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Forced Entry was never meant to be a mainstream flick, but it would appear that Sotos was trying to turn it into one with this film as the plot is basically the same but we don't get any of the sexual violence, which is a bit of a shame because that's the only thing that most people will have tuned into the original for and it's always going to be difficult to make an R-Rated film based on this plot line and make it a success.
Eternity and a Day (the director really knew what he meant) is an art-house movie made after an infallible recipe to win critical acclaim and eventually those great prizes of the broken hearted that will never make a blockbuster.
It just meant unknown talent and lower budgets.
And contrary to another comment on the movie, having lived in Southern Cal during this period and being the age that this movie was aimed at, it was meant to be taken seriously for the disco crowd that was running rampant just prior to and during its release period.
The character of Mae is meant to be seen as both shrill and pathetic trapped in a loveless marriage in a setting where she thought she would be elevated considered one of "better people" of the community;has come to realize too late her true role as a breeder of more Curley's.
But if it meant turning into one of these shallow brats, heck ya.
One of those magazines meant expressly for plumbers or welders and never intended for the general public?
This is spoken in Minority Report by a drug-dealer on the streets with no eyes at all, so I suppose its free advice for John Anderton, our hero, or a bit of wise-sounding advice meant to get across to the audience but with no other good place for it to fit in the film.
Sure, Tony Randall and lots of other men have had kids way into their 70s, but it seemed like this role was meant for a much younger man.
I didn't even know that they meant it to be a comedy until I watched the theatrical trailer on the DVD after the film.
I don't think Aaja Nachle was meant to be a groundbreaking movie with the coolest screenplay.
Maybe it was meant to just make the audience dumber from watching it so that they would think that it was good.
The movie is ostensibly meant for young kids (bright colors, simple story) but has the mean spirit of a movie made by (and for) a much older audience.
One more gripe: the stylized animation, although meant to be hip (I think) just seemed unappealing.
This title is not originally meant to be a sequel.Not just because there is a 25 year gap, also there is no connectivity between two story lines.Only connection available is the former antagonist.
Movies like this were never meant for the big screen.
I thought that they meant we were going to get onto a plane and just look at a boring island off the coast of Perth.
Somehow, I guess this movie was meant to be clever and refreshing, but the implementation leaves so much to be desired that this movie ends up being a two-hour sleep-inducing affair.
The scars on lead character Son's back could have been a recurring motif (and meant more); in the director's commentary you learn why that plan was abandoned.
"Prehistoric Women" was obviously never meant to be taken seriously.
The videotape dates from 1986, and since Robert Englund (who later played Freddy Kreuger) appears in it (albeit briefly, towards the end), the title is probably meant to suggest A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984).
After all, sequels aren't meant to be copies of the first movie.
I don't thing this film was ever meant to be taken too seriously.
A tighter film would have meant we were on the edge of our seats throughout and, possibly more importantly, forced the director (or writer) to get what they wanted to say more simply expressed.
"Reefer Madness" falls into the same category, even though the production of it was somewhat better, with an added bonus for the folks involved with the making of it ...It was also meant to be used as a "teaching" tool.
Apparently meant to show how awful and brutal people sometimes treat each other, but you have to wonder if its not just pure nasty exploitation.
Sure, there are no big-name actors or actresses prancing across the screen, but that's exactly the point: as a viewer, you are not meant to be distracted from the moral center of the film by celebrities.
This is a gimmick meant for the soap opera admirers.
Not only does Godard torture the viewer on purpose, beginning right after he questions Allen about his then recent release of Hannah and Her Sisters with abrupt recurring title cards meant to scoff at Allen's film and segueing without direction into random and exasperatingly repetitive moments where music swells to the point where it drowns out the clearly uncomfortable Woody and displays inexplicable freeze frames of indeterminable screen time.
If this was meant to work as some laugh-your-way-through-life's-troubles allegory, then a vehicle more appropriate than the greatest genocide ever perpetrated by man against man should have been chosen as the vehicle.
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