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I have read with amusement the comments of many viewers who have utterly trashed this movie; well, they are entitled to their opinions, and they may have them.
All the time, The Villain just watches and watches and watches a bit more, for amusement, behind a mirror.
Dark Ride is the story of a group of friends on a road trip who decide to take a detour to visit an amusement park called, fittingly enough, "Dark Ride".
Quite an amusement park ride of a movie.
That is THE best bit, and the only bit worth looking up for (if only for amusement).
Very stupid sci-fi film about a future amusement park where you can live out your fantasies in a simulation, either in a Medieval world, a Roman world, or Westworld.
The indoor amusement park/mall, known as Old Chicago, was an amazing place to me back in the mid 70's.
On the contrary, the amoral Vera manipulates almost everyone she comes into contact with for her own amusement and gain.
With this cute little horror flick, I mistakenly anticipated myself to a little bit of tasteless amusement that in the long run, was going to earn my reverences.
We watched it through the end only for the amusement of seeing how bad it could get.
There was more amusement than alarm at a conference of 800 nuclear specialists in Washington, DC, in March, when a senior Air Force general, eerily channeling George C. Scott in “Dr.
For an American, there is a certain amusement in Australian worries about the deficit and debt: their deficit as a percentage of GDP is less than half that of the US; their gross national debt is less than a third.
Instead of producing food or housing for ourselves or for barter, we will be producing content and amusement for one another, without engaging in explicit (taxable) financial exchange.
The Brexit TragicomedyPRINCETON – As the rest of the world looks on with a mixture of amusement and pity, British politics in the age of Brexit has come to resemble a soap opera.
Dubai also has the first 3D-printed office building, stunning manmade islands, the world’s only (self-proclaimed) “seven-star hotel,” shopping malls combined with aquariums, indoor skiing, and skydiving facilities, and an array of iconic buildings and amusement parks.
Kim Jong-un has done some things that were previously unseen in North Korea – frankly admitting the failure of a missile test, for example, and cavorting with Disney’s Mickey Mouse, a symbol of enemy American culture, while building amusement parks of his own.
For years, we have allowed governments and companies to gather and analyze our biometric data whenever we have applied for a driver’s license, a travel visa, naturalization, or certain jobs, or even simply gone to an amusement park.
And Kouchner himself, to the cynical amusement of the French press, has retreated radically from his insistence on an immediate intervention to protect refugees and internally displaced people in Darfur from further slaughter by the Sudanese government-backed Janjawid militia.
The biggest impediment to such an education are the mass media, with its tendency to cultivate superficiality and amusement.
What extending basic rights to great apes does mean is that they will cease to be mere things that can be owned and used for our amusement or entertainment.
This caused no little amusement in the audience.
Despite the occasional construction project – usually a new amusement park – North Korea under Kim Jong-un continues on its path toward oblivion.
Free Tilly – and all Circus AnimalsMELBOURNE – Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her.
One of Tilly’s offspring, sold to an amusement park in Spain, has also killed a trainer, as have orcas in other parks.
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they “educate” people about animals should not be taken seriously.
The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses.
Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement.
“There are things I’d like to do with my family that we just can’t do here, such as [going to] museums, amusement parks, or large sporting events.”
From the American television adaptation of “Westworld,” which depicts an amusement park populated by androids, to the “Terminator” films, in which super-intelligent machines aim to destroy mankind, we often indulge the paranoid fantasy that our own technological creations might turn on us.
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