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Nearly all of Dick's work concerned the shifting nature of Identity and the ontological basis for Reality.
Instead it is a nearly 2 hour informercial for LDS/Mormons.
He lives in a squalid flat with his wife and deformed baby (which looks like a cross between E.T and the baby from Eraserhead, though not nearly as believable).
But premise has nearly been run into the ground, traditional parents, rebellious kids who want to fit and date like everyone else.
Since that time, nearly all his films have left me flat.
In fact, I nearly didn't watch this film since he was in it.
Dakota Fanning as Lucy very nearly steals the show.
I tried so hard to take the movie seriously, but being from the City where it was filmed, it just seems they took the complete mickey out of the city/culture etc... and every time I was nearly taking it seriously again something else "local" happened that we couldn't stop laughing at!
An underwater sea park is attacked by a great white with a bite radius of nearly a yard.
After a series of (not so) discreet passes, Andersson finds herself falling for the moody, unpredictable Gould.Sven Nykvist's cinematography and one surprisingly tender love scene nearly save this, but, the film is unable to overcome two glaring flaws: the awkwardness of the dialogue (written by Bergman) and the poor performance by Elliot Gould.
A true surprise to me was Ellen DeGeneres, who is nearly a nobody in Germany, but who I saw last year in another surprising role in "Goodbye Lover".
Nearly 23 years later, my sister and I still have nightmares of this movie.
I was really looking forward to this film, but it let me down in nearly every way imaginable.
The Japanese pilots are nearly always shown grinning devilishly, and their flying skills are always poor - except for a character called Tokyo Joe, who taunts his American opponents with a series of comic-book-like phrases, all of which end with "yank".
So sweet, so nice that you really wish that there was a movie that paired them with Itchy and Scratchy!!! Now I am not really saying I want the really little kids out there to see ultra-violent films, but there gets to be a point when a film is so non-offensive and sweet that it nearly puts the viewers in a diabetic coma!
Nearly every possible suspenseful sequence is butchered.
Nearly every review of a movie contains a so called spoiler, because otherwise it will be very hard to write about a movie beside the fact you have seen a movie.
All three sequels were shot at the same time, from what I have heard, yet it took nearly four years for this installment to get released to video.
This seldom seen, nearly forgotten gem stands out as a precursor to many movie motifs now taken for granted.
She is of a natural beauty and grasps your attention nearly automatically.
Over the course of a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, action star Charles Bronson has appeared in dozens of films.
Unfortunately as soon as I saw that this was a partly Canadian production from the opening credits I very nearly turned it off; as most things than come out of there are either boring or pale and poor imitations of the USA.
Who are you, Louis XIV, who announced menacingly, "I nearly waited" when his lackey came running up exactly at the prescribed time?!?! LOL It's a movie- it was obviously worth enough time to sit down and write a review, and even include the equally blowhard-ish device of giving your review a name: "Ted's review: C-".
In the 1980's, Dante made some wildly enjoyable movies including Gremlins and its sequel, Explorers, The 'burbs and The Howling; usually state-of-the-art yet delightfully old-fashioned and nostalgic charming, thrilling, marvellously referential to older movies (I'd say Dante did this better than nearly any other director), and with very imaginative story-lines filled with quirky characters, surreal humour and generous lashings of excitement.
But this movie from Thailand nearly made me to hate movies from Thailand the way I hate Hollywoood movies.
Growing up I used to watch this show, nearly every Sunday night.
The movie speaks of an island where one can change the course of one's life, an island that floats like a raft atop the sea, that is so full of caves as to be nearly hollow, so that each of the many holes you may fall into is really a tunnel that will take you somewhere else.
you can past that the general conceit of the whole film, America turning into a barren wasteland simply because they used up all the oil, is a straw dog impossibility and if you push aside that character's this stupid and ineffective could survive when nearly 2/3rd of the population have passed on, then this certainly had the capacity to be a fun little flick.
We see the hopelessness of the lesbian of the 50's - forced to move to Greenwich Village, and the torment of the perfect student/athlete of the 70's, who is nearly killed by his classmates for being gay.
Regardless of what I though of the movie overall, nearly 24 hrs later and the movie is still with me.
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