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i think time might be cruel to bukowski, and that bothers me a lot, because the writing was solid in a sort of post counter culture time.
I had an inkling of how bad a film it was after reading the short blurb at the ticket counter.
They usually could be found safely behind the counter at hipster video stores and record shops.
However, as the movie ends, (possibly several hours or even a day or so after the chopper has landed) the death toll counter is reset back too what it was at the moment the chopper was approaching the area.
So what exactly can you say about a movie that features a woman that pees in a bowl on the kitchen counter (while standing up)?
Camera looks like it is done by a kid, there's a bomb with counter, and suddenly a Beetle is falling from the sky.
I found this on the shelf and swooned with joy !! I danced up to the counter, slapped down my money and ran home!
Katie (The California Girl) and her boyfriend, Katie's Mom and everybody, including the poor lady at the airport check-in counter, Lin's adopted father, who is the nicest, most considerate man alive, and his wife and biological son, all in constant conflict.
Not only does she become anorexic, bulemic, an over the counter junkie, and a pathological liar, but all in the course of a few months.
The man behind the counter told me he had something for me that I definitely would like.
I enjoyed this film, which offers a variety of interesting subplots and complex love-hate relations, along with interspersed action scenes and some lighthearted moments in which the mountain men counter harsh army discipline.
King Qin's simple wish for a unified Empire for his common people is fulfilled, but not without treachery, plots and counter plots and oh yes, bodies.
This is a great compendium of interviews and excerpts form the films of the late sixties and early 70s that were a counter movement to the big Studio Films of the late sixties.
Like marveling at Peter Boyle's characterization of the ultimate redneck, sure to typecast him the rest of his career (Oh, how wrong!), and how the counter culture jarred the sensibilities of most of the country.
In this one Knotts plays a dimwitted bean counter for some little jerk water town run by a group of crooked simpletons only slightly brighter than he is.
I was duped into seeing this movie after reading a positive review from another website and man was I p.o'd!!! it took me at least 15 minutes to pick it up off the shelf b/c I didn't want anyone to see me. then another 10 minutes to build the courage to take it to the counter and actually use real money to rent it.
Once upon a time some evil people made a movie about a guy that got shot into space, supposedly to go to Saturn, but really only to some stock footage of solar flares, and then he gets a nose bleed, and before you know it, he's laying in a hospital bandaged head to foot, and then an overweight nurse with an ill-fitting uniform comes in and gets eaten by the guy, whose supposed to be melting all over the place but never seems to lose any mass, and then NASA, or at least one guy at NASA, gets upset about it and calls one other guy in to hunt him down, but the guy they sent to hunt the melting guy has to go home and have soup first, and his oddly-shaped wife forgot the crackers, so he can't have crackers, and then he has to go out and look for the melting guy with a geiger counter, and that doesn't really work, so he really only follows the trail of half-eaten corpses, and then there's something about a sheriff, and two ugly old people in a lemon grove, and a women with a meat cleaver, and some kind of industrial plant with trigger-happy security guards, and since I can't tell you how the movies ends, all I can say is Jonathan Demme is in it somewhere with some guy with the stupid name of Burr DeBenning, and if there's any justice in the world everyone connected with this movie died a hideous, violent death and was unable to make more movies, and the world lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER - THE END!
The employees at the video store should have slapped me for bringing this title to the counter.
But then came "Seed," and the counter was reset to Zero, keeping his bid for legitimacy and respect that much further out of reach.
The free-spirited fiancée engaged to a "bean counter" personality she doesn't love.
While trying to solve his domestic problem, Jack is called to his Counter Terrorist Unit by his colleague Nina Myers for a meeting with their chief Richard Walsh, who discloses a menace against the life of Senator David Palmer, who is running for president, and they need to find the shooter.
Were it not for dedicated, selfless lawyers who worked relentlessly to investigate and counter the trial testimony, finding Azaria's clothes later would not have been enough to get Lindy out of jail.
The ideas of the counter culture was well established, that is why such a big film could be made.
First with the conservative "Honeymoon Hotel" number,then followed by the very spectacularly eye dazzling "By A Waterfall" sequence,followed by the closing "Shanghai Lil" sequence, Cagney only participates in the last number hoofing it up on top of a bar counter with Ruby Keeler.
If you're hungry for a perfect filet mignon, don't go to the bakery counter and start whining and complaining about the fluff pastry.
That Head sitting on the lab counter top was as real as it got back then.
It's all there but the small print in the counter culture tabloids prevalent at the time.
I couldn't go any further after seeing the "wooden" teller counter in the bank bow under the weight of "Linc".
I took it to a place that sells used videos, and the guy behind the counter had heard of it as the worst movie ever made.
But, for no valid reason, their liberty was taken from them because of the law instated to counter terrorist acts happening during "la crise d'octobre".
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