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We find it intuitively easy to grasp ideas like, when a rabbit moves at the sort of medium velocity at which rabbits and other Middle World objects move, and hits another Middle World object like a rock, it knocks itself out.
The whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it's a comedy.
Sadly, this movie never shakes the feeling that these 20th century movie people don't grasp the 19th century repression and desperation Wharton's work depicts.
It is hard for me to grasp how an actress like Anne Parillaud, who shone superbly in Femme Fatale, would sign up for such a piece of crap!
And just when I thought I had a slight grasp on who all the tertiary characters were, some crazy woman in ranting about getting a puppy?
The other thing that was able to grasp my attention besides her metal mouth was her questionable fashion sense.
My comment does not even fully grasp the awful creation from hell that has been made.
It's really quite puzzling to me how incapable I am to grasp what evoked the enthusiasm of the cheering audiences in 1986 (and apparently still today, reading my fellow IMDBers comments).
De Toth handles the action well - as always - but his grasp of the overall narrative is weak.
Even after a terrible tragedy her voice was devoid of human emotion, she seemed to have no ability to grasp the events of her life.
An elite American military team which of course happens to include two good looking women and a guy who can't quite grasp teamwork, lots of bats, some terrorists, and a Spetznaz team that acts like the gang that can't shoot straight -- all thrown together in a jumbled plot with mediocre acting.
That's the trouble with you Americans: you think you can grasp everything even when it takes a lifetime of hard work.
The story just never manages to grasp the viewer.
Her busybody mother was obviously only necessary to further propagate the illusion that ballet companies are evil monsters ready to snatch your poor, innocent, young girl from your grasp, with an ever present, biting artistic director/villain.
.. and it was still another several months before I could grasp the fact that I had been abused, and that it wasn't my fault he was doing the things he did.
The first clue that he fails to fully grasp the work is that he takes pains to set the film in seventeenth-century Venice.
Working the night shift in a seedy police station, stumbling through life in an alcoholic haze, Detective Mickey Hayden can hardly be said to have a firm grasp on reality to begin with, but when a bump on the head unleashes terrifying psychic visions, things get truly weird.
Rice's acting is of such amazing caliber that I truly believed within the first 20 minutes of the film that he really was a twenty-something male suffering from frustration, male pattern baldness and an annoying group of "friends" that can't seem to grasp concepts like right and wrong.
I can only hope Frank Oz and Dave Goelz and the rest of the surviving Muppeteers can somehow rescue and revive Kermit and Company from the deadly grasp of Disney.
I did not grasp that this would be a classic at the time (I went to sleep about twenty minutes into the movie).
True, young children may not fully grasp the idea of growing up and having all your dreams fizzle away, but it leaves a great impact on the adults and parents of those children.
what i really liked about that movie is the main theme of a "shy" boy fantasizing about "kissing" his dream girl, no offense but if that was an American movie, you would certainly see-at a certain point, mainly climax- the "shy" boy "making love" to his girl, and i really can't grasp this contradicting concepts till now...i have a simple request ,if anyone knows how to get this movie on a DVD by mail ,please let me know cause i need a shot of memories..Thanks
In this film, Gibson once again demonstrates his ability to grasp a character regardless of sexuality, social status or nationality.
That we leaped through time in those same camera moves, is what we grasp later.
Hayworth's newfound fame at first works wonders for Kelly's club, but her star rises so quickly and so high up that his grasp on her begins to falter.
But, it Blinken is never told or fails to grasp that he is black, until the crowd says " a black sheriff", Blinken replays "He's black".
Within the grasp of each scene is resides an element marked for depiction within your imagination.
If any of you kids don't grasp the idea of why Letterman is jealous to this day, see this tape.
Peter O'Toole is Arthur Chipping a Latin Teacher with strict adherence to detail and thoroughness in helping young minds grasp the meaning and definition of Latin words and phrases.
Jean-Pierre Melville is a director I've only recently gotten acquainted with (I need to see Bob le Flambeur and Le Samourai again to fully grasp them), but in watching Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle, supposedly based on a saying in Buddhism) I realized I was watching as skillful and absorbing a crime film as I had seen in a quite some time.
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