story fair representation as Japanese crowds react differently then do American crowds. I hate to tell you this America but they have more genuine fun at the games. It's like going to small town high school game every time. American parks seem to have a lot of angst. Anyway back to the film, the film is solid and Selelck's performance was good. I hope he does more comedies like this one.

If you love baseball flicks this is just one of the films you have to own. This is jsut plain fun plus you can have a date watch it. More romantic and sublime then Major League it's a good movie as it catches the feel of playing in the minor leagues in the south.

This is another of my favorite baseball films from the fan's point of view especially involoving the generation to generation aspect of baseball's cultural heritage. It's Old Yeller for old men.

Ok very dated by today's standards, the spfx always reminds me of Toho sci-fi flicks of the same era. My kids always wonder when Godzilla is going to pop out of an iceberg. Storytelling's pace is unusual butgets up to speed as the film progresses. Walter Pidgeon is always solid as the scientist/ commander in these type of Cold War 50/60's scifi romps. An interesting note about the Van Allen radiation belts catching fire from a meteor plot. The film was inspired by a news article were the USA military was conducting high altitude nuclear explosions / tests (aka rainbow bombs) testing the effects of electromagnetic pulses and there was a proposal before then President Kennedy to explode a nuclear bomb inside the Van Allen radiation belts. The scientists theorized that the bomb could a) cause an EMP that would travel along the belt and wipe out electrical equipment world wide, b) do nothing or c) fry every living thing on Earth. President Kennedy cancelled the project.

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a great sequel. In some ways better than the first film. Put together they're just great family entertainment. Both of these film in way comment on the great Walt Disney animated film making spirit that the Pixar Company has and that the Eisner-Disney Company doesn't have a clue about.

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It is what it was. Radio singing cowboy fights off Super Science under ground civiliazation and Uranium rustlers with the help of a rodeo band of young kids. It's a 1930's movie serial so bizzare only Gene Autry and his crowd pull it off. We watched it at Christmas and the kids got into the adventure. Everyday when we got back from skiing we'd watch an episode or 2 before bedtime. Stretching it out over the weeks was a lot more fun then watching all 13 episodes back to back.

Giant Atomic 6 armed taco falls in love with Golden gate bridge and gives it a big hug wrecking havoc on ant like humans who can't understand this overgrown octopod. Still cool 1950's monster movie after all these years. Kept my kids screaming until the end. Ray Harryhausen rocks!

This western was a pleasant surprise. Reminded me of a 1970's version of 1994's Tombstone. Big cast and big action. Most of Waynes' films around this time were smaller westerns adventures and smaller casts. This one has a good mix of fun, action and even a contemporary moral tale about the dangers of corporate monopolies and the corrupting influence on the Army and politics. The scene where Forrest Tucker's character of Murphy the new land barron is a bribing a US Army Colonel is classic. You'd swear it was Dick Cheney grilling a US Army General for a Halliburton contract. The rest of the cast is excellent and the story is predictable but entertaining.

If you like the Indiana Jones series you'll find this film enjoyable. The biggest problem was the film felt 20 years too late for it's audience. I wish the trio of Ford-Spielberg&Lucas could've made this film back in the 1990's. Ford does a good job, the history and archeology/ mythology is a bit sloppy but forgetting the known facts the film is fun. Didn't care much for Shia LaBeouf. He's a good actor. i just didn't find him that interesting as Indiana's son. Karen Allen was good but seemed out of place. Overall an OK follow-up for fans of the series. I even liked the Jumpingtheshark scene of Indy in the Atomic Fridge. If you can believe a 60+ guy with a bull whip can beat some Russian commandos, you can believe he'll survive an Atomic blast.

My favorite Harryhausen non-Sinbad type film and just one of the best 1950's sci-fi Alien films from that era. Scared the heck out of me when I was a kid watching it on Kimo13 Afternoon movies. The film is such a classic it set the standard for Alien invasions. EFX hold up very well and i marvel at the creative use of the animation and stock footage. Just a fun film that will scare the younger kids in the family.

My only favorite Next Gen film aka The NIGHT OF THE LIVING BORG!

This film works on all levels, even when the rewrote the Trek canon and established the Borg Queen heavy the film worked. The humor was there and definately the action. Stewart and the rest of the cast gave stellar performances and the Next Gen film series looked promising.

You felt the jeapordy of the Earth's future by the Borg threat and munched a lot of popcorn with your finger nails.

I'd forgotten what a great film this is. It really captures the moment of the 1930's farm culture. Wasn't all that long ago that was my Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Uncles and Aunts, working the family farm up in them thar hills etc... Tons has been said about the film itself, it's stars, director John Ford and of course based on the gripping novel by John Steinbeck, what I found surprising is the 2007 Fox DVD release's DVD commentary track with John Ford historian: Joesph McBride and Steinbeck Historian: Susan Shillinglaw. How many times have you ever heard respectful disagreement about men's motivations as artists. These 2 really know thier stuff and between them they give a lot of detail on the men and the days they lived in. Ford & Steinbeck both came from everyday man backgrounds and were both adamant Anti-communist liberals who because of thier works highlighting the battles of the common man against a rich ownership society (especialy this film & book) were accussed of being COMMUNISTS of all things. These accusations were made by powerful California Farming/ Banks monetary forces who stood a lot to loose money wise by the exposure of the unsafe farm housing conditions, poverty and indebited servitude that the low wages forced upon thousands of migrant dust bowl American farm workers and thier families. Both men were American Patriots. Ford served in the OSS in WW2 and made frontline combat films for the military and Steinbeck served as a war correpondent in WW2 and later in Vietnam. The commentray is extremely interesting and I hope you'll find the time to listen to it.

My last favorite Eddie Murphy film, everything seemed to go downhill for him after this one. The comic pairing of him and then good buddy Arsenio Hall seemed like they were going to make more comedies together but for some reason it never happened. The film had a lot of heart to it and the chemistry was good with the cast and it's become one of those films if it's on TV, you'll watch to the end no matter where you came in.

This was a very engaging film made during the Post WW2 American occupation of Japan. So the film had to pass USA censors and incorporate pro-western ideas as well as anti-imperial motiffs that Kurosawa was made to put in his earlier works. (All Japanese film productions were made to do this in both time periods.) It's what subtle info Kurosawa was able to get into this piece with lots of subliminal imagery for the post war audience. I was struck by how his work at this time was a version of Japanese Film Noir. A good film and worth watching.

The tempo of the film's 1st half is a bit slow as the story sets up but once Ghidorah shows up there is plenty on monsters a fighting. The conference scene where Mothra tries to convince Godzilla and Rodan to fight Ghidorah is funny as they basically ask a good question "why should they?" Film also has great line: " humph, monsters. They're as stupid as people." Overall a fun popcorn filled mashing of toy houses and rubbber monster suits.

A solid film which's underlying story of socal torment carries it way above an action flick. One of Stallone's best acting jobs.

Where as the first film was dealing with the social- despair and angst of returning Vietnam vets this film is pure post-Vietnam fantasy of one man's return to fight the Vietnamese and Soviets with some payback and kick some Washington Bureacratic butt in the process. Built around the idea that there has to be some remaining American POWs in Vietnam, Rambo returns a decade later to rescue a few, finds true love for 2 minutes and blows up a lot of stuff.

Was watching Deadliest Catch when one of the fisherman began singing: " Got a whale of a tale to tell ya, lads, a whale of a tale or two, 'bout the floppin' fish and the girls I've loved on nights like this with the moon above. A whale of a tale and it's all true, I swear by my tattoo. There was Mermaid Minnie; met her down in Madagascar. She would kiss me anytime that I would ask her. Then one evening, her flame of love blew out. Blow me down and pick me up, she swapped me for a trout! "

While the song is pure Disney it shows that the book and the Disney film version are permantly apart of the American cultural experience. It's a good solid piece of entertaining film making. The scenes where the Nautilus carries out Nemo's revenge on seafaring warships can be pretty chilling. There's an amazing dolly shot through Nemo's fish eye study window where the Heroic trio watches a burning frigate sink into the depths. I still enjoy the film and the kids loved it.

I liked this film a lot. It's as if it has a any great surprise in storytelling but the 2 kids who act in this film do a great job of portraying a religiously repressed boy forbidden to watch TV/ films who's accidentaly sees his first movie and it's FIRST BLOOD. A story of friendship and loss. I think adults of my generation (the 80's) will see more into it than the younger crowd. His buddy is trying to make a Rambo like action film and they end up using almost every kid in the neighborhood to help make the film based on the first boy's wild imagination. I chuckled when I saw the kid's video camera as it's the same one I have when we and my gang of neighborhood kids were making space war flicks in the basement.

Wow. What a departure this was from the superhero cartoon action of the Rambo III. This one gets gritty. It's almost like Stallone was trying to make the point that the RAMBO is not a Republican war action figure. The point he makes is that Rambo is a guy who doesn't want to kill and is tormented by that he's so proficient at it. This time Stallone underlines and puts this idea in big bold print. Sly did a great a great job directing minus some akward setup scenes between him and Benz, and Schulze who plays a Doctor who's smuggled himself into Burma 5 times previously to help villagers being wiped out by the government for the oil rich land. The Doc chides Rambo for having to kill some pirates to save the Doc and his merry band of Christians bringing medical supplies to a village inside Burma. C'mon. The Docs been to Burma 5 times already, you'd think he'd know it's not a safe place and you might have to kill to survive. Probably a writer error. Sly should have a talk with the writer.... something Stallone. As a Director he doesn't pull any punches. He smacks you hard in the face as you see a village get wiped out. Kids being butchered, people blown in half. Rapes. This film makes Saving Private Ryan look like a walk in the park. He's making the point that War is hell. This isn't a war movie. It's a horror movie and the monsters walk amongst us, stealing our children and turning them into blood and carnage zombies. The greatest monster is ourselves and when let loose is very ugly. Good job Sly!

Most Late 60's early 70's westerns were having a tough time trying to find a connection with the Eastwood Spagetti & Newman's Butch & Sundance anti-hero style western audience. This film is small by most Wayne western standards and if Wayne had an "art house western" period of work this would qualify. The film has very slow pace and takes it's time building the story. Montalban doesn't even speak untill the very end of the film. The ending comes as a total surprise and twists back the viewers expectations. Just the end made me gain complete appreciation for some of the risks the film makers made. The desert train set is simply surreal. Some akward directorial choice but in a perfect world if I could ever remake a western like the recent 3:10 to yuma, this would be a great choice for a modern western.

This is a quirky show coming out on the heels of "Northern Exposure" TV series. This American/ Canadian production follows the adventures of a straight as an arrow do-gooder Mountie Benton Fraser and his wolf Diefenbaker fight crime in Chicago. Probably inspired by the 1970's McCloud ( an American cowboy in New York City) this series was at times quirky and very original in it's storytelling. It was uneven as sometimes some episodes were very comical, others dramatic with a mix of so-so episodes in between,The show ha surreal ( as Benton began having conversations with his father's ghost) a relative 3 seasons in the mid 90's being cancelled after each run. It's worth checking out.

This is such an odd film noir gangsta flick. A) over and over agin it has the homophobic subext of 1950's ex- Army men turned Japanese gangsters who don't speak Japanese but manage to take over Tokyo from the Yakuza during American occupation of Japan.( Stack runs around Tokyo shaking down gambling houses by yelling at them in English as we all know foreigners especially Japanese, understand you better if you just yell.) B) The popculture moral climate of the 1950's and c) Tokyo cityscape before it became a interstellar road stop neon sign for passing UFOs. (And they wonder why all the space monsters attack Tokyo.) For Trek fans: DeForest Kelly plays a minor role gangster. d) The film is a remake or a previous 30's gangster film set in L.A.

If you like gangster films this is a bizarre but interesting side road.

What do you get when you mix 50 years of Godzilla monsters, The Matrix, ID4, V, X-Men a Japanese action director and Nintendo? You get one of the best Godzilla flicks ever. This film is a lot of fun and the efx are top notch. The movie works best when it sticks to Japanese scifi and feels a bit borrowed in the scenes where American sci-fi is borrowed. Which luckily is relatively brief as this film covers a lot of ground, although worldwide civilazation is destroyed in about 2 minutes. Actor Kazuki Kitamura steals the show as he plays one of the best bratty temper- tantrum villains with a great sense of over the top comic timing. He creates a villain you'd wish that would show up again in another film.

This film is such a guilty macho pleasure. It's so bad yet so good. Take an all star TV- movies 90's cast (someof whom people will ask who the hell was that guy?) mix in loud gunshots, fast action, put the women folk in the background and lots of cool one liners. The first time I saw it, I and friend walked in near the end with Doc on his deathbed. We thought Kilmer and Russell's acting was awful and then blaring end score played and having nothing better to do we stayed for the start. Wow. The rest of the film made the end better. It's like you need the whole picture to appreciate it as Kilmer and Russell had better chemistry as two old friends in the begining. Now having watched in a dozen times there's only a handful of corny stuff that I wish Cosmatos had done better. Wyatt crossing the creek to shoot Curly while blasting rifle gunfire at basically point blank range misses him and Wyatt has plenty of time to aim and shoot Curly while yelling "nooooooooo." (Between that "no" and Vader's "No" in episode 3 it's been efectively relegated to the status of never say no again in films.) And a glaring production error in the wide shot when Wyatt's standing in the middle of the street and the rain is only falling on him and the rest of the town is dry.

That's it. The rest of the film is just sheer 90's western fun.

A lot's changed since 1954 when Godzilla was smashing tiny buildings, people made bigger buildings for him to smash and invented all kinds of cool new flying door jam looking thingys with laser beams. "state of the art" 1984 man in the suit efx, the film real storytelling fun is the interwoven Cold War storyline. The Japanese have more to fear from the Russians and the Americans nuking Tokyo to stop Godzilla as it sinks nuclear subs and ships. It'd be great if Toho resolves the USA- DVD rights and finally releases this film with it's original Japanese version as they've done with other past DVD releases. If you can find a copy somewhere it's a fun 2 hours.

Just a goofy, fun and somewhat witty low budget time travelling adventure. Hadn't watched it in awhile and it was fun to see all the locales ( it was shot in Phoenix) I used to stomp around. This film isn't Shakepeare and doesn't pretend to be, but it does tell a quick and straight forward story about 2 guys that must grow up, get off the couch and face thier futures. And along the way they meet 2 bodacious Princesses.

I always considered Sergio Leone a lesser director as I thought the Fistful of Dollars was a cheap copy almost shot for shot remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo. I liked it but I never gave him credit as being original so I never made much effort to watch his other films. I was wrong. This film I think is uniquely his own style of storytelling, using violence and other non -convential ways that make Tarantino look like an amateur. I really liked this movie for it's sharp narrative, surprises amd unconvential moments. It's a really good action Western where every shot there is something to keep your eyes and mind busy. I'll have to revisit his other films now.

the flick that brought back the modern western. it's fun and I like it

Very powerful look at the downside of unregulated capitalism ( the motto buyer beware) which as just as powerful as unchecked government. Governments unchecked have the power to tax uncontrollably and unregulated corporations have the power to charge without accountability. Both have the power to destroy people's lives, which as the film illustrates the people of California found out first hand as Enron brought it's crushing corporate power to bare and blacked out the state for almost 2 years, brought down a Governor. I remember this well at the time as Right Wing radio mouth pieces like Limbaugh were blaming the environmentalists for the power problem. Once it was proven that it was one of the"free trade" cheerleaders Enron gaming the newly de-regulated electricity grid, they quickly went onto blaming "liberals" for some other transgrievance. It also shows how corporate $$$ buys off safeguards like lawyers, accoutants and buys a company insurance by influencing government as exampled by the long Ken Lay- Bush Family relationship. If you've never seen this film, you should, as Enron was just the tip of the iceberg compared to the current Wallstreet financial mess and shows that people in all the powerful places haven't learned a damn thing.

Every high school in America should be required to show this as it illustrates that finacial ignorance means that you are prime lamb for the all the big banks and other institutions that want you to rack up that debt baby. Spend yourself into financial slavery. I've heard this referred to as the banks 21st century version of share cropping. You don't own the land, you just work it for the bank. Same thing with most Americans homes, cars, tvs, dvds, clothes,school, vacations, etc... you don't own it. The bank does. If you want to take your life back you should watch this movie.

Every group of college guys has favorite stupid adolescent 80's type movies. This is one of mine. Typical 80's flick: 2 brothers (one a uptight the other a party beach bum inherit a bikini shop where 3 gorgeous women work and have to live with them in thier Mailbu beach house. Uptight bro has a serious bitchy fiance and falls for ultra hot and upcoming bikini designer. Hmmmm, which should he choose? Should he sell the bikini shop o a spiritual guru? Should they throw a party to figure it out? YES. Don't expect a lot from this and you'll be surprised by the above average jokes, one liners and a few surprises. You'll also see a young Bruce Greenwood( Star Trek fame: new Capt. Pike) playing the beach party animal brother!
2nd surprise: Showtime aired this in HD. Somebody actually spent $$$ on a 1986 cheap flick to put this on HD. Wow, there is a God and he luvs Malibu Bikini Shop.

This is part of the last Godzilla series where each film was more or less a direct sequel to the original 1954 film without the continuity of any preceeding monster mash. Except in this one it does recognize other monsters attacking Japan like Mothra and Gargantua. It creates a bit of a narrative repetitive as each of these films start with everybody being shocked that Godzilla has returned after 50 some years. This one is interesting as Godzilla is portrayed as the 100% bad guy and King Ghidorah usually the ultimate bad guy is now one of Japan's Guardian angels. I always like Ghidorah as the bad guy, and again Mothra shows up and they give it some new powers. Production wise this film was very ambitious trying to capture the absolute desturction and carnage that was done so well in the original. There's also a lot of ironic Atomic"nightmare" moments as people die. Not for young kids.

TopGun meets Robocop meets Godzilla. The Japanese military takes he bones of 1954's Godzilla and turn him into a cyborg to fight the latest bad big G. Add in a hot young model who makes flight suits look good, but has some betrayal issues and the formulaic Scientist with a young daughter (why is it all scientists only seem to have daughters) and some decent spfx, you have a battle royal. Lots of fun.

One of the few 2000' sequels to build on the previous film for continuity. Picking up a few months after the events in 2002' Mechagodzilla most of the cast is replaced, the hot young chick fighter pilot is States Side for training and the story follows a family: a Mecha G Mechanic who just can't get respect (charlie brown style) from all the Mecha G Top Gun pilots, his nephew and thier older Uncle a scientist who originally visited Infant Island in the 1960's original Mothra film. Again Toho resurrects Mothra for this picture. Personally I'm very tired of Mothra storylines. It promises to destroy humanity and protect it etc... yada, yada. Toho picures 2nd biggest monster movie franchise are the Mothra films for kids. Mothra should just stay there. Fortunately in "Final Wars" Mothra is nowhere to be seen. As a 2nd part to Mechagodzilla it's pretty good.

This is probably my 2nd favorite Leone film that has most of the cast from "A Fistful of Dollars." It's as if after experimenting with the first film he really came into his own style and the pacing, action and story are extremely more interesting as he really dives into his version of the American west. For me Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood have a lot more interesting moments in this one than do in the later film "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly." Full of surprises for the characters and the audience.

This is probably the best movie ever made about life as struggling unknowns living in Hollywood by actual struggling then unknowns to become big stars. For any wannabe this is must have DVD about the perils of Hollywood life and how the commentaries are worth thier weight in gold plated USC film school tuition on advice on how to shoot a movie guerilla style, but the film greatness comes from it's everyday storyline of human relationships. Specifically a group of out of work no money buddies. Just like your and my friends. Awesome movie.

I've seen a few Kubrick films and of the lot this is my favorite where I thought he was at his best and Sellers near perfect. Also in this time of Neo-Conservative truth beniding watching this film again reminded me of some dialogue you'd hear on Fox News (specifically the Glen Beck Show)
General Jack D. Ripper: " today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

Yeeehah!

"Think ya yoused a little too much dynamite there Butch?" Just classic. A simple retooling of the American Western and the 1st in one of the greatest pairing of screen stars Newman and Redford. What a shame they never got to do another movie together after The Sting. The 2 just had great buddy chemistry, especially with a great script.

One of my all time favorite comedy flicks. I even like the waterdowned broadcast version from ABC Sunday Night movie. The 1st time I ever got to see it. Murray, Ramis and Reitman are at thier best. Makes you want to join the Army and drive around Germany for the weekend.

One of my all time favorite movies. I still remember watching it the 1st day after school out that summer in 84' at the old 4th Avenue movie theatre in Anchorage. This was the theatre were they put films expected to die the 1st week as the theatre was the oldest in town, and hard to get to parking wise etc... The screen was built with a frame based on the old 1:1.33 movie aspect ratio. So 80's movies (1:1.85 would project onto the sides of the walls. It was also the most elegant with carved wood work a Big Dipper and North Star in the deep blue ceiling and the only theatre with a balcony. And as expected the 1st show there was hardly anybody there. That quickly changed and by summer's end there were lines around the block waiting to get in. That was perhaps the last time that old movie house was filled with so many people laughing and having a great time watching a film. PS. It was also rumoured to be haunted.

Found this gem collecting dust on a video store rental shelf. Originally released as a six part mini series about John Jakes's novels of the fictional adventures of Phillip Kent as he comes to America just before the start of the Revolutionary war. Capitalizing on the TV mini series craze of the late 1970's and Bi-Centennial fever. The Bastard is a fair dramatic presentation of the War of Revolution and the causes of liberty for all men and that no man is divine, whether titled a nobleman, a king, a wealthy gentleman or a backwoods frontiersman. Not listed guest stars: William Shatner, Kim Catrall, John Colicos, John Delancie, and Herbert Jefferson jr.

Part 2 of John Jakes mini-series following the fictional adventures of Phillip Kent in the American Revolution. This one takes place during the war and also follows Don Johnson as a Southern rebel forced to become a reluctant founding father of America. The story as a 1970's mini-series takes amuch slower story telling pace and this is great as it gets into the minute details of Colonial life and the struggle of the American revolution. Also has a lot drinking and bar brawling.

This is the 3rd part to John Jakes mini-mini-series about life just afer the American Revolution and covers the story of the hero from the 1st 2 parts: Philip Kent's kids. 1970's TV superstar Randolph Mantooth stars as Kent's eldest who is just doomed and can't accomplish anything except bedding his sister ( they're related only by Mom's marriage IE: Brady Bunch) the very hot and young Delta Burke. Things don't really get interesting until everybody dies and Kent's Grandson goes off to fight the War of 1812 and spurns the romantic interests of his Captain (played by great muppet actor Guy Smiley who rehashes his Zorro: The Gay Blade performance.) The film suffers a lot of problems as the TV writers try to put a conclusion to the Kent family story that continues for another 5 novels.

John Hughes at his weirdest. Just a fun adolescent fantasy romp.

Only Mike Judge could channel a small plot point from Superman 3 and combine it with the insanity of the American corporate life sucking structure. Judge rules. Office Space is a classic. I want my red stapler.

I hadn't seen this in awhile and it simply Mel Brooks at his best. I was also shocked about the old adage "life imitates art and art imitates life" given enough time. The town of Rock Ridge's reaction to thier new Sheriff looked like it was straight out of the news footage of a certain American Right Wing reaction to having a new President in 2009. That and Gene Wilder's uncanny resemblance to Hillary Clinton. Must be the hair.

Great movie? Nah, but a lot of absurd fun. Captures the 70's monster movie spirit where stuff just sort of happens. A side note: Toho figured the Godzilla flicks had pretty much ran thier course and decided to use this film to introduce a new kiddie action hero robot: Jet Jaguar. Saddly this was Jet's onlyJapanese monster movie but he had a very successful acting career in America and sits courtside at all home LA Lakers games.

If you don't like a Nick Park flick there's no hope for you surviving 2012. His films are very unique and a whole lot of fun. This is now our family's 2nd favorite Halloween classic right after "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown."

A whole lot of absurd fun as Wallace finally finds love only to have his hopes crushed like a slice of cheese. First appearance of Shaun the Sheep.

It's animation. It's film-noir. It's cheesy. It's my favorite of the Wallace & Gromit series. C'mon the badguy is a penguin disguised as a chicken.

Just plain absurd fun. Saw this when Nick Park gave a lecture on animation and i's interesting this film was his college project final and took him years to animate. He also started it without any clear story in mind and just made it up as he went along. Starts in a basement and ends up on the moon. Awesome.

Looks like they were trying to recapture the magic of "Wrong Trousers," but the film doesn't rise to the occasion with no new gags or irony which was a part of previous W&G films. Kids will still enjoy it but die hard W&G fans may feel disapointed.

I'm a big fan of the comic and while the film starts out strong and the casting is excellent, the film overall didn't connect with the audience. Tood bad as this would have been a great comic book action movie series for Disney. I still like watching it from time to time and the kids enjoy the film but they won't be running around the back yard playing "Rocketeer!"

If you like westerns, or anything John Ford ever did on film, or are fascinated with the life of a working man from Boston turned one of THE most influential film makers EVER. Then you have to see this documentary on John Ford that focuses not on his life per se but as a man who instinctively knew how to make use of the camera.

A great hockey movie? Nah, Slap Shot captured he sport better. A great team film? No. It's hard to recreate the exact feeling the country felt in 1980 when a group of kids beat a professional hockey team from the Soviet Union on the world stage of the olympics. It was WW3 on Ice without the nukes and high body count. It was vindication that the USA was a force for good in the world. That the country wasn't inept and a victim of corruption from powerful leaders. That the little guy could still beat a Goliath. This film isn't all that but a nice cinematic echo of those days.

Simply the BEST Bond movie EVER.