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A number of devices, such as slide projectors, are used to enhance the story, but this is essentially good old-fashioned performance art.
The series also manages to demean male and female gays in subtle ways by using them as plot devices depicting evil people.
Also, in all this wilderness Stallone and company keep running across bridges and ladders that provide convenient short-cuts or plot devices.
Standard "paint-by-numbers" monster fare, filled with a bunch of routine plot devices from big-creature movies.
This movie would also spawn a couple of other films with similar plot devices such as the giant robots and the tournament.
Dull, cheap sci-fi thriller, made with an almost total lack of conviction (a control room full of computers and other devices used to receive and decipher messages from outer space is run by only ONE MAN, and is VERY poorly guarded at night), and full of campy sound effects.
The spies finally turn their attentions toward Alex, unaware that he has rigged devices to cleverly booby-trap his entire house.
By the time these things happened, I was already bored stiff and the devices were completely ineffective.
A director so completely besotted by his own much applauded first film goes overboard with the devices that worked in his earlier film (Kal Ho Na Ho) - try counting the number of times the device of split screens is used in this flick.
But mostly, there are too many dumb and unnecessary plot devices.
Take out the "aren't we naughty" language and themes and you are left with dialogue and plot devices that insult the intelligence of anyone who doesn't describe "Saved by the Bell" as quality television.
The plot devices & chain of events in The Nostril Picker are totally incomprehensible.
I am not against those kind of stylistic devices if they are done right like Oliver Stone and Steven Soderbergh proof with most of their movies, but in this case there was WAY too much.
1 How is it that everyone can understand each other perfectly without devices like universal translators or translator microbes?
The shrill antics of a screeching Taylor, Burton's half asleep wanderings, the loony dialog, Noel Coward laughing at himself, the ridiculous story and plot devices and the absurd costuming simply irritate the viewer.
All the compositional devices Bach perfected to keep his listener (and the performer) intrigued and entertained applies to this film.
Altman's touch with zooms in and out were there, and I expected those devices to comment on characters and situations.
The concept is compelling, with interesting devices utilized to tell the overall story.
If you like Star Wars/Trek, come see where they got all their ideas and cinematic devices.
I suspect that in this era of TIVO and recording devices that it would fare much better than it did in 1982.
The usual Wodehouse plot devices of mistaken identity and jumps to wrong conclusions wear thin in a full-length film.
Jules Verne has some claim to be the father of science fiction but his stories were more adventure stories using marvellous inventions as plot devices .
It was a very short movie and I was waiting for the usual plot devices to kick in because the movie seemed to be coming to its conclusion fast.
While the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted, it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in 1932 was like for our grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
You may not be able to get past the dated devices as such, but this is a story worth getting into.Then there are all the stars and soon-to-be stars.
With all the plot devices and explanatory scenes thrown out the window, he absolutely runs wild.
Even if the revenge story is of old, the plot devices themselves are original- Gallico uses his tricks to kill in more and more inventive ways.
The writer has used a number of clever devices to try and get round this, but has not been entirely successful.
See for example the opening scenes, with the remote village in the Serbian mountains, with the low-tech devices that defend the integrity and way of life of the inhabitants, the nostalgia for the good days of the Communist rule, and the awakening of the young brat watching his nude teacher at the sounds of the Soviet hymn.
There's all kinds of nifty devices like a fireplace hearth that goes up and down to admit the monk, and it steps right over the fire without setting his robe alight, a nifty trick right there.
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