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Sure, they are really street kids who one must feel sorry for, but their attitudes can't merit any sympathy.
I really cannot add much more to this then to say that the film is very, very bad and devoid of any merit whatsoever except if you enjoy watching people pour out their hearts only ending in cinematic misery for the viewer built by the foundation of their lack of talent and competence.
Of course, I've seen better movies, but I've certainly seen much worse movies in theatrical release and I cannot believe that Blue Hill Ave. could not merit at least a moderate theatrical release on about 500 screens.
Without much merit, but passable watching if you have not much else to do.
On the other hand, being a socialist director doesn't guarantee a movie that has much artistical merit.
Done properly, it would have carried some merit.
I have watched it several times and I see no merit in it whatsoever.
Whoever thought that it had merit and was worth wasting a fine cast upon deserves evisceration.
It is hilarious to see a detective trying to work while fighting extreme obsessive/compulsive behavior, as well as germaphobia strong enough to merit using anti-bacterial wipes after every handshake.
This film has got merit not least the photography.
Overall, an abominable film, but not entirely without merit in case you're an avid cult-movie purchaser.
Once upon a time, I naively believed that a film could be THE WORST simply by its own dubious merit.
I'm not sure where anyone could find merit enough to give a movie this bad more than 3 stars at the most.
While no match for the original Dracula by Tod Browning, Son of Dracula is, nonetheless, a much better film than its reputation suggests, and an improvement over the creaky Dracula's Daughter (a film that suffered of a bad case of "comic relief-itis", the terminal illness that killed off so many horror films of the era), which, while not totally without merit is mostly overrated.
It's a shame that what is essentially a documentary had to be interlaced with the frankly pointless nod at the commercial market of including the uninspiring fictional Hannah/Richards subplot, something which ruins rather than enhances a movie that has very little technical merit of its own, but solely succeeds through the testimonies of the people that live and work in the industry.
I loved this movie so much that I have watched other movies about Ireland and based their merit upon this exceptional production.
Billie Holliday made some lovely records with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra in the 1930s.She made some good records for jazz impresario Norman Granz towards the end of her career,their merit largely due to her accompanying musicians as her voice was shot to pieces by then.What happened in between is the area covered by Sidney Furie's "Lady sings the blues"which uses the title if not much else of her 1958 ghosted autobiography.Like fellow 50s icons James Dean and Marilyn Monroe,Miss Holliday has achieved a post mortem fame far exceeding that she enjoyed whilst she was alive.She is repeatedly presented as a proto-lesbian,proto-bisexual,proto-feminist,proto-strong black woman or whatever label people who think it empowers them to attribute their beliefs to a dead person who is consequently unable to refute them choose to stick on her.
I generally think that all films have some merit.
It does have the merit of not showing directly the pornography and sexual perversions which are integral to the story, and that is a merciful release.
I find no merit for recommendation.
90% of the available movies are made by the same people, featuring the same actors, boring and completely without merit when it comes to originality and style.
There is actually nothing of merit.
This reviewer attempts to describe something of merit within each work under consideration, but with this wretchedly made film, one must slide by the woeful efforts by those who generally provide audience enjoyment, i.e., director, screenwriter, actors, editors, et alia, before finally recognizing the customary able efforts from crew technicians as the sole evidence of adequacy.
The director is nonetheless an artful cinematographer and this film is not without its charming scenes and symbolic and visual merit.
Its inconceivable to me that anyone would actually like this movie for its own merit, but it is the kind of movie that becomes funny just by the fact that it was made.
The fact that the movie was featured the cover of "The Great Book of Movie Monsters" (Jan Stacy and Ryder Syvertsen) shows the movies only merit: its limited role in the 1950's cheesecake style horror flick.
Kati Patang is a big hit from the 1970s and its success was purely on merit.
I watched this based the actors merit only.
A truly bad film with little merit.
The first episode of this series was a ham-fisted political statement with little merit.
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