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I didn't expect Spike Lee to force-feed me more garbage on racial tension, mob-justice, or the inability of the common citizen to make a choice under pressure by peers.
Doubt mixes excellent acting and plenty of tension and suspense; with a frustrating ending, unnecessary dialogue, questionable directing, and of course, the inability to provide substantial answers.
Unfortunately this film survived as yet another testament to Canada's inability to make movies that go beyond the execrable.
Then the story leaves the colonel, which makes sense given the old man's inability to DO anything worth mentioning, a now two terrifyingly eighties-looking guys take over, in what must have been some sort of story.
This somehow ties into what I believe is her mental illness: her inability to pick herself up when times are hard and see that good times lie ahead.
So it was a treat to get to know the artist personally through this film, he is just as patient and gentle as you would expect, and has some wonderful things to say about the natural world, the deepest of which are expressed in his occasional inability to say it in words at all.
The exact content of the movie I can not clearly describe: this colonialism is an important part, as is the inability to cope with such a past, but the personal memories of the main character are a central issue as well, and his quest for social contact and love.
First I want to clarify that the average user's inability to appreciate imagination is appalling.
Like all such narratives aiming to stimulate the female reader and induce the vapours, this one relies on the oldest tricks in the book: basic misunderstandings and the inability to express one's true feelings at the right place and at the right time until it is too late.
Lack of nurturing, combined with an inability to negotiate even the simplest necessities of daily life or the basic social requirements, may compel even a genius to enthusiastically embrace that which provides a personal comfort zone.
'The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine' is one of the more understated episodes, focusing on an aging movie star's inability to cope with the changing times and only introducing a supernatural element in the closing minutes.
For example, a central theme in the story is young France's inability to form strong relationships with others.
It introduces Woody Allen as a complete neurotic who can't seem to look at the open doors all around him and prefers to consult an analyst -- be it an actual psychiatrist or us, the viewer -- and whine about his inability to relate to the little things in life without creating some turbulent drama complete with hoots and clicks.
Dealing with an autistic child, his demand for the family's attention, and their inability to focus their lives on anything other than this child.
Jordan Hawley wrote and directed this dark 'comedy' about the current state of love/hate relationships in Los Angeles (or inability to create same) with about as much panache as yesterday's onion rings.
The concert footage that shows Midler's tremendous voice and stage presence, and the scenes where she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown and the inability to exist in the real world.
As much as Kate Hepburn's quivering chin and teary eyes are an annoyance to devotees of serious acting in film, Connie Selleca's wooden gestures and her inability to deliver a line with any meaningful emotion are enough to invoke the "throw-up" doctrine for evaluating films: If an actor's inability to act creates such nausea that vomiting in unavoidable, then the film itself should be consigned to the nearest trash-bin.
Slow motion is used for shots that don't deserve it and money shots almost always feature a cutaway revealing the choreographer's complete inability to make the action scenes work.
I can almost understand polygamy for religious reasons (while recognizing the welfare fraud, statutory rape, and other associated criminal acts that commonly accompany this lifestyle), but this pig of a human openly states that his polygamy has nothing to do with religion - just his inability to keep his organ in his pants.
The best word to describe this movie is 'gezellig', a dutch word which unfortunately is notoriously renowned for it's inability to be translated into another language.
Steve Mcqueen was never a very good actor for my standards of acting and although he has many really bright moments in this one his inability to stop switching his role on and off to his usual Steve Mcqueen persona didn't help much.
He goes on to say that this murder "felt good", and this is how he discovered her inability to die.
This is a very clever marketing scheme to give parents the opportunity to claim their children's inability to fit in is evidence of their being at a higher level of human evolution.
Connie is a victim of her own parents apathy, just as they were victimized by their parents inability to guide and prepare children.
The father is loud and controlling in every aspect except his kids, unless it reflects on him, such as the one's child inability to pass the driver's test.
When the inability to beat the computer gets so frustrating, you just want to scream- that's usually a bad thing.
That (apart from the Civil War part) might not seem like the typical curriculum vitae of a Wild West sheriff, but Errol Flynn's inability to put on a convincing American accent was presumably the reason why this particular sheriff could not be portrayed as an American.
From poor costuming to a complete inability to follow even the most basic fundamentals of the Arthurian Legends, this movie has it all.
However, my inability to fully comprehend what "Sonatine" is about doesn't strike me as a flaw.
As much as the film is funny, it actually paints very disturbing picture about stupidly, idiocy, incompetence, inability to see one step ahead of your actions that keep filling every aspect of our existence with dangerous speed.
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