© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-flipperoid Recent reviews written by member flipperoid en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_411854212740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Over the last few years, there had been a number of great movies about dysfunctional families: the charming Little Miss Sunshine, the quirky and wonderfully Salinger-esque The Royal Tenenbaums, and the poignantly emotional Junebug. Unlike the films that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~411854212740 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:19:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_411854212740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_386772209284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - This whole reviews reveals major spoilers that may detract your enjoyment of the novel if you haven't read the novel yet. Read the review at your own risk. In the first chapter of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens pulls the reader in like a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~386772209284 Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:07:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_386772209284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_368364719748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - The evening before the release of the next Harry Potter book always seem to bring much anticipation. It is always an appropriate summer event, with crowded bookstores and kids dressed up as wizards and witches. Harry Potter has become such a prominent... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~368364719748 Mon, 28 May 2007 23:35:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_368364719748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_368327364228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Not only does Batman Forever dazzles with spectacular visuals and a candy-colored Gotham City and it successfully entraps the audience from scene one all the way to the suspenseful climax. The film is like a ride on the Batmobile. Watching Batman Forever... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~368327364228 Mon, 28 May 2007 22:00:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_368327364228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_347361611396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - I watched the trailer for 300 a few weeks before its release and read much of the buzz online. It was not the kind of film that I was looking forward to or even wanted to watch, so I guess I was alone in that statement. My dad got bored and wanted to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~347361611396 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:48:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_347361611396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_345543315076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - In his most under appreciated gem, Empire of the Sun, based off the semi-autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard, is filled with the fingerprints of the then boy wonder, Steven Spielberg. Empire of the Sun will eventually launch Spielberg&#146s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~345543315076 Mon, 9 Apr 2007 02:42:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_345543315076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338298375812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - In the different realms of unbelievable and terribly contrived movie romances of the past, Funny Face is one of the most teeth-gritting, head-spinning, and irritating romances that I have seen. The film that should have been sugary and sweet... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338298375812 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:16:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338298375812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_329426701956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Richard Attenborough, best known for his Oscar-winning directorial effort in 1982&#146s Gandhi, makes a musical. I am convinced that everyone who participated in A Chorus Line are talented people, Attenborough included. Being someone who has never seen... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~329426701956 Wed, 7 Mar 2007 01:15:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_329426701956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_318282370692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - In about the first thirty minutes of director Sam Mendes&#146s American Beauty strikes a marvelous impression, a film that flourishes with wit, humor, potential, and a fascinating concept of what happens behind the closed doors of suburbia. By the last... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~318282370692 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:12:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_318282370692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_298026307204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Once every few years, there is a quirky new film about a dysfunctional family that gets it right. Thankfully, Little Miss Sunshine is that movie. After spending years in development hell, the film finally gets released to a pleased crowd at Sundance and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~298026307204 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:01:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_298026307204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_297922498180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - A few minutes into my viewing of The Weather Man, I wondered how many movies are filmmakers are willing produce that revolves around a central middle-aged character that is bored, unsatisfied, perverted, and depressed. Infinity? Maybe. In Gore Verbinskiï¿... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~297922498180 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:00:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_297922498180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_297132985988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice had its share of good and bad movie adaptations, most of which I have never seen. I am also one of the few females on this planet who has never read Pride and Prejudice (only if I could just go past page ten). But when... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~297132985988 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:29:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_297132985988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_297132854916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - From what I know about Sofia Coppola, she tends to make love-it or hate-it films, and this also applies to her latest film, Marie Antoinette, an ambitious and interesting biopic of the queen of France. Coppola’s film is obviously pleasant to the eye and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~297132854916 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:24:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_297132854916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_295635619460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Breaking out of stereotypical ideas about China, Chinese-raised American Pearl S. Buck weaves a tale of a poor farmer named Wang Lung in The Good Earth. In the opening chapter of the book, Wang Lung lives with his father, an elderly man with a bad cough... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~295635619460 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:23:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_295635619460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_295348899460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - “Actually, I'm a human, but I was raised by elves,” says Buddy the Elf, the center of director Jon Favreau’s family fest, Elf is a film that, surprisingly, runs away with sentimental holiday ideals about family and Christmas stories and insert... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~295348899460 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:02:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_295348899460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280838573700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - I am really not the biggest fan of multiple storylines. Director Quentin Tarantino’s second film, Pulp Fiction, is supposedly the masterpiece of the genre, the film that should have beat Forrest Gump in the Best Picture race of 1994, and the film that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280838573700 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:02:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280838573700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280838508164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Analyze This is the perfect spoof on the crime genre. Other than the fact that it is refreshing and entertaining, it is also surprisingly hilarious. When the film is about a top New York gangster going to a psychiatrist to get in touch with his feelings,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280838508164 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:58:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280838508164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_260761882244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - One of the biggest problems of the original Sabrina (1954) was Humphrey Bogart was terribly miscast as Linus Larrabee. In addition to that, Bogart and Audrey Hepburn lacked chemistry because off-screen, they seemed to have hated each other. The other... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~260761882244 Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:09:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_260761882244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248050257540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Scarface is considered one of the most popular crime movies of all-time, so popular that I have seen dozens of artworks of Tony Montana ranging from t-shirts to paintings. The film is often referenced in music and very often quoted. After years of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248050257540 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:57:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248050257540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_247859089028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Director Hal Ashby&#146s Being There was one of Peter Sellers&#146s last film and he was passionate about it as well. The problem is, there is very little to be passionate about. The story could have had been more if the characters actually had... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~247859089028 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:35:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_247859089028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_247858761348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - There are a few films that you must be a fan of the leading actor or actress in order to really enjoy the movie. For example, you must be a fan of Jet Li to enjoy The One. You must be a hardcore Adam Sandler fan to not roll your eyes in The Waterboy. You... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~247858761348 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:27:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_247858761348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_247858630276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Junebug is a lovely and strange little movie that manages to charm us in the most eyebrow-raising ways. The story is somewhat original, and let the audience to be interested in the story because of the few eccentric characters. Chicago art dealer,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~247858630276 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:23:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_247858630276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_247750889092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) Roman Holiday is simply the best romantic comedy ever made in the history of film. This film makes other romantic comedies seem unqualified to call themselves romantic comedies because it perfects the formula so gracefully. Being... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~247750889092 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:00:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_247750889092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_241749429892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - Singin’ in the Rain is widely considered as the best musical ever made, and this time, I can’t really argue because I haven’t seen very many muscials. Even though I do think I like The Sound of Music a little better, Singin’ in the Rain just does... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~241749429892 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:23:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_241749429892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_241748840068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flipperoid - I have a sick obsession of watching everything that is number one on all of the American Film Institutes 100 Years lists. Some Like It Hot just happened to be #1 on the “100 Laughs” lists so even though this is normally a film that I would never really... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~241748840068 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:20:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_241748840068?linkin_id=8003929