'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[Ovader]

He was mistaken about the mother's character since she had an office job.

[colinr0380]

Not to mention being a single mother!

I can't believe that they belittle the original films 'lecture' at the end - not just belittle it but don't understand it! I'm left with a feeling that this remake is going to revel in the casual destruction that the original went to such care to avoid (I'll bet that there will be no cinematically unspectacular and non-violent neutralising of electricity to get across your point when there is the possibility of destroying the less necessary cities or countries with CGI!) and will probably not feature any characters beyond the inner circle of politicians, army types and 'astro-biologists' where the original dispensed with these often incomprehending and absurdly pompous individuals more concerned with how their status would be affected in the face of a crisis to bring together the visitor with the ordinary man (or woman!) on the street. It looks like the only contact 'ordinary people' will have with the visitor in this new version will be the wave of destruction caused that they are running for their lives from!

[swo17]

Nothing revolutionary here, just a guy on Netflix who likes to make bold claims.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

The best one yet! This one is the funniest and greatest madagascar movie yet. jjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjj

(The extra letters are no doubt to comply with Netflix's minimum word requirement.)

Tropic Thunder

This movie was the funniest moviei have ever seen in my life. people over 16 should seriously consider renting this movie.

Hancock

The movie was alright. Will Smith played the best character, but Charlize Theron played the character that annoyed me the most, her character was the second most annoying movie characte i have ever scene in my life. the most annoying was the mom from Evan Almighty.

[MichaelB]

OK, this is an Amazon album review, but as it's of A John Waters Christmas, I think it belongs here:

I have been looking for years for the song "Happy Birthday, Jesus" sang by Little Cindy. When I got the cd I was so excited. As a little girl my Dad played the "Happy Birthday, Jesus" which was on a 45 record each year at Christmas. My Dad died when I was 13 and the record of the song got lost somehow. I planned to play the song for my three children and my seven grandchildren when we gathered for our Christmas celebration. I was rather offended when I first got the cd and my oldest son was here to visit so I put the cd in and we listened to the "Happy Birthday Jesus" and as it finished playing I was basking in the memories of Christmas past and imagine my surprise when the next song started playing. It contained profanity and was very offensive to me. I don't understand why that song even had to be on the cd. If they had left that song off of the cd I would have given it five stars.

To which someone has appended the following pertinent question:

Do you even know who John Waters is?

And thanks to YouTube, you can listen to 'Happy Birthday Jesus' and marvel at the thought that someone might actually want to listen to it with a straight face...

[swo17]

I was rather offended when I first got the cd and my oldest son was here to visit

I'm confused. He was also offended by getting the cd, and by his son visiting?

[fiddlesticks]

Not really a review as such, here is how Amazon.co.uk describes the Bill Douglas Trilogy:

Synopsis
In MY CHILDHOOD and MY AIN FOLK director Bill Douglas reflects on his own childhood growing up in a poverty-stricken Scottish mining village in the 1940s. MY WAY HOME tells the story of a young teenager who is captured by Soviet soldiers in the final throes of World War II.

Caveat emptor.

[domino harvey]

Did she miss the "Parental Advisory" sticker on the cover of the Waters CD?

[Murdoch]

Those damn Soviets were all over the UK in WWII.

[cdnchris]

Did she miss the "Parental Advisory" sticker on the cover of the Waters CD?

And somehow miss some of the other track titles, like "Santa Claus is a Black Man" or "Here Comes Fatty Claus".

[domino harvey]

Did she miss the "Parental Advisory" sticker on the cover of the Waters CD?

And somehow miss some of the other track titles, like "Santa Claus is a Black Man" or "Here Comes Fatty Claus".

Well, "Here Comes Fatty Claus" is the song she's referring to. Surprisingly, the CD was also issued in a "Clean" version, so if only she'd picked it up at Wal-Mart, she wouldn't have had to hear the word "shit"

[domino harvey]

Netflix strikes again

no sex scenes ever. only scenes of after sex without the actual filming. very boring long drawnout scenes of film time killing. poorly directed. not worthy of more than a barely PG rating.

[knives]

Is there a context to the quote or was the writer just insane? Was it titled like Sex, lies, and Videotape.

[Schkura]

I love speding a few minutes every Sunday perusing the CAP Alerts. Here's a blast from the past-- their assessment of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. I have put my favorites in bold:

Wanton Violence/Crime (W):

graphic meanness imagery
assaults
animal attacks and threats
beatings by animals
extensive and severe brutality
brandings of humans
explosive startles
weaponfire to intimidate
battle sequences, one exceptionally graphic
multiple deaths by incineration
many deaths by impalement, neck breaking, beating and other means of causing death
long beating sequence

Impudence/Hate (I)(1):

defiance of authority
nine uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary

Sex/Homosexuality (S):

sexual innuendo
excessive cleavage

Drugs/Alcohol (D):

smoking what appears to be narcotics (by apes)

Offense to God (O)(2):

entire show built on evolution
nude demon art
muffled and broken use of God's name in vain with the four letter expletive
"Created all apes in his image"
praying to false god(s)
apes and humans as equals and humans as inferior

Murder/Suicide (M)(3):

murder of ape by ape (unseen but heard)
double murder of apes by ape, graphic

[domino harvey]

C'mon, "nude demon art" deserved to be bolded.

[swo17]

I wonder which part of the "nude demon art" they found offensive--the "nude," the "demon," or the "art."

[Schkura]

I wonder which part of the "nude demon art" they found offensive--the "nude," the "demon," or the "art."

Probably why it wasn't bolded-- each of those (and any combination) would probably be grounds for stoning under the CAP rubric. I wonder what their little diagram would look like if they graded the Bible?

With respect to the film, I will agree with the CAPtains that the maxim of "Ape shall not kill ape" should have been stringently adhered to. However, I put "defiance of authority" in bold because I could not determine whether or not the CAP was endorsing the legitimacy of Ape Law.

[domino harvey]

However, I put "defiance of authority" in bold because I could not determine whether or not the CAP was endorsing the legitimacy of Ape Law.

This is my favorite thread

[life_boy]

Netflix strikes again

no sex scenes ever. only scenes of after sex without the actual filming. very boring long drawnout scenes of film time killing. poorly directed. not worthy of more than a barely PG rating.

What did they expect? Doesn't A nos amours translate as "The No Sex"?

[Lemmy Caution]

I keep getting riled by people misidentifying characters, actors, places, etc.
Take this IMDb review of JCVD:

The story's framing device is Van Damme's fictional character of the same name unwittingly becoming a hostage in a bank robbery where his inability to extricate himself and the other hostages is a commentary on the impotence in real life of the mythical hero on the screen. The gritty, de-saturated look inside and outside the bank reminds me of the urban realism of Sidney Lumet's bank-heist Dog Day Afternoon. There's even a stringy-haired thug, but Van Damme is no Dustin Hoffman.

How does this happen?

The other day I was reading some IMDB comments for Zabriskie Point, and one otherwise fine review states that Daria is driving to Detroit. Huh? The whole film involves the desert and her company's exploitation and crass commercial development of the desert. We get orgy scenes in the desert, the Bouldereign house in the desert, etc. It's Phoenix she's heading to. Detroit would be a longer and different drive. Sure she could pass through the desert, but Detroit is simply not part of the film's geography.

For Seven Days to Noon, almost every other IMDb poster has a different name for the character, Prof. Willingdon (whose name sounded to me like "willing doom"). Willoughby and Bullington are some of the vague guesses. They're already at IMDB, how hard is it to go to the main page and check?

[MichaelB]

They're already at IMDB, how hard is it to go to the main page and check?

Of course, if you write professionally you have people who do these checks for you. This normally works well, except on one memorable occasion when I reviewed The Death of Mr Lazarescu and my entirely accurate rendition of the title character's full name as Dante Remus Lazarescu was replaced in the final version by Domnul Lazarescu.

"Domnul" is the Romanian for "Mister". Whoops.

(And of course this made me look stupid, since it went out under my name!)

[swo17]

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean:

[Steven H]

your NUTS to think this movie can EVER be topped!!!!!, December 30, 2005
By Moe Vee "movie maven" (brooklyn, ny)
all my freinds were talking about home alone so i decided to watch it. the first one i saw was HA3. i loved it! the parrot was sooo cute (but even more the kid) and the villains were clever (but, fortunetly, not clever enough) and it was a total crack-up, at the end i had stomach cramps.i decided to see the others too. so i rented HA1 and it was funny, but also stupid. the kid has the weirdest name in history (counting socrates),the fact that there were two proved he hadnt learned his lesson,and is liable to do it again. plus, did i mention that this kid sounds like hes reciting a poem, not saying things naturally? the lines were great and that helped, but there are more natural ways to say,"nice night for a neck injury" i mean he remindes me of my history teacher, droning on and on.

now back to HA3. its great. its fantastic. its yours to buy, cuz !!!!I!!!! woudnt want to be deprived of any minute without it. and even if your weird, and dont like it, give the normal ppl. a chance to see the best thing in the world. whats his name is a hunk of junk compared.see you at the checkout counter!

I enjoyed this as a whole, but that second paragraph is pure gold.

[Tom Amolad]

Um, wow. Of course, the downside to posting something like that is that you now get to explain what you were doing browsing reviews of Home Alone III...

[kaujot]

I can't believe that's true. I just can't.

[Steven H]

Um, wow. Of course, the downside to posting something like that is that you now get to explain what you were doing browsing reviews of Home Alone III...

It stemmed from a competition with a friend to think of the worst Christmas movie.