Harpies (2007)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Great Film overall

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

OK, I love Stephen Baldwin, I admire the man. But he could have picked a better movie to be in. The actors lose their accents about every five seconds, and those are the ones who pretend to have accents. The effects are almost as horrible as the dialogue, and the acting is just as bad. Baldwin tries to carry the movie, I do give him props for that, but even he can't do it. One minute Baldwin's character and the love interest don't get along, and the next they're all lovey-dovey. The acting is very wooden and rather annoying. Celestial isn't bad, but her and Baldwin are about the only two who make the movie enjoyable for about two minutes. The Harpies look like Halloween kids dressed up as dead people, a whole lot of makeup and frizzy hair. Baldwin's character isn't even officially divorced before he starts hitting on a woman about twenty years his younger. As a final note, don't see this movie. Its pretty much a waste of two hours.

I am 44 minutes into the 2 hour movie, so I don't think there will be any spoilers.I'm not sure if this piece of crap is the result of a bad script, bad directing, or overall bad-acting, but is most likely all three. Stephen Baldwin is a terrible actor if this performance is any indication. I have yet to see actor provide anything close to a post-high school performance.I'd say Stan Lee is a member of the Ed Wood Director's Club and has should be embarrassed to have his name attached to this movie as director, much less as part of the title. The special affects are worse than some I have seen in 1950's movies.This movie should be titled "Stan Lee's Failure as a Director" Stephen Baldwin should retire from acting, the rest of actors should lay low for a while before their next audition.

Cheap, third-rate ripoff of the great "Army of Darkness". Poorly acted by virtually everyone, although Scott Valentine is enjoyably hammy (at times) as the evil Vorian and Kristin Richardson is watchable as a pretty but feisty peasant girl. Shoddy special effects (including some glaringly obvious matte work), laughable script and limp direction are bad enough, but this stinker has some of the most inept action scenes since "Hercules Against the Moon Men" and a leading man (Stephen Baldwin) who's gained so much weight that when his "army" storms the castle, it's hard to tell which is Baldwin and which is the castle. The one-liners that are meant to be flip are both lame and unfunny (although one line when Baldwin is swinging a torch in a cave isn't too bad). Altogether, poor in all departments. You'll do much better renting or buying "Army of Darkness" instead of this 99-Cent Store version of it.

...and end up surprisingly good movies.Stan Lee's Harpies is not one of them. **WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW**Let's see...where to start?Ah, yes -- The Harpies themselves. You'd think, given that they are the title characters of the film, that there would be great time and care and attention given their design. Instead we get abominable CGI, and the live action harpies looked like emo girls wearing badly-done halloween wings.The Action Sequences. When the harpies attack, it doesn't show us anything that convinces us that there's a battle going on. You see a bunch of people waving their swords, then you see a shot of the harpies giggling and flailing their arms. Yeah, real convincing. The battle scenes, such as they are, show a bunch of guys bumping into each other with swords drawn. One poor nameless extra got skewered by a sword, and when he fell down, he fell at an angle showing that he was holding the sword between his arm and torso, rather than sticking out of his trunk, as it should have been.In the museum, we're supposed to believe that these mercenaries are not only bad shots, but that an ancient cup, hit by a bullet, is just going to fall as if it were knocked over, and protect our hero.The Casting Not too much wrong here, other than they're rather unseasoned and ill-suited for a fantasy film. Also, they got the cast wrong on here. Scott Valentine (yes, the guy from Family Ties who said "Ay!") played Vorian.There are other stretches of the imagination, people jumping when they're supposed to be "sucked in" or "thrown clear" of the blast, etc. But this movie was just "That Which Should Not Be Made" on so many levels. My friend and I made better student films than this in college. Did anyone notice the dearth of slavic names in the crew? I thought only the Italians made ridiculous movies ("Naked Gladiators" and "Texas Rangers 2020", anyone?).Ah well, I suppose that if they enjoyed what they were doing, that's what counts. I didn't.