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elements like the love story could have been expanded on a bit more, and the cannons need to be written in better.
Ian McShane's role is just an expanded cameo appearance.
The world is expanded upon and the strangeness is contextualized by the retelling, giving us a broader glimpse into growing up weird in vanilla America.
only in this case the cats resemble hello kitty more and their adventure is expanded to include death and reincarnation and a number of other themes [though not all that easy to tell what's going on]. the dvd of this has director's commentary and a "making of" features, but i cant comment on those because i didnt get around to them.
Christina Ricci has once again expanded her abilities in this film.
Nevertheless, it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory.
Later I rented it in Japan after having been here three years, afraid that I would cringe when I viewed it in the harsh light of my expanded international experience.
Later Lewis productions like GUN CRAZY (1949) and THE BIG COMBO (1955), despite the expanded scope of their narrative structure, continued to rely upon deft, lucid camera work and effective low-key lighting.
The expanded Chriterion edition is a must for anyone who loved it when it came out.
My interest in international cinema has expanded since I first saw this film.
Simon's play has been nicely expanded for the screen with a silent prologue chronicling a depressed Felix's suicide attempt that is a winner.
Julia would be a Young Lady by then and her artificial Intelligence would have been greatly expanded upon.
Knowing how serious 9/11 really was seeing this expanded the whole effect of 9/11.
This is like a expanded soap opera but worse.
OK performances by Dean Jones, Yvette Mimieux and wily Maurice Chevalier (in his final film), but the argument at the center of the story isn't expanded upon, and the romance which sketchily develops between Dean and Yvette seems like an afterthought as well.
They expanded on, and sometimes alluded to, the movie.
All those sarcastic remarks about lack of British manufacturing and dark murmurings about the Japanese taking over, all seem irrelevant as an expanded service industry and tourism helped by cheaper imports from China and India, seems to have more than filled the gap.
I was told it was going to be an expanded version of the short of the same name, so I was expecting that.
They could have made this into like 2 or 3 different movies and expanded.
Alas, although the knight's role is little more than a cameo in Alice, the writers here have mercilessly expanded the part, even though it meant treading on the lines of more capable players like break-your-heart Rita La Roy (a most engaging and super-attractively regal young duchess) and Kay Hughes' pleasing Cheshire Cat who, as we might expect, disappears from the action, alas, for long spells.
The expanded story (100X more stolen $$ !) retains the theme that criminals are doomed by the double-cross, and the resourceful detective is a better chess player once the plan goes awry.
Zalman King is an actor and scriptwriter who expanded his capabilities in mid career to include both producing & directing (more recently he has also very successfully tried his hand at cinematography, to complete what today has become a rare fivefold).
In fact, I am not really a big fan of SW's Expanded Universe since its purpose is to explore the possibilities beyond the movies (which in turn ruins the rhythm of the saga's overall presentation).
Clone Wars, also labeled as an Expanded Universe, otherwise proves the other way round.
The plot is good but is never really expanded.
I wish the director or the writers expanded more on the fact that he is going to Harvard.
Moorehead is a kick as the spirited author, and makes the most of her expanded role, but fans of the early film productions (1926's The Bat and 1930's The Bat Whispers, both directed by Roland West) will be less forgiving of other changes, especially writer-director Crane Wilbur's decision to draw the story out over a succession of nights.
This story could be expanded to develop the characters and "surprises" in the plot.
Damnation Alley was first a short story and then expanded to a Novella (probably to make the movie from).
Earth is now but a wasteland and civilization has expanded to the further reaches of the galaxy.
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