streetrodfan Reviews

Sex Tape (2014)

Trash, makes me concerned about our future

[2/10 · 24 October 2014]

My parents are watching this s*** now.. I really hope that families aren't really this... porn obsessed. I know people weren't necessarily more innocent in say the 70s , 60s. However this is some red neck garbage. A couple attempting to make love is saying "I want to f*** you so bad." " f*** me". It's not funny, it's actually sad... really sad... and small. This movie is an abusive mentality towards men and women. It's basically about two talking apes that f*** each other on video because of their porno obsession , who refuse to grow up... and accidentally upload it on line.

The sort of mentality this movie has is intoxicating. I'm actually angry, upset setting here. Every other word is f***.. and these people are some real white trash here. This movie is s**** and degrading.

This movie is an insulting image of a woman and a man. The woman " f**** this , f**** that, f*** me, I'm a dirty c** w****... love me because I f**** you, f**** me...." I can appreciate dirty comedy, they have done it in the previous decades but this movie is really... really concerning. I pray to god that this movie isn't any true or accurate representation of couples today. This is not the kind of crap I want to come out, I do have standards. I'm sorry for being prudish but I do have standards and I am concerned for our future as human beings.

I am deeply concerned for couples that are this petty, daft and small minded. The movie swears a lot... I guess to be a grown up comedy... but it's not funny, not at all.

The lead actress looks and acts like a porn star... might of well been a Megan Fox movie. That would have made it the most honest film.

I'm not enjoying the movie at all, some of it might be mildly funny, it's how f*** up these characters are that frightens me.

I am a little conservative, I got nothing against sex though. I just feel that this feel has some very immature and probably negative representations of two young adults exploring their sexuality.

This movie is like a soft core porn with lots of story...

People might find parts of it funny, but what its characters represent scare the hell out of me, it will continue as long as people blindly accept it and watch it. It's immoral , indecent, abusive mind wash. Unfortunately it's human nature to be attracted to this kind of abuse, accept it unknowingly and willingly and to allow it to control and influence your life.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Too modern...

[7/10 · 16 August 2014]

Imagine that like a great surgeon some one is giving a great speech, every line is like the action of a surgeon , which is precise, and lacks no less meaning than the last. Now to say what a great script is to a great movie to me is like to compare the actions of a great surgeon to a great writer. \In a way both are art forms of their own.

What I liked about the 90s Turtle movie and most 90s films as opposed to modern film will come out as I further paint a picture with this metaphor Now imagine a surgeon who goes into a body to dissect it starts to pull and tug on the internal organs of the patient, puts on some heavy metal music takes out a chain saw to heal a hernia and slices and dices the patient just to get his pump on, and give the other doctors a show.

Obviously that doctor would have failed his patient as well as his art and his viewers would likely be un-entertained. Like wise a writer who lacks precision and clarity in their work , like a surgeon will lack realism and for a movie there for depth. Movies today lack realism and depth, because their scripts are contrived with long action scenes, relatable characters and drama. To me this is the problem with this movie and most movies this decade. To me this film and script has over the top stupid action scenes that unlike a great speech lack true art, dimension and soul.

To me they are sloppy and over the top and forced and lack the sophistication of the 90s film. Let's compare the 90s film ending to the 2014. The end fight scene like a skilled surgeon is precise, there's no cars falling on top the shredder, no flips or explosions going off. It's REAL, it has dimension it's almost poetic. It's a simple fight scene yet like a skilled surgeon who keeps his work simple and precise it works perfectly. This movie is basically a super hero film with the turtles and it lacks the emotion and intensity, drama and realism of the 90s film.

You can not tell a deep and meaningful story with pure action scenes, you can not have substance in a movie geared towards children that is drown out by too much action. That's what makes the 90s film one of a kind and one of my favorite movies even as a 26 year old. It was the first movie I had ever seen. I was 3 years old and I remember that end fight scene. I remember the realism of it, how it took me in as the shredder was falling my heart jump. There was nothing quite like that in this movie it was an adrenaline rush without any real script at heart and the characters wrapped up in that weren't as near as real and dramatic as the 90s film.

This is the main reason I'm giving this movie a 7…and the 90s film a 9 or 10.

Welcome to the Jungle (I) (2013)

Guilty pleasure , I liked it.

[7/10 · 23 May 2014]

This movie was surprisingly original. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Sure it wasn't an amazing movie, and I don't know how re watchable it is. I wasn't expecting the movie to unfold as it had. I admit it's not a mind blowing experience but it was done well enough. It was funny but you have to be able to enjoy silly stupid and some times raunchy humor to enjoy it. I was entertained for the entire time. The beginning is a little slow but if you just have a little patience it's there to develop characters and it doesn't drag on that long. JCVD is not the focus but I didn't feel deprived of his presence either. I feel that the movie is pretty solid, even though JCVD isn't really the main character he plays a some what important role in the film. His role isn't necessarily pivotal but I feel it's balanced enough in this film. You know it's not that bad of a movie. Don't be expecting to see JCVD's finest karate performance though. It's not really about that. I didn't have high expectations and I didn't know what to expect and it was pretty good.

If you want to watch something and just want to be entertained and aren't looking for something amazing but decent, this isn't a bad film to put on. I don't know if it's worth buying but it's worth a watch.

Godzilla (2014)

A good movie , probably a 7 as a movie, but where is Godzilla?

[7/10 · 16 May 2014]

Well in my opinion this movie is being over rated, a 10? It wasn't terrible, but come on a 10? The subliminal messages for September 11th and other disasters puts it lower than that off the bat. I didn't know what to expect going into Godzilla. I was trying to be open minded. The roar from the trailer was the first thing I worried about, because it just doesn't sound quite right. That's a little detail, icing on the cake. Important but not the core of the movie's problems. The core of the movie's problem is that as a Godzilla film... it doesn't really have Godzilla. I didn't really expect that . Godzilla has about 20 -30 seconds in this 3 hour movie... literally. If you do a slow count, I think that is about right.

Count as slow as you want, it's a 3 hour movie. The movie itself isn't so bad, but because of the lack of Godzilla I give it a 7, as a movie that doesn't really have Godzilla... I didn't care for the other monsters either, it's just a weird plot , the two other monsters are male and female and getting jiggy with it... and do a head rub.... It was just weird, didn't work naturally for me. I would preferred if they had mothara and Gamera or something. But no they had two Cloverfield type monsters and showed them far more than they did Godzilla. Godzilla was barely in this movie.

The movie also focuses way too much on the military, most the film is the military defeating the monsters and fighting the monsters, trying to defeat the monsters and not Godzilla... at the end when Godzilla apparently gets tried of fighting he just grabs the monsters by the throat shoots his atomic breathe down their throat and rips their head off... The other one I think he just beats to death with a building and it's dead... that's pretty damn lame. Tag on that seeing the military more than we see Godzilla and September 11th subliminal messages... and you got a winner.What some people don't realize yet is that by watching a movie they are basically watching the news, whether it's about war, being a patriot or a politician's lying feel good speech or September 11th... it's all the same BS and now the subliminal messages are becoming appalling obvious in film.

Godzilla actually has no problem killing these monsters... there's no real fighting... The Japanese won't be taking any notes and we should have been taking many when writing the fight scenes for this turkey of a script. ( Not a terrible movie again, a 7 is being fair...) It's still too American, not Japanese enough. Stay away from Ultraman, USA please. ( I am American.) Also there is no Godzilla music, and the music they have is a cheesy hero theme that made me feel like they were making Godzilla like the Dark Knight.

It really feels like this movie was just to set things up for an possible American sequel film. Godzilla is barely in this movie.

It's not a terrible film, it's not as bad as the 1998 film, but it's still a miss from Japanese culture film and as Americans we really screwed up the fight scenes... The Japanese know how to make monster fight scenes like the Americans know how to make Rocky fight scenes.

We didn't do it justice, but it's not a horrible film. I rather watch Godzilla 2000, which was in American theaters when released. I give this movie a 7.

Iron Man (2008)

Good, but didn't age well

[6/10 · 11 May 2014]

Going back to this movie, it's good but has some serious flaws. The ending was the worse bit, where he was fighting the bad guy in a very technologically advanced killing machine, was about 2- 3 feet away firing machine guns, and rockets and couldn't hit Stark... who was hanging from a support beam. The movie although a comic book movie has a few scenes that are really shy of bright.There was a scene where Stark goes flying like a rocket and lands on his back , destroying his entire suit but isn't harmed. I know it's a movie, but some of the levels of stupidity in this movie have nothing to do with being a movie... it's just bad writing. How can I believe that the villain can't hit a target 2 feet away, even if it were damaged how hard is it to shoot a rocket at a target manually or hit something with a high power machine gun? There were other flaws. Though no super hero movie is perfect that was pretty bad, the ending fight scene of this movie was like something out of Batman and Robin it was so laughably bad.

It's mostly a good movie but it's got some weak spots and I give it a 6 out of 10 upon revisiting it.

Léon: The Professional (1994)

I just saw this recentally but it was a very beautiful movie

[10/10 · 18 June 2013]

There has never been anything else like this in my opinion. This is easily one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. I'm not really sure why but it's a very touching film. I was really blown away haha. This isn't much of a review. Leon is a very human character, he's got a lot of depth to him. The entire cast is brilliant, the story is brilliant. It's honestly one of the best films I've ever seen in my life. I know these reviews are silly but I just love this movie. Portman is at her best here.

This movie has the most realistic performances I've seen in some time. This movie is a masterpiece to me, I felt like it was a true story when it had finished. It felt so real. I actually thought about the characters and worried for them or connected to them on a very real level. This movie was deep, take my word for it haha. I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It felt very real to me, and it touched me on a deep level that I don't quite understand. After watching this I hugged my mother good night haha and went upstairs to write this review. This movie is truly one of a kind. This film is a work of art. I can't place my finger on all the reasons but it will linger on as a beautiful tapestry in my subconscious mind for some time, inspiring me and giving me a new perspective on film. I was touched by this movie. There's some kind of genius involved with this movie. This movie is some how profound. It's one of my favorite movies now. I would watch it again and I think it would only be better a second viewing. I've given up on modern film. This is a true gem, classic that I hadn't seen before. Now that I've seen it, it's easily one of my favorite films.

It has more than what you see upfront, but it's not pretentious about it. It's deep without trying too hard to be deep. I was very absorbed , the movie felt to be the perfect length, had a great cast, perfect dialog, I loved everything about this movie.

There it is, I loved this movie. There's not much to say , I made a deeper connection with it, I'm not entire sure how, why but I fell in love with this movie. It's one of my favorites now.

Man of Steel (2013)

Does not add anything, does not out do it's predecessors , over the top action

[5/10 · 15 June 2013]

The story line was basically the same. It felt like a mixture of Superman 2, 1, and maybe Superman 4. There was an overwhelming amount of action, which doesn't add anything to a movie for me, or entertain me. The action was over the top, and really hard to follow. It's basically like pew pew pew boom! WHEEEE RAGHHH pew pew pew type action. I like movies where the action is sort of manageable on screen. I don't like action movies where the action is over the top and the characters are invincible. I know it's a Super hero movie and I have seen Superman films in the past. As a matter of fact I've seen them all.. I felt that movies like The Avengers or Captain America,Iron Man 1, 2 -3 the action was at least sort of grounded. The overdose of action didn't really add anything for me at all, I felt like it was a video game or a cartoon. Granted a cartoon sort of fits this franchise, the over action didn't add anything to me for this film version. It was just a mess, there was one scene that I felt was really kind of brain less. They're in a street between buildings and they are bringing down large craft in the streets and blowing things up and miraculously the only damage that occurs is inside the narrow street between the buildings. I just felt like they had a large explosion or CGI effects where ever they could possibly cram them into the story and went over board where ever they go. It's like everyone that goes to a movie now a days is assumed to have ADD or I feel like I'm Crank and they are trying to keep my heart racing and keep me hopped up on the action, suspense. Only there was no suspense for me just a pew pew pew over load of action without any real drama in it for me. I couldn't even get into the action over load. The maximum amount of damage and explosions and I don't actually remember any real suspense expect for one tiny part at the end of the movie where superman saved some one from being burnt alive by laser heat vision eyes. When his father dies, is horrifically predictable and also sort of poorly written. He doesn't die because he's a hero really, he dies because he goes back to save a dog,a dog... then they add in the bit that he died to keep Superman's identity secret, well sort of...

There's nothing added in this movie, nothing new. Small Ville already showed us a bullied Clark that had to hold back his anger etc etc. The villains are though very well cast were basically the same as the super man 2 villains. The ice fortress or whatever you want to call it was basically the same... To be this is as original a movie to Superman as the new Star Trek is to Star Trek. It's basically some kind of reboot that doesn't really look past the original films in my opinion.

Though I admit the female evil super woman was rather attractive by my tastes. She was attractive in Superman 2 too if I remember...basically the same character and basically the same back ground for those 3 villains in this movie and that one... They even basically look the same

Ah, it is in fact the same characters with a little refresher of the memory...

I was looking for a more realistic adaptation of the character on film and this definitely wasn't it. It had a strong cast of actors, actresses. The movie had barely enough story, but there really wasn't that much character development and the characters were the same characters that had been played for the past 70 something years. The characters were basically written just to fit the part... Lois was basically just Lois. Clark was basically just Clark...The villains might as well been Lex Luther again.

It's the same old story... but I felt this movie was just way too over the top. It had a great cast of supporting actors who were probably used better than the main supporting cast. The supporting characters were more interesting in my opinion than the characters written just to fit into a "Superman script".

I understand that the movie is supposed to be on a super sized scale and supposed to be over the top. The action however seems to be the main focus of the film and just keeps getting piled on thicker and thicker. I got burnt out. It was kind of like POTCS 3 to me where there was action and more action and more action and I just got burnt out eventually.

I would say that this was just an action film really. It goes into the character a little bit but over all it's fast, loud and for a younger audience that likes pew pew boom pew pew action type stuff.

It just didn't have a lot of substance for me to call this a masterpiece. I know we shouldn't have been expecting Citizen Kane... but over all it's just a Superman movie. I don't feel that it at all has out done it's predecessors. I don't feel like it's added anything either and I personally don't go in for over the top action films. It's about on level with the new Star Trek film for me...

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

To boldly go where every man woman and child has been before several times

[5/10 · 13 May 2013]

Star Trek has been a long continuation of new stories, new adventures, fascinating pseudo science. It was the space less traveled. It was a brilliant science fiction in the 60s ahead of its time and The Next Generation is still a classic science fiction today. Voyager too had a good run with original Trek material.

Enterprise wasn't that bold, didn't really go where we haven't been before. It was sort of generic, bland.

Now what we have is a TOU the original universe verses JJ's universe. Which is really just a parallel universe... not really bold. The boldest thing here is that he took a famous classic film and then just mirrored it in his "parallel" universe . Not really that much vision here... at least this one doesn't have so many lens flares? We have essentially the wrath of Khan in a parallel universe. What's next? The Voyage Home in a parallel universe? The spirit of star trek is dead. There is no boldly going anywhere. It's JJ boldly going into an old franchise and taking everything as his own "vision". That's as bold as we get here... nothing really original about this movie. It just takes a famous franchise and milks off of it. It just takes what fans originally loved and gives it a make over . Not really trekking any place new or exciting. Star Trek is just a thing now, it's not a living entity, it's a cash cow without any heart. "What can we do that will draw in lots of people, I know let's make a alternate reality of the Wrath of Khan, next we can do The Undiscovered Country!" It's just giving the past a face lift... there is no future here for Star Trek. Give it a few bright flashy movies without any real substance and then Star Trek will be left out in deep cold space again... buried alive.

It literally has many of the same story lines and dialogs as does The Wrath of Khan. This movie should have been called The Wrath of JJ Abrams, Trek Backwards.

It doesn't boldly go anywhere, it's a face paced action adventure film without any real star trekking involved. When are we going to get something, new , unique, from Star Trek again? When are we going to stop trekking backwards? The character development wasn't even a focus in this film because it was non stop action and you had no time to focus on any of the characters really...

There are better science fictions that come out that are original series, films anymore. If Star Trek can't give us anything new, original then it's basically dead to me. This is more like a homage to a classic film that just happened to be screened in theaters all around the world. A very talented director no doubt, talented actors... but this movie lacks the true spirit of Star Trek and any real mystery involved.

It is cringe worthy that a movie can do this well when it was already mostly written and no real insight was involved and any one who saw the original could predict 90 percent of this film and its outcome...They are laughing all the way to the bank on this one...

The twists it had varying from alternate universes weren't even truly significant.

It's just another movie, another movie adaptation of Star Trek. If this is all that is left for Star Trek then it might as well be dead... There is no real life breathed into the franchise. We don't need to see the same movie in a parallel universe...

There's a lot of Trek fans holding onto something that isn't free to grow, expand the universe. The universe isn't expanding it's contracting... if there is another movie I pray to God that it will at least by that time won't use dialog from the original films. Maybe by the time of the 3rd movie Kirk will wear William shatner's wig on his head and will get plump for the role and they will just green screen parts of the original films into the new film.

There's no real dimension here, the series isn't moving forwards, it isn't going anywhere... It's going in reverse until it halts and engines burn out again.

This film, this sort of Star Trek is not a long term Star Trek, it's a fast paced action film without any real intelligent thought, imagination, creativity put into it. It's not a long term solution to the struggles the franchise was facing... there will be a few more movies then Star Trek will need another reboot or it will just die out. Or maybe a true continuation of Star Trek and what it's really about is what will occur. These movies don't do STTNG or even Voyager any real justice.

The true original content JJ has added is lens flare, flashy effects, action scenes. A mixed up confusing plot, full of holes... what he has added, and his unique imprint, touch on this series and this film is not very Star Trek like and isn't very original. It's just another action adventure film and it's more Star Wars than it is Star Trek. The movie fails to have any real philosophical/ moral dilemmas and it feels more like Star Wars than it does Star Trek with its over the top action scenes.

They had Prime Spock in the movie last minute just to tell the audience how bad of a guy Khan really was. Most of his character development happened off screen and referred to the Wrath of Khan.

Still Life 2 (2009 Video Game)

Lacks the soul and intensity of the first and is a lot easier than the first

[7/10 · 29 December 2012]

This game was extremely easy next to the first. The only time I needed hints was to affirm that I was on the right track. In essence I didn't need any hints to beat this game and it didn't take me long to beat. But , it was an entertaining game. It just wasn't as good as the first. The puzzles were easy. There is one that took me a little bit to figure out a number/ letter puzzle. But over all the game wasn't too difficult. I over complicated a few puzzles and that's what made it difficult. The game was a little glitchy and some times it affected the game play. I some times wondering if the obvious choice was the right one because some times the game had limited player functionality.

It was a bit rough on the edges. The story is sort of confusing too. I'm not sure what the hell was happening with Richard and a few of the other characters. Dream/ memory? What's going on? The game was rough on the edges and felt rushed. Still a decent game but misses the first by a mile.

Still a very enjoyable experience but it's not a true sequel to the first game.

The Ugly Truth (2009)

How did people get so stupid

[1/10 · 27 December 2012]

This is the most a-moral, bull movie some one could watch. All men want is a physical relationship and they are dimwitted arrogant over grown children, and that's what men are.

The Ugly truth is the war raging on against you all and the way they want you to think.

It lacks any true wit, it is a deluded crude spoof on reality. It's more of the sort of junk that the military industrial complex wants out there. Take away your beliefs, morals and intelligence. Dumb you down and take away your ethics.

It's a trash film and the fact that my family sits through it without even knowing why they are watching it disturbs me. The most shallow, brainless entertainment full of crude comical interpretations of both sexes that aren't even funny. Brain wash garbage.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

Well my family thought it was on par with the original trilogy I didn't

[6/10 · 21 December 2012]

The over the top complex action scenes were a little too Goofy for me. I am calling them Goofy because they reminded me of a Goofy cartoon where the action is so ridiculous and out there that it's almost laughable. The tone of the first few films had a more "real" feel for me. The action was more suspenseful and "epic". The action in this movie is like a mixture of mission impossible and the matrix. Maybe not as crazy as the matrix but I'm trying to get my point across.

One scene Bilbo falls like 100 feet grabs a rope and falls again and is miraculously unharmed. Characters go from being immortal to mortal it seems, it's like a cartoon that's what action adventure films have become. Turn off your brains because in action adventure films the hero can now jump 100 feet to the ground and run away on the soles of his feet. I'm not really into how the action/ adventure genre is going.

There is a scene under ground where they are crossing bridges and like a cartoon they jump from bridge to bridge and all these implausible scenes. It was just too over the top for me and it wasn't as epic for me and didn't have as clever of dialog , or as deep of scenes.Speaking of which, I was only emotionally moved once in the film and LOTR I find to be a masterpiece that is emotionally moving and complex throughout.

This film is not complex, the characters succumb to fart humor and ball sack humor and the dialog is no where near the dialog of the first trilogy. More of the same, giant spiders, Baggins, butter flies turning into Birds . Slow motion fight scenes... When it was different it was just a generic action / adventure film full of tedious and ridiculous action scenes. I feel that the original 3 films had mostly plausible action scenes, with mostly mortal characters. This film I really have to suspend my disbelief as birds toss characters around 100s of feet apart playing catch. A scene that I don't understand, it seems that anything they did in this film that could be senselessly over done to make it more exciting was senselessly over done...

The birds show up to carry them away but for some reason play catch with one another...

The first films had a beautiful score and was filmed beautifully. The cinematography was fantastic. This film looks polished, and pretty but it really lacks the soul the first 3 had. I was never taken back by this movie . Watching this film I had no serene moments where I had to stop and think how beautiful it was or how epic it was. I think that is because this film doesn't really take moments for reflection and to make you think . There are no real scenic moments where you have time to take it all in. The magic just isn't there for me when there is focus on the characters there's not a lot of substance. Pile on top of that the characters are completely predictable as stated in this review some of them are very obvious.

The "cool " character almost dies, but is miraculously better later with no real signs of injury. He tells Bilbo that he doesn't belong in their fellowship and then predictably later says he was wrong...

The characters are mostly 1 dimensional and typical characters you would find in various fantasy stories. Bilbo is a little more interesting to follow but his scenes don't really add that much to the story as a whole when looking at the entire franchise as a whole.

It doesn't feel as "triumphant " as the original 3, I wasn't as emotionally moved or inspired by this film as I was the first trilogy.

But, some of the characters are relate-able, which is a good thing obviously.

Of course the locations made beautiful by the original 3 films reappear in this one to be beautiful again. I'm not really absorbed or excited about the "new story". I'm not into it at all, what so ever. I'm not even fully sure what it's all about or why I should really care. It seems to just be filler for the original story.

"Let's make it because we can..." The original story is a short story and I feel that the movie is almost pointless and what they've come up with as a movie doesn't seem truly appropriate or necessary to the franchise. It's entertaining enough so I give it a 7, I could never give this film a 10...

There is not a lot of suspense when you think about the major character because we all know that he's alive later on. As for the other characters they were never in any true harm and I never expected that they'd die. And the entire film goes on where the entire cast is left alive and well. One character gets injured but being the "cool" one we know he's not going to die , as he's the leader of their group more or less any ways he's a needed character.

The old actors are a bit tried reprising their roles and a bit too obvious in many instances. What could be an opportunity to learn more about characters is wasted in over stating the obviousness of how their characters will turn out. Saruman plays a obviously evil character and Gandalf plays some one who is clueless.

Corniness and predictability pursues. Clichés...

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

If the others were an 8 then this one is about a 6

[7/10 · 12 December 2012]

This film wasn't that bad. Sure, it wasn't what some people may have been hoping for but it's true to the character. The film was a nice send off. My grandfather saw it a few years ago and he said it was OK and that was that. He loves the first two films. He watched them annually. The third film might of not made that list but it was still an OK film.

If I were to make the others a 8 out of 10 on my scale...

I'd deduct two points from the conclusion.

Where as it's no masterpiece it is different from the other two in its own ways. And I'd watch it again just to revisit the plot and character in that situation. It's entertaining enough...

There is no nuke the fridge scene in this film. I thought the film was worth while and brought up positive memories of the first two because the character remained true. The story was a little weak but Paul pulls it off.

It was enjoyable it just wasn't a instant classic, we could of have done worse though. It's worth seeing once and it's even re watchable but because it's a little more tired and less expressive (unique) than the other two films I have to rate it slightly lower in the series.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

Horrifically under rated

[10/10 · 6 November 2012]

I don't know what to say , I'm speechless. This movie is tragically under rated. I have no idea what gave it such a low mark. It's a classic , for many reasons. The casting is great, the action is great. The movie has a fantastic sound track. The story is great, the effects are great. This is movie magic . I have no idea why it was rated so low.

I'm surprised. It's an original story, done very well but it gets rated lower than Iron Man 6? I mean I mean 2? Or some other such film? Come on, people! This movie was great , it had a great everything. This film was a instant classic. A take on the modern day Merlin and sorcery. A creative and imaginative take. I couldn't believe how low it has been rated.

The Expendables 2 (2012)

Bottom line, cheesy , cheap and disappointing (Makes Derailed look better as a Van Damme movie...)

[1/10 · 20 August 2012]

No plot, terrible CGI . It made Willis look like a bitch, it brought back Arnold only to saturate him in cheesy one liners that you could see from a mile away. I literally felt like I had watched this movie before while sitting there. I predicted the outcome of every scene that unfolded. I was only surprised once. It had no suspense for me because it was so predictable. The old airplane needs to pull up or it will crash type of thing over and over again. It doesn't take a genius to know they are going to clear the building in the airplane...No suspense, boring...

This movie lacks any true originality and it offers few surprises.

The solo careers of these actors have infinitely better films, plots, out of Bollywood. Hollywood is getting really cheap, redundant and unoriginal. This movie felt unexciting , uninspired.

The cast and crew didn't really shine, they didn't have any really radiant moments on screen, though a terrific cast they had their on screen charisma , and charm it was mostly wasted to a terrible script that had no plot, non stop action with little substance , suspense.

This movie offers no real thinking, surprises. It's rather sort of dull and there's nothing really remember able about it.

Especially the performance of Van Damme, who is a life time martial artist professional who gets so screwed at the end of the movie. He gets a death that is so weak and pathetic where he is basically treated like a submissive weak cast member and succumbs to death willingly . Stallone's ego is clearly in your face this movie and this old Van Damme , Stallone fall out is penned out. We're pretending FFS , whatever goes on between them shouldn't be on screen. It was like he succumbed to Stallone and was dominated and violated . It was terrible.

Just because it's Hollywood that doesn't make it good. The writing was atrocious and the characters were SILLY, they made chuck Norris look like a live action hero clown...I kid with you not when he showed up the good ,the bad and the ugly played for some bizarre reason . I was expecting him to have a clown nose or walk on water...

I could feel people around me cringing, but the blissful just laughed...the entire movie ...especially when people died...violently which can be entertaining but these people were gasping for air the entire movie. And that made me die a little inside...

They had horrible writing, cheesiness throughout, the CGI was so cheap...

If you want to see good films with these actors look to their independent careers, even see Bollywood. This was not a very good movie.

People argue it's the 80s, it's not the 80s anymore and this is a satire on films. Silly stupid fun action adventure movies in reality date back to the 60s if not sooner. This movie is just on another level of stupid and mindless , even than the 80s. And it has these horrific jokes that will give me nightmares where they reference real life and other films in the middle of major action sequences...Get on with old and goofy , we all like your films, PLEASE act in this one, don't talk about the good old days of your life, career in the real world . Did you forget your medication, you're filming a damn movie! I don't even know what to make of that, but it was done so poorly.

It was Van Damme's big return and they couldn't even put their egos aside to give him a decent fight scene. 3 Round house kicks in a row and then basically down hill from there, couldn't spread it out, make it more dramatic? FFS we're all pretending here, give us our money's worth. It was a horrible Van Damme movie... it makes Derailed look like a better movie ...

I was so disappointed.

Network (1976)

A manipulative film for those who are looking for a message

[4/10 · 1 July 2012]

This film has SEVERAL subliminal messages hidden within it. And it pretends to have a message, while it just embeds hate, and its subliminal messages. It tries to make you angry and violent, it's a movie about the insanity of the world, it cleverly adds to it.

Scene after scene, little hidden messages, cleverly spoken words, the entire script is crafted to make you angry, and sexually aroused.

A very over rated movie, and if you ever watch, read everything you see on screen carefully and listen carefully. A movie about the man, made by the man... yeah, I trust that lol.

This entire movie is a clever ploy and is very manipulative. It's full of subliminal messages. Scene to scene, certain words used in the script, etc. Don't watch it, it's trying to put words into your subconsciousness.

Conspiracy nuts will love it , and I'm some times one of them,but this movie doesn't truly set out to do what it claims to . It's made by THEM. It's full of subliminal messages...

The Secret of the Sword (1985)

Pretty good film, 80s love and classic, but LOOOONNNNNGG

[10/10 · 28 June 2012]

I liked this movie, I thought it was entertaining , and I love the 80s values it has. It has good, loving 80s themes. A time I wish I was born into with full consciousness and could of stayed in for my entire life. A time of love and morals, ethics on the TV. As a Heman movie, yeah, it's accurate, it's truthful to Heman . It's a good family film, I enjoyed watching it. But , it's really long. It just drags on and on lol. I think it's one of the longest existing cartoon movies I've ever seen. Good old, 80s cheese, love. I love it for that, such a cherished, loving children's film. It was a nice , little film . Enjoyable for sure. Why Orko isn't in it? I don't know, I guess he just takes too much screen presence, I don't know. And watching it , Heman's voice changes towards the end? ANYWAYS who cares.

Good 80s love classic .

Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Did a pedophile help penn this

[6/10 · 24 May 2012]

It's taken in retrospect as a classic. And as a Arnold family film. But when you start watching this movie , it's pretty perverse, and twisted. What should be a innocent children's film, with some adult humor, is a movie riddled with perverted, disgusting dialog. The children are talking about vaginas, and sex, and it's not funny. It's just sort of disgusting. I know there are hurdles , with a children's film, casting Arnold, a (bad ass). But, they forced the more adult humor into places, just because those places took up most the screen time. And it came off like a pedophile was penning the script, or had tried his hand. It was as if they just couldn't make it work without adding adult humor in un-necessary places, because the majority of the film was scenes with the children.

It took the funny route, as Arnold is a adult action film star, but I don't feel that the humor worked out ethically enough. And the script is awkward, and it sort of taints the movie for me, it's sort of degrading. I don't think they portray things realistically ,and they do it in a sort of derogatory way. It seems to be more Hollywood trash, crap at the bulk, with a big billed star like Arnold.But still the movie has some substance, merit.

It's entertaining , a pretty good film, but these little scenes really take a lot out of the movie for me. There are a few good moments, it makes it worth watching. One where Arnold beats up a child abuser, (it's not realistic, legal, but it's entertaining) .

There are parts that make it worth watching. It's entertaining , it's a alright movie. But little scenes, even pointless scenes, little things, tib bits, some almost subliminal are totally un- necessary.

How he trains the children is kind of creepy, it's like he's a dictator , and it's mind control. It's militant, it's kind of cute...But, also it borders on some sort of bizarre philosophy how people are raised, conditioned by society. I tend to look a little into things too much, but I find parents will think this movie has a few perverse scenes.

Gray Matter (2010 Video Game)

Fantastic game, one of the best adventure games to date

[10/10 · 17 May 2012]

A heart touching story, puzzles just right. A brilliant game, a true masterpiece. Terrific characters, beautiful sound track. A very heart warming and interesting game! Fascinating subject, plot. This is every bit of GK . I recently played GK for the first time. It's a good game, but I was completely blown away by this game. It's going to stay with me much longer than GK did. What a fantastic game! WOW! This is a fantastic adventure game. I thought GK was easy, this game isn't much more difficult or any less difficult. Some of the more difficult puzzles might win over GK's difficult puzzles. This game does not deserve to be seen as anything less than a CLASSIC. This game was fantastic. I'm a late 80s, early nineties guy and I've played Lucas arts, Sierra games, growing up. And this game was just truly a masterpiece. Any one who rates this down , really needs to stop putting the past on a pedestal ,this game is a masterpiece!

WOW! I am still touched by this game. GK was a great game, this can't compare, but I think it's stupid to compare the two. I have to say GK didn't leave me with a touched feeling, really. It had a dramatic ending , but I really didn't care about the supporting characters. This game is a master piece and is deeply touching up until the climax. What a beautiful game. I was blown away. A brilliant , pseudo science plot (Things I study in spare time, quantum theory) , intriguing, original characters , fantastic sound track. This game is truly unique, truly a gem. There will never be another one like it. When playing it you'll see how unique , original it's presentation is, and how relatable, organic these characters are, even the supporting characters were so dynamic, life like, and it didn't have a bunch of clichés in the story, plot, it was very moving. It's a very life like game, I'm really impressed.

Where as GK was a good game , compared to this, I will compare for this reason, the characters in that game are flat compared to this game. This game has dynamic, round characters and in the end it brings certain characters together in a beautiful , organic tapestry. This game is surreal...

FANTASTIC!

Oldboy (2003)

Severely over rated without any true blindly strong points to place it so high, average film on most accounts

[5/10 · 6 May 2012]

I don't get why you guys think this is such a great film. It's not inspiring, the plot centers on incest.. I don't get what's so great about this movie. As a revenge film it's not that original, no one sane wants to do their daughter. And the plot wasn't that original, it was just disturbing. Becoming a super hero being locked up in a room for 15 years? It quickly became a quirky action film, about this guy who became bruce lee while being locked up for years. Not that deep or profound a silly film.

I don't get the fascination with a foreign film just because it's foreign, but this wasn't that deep, cerebral, it was almost Primal how it played out, violence, mixed with sexual perversions. Nothing that deep. The world itself is already devastated with sexual perversion, violence. This film wasn't that shining, it wasn't a masterpiece. Some parts were literally a soft porn, given the context .

This movie would likely get a 6 out of 10, why it has a 8 is beyond me. It's not a masterpiece . I don't see what makes this as good as star wars, or the S -Redemption....

This movie is over rated , critically...It's not creative, artistic. The cinematography is more or less average. This movie has nothing really amazing about it. It doesn't have a lot of vision. It's mediocre like most Hollywood films are. We didn't see anything that amazing, and weren't blown away. We thought it was fair, but not a masterpiece.

The Haunted (2009– )

UNDER RATED, recommended to fans of A Haunting

[10/10 · 14 March 2011]

I'm not sure why it's rated so low. It's a entertaining show, similar to A Haunting, I recommend it to fans of A Haunting.

The story, the acting, none of it's bad. I personally think it's great that we have shows like these on TV.

I think the show has a low rating simply because people do not believe in the super natural and don't think it's scientific enough to be featured on the Animal Planet channel.

I find it very interesting that animals may be sensitive to the paranormal, but there are people who obviously don't believe in such things and think the shows entirely stupid.

As some one who both likes animals, and the paranormal, I'd say that I'm in the target audience here and I enjoy this show fairly much. Yet, people will judge, even if they don't believe in such things.

At the least, hopefully people who have a interest in such things can be open minded and enjoy this program.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Absent minded but most great adventures tend to be from time to time, has its charming moments

[10/10 · 1 December 2010]

The movie has several moments that personally remind me of the other 3 movies. There's a few chase scenes near the beginning of the film that are done old Hollywood style. Real stunts, real vehicles. There's a few lines throughout that are very Indiana Jones, the father and son relationship from Last Crusade is further explored as Indiana Jones gets older, he discovers his son.

The humor is the same goof ball action humor from the first 3 movies. "JONESSSS!" Fun action/ adventure scenes. Though this time they attempted to make this a take of 50s adventure/ action movies, I don't think it worked out as well as they hoped. I think it was well done, but I'd say a lot of people weren't expecting it.

There's silly scenes like we've seen in TOD and Last Crusade. Throughout, the movie has its charming moments.The movie is different than the others. It's been several years, and the character is older, and I think they were having fun with the obscurity of it all.

Every Indiana Jones movie, to be honest, had it's light heart-ed, goof ball moments in my opinion. Such as a fighter jet screaming through a tunnel with no wings. Or the raft scene from TOD. I think every Jones movie has those moments.

I enjoyed this movie, it might try to make you laugh a little more than the others, and it might be a little absent minded, but most great adventures tend to be a little absent minded from time to time.

Date Night (2010)

It's basically a sex advertisement from start to finish

[5/10 · 14 June 2010]

While watching this you'll face the suggestion of sex sex, sex ,sex and more sex. They'll hint towards sex, sex, and more sex. They'll be sexuality, sexuality and more sexuality. The whole entire movie was a aggressive comedy about sexuality.

There is a plot but there's far more sexual under tones and sexuality in general than anything else in this entire movie.

There isn't any sex in the movie but it's continuously about sex sex, sex...sex, sex...sex...

It's a sensual, sexual movie, a sexy comedy. If you're into that sort of thing this movie nails it...no pun intended...

Extraordinary Measures (2010)

It's A Movie About Good Inentions And Heart

[10/10 · 24 January 2010]

The haters won't like it, people with a heart will. It's based on true events, it was well preformed and it is a very touching movie. It's easily Harrison Ford's most dramatic and touching performance in years, quite possibly the most serious role Bredan has done his whole career.

It's an inspiring story based on true events. Some people compare it to a Life Time movie and I fail to see how you can do that when it's based on the real World. Anyone who has ever been through family illness knows that this movie is not up in the clouds some place.

It's a movie about family and friends that leave everything else behind in their lives and take extraordinary risks, measures to follow their passions, protect those they love.