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Intruder
(1989)

6.1 for THIS Mess?
I'm willing to bet money that this movie currently has a 6.1 rating because Sam Rami and Bruce Campbell are in it. Briefly.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of both and I think Same Rami is a great director. But this movie isn't an especially strong example of the slasher genre.

It's slow, filled with false starts and stops, the acting is rather poor, the music soundtrack is bad. And of course, worst o all, it's clearly a super low budget flick.

Low budget flicks can be wonderful. Think Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But you need a truly competent director and story. This movie doesn't check off those bixes.

Sugar
(2024)

A Good Show is Ruined at Episode Six
This was a good show for nearly six of the eight episodes. It's an interesting take on a private detective with a comprehensive knowledge of languages and Hollywood movies looking for the granddaughter of a Hollywood mogul who has disappeared without a trace.

The episodes are pretty good -- not superb, but pretty good -- until the end of episode six when the show takes a totally bizarre and oddball turn.

The next two episodes are literally idiotic and ruin the entire series. I'm not going to tell you the "twist." See it for yourself and be prepared for a major letdown.

It's really unfortunate. What could of been a good neo-film noir turned into a joke.

I would have given this series a 7.5 if it wasn't ruined by the plot twist.

Hell Up in Harlem
(1973)

Downright Horrible
A Samuel Z. Arkoff exploitation special from the 1970's feature the worst acting you will ever see on the silver screen.

You cannot imagine how totally bad this movie is. But it doesn't stop with the acting. The sound effects are laughable. The guns are absurdly loud and the slap and fights sound like this is out of a Three Stooges short.

The storyline is ridiculous. A lot of the dialog seems like it's dubbed. When guns are fied sparks fly out like it's the fourth of July.

I was completely mortified at how bad this movie was. And frankly, a lot of it looked like it was filmed without proper permits on the streets of NYC.

The Acolyte
(2024)

Absolute Garbage
Wow who thought a Star Wars series could sink so low? Take a solid movie that has spanned the test of time and water it down until you can't recognize it anymore at all.

That's what you get. It's cheaply made. And poorly written. Disney should be embarrassed that junk like this is being ground out of their studios like chopped meat. None of it makes sense.

The acting is the poorest too.

Trust me, you will hate this series. I made it to episode three and I won't be watching another. Episode three had to hands down be the most boring piece of garbage ever laid down in television history.

It's sad what Disney did to Walt and Lucas's dreams.

No Hard Feelings
(2023)

D-Level Comedy
Thoroughly dumb and horrible alleged "comedy." Jennifer Lawrence has finally found her place in life. At the bottom of the dregs of gratuitous unfunny "C" level movie making.

She's got a great body but can't act. These types of films will be her money making milieu from here on out.

Here's an example of how low in comedy this movie has gone:

"Why do you want a dog?" "Because I can't have dogs on my own."

Funny? Not in the slightest.

Or how about: "You can finish alone, right? Bet you do it all the time."

It's horrendous. Lawrence has no sense of comedy or comedy timing. She's horrible. And so's this movie.

Big shock -- The male parent is unrecognizable. I kept saying who is that guy, he looks familiar. Mathew Broderick!

Civil War
(2024)

I was Bored Out of My Mind
How did this movie get such great reviews? It actually sucks. It will bore the life out of you.

Yes, it looks good and yes the acting is good.

But the writing and story line is idiotic. California and Texas have somehow banded together to leave the union. Does THAT make sense? Of course not.

And all the fighting takes place in NYC and other points East. Huh? Disconnect central for those of use who aren't stoned.

Then there's the photo journalists. What newspapers or internet is still working? Plus, this crew is using cameras with FILM!!!! Who does that since the 90's? And why don't they run out of film since each cartridge only holds 36 photos.

And there is zero character development. This crew exactly is the same when it ends as it started.

It's a completely moronic movie that I hated.

The Gentlemen
(2024)

Seven Great Episodes.....
The is really a well done series. Interesting story-line that stays interesting episode after episode.

The characters are really compelling and keep your interest. Great directions. Great script writing. Every one of seven episodes is like a full length motion picture in it's quality and entertainment value.

I couldn't wait to view each episode . Apparently this is based off some movie or is the movie based of this? Doesn't matter, Guy Ritchie did A super great job creating a spectacularly great mini-series.

Now the down side -- the last episode is a bit of a dud which is why I said there were seven great episodes, not eight. Yes, it ties everything together, but is was a bit disappointing to me.

Kokomo City
(2023)

What a Bore
The movie purports to profile some trans sex workers and their trials and tribulations. What it succeeds to do is put the watcher to sleep.

The told stories are clearly manufactured in that they make no sense whatsoever. One of the girls gives her name (first and last) and then says she doesn't want to give her middle name! Ooooo! That's a BIG secret. NOT.

It's ridiculous and you have to sit through this poor excuse for a documentary for an hour and twelve minutes.

The third girl says she worked at a "very famous" restaurant before she got into sex work. I never heard of the place.

Each conversation -- which is rendered annoying by the director finding it necessary to re-enact scenes with really bad actors.

It doesn't take long to figure out the problems these girls have are in their heads and the chips are totally on their own shoulders.

KillHer
(2022)

Bringing Boredom to Your Home Screen
Wow, this was one horrible movie.

The story-line is as old as Ling Tut. Secluded camp, a bunch of young kids, yada yada yada....

Phony jump scares up the yazoo.

A ridiculously pathetic, derivative script that will bore you to shreds and grade Z direction.

The acting is juvie level. Like 10th grade.

But the biggest problem is you've seen this all before. Like a zillion times. There is nothing new, nothing to wrap your head around and nothing original.

The non-hot girls wear padded bras and even tho they take them off, you see nothing. More disappointment. Although I suspect we'd be disappointed either way.

Kikuropusu
(1987)

54 Minutes?
Can't imagine this playing alone in a movie theatre with a running time of 54 minutes! It's an interesting movie with an interesting premise. Wondering f it was paired with something.

Interesting to see how styles have changed in Japan in the past 40 years. Not so much the men, but the women definitely.

The movie is called "Cyclops," but the title character isn't really a cyclops, in the sense of having one eye in the middle of his head. You can see he has two separate eyebrows.

Yes, he tales off the sunglasses but I have no idea what I saw except bad special effects. I get the feeling people only watch this movie for the ending in the elevator, but it's a bad payoff, even with the short running length.

The Fall Guy
(2024)

Downright Horrible
OMG! This film gets a 7.1 rating here? REALLY? It's quite simply horrible.

First of all there is no real plot. And the plot that kicks in is the thinnest you'll ever see adn takes 40 minutes to get to!!!! The rest of the movie is Gossling pretending to be a stuntman for the star of the movie, while his real stunt man does all the stunts.

I cannot over-emphasize how totally bored I was. They couldnt even get the accents right. The movie is done on Australia but everyone has British accents.

I am totally confounded by the high rating unless the watchers hadnt seen the unicorn yet. No other explanation.

Bill Maher: The Decider
(2007)

Stay Out of Standup, You're not Funny
Maher is perhaps the worst stand up I have ever seen. Never thought he was funny. His Tonight Show appearances are dismal.

Never like Politically Incorrect either. He has 50 writers and can't tell a good joke.

His Club Random podcast, however, is great. I watch that all the time. The format is him getting high -- sometimes so high he doesn't remember what he was talking about -- and pontificating on everything under the sun with his cube-size knowledge base.

This special was just excruciatingly boring. Cheap political jokes anyone can write. For someone who thinks he's so brilliant, you have to wonder why he goes consistently with the cheap shots instead of actually being insightful like George Carlon was.

Rebel Moon - Chapter Two: Curse of Forgiveness
(2024)

Significantly Worse than Part One, If You Can Imagine It
This movie is pretty much an unwatchable bore-fest.

Slower than dripping molasses. With every "action" scene filmed in even more boring slow motion.

Oh, yeah the actors are good and the movie has a "look" to it, but it's also derivative and steals from every sci fi film ever made. Especially Star Wars, which this movie was supposed to be a part of. Or at least Snyder, who seems to ruin everything he touches thought it would.

It was rejected. Then it was supposed to be a theatrical movie. Nope. Then Netflix got it. There's reason for this -- it sucks.

Boring scenes that have nothing to do with forwarding the plot go on and on just to pad the movie's length. We have to sit through maybe a half hour of people getting carpets as gifts, with each having a story, then ridiculous meaningless dancing and then an idiotic song and as if that's not enough there's an additional segment tacked on where each person has to verbalize some jerky back story that again does nothing for the movie or story-line except to put you to sleep.

It's horrible and Zack Snyder needs to be drummed out of Hollywood. He has no talent.

Corona Depression
(2020)

It Didn't Happen
Holy Cow Barman, this one one is bbbaaaaddddd.

The title tells you what it's about, so it was obviously made to cash in on the pandemic. Unfortunately it fails on every level.

Frankly I just put it on to see the lead naked like the poster. She's a lot older than the picture. By like 15 years, and with a HUGE caboose, so I lost interest in that pretty quick.

She spends a lot of time acting neurotic. But none of this is an even remotely good representation of what happened during covid.

We all adapted pretty quick. And our telephones didnt stop working.

And then there's that hand gun. Where did she get it? Why did she have it. Who put money up for this disaster? And BTW, the scene on the poster never happened.

Collide
(2022)

Shaky Cam Garbage
Why was this movie ever made? Jim Gaffigan is NOT a serious actor although he is clearly trying for some breakout role.

It didnt work.

Drea was fine even though she looks a little tipsy throughout.

But the movie is a nothing. It's directed with one of those shaky cams that I really dislike. Think Office on sisterhoods. It's a thoroughly annoying way of making a movie. Bet it cold cause a bout with epilepsy or make some people trow up.

Perhaps the movie should come with a trigger warning. "Don;t watch if you throw up easily." Or something like that.

Anyway, it's garbage. Lightweight Garbage..

Phantasm IV: Oblivion
(1998)

Worst Phastasm Ever
How this movie is currently getting even a 5.5 rating defies logic. The movie is downright HORRIBLE.

The makeup and special effects are sup-par. There really is no story. And what IS there is impossible to follow because the film is both poorly written AND poorly directed.

The creatures are laughable and the acting is literally non-existent.

I was bored out of my mind trying to follow this convoluted non-story.

There are far better movies out there to watch so don't bother to waste your time on this garbage. It's dismal at best and one has to wonder why it was ever made. I cannot imagine it ever making any money.

Girls on Film
(2023)

Unwatchable
Where do I begin? With the unattractive girl who gets evicted and hooks up with the wrong person? Or the Angela Jolie look-a-like who is the wrong person?

Despite their different looks, their roles are interchangeable because neither one of them can act. Not in the slightest.

But does the ability to act matter when you have no script? Here's an example of this cracker jack writing:

"I used to be a stripper but now so much is online that now all I do is personal appearances.""That's hot."

And then there's the total lack of direction. A monkey could have directed a better movie than this. Really one of the worst movies ever made.

Nattevagten
(1994)

Mediocre at Best
Meh.

This isn't an especially good film. I read that there was an American version, but I haven't seen it. And based on this one, I'm not sure I want to.

It's clearly overrated.

The acting and production values are good but the story-line is just poor.

The director never succeeds in creating any tension whatsoever, which would be important in a horror movie of this sort. It's slow. And it's not a slow build. It's just slow and never really takes off.

Further so much of it never rises to the level of suspension of disbelief. Some of the scenes are just dumb. Like why would they put an important key in with the dead bodies when it would have been just as easy to put it in the security office.

In sum, I was sort of bored through most of it.

Hack-O-Lantern
(1988)

Weird Grind House
Strange grind-house movie from the end of grind-house '80's.

The acting not so good. The musical score is annoying to end all annoying.

The story-line is filled with so many holes I thought I was watching Swiss cheese unfold.

It actually has the look of the movie Halloween with none of the talent. And looks aren't anything.

The directing is crazy slow. I was nodding out a few times because the action is so slow. This is really less than a "B" movie. It's more like a "D" movie.

To be honest, even though I like grind-house pictures, this one is definitely not worth the watch at all. The nudity was teh only good thing about it.

Ripley
(2024)

Freddie is Sting's DAUGHTER
I nearly bailed on this show after the first episode which really sucked. It was too slow for me.

Well in truth, the entire series is slow but the story-line gets better as the episodes unfold.

I still think the show was pumped up with way too much filler and the story could have easily been told in half the episode and it would have been a lot tighter and way more interesting.

Still, it was a decent production.

The weirdest casting was Sting's daughter as Freddie. I don't think it worked well because your focus tends to be on something being wrong with what your seeing instead of what is happening.

Landmine Goes Click
(2015)

Nearly 2 Hours of Boredom
This movie is horrible and not for anyone.

The story is downright moronic. It's basically a rape/revenge movie with no action.

Three quarters into the film and nothing happens.

The basic storyline is just ridiculous and the acting is mediocre at best. OK, yes, the girl is hot but it takes forever to get to the point so by then any revenge doesn't matter. You're too bored to care.

There was an easy solution to the action, but it's not taken and you have to ask why? Instead we are submitted to relatively tame PG torture and stupid revenge.

In fact, the revenge is so dumb your head will want to explode.

WTF!
(2017)

The Dregs of Motion Picture Making
This has got to be the slowest slasher movie I have ever seen. Starts off with the obligatory jump scare, which tells you these filmmakers have nothing creative in their heads.

Then we are witness to the "acting" which let's us know there is not talent in the movie. The directing is just a bore. The movie drones on and on with nothing happening for what seems like forever.

More than half way through the film and still nothing happens. Then finally there is a shower scene that is so antiseptic you'll fall asleep.

There is simply nothing original or interesting in this movie. It's a bore. And a big one at that.

Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures
(1964)

Silly, With Barely any Skin
This is a thoroughly dumb movie with very loud jazzy musical track and third rate acting.

The women are homely babes who have five o'clock shadows in their arm pits!

The segments are all basically the same. Girl goes to casting couch. Girl takes off top. Girl is shot from the neck up. Girls makes out with cigarette smoking letch.

A bit of it is shot silent with that really bad jazz track in the background. There's lots of dancing too, like that's what people did before the sex that you don't get to see.

I've seen a number of Sarno movies and am really not so sure why he has such a following. They are all pretty bad. Stick with Russ Meyer if you want some old style sleaze.

High School
(1968)

What a Bore and does the Director have a Perversion?
Holy cow, Batman! This movie is an utter bore.

First of all, everyone knows they are being filmed so the interactions are unreal and unbelievable. They are all on good behavior.

As an example of how dumb this movie is, the principal (at least I think it's the principal) spends about 15 minutes back and forth with a kid telling him he should accept detention for something he did but the kid says he was protecting himself and it's a matter of principle to NOT accept detention.

This back and forth goes on and on for what seems like forever. Who's the adult in the room?

Also there is something very sick about this movie. For some reason, the filmmaker has an odd perversion filming the women's torsos. First it's the attractive Spanish teacher who he films from the belt level of her skirt. But more alarming is the girls gym session where he films the under aged girls like a voyeur hiding in a locker room.

I was sickened.

Funland
(1987)

Pretty Bad
This horrible movie stars Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley fame.

It's horrible.

First of all it's slow beyond belief. You cannot imagine how slow it is. Further, it's not interesting. It's hardly a horror movie. More of a character piece on a guy who plays a clown and increasingly loses touch with reality.

Only it's so poorly written and directed it just doesn't work. They even threw in the Humphry Bogart impersonator that made the rounds in the 70' and 80's only they didn't bother to dub in a Bogart voice and the guy playing -- while he LOOKS like him for sure -- does a horrible voice impersonation.

Plus the Bogart alter ego thing was already done in Play It Again, Sam.

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