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He sticks to his desire to battle convention and really let the story unfold slowly.
The ultimate post-modernist statement: not only the complete deconstruction of logic and convention but also breaking every rule of satire surrealism, and overproduction.
It goes so far beyond any convention in any medium that it will likely take years to reproduce something so astounding.
So many comment-givers cited this film's departure from convention as a reason for loving it so much.
Well, in my opinion, it follows convention with great fealty -- the independent film twist on love stories.
This movie should be banned by the Geneva convention.
The narrative convention of the reporter and protagonist is also absurdly contrived.
I recently saw the movie at a convention and was surprised by Dutt's effort to make a film about American characters without having any knowledge or ever living here.
Any filmed story that depends heavily on plot with an emphasis on finding all the clues along the way to a revealing conclusion must by its very nature owe much to established convention.
Mayid was interestingly enough cast at a marital arts convention.
I've only had a chance to see the hour teaser that was shown at a convention that I was attending, and i was impressed at the quality of work that an independent film company could produce.
Besson makes no attempts to sacrifice his film in the ways of Hollywood convention, and he proves that the days of female-driven action cinema are not yet dead.
Yul Brynner is unbelievably good as a man freed of all bounds of convention, free to indulge his taste for cruelty and domination.
I was an extra in this movie it was my first and only stint in film, It was filmed inside the Albuquerque convention center and in white sands NM around 1993.
Why this movie didn't even get nominated for a Hugo Award (the awards given by the World SF convention each year) amazes me- it should have won the award.
Enter Eugene Levy, an Innocent out-of-town salesman who is in town for a convention, when he is spotted reading the newspaper that Jackson's character is supposed to be reading during the meet and is mistaken to be "THE MAN".
Her transformation into an "angel of death" is something common seen in the women who survive horror films, and I found myself rooting for the cannibals to overcome this tired convention.
Scenes inside the convention center were cast in the dreaded "green" from fluorescent lights, further evidence of poor camera work and lack of gel use.
It managed to keep Avco/Embassy in business so they could bring us later horror stuff like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1980); THE FOG (1980) and DEAD AND BURIED (1981) The MGM DVD also has a lot more extras on it than you would expect from other DVDs released by the same company, including 8mm behind-the-scenes footage of the making of PHANTASM; a 1979 interview down in Miami with director Coscarelli and Angus Scrimm; an appearance at a 1989 Fangoria convention by Scrimm, and movie & TV trailers for the film.
Where it is over-told, it only reflects convention.
Just the name itself conjures up nostalgic memories of yesterday, running home from fourth grade to catch the latest episode of Robotech, to attending my first Anime convention and realizing the true power of the unedited series as well as this incredible film which retells the story.
I don't even think I really knew that the convention was being held at a hotel until a conversation was held toward the middle of the movie between Helena and Freddy.
It is based on the true and personal story of Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow, Sheila E, and others breaking out rap music for the first time to the mainstream audiences against convention and against those who would view rap as non-music and a fad.
Since such heroes invariably prove irresistible to the ladies, I half expected a nymphomania-cal McDowell to overlook convention concerning his age.
Monster because he is leaving all social convention behind and refusing to submit himself to any kind of structure.
Yes, it's more verbal than visual, but that's not necessarily a bad point, considering it leads to comments like "wounded animal convention" or Eliot's rationale for not going' out.
To leave the audience with such a lasting impression of your main character that they remember your villain after the movie ends is a great feat... to make such an impression that the audience breathes life into that character every Halloween and costumed convention is amazing.
"Old School" director Todd Phillips lampoons every cop movie convention and cliché in his new action comedy "Starsky & Hutch," an amusing but anemic annihilation of the tough-minded, 1970s-era, buddy-themed, crime busters television series that paved the way for shows like "Miami Vice."
It was showing at the CMJ convention in New York back when it first came out, and that was quite possibly the films only stint in theaters.
Luckily since we had passes for the convention, it was free, but even then i felt ripped off.
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