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If he did, it fell flat on its face with the dubbed Australian and Texas accents against the faces of people clearly from an Asian
background.
I suspect that the writer came from a
background
in prose, as everything gets way over explained instead of relying on the visuals to tell the story.
I wouldn't call this flick a rip-off of the hokey, nostalgia-soaked 2000 film "Almost Famous" per say, but it's certainly far from being one of the better movies released in recent years to use the free-wheeling, anything goes time period that was the 1970's as the
background
setting for it's main story.
"Hysteria" is a modern and plausible explanation for religious visions, but there is no historical evidence to serve as
background
-- and I found the modern day psycho-babble more than a little jarring, even though Dustin Hoffman does his best with the role.
This came on after some other movie, on TV and it ran for awhile in the
background
until I got up to look and see, was it really as bad as it sounded?
What can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said, so how 'bout some
background
information.
This is one of the worst-written things I've ever seen - it barely even rises to the level of cookie-cutter formula in its laziness (in the credits, the serial killer character is just called "The Killer" - the writer couldn't even be bothered to give him a name, never mind any background).
I've only seen The Doom Generation and Nowhere so I don't have too much
background
in terms of Araki's body of work.
You can feel the large Hollywood machinery humming in the background, and the actors play along with it, but you get the impression that Preminger and others who were creatively involved with this movie phoned their performances in.
The sound of Pipa goes smoothly with the movie, typical Chinese which fits the time
background.
The
background
sets in these scenes (orange grey skies, endless ocean) are as glorious as something out of old Hollywood or the films of the great James Whale.
I don't have any idea what they were blathering on about and I somehow doubt it would have improved the scene much if I'd bothered to turn the volume up to a level which would have made the
background
music cause my ears to bleed.
Leaving aside the overly melodramatic narration, the way that the narrator/director mispronounces many Thai words and shows an alarming lack of local knowledge, I saw no attempts to check the stories he was being fed, and no
background
information was looked into to validate the stories he reported.
She Freak is incredibly boring & features long sequences that are totally pointless, there is lots of footage of the carnival (& people looking & staring directly into the camera) with awful music playing in the
background.
It is quite a postmodern movie with lots of
background
meanings.
Even Smilla, a unique female protagonist in that she is very intelligent and independent, is not given enough of a personality or a
background
to inspire the viewer's compassion.
This bittersweet romantic piece however, does not revolve around it, but keeps a balance between a sensitively depicted threesome of one beautiful woman, a restaurateur and a pianist-composer and the historical
background
which influenced it and eventually sealed its fate.
I disliked the music that was used for
background
music and I really disliked the live music scenes.
The
background
music was largely responsible for giving the mixed messages about what type of "feel" a scene was supposed to have.
In "Shanghai Triad", Yi-Mou Zhang trains his lens on a gangster's girlfriend and her young servant boy as the mob lurks in the
background
doing what mobs do.
Neither is pushed back to the
background.
I rated it a 4 on 10 because there are much worse horror movies and because it has a great
background
idea (some chick being terrorized by her dead aunt and the inhabitants of her bungalows).
We get plenty of interesting
background
into Coyne's early family life and nascent artistic aspirations.
Sometimes the difference in crispness between characters and
background
can be irritating, as if a simulated depth of field went haywire; this results in a kind of 'patchy' look.
First and foremost, it has a loopy, loony, don't-take-me-too-seriously quality, augmented by the music (one almost expects an accordion from some French cafe to be playing in the background, as in Delicatessen or Amelie, but it's a bit more restrained than that), which absolutely belies the seriousness of what's actually taking place.
And on this
background
we have a very simple and sweet romantic story of a love crisis in a relationship of a simple American couple wonderfully played by Terri Garr and Frederic Forrest.
There's great attention paid to detail--quite a bit is happening both in the foreground and the
background
of the frame--and the jokes are both laugh-out-loud funny and amusingly ironic; but Keaton's genius is his ability to isolate the individual within the crowd and draw out that individual's endearing strengths--his connection with each member of the audience is subtle but sublime.
The overthrow of Batista had just occurred and is the
background
for this story, wherein Dagget tries to find Miller but runs into ex flame Monica (Allison Hayes) who is now a night club singer and is being taken care of by a wealthy Cuban Fernando Ricard (Eduardo Noriega).
OK, I am getting sick of the recent trend in horror movies - that of every film being a Rembrandt picture (that is, no source of light and the
background
being all black).
Surprise, there aren't any, besides a spout of water in the
background
(Old Faithful) and a love scene in a hot-tub (the hidden hotspring).
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