jazzx:

TheMGMKid1A:

jazzx:

TheMGMKid1A:

Jazz, I hope there is room on the lifeboat for some of my films? But if not, I am prepared to go down with the ship like a gentleman.

All episodes of "Cleopatra" have been archived.

The only other 2 active films on TMO are "Pax Romana" which I will consider and "Rio Diablo" which scored *** stars, solely for music violations. Correct the description for that film by December 5th and I'll put it on the lifeboat, otherwise it's not getting on.

Thanks Jazz, glad to know the Queen of the Nile won't sink. I made an adjustment on Rio Diablo which I hope is enough. if not. Here is hopping Rio can find a deck chair to hang on to.

MGM

That "various artists on freeplay" crap would have got you a one-star dock.

That means "Rio Diablo" is now worth **** stars and has scraped its way onto the lifeboat.

Wheew! And we didn't have to dress Rio up as a lady to get it on the lifeboat. Thanks so much Jazz!

***** stars

A really representation of just about every "intelligent" religion v science argument we're used to seeing again and again.

With spooky, lonely analogue synth music bookending the piece, this is great stuff.

Teaser out now

**** stars

Vigilante janitor cleans up more than just the floor at high school.

story - I thought the acting was great to start with but didn't change mood during the key moments in the film. It was like it was all being read out of a book.

But well put together, no doubt.

Heya' Jazz, you oughta' check this series by Meowan out and see if you think it is worth getting onboard: Fallacies of A Stranger

Part 1: http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/139878

Part 2: http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/139999

Part 3: http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/140142

- Orky

bmaitland:

Could you possibly add Bmaitland: The Musical to your archives (You gave it 4 stars)?

**** stars

What would I say to the person who made this film if he were here right now?

What would I say? ...

I know .. it goes something like this ...

[G7 chord on the piano]

"Consider yourself 4-starred!
Consider yourself in my movie vault!
Your film gave me a laugh
And thats
..

why
..

you get such-a-high mark! OH!


Though your acting was sad
And your singing sucked
And your audio was bad
But then who gives a ... MONKEYS!

Because the jokes were
And had me roaring with laughter!
And the '7 excuses' song
I'll remember ever after! SO! ..

Consider yourself 4-starred,
Consider yourself placed in the archive
You'll certainly go quite far
So consider yourseeeeeeelllf (sidder yourself [sidder yourself])

4 Staaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrred"

[whispered] "what?"

[Shouted] "FOUR STARRED!!"

***** stars

An excellent supernatural crime thriller.

Usually with such noiresque films, the narration is done by a single protagonist. But this one divides the narration between two opposing detective characters - and it works!

Very original. We have the regular human detective and, also on the side of , a werewolf detective. Both are heading for a showdown as the evidence for a young girl's murder points to a werewolf committing the crime.

It's a very well acted film with a very intelligent script.

Time to download part II as well...

asaoleary123:

Hey, can you have a look at Big TMOer 2008 EP1?, it's also on TMU though, and EP2 is exclusively on there as well. I just wondered how much you would give it, my best review has been three stars from you. Which I'm quite proud of to this day. http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/153355 I'd also like to nominate sickjoke's Infiltration- http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/146903

I take it Fallacies of a Stranger was not worth saving?

- Orky

OD-Ork-Boy:

I take it Fallacies of a Stranger was not worth saving?

- Orky

Lol, no worries. I just mis-read your order of movies to watch and thought you might've over-looked my post. My bad. Too much online gaming today - it's melted my brain .

- Orky

***** stars

This film is fun, even if one doesn't get all the TMO in-jokes (such as "Come On" and "Blackbird" and "Steven Kreg").

Generally well performed and with superb editing and overlay work in the action scenes. There were also some very quirky overlay choices which had me scratching my head (such as the ridiculous cartoon face which is frozen over Star Coconut's face at the end of one scene). But then again, there were quite a few bizarre moments like that which I kind of got used to.

Audio levels in the bar scene were a bit off, the band (who were great) often drowned out the dialogue or had me straining to hear. The barman was consistently too low in the mix - which is a shame as he gave a performance.

But that really is it for the gripes, it was a fluffy, colourful story with much to recommend it in its slick visual production values and equally slick soundtrack. (Flanagan's Fog did very well here).

More could have been made of the "fish-out-of-water" theme - but that's probably a not-so-secret desire of mine to see this stretched out into a 90 minute feature film; a compliment if ever there was one!

[or it could just be that those numerous skimpy costumes appealed to my lowest common denominator - I could watch them for hours ]

Repo Rescuers by Supercozz

**** stars

A lot of the voices were too low against the music and each other in this film. But the premise was intriguing even if the events became very disjointed by the end. Maybe the confusion was deliberate, but I didn't see the motivation for the ghost hunter to actually fire a shot at what was a defenceless target. There were some bits when Sadako talked to Coyote in her head though.

Nice music throughout.

A strange movie - bit of a puzzle. Maybe it should have been called Project Sudoku!

***** stars

Wow! What a great twist!

"April Johnson" acted her socks off, she was great! Why have I never heard of her in 3 years here? Completely believable.

The ending, because of her performance, had an immense impact as I was fully on her side and hoping for her to do well in the TV show, especially because she had something to prove to her goading sister and her horrible egotistical opponent.

The film wasn't without its flaws - some unavoidable like the mysteriously reappearing door in one shot. But there was a very sloppy moment at the beginning of the film where the TV ad shows the prize to be $500 000, but the presenter says it's $250 000. That reduced this film to 4-stars at a stroke, as I would never allow such an obvious mistake like that in my film.

But overall, this is a very original story very much in the "be careful what you wish for" school of Twilight Zonish storytelling; and coupled with the acting performance by the lead, it makes for a film which is impossible to rate lower than 5 stars.