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The first Mighty Ducks was great. Why make the next two? There are too many things in this one to comment on, but I'd like to go through a couple. First of all, weren't they the Junior National Team in the second one? And didn't they win the Junior Olympics? They weren't even one of those regional JO teams people play on, they were supposedly the entire U.S. So how come only one of them plays varsity? It's like, "you may have been in the olympics, but this is high school hockey, and we're varsity, we're better than olympics". If the varsity guys are so good, why weren't they olympics? Secondly, are they really freshmen? If I remember correctly, at the end one of them is kissing an upperclassman cheerleader. And there's no one some of them are freshmen. Third, high schools don't recruit entire teams, and close tryouts to no other freshmen than those on that team. It's against the rules. The only people that tried out were the Ducks and "varsity". Another thing, where's the Junior Varsity team? Schools don't do just Freshman and Varsity. Fourth, so many people are missing from the first movie. Danny Tamberelli's character and his sister were only in one movie. The brothers are gone, Jesse in the first two and Terry only in the first. The chunky kid and his dark-haired friend who always wore a hat were only in the first. You know what, I'm wasting my time talking about this movie, because it sucks. 1/10, only because I can't give a 0.

Tommy the album is one of the greatest albums in rock and roll history. It propelled the Who into the forefront of music in the late sixties and early seventies. It didn't make sense to anybody really. Even John Entwistle said, "I didn't understand what it was about until I saw Ken Russell's version, and he was wrong." Wrong as it was, Tommy the movie was still very good. I could have done without Bernie's Holliday Camp, and Champagne wasn't all that great either. The order was changed, but it did make it run more smoothly. Eric Clapton's song was pleasing to the ears, but not to my eyes. Tina Turner was terrific. I enjoyed Elton John's Pinball Wizard, maybe even more than the album version. Paul Nicholas was spectacular as Cousin Kevin, and Keith Moon was despicable (to both sound and sight). I enjoyed the Christmas scene as well. Sally Simpson was also another well done piece. The beginning didn't work for me, because they cut out the entire Overture, that in my opinion is one of the greatest instrumental rock and roll pieces of all time. Amazing Journey is a good song, but I liked the album version much better. So I just get the DVD, watch selected scenes, and I'm watching one great movie. The great portrayal of some songs made up for some additions and changes, so 8/10.

If you look at this movie purely as religious, you will either give it a 1 or a 10, which, you can't do. The movie sets out to send a message, and that's exactly what it does. Does a movie have to be complicated? Do we have to be surprised? In fact, I found it quite refreshing when I weigh it against what I learned being brought up Catholic. Instead of, "be good or burn, God only likes perfect people, be afraid, be very afraid", we are told, "God made you, so he loves you, end of story", which, if I was forced to choose between the two beliefs, I'd much sooner pick the latter than the former. This movie is so simple, that it's a breath of fresh air, as opposed to all the movies that try so hard to confuse the audience that they make no sense at all, so people call them genius to cover up the fact that they don't understand it. So of course, a movie that everyone can understand will immediately be trashed by the "intellectual community", or those that want to seem like the intellectual community. And people will also point out, "hey, Jesus can't come back, cuz that means the world's gotta end, so, haha, I got ya there, I bet you never thought of that!" Well, I'm positive the author of the books thought of that, since he was a Catholic priest and all, but that's beside the point. It wasn't really a second coming, because he never announces his presence really. It's more like he's visiting relatives or old friends. So, this movie was very well done, despite what some say, and I'm not too proud to say that the message was not only easy to understand, but it also made some actual sense.

Mel Gibson has had a fairly distinguished career in war films, Gallipoli, Braveheart, The Patriot, and recently, We Were Soldiers. This film is right on so many levels. I felt the men's emotions, which are often left out in the past Vietnam "classics". These soldiers were portrayed as heroic, rather than stoned, cruel, and violent, as they are portrayed in many other movies in the past. These men truly have something on their minds rather than who should be "fragged" next. In my opinion, this may be Mel Gibson's best movie ever, and one of the best Vietnam movies of all time. It was much better than Platoon, a movie whose characters I could have cared less about. We Were Soldiers was not only one of the best Vietnam movies ever made, it is easily one of the top ten war movies since 1990.

I hated everything about this movie. The opening scene was simply, i'll say it, RETARDED. Roger Moore always LOOKED too old to be Bond anyways in my opinion, regardless of the ages of any other Bonds. This movie is simply mediocre, the girl was underused, no characters were truly developed or explained. The girl shows up, she's his buddy, they beat the bad guy, they screw around, end of story. The blond skater seemed way too easy, I find it hard to believe that a man that looks like Moore would be able to seduce a woman, just by his sight. The villains were dumb. I didn't get into one bit of this movie. I found myself laughing at serious moments, and crying at "jokes". It was simply a joke.

Sergio Leone shows again that he is at least as good as John Ford at making westerns. This movie has a total of three real fight scenes, but the film is shot so splendidly that there is tension the entire time. The fight scenes aren't even that long, but the anticipation of the fight is where the real feelings come from. Also one of the best acted movie I have ever seen. Bronson, Ford, and Robards do some of the best work of their respective careers, Robards's undoubtedly best role of all time. Ford may have done better work in other places, but if so, then not by much, and Bronson was simply magnificent.

I thought this was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, if only because of its absurdity. Stanley Kubrick showed, as in 2001, that he can take a great story, and basically ruin it. Critics applaud everything he does, only, in my opinion, out of respect for such magnificent efforts as Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket. He added so much pointless stuff to this story, that I had to stop taking it seriously. I'd heard such great things about this movie, and I have applied my Taxi Driver theorem, named after Scorcese's Taxi Driver. If a great director does a movie, and it's extremely odd, and has a lot of stupid, quirky, just plain weird things in it, the critics will applaud it's genius, out of a fear of being called stupid. The critics were probably afraid to admit that they just plain don't understand the movie, so they praised it in a way calling anyone who doesn't understand it stupid. Unfortunately, no one will admit when a great director makes a mistake, so this has gone down as one of the greatest horrors of all time. I, personally, couldn't stop laughing the entire time.

This movie had one of the smartest scripts in recent history, but it fell short of greatness, in my opinion, by its lack of any real acting skill the entire movie. Brian O'Halloran did a despicable job as Dante, and succeeded only in getting on my nerves. The supporting cast also lacked any real substance. I don't know why Kevin Smith allowed Mr. O'Halloran in the rest of his movies, unless it was to make fun of him in both Mallrats and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Jason Mewes and Mr. Smith were wonderful as usual, but if you only want to see them you would do better to rent one of the others in the series. It was an okay start to a wonderful series of movies, I only wish the acting was a little better.

This movie worked on so many levels. The actors were great in their respective roles, the script was clever, and, most importantly, it made me laugh. This movie's nowhere to be seen on any list of the top comedy's of all time, but everyone I know that saw it thought that it was unbelievably funny. On a pure comedic level, this is easily one of the all-time greats.

I saw this movie in theaters, and I thought it was very poorly done. The entire movie was one big cliche after another, and I knew how it was gonna end from the first second the movie started. I know people who thought the ending was a surprise, but I don't see how they would think so. There were parts that were supposed to make you jump, but they were so anticipated, it seemed pretty pointless. This movie just never did it for me.