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These stories are 50 Minutes of pure action and suspense all the way, You cannot fight these 3 people, as they would defeat you in all forms of weaponry.
Ustinov asks the computer how to defeat its security and the computer obligingly tells, him, "Disconnect blue light."
This leads to the prince and Abu going off on an adventure to find a way to defeat Jafa, restore peace to Baghdad and marry the princess.
Cheryl has to surmount her deep-seated childhood fear of the beast so she can defeat the foul find.
As the aunt to a single mom in a 1962 working-class Chicago neighborhood, the veteran character actress gets another work-out as a gutsy woman who won't let any set-backs defeat her spirit of success.
With the help of a police woman named Sam, can Mordrid defeat his evil brother?
Bless Paulie in his new home, at last with Marie, perhaps joined by the nice young man who helped him defeat the antagonists to complete his journey.
C'mon, we know that toasters, toaster ovens and zip-locks have done bread in a dozen times and now we must call for their help in order to defeat the reanimated bread.
The casting is inspired: Nolte is understated in triumph, bewildered in defeat, decisive in judgment.
Gordon Liu still stars as a would-be hero on a quest to learn kung fu to defeat those pesky Manchus... but this time around it's lighter and more comedic.
He finds them odd and as he gets closer to danger, he is frightened, even if he knows he must move forward to try to defeat whichever menace is being showcased in that episode.
Sometimes, he seems as surprised that he managed to defeat a foe as we are.
If his plan to defeat the creature didn't work, you will often see him running for his life to get away from it, which is of course what I would do in the situation.
Del Toro is impressive, hanging in reliably through thick and thin, from days of glorious victory in part one to months of humiliating defeat in part two, appealing and simpatico in all his varied manifestations, even disguised as a bald graying man to sneak into Bolivia.
It is about a rag tag group of boys from different ethnic and social classes that come together to defeat a common enemy.
The plot is related of how the young army officers took the power in Portugal in 1974, to finally defeat the fascist government of Caetano and to also finalize the wars in the colonies, i.e.
Can you defeat narrow-minded small town people?
This one means defeat.
Vampires in Las Vegas run amok and are hunted by a variety of police officers, who eventually defeat the vampires with the help of a sexy nun.
Also the much overused ending of a small band of humans with almost no weapons left being able to defeat the supreme enemy - in this case the Bull dragon - would work better in 1942 as opposed to 2020.
The tale of "Heidi" is such a groaner that it manages to defeat any little, bright-eyed young actress who stars in it, yet they keep trying.
And - SPOILER - as someone else already mentioned, how can you defeat a demon simply by breaking a mirror???).
The better part of them are essentially the same, when you break them down to basic elements: Build up a base, collect credits through some kind of natural(or unnatural) mineral, build an army and defeat the opponent who has more or less the same type(s) of army/units/buildings as you.
I have to admit, I've experienced several RTS games which unfortunately have one inferior army, which can only defeat the other army through means of drastically superior numbers.
He is approached to plan how to defeat anybody how attempted to seize an oil rig in the North Sea.
Pearl Harbor was frightening enough, but the very magnitude of defeat in the Pacific brought home the reality that there would be more casualties--if they could get off the island.
The plot (about four students and a professor who conquer their sexual fears while lucid dreaming but--surprise!--meet a mysterious devil-woman in their dreams and must team up to defeat her) is intriguing in the let's-slow-down-and-look-at-the-overturned-tractor-trailer sort of way.
Kane is now a demon, pure evil, and the Freelings need assistance from a Shaman in order to defeat him.
It took me forever to defeat Jojo Jr. at Monkey Kombat, but it was fun.
It is a delight to watch Laurence Harvey as a neurotic chess player, who schemes to murder the opponent he cannot defeat at the chessboard.
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