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A documentary about Robert Moog, one of the most important figures in electronic music?
When Bloom talks to her, he figures out she has some amazing talents.
Joe figures that as a way to pay Herb, well, Herb's daughter, Ann.
The majority of characters are shown as familiar action figures (everything from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Transformers, and even Voltron).
There were figures on the roof and in the yard yard, and the owner spent hundreds - if not thousands - of dollars each year, not including massive utility bills.
Brosnan figures out that there is a bomb in the courtroom and gets everyone out (well, almost everyone) - and he's figured this out by the look exchanged by those two men.
But there isn't too much substance beneath the surface: all the leading figures are gorgeous without being lovable, and while the central sex scene is certainly quite erotic, I don't imagine you'd see anything quite so arousing by sticking a camera in any real couple's bedroom.
Somehow Chow Yun Fat figures into the mess as a cop investigating a murder that he really committed and wants to keep covered up.
Though I liked the figures and the setting I could not help wonder why I should be bothered with Valium on screen.
(Some "Hello Kitty" figures can be seen at one point of the movie!)
I refer to the Willie Lynch Speech on slavery, which figures prominently in this movie.
An early scene where Thomas the patient flips out violently after being touched by an extremely hot, sexually agressive young woman gives away the fact that Thomas was sexually molested as a child, although like a bad poker player who shows his cards but figures nobody was really paying attention anyway the filmmakers seem to think the audience will react with something other than complete indifference or a loud duh when they finally pull the molestation card out about forty minutes later.
OK, OK, I can understand how some movies try to use womanly figures to promote their movies and give some cheap thrills to the male audience, but you have to begin questioning a film that has the main lead getting it on with the first two nameless bare breasted chicks he rescues.
They animators use only toys and clay figures which, in my opinion, adds to the hilarity.
When this shady guy figures out that during the last nine years he's become a pillar of the community and has access to gobs of other peoples' money, he wants to steal everything he can and run.
And the character of Cosmo Vitelli is one of those enigmatic figures that leaves you wondering whether you have been shown the story of an idiot or the story of a saint.
Alan Turing was one of the most important figures of the 20th century, and one of the most slighted.
Wilson figures his own deceptive practices can be excused by admitting them, but when you're out to slam someone else for doing the same thing, one should practice what one preaches.
Simon, portrayed by the excellent child actor Spencer Banks is the brainy one, interested in science and maths, with an instinct for discovery he single-handedly figures out all the crucial plot points for the audience to absorb, whilst (rather unfortunately) the naive and whining Liz, played by the admirable Cheryl Burfield, whines a little longer.
About a half-dozen times during the episode (seems like more) we are treated to a spinning visual effect that settles on a murky, foggy corridor of sorts where two figures are seen locked in a fierce struggle.
Chuck Berry, one of the most complicated and conflicted figures in the history of rock and pop music is rich territory and Hackford managed to catch Berry in all of his many guises - charming, professional, intelligent, thoughtful, bitter, petulant, unprofessional, difficult, and combative.
The success of HELLRAISER lead to three theatrical sequels, comics, and action figures.
The young woman lead figures she can reason with this tub of goo.
The film was able to draw well the figures of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
For some reason, Wile E. Coyote - aka Eatibus anythingus) never figures out that he just can't catch Road Runner - aka Hot rodicus supersonicus).
Bonny doesn't understand this kind of us-selfish love till it is almost too late and then in the end, finally she figures it out.
Meanwhile detective Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) for the past four years has been trying to discover the identity of a powerful drugs dealer known as the Iceman, after a shoot out with one of the Iceman's men Jack finds a picture of Reggie & figures he can help him find the Iceman.
Sam Dunn gets to live out many a metalheads dream in this, interviewing a number of influential figures and traveling around to various places where sub-genres have been born.
My son does stop-animation on his home computer with Playdough figures that are more realistic and entertaining than the dinosaurs in this movie.
This is a mediocre and uninspired script packaged in cutesy computer animated figures (soon headed for your nearest toy store shelves).
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