Epinions Recent Reviews for believer77

There's Something About Mary

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:29:52 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - It seemed inevitable that somebody would take the next shot at Judaeo-Christian dogma and invite the rest of the world to hold the smoking gun. But Christ-bashing is apparently acceptable enough to the world that it should qualify as an Olympic...

Getting a Rise Out of the Machinery

Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:10:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - I guess we should have believed him when he said he'd be back. But hey, it was seven years betwee...

"...Strength of the Great Red Dragon..."

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 04:17:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - The meeting takes place in an underground hallway at the Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Two figures speak quietly, separated by a row of steel bars augmented by tightly-strung nylon netting. Printed materials pass back and forth...

Earth vs the Cornfield Vandals

Sat, 7 Sep 2002 03:55:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - With Signs (2002, rated PG-13), the new movie by renowned director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), what you get from it is what you bring to it.

Shyamalan has definitely made a name for himself as a...

The Predator and His Prey

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:23:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - It may be hard to believe, but the original title of this tome of terror was to be Second Coming. The author showed a knack of quickly wising up.

Not that Stephen King, the much-lauded King of Horror and one of the ten best-known...

Thou Shalt Not Totally Suck

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:24:08 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Ahnold, you could have done uber-better dan dis scheiss.

Believe me, a better title for this wretched 121 minute-long mess would have been End of Arnold's Good Days, or even Twilight of A Film Career. It was one of...

Tears For Fears

Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:01:47 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Is this a movie or is it a case manual on how to seriously miscast a film?

The Sum of All Fears (2002, rated PG-13), the "fourth" outing for Tom Clancy's dedicated CIA hero Jack Ryan (following The Hunt for Red October,...

New Future Noir

Fri, 28 Jun 2002 06:20:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - In Steven Spielberg's new movie, Minority Report (2002, rated PG-13), we get to see all kinds of futures.

We get to see the future of law enforcement (sorry, RoboCop!), the future of advertisement, the future of transportation, the...

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Sat, 8 Jun 2002 08:53:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Every now and then a movie comes along that makes me feel like I'm having an out-of-body experience.

The first one that made me feel that way was Star Wars, which I first saw at the age of five. When I was ten, it was 2001: A Space...

Attack of the Clowns

Sat, 18 May 2002 07:27:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - How could one describe George Lucas's new entry in his saga that takes place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...?

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002, rated PG) is spectacular, wondrous, thrilling, breathtaking,...

Quake for Windows: This Quake Will Rock You, But Won't Shake You

Fri, 10 May 2002 18:44:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - It wasn't long after I first began playing id Software's hellish, action-packed DOOM 2 when rumblings were beginning to be felt in the worldwide gaming community.

The rumblings grew more powerful, accompanied by fearful whispers of...

Great Beauty Can Have Its Flaws

Sat, 23 Mar 2002 05:48:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - It seems quaint to review this movie so late in the year, as Oscar is looming on Sunday, March 24, but I just screened it last night, and I must say this: Any doubts you had about Hollywood's ability to make great movies again should be extinguished...

Another Repeat Performance

Sat, 23 Feb 2002 05:14:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Mel Gibson's American Revolutionary War movie proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

The Patriot (2000, rated R) is basically a near-remake of his earlier Oscar-winning hit, Braveheart,

nevermind...

One Ring to Rule Them All...One Movie to Rule Them All

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:21:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - How many words could be employed to describe the movie my girlfriend and I watched last night?

Perhaps one word, the word I uttered when the film ended and the credits began rolling with the ethereal Enya song playing:

Wow...

The First Great War Movie of the 21st Century

Sat, 9 Feb 2002 05:37:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Finally, at long last, Jerry Bruckheimer has made a great movie.

I say that without sarcasm. Believe me, it's been a long time since Bruckheimer (sans Don Simpson, who died on the toilet with a straw up his nose and a biography of...

The Force Is With This Sequel

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 05:02:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Some sequels disappoint.

When Goldeneye came out for the Nintendo 64, I thought it was one of the greatest first-person action shooters ever made, with its fluid gameplay and terrific graphics. But then The World Is Not Enough...

A Grand Slam of a Movie!

Wed, 9 Jan 2002 06:26:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Billy Crystal's new film is about a man who refused to become a god, so his worshipers beat the crap out of him.

61*, (2001, unrated) is outwardly a baseball movie, but, fundamentally, it's not. In execution, the movie takes you back...

The Music of Atrocity

Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:07:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Welcome to Robert Smith's museum of darkness.

Let him show you around, pointing out the crucifixions, the tortures, the mutilations, and the rapes. Gawk at the animals with their heads twisted completely around, marvel at the flayed skins...

The New Fearless Vampire Killer

Sat, 29 Dec 2001 05:34:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - The coolest thing about this movie is that they could put it right next to Blacula in the "horror" section at your local video store.

Think about it: Both feature a black actor as a vampire (or half-vampire), both feature stunning...

NOT Your Typical Actor's Biography

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:35:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - I sometimes get odd Christmas gifts.

One year, when I had turned 21, I looked under the tree and found a case of Heineken beer cheerfully sitting beneath the colored lights and shiny ornaments. I had no idea if I had even told Santa that I...

A Place Beyond Your Dreams...

Wed, 12 Dec 2001 06:43:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - I have a friend to thank for getting me interested in a certain movie that came out in 1984. Perhaps you've heard of it: Dune, directed by David Lynch, best known for Dennis Hopper's nihilistic Frank Booth in Blue Velvet and whoever the...

Zero Wattage In This Static "Shocker"

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 06:48:08 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - I was recently rummaging around in the basement looking for Christmas decorations to put up around the house when I looked inside an old box and found this movie (on VHS of course) sitting all by its lonesome, gathering dust. I had the sort of reaction...

Beware of Little Kids With Three Sixes Under Their Hair...

Wed, 31 Oct 2001 04:02:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Believe it or not, but I actually read the novel before I saw the movie.

David Seltzer's novel, based on his screenplay, went into more detail concerning the events surrounding a doomsday prophecy (hmmm...an "omen," perhaps?) foretold two...

Profiles In Courage

Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:29:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - Where were you on September 11, 2001?

I remember where I was. It's a memory that I won't soon forget, because it was when a phase in my life ended.

I was taking a tour of the Dietz and Watson lunchmeat plant in Philadelphia with...

Witness the Regurgitation

Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:42:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author believer77 - She's back.

The acid-blooded, merciless destroyer that fills the dreams of men with terror has returned, bent on her singleminded goal of universal extermination.

And I don't mean the Alien Queen.

Well, actually, she...