Reviews

It was a bit long and every minute was in near complete darkness. Some good acting with Pattinson doing a vocal take on Bale and Affleck . Somehow, and I know it's all stunt work, Batman faded in and out of being a total kick ass and the gadgetry was pretty minimal which I missed. I see no need for a sequel to this iteration of Batman. Music was derivative from a number of sources and the and I guess I should watch it again ( yuck) to get more substance. SPOLIER !!! The ending had about a million deaths and was not even a glimmer of hope in sight. It's way long and the action sequences at the end are long , unexciting and anticlimactic. The villain was plain out lame. Zoe Kravitz, all 80 pounds of her, is tremendously appealing visually but not a very good actress as The Catwoman. Although the Halle Berry movie was terrible and The MIchele Pfeiffer versions were terrible movies they were both better Catwomen and, they can act. All in all. They should have had Affleck do this one. I don't know why I even gave it a 6.

This may be the worst movie I have ever seen. It was devastatingly boring when you consider the "story" that was it's source material that is an almost impossible feat.Ridley Scott has made some of the best movies I have ever seen including Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator. Mr. Scott has had his failures but this movie bears the title of Epic only because it is an example of Epic Failure. I don't know if anyone who was connected with the writing or production of this movie ever even glanced at the story. The depiction of God as some nasty little kid who sounds like he is doing an imitation of Jason Statham in Transporter was ludicrous.I actually expected that at some point he would tell Christian Bale to just call him "Frank" instead of "I Am". They did this movie in 1956 and the role of Ramses was played by Yul Bryner. Mr.Bryner looked like a God with a physical appearance that was terrifying. The dude was ripped and looked amazing. Bryner(look him up) was a former circus acrobat and played scary cruel better than anyone ever has. This current Ramses looked like he's lived on a diet of macaroni and cheese with extra bacon bits his entire life. His flabby face and body made me nauseous as well as his grammar school level acting ability only further detracting from his histrionic portrayal. Christian Bale, one of my favorite actors of this generation, was equally awful as I watched his strange Don Draper haircut prevail as his beard changed from scene to scene. The ponderous score was intensely annoying. The endless scenes of people running blindly doing God knows what were a horror.The Israelites are engaged in some kind of guerrilla warfare where they were apparently able to enlist the aide of the Nile Crocodiles to help produce one of the plagues was reminiscent of Sharknado. Now lets get to Charleton Heston. HESTON WAS MOSES! Bale was running around with some weird ornate golden sword instead of a staff which is an integral to the original story while he was riding a horse WITH WESTERN STIRRUPS (not used in any form in this area until at least 1200 years later). Bale, despite the suggestion of his Father-in-Law,apparently never heeded his suggestion to bathe. This movie was a failure on every level. Acting, Direction, Writing, Musical Scoring and even the Photography was appallingly bad.Moses's wife was attractive and also had the ability to never age between her insipid acting attempts despite the passage of many years.This movie also showed how the special effects were BETTER in 1956 I paid to see this movie,four plus hours of my life I will never get back (I had to rewind it when I dozed off several times) and at age 63 I can not abide the loss of any more precious time.

This movie was and IS the worst piece of crap I have ever seen. I was forced to watch it in college ( 1969 ) People were "pretending" to find such deep meaning in this film . It has NO meaning. It is garbage, utter garbage. There is non existent editing , horrific music and rancid acting. But then sadly maybe it isn't actually acting. It's horrible in totality. Jean Seberg is a beautiful woman and that is the only positive thing in this movie. I personally want to put that eternal cigarette out in Belmondo's eye. The endless scene in the bedroom made me wish he would fall out the window in real life - that was about the only thing that might have redeemed this movie.

First things first. I have seen this on Broadway 7 times including 2 performances with Michael Crawford when it first opened. The show, when it opened was really innovative in many ways with some really different effects.As far as I am concerned it has some of the best songs ever done in any Broadway Musical. I would rank it in my top three for music with West Side Story the clear number 1. The movie provides you with aspects that they could not do on a stage regarding the scope and costumes and the views that could not be accomplished on Broadway. They also added some scenes that were definitely appreciated as they helped clarify certain past events. DO NOT compare this movie to any movie that presented this story as a Horror movie. It is a musical based on the Leroux novel. But alas despite all of the things that the movie was able to add it was horrifically offset by the singing. Emmy Rossum can sing. Gerard Butler despite a great try simply can not carry a tune in a bucket. At all. You need SPECTACULAR vocal ability to sing the role of The Phantom. Emmy can handle some of the minor songs but the female lead ALSO demands a very special vocal talent which she lacks. Some of the other characters were dubbed - like Minnie Driver much to the credit of the movie but why in the world they did not dub the leads is amazing and despite my 7 rating destroyed the heart of this movie. I feel that in the past you cast a star like Deborah Kerr in King and I or Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady or Natalie Wood in West Side and then you get the best damn singer around to do the vocals. If you can do that with those three gigantic stars you can certainly do it with Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler. As a point of interest - Marni Nixon did all three of those roles and changed her voice to emulate different females she was dubbing. Because Marni Nixon was an idiotically great S I N G E R ... singer .... . OMG ... I am going to see Les Mis today. What will happen then ?

I went there expecting to be disappointed and was. The annoying child. the nicely constructed but plain old silly imagining of GORT( he's apparently a tightly formed nest of space bees) - which was his name - not an ACRONYM . . . yeesh ! I am glad Gort looked basically the same and with proper handling could have been quite a bit more menacing though twice as big as he needed to be. Let me give you a quick review. I went in , loaded down with large popcorn and a 3 quart beverage and found primo seats. Took over the little island of seats (3) with my jacket and soda and was ready to be amazed. Okay? So where was the spaceship ? I didn't want a swirly cloud ball I wanted a freaking space ship. Why wasn't the kid smart and slick and helpful ? ; why was he a spoiled whiny dangerous asexual brat who changed his mind like diapers ? Well I'll tell you why. Because in 2008 that is just the type of kids you get.They sure got that right. But the movie really must have gotten really good because I slept through a solid 30 minutes and when I awoke found I had missed nothing both literally and figuratively. I almost drove 50 miles to see this in IMAX and spent 17 bucks. Believe me 9 dollars was enough of a rip-off. I left feeling refreshed and happy because any movie that can't keep me awake for the first 20-25 minutes can't have much to say.

This movie was: 1. Way too long. 2. Way way too long. 3. Tried to do too much. 4. Made me believe that Jake Gyllenhall is a more believable love interest than his sister. Sorry , she's just very plain looking and a mediocre actress at best. 5. Lost the dialog in an overwhelming music score. 6. Had a horrible script. 7. Ledger is the best thing about the film - but no one could live up to the hype. Sadly he will not be able to reprise this role. 8. Put every good scene in the trailers and fooled everyone by doing so. 9.The people who made this knew it is a stinker and sold it hard on the Net. 10. Had an over and over and over feel to it - I started looking at my watch about 45 minutes into the movie and about every 10 minutes thereafter. I thought it would never end and then the ending was blah.

I have read stuff here about Maggie Gyllenhall being a BETTER actress that Katie Holmes. Well she may be but Katie Holmes was much more believable than she was in the role. She was unwatchable. She ruined the movie for me because no one could believe that she was being fought over by two handsome men. I almost puked when the Joker says "Hello Beautiful", and some one in the theater actually called out "She's a beast !".

The first movie was great. This one , just really disappointing.

Go see it. I won't have such high expectations again.

The honest vote should be a 5 - but I lowered it to account for the deluded and blind.

This movie was a nightmare. Hard to believe that Emmerich did this movie. It has all been said before. The historical inaccuracies were astonishing. I actually watched in horrified fascination this drek to the very end. Was it some sick masochistic reason ? this is a few hours of my life I have wasted and at my age there may not be many left. The weird Conan like narration ? This is a train wreck of a movie. No amount of CGI can save this and there is NOTHING to recommend it. At least Plan 9 from Outer Space was funny. What in heck's name were they thinking of when they did this ? Could anyone have been serious doing this film? This is a total total BOMB.Definitely in the top 10 worst movies of ALL time.

I went to this having seen and adored this television show and was fully expecting to be disappointed. Could they have done a few things differently - well yes. But they did a great job and I loved that fact that both stars had a fresh take on their respective characters and still paid homage to the original characters. I have read many comments that say the humor was "above the belt" and for a completely refreshing change it was. I am so tired of toilet humor and was happy that they did not revert to the whole say the "f" word to get a laugh. The bits that were a direct lift from the old series were pulled off beautifully. Classic lines and scenarios were seamlessly worked in and although some newer viewers may not get them well I just hope they take the time to discover what was one of the true gems of television comedy.Bravo to the cast and crew. I see that they set the stage for a sequel and I hope it happens. Also in closing, if Anne Hathaway reads this, please know that I love you. Totally unashamedly and idiotically love you.The really sad part is that I was also in love with Barbara Feldon and old enough to clearly remember seeing her in Black & White lounging on a tiger skin rug doing adds for Brylcreme.

... and then I will see that one too. So will my son. I have read and unfortunately agreed with all of the negative feedback. The jazz tunes were unnecessary. The dance scene was like uhhhh why? Jumbled mess of a movie and Kirsten Dunst looked tired throughout. Too far away from the comic book and Tobey McGuire is not handling close ups very well these days. He's just not an attractive man and men are not my type at all. My date who is much younger than I liked it but she was waaaay better looking than any women in the movie. I mean it's not even close. Franco is a good looking guy - plus he can act. And some one said Topher Grace would have done a good Peter Parker and I couldn't agree more. I have to go back and the the inevitable 4th. I hope they will save the series with that effort.

Well I expected that the story would be a bit off and I expected that it would be a living comic book so in those matters I was correct. I found that many of the "pictures" presented were truly beautiful. Now the rest of what I felt is not quite that positive. The use of "mutants" was just dumb and certainly one was enough. Additionally if you "must" use mutants maybe you should improve on the makeup job so that it looks better than the Lon Chaney Sr. silent version of Hunchback of Notre Dame, which sadly it did not. Perhaps spending more than 6 dollars on a scriptwriter would have helped as well as I can't imagine how the actors were able to keep a straight face during the utterance of some of these lines.The audience that I sat with openly laughed at some of the lines and the acting was - well - you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear so is cardboardian an word? Xerxes as a Huh-sexual? pierced Giant. I have always admired the Greek Culture and the bravery of the men in this battle but if I see one more shot of greased up six packed posed hoplites I may become physically ill, after the 12th one I was impressed enough. One last item: If Lena Heady reads this I hope she knows I love her with all my heart and I would spend my life making her feel adored.

Lost some of the surprises obviously from the first episode. Too much gratuitous violence with undead creatures , yada , yada, yada. Too long. Needed more story and for it to be less gory so it wouldn't be so borin'.Well they can always hope to do better next year.I was just rejected on this cause I have to write ten lines. So I will elaborate. Everything I saw in this the movie was way overdone. This is a fantastical comedy but the whole rolling wheel thing was just sooooooo long and soooo ridiculous. Plus it had already been done in this movie itself. At least 90 % of the people who see this movie will have no idea what the Jamaican witch was saying. I cared about these people in the first movie but not much now.I am a better actor than the guy who plays thje first mate on Depp's ship. He was totally unbelievable in this movie and I kept waiting for Tinkerbelle to pop out of his frock. Kiera Knightly is luscious. Depp is still funny but you know his character now and it was just tedious. I didn't want to do spoilers but I stated everything you need to know in the first 4 lines.

I read many comments posted here before writing this and found that the people who saw the 1976 version were disappointed so and those who didn't were at least happy. So here's what I think. Number 1 see the original. At it's time it was far scarier than this one. Now the favorite "devil" appearance in a movie as voted on IMDb was in the South Park movie.

What a joke! Ha ha ha.

When the original version came out the devil was far more obscure. There weren't 10,000 specials about the devil on cable and Arnie wasn't fighting the devil. When the original movie came out no one knew what kind of dog that was and the speculations on it's lineage were amazing . No one. No one knew it was a Rottweiler. When that dog made his terrifying appearance there was no history of a really menacing dog in cinema except for TheHound of the Baskervilles. Dogs were our friends. They were Lassie and Rin-tin-tin. If anyone says they did they are liars. Oh yeah, they also changed dogs from the first dog you see( A black Shepard) to the aforementioned Rotty for who knows what reason. The Devil was one very scary son of a bitch. The Devil still is.

This movie does suffer in comparison. Liev Schreiber is a fine actor. Julia Stiles did a passable job for a woman of less than classic appearance. Peck and Remick however were GREAT actors. They were able to bring the patrician presence necessary to a couple who are portraying an Ambassador and his wife to Throne of England. This new pairing could be ambassadors to say, Weehawken New Jersey. Plus the 76 version was filmed in - guess where? Well that would be England. Duuuh! England has a particular look and it doesn't look like Prague. I hate it when I see a movie that is supposed to be in New York City and is filmed in Toronto and this movie accomplished that by obviously not being filmed in England. The Omen kid in this movie wasn't even close as far as being scary as Harvey Stevens and for some reason we have to get his annoying middle name zzzzzzz. If you are going to stay this close to the original you might as go the whole way.

Examples I can give are when the first attractive woman, Holly Palance) nanny jumps off the building the rope snaps her up and she crashes through a window. This poor woman just sort of lumps out "between" the widows and thumps up against the wall. The 76 version is shown from several angles this is an image that I clearly picture 30 years later and is truly and adds the horrible sound effects and slow motion photography filmed from multiple angles to create a very disturbing image. Another moment was the appearance of Mrs Baylock. If I ever saw Billie Whitelaw the original Mrs. B I would immediately become incontinent. This woman's first appearance in screen was one of the scariest moments in movie history. Her eyes positively glow with fanaticism and it is obvious she almost hypnotizes the parents of young Damien. The scene where she bond with young Damien is super creepy. Mia Farrow is so tiny and delicate and has such a pleasant face she just doesn't come close. The topper is that when Whitelaw as Mrs. Baylock encounters Ambassador Thorn in the final moments of the movie their fight to the death had me jumping out of my seat and it still has that effect even though I've seen it several times. And now we come to the most glaring omission of all. The original score by the genius Jerry Goldsmith. To enumerate his musical achievements would be a separate book.. Every once In a while you get a few teases of the Oscar winning score. That score with it's heartbeat driven theme and the screaming choral crescendos completely makes this movie the classic that it has become. Look up his name and if you are on this site and somehow not aware of his musical contributions please look him up. I have many of his albums and his music can be incredibly beautiful and soaring, super mysterious(Chinatown) and in the case of the Omen and other sci-fi/horror classics totally terrifying. Patton, Poltergeist, Alien, The Blue Max, L.A. Confidential, Star Trek, Hoosiers, Basic Instinct, Mulan, The Sand Pebbles. A Patch of Blue are included among his over three hundred film scores which demonstrated his amazing versatility. Oh yeah - he also wrote some music for the Twilight Zone in the original series and did the movie thirty years later. Batten down the hatches and see the "old one" then see this movie, on video. I wish they would restore and reissue the old one and re-release it.

Some of the supporting roles were excellent especially David Thewlis as the photographer and the actor that played Bugenhagen were very fine and must have seen the original and realized that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The two cursed priests and the original nanny's were not so lucky as they suffered greatly in comparison.

In my drive to give out my Oscars I am hurtling through the contenders. I was sure Mr. Foxx was a shoe-in for Best Actor in Ray. This however is the Best Picture of the Year. Clint could come away with three including actor and director. This movie immediately moves into my top 50 and it would win against much stronger fields than this years. I don't like - small spoiler- tearjerkers. This one crushed me. I will remember this movie and Clint reaching for new levels he had only hinted at. If they give it to Clint as Best Actor the age factor will tip the scales in his direction and he is unfortunately getting on in years and may not get another shot.John Wayne got it for the "honor " of the role he played - instead of Red River or the Shootist roles where he genuinely deserved to win. This one Clint has clearly earned.

As I have read several hundred of the reviews I have finally seen this movie. There are many valid comments but apparently either you liked it or not and I easily see both sides of the argument. The movie from strictly a movie-making perspective is great. There are some strange inconsistencies. Kate drinks out of the same milk bottle - sometimes he shakes hands and other times he doesn't. I personally love Miss Blanchett as an actor and a woman and I felt she captured much of Miss Hepburn in voice and attitude but although I find her personally attractive Miss Hepburn was quite beautiful and it was difficult to look at Blanchett in all those 60 foot closeups.(Stefani and the girl playing Domergue also suffer in comparison of looks as does the really beautiful Kate Beckinsale). Kate Beckinsale is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood today but unfortunately she really doesn't hold a candle to the young Ava - who was basically astonishing. Kids today you just don't know what you've missed. Leo was good. No matter what anyone says he did very well with the material at hand. I just thought the film never satisfied me. It was too jumbled and the inaccuracies were disturbing. At the end of the day it is a movie I may watch again to pick up some fine points of movie making but it won't be because it was a "great" movie.