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Maybe someone should tell Neal that substituting lyrics of songs which are failing to inspire anyone outside of a dwindling audience isn't the same thing as creating characters who are motivated to speak because of events created by the writer or director.
Slow,badly cast and badly acted it is a film trying to escape the deadbeat romcoms of the recent years and failing!
Or, failing that, he would at least give the participants of his shows a cut of his profits.
However, the major failing is that the sheer artificiality of the mise en scene creates an alienating effect in the viewer.
Unfortunately, as far as I could see, they sometimes were gratuitous, sometimes witty, often barren for failing to point out some ironic or other connection.
It is so easy to forget that someone whose body is failing was once vibrant and passionate.
But this is common knowledge; I think his main problem is the array of genres that he covers whilst at the same time, failing to develop any sort of certain style that might label him an auteur.
It seems that too many people do not want to see films that are not loaded down with failing arms and legs, gratuitous violence and enough expletives to fill the New York phone book.
Until this famous and well-loved film was created, no film had tried to imagine a world beyond Earth; and for decades afterward, ships kept crashing back on the planet--as if the writers' imaginations were failing and causing the crashes.
Failing at the pursuit is alright as long as you try.
There are, clearly, differences between the original Chinese and dubbed English versions, with many of the jokes failing to make their way into the latter.
Yet, due to some, at first unexplained events, she spent roughly a year out of school, failing the grade.
It is a travesty people have not known all the details assosiated with landing on the moon and the courage those men had when facing certain death, from a failing computer... 10 stars!
His med school grades are even failing.
His girlfriend tries to hold him to life but failing to, decides to follow him after his finally occurring death.
It shares this failing with a fairly illustrious list of science fiction classics: "1984", "2001: A Space Odyssey (compare its space station with our International Space Station) and Isaac Asimov's "I Robot" (positronic brains were to have been invented in the 1990's).
That's a failing if you really want authenticity about a New York detective, particularly when you compare it to "Naked City" which was filmed on the streets of the city.
Kim looks like she trying to go her best Cynthia Nixon impression and is failing miserable.
Other reviewers have commented on Guy Ritchie's efforts with Lock, Stock/Snatch failing to live up to this benchmark, but I'd take issue.
Naturally, Mr. Amos brings Mr. Vincent home, to bone up his failing college team.
I think the problem is too many people are comparing this movie with other movies and failing to realize thats its not SLC Punk or Fightclub.
It seems no one here wanted to make a strictly pictorial piece of scrapbook nostalgia, so the film ends up failing as both an American tall tale and as a boy-grows-up-fast character study.
In Germany ,in the 30's and 40', light Viennese comedies were popular on the cinema,like"The porch conscert",,1935,directed by Douglass Sirk.Well, Hitler was failing when this movie was being produce.
one of the inner story's is on four girls looking for a place that they can get into, because of their young age, after failing in that, they are find themselves in the "bad part of town", well that just could be a real cool story, but that bad part of town, isn't really as you might expect, it's just a typical warehouse area.
Oh how I wish I could find even a decent second-hand VHS copy, to replace my failing one!
Two brothers,both immigrants from Italy,both run a failing Italian restaurant in New York.
Failing, because the restaurant serves upscale Italian dishes (or,nouveau cuisine)in a blue collar,working class neighborhood that doesn't know (or care)beyond spaghetti & meatballs.
But even if he has made money in his life, his messages are still important in that they expose, more than any other source, the failing of our nation whether by chance or design.
Her acting is always excellent though the scripts are usually failing.
The other failing of the film - which is really more of a backhanded compliment - is that I found myself wanting to know more about the family and see more of their infighting.
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