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The two movies have virtually the same elements - a half dozen or so characters, lost in a previously unexplored caving system, with no-one outside aware they are trapped down there.
Basically cool kid Richard Haywood (Half Nelson's Ryan Gosling) and Justin Pendleton (Bully's Michael Pitt) team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them.
After an hour and a half of build-up, this fairly funny ten minutes seemed a little anti-climactic.
I found it gripping entertainment right through to the second half of the film when sadly, it collapses like a pack of cards.
This movie has all the ingredients of a great horror story and loses it in the last half.
What builds in the first half as a great horror concept shifts away from horror and towards the absurd.
This appalling effort of a film delivers a rambling plot in the first half, blending into an equally confused arch Christian biblefest in the latter.
As a struggling actor this was a chance for me to work with fantastic people, it gave me great scenes to include on my reel, and it allowed me to work on a dream job for a month and a half (no waiting tables!) Turi(the director) And Steve and Scott (the producers) Were very kind by giving me this opportunity to participate in the production.
The last half seemed a bit far fetched to me, however, my son was interested throughout the film which is not so often with him.
The Allegra Albert romance was a delight to watch unfold, most REAL men are shy when it comes to wooing the woman of their dreams and had I had Hitch's advice I would probably have got my wife up the altar in half the time.I read the first comment on this film that appeared to suggest that this movie was played safely and good have had a few more laughs.
The first half hour of the show features the film debut of a young Susan Sarrandon as Melissa Compton, a weak willed rich girl who slums with her loser boyfriend, replete with a full nude scene.
Pixote is a 10-year old boy who lives in the streets of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and leads a criminal life in the company of his teenage friends Lilica, Dito and Chico; they steal, pimp, sell drugs and murder in order to survive each day...In the first half of the film Pixote is caught by the police and sent to a sadistic foster home where he witnesses every kind of abuse from the older inmates and guards to the rest of the kids; one night, Lilica's boyfriend is killed after a beating, so Pixote and his friends decide to escape during a riot.
Despite the fact that half the movie is filmed in a cramped cockpit, it is as dynamic as any action flick out there.
The second half of the movie takes place in Saratoga, NY (the Saratoga of the title) and I never enjoy it as much as the New Orleans setting but it's still very good.
It was a fast paced movie and the hour and a half went by fast.
I've Seen The Beginning Of The Muppet Movie, But Just The Half.
The first half of this TV version is really very good, but it stumbles quite a bit in the second half.
the first half of the movie is just a time for the characters to be introduced and for the main points to be stated.
the second half, moved me to tears.
A stranger dressed up as a priest comes by (who after the bounty of Monetero) and offers to save his life for half of the gold.
In exchange Monetero gives him half of the medallion, but Clayton notices it and discovers something is up.
Hell, half of them don't even speak English, preventing the audience from getting to know the characters at all.
The first half of the film is all set-up, as the Navy man prepares to impersonate Carlos.
The second half is a breathless actioner, the action coming out of the characters and their situations, thus making it all the more gripping.
I admit that it isn't a great movie but definitely a pleasant hour and a half.
The basic plot is that Shemp must get married by 6 o'clock that very evening if he's to inherit the half a million dollars a rich uncle left him in his will.
Before an hour into the film, about half of the audience had already walked out.
Great fun for the first half.
The famous Wilder schtick the meet-cute is particularly tasty here when millionaire but-careful-with-it Cooper attempts to buy half a set of pajamas in a department store on the Riviera and meets with sales resistance until Claudette Colbert turns up and agrees to buy the other half.
The gag is milked even more when, having exhausted the chain of command at the store itself the manager places a call to the owner, who is in bed and leaves it to reveal that he, too, is only wearing the top half of pajamas.
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