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I remember being conflicted by the ending - not because it was bad, but because it was so (for me, at that age) adult that I really had to sit down and think about what it meant for all the characters.
Kentuckian Lance Fuller heads west with a wagon train and his one-hundred rifles meant for the settlers of California.
The film adapts the story into a dark, sexualized drama meant to attract the attention of today's oversexed audience, but the success of previous Austen adaptations should have been an indication that this is not necessary.
Yet in spite of how funny this movie truly is, the parts I remember most are still those that reached a deeper level of human emotion: the scenes between Chaplin and his lover are meant to be comical, but I couldn't help but notice the honesty and poignancy he injected into each vignette.
Although I know it was meant as an allegory about war and heroism and the futility of war--it seemed like it could also be taken as a pro-war film as well!
I meant to spell it that way by the way.
use of different locations takes away from the theme of escape. in the stage version there is only one set, the apartment, we as the audience are never meant to see the other places these characters go.
Laura Linney's usually electrifying screen presence is dumbed down to a few tantrums and forced smiles, all meant to imply, I suppose, the shallowness of a rich and privileged life.
Often times I found myself laughing when the mood of the film was meant to be serious.
there are also two female characters in the book which are for some reason male in the film (Steven Kramer is meant to be Diane Kramer, jimmy Gomez is also a woman in the book!
I think these stories were meant to be over the top, but the third one was where it went bad.
This is a classic adult thriller, meaning that it is not thrilling and is really meant for frustrated teenagers.
It was meant to be funny.
It was originally meant to be a whopping six hours so thank goodness it was cut to only three.
This is a bad movie that was meant to be a horror movie but just turned into a comedy.
This movie was not meant to be artsy, as some Americans may view.
A critically important component of virtually all successful cinema is suspense, a perception of uncertainty within the viewer as to what may ensue from the events occurring upon the screen, whichever genre, present even when we know an outcome (Apollo 13) if the work is done well; all of which is meant to point to a total absence of suspense in this weakly directed feature, which dully plods from scene to scene until its flat ending.
By the time this movie was made Women's issues were alive in the media of all industrialized nations ... This movie was meant to shock and shock it does.
Not because it was meant that way, but because it was really bad.
Maybe they meant bacon short cuts at the supermarket as that was a huge porky.
The problem is that there are scenes which are meant to be humorous, not in the laugh out loud way, but in the way that little things can make serious situations amusing, but they do not work.
If it is meant to be a stylised "melodramatic" version of the novel, then by any standards of artistic taste it should be melodramatic, not a disastrously badly written hotch-potch of cinematic ideas.
And how about that old ugly "hustler" in the blonde wig that Harrison picks up! Were we meant to believe he was a young guy?
I expected something of the same with The Sickhouse, but I suppose it is meant to describe an orphanage from the late 17th Century that had been infected with the Bubonic Plague.
The excitement, the romance, was also meant for an older audience.
When they came up with the title, if the filmmakers meant the seemingly endless stock of poor genre films that are being pumped out in the wake of digital film-making, then this is indeed "one of them".
A good idea has been sabotaged in a terrible attempt to create what i can only assume was meant to be a film?
This meant going out and openly attacking the system by aggressive vandalism, attacking people, and altering peoples judgment by addiction.
Now that it's finally available in a high quality print we can see it the way it was meant to be seen.
The trains have little to do with the (confused and disjointed) plot of the film, they give what can best be described as extended cameo appearances, which presumably are meant to prop up the wooded acting performances (of all but Didi Conn).
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