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From his confusing and choppy story, the inability to make sense of his characters, and recycled old/tired cliché moments, all Stokes is doing is hitting a bigger nail into the coffin that holds the House Party films.
Jealous husband holds car dealership hostage while Williams burdens the viewer with his worn out Mork shtick at every turn.
The same holds true for PORGY AND BESS- it reworked the opera into a dialogue/song libretto because audiences at the time loved musicals but stayed away from the few echt filmed operas.
Then, parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch, the four fall asleep!
Yet the steel trap and chain holds him back from getting the kid!
This seventh (yes you read right - the seventh) Puppet Master movie shows how the demented group of dolls came to be; by a french puppeteer who uses them to get revenge on a group of ancient mummies who are after him once they learn that he holds the secret to life.
Sturgeon's Law (or Revelation) still holds.
This movie creeped the hell out of me as a kid (mausoleums still do!), but as an adult, the thrill of this movie isn't in the storyline, but rather the hysterical laughs it holds... Highlights are listening to the names the teenagers call each other, from "nerdlebrain" (my personal favorite) to "turkey".
Billy Bob Thornton Astronaut Farmer) is brilliant, in fact looking back, the character is fairly similar in the fact he holds the family of pot growers together.
it is not my favourite of his films - chungking express holds that spot - this one is quite different from anything else i have seen of his. it is slow (but not annoyingly so) - it takes its time and ponders the characters.. there is minimal movement in the frame - the camerawork is wonderful.
Aside from the discotheque scenes that epitomize the swinging sixties (especially with everyone dancing to instrumental versions of Monkees hits), I am surprised how well this lightweight farce holds up 37 years later, but indeed it does thanks to the breezy execution of its deception-based plot and the sharp interplay of the three leads.
Although this was a low budget film and clearly last minute, it holds a certain charm that is difficult to pinpoint.
It handles the same issues as both movies, but in a way that holds with it some grain of truth.
Overall, this film holds a special place with me as it was the one that solidified my Rathbone as Holmes obsession.
The whole asylum thing is awfully disturbing often, but is nonetheless interesting and holds the journeys of Gulliver together well.
The acting is above average and Richard Gere's brief appearance as a shell-shocked Raider Marine war hero, holds a keen interest for any film buff or Gere fan.
I like Anna's acting, this naive wannabe gangster girl, how she speaks, holds the gun, everything makes me smile.
However, their music holds up as some of the best the 1960's had to offer.
He gives us a look at not only the social scene but gives good, solid advice that holds true today about morals, decisions, the generation gap, teen dating, (some of the statistics that are given in this movie are astounding.
I've watched this film at least six times, and it really holds up to scrutiny.
However, compared to its contemporaries, it's a pretty good cartoon and still holds up well.
Even though "Joe" is very dated to today's standards, the chemistry between Dennis Patrick & Peter Boyle is completely relevant today, and it is the glue that holds the whole film together.
This engaging comedy still holds up pretty well after all these years.
But back to this short, Every Sunday provides a warm and wonderful glimpse of two star singers at the beginning of their legendary careers unaware of what the future holds for them...
It has a very good plot, it holds your complete attention, the acting is superb, Tom Wilkinson was fantastic and Emily Watson was also very good.
The visual effects work of Derek Meddings, who would also later work on SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, holds up surprisingly well under the last three decades of special effects advancements; and while they are not really on the same exalted level of the Kubrick film, they are very superb.
Paul Newman gets the billing, but Dwight Schultz holds his own and shows how good an actor he really is.
When Lestat holds a concert in Death Valley he receives news that not only will angry vampires be there Akasha may come as well.
Although it is more of a kids movie, it still holds its own, especially when compared to the more recent assembly line animated films being made.
I can say unhesitatingly that it holds up even to this day.
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