I've never even heard of this Candyman series. If it's so bad, I might be interested

Actually, I'll take your word for it.

2 sucked but 3 was pretty good. I'd recommend watching both just so you can see the entire trilogy.

The Great Dictator (1940) - Written, directed, and starring Sir Charles Chaplin.

Wow. I don't think I've ever really seen a full-length Charlie Chaplin feature, let alone this masterpiece! Sir Charlie played two roles in this WWII satire: That of a Hitleresque dictator, and his double: a Jewish barber with amnesia since WWI.

It was odd enough hearing him actually speak for over 2 hours - especially in that German accent! I swear, though -- most of the time I thought I was watching Peter Sellers, especially from the Dr. Strangelove era. Uncanny!

Incredibly too funny to be offensive, I think. And Paulette Goddard was quite hot in the day -- despite the fact this year she would've been 97 years old

I must sak....what do you think of the ending speech by Chaplin?

Ebert...slammed the finale speech.

I also loved the first one but have been hesitant to see the sequels. I'll probably end up watching them eventually.

The first one was great though. I loved how it seems like a typical crime movie until about halfway through when you suddenly realize it's about fighting vampires.

I'd recommend watching both just so you can see the entire trilogy.

It's rather easy to see how this won Best Foreign Film at the Oscars: a humane film which invests all kinds of hope in one of the most coldly robotic systems this side of the Third Reich - it's one of the first films to take seriously the Stasi and its systematic deculturisation of the GRU before the fall of the Berlin Wall. And, to be fair, von Donnersmarck's debut feature (brave in concept, inadequate in execution) conjures an effectively cold and brutish sense of social terror, in its dull, sparse cinematography and flat overall visual texture, and in some of the incidents shown early on, in which Stasi agents rig an apartment with surveillance and a spying neighbour is threatened into secrecy. But, for all that, it's a dissatisfyingly ordinary film which pushes two characters to the core of the narrative when it would have perhaps been best to tell the tale of one: in showing the triumph over adversity arc of the quarry (individual persistence against the system), it shows the eventual sympathising of the agent spying on him... a most unlikely fiction, and a pleasantly annoying one, too. There's little in the way of self-reflexivity, and for a film all to do with spying and intrusions of privacy, it probably should be, really. Oddly, for a film more interested in characters than in the way they're presented to us, the suicide of a main player late on rings unusually cold - a sure sign that the narrative focus has been muddled and the emotional core empty. The coda is almost laughable.

Harsh Times **
Christian Bale acts as a soldier returned from war who gets into crime in LA. The movie was very good almost till the end and Christian Bale does an excellent job. The ending however is somewhat unsatisfactory.

I think a lot of people would benefit by making a conscious effort to watch more fantastic films, instead of the shitpiles of garbage they already are. Otherwise, it's a waste of energy.