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Another thing that surprised me was the unexpected seriousness, I actually found myself thinking about some of the character's observations on careers and goals, how sometimes we can totally lose our identity when all we try to do is to please others and maintain a decent salary.
"If we maintain this velocity we'll catch up to them quite soon."
The question in this film is whether there is enough conflict to maintain sufficient interest through a feature-length production.
That is about the gist of it and number two is what this stinker of a movie is laced with from that point onward.... From the start to the end (if it can be called an end), it is too long, too slow, and filled with too much ridiculousness to maintain interest.
Nathan Lane has the plum part as the flamboyant petulant drag queen (Albert) while Robin Williams as his partner Armand manages to maintain some credulity in otherwise outrageous and complicated situations.
Strong performances by the lead actors maintain your interest as well as surprise appearances by Brimley and Saxton.
A town is at the crossroads between law and order and its commercial interests, saloon owner Cody Clarke (John Emery) and mayor Hamer Thorne (Warner Anderson) choose the latter in order to maintain the surging saloon business.
This runs contrary to the writings of both Freud and Kubler-Ross, who observe the social withdrawal of those in self-denial, as if the only way to maintain the mourner's alternative reality is to cut him or her from all outside factors which have the potential of ruining the fantasy.
It seems like auntie is no longer among the living and has to have unmarried women (or girls) in order to maintain her life-force, meaning, that she takes theirs.
Ang Lee has the ability to transform simple stories about human relationships into epic films that somehow maintain the quality of intimacy and tenderness despite the grand sweep of his productions.
Some of the dialogue has been lifted straight from the play and so can sound a little stilted, but in my opinion this device helps to maintain the necessary distance between the action and the audience.
Director Edward Gorsuch, working from a pitifully trite and by-the-numbers cookie cutter script by Michael Hurst, manages to maintain a fairly brisk pace and delivers a handy helping of nasty gore, but crucially fails to create any suspense or spooky atmosphere.
The plot is so disjointed and badly conceived, it requires considerable effort to maintain any idea of what's going on.
Piven's role as a tour bus driver keeps him putting on an act he despises to maintain an unlikely relationship with Fenn, who plays the part of a rising movie star.
I also think that it shows very well how it is extremely hard to maintain oneself on top once one gets there.
The action sequences are meticulously combined with the dramatic and romantic moments, which maintain a certain rush of adrenaline.
Whomever wrote this story just couldn't maintain their focus.
The other part is the turn-style strategy on the European map and you have to do a lot to maintain your empire.
Ben struggles with this disease along with struggling to maintain his human dignity.
The film manages to maintain its unwatchability for over an hour, but by that point the viewer will probably have already logged onto www.feardotcom.com in hopes of ending the misery.
it is well animated (althought the 4th movie has the best animation)... and the fact that sesshoumaru here has so many screen minutes. in this film, you can also see sesshoumaru realizing he does care for someone (albeit trying hard to maintain his aloofness and denying it).
He is terrified of losing and will do anything to maintain his status as world chess champion.
The story centers around Michelle an assassin who is trying to maintain a stable life in a corrupt world, and her gambling brother Jackie who is in denial of his problems and thinks they can be quickly fixed.
While I realize that this is a movie website, if you are going to make a movie based on a mystery novel, you should probably at least attempt to maintain the integrity of the original work.
Most parents who are strongly opposed to abortion maintain more values than this show exhibited.
Few comedies can maintain the kind of comedic stamina and brilliance that Dumb & Dumber does from its title to the credits.
Of the wonderful landscapes of the Amazonian forest to the dirty and hard urban scenes, the story of magical realism maintain its attraction due to the delirious photograph of Juan-Ruiz Anchia.
She tries to maintain a public image of the perfect wife and mother when in reality, her life is chaotic (and not funny).I thought I should give it a chance and maybe I just caught the show at a bad episode but I was wrong they are just plain fully uninteresting.
Fine turns by both Maurice Denham as Mr. Bucktrout and David Waller as the bowler covered Mr. Gosheron maintain credibility.
I expected to get a minimum of understanding of life in the Grande Chartreuse, of what brings people there, of why they are so few, of how they maintain this immense edifice, of their role in the making and selling of their famous liquor, a good dose of Gregorian singing, an appreciation of the architecture.
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