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Peter Weller and Judy Davis play a hip couple who open a trendy L.A. Boutique to finance a "civilized" divorce in a biting tale of our times. "The sexiest, smartest comedy this decade has produced" (Harper's Bazaar) Year: 1994 Director: Michael Tolkin Starring:Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau ... Read more

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The best film ever made about LA
Ten years after its release, Steve Martin's LA Story has a cult following for its adept interpretation of vapid and decadent Los Angelinos. Though LA Story came out in 1990 and seems to lampoon the 80s, Michael Tolkin goes way beyond his collaborative work with Robert Altman(The Player) with this pitch black comedy.

The film is way ahead of its time. Hollywood has yet to examine the decadent 90s in any way. Here we have characters who are more Clinton era than American Beauty. Pretty astute, considering that the film was released in 1994!

Look for top performances from Peter Weller, Judy Davis, and great supporting work from Adam West, Sandra Seacat, and a pre-Pulp Fiction Samuel Jackson. Hopefully, some of the great camera work an slick visuals will find its way on to DVD in the near future.

maria ellingsen wasted- i got lost watching it
This film is a mess. It features a load of stars and made no sense at all. The great Icelandic actress Maria Ellingsen appears once or twice and is her exceptonal is wasted in this film. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

A brisk stroll through Yuppie hell
Michael Tolkin's "The New Age" was the most scathing movie indictment of the American dream gone Sonoma catalog since Albert Brooks' brilliant satire "Lost In America". "The New Age" re-teams the "Tracy & Hepburn" of indie film, Peter Weller and Judy Davis, who were also the wacked-out couple in "Naked Lunch". Instead of heading off in an RV to go "find themselves", Judy and Peter decide to "simplify" thier over-extended Yuppie lifestyle by chucking it all and opening up a Beverly Hills boutique. Hilarity ensues....right? Actually, the movie takes a more low-key,sometimes cruel, black comedy approach to its subjects as they proceed to go into a tandem midlife crisis. Along the way, most trendy southern California fads are lampooned, recalling the film "Serial", which savaged the Bay Area Yuppie/New Age scene in the same fashion. Good supporting performances abound; the biggest surprise is Adam "Batman" West, who is priceless as Weller's father. West plays the wryly acerbic, aging Lothario with much aplomb.(Where has he been?!) Highly recommended.

I like Michael Tolkin, okay?
This movie meant a lot more to me after I lived in Phoenix, Arizona for a year, which is as far west as I want to go for the rest of my life. It's much more interesting to observe empty, soul-less people from a safe distance. It's funny. See "The Rapture," too. Thanks. ... Read more

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Bleah. Interesting up to a point, but still, a dud.
I was a stupid dolt and actually thought this was a re-make of the Theresa Wright film "Shadow of A Doubt". But I misread the title. My stupid mistake.

The plot was a typical murder mystery, and while it was not the best told tale, I was interested in finding out "who dunnit". So I stuck around until the end. But there were many elements to this film that I found flawed, or just irritating.

And then there was the cast. I like Melanie Griffith. I like Tom Berenger. However, they could not redeem this film. Melanie Griffith came off as self concious of her beauty and "super confident"--which grated on my nerves after a while. Berenger was fine in the role he had, but he didn't get a lot screen time. He really should have been billed as a supporting actor, but the impression I got from the film's advertising was that he was a CO-star. His role wasn't all that big (it was important, but not that big). Supporting actor Huey Lewis got more screen time than Berenger! (Not that I minded--I like Lewis.)

It was nice seeing Nina Foch working again too. She's been around forever, and still has what it takes to give a good performance. Also, nice score by Joel Goldsmith (Jerry Goldsmith's son). Still, I wouldn't recommend this film. Rent it if you must.

If you are a big Griffith fan, you might be tempted, but this is certainly not her best roll. Tom Berenger fans will be disappointed--his part isn't all that interesting.

Good cast but dopey script, stupid characters.
I enjoy almost anything Melanie Griffith is in, but this one was too silly and unbelievable. Her character is supposed to be a smart, tough lawyer but she does everything that would either get a real lawyer disbarred, laughed out of court -- or killed. Beautifully shot, great sets and locations, but everybody is wasted in this dopey script. Nina Foch is a GREAT witchy woman, but I missed John Ritter completely (fooled by the beard)and had to rewind to catch his scene in the very beginning.

Miscast, Misdirected, Mistake
Let's see, where to start. Melanie Griffith is supposed to be one of the best, toughest, smartest defense attorneys in the city, but acts more like a former stripper playing at being a recent law school grad. I guess seductive whispers, a slinky walk, and tepid one-line comebacks are all it takes to free rapist/killers. Realism is non-existent as she voluntarily gives away key information/evidence to the DA and her powerful adversaries before the trial even starts. Her crack investigative team manages to stumble across valuable clues at the drop of a hat without even a trace of intelligent, logical, deductive reasoning or sleuthing. The dialog is absolutely inane, including an awful scene where this supposedly hard-boiled attorney (Griffith) who has successfully defended the scum of the earth, suddenly realizes a full five minutes into the interrogation of her client (a major slimeball) that she believes his story--that he was just having kinky sex, slapping his date around, and didn't really kill the girl--and starts crying at this realization. Supposed to be touching I'm sure, but instead it was so out of place and baffling, I cringed while laughing. In addition there's this weird, pointless side story about a former client whom she got acquitted, then slept with, only to find out he was actually guilty of rape all along. Throughout the movie he repeatedly calls her and taunts her through her answering machine causing her to listen for several minutes before unplugging it, or turning it off, or throwing it against the wall, but never doing anything that makes sense, like changing her phone number. Even this elicits no real emotion from her, she basically sleepwalks through the movie. But, worst of all, this movie is boring--no suspense, no thrills, and I didn't care one bit about the fortunes of any of the characters. I have really liked Griffith in several recent movies and do not understand this one at all, except that she's just horribly miscast--as is everyone in this film. In fact, why I even devoted this much time in reviewing this escapes me--except maybe I'll save someone a few bucks and a couple of wasted hours.

RUN OF THE MILL THRILLS, SAVED BY STARS
"Shadow of Doubt" sounded very intriguing on its back cover. To boot, it also starred Melanie Griffith and Tom Berenger. It's a classy production, great visuals, dialogue and interesting story. The thriller is about a laywer (Griffith) who is defending a young man accused of raping and killing a young woman. She believes the man is innocent, unlike fellow lawyer, Tom Berenger. Soon a politician's family gets wound up in the murders, and the lawyer must seek out information. Craig Sheffer (A River Runs Through It) also stars as a past client of Griffith's, who is a former raper too. Singer, Huey Lewis also stars in the film as does James Morrison and John Ritter (Bride of Chucky). You have seen all this before in films like "Kiss the Girls" and "The Gingerbread Man", but this one suffers because it's just too long, causing you to fall alseep after half way.zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...... ... Read more

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FUNNIEST MOVIE MADE IN THE 1980'S
I LOVE THESE CRAZY GUYS, THEIR (PIPED IN) AIR GUITARS AND THE FUTURISTIC RELIGION THEY UNWITTINGLY ESTABLISH AS A RESULT OF THE MUSIC OF THEIR (VERY UNTALENTED) BAND-- THE WYLD STALLYNS!!! IT REALLY DOESN'T GET ANY FUNNIER THAN THIS!

UNDER PRESSURE OF FAILING HISTORY CLASS, AND HAVING TO ATTEND A MILITARY ACADEMY, BILL AND TED RUN HEADLONG INTO A GUARDIAN ANGEL FROM THE FUTURE, WHILE HANGING OUT AT THE LOCAL CIRCLE K, TRYING TO DECIDE HOW TO PASS THEIR CLASS. FROM THERE, THEY GO ON A MISSION IN A TIME-TRAVELING TELEPHONE BOOTH, WHICH TAKES THEM ALL THROUGH AN AMAZING VARIETY OF "HISTORICAL" TIMES AND PLACES, MEETING UP WITH SOME AWESOME "MEDIEVAL BABES" ALONG THE WAY. (THE "HISTORICAL BABES" END UP BECOMING THE NEXT TWO MEMBERS OF THE BAND WYLD STALLYNS IN THE END!!! HAHAHHA)

ON THEIR EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, THEY PICK UP NAPOLEAN, JOAN OF ARC, SOCRATES (THEY PRONOUCE IT "SO-KRATES"), BEETHOVEN, BILLY THE KID AND A FEW OTHER HILARIOUSLY UNSTUNNED HISTORICAL FIGURES, ALL OF WHOM TAKE THE JOURNEY AS THOUGH IT WAS NOTHING TOO OUT OF THE ORDINARY. (THIS, IN ITSELF, IS FUNNY!)

I WON'T GIVE AWAY THE ENDING, WHICH IS VERY FUN AND MAKES FOR A GREAT SHOW FOR BILL AND TED'S FELLOW-STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, WITH ALL OF THE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS ACTING OUT THEIR PARTS IN AN
"A-WINNING" SCHOOL PRESENTATION. BUT THE REAL FUNNY PART IS THE ADVENTURE ITSELF!!!

GOTTA SEEE THIS ONE!!!

Its about time! (Literally)
Finally, one of THE funniest movies ever made is coming to DVD. This is one of the movies that helped launch the career of now mega-star Keanu Reeves, and spawned a bunch of copy-cat movies like "Wayne's World" and "Dude, Where's MY Car?", but this was the original DUDE movie! Dim-witted high school friends Bill & Ted don't realize they are destined to be the great ones who will change the course of the world through their music, bringing about world peace (as well as clean air, and more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with!) Right now, they have to pass history! With help from cool futuristic dude Rufus and a time-travelling phone booth, they travel back in time to assemble the greatest historical figures for the greatest history report of all time! Its a hilarious romp through the past and present (and you may learn a thing or 2). Wyld Stallyns rules!

Misadventures In Time & Space
* BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (B&TXA) is a low-budget,
derivative, silly film that shamelessly panders to its teen-age target
audience; it represents nothing new in film-making; and is blatantly
commercial.

I really liked it.

The plot is simple enough. Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reaves)
are two California kids who want to become famous rock stars. There's
only one problem: they can't play their instruments. Well, actually,
there's two problems: they're both complete boneheads, and their
hardnosed history teacher tells them that if they *don't* pass their
oral history report, they *will* flunk out of school. This oral
report involves imagining what historical personages would've thought
of the present day and the local environment. Not too demanding, but
it's still above the ability of these two, and if they flunk, Ted's
sourpuss dad intends to send him off to a military academy in Alaska,
separating the two friends, probably forever.

Fortunately, the society of Earth 700 years from now has a special
interest in them, and an agent (George Carlin) is sent back in a time
machine (shaped like a phone booth -- a normal one, not an
old-fashioned British police box) to help out. So Bill and Ted have
in their hands the best possible tool for conducting hands-on
historical research.

This sounds silly, and it is, and all the unkind things I said above
about this movie are true. That leads to the question: What saves

B&TXA? Simple enough: Bill and Ted. These two guys don't look like
they have the collective mental energy to make a nightlight glow.
They don't actually have to *do* anything to be funny. You laugh at
them even if they're just *standing* there.

Though when push comes to shove, it turns out they can be quite
resourceful. Like a lot of teenagers, they just need to get
motivated. It's hard not to like them, since they're about as
good-natured kids as you're likely to find. Bill has the initiative,
willing to take risks without hesitation because he doesn't have a
clue of what he's getting into. Ted is a born romantic, a sweet-faced
kid who all the girls think is really cute. Any time he sees a
good-looking girl his heart leaps into his throat and stars flicker in
his eyes.

The story, like I said, is silly, but silliness is hardly a critical
term when applied to a comedy -- and it does have its moments, such as
Napoleon at the water slides, and Genghis Kahn ... well, I won't say
any more. It certainly does pander to teenagers: nearly all the
adults are creeps or morons, and the kids turn the tables on them in
the end -- but it also made me feel wistful. I didn't have fun being
a teenager and this film suggests to me in its own bizarre way that it
could've been more fun than it was. The only thing I can seriously
say against B&TXA was that by the time it was over I was glad I didn't
have to listen to "PARTY ON, DUDE!" and "EXCELLENT!" one more time.

BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE isn't the sort of thing that would
win awards, in fact nobody in their right mind would recommend it for
one. Some movies are like expensive dinners; others are like Big
Macs. But as Big Macs go, BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE tastes
good.

Oh, yeah, the usual cautions: No noticeable bad language, overt
sexual activity, or graphic violence (unless you are the sort of
person who feels that the Three Stooges are a bad influence on kids).
And definitely, absolutely not for people who are into serious cinema.
[Minor update of review from 1989 -- GVG]

Profound in a weird way
On one level, this is one of the silliest movies of all time. The humor is juvenile, and the teenage protagonists *seem* almost completely vacant-minded, their only goal to to start a great rock band, despite their complete inability to play their instruments. They end up on the most hilarious journey through time imaginable, with their 1990's San Dimas, CA sensibilities encountering such historic figures as "So-krates," "Joan of Arc," and Sigmund "Frood," all of whom end up wreaking havoc in a So. Calif. shopping mall. Bill and Ted are endearingly mindless, driven by hormones, and Ted remains Keanu Reeves's best role. The film has some of the funniest one-liners you'll want to add to your collection of quotations suitable to many daily occasions, and somehow there's a sweetness, innocence, and weird profundity to the whole adventure. It's also a multigenerational classic. I'm in my 40's, and my teenage children have been fans since elementary school as well and remain so. It's one of those films that whenever I mention it in a college classroom instantly elicits nods, smiles, and complicit laughs.

Good!
Bill & Ted's's Excellent Adventure is a funny movie that is enjoyable to watch and it was just a really cute movie and reminds me of other good time-travel movies like Time Bandits. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were really good and I also liked George Carlin and I recommend this movie. ... Read more

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dolly's valley aint blue!
this movie was on lifetime and i thought it was great. then i bought the dvd and it's super-spectacular. she does a nice accoustic version of "wildflowers" and there's this weird easter egg where if you hilite her eyes and press enter then you hear only the music and the soundeffects. pretty strange.

Highlight for many occasions
This film is a blend of raw humanity and brutal honesty. It was so refreshing to see the issues delt with done with so much style and not the usual sentimental [stuff]. As a huge Dolly fan and a director of performance myself, I have only this to say: Yes, Dolly is not a Liz Taylor, but few performers has ever reached her level of honesty in character and emotion when it comes to playing any character. Instead of boring crocedile tears, Dolly shows us inner pain - as does this whole film. This is a movie for people that understand what it means to hide your pain so that the show can go on. Deeply moving and profoundly liberating if you are able to leave soap operas behind you for a minute or two.

"Two Thumps Up"
This is a great movie....Dolly Parton goes through a journey with many ups ans downs. She is a singer that is trying to make it big. She performs at a friend, Ruby's, bar. Will she make it big, or be stuck in the wrong gear?..highly recommmended especially Dolly fans!!

True Dolly Style
Touching, simple, real-life like story, wonderful movie, with gorgeous music with Dolly sounding like an angel. Like every other Dolly fan I would love for someone somehow to publish
a copy of "We Might be Inlove" as it has never been released outside of the actual movie, and there is no soundtrack...
As for the "Editorial Review" The movie was WRITTEN based on Dolly's song "Blue Valley Songbird" off her "Hungry Again" Album, and the whole bit is to explain Leanna's origins, and how she came to be where she's at.... and to explain what's REALLY been holding here back through the years, so if you get beyond your opinion that Dolly can't act you'll see there's another depth to this story.... Highly recommended to anyone who loves Dolly, music and or Romance!!!

The Blue Valley Songbird is singin tonight!
Dolly's 1999 made-for-tv movie has finally made it to home video. Dolly's musical and acting abilities both shine on this release. The movie, based upon Dolly's fictional story song "Blue Valley Songbird" features Dolly playing the read headed Leanna Taylor. The plot centers around Leanna trying to make it big as a country sginer by playing night clubs and fighting to get on a major label. Dolly songs featured in the movie are "Blue Valley Songbird", "Wildflowers" (peformed beatifully by Dolly accompanied only by her autoharp!!!), "I Hope Youre Never Happy", "Runaway Feelin". Two songs never recorded by Dolly, also appear in the moivie these are the gospel standard '"Angel Band" which is by far the BEST version ever!!! The other new track is the Dolly penned duet "We Might Be In Love" which is peformed several times as a duet by Dolly & co-star Billy Dean. This movie will please any Dolly or Billy Dean fan! ... Read more

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FUNNIEST MOVIE MADE IN THE 1980'S
I LOVE THESE CRAZY GUYS, THEIR (PIPED IN) AIR GUITARS AND THE FUTURISTIC RELIGION THEY UNWITTINGLY ESTABLISH AS A RESULT OF THE MUSIC OF THEIR (VERY UNTALENTED) BAND-- THE WYLD STALLYNS!!! IT REALLY DOESN'T GET ANY FUNNIER THAN THIS!

UNDER PRESSURE OF FAILING HISTORY CLASS, AND HAVING TO ATTEND A MILITARY ACADEMY, BILL AND TED RUN HEADLONG INTO A GUARDIAN ANGEL FROM THE FUTURE, WHILE HANGING OUT AT THE LOCAL CIRCLE K, TRYING TO DECIDE HOW TO PASS THEIR CLASS. FROM THERE, THEY GO ON A MISSION IN A TIME-TRAVELING TELEPHONE BOOTH, WHICH TAKES THEM ALL THROUGH AN AMAZING VARIETY OF "HISTORICAL" TIMES AND PLACES, MEETING UP WITH SOME AWESOME "MEDIEVAL BABES" ALONG THE WAY. (THE "HISTORICAL BABES" END UP BECOMING THE NEXT TWO MEMBERS OF THE BAND WYLD STALLYNS IN THE END!!! HAHAHHA)

ON THEIR EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, THEY PICK UP NAPOLEAN, JOAN OF ARC, SOCRATES (THEY PRONOUCE IT "SO-KRATES"), BEETHOVEN, BILLY THE KID AND A FEW OTHER HILARIOUSLY UNSTUNNED HISTORICAL FIGURES, ALL OF WHOM TAKE THE JOURNEY AS THOUGH IT WAS NOTHING TOO OUT OF THE ORDINARY. (THIS, IN ITSELF, IS FUNNY!)

I WON'T GIVE AWAY THE ENDING, WHICH IS VERY FUN AND MAKES FOR A GREAT SHOW FOR BILL AND TED'S FELLOW-STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, WITH ALL OF THE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS ACTING OUT THEIR PARTS IN AN
"A-WINNING" SCHOOL PRESENTATION. BUT THE REAL FUNNY PART IS THE ADVENTURE ITSELF!!!

GOTTA SEEE THIS ONE!!!

Its about time! (Literally)
Finally, one of THE funniest movies ever made is coming to DVD. This is one of the movies that helped launch the career of now mega-star Keanu Reeves, and spawned a bunch of copy-cat movies like "Wayne's World" and "Dude, Where's MY Car?", but this was the original DUDE movie! Dim-witted high school friends Bill & Ted don't realize they are destined to be the great ones who will change the course of the world through their music, bringing about world peace (as well as clean air, and more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with!) Right now, they have to pass history! With help from cool futuristic dude Rufus and a time-travelling phone booth, they travel back in time to assemble the greatest historical figures for the greatest history report of all time! Its a hilarious romp through the past and present (and you may learn a thing or 2). Wyld Stallyns rules!

Misadventures In Time & Space
* BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (B&TXA) is a low-budget,
derivative, silly film that shamelessly panders to its teen-age target
audience; it represents nothing new in film-making; and is blatantly
commercial.

I really liked it.

The plot is simple enough. Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reaves)
are two California kids who want to become famous rock stars. There's
only one problem: they can't play their instruments. Well, actually,
there's two problems: they're both complete boneheads, and their
hardnosed history teacher tells them that if they *don't* pass their
oral history report, they *will* flunk out of school. This oral
report involves imagining what historical personages would've thought
of the present day and the local environment. Not too demanding, but
it's still above the ability of these two, and if they flunk, Ted's
sourpuss dad intends to send him off to a military academy in Alaska,
separating the two friends, probably forever.

Fortunately, the society of Earth 700 years from now has a special
interest in them, and an agent (George Carlin) is sent back in a time
machine (shaped like a phone booth -- a normal one, not an
old-fashioned British police box) to help out. So Bill and Ted have
in their hands the best possible tool for conducting hands-on
historical research.

This sounds silly, and it is, and all the unkind things I said above
about this movie are true. That leads to the question: What saves

B&TXA? Simple enough: Bill and Ted. These two guys don't look like
they have the collective mental energy to make a nightlight glow.
They don't actually have to *do* anything to be funny. You laugh at
them even if they're just *standing* there.

Though when push comes to shove, it turns out they can be quite
resourceful. Like a lot of teenagers, they just need to get
motivated. It's hard not to like them, since they're about as
good-natured kids as you're likely to find. Bill has the initiative,
willing to take risks without hesitation because he doesn't have a
clue of what he's getting into. Ted is a born romantic, a sweet-faced
kid who all the girls think is really cute. Any time he sees a
good-looking girl his heart leaps into his throat and stars flicker in
his eyes.

The story, like I said, is silly, but silliness is hardly a critical
term when applied to a comedy -- and it does have its moments, such as
Napoleon at the water slides, and Genghis Kahn ... well, I won't say
any more. It certainly does pander to teenagers: nearly all the
adults are creeps or morons, and the kids turn the tables on them in
the end -- but it also made me feel wistful. I didn't have fun being
a teenager and this film suggests to me in its own bizarre way that it
could've been more fun than it was. The only thing I can seriously
say against B&TXA was that by the time it was over I was glad I didn't
have to listen to "PARTY ON, DUDE!" and "EXCELLENT!" one more time.

BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE isn't the sort of thing that would
win awards, in fact nobody in their right mind would recommend it for
one. Some movies are like expensive dinners; others are like Big
Macs. But as Big Macs go, BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE tastes
good.

Oh, yeah, the usual cautions: No noticeable bad language, overt
sexual activity, or graphic violence (unless you are the sort of
person who feels that the Three Stooges are a bad influence on kids).
And definitely, absolutely not for people who are into serious cinema.
[Minor update of review from 1989 -- GVG]

Profound in a weird way
On one level, this is one of the silliest movies of all time. The humor is juvenile, and the teenage protagonists *seem* almost completely vacant-minded, their only goal to to start a great rock band, despite their complete inability to play their instruments. They end up on the most hilarious journey through time imaginable, with their 1990's San Dimas, CA sensibilities encountering such historic figures as "So-krates," "Joan of Arc," and Sigmund "Frood," all of whom end up wreaking havoc in a So. Calif. shopping mall. Bill and Ted are endearingly mindless, driven by hormones, and Ted remains Keanu Reeves's best role. The film has some of the funniest one-liners you'll want to add to your collection of quotations suitable to many daily occasions, and somehow there's a sweetness, innocence, and weird profundity to the whole adventure. It's also a multigenerational classic. I'm in my 40's, and my teenage children have been fans since elementary school as well and remain so. It's one of those films that whenever I mention it in a college classroom instantly elicits nods, smiles, and complicit laughs.

Good!
Bill & Ted's's Excellent Adventure is a funny movie that is enjoyable to watch and it was just a really cute movie and reminds me of other good time-travel movies like Time Bandits. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were really good and I also liked George Carlin and I recommend this movie. ... Read more

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An innocent woman struggles to survive in a communist prison run by a psychotic warden in stiletto-heels. ... Read more

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An Erotic S&M Movie
In the "sovereign state of Czechoslovakia" beautiful young women have been set up, arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten-year drug-possession terms in a prison. The latest victim is an American girl. the prison is run with an iron hand by a drug-addict warden, with the help of her sadistic lover, both of whom look lustfully upon the newcomer. Some of the inmates were killed by a mystery torturer, and as prostitutes for a local casino. They were also put to work nude in preparing drugs. There is pretty of nudity, sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, plus sadism in this movie. The end is a little too simple and not realistic, but that's what you expect from the most of movies. This are also some action screnes.

Not a GREAT women-in-prison film, but VERY HOT in parts!!!
Brigitte Neilson was very sexy as the warden, and when sheinspects the new crop of young female inmates she does a wonderful jobof lusting over her new playthings! I also really liked her German-accented female assistant. One of the best scenes (in my opinion) is when she helps a young girl out of a bathtub, running her hands all over her pretty rear end. She's later seen laying in bed with her, again caressing her legs and curvy b***! Very nice!!! The director/writer of this flick had a good imagination, and knew how to make a sexy women-in-prison film!

That's not to say this movie was perfect! The plot really dragged at times, and several scenes could have been done better (again, in my opinion only!) The girls-showering-together was nice, but not as good as it could have been. And I was particularly disappointed with the scene where the warden (Brigitte Neilson) finally gets together with the pretty little American inmate she's lusted after for so long. It was just kind of bland, when it promised so much! I tell you, they need to hire ME to make & produce a really hot women-in-prison flick! I'd do it RIGHT!!! END ... Read more

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THe most best ever!
HOLY MOLY! Viper AKA Bad Blood! is only the best ever! Holy, I saw it last night and BAM!! I was struck by a true diamond, a diamond in the rough of course! Just look at the cover: a guy with huge muscles and a gun with "BAD BLOOD" words written in letters that have been smashed or shot maybe! The whole film is like the most amazing ever, but there is no beating the final scene where a huge gold eagle swoops down and steals the gun from the gangster Tony "Souce Mes Boules" Panapizzah (I think! I can't hear my TV sometimes!...) and lets the blond girl Cherry get off the cruise ship alive. PARENTS: Not good for kids because it has lots of people snorting coke! So watch out and watch this because it is coming to a VCR near you! To quote Viper himself, "This..." movie "..isn't over till its over!" and when its over push rewind again until your VCR is no longer an operational machine! Ah-woo!...

Second best Lorenzo Lamas movie
When Travis(Lamas)learns that his brother is marked for death by a drug lord,he goes out to help him at no cost.This is a excellent action movie that just about any action fan will enjoy. ... Read more

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Worst movie ever
This movie is a joke. Writing is horrible, directing is horrible, acting is the pits. Any questions?

Comically delightful
What a joy to watch. Joe Lara as Ponytail gave an outstanding performance as the sinister, yet humorous villain.Was on his side the whole time. I was saddened by his 'death'.Frank Zagorino on the other hand was his usual bland, stiff line spitter. ... Read more

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THe most best ever!
HOLY MOLY! Viper AKA Bad Blood! is only the best ever! Holy, I saw it last night and BAM!! I was struck by a true diamond, a diamond in the rough of course! Just look at the cover: a guy with huge muscles and a gun with "BAD BLOOD" words written in letters that have been smashed or shot maybe! The whole film is like the most amazing ever, but there is no beating the final scene where a huge gold eagle swoops down and steals the gun from the gangster Tony "Souce Mes Boules" Panapizzah (I think! I can't hear my TV sometimes!...) and lets the blond girl Cherry get off the cruise ship alive. PARENTS: Not good for kids because it has lots of people snorting coke! So watch out and watch this because it is coming to a VCR near you! To quote Viper himself, "This..." movie "..isn't over till its over!" and when its over push rewind again until your VCR is no longer an operational machine! Ah-woo!...

Second best Lorenzo Lamas movie
When Travis(Lamas)learns that his brother is marked for death by a drug lord,he goes out to help him at no cost.This is a excellent action movie that just about any action fan will enjoy. ... Read more

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Don't 'Rescue' that Girl!
Vietnam vet Mac (Michael Dudikoff) is stuck with a dimwit high schooler (Stephen Dorff) on the chase to rescue an even bigger dimwit cheerleader (annoying girl). Poor lordage has made sacrifices before by rescuing a wannabe ninja, rescuing soldiers and now rescuing a girl who no one should care about. A rare comic genius performance from Michael Dudikoff. "Rescue Me" is a charmer, but it would've been better if Mac took care of business ninja style. This needs to be released on DVD right now, so please MGM!

Rescue Me
High School Photographer And Looser Fraser Sweeny (Stephen Dorff) Is Infatuated By Classmate Ginny (Ami Dolenz)...After He Wittnesses Her Being Kidnapped By Two Dim-witted Crooks, He Bribes A Vietnam-Vet Drifter To Help Rescue This Beautiful Cheerleader And Win Over Her Heart...With Satisfactory Acting, And An Enjoyable Adventure, This Movie Is A Typical Action/Comedy...Starring Peter DeLuise, And The Charming Ami Dolenz

Funny Little Movie
This is one of the rare comedies done by Michael Dudikoff(the first was Bachalor Party with Tom Hanks, and the second was a film called Radioactive Dreams) and is quite funny. Dudikoff is Mac a Vietnam vet, trying to make a deal, when two kids drive up.One is kidnapped and Dudikoff is blackmailed by Dorff(Frost from Blade) to help rescue her. The two hate each other and naturally grow to be friends. well worth a look. ... Read more

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Don't 'Rescue' that Girl!
Vietnam vet Mac (Michael Dudikoff) is stuck with a dimwit high schooler (Stephen Dorff) on the chase to rescue an even bigger dimwit cheerleader (annoying girl). Poor lordage has made sacrifices before by rescuing a wannabe ninja, rescuing soldiers and now rescuing a girl who no one should care about. A rare comic genius performance from Michael Dudikoff. "Rescue Me" is a charmer, but it would've been better if Mac took care of business ninja style. This needs to be released on DVD right now, so please MGM!

Rescue Me
High School Photographer And Looser Fraser Sweeny (Stephen Dorff) Is Infatuated By Classmate Ginny (Ami Dolenz)...After He Wittnesses Her Being Kidnapped By Two Dim-witted Crooks, He Bribes A Vietnam-Vet Drifter To Help Rescue This Beautiful Cheerleader And Win Over Her Heart...With Satisfactory Acting, And An Enjoyable Adventure, This Movie Is A Typical Action/Comedy...Starring Peter DeLuise, And The Charming Ami Dolenz

Funny Little Movie
This is one of the rare comedies done by Michael Dudikoff(the first was Bachalor Party with Tom Hanks, and the second was a film called Radioactive Dreams) and is quite funny. Dudikoff is Mac a Vietnam vet, trying to make a deal, when two kids drive up.One is kidnapped and Dudikoff is blackmailed by Dorff(Frost from Blade) to help rescue her. The two hate each other and naturally grow to be friends. well worth a look. ... Read more

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The best film ever made about LA
Ten years after its release, Steve Martin's LA Story has a cult following for its adept interpretation of vapid and decadent Los Angelinos. Though LA Story came out in 1990 and seems to lampoon the 80s, Michael Tolkin goes way beyond his collaborative work with Robert Altman(The Player) with this pitch black comedy.

The film is way ahead of its time. Hollywood has yet to examine the decadent 90s in any way. Here we have characters who are more Clinton era than American Beauty. Pretty astute, considering that the film was released in 1994!

Look for top performances from Peter Weller, Judy Davis, and great supporting work from Adam West, Sandra Seacat, and a pre-Pulp Fiction Samuel Jackson. Hopefully, some of the great camera work an slick visuals will find its way on to DVD in the near future.

maria ellingsen wasted- i got lost watching it
This film is a mess. It features a load of stars and made no sense at all. The great Icelandic actress Maria Ellingsen appears once or twice and is her exceptonal is wasted in this film. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

A brisk stroll through Yuppie hell
Michael Tolkin's "The New Age" was the most scathing movie indictment of the American dream gone Sonoma catalog since Albert Brooks' brilliant satire "Lost In America". "The New Age" re-teams the "Tracy & Hepburn" of indie film, Peter Weller and Judy Davis, who were also the wacked-out couple in "Naked Lunch". Instead of heading off in an RV to go "find themselves", Judy and Peter decide to "simplify" thier over-extended Yuppie lifestyle by chucking it all and opening up a Beverly Hills boutique. Hilarity ensues....right? Actually, the movie takes a more low-key,sometimes cruel, black comedy approach to its subjects as they proceed to go into a tandem midlife crisis. Along the way, most trendy southern California fads are lampooned, recalling the film "Serial", which savaged the Bay Area Yuppie/New Age scene in the same fashion. Good supporting performances abound; the biggest surprise is Adam "Batman" West, who is priceless as Weller's father. West plays the wryly acerbic, aging Lothario with much aplomb.(Where has he been?!) Highly recommended.

I like Michael Tolkin, okay?
This movie meant a lot more to me after I lived in Phoenix, Arizona for a year, which is as far west as I want to go for the rest of my life. It's much more interesting to observe empty, soul-less people from a safe distance. It's funny. See "The Rapture," too. Thanks. ... Read more

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FUNNIEST MOVIE MADE IN THE 1980'S
I LOVE THESE CRAZY GUYS, THEIR (PIPED IN) AIR GUITARS AND THE FUTURISTIC RELIGION THEY UNWITTINGLY ESTABLISH AS A RESULT OF THE MUSIC OF THEIR (VERY UNTALENTED) BAND-- THE WYLD STALLYNS!!! IT REALLY DOESN'T GET ANY FUNNIER THAN THIS!

UNDER PRESSURE OF FAILING HISTORY CLASS, AND HAVING TO ATTEND A MILITARY ACADEMY, BILL AND TED RUN HEADLONG INTO A GUARDIAN ANGEL FROM THE FUTURE, WHILE HANGING OUT AT THE LOCAL CIRCLE K, TRYING TO DECIDE HOW TO PASS THEIR CLASS. FROM THERE, THEY GO ON A MISSION IN A TIME-TRAVELING TELEPHONE BOOTH, WHICH TAKES THEM ALL THROUGH AN AMAZING VARIETY OF "HISTORICAL" TIMES AND PLACES, MEETING UP WITH SOME AWESOME "MEDIEVAL BABES" ALONG THE WAY. (THE "HISTORICAL BABES" END UP BECOMING THE NEXT TWO MEMBERS OF THE BAND WYLD STALLYNS IN THE END!!! HAHAHHA)

ON THEIR EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, THEY PICK UP NAPOLEAN, JOAN OF ARC, SOCRATES (THEY PRONOUCE IT "SO-KRATES"), BEETHOVEN, BILLY THE KID AND A FEW OTHER HILARIOUSLY UNSTUNNED HISTORICAL FIGURES, ALL OF WHOM TAKE THE JOURNEY AS THOUGH IT WAS NOTHING TOO OUT OF THE ORDINARY. (THIS, IN ITSELF, IS FUNNY!)

I WON'T GIVE AWAY THE ENDING, WHICH IS VERY FUN AND MAKES FOR A GREAT SHOW FOR BILL AND TED'S FELLOW-STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, WITH ALL OF THE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS ACTING OUT THEIR PARTS IN AN
"A-WINNING" SCHOOL PRESENTATION. BUT THE REAL FUNNY PART IS THE ADVENTURE ITSELF!!!

GOTTA SEEE THIS ONE!!!

Its about time! (Literally)
Finally, one of THE funniest movies ever made is coming to DVD. This is one of the movies that helped launch the career of now mega-star Keanu Reeves, and spawned a bunch of copy-cat movies like "Wayne's World" and "Dude, Where's MY Car?", but this was the original DUDE movie! Dim-witted high school friends Bill & Ted don't realize they are destined to be the great ones who will change the course of the world through their music, bringing about world peace (as well as clean air, and more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with!) Right now, they have to pass history! With help from cool futuristic dude Rufus and a time-travelling phone booth, they travel back in time to assemble the greatest historical figures for the greatest history report of all time! Its a hilarious romp through the past and present (and you may learn a thing or 2). Wyld Stallyns rules!

Misadventures In Time & Space
* BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (B&TXA) is a low-budget,
derivative, silly film that shamelessly panders to its teen-age target
audience; it represents nothing new in film-making; and is blatantly
commercial.

I really liked it.

The plot is simple enough. Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reaves)
are two California kids who want to become famous rock stars. There's
only one problem: they can't play their instruments. Well, actually,
there's two problems: they're both complete boneheads, and their
hardnosed history teacher tells them that if they *don't* pass their
oral history report, they *will* flunk out of school. This oral
report involves imagining what historical personages would've thought
of the present day and the local environment. Not too demanding, but
it's still above the ability of these two, and if they flunk, Ted's
sourpuss dad intends to send him off to a military academy in Alaska,
separating the two friends, probably forever.

Fortunately, the society of Earth 700 years from now has a special
interest in them, and an agent (George Carlin) is sent back in a time
machine (shaped like a phone booth -- a normal one, not an
old-fashioned British police box) to help out. So Bill and Ted have
in their hands the best possible tool for conducting hands-on
historical research.

This sounds silly, and it is, and all the unkind things I said above
about this movie are true. That leads to the question: What saves

B&TXA? Simple enough: Bill and Ted. These two guys don't look like
they have the collective mental energy to make a nightlight glow.
They don't actually have to *do* anything to be funny. You laugh at
them even if they're just *standing* there.

Though when push comes to shove, it turns out they can be quite
resourceful. Like a lot of teenagers, they just need to get
motivated. It's hard not to like them, since they're about as
good-natured kids as you're likely to find. Bill has the initiative,
willing to take risks without hesitation because he doesn't have a
clue of what he's getting into. Ted is a born romantic, a sweet-faced
kid who all the girls think is really cute. Any time he sees a
good-looking girl his heart leaps into his throat and stars flicker in
his eyes.

The story, like I said, is silly, but silliness is hardly a critical
term when applied to a comedy -- and it does have its moments, such as
Napoleon at the water slides, and Genghis Kahn ... well, I won't say
any more. It certainly does pander to teenagers: nearly all the
adults are creeps or morons, and the kids turn the tables on them in
the end -- but it also made me feel wistful. I didn't have fun being
a teenager and this film suggests to me in its own bizarre way that it
could've been more fun than it was. The only thing I can seriously
say against B&TXA was that by the time it was over I was glad I didn't
have to listen to "PARTY ON, DUDE!" and "EXCELLENT!" one more time.

BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE isn't the sort of thing that would
win awards, in fact nobody in their right mind would recommend it for
one. Some movies are like expensive dinners; others are like Big
Macs. But as Big Macs go, BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE tastes
good.

Oh, yeah, the usual cautions: No noticeable bad language, overt
sexual activity, or graphic violence (unless you are the sort of
person who feels that the Three Stooges are a bad influence on kids).
And definitely, absolutely not for people who are into serious cinema.
[Minor update of review from 1989 -- GVG]

Profound in a weird way
On one level, this is one of the silliest movies of all time. The humor is juvenile, and the teenage protagonists *seem* almost completely vacant-minded, their only goal to to start a great rock band, despite their complete inability to play their instruments. They end up on the most hilarious journey through time imaginable, with their 1990's San Dimas, CA sensibilities encountering such historic figures as "So-krates," "Joan of Arc," and Sigmund "Frood," all of whom end up wreaking havoc in a So. Calif. shopping mall. Bill and Ted are endearingly mindless, driven by hormones, and Ted remains Keanu Reeves's best role. The film has some of the funniest one-liners you'll want to add to your collection of quotations suitable to many daily occasions, and somehow there's a sweetness, innocence, and weird profundity to the whole adventure. It's also a multigenerational classic. I'm in my 40's, and my teenage children have been fans since elementary school as well and remain so. It's one of those films that whenever I mention it in a college classroom instantly elicits nods, smiles, and complicit laughs.

Good!
Bill & Ted's's Excellent Adventure is a funny movie that is enjoyable to watch and it was just a really cute movie and reminds me of other good time-travel movies like Time Bandits. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were really good and I also liked George Carlin and I recommend this movie. ... Read more

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dolly's valley aint blue!
this movie was on lifetime and i thought it was great. then i bought the dvd and it's super-spectacular. she does a nice accoustic version of "wildflowers" and there's this weird easter egg where if you hilite her eyes and press enter then you hear only the music and the soundeffects. pretty strange.

Highlight for many occasions
This film is a blend of raw humanity and brutal honesty. It was so refreshing to see the issues delt with done with so much style and not the usual sentimental [stuff]. As a huge Dolly fan and a director of performance myself, I have only this to say: Yes, Dolly is not a Liz Taylor, but few performers has ever reached her level of honesty in character and emotion when it comes to playing any character. Instead of boring crocedile tears, Dolly shows us inner pain - as does this whole film. This is a movie for people that understand what it means to hide your pain so that the show can go on. Deeply moving and profoundly liberating if you are able to leave soap operas behind you for a minute or two.

"Two Thumps Up"
This is a great movie....Dolly Parton goes through a journey with many ups ans downs. She is a singer that is trying to make it big. She performs at a friend, Ruby's, bar. Will she make it big, or be stuck in the wrong gear?..highly recommmended especially Dolly fans!!

True Dolly Style
Touching, simple, real-life like story, wonderful movie, with gorgeous music with Dolly sounding like an angel. Like every other Dolly fan I would love for someone somehow to publish
a copy of "We Might be Inlove" as it has never been released outside of the actual movie, and there is no soundtrack...
As for the "Editorial Review" The movie was WRITTEN based on Dolly's song "Blue Valley Songbird" off her "Hungry Again" Album, and the whole bit is to explain Leanna's origins, and how she came to be where she's at.... and to explain what's REALLY been holding here back through the years, so if you get beyond your opinion that Dolly can't act you'll see there's another depth to this story.... Highly recommended to anyone who loves Dolly, music and or Romance!!!

The Blue Valley Songbird is singin tonight!
Dolly's 1999 made-for-tv movie has finally made it to home video. Dolly's musical and acting abilities both shine on this release. The movie, based upon Dolly's fictional story song "Blue Valley Songbird" features Dolly playing the read headed Leanna Taylor. The plot centers around Leanna trying to make it big as a country sginer by playing night clubs and fighting to get on a major label. Dolly songs featured in the movie are "Blue Valley Songbird", "Wildflowers" (peformed beatifully by Dolly accompanied only by her autoharp!!!), "I Hope Youre Never Happy", "Runaway Feelin". Two songs never recorded by Dolly, also appear in the moivie these are the gospel standard '"Angel Band" which is by far the BEST version ever!!! The other new track is the Dolly penned duet "We Might Be In Love" which is peformed several times as a duet by Dolly & co-star Billy Dean. This movie will please any Dolly or Billy Dean fan! ... Read more

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Not likable, but still recommended.
Highway (James Cox, 2002)

There are any number of reasons to watch James Cox's first feature film, Highway (not least of which because Cox directed one of 2003's most talked-about and controversial films, Wonderland). It's hard to say the film itself is one of them, oddly enough.

It centers around two stoned-out buddies, Pilot (the always wonderful Jake Gyllenhaal) and Jack (Jared Leto, looking for all the world like Charlie Sheen in Repo Man here). Jack, the womanizer, has found himself in bed with the wrong woman, the trophy wife of a mob boss, and needs to get out of Las Vegas. He and Pilot head for Seattle after one of the most surreal drug buys in all of film (the dealer played by Jeremy Piven, recently seen in Black Hawk Down and Very Bad Things, deserves a film all to himself). Along the way, they find themselves repeatedly entangled with a homeless runaway (Selma Blair) and an old hippie trying to get to Seattle for the Kurt Cobain vigil (John C. McGinley). The stage is set, and the movie makes its Easy Rider-esque way through the West.

The main reason to see this movie is that Jake Gyllenhaal and Jared Leto are fantastic actors. Blair (soon to be in the much-hyped Hellboy) and McGinley make great foils for the two. I'd be hard-pressed to call this a comedy, but it does have its share of uncomfortably funny lines. It ends up, however, being (as odd as this sounds) a lighthearted tale about the myriad ways in which one's dreams can be shattered.

Did I like it? I still haven't figured that out. Would I recommend it? Without hesitation. *** ½

this adventure is not that good
Jared Leto plays Jack...Jake Gylenhaal plays Pilot and Selma Blair plays Cassie..Leto and Gylenhaal skip town after Leto boffs this Miranda chick and her husband sends out goons after them...though ok in some spots this movie goes into a long era of involving Snakeboys..a crazy drunken Jeremy Piven(why he's in this movie we dont know)...going to a whoreplace and meeting John C. McGinley....the snakeboy is too scary though the premise is great..boffing some rich guys wife and then leaving town..its a good story but then with all of the rest of the stuff we get lost into a pit of spunk and spit out at the end..only the end is good and the actors show their real talents...if you wanna watch this movie..take the train..not the highway

Jared Leto is a total babe
Jack (Jared Leto) is shown in his full physical glory. For those of you that saw him in Requiem and wanted to see more skin - this movie will please you immensely.

OK, so I'm saying buy this movie to see Jared Leto bump & grind away in the buff. I think that's hell of a reason.

Jared, if you're out there - you are one hotty!

Confused, and tries too hard.
Solid performance once again by Jake Gyllenhaal, unfortunately the movie tries way too hard to be hard-hitting and meaningfully deep, and ends up instead coming off as overly pretentious and empty.

Everything is set to impress the youth of today with extreme coolness, ecstacy, weed, acid, crime and plenty swearing. ...and don't forget about the alligator-boy!??????? I wish I could. (bad bad bad) Anyone who grew up during this period will find blatant inconsistencies.
The movie is, for the majority, set soon before and immediately after the death of Kurt Cobain, yet includes none of Nirvana's music in the soundtrack - it is instead provided by one of the members of the Black Crowes, and is pretty decent.

An early 90's Nostalgia / Road trip movie about a couple of Hunter S. Thompson-esque characters which essentially relies on Leto and Gyllenhaal to keep you watching until the end.
John C. McGinley gives an 'interesting' performance as Johnny the Fox.
I would definately strongly recommend hiring instead of buying this movie, if you feel you just have to see it.

The tragical non-hip tour
I am going to use the word 'hip' a number of times in this review, so I decided to look it up and see what the defintion was in the context of how I will be using it. The internet dictionary says the following -

1. Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments.
2. Very fashionable or stylish.

This movie had it's moments, but they were far and few between. Jared Leto plays Jack Hayes, a guy on the run because he was having an affair with another man's wife. And the man just happened to be connected to the mob of sorts, so he sends three goons after Jack to mess him up. Kind of hard to feel any sympathy for this guy, as he pretty much gets what he deserves. Next we have Pilot, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, a stoner who agrees to travel with Jack from Las Vegas to Seattle, intially as support, but later it's discovered he has his own motives. He's a pusher who smokes a lot of pot, so again, another character undeserving of anyone's sympathies. Finally, we meet Cassie, played by Selma Blair. After the boys make a quick stop at a brothel, the hook up with Cassie. Cassie is a prostitute who sort of fell into the business and stayed in because the money was good. Another wonderful character. There were some funny moments, with scenes involving Jeremy Piven and John C. McGinley, but overall this movie fell kinda flat for me. I enjoy the road trip type movie, Fandango being one of my favorites, but, with that movie, I developed an interest in the characters, and wanted to see what happened next. It's like you wanted to put yourself in the group, go with them, have the experiences they're having, but there was none of that in this movie. I felt little to nothing for the characters, as they were a bunch of self serving a&&holes. At the end of the movie, when one character got caught and punished, I couldn't have cared less. Actions have consequences, and negative actions usually have negative consequences. I know this wasn't supposed to be a full on comedy, as I think it was supposed to be a reflection of the gen-x culture, much like Easy Rider was a relflection of the 60's counterculture, but it didn't come off that way. The exagerrated attempt to be quirky and hip really showed and fell flat, like a can of soda pop left open for too long. "But", you ask, "how can a movie with characters with such hip and cool names like Pilot, Johnny the Fox, Scawldy, Boneman, Moon, Shanks, and Softboy not be cool?" Well, there you go. Mildly amusing at times, but trying too hard the rest of the time. You can't make a concious effort to be hip. Either you are or you aren't. And the harder you try, the less you are. You want to see a good road trip movie? Check out Fandango or Easy Rider ... Read more

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Worst movie ever
This movie is a joke. Writing is horrible, directing is horrible, acting is the pits. Any questions?

Comically delightful
What a joy to watch. Joe Lara as Ponytail gave an outstanding performance as the sinister, yet humorous villain.Was on his side the whole time. I was saddened by his 'death'.Frank Zagorino on the other hand was his usual bland, stiff line spitter. ... Read more

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ok
great for a super-low budget. wort buying cuz its only $9.99

a 'total recall' ...
when this movie came on my cable server, i looked it up on amazon to see what was up. when i saw that it had not been reviewed, i decided to watch it, to see if i could help. ...this picture is not even bad enough to be good. it's just not good.
an ex-government 'highly-trained killer' (you were the best of the worst, son) has his memory tampered with by his ex-commanders, but starts getting it back by dint of several implausable occurences. the action sequences that follow are unconvincing, unbelievable, and derivative. the acting is, well, i'm sorry, but words fail me here. the father 'fessing up, any scene in which the son, sean, appears ...
i mean, i really like court-room scenes, but these court-room scenes are just awful, so manipulated as to be simply ludicrous (how many times can a judge say, 'this is turning into a circus'? i believe that this movie holds the world record for this banality catagory).
is there anything redeeming here? yes. the female lead, kimberly kates, enchanted me (the male lead is presumably a 'hunk', but that's not my department). i even thought that she delivered her impossibly hackneyed lines with verve and flair, but as i mentioned, i may have been enchanted. she did enchant me. let's hope that she gets many more roles, because i want to see her again, but maybe not at the cost of sitting through this turkey again (but i will if i have to, as i said, she enchanted me)
in short, this is not a movie to avoid, it is just a movie to ignore.

do not buy !
i will never watch this movie again i didn't even watch it all the way through it was horrible ! the effects were bad , the acting was worse please do not buy until you rent it first, i made that mistake. ... Read more

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An Erotic S&M Movie
In the "sovereign state of Czechoslovakia" beautiful young women have been set up, arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten-year drug-possession terms in a prison. The latest victim is an American girl. the prison is run with an iron hand by a drug-addict warden, with the help of her sadistic lover, both of whom look lustfully upon the newcomer. Some of the inmates were killed by a mystery torturer, and as prostitutes for a local casino. They were also put to work nude in preparing drugs. There is pretty of nudity, sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, plus sadism in this movie. The end is a little too simple and not realistic, but that's what you expect from the most of movies. This are also some action screnes.

Not a GREAT women-in-prison film, but VERY HOT in parts!!!
Brigitte Neilson was very sexy as the warden, and when sheinspects the new crop of young female inmates she does a wonderful jobof lusting over her new playthings! I also really liked her German-accented female assistant. One of the best scenes (in my opinion) is when she helps a young girl out of a bathtub, running her hands all over her pretty rear end. She's later seen laying in bed with her, again caressing her legs and curvy b***! Very nice!!! The director/writer of this flick had a good imagination, and knew how to make a sexy women-in-prison film!

That's not to say this movie was perfect! The plot really dragged at times, and several scenes could have been done better (again, in my opinion only!) The girls-showering-together was nice, but not as good as it could have been. And I was particularly disappointed with the scene where the warden (Brigitte Neilson) finally gets together with the pretty little American inmate she's lusted after for so long. It was just kind of bland, when it promised so much! I tell you, they need to hire ME to make & produce a really hot women-in-prison flick! I'd do it RIGHT!!! END ... Read more

Description

Two friends on the run and a sexy drifter take a wild cross-country journey from Las Vegas to Seattle. This is one trip you won't want to miss as they run from goons, encounter a sideshow freak and wind up at a vigil for the recently departed Kurt Cobain. ... Read more

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Not likable, but still recommended.
Highway (James Cox, 2002)

There are any number of reasons to watch James Cox's first feature film, Highway (not least of which because Cox directed one of 2003's most talked-about and controversial films, Wonderland). It's hard to say the film itself is one of them, oddly enough.

It centers around two stoned-out buddies, Pilot (the always wonderful Jake Gyllenhaal) and Jack (Jared Leto, looking for all the world like Charlie Sheen in Repo Man here). Jack, the womanizer, has found himself in bed with the wrong woman, the trophy wife of a mob boss, and needs to get out of Las Vegas. He and Pilot head for Seattle after one of the most surreal drug buys in all of film (the dealer played by Jeremy Piven, recently seen in Black Hawk Down and Very Bad Things, deserves a film all to himself). Along the way, they find themselves repeatedly entangled with a homeless runaway (Selma Blair) and an old hippie trying to get to Seattle for the Kurt Cobain vigil (John C. McGinley). The stage is set, and the movie makes its Easy Rider-esque way through the West.

The main reason to see this movie is that Jake Gyllenhaal and Jared Leto are fantastic actors. Blair (soon to be in the much-hyped Hellboy) and McGinley make great foils for the two. I'd be hard-pressed to call this a comedy, but it does have its share of uncomfortably funny lines. It ends up, however, being (as odd as this sounds) a lighthearted tale about the myriad ways in which one's dreams can be shattered.

Did I like it? I still haven't figured that out. Would I recommend it? Without hesitation. *** ½

this adventure is not that good
Jared Leto plays Jack...Jake Gylenhaal plays Pilot and Selma Blair plays Cassie..Leto and Gylenhaal skip town after Leto boffs this Miranda chick and her husband sends out goons after them...though ok in some spots this movie goes into a long era of involving Snakeboys..a crazy drunken Jeremy Piven(why he's in this movie we dont know)...going to a whoreplace and meeting John C. McGinley....the snakeboy is too scary though the premise is great..boffing some rich guys wife and then leaving town..its a good story but then with all of the rest of the stuff we get lost into a pit of spunk and spit out at the end..only the end is good and the actors show their real talents...if you wanna watch this movie..take the train..not the highway

Jared Leto is a total babe
Jack (Jared Leto) is shown in his full physical glory. For those of you that saw him in Requiem and wanted to see more skin - this movie will please you immensely.

OK, so I'm saying buy this movie to see Jared Leto bump & grind away in the buff. I think that's hell of a reason.

Jared, if you're out there - you are one hotty!

Confused, and tries too hard.
Solid performance once again by Jake Gyllenhaal, unfortunately the movie tries way too hard to be hard-hitting and meaningfully deep, and ends up instead coming off as overly pretentious and empty.

Everything is set to impress the youth of today with extreme coolness, ecstacy, weed, acid, crime and plenty swearing. ...and don't forget about the alligator-boy!??????? I wish I could. (bad bad bad) Anyone who grew up during this period will find blatant inconsistencies.
The movie is, for the majority, set soon before and immediately after the death of Kurt Cobain, yet includes none of Nirvana's music in the soundtrack - it is instead provided by one of the members of the Black Crowes, and is pretty decent.

An early 90's Nostalgia / Road trip movie about a couple of Hunter S. Thompson-esque characters which essentially relies on Leto and Gyllenhaal to keep you watching until the end.
John C. McGinley gives an 'interesting' performance as Johnny the Fox.
I would definately strongly recommend hiring instead of buying this movie, if you feel you just have to see it.

The tragical non-hip tour
I am going to use the word 'hip' a number of times in this review, so I decided to look it up and see what the defintion was in the context of how I will be using it. The internet dictionary says the following -

1. Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments.
2. Very fashionable or stylish.

This movie had it's moments, but they were far and few between. Jared Leto plays Jack Hayes, a guy on the run because he was having an affair with another man's wife. And the man just happened to be connected to the mob of sorts, so he sends three goons after Jack to mess him up. Kind of hard to feel any sympathy for this guy, as he pretty much gets what he deserves. Next we have Pilot, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, a stoner who agrees to travel with Jack from Las Vegas to Seattle, intially as support, but later it's discovered he has his own motives. He's a pusher who smokes a lot of pot, so again, another character undeserving of anyone's sympathies. Finally, we meet Cassie, played by Selma Blair. After the boys make a quick stop at a brothel, the hook up with Cassie. Cassie is a prostitute who sort of fell into the business and stayed in because the money was good. Another wonderful character. There were some funny moments, with scenes involving Jeremy Piven and John C. McGinley, but overall this movie fell kinda flat for me. I enjoy the road trip type movie, Fandango being one of my favorites, but, with that movie, I developed an interest in the characters, and wanted to see what happened next. It's like you wanted to put yourself in the group, go with them, have the experiences they're having, but there was none of that in this movie. I felt little to nothing for the characters, as they were a bunch of self serving a&&holes. At the end of the movie, when one character got caught and punished, I couldn't have cared less. Actions have consequences, and n