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"Like the first touch of pleasure and guilt, like a spontaneous youthful flirt of fascination and fear, like a climax of contrary emotions" said one of the movie buffs after viewing LOVE AT THE TOP, the misinterpreted title version of stylish director Michel Deville's LE MOUTON ENRAGE.
The actors are to be praised not only for their brilliant performance but for accepting a part with no shine, no showing off, well to the contrary, displaying the true image of human depression.
Some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons, like the dream sequence of Charlie, but everything else was okay,and the songs were fair.
Contrary to what those who hate Christianity, the 700 Club provides real answers as well as inspiration.
We as humans tend to fall into that trap quite often, letting the lack of logic and thought overtake us because people can't believe the contrary.
On the contrary.
And soon the trouble begins because two such contrary characters can't live together for a long time.
On the contrary, my friends and I were pleasantly surprised by this obscure but nevertheless intense little 80's shock- feature that mainly benefices from a handful of brutal images and a downright brilliant casting.
By the way, it was just released on DVD and contrary to its packaging, it IS widescreen.
But contrary to my expectations... Well, let's start from the beginning.
But the gushing reviews listed elsewhere were so contrary to my own experience that I felt compelled to offer another point of view.
Despite the reviews to the contrary I thought the film superb.
contrary to many of the reviews.
She also changed some scenes in a way that made them not only contrary to fiction, but also to the real era in which the events of the movie are supposed to take place.
While maybe the movie does earn those adjectives, it is not because of the stupidity of it's creators, on the contrary; the cast & crew made it stupid on purpose.
On the contrary, the movie caught my attention readily, as it tells this story very well.
Contrary to some of the reviews on this page, Twin Town is a very good film.
A tired and amateurish farewell to Mansfield, who, contrary to popular belief, was not beheaded before its release.
Moreover, the story covers twelve years, from 1962 to 1974, a time-length during which the three boys should have been touched by the events of their personal lives and by history as well, on the contrary they remain a little underdeveloped till the very end.
I didn't find it at all "bashing" or disrespectful; on the contrary, as a scientific documentary it is quite dispassionate, though there are some personal stories and struggles interwoven through it.
Contrary to some other comments I've read about the game in general, I didn't find the various accents throughout it to be annoying or anything.
We all know that Héctor Lavoe wasn't a saint, and his life was indeed a tragedy from when he became famous on... but the overwhelming feeling you get from all real-life sources of information and trivia that have described his life in the past is that, contrary to the despotic, abusive brute portrayed in the film, Héctor's character was way more generous, more people-friendly (I'll talk about this in a minute), pained, multidimensional than what we're fed with through Marc Anthony's interpretation.
Contrary to what some folks claim, I didn't know what was going to happen from one moment to the next and there is surprise and suspense throughout.
On the contrary, I discovered that there is a subtext of sense of humor, and the many psychological subtleties and finesses are even more relevant than sentimentalism.
Her partner Rachel, on the contrary, is tearful, unsure of herself and loses her cool whenever something goes wrong.
Every detail is meticulously worked out, even more accurately, I believe, than in The Titanic (which, contrary to popular belief, had a few inaccuracies).
This documentary shows that dark dismal conditions (completly contrary to the normal and healthy conditions of a "good person")of Robert Crumb lead him to alternate and original ideas.
In addition to that, the action scenes from Liu Kang were rather fake, in contrary to his action moves in Mortal Kombat.
Contrary to popular opinion.....this series was the scariest, next to Boris Karloff's.."Thriller"!
I think, contrary to what one poster says, this movie does take itself too seriously.
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