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Odd supporting cast--including Harold Gould, Nehemiah Persoff, square-jawed John Beck, and Darrin McGavin as the proverbial girl-chasing agent--are all pretty dreary.
Movies have always shown a fascination for these grim, dreary tales with unredeeming, amoral, warped characters at their center (especially if the tales are based on true events), but OUR fascination with such movies is harder to explain and borders on the masochistic.
The scenario is full of dreary eccentrics, although Parker Posey's 'Jackie-O' is a dark, original creation unto herself.
Rather dreary Korean War drama where everybody appears to be performing "by the numbers".
If you like rock music, if your sick of the dreary love scenes and dialogue in most films this is the one for you, so lock up your daughters, shoot your sons and check out the best action film of the year.
Turns out though that Moon 44 is a piece of dreary trash.
The demented and hilarious re-working of what appears to be originally a dreary Filipino wrestling movie/crime drama, the Troma team does what Woody Allen did in "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" but with less restraint.
It's great fun to see how Flora Poste's (Kate Beckinsale) arrival at Cold Comfort Farm brightens this dreary, incredibly odd family's life and how she sets about making everybody's life there better.
I felt the whole movie was dreary & depressing.
I found this movie very dreary, distracting, and slow going.
Or why the movie is dark and dreary like a new Batman movie.
The overall look of the film resembles a soap opera, resulting in a very dreary boring film.
Somewhere in all the hacked, arty story telling there was a half way decent plot that got wasted on this dreary, boring, annoying product.
It starts out okay, with Combs as Lovecraft seeking the Necronomicon inside a monastery, but when he finds it and starts reading it, the unfortunate viewer must endure 3 tales that are dreary instead of frightening, dull instead of engaging or morose.
However, in this dreary film, you see none of the famed "Lubitsch touch", Jannings is just okay, the film is NOT about mummies at all and the print from Alpha Video was so fuzzy that it was a chore to watch the thing!
The poor Sean Penn character even has to "subscribe to the single ax theory" of the murder, to use this film's continuously dreary iconic phrasing.
The sluggish pacing and overlength are deterrents, although the beginning of the movie is quite bright and the thoughtful, serious finish almost gives the dreary film some actual meaning.
Another poster on this title claims some connection to this dreary movie, defending it because the cast and crewed "cared" about what they were doing.
Based on a 1945 play by Harry Brown, this dreary movie moves between standard banter between men in a somewhat stressful situation (the bombed out rubble of a house in Italy) who are ordered out but are reluctant to leave a pinned down member of the platoon, and dream sequences that are painful, and populated by Rita Hayworth look-a-likes.
The first was the considerably dreary little Italian-made "The Last Man on Earth (1964)" starring the always charismatic Vincent Price.
Man, is this messed-up movie an unbearably dumb, lousy and often downright dreary piece of junk!
It was all desperately dreary.
OK, I can't think of a third good film struggling to get out - but what we are left with is a rather dreary flick that struggles to get out of second gear.
Partly because it was live, partly because it was cheap, and partly because the people who created this were completely lacking in intelligence or imagination, it was utterly without even a pretense of supporting special effects (e.g., monitors with important data the actors are all discussing are tilted away from the camera so you only see the back of the monitor), the sets were plain and very few, the audio was terrible, the whole show was dark and dreary looking, and the ending was as uneventful and lame as any movie or television program I've ever seen.
This is a pathetically dreary film about a "gang" of drug smugglers and their not-so-funny misadventures as they are hounded by the Georgia State Patrol while first in a beat up camper and then a huge rig.
Sight gags (walking into a tree) and silliness (Stalin's successors act up like the three stooges at his death) provide the only comic relief from this dreary tale that seems to go on for hours.
Watched this one dreary Saturday.
cgi in this movie at all and the location in the hotel is great dark and dreary.the
How unrelentingly dreary, unsatisfying, and distasteful can a script be?
The film has no atmosphere, poor pacing, drab set design and dreary cinematography, and it's offensive in its stupidity and gay clichés.
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