'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[Gregory]

The phrase I see in countless user reviews is "no ending," to decry pretty much any film not based on the dramatic formula of a clear climax and denouement, or doesn't have all of the problems neatly resolved by the end, as if that's the only kind of ending there is. "This movie has no ending!!!!! Don't waste your time! I feel cheated and want my money and time back!!!!!" and so on.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

for a movie I've never heard of before this was very entertaining. A story with both a beginning and an ending. The middle was pretty good also!

Now I really want to see it! Those are the three things I look for in a movie.

But not necessarily in that order.

[Forrest Taft]

Not exactly a review, but...

This Roman Polanski crusade is greatly misunderstood. Try making a movie about Satanism and Devil Worship and see where that gets you in Showbiz and Politics. The “13 year old victim” is in, and of itself, what is known as an “Occult Signature”, and there are many swirling around Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate (his wonderful wife and actress). Roman Polanski’s Signature Film is, of course, “Rosemary’s Baby”, and this little movie is at the centerpiece of all of Roman Polanski’s legal and political troubles; all of the film was shot on Paramount studio property, except for 2 scenes — the exterior outside of the Bramford (actually, it is the Dakota Building) where Angela Dorian (Victoria Vetri) “dies” after “falling” from the roof, and the final shot in the movie, where the camera itself veers up and away from the EXACT SPOT where John Lennon was ritually assassinated 13 YEARS LATER! (The camera sequence certainly does come across the screen to the viewer as if it were an eternal soul departing from a dead body). Not convinced yet that making movies about Satanism and Occult Devil Worship can be hazardous to one’s own existence? Well, see if there are any innocent explainations among these facts: Sharon Tate made a grand total of 13 film/television appearances (including a cameo in the party scene in “Rosemary’s Baby”, directed by her husband). Sharon Tate’s FIRST movie was entitled “13”, before it was re-titled and released as “Eye of the Devil”, and her 13th and FINAL appearance was in “The 13 Chairs”, which was re-titled and released after her death as “12 + 1” (13!). This is all similar to what happened to poor Stanley Kubrick, who also only directed 13 motion pictures over his career, after he faked the “Apollo 11 – 17 Lunar Footage” for NASA while he was supposedly working on the four year shoot of his Signature Film, “2001: A Space Odyssey” — so isn’t it remarkably interesting that Stanley Kubrick just so happened to “die” on the 66th day of 1999 (March 7th) EXACTLY 666 DAYS BEFORE NEW YEARS’ DAY, JANUARY 1st, 2001!!! Now you may be starting to comprehend why Witches and Warlocks use the HOLLY – WOOD when they cast their Spells upon Society. Roman Polanski is the Victim in this diabolical public relations smear campaign (because if one cannot physically eliminate their enemy, the next best thing is to irreparably damage their intended Victim’s public image beyond repair); a counterfeit morals charge, such as Pedophilia towards “A 13 Year Old Girl” damages his worldwide public prestige and image quite thoroughly, don’t ya think?!

[Altair]

I sometimes think the world is a good place, but then I read this and... despair. How could someone actually believe any of this?

[domino harvey]

Please note that this is not an invitation to jumpstart another debate on the charges against Polanski. Though feel free to talk about our dark lord Satan and praise him, obviously

[swo17]

I dunno, the guy's math checks out for Kubrick.

[zedz]

Though if it really was all about numerology, shouldn't the occult victim have been 12 years and 10 months (666 weeks) old, not 13? Oh Satan, how could you miss a golden opportunity like that?

Stupid Satan.

[eerik]

After glancing through his other reviews, that seems to be a common problem with him. In his Exodus: Gods and Kings review, he feels it necessary to unequivocally point out that the Bible is fiction, yet also devotes a paragraph to lambast the "secularist" usage of BCE to denote the date instead of BC.

Speaking of Exodus, I've seen some local people complaining that the film, named Exodus, was biblical and not about Greek mythology as they expected it to be. Average Estonians don't care much about any religion, but that's not an excuse for stupidity.

[Lemmy Caution]

Speaking of Exodus, I've seen some local people complaining that the film, named Exodus, was biblical and not about Greek mythology as they expected it to be.

I kept waiting for Bob Marley to appear ....

[George Drooly]

-No Shoah?!?

-Presumably omitted because it's non-fiction.

-Oops I didn't know it was non fiction

[Gregory]

From an Amazon review of Marilyn Ann Moss's biography of Raoul Walsh:

Finally I have to question her arm chair psychoanalysis of [Walsh]. She constantly compares him to John Ford. Ford made his movies emphasizing character development and scenery. He was a strange man in real life (read Maureen O'Hara's autobiography). Walsh emphasized the storyline or plot along with the scenery. Leave it at that.

[MichaelB]

-No Shoah?!?

-Presumably omitted because it's non-fiction.

-Oops I didn't know it was non fiction

I'm the one in the middle, and I thought I'd probably best leave it at that!

[Numero Trois]

One of the Netflix reviews for the latest Star Wars film:

Plus where is the good looking main characters like Luke, Solo and Anakin from the past movies ? No they have to cast a very ugly African guy as one of the new heroes, just to please the new Kardashian Fetish followers of these society.

[furbicide]

It's political correctness gone mad!

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[domino harvey]

Great movie to watch with Jodie Foster missbehaves as normal. It is amazing how O'Hara's Wife comes back from dead to gide Edwar Asner out of trouble with JF

[mfunk9786]

Martin Liebman is at it again - The Walk surprised me and is in my top 10 this year, but this review is beyond worthy of this thread:

Perhaps in no other film can moviemaking's magic be better experienced than in The Walk, Director Robert Zemeckis' touching, funny, and in every way inspiring and spectacular true-to-life recreation of the Philippe Petit story.

what can only be described as a movie as monumentally satisfying as the wire walk performance itself

Zemeckis, one of the great movie magicians of his, or any, time,

a treasure of the cinema world and certainly in the post-9/11 era

and my favorite head-scratcher...

Who can say whether Philippe Petit's story would have been made into a film were it not for the events that transpired on 9/11. But that day did happen, and for all that's followed The Walk is, at least cinematically, perhaps the most important.

[domino harvey]

Holy shit that last line

[mfunk9786]

You can read it a thousand times and it still doesn't make sense

[swo17]

C'mon, he stepped it back with a "perhaps" and an "at least cinematically." What more do you want, blood? You guys are the worst thing that has happened since 9/11.

[Brevity]

Looking through the critic reviews for Ce jour-là at RT, I rather enjoyed this opening line to a one-star review:

In Raoul Ruiz's THAT DAY (CE JOUR-LÀ), which we are told occurs in "the near future in Switzerland," the country appears to have added a fifth official language: boredom.

[Thornycroft]

This is currently the only customer review for The Jacques Rivette Collection at Amazon UK.



Something tells me they didn't make it through the first episode.

[MichaelB]

It's also the only review at the time of writing, presumably because intelligent and engaged reviews are by definition going to take some time to write.

[RossyG]

Amazing that he spent £120 on something he seemed to have no prior knowledge of or affinity with.

[mfunk9786]

Didn't know where else to put this since this is an example of 'Rediculous' screenwriting, but a producer is tweeting descriptions of women from actual screenplays and they are creepy as all get out

[MichaelB]

Didn't know where else to put this since this is an example of 'Rediculous' screenwriting, but a producer is tweeting descriptions of women from actual screenplays and they are creepy as all get out

My immediate reaction to that was to pick up a collection of Alan Bennett plays to see how he describes his female characters.

This was the first:

A middle-aged girl in ankle socks, long coat and woollen gloves stands expressionless in a room. Her shoes are too young for her. There is no movement in her face. Her name is Winnie.