Bill-Pullman Movie Reviews

There are not many movies I can watch 6 times and enjoy every
time. Kirstie Alley, Sam Eliott, Ed O'Neil, and Carrie Fisher
are all at their best, and this commedy does not hold back any
opportunity to score laughs.

You may guess the plot but you will never keep up with the twists and turns in this comedy. Over shadowed at first by the other actors and the plot, it is Bill Pullman that pulls this al together as the "blind salesman." He becomes the catalyst for all the other sub plots.

Ed O'Neill plays Capt. Wilbur Meany, an aspiring police officer and a down right good guy. It takes a little time to not think of hem as Al Bundy (Married With Children ASIN: 6302597552.)

There are more interesting parts to this movie; but something that I keep remembering is after Marjorie Turner played by Kirstie Alley confesses to her sister that she took her advice and starts down stars she pushes her way through the crowd saying " I'm saying excuse me!" With that Kirstie voice.

Carrie Fisher (Appointment With Death ASIN: 0790741318) plays a convincing antagonist.

Great movie , great acting , great comedy I love Kirstie Alley & Scott Bakula

Mulder peeed on the Independance Day poster in the X-Files movie! I give X-Files 4 stars, and Independance Day 2 stars.

League

Yes everybody did a good job in this movie. However there was nothing exceptional about it. If the cast had been of any less caliber, this would be a forgettable movie. Both Tom Hanks and Geena Davis have made better movies. The only reason I gave this movie four stars is because it can stand on its own and should not be compared to these better movies.

Sleepless

Sleepless in Seattle is a great movie on many levels. It is basically parody on "Love Story" with a few changes. Naturally if you notice the cast you already have half of the formula figured out. But the beauty in this movie is in the details.
Story is that a widower moves across the country to Seattle to get away from old memories. His kid tells his story on a talk radio show and says that his dad needs a new wife. You hear heartstrings of women twanging and more than a few close in for the kill.

The girls of the All American Girls Baseball League were an impressive bunch. The league, formed to fill the gap left by the canceling of the Major League season while the players were at war, was not the most popular idea at its inception. . . The story is good. Have no doubt, this movie is not a "guy" picture, but it is a great "date movie."

Gina Davis, Tom Hanks, and Lori Petty are all really amazing actors. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell make great supporting cast members. Hey, it is a movie that Madonna didn't kill! The story is special and rather touching. There is good suspense in the movie. Generally, I am remarkably anti-suspense as I find it rather annoying. It is present in this film at times, but never long enough to become annoying. . .

I have never been a huge baseball fan. But I must admit; I love baseball movies. There is something special about baseball that makes the movies great. Don't get me wrong, bad baseball movies exist, but for someone who is not a fan of the game, I can get behind movies about the game. "A League of Their Own" is no exception to this logic. There was a purity to the game back then.

epc

A League of their Own was one of the best movies I've ever had the pleasure to see. I had seen it years ago and recently bought my own copy of it. This movie is one of the best that Penny Marshall has ever directed. The casting was superb. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell were perfect as street-wise, but loveable May and Doris! Geena Davis did a wonderful job playing Dottie Henson, who had a genuine love for the game, yet had responsibilities and priorities that were more important to her. Lori Petty was great as Kit, Dottie's little sister who fought so hard to get out from under her sister's shadow. Marla Hooch, what a great character!! Evelyn and her little boy Stillwell "Angel" will keep you in smiling all the time you want to bean him with a baseball bat. Ellen Sue, Helen, Betty Spaghetti, I feel like I know them all!! And Tom Hanks plays one of his best roles ever, as Jimmy Duggan, an ex-ball player turned coach. Not too thrilled with the job of coaching "girls", he accepts the job and finally comes to respect them as a team and as baseball players. I think one of the best parts of the movies is when the ball players reunite after 40 years and the casting of the older woman to play the parts of the aging ball players is a masterpiece. It is remarkable how these older "look-alikes" were all brought into this movie. This is a movie worth watching, owning and recommending. Very few come along in a lifetime that provide so much good, positive entertainment, but this movie has it all. I recommend it highly!

Terrific film! Highlights a portion of history that is not very well known with an interesting cast of characters, each with their own motivations, problems, and dreams. The chemistry between Geena Davis and Tom Hanks is undeniable--wonder why they never did another film together?--and yet her relationship with her hubby is so sweet and endearing. Just a really solid film.

The girls of the All American Girls Baseball League were an impressive bunch. The league, formed to fill the gap left by the canceling of the Major League season while the players were at war, was not the most popular idea at its inception. . . The story is good. Have no doubt, this movie is not a "guy" picture, but it is a great "date movie."

Gina Davis, Tom Hanks, and Lori Petty are all really amazing actors. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell make great supporting cast members. Hey, it is a movie that Madonna didn't kill! The story is special and rather touching. There is good suspense in the movie. Generally, I am remarkably anti-suspense as I find it rather annoying. It is present in this film at times, but never long enough to become annoying. . .

I have never been a huge baseball fan. But I must admit; I love baseball movies. There is something special about baseball that makes the movies great. Don't get me wrong, bad baseball movies exist, but for someone who is not a fan of the game, I can get behind movies about the game. "A League of Their Own" is no exception to this logic. There was a purity to the game back then.

epc

A League of their Own was one of the best movies I've ever had the pleasure to see. I had seen it years ago and recently bought my own copy of it. This movie is one of the best that Penny Marshall has ever directed. The casting was superb. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell were perfect as street-wise, but loveable May and Doris! Geena Davis did a wonderful job playing Dottie Henson, who had a genuine love for the game, yet had responsibilities and priorities that were more important to her. Lori Petty was great as Kit, Dottie's little sister who fought so hard to get out from under her sister's shadow. Marla Hooch, what a great character!! Evelyn and her little boy Stillwell "Angel" will keep you in smiling all the time you want to bean him with a baseball bat. Ellen Sue, Helen, Betty Spaghetti, I feel like I know them all!! And Tom Hanks plays one of his best roles ever, as Jimmy Duggan, an ex-ball player turned coach. Not too thrilled with the job of coaching "girls", he accepts the job and finally comes to respect them as a team and as baseball players. I think one of the best parts of the movies is when the ball players reunite after 40 years and the casting of the older woman to play the parts of the aging ball players is a masterpiece. It is remarkable how these older "look-alikes" were all brought into this movie. This is a movie worth watching, owning and recommending. Very few come along in a lifetime that provide so much good, positive entertainment, but this movie has it all. I recommend it highly!

Terrific film! Highlights a portion of history that is not very well known with an interesting cast of characters, each with their own motivations, problems, and dreams. The chemistry between Geena Davis and Tom Hanks is undeniable--wonder why they never did another film together?--and yet her relationship with her hubby is so sweet and endearing. Just a really solid film.

The girls of the All American Girls Baseball League were an impressive bunch. The league, formed to fill the gap left by the canceling of the Major League season while the players were at war, was not the most popular idea at its inception. . . The story is good. Have no doubt, this movie is not a "guy" picture, but it is a great "date movie."

Gina Davis, Tom Hanks, and Lori Petty are all really amazing actors. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell make great supporting cast members. Hey, it is a movie that Madonna didn't kill! The story is special and rather touching. There is good suspense in the movie. Generally, I am remarkably anti-suspense as I find it rather annoying. It is present in this film at times, but never long enough to become annoying. . .

I have never been a huge baseball fan. But I must admit; I love baseball movies. There is something special about baseball that makes the movies great. Don't get me wrong, bad baseball movies exist, but for someone who is not a fan of the game, I can get behind movies about the game. "A League of Their Own" is no exception to this logic. There was a purity to the game back then.

epc

A League of their Own was one of the best movies I've ever had the pleasure to see. I had seen it years ago and recently bought my own copy of it. This movie is one of the best that Penny Marshall has ever directed. The casting was superb. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell were perfect as street-wise, but loveable May and Doris! Geena Davis did a wonderful job playing Dottie Henson, who had a genuine love for the game, yet had responsibilities and priorities that were more important to her. Lori Petty was great as Kit, Dottie's little sister who fought so hard to get out from under her sister's shadow. Marla Hooch, what a great character!! Evelyn and her little boy Stillwell "Angel" will keep you in smiling all the time you want to bean him with a baseball bat. Ellen Sue, Helen, Betty Spaghetti, I feel like I know them all!! And Tom Hanks plays one of his best roles ever, as Jimmy Duggan, an ex-ball player turned coach. Not too thrilled with the job of coaching "girls", he accepts the job and finally comes to respect them as a team and as baseball players. I think one of the best parts of the movies is when the ball players reunite after 40 years and the casting of the older woman to play the parts of the aging ball players is a masterpiece. It is remarkable how these older "look-alikes" were all brought into this movie. This is a movie worth watching, owning and recommending. Very few come along in a lifetime that provide so much good, positive entertainment, but this movie has it all. I recommend it highly!

Terrific film! Highlights a portion of history that is not very well known with an interesting cast of characters, each with their own motivations, problems, and dreams. The chemistry between Geena Davis and Tom Hanks is undeniable--wonder why they never did another film together?--and yet her relationship with her hubby is so sweet and endearing. Just a really solid film.

This movie is a pile of crap. Sandra Bullock either you love her or hate her. I love her and even I have trouble sitting through this. Crappy romantic comedy (is there any other kind of romantic comedy?) This isnt even funny. Just crap. Im sorry.

Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is a single, romantic employee for Chicago's subway system. One hopeless day she falls madly in love with a mystery man (Peter Gallagher). There's only one problem - he doesn't even know she exists.

Then one day, she just happens to save his life and is suddenly thrown into a new life with his family, who just happen to believe she and Peter ("the Coma Guy") are engaged. And while he is in a coma, she slowly comes to love his family. They in turn love her back, especially Peter's brother, Jack (Bill Pullman).

I truly dislike romance movies; they're sappy, teary-eyed films of little redeaming value. But I LOVE this one! The humor is great, whether it be the awful dinner conversation about nothing (like my family no doubt), the well-timed jokes of the grandma, or the crazy scenes with the Super's son trying on women's shoes. Perhaps because of the constant laughs, or a latent romantic streak I try to suppress, I must admit I always drop my *manly* facade and shed a few tears when Jack hands Lucy Florence.

Great film for the family, or to watch as a couple. You must see this one!

While You Were Sleeping is one of my favorite movies of all time. I must have watched the DVD at least 20 times. My husband is getting a little tired of it, but there are nights when I tell him, "It's either this or 'Babe'!" From the opening scene, there is something sweetly philosophical about this movie, and Sandra Bullock has never been more appealing as a funny, klutzy girl who never makes it out of Chicago. (Of course, Sandra Bullock playing a woman who is frumpy is stretching credibility a bit.) And if any woman can keep from melting when Bill Pullman focuses that sweet, intense gaze, I've yet to meet her.

The vulnerability of the main characters gets you pulling for them right from the start, and the secondary characters do a wonderful job of convincing you that they are real with their own histories.

Peter Boyle is hysterical as the decent, but frustrated, father of Bill Pullman. And Peter Gallegher does a star turn as a handsome, spoiled "putz," as one of the characters calls him. Glynis Johns is laugh-out-loud funny as the sweetly confused grandmother.

All in all, this is a movie that is well worth watching over and over again, especially when you need a little reminder that love is waiting out there for us all.

This movie is a pile of crap. Sandra Bullock either you love her or hate her. I love her and even I have trouble sitting through this. Crappy romantic comedy (is there any other kind of romantic comedy?) This isnt even funny. Just crap. Im sorry.

Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is a single, romantic employee for Chicago's subway system. One hopeless day she falls madly in love with a mystery man (Peter Gallagher). There's only one problem - he doesn't even know she exists.

Then one day, she just happens to save his life and is suddenly thrown into a new life with his family, who just happen to believe she and Peter ("the Coma Guy") are engaged. And while he is in a coma, she slowly comes to love his family. They in turn love her back, especially Peter's brother, Jack (Bill Pullman).

I truly dislike romance movies; they're sappy, teary-eyed films of little redeaming value. But I LOVE this one! The humor is great, whether it be the awful dinner conversation about nothing (like my family no doubt), the well-timed jokes of the grandma, or the crazy scenes with the Super's son trying on women's shoes. Perhaps because of the constant laughs, or a latent romantic streak I try to suppress, I must admit I always drop my *manly* facade and shed a few tears when Jack hands Lucy Florence.

Great film for the family, or to watch as a couple. You must see this one!

While You Were Sleeping is one of my favorite movies of all time. I must have watched the DVD at least 20 times. My husband is getting a little tired of it, but there are nights when I tell him, "It's either this or 'Babe'!" From the opening scene, there is something sweetly philosophical about this movie, and Sandra Bullock has never been more appealing as a funny, klutzy girl who never makes it out of Chicago. (Of course, Sandra Bullock playing a woman who is frumpy is stretching credibility a bit.) And if any woman can keep from melting when Bill Pullman focuses that sweet, intense gaze, I've yet to meet her.

The vulnerability of the main characters gets you pulling for them right from the start, and the secondary characters do a wonderful job of convincing you that they are real with their own histories.

Peter Boyle is hysterical as the decent, but frustrated, father of Bill Pullman. And Peter Gallegher does a star turn as a handsome, spoiled "putz," as one of the characters calls him. Glynis Johns is laugh-out-loud funny as the sweetly confused grandmother.

All in all, this is a movie that is well worth watching over and over again, especially when you need a little reminder that love is waiting out there for us all.

I cant even rate this movie its so horrible. The worst spoof in history. I watched this movie at my friends house cause this other kid brought it over. I was about to hurl halfway through because it was so pathetic. NOTHING IN THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS FUNNY. We made fun of the kid that brought it over and told him he was gay. NEVER EVER SEE THIS MOVIE.

A film that never gets old, I've been watching "Spaceballs" since I was a kid, and I just recently bought the DVD.

"Spaceballs" is a comedy by Mel Brooks which, while creating mini-parodies on several franchises throughout the movie, from "Star Trek" to "Planet of the Apes," it is essentially a spoof on "Star Wars," and it is a hilarious one at that.

The movie revolves around the exploits of Lone Starr and his companion Barf (half man, half dog) in their encounter with Princess Vespa of the Planet Druidia and her robot (droid) Dot Matrix. Druidia has become the target of the Spaceballs, an "empire" of sorts that wants the planet's air supply for themselves, ruled by the evil President Skroob. The adventure leads through many familiar settings of other movies, mainly from "Star Wars."

The comedy never fails and the movie creates several moments that will stick solidly in the viewer's memory, from the jump to ludicrous speed to the climactic Shwartz battle between Lone Starr and the ruthless Dark Helmet. It's a movie that markets watching over and over.

As for the DVD, while not as completely fleshed as some other discs, has plenty more extras than most. The opening menu is great, with eerie music playing, as if it were a serious film... and broken by a cow flying by or an astronaut yelling "Help me!" There is a theatrical trailer, a Making-Of documentary, and an audio commentary by Mel Brooks. Everything is informative and often hilarious. Despite the hardships of the film, you can tell everyone had fun making it.

This DVD is definitely worth your money. While it may run out of laugh-out louds after a while (or maybe it's just me though; I tend to see comedies run out of steam after multiple viewings) it will never cease to amuse you; and the extras will keep you entertained, making this DVD stand the test of time.

I have no idea how the kid at the bottom can call this movie dumb and boring etc. and make fun of the kid who brought it over..this movie was HILARIOUS! at first i was tired and didnt feel like watching anything the first time i saw it then from the beginning writings it sounded good and for the rest of the movie i couldnt fall asleep i wasnt even tired anymore cuz i was laughing so hard! its an awesome movie i recommend it to everone!

I can still remember the first time I watched Spaceballs. I was about 9 years old, at a friend's house for a sleepover. I'd already eaten an enormous bag of potato chips, and drank so much Coke that my joints were aching from the sugar and caffeine. After laughing so hard it hurt for an hour and a half, I threw up and had to go home. To this day, I cannot eat plain potato chips without getting nauseous, and I have Mel Brooks and Spaceballs to thank for it.

Spaceballs, like Brooks' other movies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights) is a spoof of all things SciFi - and the ridiculous (ludicrous?) marketing blitz surrounding movies like Star Wars. Plot is unimportant: Lone Star, a kind of space cowboy who drives around in a Winnebago with wings, has to rescue Princess Vespa, a snob who ran away on her wedding day, and save her planet from the Spaceballs, an evil race that wears gigantic Magic 8 Balls on their heads (and rear ends, too). The movie is a collection of scenes and jokes from different science fiction and action movies popular in the 1970s and 1980s, some of which border on the inanely stupid and some of which (Pizza the Hut comes to mind) are still funny today.

It's a good and funny movie, if your idea of good is what a 9-year-old boy at a sleepover would find good and funny. It's also a great retro-piece for us children of the 1980s, and is a relatively inexpensive DVD for the fond memories it elicits. The DVD itself is great: a tight-as-nails video transfer and a solid 2.0 sound track to match. Brooks' commentary can be funnier than the movie, although his Jewish jokes get a little old after a while (especially if you're seen them done over and over in his films.)

At this price, it's a hard disc to beat. There is a rumor that MGM plans to revisit this movie along with several of Brooks' other films sometime in mid-2002; if you can't wait that long, 12 bucks is a pittance for a transfer this good and a commentary track this entertaining, even if the movie has lost a little of its shine as we've grown up.

Let the Schwartz be your guide, if you can't decide.

The Planet Spaceball has a problem; They're slowly running out of air. However, they have a plan; Capture Vespa(Daphne Zuniga), the Princess of their peace-loving neighbor planet Druidia, which would force their father, King Roland(Dick Van Patten), to give them the combination to the air shield, which underneath contains 10,000 years of fresh air. Instead, the Princess and her droid Dot Matrix(Voice of Joan Rivers), running away from her wedding to Prince Valium(JM J.Bullock), they find her. After being offered $1 million spacebucks, which they need to pay off gangster Pizza the Hutt(Dom DeLuise), space pirate Lonestarr(Bill Pullman)and his half dog/half man sidekick Barf(John Candy)go to stop the evil Lord Dark Helmet(Rick Moranis)and Spaceball President Skroob(Mel Brooks)and along the way, Lonestarr learns the ways of the Schwartz from the everlasting know-it-all Yogurt(Mel Brooks)

This movie, along with "DRACULA DEAD AND LOVING IT" is Mel Brooks at his best. It's fricking hilarious!! Bill Pullman is great as Lonestarr, a spoof combination of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, Daphne Zuniga gives her all as Princess Vespa, John Candy is hilarious as Barf, Joan Rivers is decent as Dot Matrix, Rick Moranis is downright classic as Dark Helmet, a wimpy puny spoof of Darth Vader(He's the funniest guy on this movie!!!)and the rest of the cast is average.

Highly recommended as one of Mel Brook's best and with lines like "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate", "You are to refer to me as idiot, not you captain!", you won't stop laughing. So see this film.

AND MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU!!

I have no idea how the kid at the bottom can call this movie dumb and boring etc. and make fun of the kid who brought it over..this movie was HILARIOUS! at first i was tired and didnt feel like watching anything the first time i saw it then from the beginning writings it sounded good and for the rest of the movie i couldnt fall asleep i wasnt even tired anymore cuz i was laughing so hard! its an awesome movie i recommend it to everone!