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Batman Returns
(1992)

Bad Bat Flick.
Batman is, let's face it, a weak comic book movie series. So Far the X-Men and Spider-Man have better movies than any of the Batman movies. While Superman 3 was mediocre and 4 was awful; the first two Superman movies are the kings of Comic Book movies that Batman, X-Men and Spider-Man has yet to reach. But this one is probably one of the worst Comic book movies ever. Only Batman and Robin and Superman 4 are worse than this movie.

Basically we have this short fat thing with flippers who has a hard time walking and he's a big threat to Batman? Huh? Anakin Skywalker from Episode I could beat up this stupid character. Unlike the Joker, I didn't think for a second that this guy is a serious threat to Batman. Then there was the Cat chick, who was rather pointless too. It looks like they made this film so they can have some hottie walk around in skin tight leather.

Overall a rather poor effort. Good thing Batman Forever came along or else the first Batman would be the only one worth watching.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
(2002)

No complaints here.
I don't understand the complaints about how the dialog is poorly written and the acting is wooden. These are Star Wars trademarks. Have any of these people watched the first three movies at all? All three first movies had the same problems and they are thought of as classics. This movie Rules. Why you ask? Because it's a lot of fun. Sure the hour after the Coruscant chase is anywhere from talky to boring, but look at the bright point of this all: Less Jar-Jar and no Jake Lloyd. When Jar-Jar is on screen, he's helping out the bad guy. Then the movie becomes a lot of fun. The end fight scenes have a lot of stuff happening and it's awesome. The best part about this movie is that it avoids having like 3 different battles happening at once and it sticks to one at a time. It goes from having the arena battle, to the attack of the clones, to the fight with Dooku. The previous two movies had too many battles happening once. Going from one battle, to the next then another one then cutting back to them again. Then Yoda comes along and steals the movie and makes just his 5 minutes in the sun worth the price of admission alone. The best part about this movie is that it sets up the next one perfectly. I can't wait to see it, if this movie is any indication, Lucas hasn't lost it; the force is strong with this one. :-)

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
(2002)

No complaints here.
I don't understand the complaints about how the dialog is poorly written and the acting is wooden. These are Star Wars trademarks. Have any of these people watched the first three movies at all? All three first movies had the same problems and they are thought of as classics. This movie Rules. Why you ask? Because it's a lot of fun. Sure the hour after the Coruscant chase is anywhere from talky to boring, but look at the bright point of this all: Less Jar-Jar and no Jake Lloyd. When Jar-Jar is on screen, he's helping out the bad guy. Then the movie becomes a lot of fun. The end fight scenes have a lot of stuff happening and it's awesome. The best part about this movie is that it avoids having like 3 different battles happening at once and it sticks to one at a time. It goes from having the arena battle, to the attack of the clones, to the fight with Dooku. The previous two movies had too many battles happening once. Going from one battle, to the next then another one then cutting back to them again. Then Yoda comes along and steals the movie and makes just his 5 minutes in the sun worth the price of admission alone. The best part about this movie is that it sets up the next one perfectly. I can't wait to see it, if this movie is any indication, Lucas hasn't lost it; the force is strong with this one. :-)

Heist
(2001)

Rule.
I can't believe all the bad reviews of this movie. It rules, it's a lot of fun and I loved it. I love the way they plan out everything exactly how it's going to happen. It seems like most movies the characters go in and do stuff and make it up as they go along. The dialog is cheesy, but it works and it seems like it's stuff that these people would say. I love how they get the gold, then get it again. Explain to me how movies like this cool get a 6.7 rating while predictible garbage like The Sixth Sense is #54 on the top 250? Heist is probably my number 2 film of 2001, right behind LOTR. Great movie.

Time Chasers
(1994)

Starring Lisa Kudrow and Michael Keaton.
Each get a blink of an eye stand in; all though it says that the limo driver was someone else. I believe Keaton didn't use his real name; but it was him. Well to sum up this movie; it stunk. It was bad. I didn't like it.

Well, since this movie was bad; I'd say they need a sequel. Isn't that the thing now a days. If they make a bad movie; a sequel is a must. Time Chasers V2.0 and this time they use an airplane with a Gateway 2000 and 15 CD-Roms. This time they must defeat the evil corporation and J.K. Robertson again with our "heros" Nick and Lisa Miller. They end up in the 50's shooting at each other with hot-rods and they beat the crap outta each other at a 70's Disco and finally the grand finally where they go back in time and help the south win the Civil War.

Never, mind, the first one was horrible enough.

Street Fighter
(1994)

I'm confused.
This movie is called Street Fighter, right? I'm watching it right now and they're not doing a lot of fighting on the street, as far as I can see, at least. Most of the fighting takes place in some underground facility. I guess some mad-man general is large and in charge, he's not going to take "it" anymore and took hostages. How many "mad generals" wear red uniforms; the real baddies wear dark green or black, so you can tell right away this guy is nothing. Sorry I'm not pay much attention as you can see from me reviewing the film and watching it at the same time. I love how they cut from one fight to the other back and forth. I guess they made this movie with ADD crowd in mind.

Jean Claude Van Damme is still a horrible actor and he's doing really bad in this movie. Raul Julia is equally horrible; but we should expect more out of this man, but for someone who was in "Overdrawn At the Memory Bank" we shouldn't be completely surprised by it. The rest of the no-name cast does what we should expect from no-names: nothing.

This and Mortal Kombat: Anhiliation are tied for the two worse computer games turned movie ever. The ending is just the icing on the cake, you can tell from that one scene the guys who made this movie were idiots.

The Real World
(1992)

I finally watched an episode...
In the real world there are no unattractive people; poor people; bad furniture; small apartments or overweight people. In the episode I watched they had a huge apartment and all the people looked attractive and physically fit. Their furniture looked brand new, colorful and they all have nice new clean clothing. I kept wondering where the real world was during all of this. I never see them do laundry, wash dishes, cook, watch TV, go to work or anything else that happens in the real world. It seemed like they spent the entire time talking about how emotional everyone else was and how they like/disliked them for whatever reason...

I just watched an episode where they went to a human rights thing and they spent some time talking about how they're spreading awarness and how cool it is. I guess they assume that the average person watching this show isn't bright enough to figure out that other people have rights, so they have to tell them. I wouldn't go to it based on the fact that these guys from "The Real World" are going to it; now that I think of it; I wouldn't go even if they weren't there.

I guess I just think this show is kinda stupid, so to get back at it; I'm never going to watch it again. Yeah. I rule.

Yûsei ôji
(1959)

Rule.
How can they make the jump to light speed while burning so much fuel? Chickens are creul people. This must be the really slow chase scene with only one car. Back to the fart mobile. Space Monsters shouldn't wear belts.

The suspense, the action, the realistic effects, the acting, the great set designs; none of this stuff is in this movie. You sit there through the whole movie thinking: I bet Crancor will lose in the end. Good thing the evil aliens didn't attack North America; or else there would have been no Prince of Space...

Pearl Harbor
(2001)

There's a good movie in here.
I can imagine what happened when it all got to the editing room. Instead of actually editing the film in to a fast paced war film; they decided to leave the other stuff in. I sat there fast-forwarding through the first hour or so until the Japan started to attack. That's when the movie became interesting. My view on it is that they tried to do too much. The Soap-Opera love story failed big-time and the beginning with 1923. If they would have cut out say half the movie then it would be much better. They should have just focused on the attack and the two main male characters. It should have ended with Roosevelt asking congress to declare war on the Axis.

Also with a $135 million dollar budget; couldn't they hire someone to clean up the script. I mean the dialogue was just plain awful. Lots of funny lines that weren't supposed to be funny.

Suppose they had an editor with some guts and made the film 100 minutes at the most. It wouldn't have been considered the flop that it was. It would be short, yes, but to the point. I can't understand anyone who didn't like the attack scenes. The attack stopped my MST3K-like remarks and actually had me interested in the film for a while. And that's where the movie is good. My suggestion is to get the DVD and go straight to the attack on Pearl Harbor; when the attack is done turn it off; the rest isn't worth watching.

Startup.com
(2001)

Very Funny.
MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS: Ok, it probably wasn't meant to be funny; but it is. I mean in the first five minutes of the film the founders are high-fiving and hugging. Why? Not because they have the first version released on the internet and ready to go; but because they registered a domain name. Don't get me wrong; they had a rather good idea. The execution is just so clumsy; it's funny. I have my domain name too; you don't see me getting all emotional about it.

For the first hour or so; they're trying to get money from people instead of trying to make the company go and work. We find out half way through that they haven't even released the site to the public yet. You'd think that they wouldn't need $50 million to start a small internet company. I mean starting an internet company should only require about 20 people at most instead they have 250 people working there. And the worse part is that it takes an entire weekend to get the site working; with about 60 people working on it. None of the people there seem to know what they're doing. Do any of the people know about PHP, HTML or JAVA?

You see the 90's at work you have investors throwing money at them; you see them hanging out with Clinton. You see them talk about getting rich and how "stupid" the third founder is for taking $800,000 and leaving. You see them fail the last few months Clinton is in office. What's worse is when you find out what they're up to now at the end.

Frasier
(1993)

Lots of Fun.
Frasier is awesome. One of the greatest TV characters ever. It's amazing how you can probably watch a re-run from his first season on Cheers and watch new episodes from Frasier notice how little he's changed in almost 20 years. Until I started to watch Cheers for a while, I had no idea he was on Cheers because Frasier was so well done that they didn't need to keep talking about Cheers all the time.

The rest of the cast is equally good. Unlike Diane and Rebecca; it seems like the women in this show; Daphne and Roz are much more 3 dimensional and interesting. Martin always has the goods and Niles is as great as Frasier.

Frasier does what I have never seen a "spinoff" do before; stand on it's own from the show it came from.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
(1999)

Boy, this movie stinks.
That was my reaction as I left the theater that Saturday night. My view of the first one is that it was good, not as great as everybody said it was, but an enjoyable flick. So when I heard a second Austin Powers was coming, I thought that it would be as good as the first.

I remember it well, sitting in that theater watching it and not hearing a single laugh except from someone who sounded like a five year old. The only part of the movie that got more than his laughs was the Springer bit. The rest of us just stared at it in disbelief. Bad jokes littered the screen and after the Austin has a drink scene, you know what I mean, I was ready to get up and leave. The only reason I stayed was because I thought that it couldn't get any worse, true, but it didn't get any better either.

This was just one of those times where I understood the jokes and knew the jokes were supposed to be funny, but I'm just not laughing. Now a third movie is scheduled to come out soon, to that I say I don't care how good people say it is, I'll wait till the video comes out. However, I can't see how it can get worse that Austin Powers 2.

Hackers
(1995)

So bad, it's funny.
Might contain spoilers, I'm not sure.

I have never seen this movie until last night. My roommates both love how bad this movie is. However, it fits in to the so bad it's good category. It deserved a date with Mike and the Bots; to bad it wouldn't be possible now. We sat there most of the time MST3Kin' it. However the funniest part about this movie is that Roger Ebert gave it 3 outta 4 stars. What was Roger smoking when he was watching this movie? This movie is bad, it's unrealistic, dull, pointless and stupid. They have the hacker culture completely wrong. Did you notice none of the kids drank any Dew? None of them watched Star Trek, Babylon 5 or any other Sci-Fi. Also, they got caught, cool hackers wouldn't get caught. Also at the end when they catch the bad guy, why did they wait until they were in mid-air to arrest him? They could have stopped him on the ground and saved a flight back to were they came from. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb movie. Stupid.

WWE Monday Night RAW
(1993)

More Stupid Wrestling.
This is just a bunch of stupid, sweaty, fat guys on steroids, yelling at each other and beating the crap outta each other. That's not the surprising part, though. What surprises me is that people consider it entertainment. I suppose the large number of rednecks and stupid teenagers keep the ratings up. None of my friends watch this garbage and for a good reason. Personally I'd rather watch C-SPAN with the volume turned off than this. Don't get me wrong, I like Sumo Wrestling and High school wrestling, but not this stuff.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights
(1993)

Good Stuff.
Might contain spoilers.

This is just a good movie. Lots of good silly stuff to laugh at. However, do not watch the TV version, they cut to much out. Dom Deluise is rather awesome as the mafia Don who is hired to kill Robin. All I can say about his ten minutes: it's a long drive from Jersey. Also you gotta love them checking the script to make sure Robin gets another shot. Also: 12th Century Fox.

Any bad stuff? The rappers at the beginning and the end seem rather out dated. The songs were rather lame. One time while watching this movie, I could think out a few more times when they could have thrown in another joke or 2.

On the whole, however, an enjoyable movie experience. A must watch for comedy fans.

Manos: The Hands of Fate
(1966)

You know, this movie has a few flaws...
Ok wait a minute, my mistake; this movie is a flaw. The entire thing is a 70 minute long mistake made to...uh.... make Hal Warren famous. Since he died in 1986, he was unable to see that it now lives in infamy as a classic MST3K episode (the only way to see it). But even there I will admit having a hard time watching all of it. It felt like hours passed while watching it (kinda like at work). Most people have talked about the Torgo theme song, which I didn't catch because I was either laughing to much or not caring enough to notice it. Of course I feel bad for the three people who committed suicide over this piece of you-know-what. I heard that Hal Warren was talking to a friend when he decided to make it and felt if Hollywood could do it, so could he. Let me the one to say here that just because you can make a movie, doesn't mean you should. It could have been an interesting film and better if they had the right equipment, actors, a good director, someone to polish the screenplay, they could have made an average film. But instead we're stuck with an un-watch able piece of junk.

I guess the lesson here is leaving the movie making to the professionals. I suppose the following paragraph could be considered spoiler material, but the movie will spoil the idea of watch it with out me doing it for you.

The story is about some jerk, his wife and his kid on vacation when they show up at the Master's with Torgo out front. The dad wants to stay there, the wife and kid protest. He gets his way, they stay and then he wants to go, but the car won't start. Eventually a bunch of stuff happens, Torgo dies and "Manos" goes after the family. In the end the family is taken captive, with the dad as the new Torgo (watching the house while the Master is away) and the wife and child as his new wives.

So we leave "Manos" The Hands of Fate, knowing that such movies as "The Mod Squad" and "Battlefield Earth" are just pretender bad movies. Manos is the worst film ever, nothing this bad had been made before nor do I see a movie this bad showing up any time soon.

The Birds
(1963)

Lame.
Like most other horror flicks, this movie was lame. You sit around for quite a while at the beginning wondering when things are gonna pick up, or if they're gonna pick up. Then when it does pick-up it's kinda interesting but the bad acting and bad dialog just make it look pretty stupid. I was almost laughing at this movie. There was no tension at all. Well, I guess since Alfred Hitchcock made it, it gets a high rating on the IMDB for some reason.

Monsters, Inc.
(2001)

Great.
As the single 20-something, I'm not supposed to see movies like this. I should have seen "The One" or "K-Pax" or something like that. Of course this is the only movie with the "Attack of the Clones" trailer (which by the way was worth the $4.50 admission), so I made the 1/2 hour drive, just to be late and wait an hour for the next showing.

So what do I think of it? It rules. Kids will like the monsters and Boo. The Adults will like the witty dialog and sight gags. And everyone will love what happens to Randal at the end. Much like The Simpsons, Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. takes the advantages of animation and creates a great story with great characters. Hopefully Pixar continues to create such wonderful movies.

Also "For the Birds" is a great add on. I really enjoyed that.

Independence Day
(1996)

Blow Stuff Up!
(This review contains spoilers) Welcome to your movie:

Today we will start by staring in to space at big alien ships. Wow their big. Next: A bunch of cities blow up, including New York, D.C. and Los Angeles. Then we show up at Area 51. And guess who's there? Mr. Data, but he just didn't have enough lines or screen time. After a little nap and a nuke later, a drunk guy cracks in to the alien spaceship using a laptop, I'm sure some alien species out there is miffed that their OS crashes after a simple lap-top virus shows up. Where is there fire wall? Where is there Norton Anti-virus? Plus why show up now? I'm sure one of their invasion planners must have been high when he scheduled Earth to be invaded when we can "strike back". I'm sure at least one of the aline dudes said "You know, we should have come here 100 years ago and not get such a big fight from these people." Maybe when they find out we have Tom Green, they'll turn around and go home....

Let me conclude that this movie was so bad, that I'm surprised that Tony Danza wasn't in it.

Family Matters
(1989)

Do the Urkel.
Then turn off the TV, put down the remote, and band your head against the wall.

What was funny and popular for a few days in 1990 let the series continue for 8 years after that. The whole show was a rather repetitive idea in the first place. They'd done it before and would do it again. I guess, It should have been cancelled in 1993 or 1994, but hey there was money to be made. What's wrong with streching out ideas, even really bad ones, until they die from lack of viewers says stupid TV exec.

It's to bad that bad shows like this and Full House overshadow good shows from the 80's like Cheers and The Cosby Show.

So the answer to the question of "Did I do that?" Yes and it stinks.

Cheers
(1982)

Enjoy.
Every night at 10:00, 9:00 Central, Cheers is on Nick at Nite. My suggestion, is to grab a beer, some pizza and a chair and enjoy Cheers. Of all the shows in the 80's, this one is the best. I never watched it during it's original run, mostly because I was too young to get the jokes. This show has great characters and great jokes. The best character is Norm. Much like the Simpsons, there are no bad characters. Everyone involved with this series should be proud of what they did here, they have created a time-less classic. Overall, number 4 show of all time behind: The Simpsons, The Jeffersons and Fawlty Towers.

Election
(1999)

Good one.
Ha, very funny. No recount required, this movie wins.

This is just one great joke after another. The true travesty was that it should have won Best Picture and Best Actress for Reese Witherspoon, however was not even nominated for either of those categorys.

POSSIBLE SPOILER: Of course I loved the scene when Tammy went up in front of the Student body and asked who cares about this stupid election. The ultimate truth about how I felt about high school elections. Then afterwards, the principal saying he wants her out of the election to Mr. M and an assitant principal. The sad thing is that this is the way it would have happened at my high school and hundreds of other ones in this country.

The best part of this film is that it doesn't really take it self too seriously. Really dead-pan sort of movie. Doesn't seem to care what happens to the characters, just shows what happens to them. To quote Homer: "It's just a bunch of stuff that happens". An all around great, 4-star, perfect movie, check it out.

Rookie of the Year
(1993)

Lotsa strikes.
Pretty much a big strike out all around. If I want a good baseball movie, I'll flip on Bull Durham, which has more laugh out loud funny lines than this piece of junk. Daniel Stern is out of his league with this film, which shows why he hasn't directed a film since this one.

I'm sure kids will enjoy it. It's inoffensive, it's cute and it's easy to get.

I can say that you should probably avoid this film, if possible. Daniel Stern shows that films should be made by filmmakers, not him.

Y2K
(1999)

A Laugh from the Past.
In 1999, there was a bit of wonder what will happen when Y2K strikes. A lot of people were afraid that the world would end. Another lot of people thought that the computers would go heywire and we wouldn't be able to use anything made before 1976. One person suggested that 1-1-2000 will be used by International Corporations to take over the world by confusing people with computer problems. I even heard one freak say that a planet in our Solar System will crash in to ours and that the upper class will be living on Mars by 1-1-2000. Sadly one group decided to make this movie.

Basically this movie sucks and nearly everyone knew it the day it was aired. We laughed at how stupid it was and moved on. Now Y2K is like Pepsi Clear, it came in to our lives, waisted a few minutes of our time and left us.

I don't know if this movie is out there still. Probably a few people recorded it and still have it. I'm sure it's collecting dust in some Hollywood storage shed somewhere. But the general feeling is that this movie's lost forever, I hope.

Office Space
(1999)

Great Flick.
I recently spoke to a friend about what's happening at my place of employment. He then said it sounded like if he wanted to see what work was like for me, he should just watch Office Space. Sad to say, I said yes. I look forward to vacation next week.

This movie takes the worse of any office, the politics, memo's, rules, bosses and so on and puts them all in one film. The best part is that it avoids gross-out humor and lets the words and actions of the characters be the funny stuff. The hard core rap music is fantastic. It goes perfectly with this movie.

And of course the best part is the lame attempt to steal from the company. At one point they look up money laundering in the dictionary. And of course Peter's dream sequences are awesome.

I would highly recommend this movie, especially if you work in an office like this.

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