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"Historical fiction" does not justify changing history.
This film is SO bad, I found myself trying to justify how bad it is by trying to think of it as kitsch or parody.
Pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion/philosophy.
This movie is a pathetic attempt, apparently, to justify the actions of Mary Ann Letourneau.
Best laughs actually come from the "Making of..." featurette, in which the poor saps involved with this HDV mess attempt to justify their lame efforts as if they had been working on something special, instead of something that won't be utterly forgotten next week.
I don't want to go too far into detail, because I can't really justify wasting much time on reviewing this film, but I had to give an alternate opinion to hopefully help people avoid the movie.
I won't try and justify how I am not an aesthetically challenged retard by listing out all the 'art house cinema' I have liked or mentioning how I gave some unknown 'cult classic' a 10/10.
Unnecessary shots are thrown in to justify the filming of them but would have better served the viewer by sitting on the cutting room floor.
i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled "sholay".
Otherwise, the hype of the film doesn't justify the content in the film.
How does the Internal Revenue justify this as a 'tax-deductible' church or organization?
Plus you have to justify the length given to each story, as each has stars.
He has his hard luck story that he uses to justify his killings.
There is hardly anything in here that could justify making it a film and not a radio play.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but quotes like, "We have to steal the Declaration of Independence to protect it" seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of Iraq, etc.
Moreover, the portrayal of the film's central relationship, between an Asian girl and her white friend, is insufficiently deep to justify the way that the movie is structured around it.
Yes, it has some moments, but they are not enough to justify your time.
If I want to watch an over the top action flick I do not need any justification, but this movie tried to justify the killing spree of Denzel Washington's character and poorly failed in delivering any believable performances.
We wanted to be true movie critics... to have a standard to base all other movies on it is hard to justify saying you have seen the best movie (a 10)they always come up with something better.
To justify the title, there is a scene where Laure, who hardly speaks ten lines the whole movie, bathes in chocolate syrup.
This movie was so bad that I actually sat through the whole thing almost praying it would have one minute of good movie time to justify the hour and a half that was wasted.
Serious race-related social issues are wheeled on in contrived and opportunistic fashion in order to justify armed robbery, then they're ditched as soon as the film has to produce the inevitably conventional ending in which crime is punished, the LAPD turns out to be a bunch of caring, guilt-ridden liberals (tell that to Rodney King), and aspirational 'good' sista, Jada Pinkett Smith, follows the path of upward mobility out of the 'hood and into a world of middle-class self-indulgence opened up for her by her buppie bank-manager boyfriend.
There is no way I can justify passing judgement to any character who did things I didn't like (well, except for the disgusting character played by Fredrick Forrest).
And it's possible to guess the guilty party well before the end, not because of the internal dynamic of the story, but rather because of the construction of the drama as a whole: certain things must be true, to justify the way that the series focuses on certain characters at certain times.
This is a pretty OK film... yes some parts are lame and exceptionally convenient, and the movie doesn't really justify the large star cast (AB, SD, Tanuja).
Kureishi hasn't exactly been blessed with movies that justify the quality of his writing.
Instead of searching for reasoning or messages to justify it in your reality, why can't you understand that it is a work of fiction?
The film then is a deep reflection on the necessity to respect standards and regulations all along the police and justice line if we don't want to make a mistake, which in its turn of course does not justify the death penalty since anyway it goes against the deepest belief Americans are supposed to have: "We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Even if we do not evoke God, we cannot justify the death penalty except as an act of vengeance, and here the film shows vengeance is the worst possible motivation in the rendition of justice and in the establishment of public peace.
The book had to justify itself by pretending it was about the horror of capital punishment.
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