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An outstanding screenplay, a sustained rhythm, clever sometimes ironic dialogs.
One amazing scene where Jack Palance, who is infected, is prevented from climbing aboard a ship by a rat-barrier on the rope is ironic in the extreme, reminding us in the most gruesome terms that humans can be the worst carriers and vermin of all.
It is ironic that Mark Harmon plays Tom Capano.
It’s ironic that, of Gance’s more celebrated Silent work, this should be the one I watch first: it’s a one-reel short about a mad scientist – hence its inclusion in the “Horror Challenge”, though the tone throughout is distinctly comical!
Its ironic that he constantly rips on right wing talk show hosts for being so hateful, but in my opinion he is just as hateful (if not more), just from the left rather than the right.
So much for a mindless evening, ironic isn't it.
In his 1994 Lamerica Gianni Amelio raises traditional linear Italian film-making to new heights using the methods of neorealism to carry his audience along on a dreamlike, ironic mythologizing journey whose mood and methods are all his own.
Absolute load of tosh - stolen sequences from at least 10 different films, not the slightest bit scary or ironic.
Then, after making light of some serious history, the ending takes a dark, ironic turn to drive home its message that whatever political system you choose, the worst elements in human nature are here to stay...
If you like this type of stuff (tastefully morbid and ironic things), then I highly recommend you check Dead Like Me Out.
For me, the most ironic scene in the movie was when Rebecca De Mornay asked Powers Boothe "Did we do anything right?"
There's great attention paid to detail--quite a bit is happening both in the foreground and the background of the frame--and the jokes are both laugh-out-loud funny and amusingly ironic; but Keaton's genius is his ability to isolate the individual within the crowd and draw out that individual's endearing strengths--his connection with each member of the audience is subtle but sublime.
Such ironic contrasts work through the whole movie: The band leader hears by coincidence the Internationale, thru the love of his daughter for a young die-hard communist and thinks it is THE music to be played for a military audience, not having a clue about it's origins.
The ironic part is that a Mutant Ninja Turtle would probably act better than he does in this movie.
The book had some scenes that would have made wonderful cinema such as the interogation of a murder suspect who gleefully confesses to the committing the crime but claims to have used a rifle instead of a knife, the surprise reception for Chee at his first session as a healer, the discovery of the true identity of the shotgun artist, Leaphorn's rescue of Chee that unintentionally delivers him into the hands of the real murderer, and the ironic circumstances that rescue Chee for the second time.
Where was the dark ironic humor?
It's bad enough that child prostitution actually exists in the world but to exploit a 12 year old girl in the making of this movie is bitterly ironic and director Louis Malle and the producers should have gone to jail for this.
The ending is intended to be richly ironic, but falls absolutely flat.
Her husband, Monk (a name presumably chosen as an ironic joke), is violent, abusive and unfaithful; he is unemployed, but still manages to find enough money to drink and gamble.
something made them reach out to each other to have their needs met.It was ironic and comical how they ended up meeting.There were so many comical moments in this movie and played so genuinely funny I laughed hard.The reunion and the bullshitting was a riot and the look on Dave's face was priceless the more he learned about his new buddy.It also had it's serious side and was very realistic and this type of thing does happen.I know people who are living this.
In order to be funny, he would have to connect his topics with a joke, or at least make some flippant remark that the audience could find ironic or cheeky.
Then too, the final line presents a poignant slice of ironic insight.There's the inevitable comparison here with the thematically similar Double Idemnity, but then Novak is no Stanwyck and MacMurray is a ten dissipated years older.
The very ending offers one doozy of a marvelously ironic surprise plot twist while the arid desert setting adds to the overall creepy tone.
Songs by Tom Waits and sung as ironic commentary by Waits and Crystal Gayle add an extra cynical spice.
The worst story is the last, which is ironic b/c it's a sequel to the best story from the first film.
Ah, 'tis a queer, ironic world.
Sophisticated while being silly, sly, witty, wry, insightful, ironic -- for mature people with a high degree of self-awareness, self-honesty & ability to recognize and accept the fluidity of human sexuality.
We have a bittersweet, ironic story of an individual 'coming of age' as her group of friends breaks apart.
It was somewhat ironic then that he decided to direct a remake of the 1978 gruesome slasher (The Toolbox Murders) at exactly the same time that New Line Cinema were renewing his very own masterpiece (Chainsaw Massacre).
its almost ironic to call charlie chaplin unknown, but you truely learn how much you don't know about him with this series.
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