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It was meant to be intriguing but wasn't.
It's a big mistake trying to make this film funny but then spending millions in special effects that looked cheap but weren't meant to.
I also meant that she is a skilled actress but not more skilled than many others.
It meant full house the whole night.
The movie has a stunning lack of agenda - which is meant as a compliment in that it's emotional payoffs are earned and natural as opposed to being sickly or cynical.
Much of this was very funny; if the basic arc of the story is familiar, it's meant to be.
This film is meant for the entire family,its a wonderful teaching tool about life,love,feelings,friends,and family.
I also liked how not everything was explained, it allowed us the viewers to draw our own conclusions (like whether or not the son Todd knew about what his parents were doing and what happened to him after the conclusion of the film, or what the meaning of the scene at the abandoned house really meant).
However, I was very pleased to find, within ten minutes of the film starting, that it was clear that I was wrong; it was a very complex movie, looking at various problems/blessings that the main character's condition meant.
Mamie Van Doren in an unusual role where she is not meant to be sexy is the sheriff's bride and also the sister of the banker and leader of the cattlemen.
but lucky for the movie i love laughing at movies whether when it's meant to or not.
Anyway, I don't think this was meant as a comedy (although after the beatnik scene I'm really not sure) but if you're looking for horror this only qualifies if you're looking for so bad it's good I need to be high to enjoy omg I'm horrified I paid for this.
There are those lengthy sequences focusing on $50 lab sets with lights flashing meant to impress us and you may laugh, but then you hear the cop (Davis, better known to "Dallas" TV fans) philosophizing about how some victims ask for bad stuff to happen to them based on his 20 years experience and you may think, hm - who wrote that?
Control of North Africa meant control of the Suez.
I just could not take this seriously and, in all fairness to the writers, I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously.
It's funny how nature is seen in this movie as a playground meant to be tame and fun for city people with no idea of how to distinguish a pine tree from a mushroom.
I can't tell if this movie was meant to be a comedy or not, but it sure turned out that way.
Although the disjointed stories are meant to intertwine with one cogent story emerging, the blunt edits jump between lost in Yonkers and angst amid the concrete streets of inhospitable New York.
This is a film meant purely for viewers who find cinema a synonym for aesthete.
This dark view of a future world was meant to show where things were heading at the time with the crime rate rising as we were heading into the 1980's.
I find bad films much more interesting then good ones, because u can understand what the director meant and see were he got lost.
The movie is meant to be full of puns and wacky, as it takes place in a nymph hospital with a weird doctor trying to cure death using hormone therapy.
The jokes, if that is what they were meant to be, are like beached dead jelly fish - lifeless and limp.
Their lives seems to be like one long running soap opera and of course when it comes to scandals this one takes the biscuit.This program was meant to make the public symphasise with Camilla, but instead really shows her up.
The worst: it's meant for kids!! Talk about encouraging racism!
It is meant to be ti-tty comedy but it ends up as politically correct, prude and naive comedy.
Case in point, The Vicious Sweet, a very pedestrian offering which only proves that some people weren't meant to work on either side of a camera.
The lead guy is a joke and is meant to be some kind of tough guy but looks like a mixture of Charles Bronson/Don Johnson/Columbo or whatever you cannot take this guy seriously.
Well, even the songs were meant to be spoofs and the whole idea is to make it fun and "cult-serious".
To those of you who do not like this movie please give it another try and watch Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels play the roles that they were meant to play.
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