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What was exceptional about Big Bad Swim was that the director was able to maintain the integrity and development of his characters in his film while still finding laugh-out-loud humor in scene after scene.
How can Sidney deal with this and maintain his dignity?
However, that being said, the film still manages to maintain many of the elements that made the book work, but since it is a visual medium, it is more difficult to pull of stream-of-consciousness.
It gets you thinking about what is going to happen in the next episode, and the struggle of trying to maintain their friendship throughout the years.
Michael Douglass and Kiefer Sutherland both maintain some good screen bravado and attitudes.
The blend of British humor (should I say, Humour?) and the reality of a lost, middle-aged widow trying to maintain her lifestyle were a hoot.
ABC should be proud to maintain this show and even preserve this as John's final wish.
It should be looked at for Jack Cassidy's role as the murderer who kills his partner in writing to maintain his lifestyle.
Although the denouement of the plot is pretty clear quite fast, director Steinmann attempts to maintain the mystery by keeping the evil present in the house "unseen" like the title promised.
Sure there was auxiliary lighting, but in order to maintain the atmosphere of the bar, it had to be low-light shots.
The story was actually kind of interesting; a detective who's life was taken away is given a second chance due to a symbiotic parasite, but in exchange, must feed off human bodies to maintain both himself and the parasite.
There is nothing here to maintain interest other than the cheese.
This is kind of a typical Buster Keaton story, except in reverse: the girl comes along earlier in the movie, the men are impressed with him earlier on, everything works out for him earlier on, and then the rest of the movie is him trying to maintain his luck versus trying to get the girl against all the forces of bad luck.
Vikram Bhatt is not able to maintain the suspense through out the film.
To maintain this tension, such a movie has to be based on a fictional story.
All in all, a very funny film that plays like an unsold pilot for a series you'd watch every week if they could maintain the laughs.
Should Cops go on the take or maintain their honesty?
I think that Police Officers should maintain their honesty.
The smalltime gangsters rules the city and the locals try their best to maintain some degree of peace in their small society.
Seriously, how do guys this bad get cast and maintain some semblance of a career?
It's no small feat to maintain such disregard for reality, such outrageous inconsistencies, so many factual clangers and to tell the story with so many awful lines.
The general tale has been done too many times already to maintain any suspense or real mystery.
The conversation as a whole is very well executed; the modest performances by the two actors never seeps into the overly dramatic, they maintain a natural flow and make it entertaining, challenging and realistic throughout.
He blunders his way into his unlikely role as a keeper of hope, and once there, cannot see from moment to moment how he can maintain it, wishes at times he could be rid of the burden, and yet somehow, manages to continue to inspire others who are so desperate for hope, they don't even try to disbelieve.
It must be so easy to maintain an indoor pool, after so many years the water is clear and the pool is still full to boot, I have a hard enough time keeping mine clean on a weekly basis!!
Olsen & Johnson are up to their same antics again, but after the opening scene of the Universal lot running for cover, the film can't maintain the pace of that scene or what made Hellzapoppin a laugh riot.
Jennifer Rubin stars as the owner of a cosmetics company who starts to depend on the experimental work of an discredited doctor (Daniel J. Travanti) in order to maintain her youth.
More than anything it is an occasion for Scorsese to talk about the NY upper society of the late 1800, and it's rigid way, sometimes desperate (see Ryder's character), often cruel to maintain an identity (paradoxically built on the European upper class mold) despite the changes that were happening.
There simply isn't enough meaningful dialog, unless you are into blasphemy, to maintain interest.
Light wisely steers clear of explaining Hilley, instead playing the character straight, letting the absurdity of the story maintain the mystery of Hilley.
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