Reviews

how many different movies was this one made from? hehehheh...but that just makes it funnier. this movie is great. and for those delighted by the offerings of other countries, sheer eye and ear candy.(except, i might add, for the generic aussie hairdo of the girlfriend: bleached blond w two inches of black roots and black eyebrows. but come on, here's got to be more ladies in australia with good hair than bad? {anyone who would like to confirm or deny, be my guest})hey who doesn't like chase scenes, botched bank robberies, twitterpated lads, or ghostly guardians complete with grave mold?

stringy haired narrators,grave mold, and dirt any day!!! my favorites!

i had to comment again when i saw that people were comparing this to the pretender. now i have to say you people are crazy. the character is nowhere near the caliber of michael t weiss' jarod. i did notice one uniform thing: those who compared the two shows cannot spell. how can you trust the opinion of someone who thinks jarod has two r's in it? it purely boggles the mind. but you don't have to be qualified to write a review-- more's the pity.

final words: all you who think this is the "new pretender" go watch every single pretender episode and all the movies like i have and then come back and talk to me.

...i mean come on!! joaquin phoenix!!! from any other actor the character would have been truly evil, but from joaquin we get true evil and still we love him. even a name that i can't help but think "commode" when i hear (now did they choose the name for that reason, the deviants?) the character is still brilliant. he's manipulative and wicked and lost little puppy and just so(bite me!please!)cute. he's the real doomed hero.

final words: joaquin makes this film. without commodus there is no point.

don't watch this. go read the book. tv cannot do this story justice, what with rating restrictions and all. the best parts of books like I.T.M. lie in being privy to the characters thoughts (and their sex lives as well) which do not translate to screen, and especially not in '87! so give this a pass, and let it rot in peace.

final words: waste of time.

well. interesting i must say. tries to capture the same style that made "now and again" so good but this is not so good. and what is with the faux noir narrative? the premise is nice: a man with knowledge of all the facts in the world can't remember anything about himself. but after seeing the pilot i can honestly say it does nothing for me. absolutely no emotional investment in the character. that is not to say other people won't like it or that it's a total waste. i am still going to watch it in hopes that it gets better. but i won't be crying if it gets canceled.

final words: decent enough in its way but not worth writing home about.

A: to keep from stealing any more of billy bob's scenes.

in my opinion, heath is the only cast member who remotely deserved any kind of acclaim for that movie. and in my private alternate universe (those of us with imaginations can do this) sonny shoots hank and gets the girl himself.

final words: you will like this movie if boys don't cry and buffalo 66 are yr type of movie.

i decided to tape this movie without watching it and save it for a rainy day, and did it ever pay off! this is a great movie. now i admire antonia susan's writing, but trying to slog through morpho eugenia (book from which this movie was made) was like a peculiar form of torture-- insect description til i thought i would vomit. never thought i would say this, but the movie is so much better! it has all you could want:great acting{no matter what some people say about patsy kensit, if they hadn't wanted some one with her particular talent she would not have been cast. so there.i bite my thumb at thee.} great costumes, setting, and surprise twist ending--! see this movie.

final words:watch it for the sheer guilty pleasure

i was forced to take 5 young cousins to see this at emerald isle over thanksgiving weekend 2001. while it was pretty, it was nothing i hadn't seen before. (i watch quite a lot of fantasy and sci films) i was amazed at how many people thought this was some groundbreaking, startlingly wonderful work. especially how many people told me i should read the book, which i happened to find in a bookcase of the beach house where our extended family was staying. suffice it to say, the whole thing sounded cribbed from roald dahl. this author obviously hardly had an original idea in her life. the entire story is like a cobbled together mishmash of bits of others ideas.

final words: LET'S MAKE MOVIES OF DESERVING BOOKS INSTEAD OF SH**!! and please can somebody make a childrens film where the scary parts are actually scary? don't dumb it down. children are people too.

is it just me, or did anyone else notice that the miniseries is called "gormenghast" but is actually the events so to speak of "titus groan"? while i enjoyed it, i was also disappointed as i was expecting it to be much more dark than it was portrayed. the ending was better, especially with the flooding bits. but i must complain on one count at least: why on earth did they film it in those awful candy-colored sets?

final words: the experience was like-- if snow white's stepmother had given a green apple lollipop instead of the viciously delicious real thing.

If you're the kind of personality that liked Boys Don't Cry, you most likely will enjoy this film. It has the same style--normal people with weirder, more tragic lives than you would possibly imagine. The plot is: Billy (Vincent Gallo) has recently been released from prison and finds himself in the incredibly awkward situation of having to back up the string of lies he had fed his parents while in jail- such as he was not in prison. In desperation he seizes on a young tap dancer named Layla (Christina Ricci) as the solution to his problems.

Final Words: Worth watching at least once, but I warn you, like Boys Don't Cry, My Name Is Joe, and Felicia's Journey, this is not a "pretty" film.

Ever feel that good things go to those who don't deserve them? If only someone who could do it justice had gotten hold of Gregory Widen's brilliant idea. But no. So I just pretend that the ending of the original movie and all the other movies never happened, as well as all the stupidity of the last season of the series. (who ever heard of the hero only appearing in about 3 episodes of the final season?) I just wish the show had taken itself a little more seriously. Here was a grand opportunity to bring some genuine high concept to TV and the series did that in many respects. However, it was made in the 90's and the bits which seem out of place now were, I suppose, the best they could do. Still, the series was the first of a wonderful kind of modern fantasy TV genre, which has been followed by the Crow: Stairway to Heaven, and now Witchblade. (If only the writers of Witchblade had written the series! Not to mention if the series would've had those kind of effects.) I just pick and choose what fits with my personal vision of highlander. Watch it yourself and make up your own mind- it is definately worth it.

Final Words: Quit making the idiotic movie sequels. Give Methos his own show and set it entirely in the past.