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It wasn't meant to be a great cinema experience, except it was.
I never had an inkling while watching the movie that it was meant for the idiot box.
Of course this meant I had to see it.
The sentimentalism is a letdown, although this picture was not meant to be a realistic drama.
However, she saves the life of a prominent Arab, by taking a bullet in the behind that was meant for the official.
I guess this is meant to be a sort of reworking or updating of "Beauty and the Beast", but I can't say I've ever watched a movie that began with several minutes of graphic horse sex.
I've not read the book (maybe that's a good thing & meant I enjoyed the film more) but with regards to the story, I really can't think of any bad points, hence scoring it 10 out of 10 (and I hardly ever think anything warrants top marks!).
All the main characters seemed to have left, which meant that it didn't have as much of the old "sparkle", however the first series where Sabrina is in college is still relatively good and watchable, however when her aunt's leave and Sabrina moves into their house it just isn't right.
The dialog was amusing at times but stilted at times and I suppose it was meant to be that way.
The flimsy plot isn't meant to be taken seriously - why else make Merlin a heavy when in most, if not all, of the other versions he is more a friend/mentor to Arthur - so if you start wondering aloud why Sir Lancelot who has been sold to historians as the epitome of chivalry and uprightness metamorphoses into a schoolyard bully you're not going to get much fun out of what is essentially a fun movie.
Minimal dialog in German with English subtitles (it was meant to be a mainly visual experience).
This is a great movie if viewed in the proper context - It was meant to be a parody of teen-horror-devil-worship movies (and the '80s saw plenty of them)!
As Mildred Rogers, Davis burst forth with a completely unsympathetic role of a slutty waitress who becomes the target of Leslie Howard's affections, and already eager to sink her teeth into a role like this, she had no qualms of the awful things her character was meant to do throughout the course of the film and the awful transformation she would undergo.
In every way, this film is meant to evoke your sense memories.
I mean City Hall is meant to be a political drama, not a thriller but instead when all is said and done and once you get to the meat and potatoes of the film it feels and looks like a thriller but a decent one at that with very important part of the recipe that immediately makes it stand out...what else...or rather who else...Al Pacino.
But style was meant to be imitated, and doesn't take away from this film's importance.
This film was meant to be a 'fantasy'....a 'what if' fun film.
It was never meant to be 'real' or serious.
This should be released on DVD in Superbit format so I can fully enjoy it like it was meant to be enjoyed when they produced and filmed it.
The first one meant victory.
A fun film, hopefully not meant to be taken seriously but if it was, you won't.
Obviously, for most parts this movie isn't meant seriously (there's a hilarious Robert DeNiro-like character called Nick Duran who curses in a ridiculously rude manner and who even gets to sing his own little song when the credits roll) but on the other hand the makers also seemed eager to gain the respect of horror audiences.
At least the A team was meant to be unbelievable and half acted intentionally.
Its fair to say that in cinematic terms, British cinema will sadly always lack behind Hollywood, they have more money and more exposure and if you went out onto the street and asked people about this movie, the majority would not know what you meant.
Well, it said a rating of 1 meant "awful" and that's a pretty good adjective, but I'm giving it a 2 out of pity.
I am not sure when the era of "respectable" medium budget horror started (right after CREEPSHOW 2, maybe) but it resulted in a decades worth of uninteresting no-scares and no-offense meant horror efforts.
To me it embodies everything that cinema is meant to be; it's visual art in motion, literature with pictures, history with emotion; all those and much more.
The combination of director Danny Boyle, writer Alex Garland and actor Cillian Murphy should have meant that Sunshine was the best film of the year so far.
Ironically my favorite episode (along with a 3-part story I shouldn't mention; it wasn't based on a book) of which I've seen was one of these, "Click" - I doubt it was meant to be scary, but it did make me laugh expecting that the boy who exploited a space- and time-controlling remote could so easily be punished!
The dialogue was inane and insipid, the situations completely unbelievable--particularly the pornography subplot, which I can only imagine was meant to be quirky, but fell very flat.
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