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This is the equivalent to Turkey a la King.
Of course 2 million dollars is nothing for a movie budget today, but back in 1938 it was the equivalent of what would now be about 40 million dollars.
Yes, a remake of JUGGERNAUT with LAST VOYAGE and BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE stapled on and a TITANIC wannabe...it is in rusty tub terms the equivalent of Behind THE DOOR as a rip off of THE EXORCIST .
A bunch of soccer moms, a crack head, a gardener, a tight jeans cameraman and a few nerdy scientists battle against the intergalactic equivalent of the US navy seals or the German waffen SS and win every time?
Not only that, but it's a real handicap having him be so silent; there are long stretches in this film that are the equivalent of dead air.
After reading the reviews for this film, most of which were, to put it nicely, largely negative, I came under the impression that this movie was going to be the cinematic equivalent of being forced to watch someone kill your dog right after they were done eating your firstborn child.
It's about the cinematic equivalent of a 5-year-old brat having a screaming tantrum in hopes that someone out there actually cares.
It is the equivalent of telling a child a very suspenseful tale of a prince and a dragon.
Allen proves himself to be the '80s equivalent of Ed Wood, with this entry usurping even "The Swarm" to become his All-Time Champ of Cinema Sludge.
After Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" resurfaced that dubious 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.
Marlon Brando is nearly the Japanese equivalent to Stepin Fetchit.
This film turns out to be the horror film equivalent of "Casablanca" because the movie as originally scripted was not filmable.
Other than a few horrific scenes of animal cruelty (is there no French equivalent of the ASPCA?), Wolf's pain in relentless, but relentlessly muted.
It was also nice to see him in his final film go full-circle playing a modern equivalent to his break-through role as a bounty hunter in "Wanted:Dead or Alive", which was where I first became a fan of McQueen's.
Mediocre is the most fitting compliment that I can honestly apply to what was the equivalent of a really long Saturday morning cartoon(although, most episodes of "Ducktales" harbor more of a plot).
The use of Finnish V-word (equivalent for English F-word) gets to your nerves.
It's one of these films that talk down at you; the cinematic equivalent of reading a novel in capital letters: it's all SPELT OUT FOR YOU AS IF YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
The acting is the equivalent of a 6 year old at the very best.
Watching this movie is the cinematic equivalent of a root canal.
Visually, director Frank's purpose seems to be to re-create the pictorial equivalent of a heroin trip.
One can make a case that this film about the African - American racial realities of the New Deal period is the equivalent of "House Of Rothschild", a contemporary movie regarding Jews and anti-Semitism.
With 1/3 of the money that Alexander Finbow had to do this i would be able to do the Portuguese equivalent to "The Lord Of The Rings".
This would be roughly the equivalent today of a police officer showing up for duty wearing purple spiked hair and a red rubber clown nose.
I'm pretty sure that "deep inside" this german equivalent to Mark Borchardt (I clearly prefer "Coven" to "Dolphins" by the way) is aware that he is actually an untalented filmmaker...even (and much more because) he thinks he has created something wonderful and unique.
It is the cinematic equivalent of absolute zero, and I saw both Toxic Avenger and Battle beyond the Stars in theaters on their respective opening weekends.
Maddin is the arthouse equivalent of Quentin Tarantino--reasonably well versed in film history, in awe of his cinema predecessors, and woefully unable to turn his love and knowledge into anything more than a game of spot the influence.
The equivalent of a MacGuffin, we know at a gut level Blanca is clearly dead, but in Esperanza's mind, she is not because she has just seen the apparition of San Judas Tadeo within her oven.
Terry Wogan, for those who don't know, is a veteran Irish broadcaster on BBC Radio 2 who is the closest UK equivalent to the legendary American sportscaster Howard Cosell, i.e. he fancies himself to death, and it's blindingly obvious to everyone that that strange thing on his head is not natural.
In this Class B action film, she's the female equivalent of Arnold in his first action movie, "Conan The Barbarian."
For a lot of film fanatics "?" may be the modern-day equivalent of Pulp Fiction vs. Monty Python, and a contemporary indie masterpiece.
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