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During the brief couple of years before and after this movie's release, we saw the appearance of domestic (and Canadian) films such as "Halloween II," "Prom Night," "Terror Train," "Madman," "My Bloody Valentine," "The Prowler," "Just Before Dawn," "Final Exam," and "Hell Night," among others.
I don't believe I could even recall one brief segment that I tolerated.
Oddly, I have very little to say about "The Box" so this will be pretty brief.
But that was incident to the plot, presented for light, comedic effect, and (mercifully) brief.
Unmercifully, this was anything but brief, and to me seemed as if it had gone-on for about 10 hours (Einstein's layman's explanation of "relativity" at work.)
If I hadn't been with friends, with the necessity to remain, MY viewing would have been brief.
Michael Berryman, from The Hills Have Eyes, also has a brief but interesting cameo in the film.
I caught this during a brief run in a Philadelphia theater.
I am not sure the brief moments of humor can possibly make up for the experience.
A brief synopsis would be: a group of Georgians are trying to build a fortress to defend themselves from invaders, but every time they are about to put on the finishing touches, for no readily apparent reasons it collapses.
She does a brief lap dance for Schaech that had my full attention.
John Gielgud, howsoever brief his appearance in the movie, still seemed to be playing a role from Hamlet.
While I did enjoy the brief glimpses into the training sessions of Deena Kastor, the brief history of the Boston marathon and marathoning in general, let me emphasize: These were brief!! Watching some Joe Runners prepare for a Saturday run with their water bottles and talking about how they view the marathon is not inspiring, and the nonstop clichés about achievement and feel-good grinning runners will make you wish the film were about an hour shorter.
When the jealous Matteo finds some pictures and letters from her former lover Bernard (Mauro Lorenz) in Venice, he hangs up the phone and the upset and amoral Carla has a brief affair with Moira and intercourse with an acquaintance in a party.
you would expect to see a shark or something, and you do. a brief shadow of the CGI shark floats around every few seconds but that's just it.
Reginald Owen did chew the scenery, as mentioned by others, but I found him moderately amusing in his brief scenes.
There brief moment of tenderness does not reveal any possible reason that these two would be involved with each other given their venomous and volatile relationship.
The PG-13 rating is questionable; although the film is not scary at all, there is some brief but quite explicit gore, and some out-of-place nudity.
This particular film genre has gone from a few steamy, but brief sex scenes and fleeting glimpses of female full frontal nudity to extended sex scenes that occasionally threaten to venture into the realm of hardcore.
"Stick Around" is one of the brief series of films that paired Bobby Ray with Oliver 'Babe' Hardy before Hardy's immortal teaming with Stan Laurel.
Like the former, it details, in its far too brief 74 minutes, the life of an interesting American.
Except, in no way, shape, nor form, is the film as simplistic nor upbeat as my brief description of it.
Scenes of the children being killed is mainly kept off screen (except for a brief strangulation), but the camera doesn't hesitate to linger on their corpses.
Okay, the situations are not always original, has minor plot holes and it has a tendency to be too clever some (brief) times for its own sake, but it actually delivers and is obviously a work of love.
On transit you are asked to come with 2 security guards, next thing you know you are overpowered, hooded and chained and after a brief ( but still reasonably civil) interrogation you are to be rendered!
Even from his brief stint in Nathan Barley I knew that Ayoade was a serious talent and I'm sure he would have been great as Dixon Bainbridge in 'The Mighty Boosh' To continued success!
The acting is above average and Richard Gere's brief appearance as a shell-shocked Raider Marine war hero, holds a keen interest for any film buff or Gere fan.
I'll make this brief.
The Civil War battles are brief and are shown as several vignettes in which Custer, seemingly supported by just a handful of troopers, hammers the Confederate army into submission.
A brief history of time.
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