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This movie is very entertaining and is never ever boring even running at nearly 3 hours.
Overall, EVIL BREED was not NEARLY as bad as I expected.
With so many shows given chance after chance and not nearly worth it!
Shelley Duvall outdid herself with this unique, imaginative take on nearly all of the popular fairy tales of childhood.
I liked nearly all the movies in the Dirty Harry series with the exception of the one I think is titled "Enforcer".
In this film the viewer is allowed to witness the gradual but nearly complete implosion of a family by a much used but, here, very sensible manipulation of the flashback/flash forward technique of storytelling.
I can watch B,B&C and feel all the emotions I felt when I first saw it at aged 18 well,maybe all but one.Certainly Miss K.Novak has lost none of her silky allure in nearly half a century.She was a thinking youth's Diana Dors.All those thinking youths now collecting their pensions can briefly regain the heart - clutching,collar - tightening,blood - pulsing ardour they felt when she gazed directly into their eyes back in the days when they were being told that they had never had it so good.
In this sense the incoming tide doesn't quite have the effect one might have wished, though the movie remains tense and highly entertaining thanks to excellent acting, fine location photography, nearly all of it outdoors, and excellent direction by the woefully underrated Mr. Sturges.
First off, consider that this film is nearly fifty years old!
There is a middle-aged couple in whose relationship she is nearly a slave and he a (violent) master.
Although the feelings are strong or nearly at life or death-level, they still aren't really melodramatic.
This is the last of four swashbucklers from France I've scheduled for viewing during this Christmas season: the others (in order of viewing) were the uninspired THE BLACK TULIP (1964; from the same director as this one but not nearly as good), the surprisingly effective LADY Oscar (1979; which had originated as a Japanese manga!) and the splendid CARTOUCHE (1962).
Of course, he's not nearly as foxy as he was in Norma Rae.
The first time I saw it, I nearly laughed myself sick.
She didn't have much of a role; in fact, I though she could have used a much stronger one...her character wasn't nearly developed enough, though she did remarkably well with what she had.
The film was so wonderfully cast and played!! Every now and again she drops little amusing lines, just to make this film one of the best I've ever seen!! Everybody really out does themselves!! Especially Robert Downey Jr and Cybill Shepperd, they really made the film come true!! Also I loved the little bit where Mavis loses her wig and she nearly dies when she falls to the floor!!
I had seen this film way back in the 80's and had nearly forgotten it when I noticed it was on tv again and watched it.
This is very nearly a perfect film.
These discoveries have nearly always been dramatic films - in my experience, unknown sci-fi, action and horror are unknown for very, very good reasons.
I didn't nearly realize the possibilities of Iago, Shakespeare's most evil character, but Branagh shows us the depths.
Nearly the whole movie is set in a prison cell revolving around 4 characters of which transvestite Marcus and his little retarded boy are way out the strangest.
It doesn't quite reach classic status, but it has all the ingredients for a fun 85 minutes with an episodic but pacey script, fine character actors, and direction that keeps it all moving fast enough so that you nearly don't notice that Williams (Douglas) isn't exactly Columbo when it comes to detecting.
When the mother ghost lent over the bed in the Japanese version, I nearly had a heart attack...
As is nearly always the case, when Britain comes up with an entertaining and/or successful sit-com or quiz show, the Yanks will come along and poach the format and produce their own, grossly inferior, version.
She is no longer a teenager, so therefore the name of the show isn't right and without Hilda and Zelda and Josh the show just doesn't seem right, especially when Sabrina nearly marries someone that isn't Harvey.
But, apparently, nearly a third of its audience has so managed.
There also is some acting-talent present in this film, with Franka Potenta (Run Lola Run) returning to graphic horror nearly five years after the cool German film "Anatomie".
A perfect example was the John Garfield film Air Force--in which a B-17 nearly single-handedly takes out half the Japanese air force!
There were a lot of big films this summer, but none of them were nearly as fun as this one.
Although not nearly as sad as Umberto D, both movies have a very similar point to make--this one just does it in a very absurdist way.
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