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Little did I know all he had was a very brief cameo in the film, yet it was enough for them to advertise his name all over the listings.
Here you get brief images of models and it is quite nice to look at.
Not rubber feet and brief glimpses of rubber snouts.
There are absolutely no scares here - and no gore, either; our views of the "monsters" are always too brief - but not brief enough to hide how cheap the effects are.
They'll do anything to be a part of it, however small, brief, or fleeting.
I did laugh a few times, but it was at the surprisingly funny Randy Quaid as his robot Bruno, and the brief apperence of John Cleese.
This brief recruitment episode is presented as a montage with music instead of dialogue.
Not to mention, Aftab was awesome in his brief role.
A brief 30 seconds of Alice Cooper is the only redeeming feature.
The adults mostly do quite well and there is a brief appearance from David Naughton for horror buffs to chuckle at.
The film only comes to life in the brief, male bonding scenes with Dennis Hopper.
Patricia Clarkson is lovely and expressive in her brief scenes, too.
GL is also surprisingly brief, under 90 minutes.
This film has been repackaged as an erotic picture [retitled Kiss Of Fire] with a very racy cover that implies one will get more than a brief exposure to Miss Applegate's talents.
Other than the brief special appearance by Oliver Reed who for the small role that he played as Cardinal he could have done a better job of speaking the fake Spanish accent.
A brief plot synopsis: A couple is accidentally transmitted to an alternate reality and quickly become separated.
It's a pleasure to see an imaginative film in which the brief words "yes" and "no" actually condition the dialog, suggesting that human beings, not plaster action-puppets, are the stakes.
Even in X Men 3 he pulled off a brief good time as "Juggernaut".
Legend has it that Fox studio head Winfred Sheehan wanted the Stooges without Ted, who was angered and stormed off taking the boys with him, signed to a long-term contract and that's why Shemp went out on his own after a brief split soon afterwards.
There are a couple of fun but ever-so brief skits with caricatures of W.C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin at the beginning of the short and when Frankenstein's monster enters the narrative he gets to perform a camera-eating and self-repairing routine which is the highlight of the cartoon.
- Such as it is, I'll try to give a brief outline of the movie.
However, if you ignore that warning and continue to watch, all sort of evils will escape from this Pandora's box: a machine that allegedly blows up but only showers sparks like a sparkler; hand-held camera shots with that home-movie look; a cliche villain/capitalist; the cliche battle between the scientist sexes; a brief earthquake scene of a city (looks like a postcard) wherein one tall building starts to crumble like a jigsaw puzzle; an odd puffy-faced (like he just had his wisdom teeth removed) twenty-something Whil Wheaton making a joke about his ex-wife...This is no modern "Crack in the world," no hidden diamond in the rough but a depressing clunker.
Usually a title like this indicates that we will be able to view a fabulous collection of Chinese knick-knacks or see a group of our favourite uncredited Chinese actors and actresses milling around on a sound-stage, but, alas, "Shadows of the Orient" features only a short Chinese gambling sequence (fascinating but brief) and the ho-hum assortment of items in a rich man's collecion of orientalia, none of which are clearly seen on camera.
After that it is bi-planes to Mexico and a lot of fighting and shooting by sturdy immigration and border patrol types, all Caucasian, with the brief exception of James B. Leong, looking quite dashing as a Chinese immigrant-smuggler.
Even a brief look at the metamorphosed Caroon in the museum would been better than what we were supposed to have seen over the television monitors(that was fiberglass insulation being shaken by off-camera grips, to portray the "alien fungi", right?
Both films attempted to cash in on the brief resurgence of action / sci-fi ushered in by Star Wars: A New Hope, and probably did not do particularly well.
Never mind that this supposed biography of professional baseball player Babe Ruth is entirely fiction (a brief search of his biographical information reveals a rougher upbringing); the more aggravating problem is how it is so stupid.
Wallace Shawn has a brief but important role as a fellow agent while Stephanie Miller, now a national talk show hostess, is a stitch as Shawn's reality-checking personal assistant.
It was a wonderful series, and all too brief - mostly due to the tragic fact that Chaplin did not save all the cut material from all his projects and films.
Well, except for the great Vincent Schiavelli but his role is regretfully brief.
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