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He claimed it's one of the funniest and coolest low budget actioners ever made.
Firstly, some reviewer has claimed the events of the movie are dated to 1789.
Burt Lancaster(who I just thought was great, though he battled with the accent just a bit..a minor squabble)portrays Bob Valdez, a former Apache hunter for the Calvary now a constable who accidentally shoots an innocent black man claimed to have murdered the husband of Gay Erin(the beautiful redheaded Susan Clark).
It was especially annoying when the screenwriter claimed scenes were true to the book when they weren't.
My friend Pat always claimed she thought some mental person kept and let it go just at that precise time.
But this film has let me down in what it claimed to be, so i had to say something for others to read.
The star later claimed this was a personal favorite of his films, but it is terribly uneven, occasionally perplexing and often sick-making.
A lot of future film makers-documentary folks have claimed this in their verbal bibliographies.
Zefferelli, who has long claimed he had a friendship with her and in truth he had been behind various opera productions of hers, had Maria Callas in mind when he cast Teresa Stratas.
Though I highly doubt all the things that happened in the movie happened in real life as claimed by the makers of the film, I think the guy this movie is based on was probably a good story teller.
Another reviewer states that he does not understand why no-one has claimed the screenplay, but I don't understand the lack of understanding; I can't imagine that anyone would willingly admit to writing this script - however, it seems the director has (and apparently based on Chekhov and Turgenev, no less.)
Isn't that what all those Nazis claimed when asked how they could commit so many atrocities?
In fact, I went to this movie only half-interested with a friend who claimed that it would be a good movie.
This movie got my attention because its producer claimed it'd compete for Oscar foreign language film along with the Banquet and Curse of the Golden Flower, another two big budget Chinese films.
Of these, the finest was, beyond a doubt, Melvin and Howard.Based on a twentieth century addition to American folklore( the improbable saga of Howard Hughes and Melvin Dummar), Jonathan Demmes' film tells the story of a chronically unsuccessful Everyman, Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have unknowingly picked up Howard Hughes one night in the Nevada desert, and who also claimed to have been written into Hughes' will.
I'm talking mainly here about the scene where a professor friend of Virgina Madsen's character's husband regaled back to her in a smug, arrogant, know-it-all fashion over a big dinner at a fancy restaurant the origins of the Candyman character/myth that claimed he had sired a half-white child with the daughter of a man who commissioned him to paint his daughter's portrait as he was quite the artist, and as a result of this he was hunted down and basically butchered shortly thereafter by an angry racist mob led by the woman's enraged father.
Being a big fan of martial arts, they were a big part of why I watched this at all... and I would be lying if I claimed that I was not impressed with them.
Once the pictures went viral, they came to symbolize not only the botched operation that was the Iraq war, but the fundamental failure of the U.S. military to win friends and influence people in a land the Bush administration claimed vehemently to be "liberating."
In another review, revtg001 claimed that Anthony Quinn played Mike Hammer.
The story sounded oddly interesting--a woman who claimed her son was the bastard of Joseph Stalin!
Jason Goes To Hell:The Final Friday is titled a little weirdly in that New Line had just bought the franchise and yet they claimed to only make one movie out of it?
The box claimed that it was the female version of Die-Hard, this movie was anything but that.
The special effects leave much to be desired although it claimed to be to gory for the silver screen, and the story line was boring and uninteresting.
A little further ahead lies a literal ghost town, Sunset Valley, containing flesh-eating undead victims claimed by devil-worshiping ghoul, Bloody Bill(Jeremy Bouvet; whose face is rotted away, his lower lip gone, exposing teeth)who avenged the wrongful lynching of his beloved innocent sister Mary.
Anyone who walks into the town are cursed just the same as those victims claimed by Bloody Bill's sword.
And while almost all the film he really acted no different from Elmer Fudd, at the very end, Bugs tricked the guy by getting him to 'shoot dice'--a typically sad and obnoxious stereotype from the 1940s that claimed Black people were lazy and all they wanted to do was gamble!!
Other reviews claimed that the casting and makeup were 'great', but I didn't think that either was especially good.
In prison he meets blind lawyer Matt Murdock who tells him that the women Ellie claimed he tried to rape her, David explains that he wants to stay in prison.
It is probably the only film of the decade besides _Schindler's List_ that could have claimed that without stretching the truth.
I went into the theater with an open mind, as a friend claimed to have enjoyed this movie (that's the last time I take advice from him).
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