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Granted, it's Shakespeare and that takes a certain mindset to be interested or not.
I dared not make eye contact with my brother, quite certain he must have been cursing the receipt in his clenched fist.
The story gets boring and side-tracked, and certain things get really weird.
It changes the very nature of certain characters- Isabelle, for instance, in the novel, had not a conniving bone in her body- they've stripped her blind idealism and turned her into a scheming whore.
With a comic book hero as iconic as Batman, there are certain traits that cannot be changed.
Naturally if you mix a quaint Cornish village - largely populated by retired genteel ladies - with a liberal dose of marijuana, a certain amount of silliness will ensue.
Being a hard core fan you were certain that it was a valuable discovery.
I didn't understand why certain plot elements were even present: why was the construction upstairs, why was there that big stairwell with a perfect spot for someone to fall to their doom if no one was actually going to do so, why have the scenes at all with the father at work, why have such a nice kitchen if you're only going to eat takeout, why would the boy want to be baptized and the parents be the ones to resist instead of the other way around.
I think Dolph Lundgren had potential at being a big action star a la Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and even Van Damme to certain degree.
Dialog is dumbfoundingly stupid, chase scenes are uniformly boring, and most of the on-screen money seems to have been saved for a series of crashes and explosions in a parking lot during the film's last five minutes (a briefly glimpsed port-a-potty early in that scene is certain to wrecked and spew crap on the film's chief villain--no prop is here without a purpose).
Incredibly loud and overbearing, it shows how far Hollywood had to go to reach a certain level of slapstick sophistication.
The original series had both McLean Stevson, and Wayne Rogers, whom I'll happily admit had a certain panache and style to their character presentation.
Be certain that "Envy" is not a black comedy.
Certain aspects of the plot were ridiculous and totally unbelievable.
It was also a film that tapped into a certain sexual zeitgeist.
The mother gets "visions" when she touches certain things or people?
I've watched a few episodes of this show and have found certain elements of it to be rather interesting, considering medical facts that can be learned.
It seems like the writers wanted the plot to go a certain way and made it, without actually writing in the necessary bits to make it flow.
As one reviewer said of a certain Katherine Hepburn performance, her range goes from A to B. Ms Zedora manages to get to G. The rest of the cast is solid (and wasted in their respective roles).
Others of note are "Wild at Heart", "From Dusk Til Dawn", and to a certain extent "Natural Born Killers".
It's a comedy that aims for a certain emotional tone, attains it, but keeps going to the point of irritation.
What's even more maddening is that, in certain scenes (such as when a very turned on Uma knocks a headboard through a wall), you sense a witty, raucous Reitman opus practically screaming to get out.
It's a videotaped TV play, something along the line of old sixties serials, but without that certain charm.
I was never giving it 110% concentration & consequently as simple as the plot appeared I couldn't say for certain exactly who was doing what amongst the American FBI characters & what their roles were.
This nearly isn't the worst film ever made, since the basic concept definitely has a certain charm and ingenuity, but it's still indescribably difficult to sit through the whole thing.
it might be 'entertaining' to a certain group of people but i am not in that group.
In a genre where people kind of expected a certain pattern, to break away from it the film has to be very good.
They are deeply and love and certain they are perfect for each other even though they met just a few months ago.
This long winded film turns out to be less about Berkowitz and his effect on NYC, but more about painting caricatures of a certain group of Italian-Americans, known locally as "Guidos."
Does anyone realize that certain people didn't even board the ship because there was a fire on board before it even took off?
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