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So we have brief incidents with London as an oyster pirate, a sealer in the Bering Sea, a gold prospector in the Yukon and a correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War...colorful events, for sure, but hardly given anything like in-depth treatment.
Brief Crossing is not brief enough.
This movie is a 90 minute Ramones concert with brief periods of stupidity and absolute boredom.
They had a brief encounter which includes the drunk calling him a loser and the scarecrow rebounding with "Takes one to know one, loser!"
BRIEF ENCOUNTER is a ghastly and pointless remake of the 1945 David Lean classic, which was based on Noel Coward's play "Still Life".
Watch out, too, for Jimmy Nail's brief appearance - his attempt at an American accent is so astoundingly rubbish it's fantastic.
Fantastic too are Sybil Danning's breasts - they make a brief appearance in the movie but the scene is repeated umpteen times in the end credits in what can only be described as the 12" remix of Sybil Danning's boobs.
There's a brief premise, which sets up the hero (co-author and Shipman's boyfriend) to have to save the girl (played by Shipman), then it's nothing but an exciting, implausible chase from there.
I was extremely suspicious of the ideas presented in this movie, but being relatively ignorant of quantum physics aside from what I recalled from the excellent "Short History of Nearly Everything" and what I was able to choke down in "A Brief History of Time," it sounded interesting at times.
Barbara Bach, the Bond Girl from "The Spy Who Loved Me", has only two or three brief scenes.
I really enjoyed the brief scene in which Sharpe is tripped by a "real" officer, and after a quick pause and piercing stare, pushes the surprised and cowed officer right back.
This movie was disjointed...it gave no background about his life, no historical context, and nothing about his great writings (except a brief, passing reference to "The Cost of Discipleship" by a colleague at the beginning of the movie.)
I rate it a 2 simply because there were a few brief moments of promise, but the finish leaves you completely flat.
Other than the brief recitation of lines from the end of James Joyce's "Ulysses", and an interesting visual reference to the end of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal," I found it a poor attempt to meld symbolic elements and moods immortalized in films like "Last Year at Marianbad" and "Un Chien Andalou."
In brief, this movie sucks like no other, rent it to laugh at it.
When you put this DVD into your player and hit "play," you will experience a brief moment of silence and see a black screen as the laser is guided to the correct starting point in the center of the disc.
It had a X rating for a brief scene involving oral sex but played in mainstream theatres (it was an "art" film).
Had there been some brief prologue or introduction the story would've been better.
She does find romance, however brief , with you guessed it....No surprises here we didn't see coming.
While there are other actors in the movie, including brief cameos by Denise Richards, a gay negro, and a preposterously ugly and annoying girl, Koji carries this movie on his own.
The exception to "The Story of G.I. Joe" is a brief battle segment (titled "city under siege" on the DVD) which takes place in Italy.
Not even Heston's acting or Annabel Schofield's beauty (or brief nude scenes) could save this film.
This will be brief.
Now for this film they did bring back Garibaldi (who was not in the last B-5 movie) to join Zack and the Captain and the Doctor makes a brief and irrelevant appearance.
All the acting was superb but only a few scenes had brief moments where they were actually funny.
Alas, the 'B' movie mystery tropes & forced comedy grow wearisome even at a brief 57 minutes.
Grant's pairing with Jayne Mansfield in a few brief scenes--did not really work.
David DeLuise is good in his few brief moments, and former "Crime Story" star Anthony Dennison is given virtually nothing to do but scowl.
I would have given it a one, but there were brief moments when you could see the actors really really straining to make this worthwhile.
I watched this knowing almost nothing about it, other than the brief description I read here.
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