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There was no telegraph, so they decided to pick those skinny guys, the
equivalent
of today's jockeys, and make them alternate, also switching horses, so in ten days the express mail would get from St Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento.
Instead it was the movie
equivalent
of the book I was unable to put down.
It's probably the horror
equivalent
of "The Plank"!! Put simply, this is a total waste of time.
There will be no Russian troops in America on my watch as I am the real American Shadow Vice President with the real
equivalent
rank of a six star General.
In fact, films like 'American Pie', which may be thought of as more modern
equivalent
of this 1980s movie, are (for good or bad) massively more vulgar and direct when it comes to presenting sex.
The acting was at best
equivalent
to that of a high school production.
"The Simpsons" has been endured for nearly two decades yet in all those episodes, you would be hard-pressed to find an
equivalent
number of memorable episodes as the far superior "Futurama" managed in its five seasons of existence.
The production values are
equivalent
to MILF-hunter or a school bus safety video.
The mentionned third entry in this series, once again featuring Ben Willis, will confirm this series the 1990s
equivalent
to "Friday the 13th"...
The modern day
equivalent
to these beauties would be forcing someone to watch 'Get Carter' over and over again.
The first few minutes were the visual
equivalent
of a bad novel's prologue.
Incredibly bad Future Prison movie in which sweaty leather-clad Vin Deisel wannabees run around a former mining asteroid turned penal institution shooting 20th century handguns at each other (as it was set in the 23rd Century, this is the
equivalent
of having James Bond run around with a muzzle loading flintlock) and generally being sweatily homo-erotically sadistic to everyone in sight.
Zero imagination / WTF? points included the ship our villains planned to escape on needing a 3.5 floppy to get it to fly (I can't even start to think of an
equivalent
for today's transport - needing a quill and parchment to start the Space Shuttle?) and the side-kick baddie managing to smuggle not one, but _two_ katanas (with scabbards) into the ultimate maximum security prison in the universe.
Maybe it's the 23rd century
equivalent
of 'freaking out.' Anyway, it's not a good thing, and the Enterprise tracks the source of the trouble to a man on a desolate planet and his small spacecraft there on the surface.
If it was trying to be the film
equivalent
satirical TV comedy such as Absolute Power or Bremner, Bird and Fortune - perhaps with a little of the great State of Play thrown in, then it failed miserably.
It's the filmic
equivalent
of a glass of warm milk or elevator music.
Cooper might be cute as the disaster prone little troublemaker, and the sequence where he tries to wash a car with candy floss mix instead of pink soap was amusing, but young Steiger is like the four-eyed
equivalent
of Annie, i.e. irritating, and it is a dull story, unfunny and just an overall boring family comedy.
A hahahahahahahaha! Oh man, I have to give credit where it's due, because when this scene unfolded before my eyes, it was the
equivalent
of cinemtic masturbatory bliss!
do you in cessantly read women's magazines to find out how to please your man? do you hinge all happiness on having a man in your life? is your IQ
equivalent
to your age? then you will love this movie.
That's about the
equivalent
of saying: "If you were nonconforming too, you'd be just like me."
This was their highest costing movie of all time, so maybe it is their
equivalent
to America's Waterworld.
Delicious special make-up effects, like that one thing that first appears to be a talking lizard (the
equivalent
of a rubber sock-puppet) but then later revealed to be a midget in a rubber lizard costume.
Winner of a record-setting 13 Genie Awards (Canada's "Oscar" equivalent), the film was the directorial début for Jean-Claude Lauzon, who received a standing ovation at Cannes in 1987 after the picture's showing there, the audience obviously of the belief that there were more than enough artistically positive elements within it to counterbalance its patchwork plot.
This is a film
equivalent
of painting by numbers.
Todd Solondze absorbed criticisms about exploitation, showing misery for misery's sake, and just generally being a "meanie", and turned them into the cinematic
equivalent
of a "dis song"(rap term for song made specifically as an attack or "beef" with another rapper), with Solondz against critics, carefully trying to explain the notions of "Storytelling".
This movie is made as simple as they could and yet made it look nice without any huge sets, or without of having characters in the story who are like supposely
equivalent
to Bill Gates.
Zap Rowsdower is the cinematic
equivalent
of George W. Bush.
I will say the actress playing the lead female monster is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, and she has some nude and near-nude scenes that you'd never find in an
equivalent
American flick.
Fast forward Jane Austin 100 years and transport her to Australia and you would get a far more captivating and racier
equivalent
of the book.
A true successor of the Apu trilogy!'Memories in the mist'by Dasgupta artistically and metaphorically inter-wovens the memories and fantasies of a man of his beloved and lost father.Set in the backdrop of North Kolkata,the story paces to and fro between past and present,between reality and imagination,between innocence and lucre!Amongst the numerous metaphors used in the movie,the one which cant be helped mentioning is the reference of the piper which beckons the man to his past,his childhood and his unfulfilled dreams.With this movie,Dasgupta has also endeavored to find the base of our relationships.At the end of the film,the man reveals himself to his father and thus to the audience,and thus forces us to remind of Apu who would,despite hostility as conferred by fate,love and wonder!That is probably the reason some critic has mentioned it as'the closest modern
equivalent'
to a Ray movie.But whatever international applaud it gets,it may not get along too well with the Bengali audience because of its sheer lack of bangaliyana(Bengali traditions and customs)as compared to a new wave cinema by Ray or Ghatak.
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