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He is the first one trying to
compensate
Trois lack in acting ability by improving her looks.
The film's bursts of violence
compensate
for the fact that there are no real scares or suspense to speak of.
The story might not be perfect but anyway - the mood of the movie is good enough to
compensate
for that.
Joyous ending provides enough elation to
compensate
for script.
To my mind, the combination isn't wholly successful: there aren't enough genuine laughs to
compensate
for the difficulties of taking the piece as pure drama.
The director over-uses slow motion during special effects perhaps as an attempt to
compensate
for the poor performance of the actors themselves.
There wasn't any budget for bloody murder sequences but our multi-talented director (?) tries to
compensate
this with endless footage of disco dancing girls and an amateur rock band.
Where there is no substance to this exchange, the actors (regardless of how good they are normally) can't help but
compensate
with exaggerated emotion, aka "raising the stakes".
But not for this, he tries too hard to over
compensate
by looking so intense and on edge but in a still mild neurotic manner, it's not natural, I'm surprised he didn't dislocate his jaw during filming.
Typically his movies try to
compensate
for this by adding excessive scenes of gore but even that is lacking in this movie.
Perhaps Mammet hoped to
compensate
for this with snappy dialogue and complex psychological relationships.
To
compensate
the consequent lack of suspense, we learn more and more about how unbalanced are the characters.
That Niven and Kerr could
compensate
for Seberg's lack of acting capacity?
The film makers apparently knew when they pieced this mess together that all they needed were sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie to have Thanksgiving dinner, so to
compensate
they added an overloud "dramatic" score.
A doctor who heals the sick in occupied France, even if their ability to
compensate
is not there.
The friendship of Hickok with Buffalo Bill, the selling of rifles to the Indians by a great manufacturer to
compensate
for the losses he would have because of the end of the civil war, Custer and Little Big Horn, the uneasy relationship between Buffalo Bill's wife, a religious woman, with Hickok a man who had killed plenty, also the unusual love affair between Hickok and Calamity all this makes 'The Plainsman' a non conventional and interesting film.
I got so frustrated I started to collect the comics and bubblegum cards (still got them !) to
compensate.
There are enough good aspects to this movie to more than
compensate
for the drawbacks.
I figure that even if I dislike the movie, Criterion usually supplies enough extra material to
compensate
for any shortcomings in the actual film.
The director wanted to change the lighting on that particular shot to
compensate
for Mr. Lancaster's new position.
When the movie came out, I read that this Scene was put in to
compensate
Eddie Murphies Wishes.
By the time I'd gotten to Day 4 of this dog's breakfast, I was stupefied with boredom, but kept going until the end, convinced that no filmmaker could invest this much time into a project and not have a terrific payoff at the end, to
compensate
for the glacial buildup.
Although I have to agree, that the scene with the boat in the beginning is ridiculous, the dialogues
compensate
for mistakes like that.
Several funny lines cannot
compensate
for an ugly look and an overall lack of interest in these characters.
The movie is well-shot, but in no way does that
compensate
for a future story.
Even Shakespeare, much less Oscar, cannot
compensate
with words for those who appear limited in physical beauty and sensuousness, while Seigner's beauty portrays endless potential for being tapped, you might say.
The dialogue and acting (including that of lead Sean Connery) are both poor, and the Quincey Jones score is horrid; the camera work is better but insufficient to
compensate
for a movie where none of the characters seem wholly real (in a way quite typical of indifferent movies from this era).
It's one of the flicks showing that it's possible to
compensate
a lack of big money through passion.
Only in the surprisingly dynamic and exciting last third does this flick finally spring to life, but by then it's much too little way too late to
compensate
for the general tedium which preceded it.
In order to
compensate
for heroes and villains parted (or never met) during previous movies, Hakeswill is replaced by Bickerstaff (brilliantly played by Peter-Hugo Daly), Morris is replaced by Simmerson (Michael Cochrane is splendid as the gutless git), Lawford, McCandless, and (if you're picky) Blas Vivar are all replaced by Harper, and the Sultan is replaced by his son.
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