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I stood and watched everyone waddle out of the theater, their faces drained like their lives flashed before their eyes -- eyes wandering at their neighbor, wondering if it was just them.
Movies like these are to the originals what Album Oriented Rock stations are to what music used to be like - repetitive, boring, and drained of all the original energy by a committee of corporate drones.
I sat there stunned at how something so riveting and emotional could be drained to nothing.
The Vampire Bat is set in the small German village of Klineschloss where Gustave Schoen (Lionel Belmore) the Burgermeister is holding a meeting with Inspector Karl Brettschneider (Melvyn Douglas) from the local constabulary about all the recent murders, six victims have been discovered in as many weeks all drained of blood & bearing the same two puncture wounds on their necks.
By doing this, though - by making every line clear and every intent obvious - they have drained the play of life and turned it into a flat caricature.
Angelica Huston's character drained my power.
The end result is a faithful rendition of the stage hit, drained of emotion, energy or anything that can be described as dynamic.
Story takes place in the small German town of Klineschloss where the bodies have been piling up completely drained of blood and with suspicious puncture marks.
Perhaps the genius and the craftsmanship devoted to the movie drained all the energy and creativity out of him, so that when it came time for supper, he had nothing to serve us but his own doo doo.
Once in a while, you come upon a movie that defines your values and shows you the true depth of human emotions leaving you drained.
If you watch this film based on the cover or the Troma-logo,don't bother, chances are that you feel rather drained after viewing.
When Count Axel de Fersen comes down the stairs into her dungeon to bid her a final fairwell, you really get the feeling that she is just completely drained with all emotion by the simple look in her eyes.
I came out of the theater drained and reinvigorated.
Some articles about the film have suggested that audiences might feel drained or exhausted from watching it.
I didn't leave the film exhausted or drained.
I found myself delighted, beguiled, enchanted, crushed and ultimately reduced to a drained and empty shell by the film's end; it took several days thereafter to fully recover.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a Dutch the leader of a commando unit who must take on a sneaky kill crazy creature who skins his prey and uses their skulls as trophies in this bloody yet well made monster movie which starts of slow but becomes so engrossing and suspenseful you feel drained near the end.
The tension and credibility have been drained out of this Wings of the Dove remake.
Beautifully styled shots and a sparse yet rich sound design leaves you feeling emotionally drained by the end.
This is a powerful movie and it left me drained out by the time it got over.
Someone seems to have drained the life out of these performers; Jim Brown, in particular, comes off very badly (judging only from this movie, you'd come to the conclusion that he can't act).
At a time when the war chest is drained and the battle seemed to be drawn out longer than expected, you need public support to cough out funds and make donations to the manufacturing of arms.
Brains Drains Are Good for YouSocieties that take in "brain drained" scientists and others benefit enormously.
Spain, for example, saw its best minds drained away for five centuries, notably following Fascism's victory in the Spanish Civil War.
For this reason especially, but also for many others, the more brains that are drained, the better!
The Arab Spring drained away whatever spurious legitimacy that style of governance ever had.
Venezuela – its own kind of El Dorado – will pay a heavy price, once Maduro has drained it dry.
In many countries, more immigrants are leaving than are arriving, owing mainly to the economic crisis that has drained jobs in the West.
As it became increasingly institutionalized, the G20 was drained of its vitality.
In other words, they issued credit that contributed little to the local economy, and then drained local resources through interest and exploding foreign currency-denominated debt.
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