Reviews

I almost gave up on this series after the confusing and slow pace of the first three episodes of this season. I'm glad I stuck it out. From beginning to end, the story was engaging and the direction was interesting and entertaining. All 4 seasons have incredible production and music value, but so many episodes meander with boring plot lines and cringy dialogue. This episode made it worth the wait.

Another comment mentioned the alternate John Smith, and I was anticipating a meet between the both of them. It will be interesting to see what happens to John when he goes back to see his son in the next episode. The dinner scene was marvelous, introducing another diabolical German and the hilarious dialogue of Himmler with the girls. Well done!

I don't know how to describe my experience watching this film. The first hour was tedious and almost impossible to watch. Then I became entranced by the images, music and dialogue. The "music producer" scene is one of the most powerful film experiences I have ever witnessed. I can't recommend it, but I can't tell you not to watch it either. The last act is much better than others have described on this site. Is it worth a rewatch for all the hidden messages? I can't answer that question.

After his other earlier films, I was curious. However, this film is tedious and neither funny nor entertaining. It's clearly not worth the wait for the few gags that may or may not pay off. Especially cringeworthy was the donkey act, as performers attempt to ride the animal, including an elderly man from the audience. The scene verges on the edge of animal cruelty. The only highlight for me were the jugglers. The most interesting aspect of the film was the audience member in a bright orange sweater.

This would be the ultimate Donald Trump film. Complete utter sexual, misogynistic, revolting garbage. Though Gazzara, Falk, and Cassevetes have been in many great films and have great screen credits to their names, this is a tremendous black mark on all of their output. It's entirely clear that a real script and decent editor possibly would have helped this film. Watching a 30+ minute drunken bar scene that did not either advance the plot or story only severed to make me feel bad for the one female trying to do her best.

Peter Falk line: "I'm an American, I'm from New York." Come on.

It's very clear that the actors were asked to improvise way to much and that they're not very good at it. At least by 2016 standards.

Blecck.

I tried to watch this for the great Gary Oldman, but this movie is completely unwatchable. The lead actress is wooden, horrible, and has the worst southern accent you could possibly imagine. There are an incredible number of bad 80s films, and this one falls right on the same track (pun intended). Watching Gary Oldman suck a tampon and talk with a diaphragm in his mouth is not something I would wish on my worst enemy.

If only Christopher Lloyd had yelled out "1.21 Gigawatts" - I might have given this movie a higher rating.

Some other review talked about the scene in which Lloyd's character, Henry, gets spanked by Sarah Barnhard in red gloves. It's very difficult to remove that image from your mind once you see it. This movie was a train wreck from beginning to end.

It's very difficult for me to understand the love for this film. It may, in fact, be one of the worst films I have ever seen. No character is really developed, despite the over 5 hour run time, and one of them, the Padrone DeNiro's wife, may be the single most annoying character ever set in a movie.

Speaking of DeNiro, roughly 80% of his dialogue sounds like he doesn't really even care what he's saying. Poor Donald Sutherland was given the diabolical "Attila" role. It's pretty much a one note performance of evil and stupidity from beginning to end.

Scenes are in the film which serve no purpose other than to bore the audience to tears, or in my case, make me cry from laughing. After a young boy is killed, the guests at a wedding run around in the scene immediately following as if they were in a Keystone cops movie.

One of the lead characters is named Olmo, which was the basis for another film years later called St. Olmo's Fire. Oh wait, I meant he was the basis for a stupid Muppet on Sesame Street.

There's a scene where a character gets his face stuffed with horse manure. That experience is very similar to watching this film. 1900 is simply another 1970's catastrophe along the lines of Heaven's Gate.

It's hard to believe something this bad was approved by some producers somewhere. Tedious, pretentious, and rambling are just a few words to describe this hodgepodge of many turds.

The ineptitude of the script and the corny accents and dialogue made this unwatchable. I was hoping to learn more about Dylan's life and music. Instead I got a rambling, incoherent, unorganized, slop of a film. In addition, Dylan's music just isn't that great to begin with, and the choices for the film certainly don't help.

Hopefully, someday, a good film may be made about Dylan and his music; this is not it.

How this was nominated for anything completely escapes me. This movie signifies everything wrong with the 70's style of movie making- letting the director (who happens to be the lead actor) do pretty much anything he wants- scenes that ramble on and on in an effort to be "realistic- trying to cram way too much into an already overlong film.

At no point in the film did I feel like the characters were not "acting". Every set piece felt like another staged scene forced upon my already dulled and bored senses. Good old Jack does his best, but he wasn't in the movie long enough to save it from disaster. Way to similar in style and result to "Heaven's Gate".

Maybe I got my expectations up from all the positive reviews I've read over the years. They were wrong, though. One more thing- didn't one of those Russian leaders look and sound just like Eugene Levy?

When Malden is on screen, I found myself fascinated by the actor. He's fantastic. Unfortunately, after a while, the yelling and whining don't work anymore.

When Malden is not on screen, there's nothing left to keep interest. The supposed chemistry between Wallach and Carroll doesn't work, at least not to today's audience. The flirtatious chase scenes in the house drag on and on and simply don't add anything to the story.

Many say this is a very funny film. The only thing laughable about it was the incredibly wooden acting from the locals that were cast. I was reminded of that character in "King of the Hill" who mumbles most of his lines in a drawl so thick you can pick out 1 of every 10 words.

Now if only Marilyn Monroe were cast, this might have been a completely different film...

As usual, I was shocked to read some of the positive reviews given by some of the more "well- known" reviewers. Many of them even admitted to the corny script and "pretty" Hollywood ending yet still apologetically praised the movie.

North Country was bland, predictable, unexciting, un-captivating and cliché. The main problem was that the movie does not allow the viewer to think. Here in Bland Country, everything IS black and white. To me this is the film's major downfall. This could have been so much more, but instead of a riveting story of how laws were changed for the betterment of this country, we were given an insipid and uninspiring blasé story that can't even match up to the late night showings on Lifetime.

The only thing saving the film from getting a "1" was Richard Jenkins' role as the father and some pretty good child acting (where did the daughter disappear to?). The courtroom scenes were entirely over the top and unbelievable, with an ending lifted straight from "Dead Poets Society". I was expecting to suddenly hear the courtroom filled with shouts of "O Captain, my Captain".

Not since "Daylight" and "John Q" have I been as offended by black stereotypes in the movies.

The message is something about reaching for a dream. Even if you are a pimp who abuses, sells drugs and can't form a coherent sentence, you can have dreams. The portrayal of DJay by Terrence Howard is no better than your average SNL sketch- I can't believe the high regard the critics have for this film and the acting in it.

We are meant to somehow empathize with the lead character even though he beats up a defenseless man, shoots another innocent man, and even when being led away by the police, he says nothing about taking care of the supposed woman who was closest to him- he only cares about the pad with his crappy lyrics on it. Ridiculous.

The music(if you consider rap music) was annoying, repetitive, and completely unrealistic (gosh, that was the quickest voice lesson in history, given by a guy who doesn't even sing!). The writing and recording of the songs were the slowest parts(among many)of the film- thankfully the remote was nearby.

Here's a good idea for a movie: an African American who is a politician overcomes deep prejudice in his own country to become President of the United States.

I am completely amazed by the high regard many writers and so-called "critics" have for this film. This is a film with a weak story, weak characters, and implausible design.

The pretentiousness of the ending is even more frustrating- the battle scene drags on and on, with one character managing to fight with a dagger in his back, and when a certain character gets up yet again after being stabbed in the heart I found myself thinking "die already!".

Not many people have commented on the atrocious "Crouching Tiger" imitation musical score and the absolutely sappy and crappy closing song performed by the great Kathleen Battle- eek, how did she manage to get through that? Besides the fact that it's impossible to understand half of it, despite the fact she's singing in English, I managed to hear some lines of treacle such as "you fly around me like a butterfly, your voice still echoes in my heart" and "oh, where are you, I need to tell you I still love you so I reach out for you"- gag.

Because there are so many plot turns and things that are "not as they seem", I felt less for the characters, so therefore I could care less whether they lived or died.

Crouching Tiger- 10 House- 2

Oh, this movie wanted to be the "Godfather" in the worst way, boy did it ever. Unfortunately it was about as far from that masterpiece as it could possibly be. After watching "Heaven's Gate" a few years ago, I wanted to see if Cimino could make something as bad. My curiosity was correct- this is plain awful.

Lambert at one point in the film says in his horrific wooden accent, "Everyone muss know, I am ah serious man". That had me on the floor laughing. I understand the film was edited and cut by the studio, but what I saw today barely makes any sense. The scenes seemed hastily put together with no coherence whatsoever. The camera angles and lighting were awkward and unsettling. And what is with the "rape" scene in the middle of the film? And where did the American governess disappear to for the rest of the movie? Half the time we don't know who is on who's side, and who is about to betray each other, and...oh why bother! Another scene that had me in stitches was mentioned by another reviewer: the awkward Don dancing scene. It really looked like one of those ballroom scenes from the Muppet Show.

What a mess.

Is it an action film? Is it a war film? I think it's WARCTION!

I will join the majority here and vote this not only one of the worst WAR films of all time, but of the WORST films of all time. No plot, just many, many explosions. You WILL get a headache. Every bomb looks the same, from a grenade, to a satchel charge, to a mine, to a mortar shell, to bombs fired from off-shore battleships. Ridiculous!

Our Navajo Indian hero,Beach, has two expressions: stupid smirk and meditative séance eye rolling.

Endless moronic scenes made me wish the movie blew up in my DVD player- even fast forwarding through much of it, the film still felt 3 hours long. Why would such a perceived valuable soldier be sent on such small missions with such a high level of danger: what value would he provide? How is it possible the two of them always know the coordinates of where to radio for bombs even though they have no maps?

I actually laughed out loud when they got to the final portion of the island, and we see the closeup of the REALLY, REALLY BIG Japanese gun. Uh oh, the US is in trouble now! Other laughable scenes include the completely ridiculous decapitation and subsequent grenade toss, and the chocolate bar toss- both unforgettable for their complete stupidity.

After recently watching "Deer Hunter" and "Heaven's Gate", I uneasily decided to see if "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" also was as inadequate. It was.

Elements of both future Cimino films can be found here. Just as in Deer Hunter, the first half of the movie plods along with meaningless scenes and cornball dialogue that seem to go on forever. The second half picks up the pace only slightly and ends with loss- loss which we don't really care about if we haven't gotten to like the characters in the first place.

Just as in Heaven's Gate, the picturesque views are at times pretty impressive, but staring at a mountain or a river for a minute with nothing going on just isn't great movie making. Something about the scene where the two bozos are riding around in the ice-cream truck reminded me of the endless rollerskating scene in Heaven's Gate.

A possible idea for a future release would be to combine the three. How does this sound: "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Hunt Deer in Johnson County".