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The close-up can be a very powerful shot, but when every scene consists of nothing but close-ups, it loses all its impact.
Here, he takes a somewhat interesting (albeit farfetched) premise, and turns it into bubble gum that loses flavor the moment you take the first bite... Dunst is not bad, but Izzard is miscast as Chaplin, and all the other actors seem to have been cast for their "looks", and not because they were right for the part.
Read the book, it's a fabulous story which loses it's impact on screen.
After "Central City" loses its mob boss to murder, partner-in-crime Robert Armstrong (as "Doc" Rogers) decides to take drastic measures To preserve criminal continuity, he recruits the dead mobster's milquetoast son, Richard Cromwell (as Edward "Baby Face" Morgan), to run the family business.
At times 'House of Games' loses any connection to how human beings actually behave or talk, and becomes just a mechanism to spin out the plot.
The luxury jetliner takes off as planned but mid-air the plane is hi-jacked by the co-pilot Chambers (Robert Foxworth) & his two accomplice's Banker (Monte Markham) & Wilson (Michael Pataki) who knock the passengers & crew out with sleeping gas, they plan to steal the valuable cargo & land on a disused plane strip on an isolated island but while making his descent Chambers almost hits an oil rig in the Ocean & loses control of the plane sending it crashing into the sea where it sinks to the bottom right bang in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.
The picture looks terribly drab and crawls along at a spiritless pace; one loses hope for it early on.
A couple loses its child which is found slashed in its bed.
In this case, it consists of a drug dealer who wants to be a journalist, a former nightclub dj who wants to be a record producer, and a fat nerdy guy who, in a needlessly extended scene, gets stoned and loses all his inhibitions which of course turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.
A stupid young man becomes obsessed with a woman--so obsessed that he loses perspective and common sense.
At the same time, this predictable romantic comedy never loses its touching emotional elements even if the ending is broadcast in advance.
They all want to make him drop out, and the prejudice is quite fierce.The dangers of diving prove a further setback when he loses a leg due to an accident on board ship.
While at the Royal Ball, Cinderella loses track of time and the clock strikes midnight, so she runs out of the palace and loses her glass slipper.
In some ways, The Wrath of Kriemhild surpasses Siegfried's Death, but it also loses some of that film's greatness.
An excellent example of "cowboy noir", as it's been called, in which unemployed Michael (Nicolas Cage) loses out on a job because he insists on being honest (he's got a bum leg).
The distinctive Ronald Coleman is at his best in this piece of Noir about an actor who loses himself in his roles.
He has no problem ogling naked dancers but when women start having sex with men that's when he loses it.
When Kei loses the one friend he has he gives up until he meets Sho, an orphan boy who is not repelled by his true nature.
Every Walsh film I have seen never loses a beat of it's pace, he truly was a born film-maker.
In the process of gaining everything, he loses the one person who truly loved him.
Hiralal struggles to make ends meet and lands up on the streets through failed business attempts and in huge debt, he loses his wife and children.
I hesitated for the briefest of moments before finally choosing a "10" over a "9" as a rating, as I believe that far too many people use it indiscriminately, and therefore the maximum rating loses some of its impact.
Since Charlie unexpectedly loses his family in a plane crash, they were on one of the planes of September 11, 2001.
The production values are a little rough at times (it's a student film, after all), but it never loses sight of its goal to entertain.
If he loses he has to walk down the hall at school with worms in his pants.
Gena Rowlands plays an actress who loses her grip on reality when she witnesses the death of a fan of hers.
An old man who lives in the mountains wakes up one morning and loses his cat.
It never loses its edge.
Watching the movie with subtitles definitely loses some of the trueness of the story, yet it is still a delight to watch.
I've seen other movie versions of Vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel Vonnegut's genius and loses grip on his own craft.
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