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It depicts a space gun/launcher and a helicopter, along with inventive mass communication devices, elevators, flat screen panels, and wireless intercoms.
Alas, the Jarada probe sent shortly thereafter damages the holodeck and all it's safety devices stop working.
I wouldn't go so far as to not recommend this movie, since the only problems I have with it are due to an overexposure to the plot devices used in the movie - the sort of things common to every kids movie ever made it seems.
Somewhat decent movie, overall, but frustrating in it's questionnable plot devices, and overall storyline.
He dies by his own devices - I get what the director may have been trying to convey, but could it have been any less dramatic and boring, I don't believe that is possible.
Tomorrow Is Yesterday introduces the most classic of Star Trek plot devices: time travel.
The title escapes me, because the heroine uses an axe (again off screen) but also uses many other devices.
Some of the plot devices were so bad I could have done better.
Phantom Raiders portrays a crime that is all to possible today, blowing up ships set off by electrical devices.
His hobby is designing part Rube Goldberg, part perpetual motion devices that use steel balls that travel intricate routes.
Lots of good looking women, gruesome makeup, and campy devices made for a good time.
The payoff is not only getting a grip on the ultimate battle between the black lectroids (good guys) and the red lectroids (bad guys), but you are also treated to picking up on new gags and jokes (actually more like bits of humor - to wit: Who in their right mind would build a jet car out of an Econoline Van???) and subtle plot devices which were previously overlooked.
Maybe this is just another of the clever plot devices to keep you tuning in to the adventure.
He abused his adopted son, likes to humiliate his patients, is impotent and does things to his own backside with devices.
Various central-casting western types cycle through, brandishing their mustaches and petticoats, and seem to have been left to their own devices on such matters as line readings (Keenan Wynn, in particular, barks his dialog as though dictating it to a sign painter).
The newer ones just add a few more unimaginative side stories, involve modern devices such as electronic banking, computer technology, a little more of the sex angle,etc.
Since they both have a common problem in the shape of Lord Shin & his men they sort of join forces to defeat him, after some silly plot devices keep throwing them together.
When the story advances to the road aspect of the movie, we get 'surprise' devices like .... finding a blind man listening to a radio in the boonies somewhere in Mexico .....how this living-alone, elderly impoverished sightless man was able to find the fuel to run the .....presumed..... generator since his cancer-ridden son hadn't visited in six months is a different story problem......
The usual plot devices of a found phone number, or random run in with character directs the story.
Nice photography, a plot that has a good rhythm and tempo, engaging characters that are well acted and clever film devices (for one, the conflict regarding her smoking that set up the plot complication in the first place).
It was made a year before Godzilla 1984 as well as a year before 2010 came out-and this film bears some striking plot devices to that one, as well as some of the set and miniature designs.
There are some grand set pieces, devices, and a "large" epic look to things.
Butchered is a bad picture all the way: with actors with virtually no range, hokey special effects, crude plot devices shown on film such as vomiting, a grade z budget, and a story that has been done in some form or fashion many, many times.
But the makers of this film weren't trying to do anything else but show a lot of bloodletting, smashed heads and faces, eye gouging, knife cuts and slashes, and the typical devices used in a film of this ilk.
It looks like they forgot to pick one, instead they ended up with a disjointed mash up of one-liners mixed into stupid plot devices.
Even with the obvious plot devices this movie is one you should not spend money on.
Dracula and Frankenstein in this are pretty interesting, Dracula has some pretty strange ability to speak in echoes, while not using any visible devices, and he's missing make-up on his eyelids.
Produced during or just before the glory days of the made-for-television movie, this film depicts the struggle of a difficult man, left to his own devices in the desert.
He manages to take the classic elements of the cop movie, including plot devices, typical inciting incidents and characterisation and overload it with as much action you can fire a gun at, creating two hours of pure adrenaline rush.
The best part is that fact that these are real everyday people and not actors, who are thrown into a fantasy situation and left to their own devices (most of the time).
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