'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[Doctor Sunshine]

For the record, Severance is a pretty good movie. Not Jason 6 paintball scene good but still pretty good.

[Lemmy Caution]

Watched the Eclipse Wooden Crosses (Bernard, 1932) last night, and was rolling it around in my head today, so I IMDb-ed it. Only 5 comments posted and one stood out.

I like at the end how he talks about "mental laziness," as though his review was a model of intellectual rigor. Obviously he would have been much better off not bringing nuclear weapons into the discussion (especially as we are dealing with a 1932 film). And, as is often the case, he wanted Wooden Crosses to be a different movie than it was.

to compare this meaningless mess with "All Quiet on the Western Front" is sacrilege,
1/10
Author: Karl Ericsson ([email protected]) from sweden

The Horrors of war - need we be reminded of them? The reasons for war -yes, that is important to point out and especially that all wars that are fought today between countries are toy wars, because if they were real, they would be nuclear and not allowed.

Now, civil wars, that's different. Those have to be fought with smaller weapons and not atom bombs, since they are fought on common territory and not on foreign land, where an atom bomb or two doesn't matter much for your own survival.

"All Quiet On the Western Front" did try to explain a little the reasons for war and we realized what is meant by canon-fodder. This mess of a film delivers no attempts on explanation and just show the horror as if that would go away by showing it. And it is really not much horror which is shown, instead there is plenty of stupidity, which, I admit, is more horrible than maybe the worst horror. This film reminds me of the reports from the Balcan War. We got reports of all the horrors but not even one decent discussion about the conflict.

Explanations and philosophy demand mental work. This film is mental laziness.

[manicsounds]

I still think it's ridiculous that the topic title is still spelled wrong.....

[MichaelB]

I still think it's ridiculous that the topic title is still spelled wrong.....

It's deliberate, and a long-standing in-joke. I burned my fingers on the same issue many posts back!

[fiddlesticks]

I still think it's ridiculous that the topic title is still spelled wrong.....

It's not only rediculous, it's downwright ludacris!

[domino harvey]

leave Luda out of this.

Amazing opinion from the DVDTalk review of Design For Living:

The dialogue is the highlight of the film, with witty repartee from Cooper and his co-stars taking center stage. I'm not a big fan of this type of comedy, but I can see that it would be quite entertaining if you're fond of dialogue-heavy, bantering humor.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Watched the Eclipse Wooden Crosses (Bernard, 1932) last night, and was rolling it around in my head today, so I IMDb-ed it. Only 5 comments posted and one stood out.

I like at the end how he talks about "mental laziness," as though his review was a model of intellectual rigor. Obviously he would have been much better off not bringing nuclear weapons into the discussion (especially as we are dealing with a 1932 film). And, as is often the case, he wanted Wooden Crosses to be a different movie than it was.

It sounds like the guy is looking for films with nuclear warfare, or at least for it to be a reality.

[Magic Hate Ball]

In this edition of I AM ANGRY (yellow), we learn about this guy and his relationship with The Godfather...

The Godfather is crap...it's a long movie about nothing. I would rather die than watch that crap again...notice crap is written more than a few times? That's because, this is what this movie is...CRAP! The acting is bad, the sets are bad. Overall this is junk. How in the world it's number one on the top 250 is beyond me. You people must have nothing better to do than to watch a movie where people get killed off because they opened their mouths or voiced their thoughts. I can watch that on the news. I hate this movie so much that my roommates are watching it right now, and I have my CD player on as loud as it will go, because I hate this movie! So in closing...The Godfather, all of them, are crap!

This guy must be fun at parties.

Bonus!

"Magnolia" was without a doubt one of the stupidest movies i've ever seen in my entire life. It was a waste of three hours of my life, not to mention a waste of the cost of two movie tickets. If i could have three wishes, the first would be for world peace, the second would be for total knowledge, and the third would be that this movie never even existed in the first place. the plot, for me, was very hard to follow. nothing in this movie made sense to me. i was lost the whole time. what a total waste. i thought that it being a movie that contained Tom Cruise that it would be a quality movie, but this movie was a major letdown. I think this was Hollyweird's attempt at making an avant-garde movie.

This is the kind of person who watches Punch-Drunk Love and is disappointed by the lack of poop jokes.

[domino harvey]

I would give anything to meet this guy and ask him what he thinks "avant-garde" means.

[flyonthewall2983]

In this edition of I AM ANGRY (yellow), we learn about this guy and his relationship with The Godfather...

The Godfather is crap...it's a long movie about nothing. I would rather die than watch that crap again...notice crap is written more than a few times? That's because, this is what this movie is...CRAP! The acting is bad, the sets are bad. Overall this is junk. How in the world it's number one on the top 250 is beyond me. You people must have nothing better to do than to watch a movie where people get killed off because they opened their mouths or voiced their thoughts. I can watch that on the news. I hate this movie so much that my roommates are watching it right now, and I have my CD player on as loud as it will go, because I hate this movie! So in closing...The Godfather, all of them, are crap!

This guy must be fun at parties.

He must be a real big fan of The Money Pit, too.

[Kinsayder]

1 out of 4 people at IMDb found this guy's review of 2001: A Space Odyssey useful:

It was bad. I won't lye to you. Cuz I'm not a lyer. Phil called me a lyer once. Now he's dead. Isn't that ironic. I think it is. Anyway, back to the movie. 2001 a space poop, a movie that I'd like to say rocks my sox, but can't. There were intense scenes of elongated nothingness. And the little story it did have was interrupted by more long pointless scenes. I did however like the conclusion where Fred announced the verdict, and said "Rick didn't kill himself. He was murdered," then Greg fired a stray bullet at him. Blood was everywhere. Yeah and Puma Hanson was a great actor, but that only helped the movie a little. Now, I like Buddha as much as the next guy (I mean who doesn't fall in love with nirvana the first time they hear about it?) but the Buddha scene struck me as kinda racist against Buddhists. Dunno why. It just had a feeling. So, uh, I'll say, probably 4/10. G'night everybody, peace.

[miless]

1 out of 4 people at IMDb found this guy's review of 2001: A Space Odyssey useful:

It was bad. I won't lye to you. Cuz I'm not a lyer. Phil called me a lyer once. Now he's dead. Isn't that ironic. I think it is. Anyway, back to the movie. 2001 a space poop, a movie that I'd like to say rocks my sox, but can't. There were intense scenes of elongated nothingness. And the little story it did have was interrupted by more long pointless scenes. I did however like the conclusion where Fred announced the verdict, and said "Rick didn't kill himself. He was murdered," then Greg fired a stray bullet at him. Blood was everywhere. Yeah and Puma Hanson was a great actor, but that only helped the movie a little. Now, I like Buddha as much as the next guy (I mean who doesn't fall in love with nirvana the first time they hear about it?) but the Buddha scene struck me as kinda racist against Buddhists. Dunno why. It just had a feeling. So, uh, I'll say, probably 4/10. G'night everybody, peace.

Man, I want to see the movie while smoking whatever he had.

[davebert]

That is the HD difference!

[Antoine Doinel]

In this edition of I AM ANGRY (yellow), we learn about this guy and his relationship with The Godfather...

The Godfather is crap...it's a long movie about nothing. I would rather die than watch that crap again...notice crap is written more than a few times? That's because, this is what this movie is...CRAP! The acting is bad, the sets are bad. Overall this is junk. How in the world it's number one on the top 250 is beyond me. You people must have nothing better to do than to watch a movie where people get killed off because they opened their mouths or voiced their thoughts. I can watch that on the news. I hate this movie so much that my roommates are watching it right now, and I have my CD player on as loud as it will go, because I hate this movie! So in closing...The Godfather, all of them, are crap!

This guy must be fun at parties.

Bonus!

"Magnolia" was without a doubt one of the stupidest movies i've ever seen in my entire life. It was a waste of three hours of my life, not to mention a waste of the cost of two movie tickets. If i could have three wishes, the first would be for world peace, the second would be for total knowledge, and the third would be that this movie never even existed in the first place. the plot, for me, was very hard to follow. nothing in this movie made sense to me. i was lost the whole time. what a total waste. i thought that it being a movie that contained Tom Cruise that it would be a quality movie, but this movie was a major letdown. I think this was Hollyweird's attempt at making an avant-garde movie.

This is the kind of person who watches Punch-Drunk Love and is disappointed by the lack of poop jokes.

When I saw PDL in the theater it was amazing how many Sandler fans went in blind and ended up walking out halfway through.

[colinr0380]

When I saw PDL in the theater it was amazing how many Sandler fans went in blind and ended up walking out halfway through.

I wonder if a similar thing happened with fans of Burt Reynolds going to see Boogie Nights? (who would have thought Mr Reynolds had a great performance in him?)

[domino harvey]

"This fails to meet the high standards set by Sharky's Machine!"

[davebert]

If I remember correctly, PDL came out in midwest the same week as Jackass: The Movie, so within a few minutes of starting the opening night screening, I was witness to over half the theater full of kids get up and sneak into the Jackass screening a few doors away. I believe it was after the piano on the street failed to hit someone in the balls.

[Donald Brown]

A review of 300 on Netflix, by member jnr 424241:

This film shows an absolute perfection of every facet of cinema. Every shot was well planned with amazing framing of every element on screen, every character is well developed with clear motives, Music was keyed at exactly the right moments and never distracting you from what was going on, The acting was on point with some of the greatest performances of history. (The king ALWAYS acted as a king and gave a commanding authoritative presence) The dialogue had some of the most memorable sentences ever put into a movie and they will be quoted for a very long time. Every speech got you just as excited as the soldiers, every battle cry proved to get the theatre pumped, many people even chanting with them. It really made you feel apart of the movie, and not just staring a screen of moving pictures. Every battle was so awe inspiring and more well choreographed than any Yuen Woo ping choreography (including matrix1,2,3, Kill Bill1,2), any Wuxia movie (Crouching tigerHD, Hero, House of Flying Daggers), better battles than any period piece/ fantasy movie (LOTR123, Braveheart, Gladiator). Also I want to avoid classifying this movie, saying it was a great "war movie" or it was a great "period piece". Everything this movie set out to achieve it did it, it did it well and beyond what I have ever seen in my long “career' of watching movies. If I could sum it all up in ONE SENTENCE: This is one of the greatest (top3) if not the greatest movie that has ever been created.

[HerrSchreck]

Nosferatu - A Symphony of Terror
A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2001 Filmcritic.com

Classic? Yes. Great? No.

F.W. Murnau's classic take on the Dracula legend -- or rather, the "Count Orlok" legend, as Marnau was unable to get the rights to Bram Stoker's novel -- doesn't even get the villain out of his homeland until 60 minutes into the 79 minute film. Gothic and very German, its stars caked with eye makeup, Nosferatu's heroes are shrugging and ambivalent, while its antihero is a ghoulish yet surprisngly ineffective menace. As a silent film, Murnau's title cards are incredibly over the top and uninteresting, while the film on the whole appears to be directed by a madman.

Still, this is 1922, and many things can be forgiven. Nosferatu earns its place in the cinematic archives, but its accessibility to modern viewers is surely all but lost.

Eureka video has restored Nosferatu, impressively, with its new two-disc Ultimate Edition DVD release of the film. The picture has never looked better, and the subtitles have been cleaned up. Interestingly, the original German intertitles have been included as well as the original score that played with the film in the 1920s. A historical commentary track rides with the film, and a second disc includes a documentary on Murnau and a short demonstration of the restoration process. Very worthwhile if you're a fan of the film.

Aka Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.

from some place called filmcritic dotcom. This is no joke-- its' serious.

[tavernier]

300 must be the greatest movie ever made, since these are the only other movies he's seen:

matrix1,2,3
Kill Bill1,2
Crouching tigerHD
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
LOTR123
Braveheart
Gladiator

[domino harvey]

from some place called filmcritic dotcom.

This is no joke-- its' serious.

Christopher Null pops up often on Rotten Tomatoes... he doesn't understand a lot of movies. Like, more than the average Rotten Tomatoes reviewer even.

[patrick]

This is the kind of person who watches Punch-Drunk Love and is disappointed by the lack of poop jokes.

Sounds like my cousin, I was talking to him at some family event around the time Punch Drunk Love came out and he went into this long spiel about how I shouldn't waste my money on it because it wasn't even funny and was just "weird." Hopefully I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry lived up to his discerning taste.

A review of 300 on Netflix, by member jnr 424241:

This film shows an absolute perfection of every facet of cinema. Every shot was well planned with amazing framing of every element on screen, every character is well developed with clear motives, Music was keyed at exactly the right moments and never distracting you from what was going on, The acting was on point with some of the greatest performances of history. (The king ALWAYS acted as a king and gave a commanding authoritative presence) The dialogue had some of the most memorable sentences ever put into a movie and they will be quoted for a very long time. Every speech got you just as excited as the soldiers, every battle cry proved to get the theatre pumped, many people even chanting with them. It really made you feel apart of the movie, and not just staring a screen of moving pictures. Every battle was so awe inspiring and more well choreographed than any Yuen Woo ping choreography (including matrix1,2,3, Kill Bill1,2), any Wuxia movie (Crouching tigerHD, Hero, House of Flying Daggers), better battles than any period piece/ fantasy movie (LOTR123, Braveheart, Gladiator). Also I want to avoid classifying this movie, saying it was a great "war movie" or it was a great "period piece". Everything this movie set out to achieve it did it, it did it well and beyond what I have ever seen in my long “career' of watching movies. If I could sum it all up in ONE SENTENCE: This is one of the greatest (top3) if not the greatest movie that has ever been created.

This brings up an interesting question - can a movie with basically no basis in reality be considered a "period piece"?

Also I think I'm going to start rating movies on how many cans of Red Bull they're equivalent to. I hope to give Live Free Or Die Hard the coveted "5 Can" rating after I watch it tonight.

[MichaelB]

This brings up an interesting question - can a movie with basically no basis in reality be considered a "period piece"?

Well, if you think about it, the vast majority of films allegedly set in the past have very little basis in reality! Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of the better-researched examples, and I'm not joking.

Mind you, can we also legitimately use the label "period piece" to describe a film shot in, say, 1917 and set in the present day back then?

[jbeall]

A review of 300 on Netflix, by member jnr 424241:

This film shows an absolute perfection of every facet of cinema. Every shot was well planned with amazing framing of every element on screen, every character is well developed with clear motives, Music was keyed at exactly the right moments and never distracting you from what was going on, The acting was on point with some of the greatest performances of history. (The king ALWAYS acted as a king and gave a commanding authoritative presence) The dialogue had some of the most memorable sentences ever put into a movie and they will be quoted for a very long time. Every speech got you just as excited as the soldiers, every battle cry proved to get the theatre pumped, many people even chanting with them. It really made you feel apart of the movie, and not just staring a screen of moving pictures. [...]

jnr424241 needs to look up the word 'irony' in the dictionary. When I saw 300, the audience participation was so clearly ironic that I began to wonder why so many people would pay for a movie ticket when they didn't think the film was any good.

[Magic Hate Ball]

I was witness to over half the theater full of kids get up and sneak into the Jackass screening a few doors away. I believe it was after the piano on the street failed to hit someone in the balls.

I love America.

On this rendition of I AM ANGRY (blue), we shoot fish in a barrel with Punch-Drunk Love.

"Yuck!", says 'brown1982':

Maybe I'm missing something, but this movie was STUPID! Give me a believable start-up business scenario at least (decorative plungers? duh). I just hated everything about this movie. Adam Sandler's character was totally strange, and why would a girl like Emily Watson's character have the slightest interest in him other than just being horny. I could sympathize with Barry Egan if his anger toward his meddling sisters was the main theme of the movie. That should have been developed more. Now that's material for a good film. But then all the other stupid crap: the piano (harmonium, whatever it was), the pudding, a phone sex scam, and of course his lame business. And tell us WHY, all of a sudden, did he start wearing a suit to work? Oh yeah, and that annoying soundtrack. It was just a disturbing movie for me, and I'm not easily disturbed!

Apparently, the only reason women ever date men like Barry is because they are horny.

'Buff2001 from Florida' is disappointed that it wasn't a normal Sandler comedy:

This may sound negative but it is simply a statement of facts. If you like off the wall, noisy, frenetic, jerky, shallow (trying to look deep)movies... then you will enjoy this. If you are looking for Ghost World, and others of the Altman, Kubrik ilk, then you will get what you like.

On the other hand, if you really liked Sandler in Mr.Deeds, Wedding Singer, Waterboy, et. al., then DO NOT expect to find the same thing in this one - other than the inevitable two dimensional Sandler put upon character and predictable ending.

I found many of Sandler's movies funny and enjoyable. This one unfortunately was erratic, dark, violent and even vulgar. In segments of the film it seemed Sandler was trying to emulate Chris Rock or Eddie Murphy in seeing how many times you could cram the f-word and its variations into one sequence.

I personally found this unfunny trifle a waste of time and money.

Unfunny trifle, you say?

'Michael Major' thinks it was garbage:

the only people that like this movie are those that sit in coffee houses sip Java and talk about philosophy wake up this movie sucked so hard i thought it was a black hole there is no way anyone liked this have u lived in a cave people this is a master of comedy and this movie is not like him i don't know if he did it on a bet or if he was on an acid trip or if it was a punishment from god but seriously don't watch this movie it will make you wanna kill everyone who told you it was good and then when retribution is yours you will take your own life please listen to me I'm trying to save you from hating Adam sandler don't watch this thank you

*wheeeze*