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As Steven Segal was hammering out the template for the 90s action blockbuster with Under Siege, John Woo was breaking his own ground with Hard Boiled.
Conventions out of the window, breaking every imaginable rule.
Financial pressures and strains from Will's drinking issues take the family to the breaking point and everyone is affected by the struggle.
It focuses around the ground breaking legislation that has Massachusetts at the forefront of this generation's civil rights movement.
Put into three very tight, well organized beats, the story opens with ground breaking legislation which brings hope for the future, but has a huge uphill battle.
The most silly part is where Viktor runs after a beggar(even though the beggar is half of the creatures size and obviously human)can conveniently walk through a door and kill her without breaking a sweat.
Director Frank Tashlin stretches his anything-for-a-laugh method of comic film-making to the breaking point with this very weak advertising send-up (with equally dull romantic-confusion underpinnings).
The script is mundane, boring... an example would be the scene where Jane and her husband are breaking the glasses "it is done" over and over with no sense of build or progression or climax.
I was angry at the girl, Petunia Pig, for she was only using Porky and breaking his fragile heart.
The show is wonderfully silly and smart, referencing itself constantly, spoofing Hollywood, breaking character and being as "Brechtian" as possible.
It seems Van Damme is always either breaking out of prison or going AWOL.
They are the most absurd reasons for stealing and breaking the law ever.
But the idea only works if the two houses stay separate throughout; these dream horror movies rely on the shock of the dreams breaking through into the real world, or their mock-up of the real world.
Examples: A kitchen quarrel amongst the sisters is resolved by playfully breaking dishes on the floor and the three singing and dancing over the shards arm in arm.
The story isn't ground breaking and the little IMDb summary sums it up nicely.
Things start to go wrong as cars start breaking down and you need money to fix them.
Going from the area to another is his idea and with his trusty "Telepods" he intends to be a pioneer in breaking research and it almost works.
What's more odd about that is that, judging by this one and "Conqueror of Atlantis," his Peplum characters are some of the more ruthless ones, even breaking a (sort of) rule in these films, by having the hero get rid of the femme fatale character pretty directly (usually that happens some other way).
Perhaps he was on such a low budget that he couldn't afford certain rights but when Bob Moog talks about 'Switched on Bach' as being a ground breaking album, changing the public perception of what electronic music could offer, there isn't one single note from the album played.
He still managed to make movies (his big comeback was as the heart- breaking Johnny Nolan in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn") and he always remained likable.
I am sick of all relatives to the group that made this film, who comes here and votes 10 stars and say its a great masterpiece better then Twin Peaks with breaking music.
O'Neal is convincing as the star hurler, and Jackie Earl Haley ("Breaking Away") makes a strong impression as Leak.
Nothing really ground breaking in what I've said so far.
Britain’s Failed Human Rights RevolutionLONDON – The budget-cutting austerity program of Britain’s new coalition government has been claiming all the headlines, but David Cameron’s cabinet is breaking with its Labour predecessor in another key area as well: human rights.
Hence the extreme unpopularity of all measures designed to reduce the public deficit and debt, with strikes breaking out all over the map.
In other words, the country that is breaking its promises has decided to punish those that have kept theirs.
Breaking down dual labor markets that are excluding young workers (as they do in much of southern Europe, including Italy and, to some extent, France) is very different from making it easier to fire all workers.
The Syrians might be tempted to launch an offensive against Israel with the objective of breaking the deadlock over the future of the Golan Heights.
Already, Jordan’s social-welfare budget is reaching a breaking point, spurring social tensions.
I wrote those words with the French political scientist Jacques Rupnik in 1991, just as war was breaking out among Yugoslavia’s successor states.
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