Pulling off the biggest scam of your career with confidence

Advantages: A cool and stylish con movie with plenty of twists
Disadvantages: Not enough character depth

...Confidence was the exact feeling i had when i saw this and parted with three of my english pounds to the lady behind the counter at Blockbuster a few years ago. Although the film had fallen under my movie radar, i saw the cast and thought that this film at least would be good enough to keep me entertained for the evening, it turned out to be more than that. A rental turned into a purchase, a purchase turned into me lending it out which led to other purchasing and talking about it. Any film that can pull off some good twists is worth watching in my opinion, this is definately one of them. PLOT - At the start of the film we meet Jake, our lead character who is dead, good start right! He narrates briefly as to how he ended up being dead and learn that he is the leader of a confidence trickster crew or a group of grifters. As we...

Capodon 30.09.2009 · Read review
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The wedding singer!! Amazing film!

Advantages: Hillarious film with Sandler and Barrymore.
Disadvantages: None!

...This was the first Adam Sandler film I ever watched when it first came out in 1998, I remember my sister having the film on VHS and we used to sit there watching it every time I stayed at her house. And ever since its been my all time favourite film. The Plot: The film is about a wedding singer Robbie, who is getting married himself, until his fiance breaks up with him on their wedding day, and dumps him at the alter...or just leaves him standing there more like. Robbie slumps into a deep depression, and even ends up giving up on his job, which he used to love. Meanwhile, Julie, who Robbie met briefly before his failed wedding. Is engaged to Glenn, is ecstatic when he finally sets a date, and she gets to planning her wedding. Julie and Robbie's friendship blossoms and Robbie slowly comes back around to weddings...

stephbond89 03.06.2009 · Read review
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This film spins me right round - the wedding singer

Advantages: Funny and lighthearted , great characters
Disadvantages: None

...In my opinion The Wedding Singer is a fabulous feel good film. I first watched this film back in 1999 when I purchased it on VHS. It was one of my favourite films and more recently I purchased this on DVD so I could watch it again. The story of The Wedding Singer is based around two main characters. One of these is Robbie Hart who is the best wedding singer in town. He is happy, uplifting and always manages to save the day at weddings even when the best man makes a bit of an incriminating speech or when a teenager has a bit too much wedding champagne. Julia has just moved to the town to be closer to her fiancé Glen. She has got herself a job as a waitress with her cousin Holly at the hall where all the towns' weddings, birthdays etc get put on. This is the same hall where Robbie works. Julia and Robbie soon become friends but Robbie...

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The Wedding Singer Review

Advantages: Funny, Great movie
Disadvantages: None :) totally brilliant

...The Wedding Singer The film itself?. This Review is on the 1998 film The Wedding Singer starring Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore. Set in the 1980?s Adam Sandler plays Robbie Hart, a happy in love wedding singer who believes his life is perfect. A job he loves and a woman he loves until?. Everything he loves begins to fade away slowly. The love of his life Linda, his fiancé, ditches him on their wedding day leaving only a note to tell him it over? Slowly he falls into depression where then his job as a wedding singer then suffers. But during one of his weddings jobs he meets Julia played by drew Barry more, and she befriends him, she makes him realize his life isn?t so bad. Julia is engaged and to Robbie?s dismay, he realizes that her fiancé is not then man she thinks he is, he?s running after other women every other night...

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Confidence: Grifters galore

Advantages: Standard fare for genre, good plot twists at end, solid performances all round
Disadvantages: Standard fare for genre, little depth, nothing 'special'

...Confidence (James Foley, 2003) is a slick crime thriller in the style of the Ocean's Eleven films or The Thomas Crown Affair. It takes a slightly 'grittier' look at the subject, but still contains enough plot twists to keep you guessing (and give you a sore head on the first few watches!) and manages to be an enjoyable grifter romp. Story: The story follows a group of confidence tricksters, or grifters as they are called in the film, as they try to avoid getting arrested, or worse, killed, for stealing money off the wrong person. The film begins with a view of the main character lying on a road, dead, and tracks his life for the previous few weeks leading up to his death. It 'begins' with a formulaic introduction to the characters and idea of grifting by following a successful job with Ed Burns guiding the audience as the narrator...

lurchyboy2 01.06.2008 · Read review
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The Wedding Singer

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...This was one of Adam's breakthrough films before pointless blockbusters like "Waterboy" and "Big Daddy". While those films have a few funny moments and are OK, this one is very cleaver and showcases Sandler as a human being rather than just some dumb hick or just some loud bastard. "The Wedding Singer" is about Robbie Hart, an average guy, that lives a simple suburban life with a hot fiancée and a cool gig in the mid eighties. Life is great until his lady dumps him. He's crushed and his career as a weeding singer goes down the toilet as he sinks into a depression that includes listening to The Cure. Sounds like a great depression. Anyway, a young girl named Julie (Drew Barrymore) helps him to get his life back together. The only problem is that she is engaged to a smug yuppie loser. So what's going to happen. Well, like in most...

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Confide In Kylie

Advantages: Two great albums combined
Disadvantages: The absence of the other 5 brilliant songs

...Kind Of Bliss, and its far more euphoric and has a belter of a lyric written by Kylie. Dreams is dull as all hell and spawned the original title of the 1997 album Impossible Princess. Its as drab a ballad as you've ever heard, but at least has a good grasp of irony. Jump is another trippy slow burning track that doesn't exactly grab you by the throat but more slithers at your taste buds and will eventually pull you in. Drunk is another dance track with attitude as Kylie muses about not being happy until she's drunk and you take all of her. An enticing offer, its another of the most interesting tracks on the album. The album finishes off with the title track, the utterly engaging epic that is Confide In Me. This is the best single Kylie Minogue has ever released, an 8 minute sexy beast that stands head and shoulders above...

bilbob20 19.01.2007 · Read review
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No confidence in this film

Advantages: Ed burns is tasty
Disadvantages: everything else

...this role. Confidence was trying to be something it wasnt and it tried really hard to be that something. I also think that they wasted the talents of Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia who are excellent actors in their own right. Dustin Hoffman's character was odd and quite creepy and Andy Garcia is introduced into the film quite late on and looked so grubby I didn't even realise it was him until a bit later in the film. Rachel Weisz is ok in this film but she has such a terrible accent that you wish they had just mae her keep her British accent. She doesn't seem to have the sassiness or the style that is required and quite frankly she seemed a lot better in "The Mummy". There have been too many films that have done this type of con with a twist such as "The Usual Suspects", "Reservoir Dogs", "The Grifters" and "House Of Games...

shadia 27.08.2003 · Read review
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Wedding singer - Mediocre career, average film

Advantages: Some good jokes about the 80s
Disadvantages: Not enough Steve Buscemi

...This film is all about a cabaret singer, called Robbie Hart, played by Adam Sandler. And it really is all about him, in a very 80s, me-generation kind of way. Because of this, it helps if you either like the central character, or if you share the joke about him being a bit of a likeable loser. The story, basically a romantic comedy, is all rather predictable, and gets even more so towards the end. Hart’s job as a wedding singer is seen as a sell-out, he’s put forward as someone whose school report probably said “could do better”. Nowadays he’d probably be seen as pretty successful, but then the real problem is that he doesn’t really like what he’s doing. A lot of the film centres around being miserable, and making do with second best, you know the kind of thing. There are plenty...

radamson 05.03.2001 · Read review
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GIVES TOTAL CONFIDENCE

Advantages: Works well
Disadvantages: Nothing really

...I'm a bit of a mad person when it comes to teeth, I'm still quite young and enjoy looking after my healthy teeth, making sure they will always remain healthy! I try a few different toothpastes and have tried many Colgate brands before and have usually been impressed. I've managed to try most of the minty ones, the 3 in 1 tubes and the latest herbal edition! Now I'm onto my latest tube which is 'COLGATE FRESH CONFIDENCE' It seemed a little different and very 'FRESH' at first sight so I went for it! Packaging and Applicating: I usually buy the squeezy tubes of toothpaste but opted for the standing tube this time. The tube is 100ml and a reasonable size. (Just like all simalar toothpastes!) To applicate the toothpaste you press on a lever at the top of the bottle ~ I'm sure you all know what I'm going on about. As you use more...

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