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The cruddy CGI effects, the pathetically unfrightening common variety Gardner snakes (there's would-be scary rattlesnake noises added to the soundtrack to imbue them with a faint sense of otherwise nonexistent menace), the plodding pace, the total dearth of any tension or momentum, the obvious rickety stage-bound train set, and especially the simply astonishing "you gotta be kiddin' me!" over-the-top preposterous ending are all downright awesome in their very jaw-dropping awfulness.
That might be his one minor (but, for me, apparent) liability: he won't let a little thing like common sense screw up his plan for his elaborate killing sequences, as his killer(s) can go through any kind of elaborate set-up of being invisible, until revealing past the point of the POV tracking shots of said psychopathic killer.
Surprisingly effective British drama about two very different people who find common ground, and in particular the "flowering" of one of them.
Not common, but not unheard of either.
I immediately related to the character of Alex from the film, his shyness is quite common in most British teenage boys, especially around girls.
The beginning and ending scenes have a common theme too that bookends the film.
The decisions made were after listening to common sense.
True, the misunderstanding where the woman is affronted at something the man hasn't truly done (why do they always show that?) as common and irritating - guess it wouldn't have been if it was the 1st, not 5th, time I've seen IT - but the rest of them were completely new.
Americans do 'zany', but the Brits do 'witty' -- and they love to poke fun at themselves (ahem: unattractive teeth, large lips/nose, 'veddy' common or 'veddy' snobby, obsession with the 'gahden').
Despite later claims, this early-talkie melodrama has very little in common with "Citizen Kane": It's a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat, told in flashback but hopping around time.
Chaplin does a terrific job satirizing Hitler and trying to portray the oppression of the Jews in Nazi Germany (this was before the concentration camps were common knowledge).
Bill & Joe have one thing in common, they are disgraced over how crazy the world has become.
Blind Spot achieves to capture the essence of the desert taking you to an universal common ground where anyone of us can feel being both discoverer and native.
I have the good common logical sense to know that oil cannot last forever and I am acutely aware of how much of my life in the suburbs revolves around petrochemical products.
Still, one wonders at the all too common penchant among contemporary film makers to favor ambiguity above all else.
This movie has excellent dialog; which is certainly common among foreign films.
It's a common plot: Daffy Duck tries to convince Elmer Fudd that it is really rabbit season and shoot Bugs.
What all these heroes (and in the case of X-Men hero group) have in common is that they were all conceived in the magical world of Marvel.
While it accurately depicts the brutality and inhumanity of that war, it also does something that many films related to this period to not handle as effectively - Cold Mountain studies the southern context from the inside out, and portrays changes among the non-slave owning common people wrought by the war.
The mentor this time is played perfectly by Kevin Costner; An ordinary man with common everyday problems who lives an extraordinary conviction, to save lives.
It touches on a topic that is ever-present in our daily lives, but which is seen as a phenomenon so common that it does not merit discussion.
I liked the friendship between the two ladies but it was spoiled by what they had in common: The Cad of a husband.
Both movies have something in common nature.The only improvement for Inferno is a better cast.
If it sounds silly, it's not--the dishonest retailing practices are only a plot tool (or as Hitchcock would say, the McGuffin) and while unfamiliar, it works every bit as well here as any Treasury Agent or G-man anthology in which the fight is taken to shady crooks who are operating outside the interests of the country's common good.
Then - maybe 15 years later.. when VCR's were common, and they sold tapes in stores..
The film delves into the life of the common man, which he has apart from being an encounter specialist.
As is now common with this Doctor the moral, ethical and emotional considerations of his actions were centre stage.
Having the opportunity to see it in "re-release," several years after the 1946 opening (a common studio custom in those years), answered (even to my very young mind)oh-so many questions I had...being surrounded by our returning Vet heroes.
What have they in common?
One commentator got it right, that sex, a jaded, common feature among foreign films, is surprisingly lacking in "distant" and in a good way.
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