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Michael Jayston is the perfect Mr. Rochester - he looks the part, attractive yet not too pretty, and able to convince us of his hidden good qualities under a rough and abrasive exterior.
Add to this lookalikes of the usual suspects of Paris between world wars - Cocteau, Picasso, Gertrude Stein etcetera - and an audience with the godlike Auguste Renoir (courtesy of Picasso) and you get this: Two hours of rehashed ideas trying to convince the viewer of an artist's originality by equating him with every stereotyped image of the troubled genius.
I was more convince by my best friend Jory .
Peterson is played here by James Villiers, trying as hard as he can to be deeply villainous but unable to convince.
He can't convince the man in charge of the book to loan it to him, but he does get a gal to drive him home and stay the weekend.
He, with his gang's help talking over his earpiece, try to convince this doctor of his good intentions and how he doesn't want her paramour (a mathematician they're trying to catch red-handed) to know about them.
It took only 5 minutes to convince me: this is the worst movie I have ever seen.
The sets and props look real enough to convince one you are in Alaska.
At the prospect of looting and raping militia men, the flabby mayor of the well-to-do provincial nest called Boom volunteers, as he puts it, "to sacrifice" himself: his plan to pretend he has just passed away, thus hoping to convince Olivares to bypass the mourning town, is eagerly adopted by his timorous menfolk.
Its a shame to see a director with such a great track-record try so hard to convince us that he's still 'got it'.
Without those 2 mega successes he wouldn't convince many studios to make this movie, and none of us would ever seen it.
The final scene unconvincingly tries to convince us that the main character returns from the brink of a murderous mental breakdown and has an epiphany of self-discovering.
this is one of the lousiest movies i've ever seen.The only reason i kept watching this is because i was trying to understand why H.Fonda was in this movie.It seems to be trying to promote pacifism but its so stupidly done that it actually manages the complete opposite,the viewer is convinced by the end of this movie that guns and violence are absolutely necessary.Fonda's character doesn't make any sense other than he is a total spineless coward.There is absolutely no rational excuse for his actions.The whole story is supposed to convince the viewer that Fonda's character is right,but there is very little argument in favor of a man who just sits around doing nothing to stop evil because he is afraid.
One has to cope with annoying editors and actors who, in various strange ways, convince you that they can actually act and sign on to the point where it's too late to replace them.
There was a great deal of humor and Steven Baldwin,(Sean Linden),"In My Sleep",'06, made very little effort in his acting to convince me that he even enjoyed making this film.
There's not much chemistry between the actors: Lon Chaney Jr. and Evelyn Ankers don't convince as a possible couple, and Chaney and Claude Rains don't convince as father and son.
The scene when Seth Brundle went smashing threw the abortion clinic window and then trying to convince Veronica (Geena Davis) not to abort his unborn baby as the baby was the only thing left of the real him, I thought was very sad and moving for Jeff Goldblums acting was so real and professional in that scene, I honestly don't think that any other actor could have played the role of Seth Brundle better than him.
He simply fails to convince, and should have remained with the usual Westerns and such he's most famous for.
There are real planes used over the lush British countryside but a lot of scenes are back projections and do not convince but are fun.
The weakness of the movie are some of the child actors, who can not convince all the time.
The 1980's were the decade when many film studios decided to use their new freedom from petty censorship to convince everyone that eye candy in the form of a little nudity was an essential pre-requisite for any modern romantic comedy.
Besides that, two lesser known actors, Billy Drago and Richard Bradford are good here as Capone's swift and vicious enforcer Frank Nitti and the police chief who tries to convince Malone to stay out of the battle between Ness and Capone.
Champ's ex-wife, socialite Linda, sees Andy and Dink at the racetrack one day and tries to convince Andy that Dink would be better off with her.
Definitely should have been followed up, since we never learned if Chapman's girlfriend was alive (played by Catharine Mary Stuart) or how he would manage to convince the human race of the threats posed by the aliens.
Further complications arrive when the character starts walking off the screen in other theaters around the country and the actor who played the character (also Daniels) arrives in town to try to convince his character to go back in the movie.
Claire as a stout Catholic is deeply against the book and tries to convince James not to publish it.
Olivier, who runs a cult of Satan worshippers, feels James would be a good person to have on board and attempts to convince James to join him and his organisation.
Ozzie tries to convince everyone of what he saw, but they obviously don't believe him, and then he and Alex spot a rainbow, and follow it knowing there should be a pot of gold at the end, which there is.
But let's get some better dialog and at least a couple of scenes to convince us that there might be a real relationship here.
After hearing his voice from outside the window while conducting his chorus in rehearsal, Mr. Parry (Edward Chapman) manages to convince David to sing in his choir and gets him a job at the mines where he also works.
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