cudaseeker-1 Reviews

Antlers (2021)

Really? Scary???

[2/10 · 26 December 2021]

It's a shame we've been relegated to being hoodwinked into believing that this movie.... in 2021.... can be called anything near scary or a horror movie. This is as bad as a 1980 "B" movie. It looked like the "monster" was transported through time to 2021 from the trees in The Wizard of Oz. This movie was laughably lame.

Anything for Jackson (2020)

Just plain dumb

[1/10 · 28 August 2021]

Had a good premise, but was executed poorly. Not scary, actually corny. The cast was ok, but the writers should hand in their SAG card. Looked like it was started before the pandemic and then thrown together just to get it finished. Ridiculous waste of time.

Honeydew (2020)

One of the top 10 worst movies I've ever seen

[1/10 · 7 July 2021]

We watch a lot of movies, but out of the thousands I've seen over the decades, this has to be in the running for the bottom 10 of all time. Stupid musical score, stupid plot, bad acting, boring, oh hell....... horrible EVERYTHING. Not one redeeming quality. If I could I would give it a negative 10. Anyone who gave this anything over a 4 must be related to the crew or the cast. I wish I would have read the reviews before watching it.

Mermaid Down (2019)

Really????

[1/10 · 29 March 2020]

Well, this has got to be one of the worst edited movies..... EVER. This was such a hot mess that I truly believe that all of these high ratings are from people that had something to do with the making of this sloppy, ridiculous film. It looked as if it was a high school film class project backed by a budget from a multi millionaire parent, because there actually were some nice cinematic shots and a few good CGI shots that did cost some money to make. The whole story was a complete farce and nothing made any sense whatsoever. ZERO. The whole script seemed like it got blown out of the delivery boy's hands in the windy city and he gathered it back up and put it back together and delivered it that way. If I could rate it a negative I would but 1 star is the lowest it will allow me to go. Horrid!!!!

Bad Blood (2017–2018)

A glaring goof in season 2 episode 7?

[7/10 · 10 June 2019]

First season was great. But second not so much. Ok, in season two episode 7, when Declan, Rose and her brother Twix have Teresa, Christian and their two drivers/bodyguards pinned down in a shootout, they shoot Christian and his driver.....Rose gets winged, and then all of a sudden Teresa and her driver/bodyguard..... get away? HOW? It shows nothing on how they got away. Very stupid writing. Is this a HUGE plot hole or just a complete screw up of film editing? We rewatched that scene 4 times just to see if we missed something, like them getting away in the SUV or something and can't figure it out. Same as the last episode where Teresa shoots Declan....... once....in the back when she easily would have shot him multiple times as angry as she was. Ruined the ending of the season with dumb scenes.

Krypton (2018–2019)

I must agree

[2/10 · 23 April 2018]

When I saw the IMDB rating of 7.2, I thought am I the Lone Ranger in thinking this was horrible? So I went to read the user reviews, and thankfully I'm not the Lone Ranger, as it was overwhelmingly poorly reviewed. Although I gave it more of a chance than many, (I stuck it out through 5 episodes) I really wanted it to get better as I was looking forward to it. But the way I saw it..... horribly acted, no substance and a terribly written boring yawn fest. Very disappointed.

Midnight Special (2016)

Really can't see how it possibly ranked that high

[2/10 · 8 August 2016]

I rarely write reviews unless I am either blown away by a movie or totally disappointed by one. I was really in the mood for a good sci-fi flick and saw the description and ranking of this and figured why not. What a boring, unimaginative movie that has been re-hashed dozens of times before, and 100 times better. My wife even went to bed early and told me what she figured that the ending would be, and she hit the nail right on the head. Nothing new, nothing different, except for it being a complete yawn fest. It looked like a B movie that was shelved and then came out a few years later on DVD because one of the actors in it passed away or something. Horrible waste of 1 3/4 hours.

Need for Speed (2014)

HOW could this be rated so high?

[1/10 · 21 December 2014]

Oh I know how. Young voters that play the video game. Need for Speed. Should have been named "Need For A Script." What a DOG!!!! Almost shut it off and barely made it through to the end. Please do yourselves a favor and pass this piece of crap by. I don't know how Ford/Shelby marketing could have even let them use their brand for this POS waste of time. Horrible acting and I don't think I've ever seen a more blatant disregard for sending a message to younger kids. Yeah, go ahead and go down a busy freeway the wrong way, (which comprised of at least half of the movie's chase scenes). Just play the video game. Same thing but at least it will be a better use of your time and give you good hand - eye coordination than this waste of 2 hours atrophying on the couch. Time that we will never get back. HORRIBLE! At least the Fast and Furious movies had some kind of.......SOMETHING!

The Thing (I) (2011)

Non stop action. Loved it!!!

[9/10 · 10 August 2012]

Just got done watching 2011's "The Thing." Thought it was going to be a remake of John Carpenter's 1982 classic starring Kurt Russell, so I waited quite a long time to rent it and wasn't even going to because remakes fall so short, but it is actually a prequel to that movie. If you loved the 1982 movie.....this one is SICK!!!! Now we will have to watch the 1982 film again so we can revisit where this one leaves off. Make sure you watch it through the credits because there is more. And also watch the special features where it describes how they used the 1982 movie's details perfectly, so it flows into the old movie. It freakin' ROCKS!!!

I Am Number Four (2011)

I echo the sentiment of many

[7/10 · 29 May 2011]

Watched the movie "I am number four" tonight. The first 40 minutes it felt like I was watching a re-hashed "Twilight" movie rather than a sci-fi/horror pic. But then it got good. It was well worth the watch if you can make it through that first half of beaten to death formula high school angst movies that Twilight has seemed to spawn. You can bet that there will be sequels too, but they may be straight to video. The first half of the movie I give it 1 star, but it was the fault of the story, not the acting. The second half, I give it 8 stars. The acting was good, there were very nice special effects and some pretty cool alien bad guys in the style of "Pinhead."

The Other Guys (2010)

Not good at all, slight spoiler alert

[3/10 · 1 January 2011]

I really don't know what the thousands of people that gave this movie a 5 or above were watching. I like some of Will Ferrell's stuff and most of Mark Wahlberg's. I went into this film with the excitement of seeing a very funny movie. This has got to be one of the dumbest comedies that I have seen in quite awhile. I laughed MAYBE 4 times throughout this whole dog of a movie. The acting sucked and was forced. The chemistry was non-existent between Will and Mark. The whole movie was so unbelievable and juvenile that you would either have to be drunk, stoned or under 16 years old to think that this film was funny in any way shape or form. I bet that the Rock and Samuel Jackson were grateful that they only had small parts in this movie and were out of it after the first 15 minutes or so. I would have been happy if I were them too, when the script read for them to jump off of a building together and basically commit suicide. They got off lucky by being killed off as soon as they were. I'm just kind of surprised that they didn't survive the jump, seeing as how unbelievably stupid that the rest of this movie was. Do yourselves a favor and pass this dog up.

Clear Lake, WI (2009)

Just another forgettable low budget slasher film

[1/10 · 26 December 2010]

I actually don't remember too much about this film. We watched it 2 days ago, and I have already, thankfully, forgotten most of it. It was just a generic, slasher type film with nothing to offer. Unbelievable story, unbelievable acting, and unbelievably bad. I feel sorry for the good people of the real town of Clear Lake, WI that have to have this film forever associated with their fine town. Thankfully, not too many people ever even heard about this film. I also feel sorry for the actors who had to endure the freezing weather on location, for what I'm sure will be very little return for their efforts, especially Michael Madsen, whom I love as an actor. Why he lent his name to this horrible excuse of a movie is beyond me. What was he thinking? Thankfully, he was only in it for a brief period of time and I'm guessing that he didn't have to leave the comfort confines of California for any of the shooting.

The Phantom (2009)

Didn't know it was a made for TV movie

[8/10 · 26 December 2010]

I didn't know when I rented this DVD that it was an unrated made for cable TV movie. So when I popped the disc into the player and there were previews for SYFY shows, and then I saw "Play part 1" and "Play part 2", I thought, Oh boy this is going to be a wasted 3 hours. I was pleasantly surprised. This TV movie was actually done very well. The acting was good, the effects were good and the story was pretty easy to follow, but also had some nice twists to it that kept it interesting all the way through. I never got into the Phantom comics, so I don't know how true it stayed to the history of them, and so I didn't care about that aspect of it. It was just an enjoyable few hours spent with the family, watching a pretty darn good TV movie. There were a few scenes of graphic violence that would rate this a PG-13, so if you have little ones, it may be too violent for them. I hope it gets turned into a SYFY series. I will watch it if it does.

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

It's a Tarantino film for crying out loud.

[8/10 · 27 December 2009]

Need I say more? Graphic violence....check. Vulgar language....check. Shock value....check. Strange and uniquely done.....check. Odd soundtrack......check. I know Tarantino films are over the top and weird. And, I generally don't care too much for his style, as it IS over the top for my taste. But with that being said, I actually gave this film an 8. And the only reason that I didn't give it a higher score was two-fold. Number one is that some parts were way too long for their own good and it got boring. I know that some films need to be longer for the story to grow and mature, but this one isn't one of them. He could have edited about 1/2 hour out of the film and still have gotten the story across just as well. Number two, and the bigger reason. I don't mind subtitles in films. But I DO mind it when about 1/3 of the time they go by way too fast and you can't catch everything that is being said. Especially when you are watching them with almost the same colored background as the lettering! Plus, when there are that many subtitles, it is also hard to watch what is happening. I'm not some dummy that can't read fast either, so don't go there, and I also have 20/30 vision. :) Other than that, it was a good film that kept me interested right through to the end. Also, you just need to remember that this movie is complete fiction, and not factual. So don't go into it expecting to get any historical value from it besides the obvious Nazi and Hitler atrocities that we all know from history class, because you won't. Brad Pitt actually took away from the film for me. His character was just not believable at all. But, maybe that's how Tarantino wanted him to play it..... over the top.

Dark Country (2009)

Just plain cheap generic thrills

[2/10 · 27 December 2009]

I hadn't watched a good horror flick in awhile, so I picked out this little one. What a mistake. Even though I figured out about half way through the movie that "Dick" was the bloody man, I held out hoping that they would tie it up into a nice ending that would explain "WHY" they did what they did to make sense out of it. This movie has NOTHING special or new to offer. The only good thing about it was that the acting wasn't as horrible as most other quickly made cheap horror/thriller movies out today. Skip this movie. It is a total waste of time, and seems like they ran out of what little money that they did have budgeted and just tossed in some horror type Groundhog Day premise to end it up. What a total waste of time. At least I only wasted $1 renting this dog.

Mysterious Island (2005 TV Movie)

Cheesy at best...............

[2/10 · 12 July 2007]

Don't waste your time with this. If I had known that this was a made for TV movie, with fade outs for commercials, and a "to be continued" pause in the middle of the DVD, I would not have rented it. It was a waste of 2 hrs & 45 minutes of my time. I do believe that the special effects were supposed to be cheesy, as if to imitate the 1961 original film. If that was the case, they didn't even match up to that and that movie is 45 years old for crying out loud! But go rent the original. It was much better. Even Jason and the Argonaut movies hands down had 100 times better effects than this movie. Patrick Stewart, one of my favorite actors of today and the main reason that I rented it, was fair at best. You could tell that he was just walking through this role and suffering along with the rest of us. And he sure was not at all interested in vying for an Oscar or Emmy. Yikes!! Oh, and did I mention that this was a totally useless movie? Stay away......a galaxy far, far away!

Elf (2003)

Good old fashioned fun

[8/10 · 11 December 2004]

I rented this movie thinking that it probably showed all of it's funniest parts in the trailer, like so many do. Well, I was wrong. This movie was just plain funny almost all of the way through. With the exception of a slight nose dive at the end, it was very entertaining. Farrell was great as the naive elf. It did get a little old towards the end, but for kids it would be a movie that they could watch over and over again. Caan was great as the long lost father, and the story was fun and lighthearted. I would give it a strong 8 out of 10. Just enjoy it for what it was intended to be. SPOILER....SPOILER

And the bit about the dwarf writer when Farrell met him in the office was one of the funniest gags I've seen in some time!

The Clearing (2004)

Don't waste your time

[2/10 · 10 December 2004]

When I saw the cast I thought that this would be a great movie. Granted, albeit the run of the mill kidnapping film, but with quality actors. Boy was I wrong! This was the biggest waste of 1 1/2 hours that I have spent in months. Boring, boring, boring!!! By the time this movie was half way through, I knew that it was going nowhere.......... slowly. This should have been on Redford's Sundance channel. If you watch movies to be entertained, pass this one up. If you watch them to be cerebral, pass this one up. It makes no sense, has absolutely ZERO action, and has only one hint of being a thriller, which is when Redford's wife drops off the ransom and turns back to look for her husband. That takes about 2 minutes of the movie. The rest is not worth the film that it was shot with. What a waste! 1/2 out of 10.

Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled (2002 Video)

Better than #3.....But not by much

[9 March 2004]

Better than #3. Well,that isn't saying much. It still stunk, with gratuitous nudity thrown in to maybe try and save it??? What a joke. The only reason that I saw this after #3 was that a friend rented it and I got to see it for free.

Wishmaster #1 was a 9+

Wishmaster #2 was about a 7

Wishmaster #3 was a big fat 0.

And this one was about a 2, only in part because they got rid of the actor(Connery) who played the Wishmaster in #3, and it was a little bit better storyline, even though they didn't stick to the previous ways that the people received their wishes. Hell, the leading lady may have just as well wished for a steak dinner, a new pair of shoes and a weekend at Bernies for all that mattered to the story.

JUST PLAIN BAD.

Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001 Video)

BAD, BAD, BAD

[6 March 2004]

Total waste of 90 minutes. Nowhere even close to the first two Wishmaster movies. Can you say "CHEESY"? This movie totally stunk! Wherever they got the casting director who thought of using Jason Connery to play the Wishmaster should be wished back to hell!!! Nobody can replace Andrew Divoff as the Wishmaster. They should have quit at #2. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! The special effects, or lack there of, were some of the worst that I have seen. The budget must have run out before the shooting was half over. Can I say anything good about this trash??? Nope.