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Who would have thought that a movie about a man who drives a couple hundreds of miles on his lawn mower to see his brother, could possibly be good cinema?
Once we were bunked in we went north a few miles into Camp Pendleton, the big Marine base.
I won't spoil the film for anyone, but, separated from my wife by 4,000-odd miles, as an ex-army officer who was deployed in a couple of wars and as private pilot, I admit to crying heartily a couple of times.
They win (partly because of all the batting practice they take with a coach who can pitch over 90 miles an hour), and he keeps his side of the bargain--and is signed!
One relatively forgettable but covering the same geography, is Coup de Torchon, the other thousands of miles away and much larger in scope is the unforgettable Indochine.
You'd think you're in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel 3000 miles or so from France to Saudi Arabia, going through most of Europe - Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, before arriving in the Middle East.
The movie meanders through Europe with the father and the young son cramped in a car over 3000 miles.
The dialogues don't just border on the ridiculous - it's fair to say that it's miles south of the border, let alone the equator.
He plays a scientist who is drilling a hole 7 miles deep in Manhattan to tap into an underground magma flow for an energy source.
It is a very straightforward plot of a young but poor Irishman who sees no sense in being perpetually cheated for the price of cattle and so dares to form a local cattle drive to bypass the local buyers by taking them directly to market some 40 miles away.
Now, the tarantulas, of course, disembark, and before you know it they've made their presence known over apparently SEVERAL square miles, which is pretty silly considering how slowly they seem to move.
Afterwards, I found I had missed the last bus, and had to walk home three miles along a dimly-lit country road.
The movie goes from the armpit of Louisiana to one tiny town in the armpit of Florida over 600 miles away.
Then, it sets off for the darkest speck in the Appalachians, another 800 miles away.
As obvious as the storyline was, and as overwrought the acting was, I was sucked in nonetheless, to see how it ended, even though you could see it coming from miles and miles away.
Though miles better than the (awful) first game this still suffers from major bore.
Most of them are as uneven as twenty miles of bad road.
That was maybe one of the reasons that the people of Serbia hardly knew what was going around their country and what their government had been up to, while the queues for buying bread were miles long... as it's shown in the movie.
It is ridiculous for film critic bloggers to trash the individuals associated with this movie; there are thousands of miles of celluloid that stink far worse than this.
The Great Ameican Snuff Film starts as two sick freaks named Roy (Ryan Hutman) & William Allen Grone (Mike Marsh) kidnap two young girls named Sarah & Maddy (Melinda Lorenz & Holi Tavernier), they take them to the junkyard deep in the desert which Roy owns miles from anywhere of note.
Swamps that run for 150 miles along Lake Champlain?
However, that a Jeep could be beat up by a mutant genius bear bent on revenge, rolled down a hill and still drive for miles is absolutely believable.
Folks I live 10 miles from Shannon airport and I can tell you this - it is not located in Galway Bay and does not have a seaside beach.
This show puts it about 50 miles from where it actually is.
About 200 miles North of Southern Cross City is a small town called Paradise Valley where they protect their most precious commodity, water.
I liked that they pointed out other people looking at us from thousands of miles away , do not see us as a democracy.
It's set in Swansea, (Only 8 miles from where I live!), so I could really connect with the surroundings and the larger than life characters.
I think that this is the key to the film - for we are reminded again and again that what these kids want to do more than anything is to live at 100 miles per hour... it is the only chance they might get.
I also enjoyed watching the taking of the bomb up an unknown number of floors to a roof, starting a helicopter and then flying an estimated 25 miles off shore and all in 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
Gregory's Girl makes me laugh every few seconds, and the only mention of a bodily excretion I can remember is Andy's "chat up line" in the school cafeteria: "Did you know that when you sneeze, it comes out of your nose at a 100 miles an hour?"
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