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The special effects are so poor you would have thought Lego bricks were used and the "super fast" dinosaurs were so tame that it makes a pet dog look like a super predator.
Not even George Kennedy, Barry Bostwick or Ben Stein could save this turkey from sinking like a ton of bricks.
Spoiler: The whole movie is this: Twitch(played by Kurupt of Tha Dogg Pound) gets transferred to another jail where there might be a box filled with gold bricks buried.
What was even more hilarious was seeing all the recycled scenes from "Dante's Peak", where the church front falls on the school bus, the store fronts break away from the main street, the overpass collapsing, and the red truck speeding down the alley way as the bricks fall down on it.
Ollie, hatless, in the fireplace is hit on the head by many bricks coming down, and the butler Jessup (Sam Adams) is covered in chimney ash smoke, oh, and Ollie still has nothing to say to Stan.
however, the story of the woman with the abusive boyfriend and his drunk friend really hits like a ton of bricks: very eloquent storytelling, incredible performances, and to think the scene was improvised.
The tasks involve doing things that happen or are to do with local things, like making pottery or laying bricks or carrying a local creation about.
And then the hatred of her neighbors, who throw bricks through her window, bop her retarded son on the head, and perforate her husband's ulcer.
The peasants of this county are ridiculously portrayed: poor,pale, invalids that just shuffle around, stare and clap bricks together (the clapping of bricks is towards the end of the movie as the train is finally derailed and they are coming to get Beverly to prepare her for "her wedding").
"Whisper" began on an interesting note, but began to lose it's "spark" about halfway through when it hit me like a ton of bricks that it was simply a compilation of purloined concepts from numerous other horror films - namely "The Omen".
On the lam they hold up with also ex-con Steve Lacey (decent leading man Gene Nelson) with his wife, but what they don't know is that he's already been tapped by the cops, specifically Sterling Hayden's Detective Sims, who is so hard-nosed he could cut through bricks with just a stare and some tough words.
After all, we never do know who sabotaged the bricks and burned Birkut's hands, and it doesn't really matter in a state where rhetoric is what counts.
Snake is led on a bizarre trip through Manhattan where he is attacked, battled by gladiators, and bombarded by bricks.
Cool-guy Don naturally lived in a penthouse/loft hybrid of a place with bricks appearing here and there in the decor.
I thought it was amazing that they could make all those bricks look so much like polystyrene.
Here, I thought, were the bricks with which to build a stronger Atlantic community; it would now only need political leaders in Europe and the United States to put them together, in the best interest of both.
Such a faith understands that belief is a matter of hearts and minds, not of bricks and stone.
The free press is both the mortar that holds in place the bricks of our country’s freedom, and the open window embedded in those bricks.
The Europeans have begun to assemble the bricks for a new building, but without having agreed on its size and design.
But then the financial system crumbled growth rates fell like a ton of bricks.
But most buildings today are constructed using bricks and mortar, concrete, and, for larger structures, steel – all materials that produce substantial carbon emissions during the manufacturing process.
Then a solution to this nasty conundrum hit Darwin like a ton of bricks.
He waited for Saakashvili to go a step too far, and then came down on him and his poor country like a ton of bricks.
He remains weak; during his 19-year-long incarceration, he was forced to move millions of bricks as part of his punishment.
To steal bricks and cable from construction sites, citizens removed planks from wooden fences, or climbed over concrete ones, at the risk of being scratched by rusty nails or barbed wire, bitten by guard dogs, or even shot at with rock salt.
They claim that they are fighting for democracy, but it is hard to reconcile that lofty goal with medieval-style catapults launching bricks and firebombs.
Asia’s commercial hub quickly became a battle zone, with riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at black-clad protesters, who responded with Molotov cocktails and bricks.
Workmen wearing aprons stood on the scaffolding laying bricks, pouring water from wooden pails, or smoothing the mortar.
Tell us what keeps the bricks together!''Cement, of course!''Bravo!
The men often shortened their breakfast to avoid getting cold; and their bricks, eaten in this way, far from the sun, with silent voracity, loaded their stomachs with lead.
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