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Despite its near three-hour length, it does not drag for a minute.
This film is worthwhile despite what you may hear.
There is a lot to like in this film, despite its humble trappings of a preachy PC tale about rape and the perp always faring better than the victim.
We learn from this story that we all must chose the path in life that we are destined to be on despite what difficulties we encounter,an all thumbs up film!!!!!
Despite their faults, you come to love these people, a cinematic triumph with a heart felt and grand finale.
Also, despite the fact that you can never take Bunuel too seriously, the movie made think about religion and its importance in some people's lives.
The heist proffers a meagre half million francs, way less than their sources had suggested, despite this and with the police in chase they both make it to Nice, where they hideout briefly.
And, despite how it sounds, there is a great deal of exciting action as Angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy.
Despite the depressing subject matter, this film depicts a warm friendship between two boys, and will make you laugh as well as cry.
"Tommy Boy" succeeds as a comedy for the same reasons that the SNL skits Farley and Spade starred in succeeded: their well-timed extemporaneous silliness and mayhem makes them humorous despite their immaturity.
The two lead actors, John Michael Higgins, and Daniel Roebuck, two actors I never heard of before, and haven't heard of since, play Leno and Letterman convincingly, despite Letterman's dismissal of his portrayal as being poor.
They play the parts quite well, despite a lot of people looking for an imitation of the two.
Despite these complaints, there is no denying that Bullet In The Brain is a quite stupendous work compared to many short, and even full length films.
Yet despite its many deficiencies, the film manages to work--provided you turn off your brain and just let yourself enjoy the zaniness of it all.
"THE KING OF QUEENS," in my opinion, is a pure CBS hit! Despite the fact that I've never seen every episode, I still enjoy it very much.
There have been several animated features (only one of them, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix really capturing the wit and spirit of the books despite being an original screen story) before a perfectly cast Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu took the lead roles in two live action adaptations that proved colossally successful throughout Europe but made no impression whatsoever in the English-speaking world.
It is a horror movie, which despite not being void of gore scenes relies more on psychology and masterful building of the tension in order to create thrills.
Still, despite lack of much suspense and overall silliness, this is a good example of unpretentious, often gnarly splatter comedy that should endear itself to fans of the same.
Although the movie borrows from a lot of other movies, despite shoddy camerawork, and despite being "loud" at times, it remains one of the scarce "funny" movies Bombay has come up with after movies like Padosan, Golmal and other Amol Plaekar movies.
Despite Nanette being promised to childhood sweetheart Leon, Henri and Nanette fall in love and decide to marry, despite Nanette's father objecting due to Henri's age.
Credit to that certainly goes to director Lewis who does manage to turn this into a noirish film despite the setting of the film, also aided by the use of good camera-work and lighting.
By the time Takashi Miike started ripping the mick out of the genre with One Missed Call in 2003, the market seemed to be drying up, leaving it open for mockery and derision, despite the continued Hollywood Remake Machine working full steam ahead.
Despite it's lack of originality See No Evil is well made, for what it's supposed to be.
Despite its New York setting & New York characters, 'Summer in the City' is not an American movie, it is better than that.
Well I would say that this is a very enjoyable and somewhat touching movie despite its flaws.
This is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community.
The film isn't perfect by any means but despite this it is very fun and amusing to watch.
We learn little about this woman's marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late; she's also recently learned she's pregnant, which has further complicated her heart (she doesn't want to be a complacent wifey, despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone).
Meanwhile the moneylender is herself unhappy, despite her fortunes.
It's like a father saying his son has been punished enough, and despite his anger he realizes his point has been made.
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