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While he was cruel, vile, despicable, certainly repulsive and yet you felt at the same time he was pitiful, sad, pathetic.
Without that explanation, he'd still find reasons to be cruel, because his pleasure comes from seeing others in pain.
The only sense of the story I can make is that the creature was so despondent at being left in such a cruel miserable country he decided to kill himself by resurrecting the father.
In his declining years he wrote his memoirs describing his years of incarceration, his cruel mistreatment and daring, multiple escapes.
Did I end up sitting through the original "Silent Night, Deadly Night" again or was someone just playing a cruel joke on me?
This cruel killer does not care who its victim is or how old.
The first of Jones's short lived Hubie and Bertie series about two frequently cruel and sadistic mice and their tendency to prey on the emotionally frail, 'The Aristo-Cat' reduces the star character's roles to virtual cameos.
The cast is wonderful and the story is a classic: the destruction of innocence by cruel reality (viz: the title of the story taken from a line from a Robert Burns's poem).
Andy's friends act like she's selling her soul to work at Runway, as if it's not just an occupational hazard to submit to cruel bosses here and there.
That was more cruel than funny.
This movie made the American troops look like bumbling, cruel, calloused idiots vs. the gentile, peace-loving, well trained VC.
In 'Porky's Romance', Petunia is cruel, selfish, idle and greedy and, while this may not have been beneficial for the character's longevity, it is extremely beneficial for the cartoon.
Things aren't a lot different in 2006,it's just that Hollywood likes to make us think they are.I'm not saying for a minute that it's right that things have barely changed in 30 years,but no amount of wishing will make it so.Professional criminals still hide their activities behind the poor and disenfranchised of their own communities,ferment trouble for their own advantage and cops like Eddie Ryan still hate them bitterly for doing it.Laws meant to protect the weak and vulnerable still shelter the cruel and ruthless.If Eddie Ryan,like Harry Callaghan before him,feels like chucking in his badge then he cannot altogether be blamed.Not that he gets a chance as his bosses pre-empt him.
When word gets out of her secret crush he plays a cruel and hurtful joke by pretending to be interested only to turn her down and humiliate her in front of the entire school.
Even though the humor was dark and cruel,it was hysterically funny.For a movie made on a very low budget,this was impressive.It began with a gory scene in a thunderstorm and then begins years later.The actor that played Monty was perfectly cast.I loved it at the end when he got back at his tormentors since they sure had it coming!
Rico Aversi(Christopher Mitchum)is the son of a murdered mafia chief,who is slowly engulfed by a world of forgery and drugs in order to avenge his father's slaying.His adversary,Don Vito(an excellent Arthur Kennedy,who never achieved the recognition he deserved),is cruel,vicious and has years of gangland experience on his side.Here is a battle of wits,blood and violence that ends in a powerful and dramatic climax."Mean
There has to be something wrong, when you start to sympathise with the second leads instead of the two leads, which is the main problem with Griffin Dunne's mildly amusing, nasty, mean and cruel romantic comedy about obsessed and crazy ex-lovers Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan combining their powers to separate their past lovers Kelly Preston and Tcheky Karyo from one another by playing tricks on them.
The film presents a repellent point of view: that those who advocate relationships with minors -- and the minors themselves -- are victims of society's intolerance; to make their point more profoundly, the filmmakers make their couple victims in many other ways: Charley's mother and best friend are deaf, his mother was killed by a drunk driver while he watched, his father is senselessly cruel, while Eban has been fired from his job (a boys' athletic coach) and is hounded by his ruthlessly "concerned" parents.
It's so cruel; to torture the audience so long, give them the hope of being entertained, and then snatch it viciously from them!
The movie is sharp-straight, honest and pretty cruel to a person watching it.
I thought it was cruel how he tried to kill his brother and sister though.
It's got the stock characters of the bullied nerd and the cruel gang of'punks' that pick on him and an abysmal storyline about a horoscope phone line that kills people; and that the recorded message talks directly to the characters doesn't phase them at all.I had the misfortune to sit through this some time ago so cant remember too much about it, but I suppose that's my point.
I think its honesty is the reason many are offended by this and not the "real" thing on television: they don't want to admit they have a cruel voyeuristic streak, or are a racist, or whatever.
If you want to see a weak movie with some cruel scenes then this may be for you.
As a cruel joke, Rick rigs the ballot box so that Angus is nominated for king of the winter ball.
Big Brother provides housemates with twists and cruel turns.
Boris Karloff stars as a Greek general who becomes cruel when trying to keep order.
Unfortunately, the captain is rude and cruel to the other cheerleaders, so she and her best friend Monica decide to create their own squad and have a cheer off to see who will go to nationals.
It is hard to define it as a movie, even harder to define it as a documentary, so I could call it (I admit, a little too cruel) a joke.
Romina Powers spends the duration of the film like the vacant window dressing that she is as Justine, a nubile young virgin whom after being cast out of an orphanage and into a depraved cruel world, in this muddled adaption of one of Marquis de Sade's writings.
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