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Three to Tango (1999)
Shallow old jokes, predictable
They think he's gay, he falls for the girl, she goes on to treat him as a girlfriend followed by his small little dealt-with dilemma: love or career. Some shallow humorous situations, a few stupid stale jokes, quite predictable. I found most interesting when girlfriends share their man-woman cliches with the supposed gay.
The best is the opening and closing Jazz music and naturally Nave Campbell -- though not worth watching the film. I saw it at a friend who had the DVD -- without first reading any of the rightly negative comments here. What a mistake.
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Not worth watching
I wished I had read comments here before watching it. I vaguely recalled critics' praise and good ratings.
Shot with a shaking hand-held camera, often in irritating narrow focus, the movie gets on your nerves in its first half with the unceasing chatter or crying of the female character (I don't think it was a problem only in the dubbed German version) and the second part gets creepy playing with the natural fear being lost in the woods especially at nights.
Der Leihmann (1995)
Confirming worst cliches for German humor
Advertised as an erotic comedy (it's actually neither), the film shows the story of a couple who can't conceive, their efforts to 'borrow' a man to perform this and their oddball friends. Slow paced, with little to no humor, much less credibility and with an artificial ending it's not worth wasting the time watching it.
Pi (1998)
uncompleted storyline, confused
I would have expected much more from an independent film... Good music and camera work can't make up for undeveloped story in this angst-film about a still obscure remaining obsession with numbers and patterns. Don't expect any science fiction or anything more about the numbers because simply there isn't any.
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Excellent film on 1st Amendment and 1st sentence of Declaration of Independence
Most likely the first film I saw on a movie theater in US, it struck me deeply as an excellent film showing some basics of American spirit. Namely: the First Amendment of the Constitution (Freedom of Speech etc) and the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
A must see film. Be careful if you see it with your parents though: You need to later explain it to them...
Everybody, from actors to director and screenwriter is at his/her best!