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The second turn-off is overly emotional displays meant to endear the viewer to the character.
but watching tranquillized actors in poor star wars/mad max replica standing around saying things like "it is meant to be" over and over again, my initial goodwill concerning this project evaporated- by the end of the show, I considered "AINOA" to be my personal "ground zero"- in this sense, a "groundbreaking" movie.
there are things grown people should not be subjected to.Hannah montana concerts,spice girl reunions, and lipstick jungle.This was TV at its absolute worst pandering to every fantasy, delusion and fond dream of either young single women or middle aged married ones who are sure they were meant for better things if they had just not married that bum and had those three kids.The acting,plot,premise and storyline all add to a cacaphony of bad bad TV.I'm sure Brooks shields is nice to her mother and the other two ladies have good qualities as people and actors but they weren't in that dopey soap opera I should've known as Brook shields was in the only movie I can remember walking out of It was a black and white thing called "Pretty baby " Look for it if all the copies haven't been destroyed
Also, in the book Cathy and Chris are meant to only be 12 and 14 but in the film they both look at least 25.
Annoyingly stupid movie, meant to launch Whitney Houston's acting career and, apparently, Kevin Costner's fallback career as a model for terrible haircuts.
Some things are meant to be broken, and this movie doesn't put itself back together.
This movie was just lame on every level.The lead actor was as weak as water.The story was suppose to be disturbing, with urban "street smarts", and it reminded me more of a cross between an "after school special" and a Lifetime movie, but with some horribly delivered and unconvincing mature language.The plot was suppose to be a loosely based "true to life" story about a juvenile sent to an adult facility, and the hardships he endured, with rape scenes that I guess were meant to be disturbing.
However, the management at Cheddar's had selected Margarita glasses that were much more like plates with stems than anything meant to hold a beverage.
The sad thing is that it wasn't meant to be a comedic scene.
I think part of the problem is that IF it originally was meant to be a comedy (and I'm not sure that really was the intention), how can Joseph Stalin be funny?!
Was this film, perhaps, meant less as a joke and more as a homage to Stalin or to paint him as not such a bad guy?
This new Miss Marple was in her own way as absurd a creation as Margaret Rutherford's version (which at least was not meant to be taken seriously).
Four men with little or no acting skills pretend to be gangsters in this brilliant comedy.. oh thats right, its meant to be serious..
Although this was meant to serve as a transition between scenes and to move the plot along, it fails miserably.
I did not know what everything meant but it was fun to watch.
They're not meant to be taught in place of American history class.
The tribble problem aboard the ship is but a vehicle meant to get in the way of Kirk's job of putting out all the "little fires" engulfing them, the Attack by the Klingons, for one, and Nilz Barris continually, acting the self-important bureaucrat, getting in the way.
It's a campfire tale not meant for roasting marshmallows; a homespun creation myth rendered by the elder which coincides with the sudden departure of the grandfather as the scene's focal point, when the camera tilts down, then passes slowly across an expanse of fire and grassland.
Is it meant to be weird, but not funny?
Is it not meant to be "ha-ha" funny, but satire?
It was meant in good stead, but has been overdone.
I expected them so I didn't jump up like I was meant to!
Probably history was after all, meant to be a study of human consciousness in guilt.
Or, what if someone who was meant to die, survives?
This movie is more meant to disturb you than gross you out.I did have two problems with the movie,though.
While obviously this isn't a perfect education of the horrors of the Holocaust, it's not meant to be.
It's not supposed to be a perfectly accurate portrayal, and it's not meant for historians or anything.
Even that old pro Kristin Scott-Thomas wobbles in her early scenes, unsure of what everybody is meant to be doing.
Enzo G. Castellari's hopelessly ham-fisted direction fails to generate any tension or momentum, with an especially clumsy use of slow motion which sucks all the punch and suspense out of scenes that are meant to be harrowing and frightening.
Mr. Funt, the power behind the popular entertainment programs "Candid Microphone" and "Candid Camera", may not have meant it to be, but this film brilliantly documents the generation gap between the 1950s post-WW II parents/grandparents and their 1960s flower child progeny.
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