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Perhaps that's part of the problem then, because in every film version I've seen (save, perhaps, for the Jeremy Brett Granada one, where the hound looked as though it merely wanted a Milk-Bone and a nice tummy rub), scriptwriters can't resist the temptation to add
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improvements" to Sir Arthur's masterwork.
Upon approaching this flick i was a tad sceptical - i knew with the cast, director and musical score covered nicely - there was no reason for it to be a let down, but i always find myself slightly
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of war films.
And so, one of the most
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casting decisions in Hollywood history was made.
I wound up with this movie on one of those
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£3.99 four-packs full of 'films you've never heard of'.
I loved it, some of the film quality was a bit dubious, looked like someone had been let loose with a videocamera and a couple of army surplus uniforms but the acting was adequate and the story okay.
I see three thousand copies of Dude, Where's My Car every time I step outside, but when I want to see a beautiful and interesting film like Gemini, I have to track down a
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bootleg on eBay.
This Quebecois film is a charmer that redeems much else of
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merit coming out of that bit of Canada which persists in its French-ness.
A
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hero tries to stop the contamination before the army nukes the whole town.
While this film deals with a lesser known extinction level event, the science is still
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as presented.
This situation is maintained for 10 years, when a woman of
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character turns up and claims refuge.
After Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" resurfaced that
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genius, some peninsular scandalmongers decided to find the local equivalent to Ed and declared Tanio Boccia (who directs here as Amerigo Anton), Italy's worst filmmaker ever.
I was
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of the idea of having it talk, but on the other hand hearing a werewolf rattle off cheesy lines and genuinely enjoy getting up to some carnage if fairly novel.
While both turn out stellar performances they are wasted in a disjoint story which bounces between multiple subplots -- and it isn't clear which plot is the 'main' plot -- and
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flashbacks.
Once upon a time, I naively believed that a film could be THE WORST simply by its own
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merit.
All of which adds up to 101 minutes of viewing fun, despite a grating, fingernails-on-the-blackboard music score, and
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production values which, toward the film's end, have a black Lincoln turning yellow, then black, then yellow again, and back to black, in the span of 43 seconds.
He claims to be working on a new book, an assertion that may be face-saving but is of
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credibility.
It is a remake of one of the most infamous exploitation movies of the 1970s, but you know that you have problems when you cannot improve upon such
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material.
I had the
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honor of being a part of my high school's production of HELLO DOLLY a zillion years ago, so there was a time when I was intimately familiar with both the play and the film.
Over the course of 2 years I spoke with authors of conspiracy books, read and watched everything I could on the case and even met Jean Hill, the "lady in the red raincoat" from JFK's motorcade, who told me straight-faced that "the truth is out there." "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" accepts at face value the
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accounts of various "witnesses" to JFK's killing, whom photographs of the grassy knoll and nearby places show were not there at all or whose vision would have been completely obscured.
Okay, making a film of the Bobbie Gentry song was a
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idea to begin with; but it's hard to imagine a more boorish attempt.
Nobody likes to be cheated against in sports, especially so when participating in national level events, and worse, having a supposedly neutral referee awarding
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decisions that work against your favour, even if it's clear cut they're either receiving some kickbacks, or are genuinely blind.
Wizards of the Demon Sword was made during a period rife with extremely bad sword and sorcerer movies, yet it has the
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distinction of being about the worst I've thus far run across.
Furthermore the accounts of former Panamanian officials are a little
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since the people removed from power might actually not be telling the whole truth either.
When I was in the US recently, I had the
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pleasure of enjoying a few Maury shows.
The former is not quite as bad, and hence never really popped up on any Worst Of Lists, but it is that kind of 1980s
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horror in that, despite the urgency of the situation (hideous monsters who "live so that others may die"), the characters carry on like it's just any other day.
The dogs do a good job and the director Albert Band, despite a lack of any sizable budget and some real poor lighting, creates just enough suspense and tension to keep this
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project somewhat afloat.
But, judging from experience in North Africa, where education improved greatly under the old regimes, but failed to boost growth performance and create job opportunities for educated youth, the validity of such an approach as a fundamental model for development policy is
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China’s non-financial corporate debt increased dramatically, partly owing to
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real-estate investments.
Since the world will not continue to provide the US with goods in exchange for
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financial securities, Americans will have to leave their dream world.
I am
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of that claim.
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