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This is an honest, funny view of what happens when Liam Neeson's character, a former DEA golden-boy, starts getting job-related panic attacks... Add Oliver Platt as a high-strung gangster with marital problems, Jose Zuniga as a secretly-homosexual drug lord, and group therapy, and the result is GUNSHY, a smart, wicked, sweet, fast, and funny look at the modern gangster flick.
This film is a tribute to a man, a former fighter pilot (35 missions in WWII), a respected senator from South Dakota and candidate for the presidency.
It concerns a triangle between a playboy (Lee Bowman) who's trying to avoid the draft, his former chauffeur (Alan Curtis), and a girl (Jane Frazee) they both like a lot as they all get enlisted into the Army along with a couple of con men (Bud & Lou) and a cop (Nat Pendleton) they're trying to avoid.
Next time you find a quid down the back of the sofa you could either stroll to the shops for a can of Coke or make Aquanoids 2, I strongly advise the former.
There's the tap-dancing comedian, the penniless piano player, the former burlesque dancer, the lovestruck kid, the simple gambler, the hearty bar-owner, etc.
And then there's Mr. Larson, Happy's 8' tall monster of a former employer, threatening Shooter at every turn.
It is in this computer program where a former highly decorated soldier known as "Santiago" rules with an iron fist.
The three females are escorted by a transplanted Texan, a tour guide in the Thai capital and a former lover of Georgia, and he becomes romantically embroiled with her sister immediately after the group's arrival at the vacated MacGregor estate, while the title character is only seen as he threatens the visitors, the big game hunter seemingly having been swallowed by the encroaching flora as he seeks his hardly elusive prey.
They could easily have let the former professor and his former student have an affair, they didn't.
seriously) who are invited to the former home of amateur mountain climber & psychotic murderer Sean McIntyre (which might be the lamest name for a killer in the history of horror).
Although Sam Jaffe is very good as the survivor of a Nazi prison camp, Richard Kiley just doesn't do enough with his role as the former Nazi haunted by his monstrous past.
The best example of the former would be with the grits part in the courtroom scenes ("no respectable Southerner would make instant grits").
A former employee rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, containing more twisted metal than a bombed-out steel mill.
What?, the latter are making monkeys out of the former nowadays.
Katt fares well as the narrator and core, as is Stringfellow Hawk as the former champ surfer, and Busey gives his normal crazy shouty brilliance, but the surf takes the honours.
Good to see again the former Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton)of the series "Roots".
After viewing this film,being well aware just how far back the story of Flicka goes,and not having seen any of the other films based on Flicka,or read any books,I came away being pretty darn sure that the story has been told far,far better than this.First,let me start with the selection of Tim McGraw to portray the girls father.He was supposed to be this stern,put his foot down type of ranch owner and father,and he just isn't very convincing in the part.I'm not saying that he doesn't have potential as an actor.Perhaps he does.I'm saying that he wasn't right for this part.Also,the story was not told in a way that kept me interested,thereby leading me to believe that it has been told better.My advice would be to steer clear of this telling and view the classic version.It's too late for me to do the former,but you can bet I'll be doing the latter very soon.
In the former he struggled to show a man who sought and found spiritual piece in the years following World War I, while his friends went mad in the materialistic hopelessness of Europe and America.
Interesting premises for a screwball comedy based around the nagging wants of a former First Lady and her relationship with the tired and frustrated Secret Service man.
Both accomplish what they set out to do, but "The Third Man" exceeds even farther than the former - it is haunting and almost poetically vibrant in the way it displays its story and the outcome of its characters.
And all clues seem to lead back to a former U.S Special Operations officer, Samir horn.
But soon contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his suspect is a disaffected former military operative or something more complicated, like the movies tagline.
Inside lives a former aging silent film actress and her butler.
Bogart's character is presented as more of a dogged, plodding but sharp bureaucrat (when was the last time you saw an "action" hero who wears a bow-tie?) than an intrepid, guns-blazing crimefighter; unfortunately, Bogart's persona is too strong for the former and he is, frankly, too old for the latter, and he seems just a tad lethargic throughout much of the film.
This title is not originally meant to be a sequel.Not just because there is a 25 year gap, also there is no connectivity between two story lines.Only connection available is the former antagonist.
Patton began to be criticized during these initial months of the occupation by people seeking to punish all of former Nazis, which in the Germany of that time was roughly about 75 percent of the adults.
The story of the movie is in the first half of the 90's of the 20th century where different kinds of people who have different cultures and sorts of life, The main characters in the movie were: - Zaki El Dessouki (Adel Emam): A desperate old man descended from a former basha and a Tycon.
As a former high school debater, I can't really argue with the depiction of the activity, but there's so little actual debating in the film that it hardly matters.
i pride myself in avoiding crap when i go to the movies, i don't watch blockbusters or lame comedies with former SNL comedians, but this movie falls right in there with the worst of the worst.
Furthermore the accounts of former Panamanian officials are a little dubious since the people removed from power might actually not be telling the whole truth either.
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