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He then relates a garbled version of the biblical story of Samson to justify his retention of long whiskers against the wishes of Pearl, who is the town barber, no less, and who claims if everyone followed his example, she would be out of business.
There was no vengeance involved, there was no material gain to be acquired, there was no potential for social advancement here either, this is merely an instance of a latent and insidiously belligerent anger which ends certainly did not justify the means!!
And all in the name of "art", "satire", dissension, or whatever lame excuse liberals use to justify their perverted ideology.
It relies too heavily on flashes of gore - which, to be honest, are not much - especially to justify the claims of sadistic gore - and little on any actual thought process.
the plot is not enough to justify a 90 minutes movie but for a 20 minutes television sketch.
How do you justify motivations covering 6 years?
I have heard people attempt to justify this film with comments such as "...the purposely bad dialogue is excellent..." and "it wonderfully depicts the decline of American youth..." but I don't buy it.
Don't let the credits mislead you, Jennifer Lopez only has a small supporting role (a dozen lines at best), and the "no-name" stars give performances which justify their subsequent demise on the Hollywood movie scene.
This movie wasn't even entertaining enough to justify seeing it in the summer in order to enjoy two hours of air conditioning.
This movie is a disaster from beginning to end and I justify my summary because even though it is suppose to be a terror movie there is not terror anywhere.
In fact, I think I got about halfway through, having been quite patient, before deciding that whatever point the filmmakers had did not justify their approach, and I left the theatre to see another film at the festival.
TRUST THE MAN is a director and a scriptwriter (Bart Freundlich) looking for a reason to justify this shallow, ill conceived, and ultimately boring movie.
Even the ending seemed like it was tacked on for some kind of message, that somehow would justify the brainwashed cult.
This film is evidence of a shameful and troubling period of history that, even today, seems to be rewritten to justify the present and future brain washers of America.
Furthermore the movie does not justify why these children participate in unbelievable levels of abuse before running off to play out with their ice-creams and trikes - it just doesn't make any sense.
There isn't much in the film that would justify a PG-13 rating and it appeals to adolescents, teenager's, and little kids will enjoy it as well.
I have no idea whether the film finds a way to justify itself in the end, but it had already used up all of my patience.
All the jokes are predictable and stale, and the subject itself is somewhat offensive since it seems to (yet again, as in "Taxi" or "Hitch") justify racially-tinged humor at white guys without taking the same swipes at the other races dishing it out.
Assuming that the tapes do exist still, I would expect the demand is enough now to justify its release on DVD.
I'm amazed I put up with all this rubbish before reaching for the STOP button, but I kept hoping that Barry Norton would do something to justify his star billing.
The songs and the dances are good, but it does not justify to give a good rating for this movie.
In the end a very light and frothy horror movie that does not contain really all that much to justify that R rating.
I hope that more thought-provocative yet diplomatic films like this one will be created in the future to cause humanity to think about its actions and how far it has gone with the right-to-this and the right-to-that to justify them.
The amount of hype that this movie received when it was released in the cinemas was complete overkill and did not justify the quality of the film, which really should be avoided like the plague.
He frauds the government and the population with images showing the danger of an alien attack to justify the explosion of the equipment.
There have been very few movies that I simply could not justify wasting my time watching the rest of it.
While the history and nostalgia about fairies is, perhaps, somewhat interesting, there is never any rational argument used to justify their existence.
The Italian dubbing sucks (to partially justify my disgust).
It's very annoying to watch, but then there's one of those out-of-left-field endings that's supposed to justify why everyone acts brain dead throughout the entire movie.
As with CECIL BE DEMENTED here is a hilarious idea that just becomes ragged and frantic in order to justify the production.....
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