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"Blackenstein" is original and funny because of its ineptness, but after a while it nearly becomes unendurable to sit through.
When the viewer thinks about it, the plot of "Death Wish" isn't nearly as overblown as other films of the "revenge fantasy" genre.
Fulfilling the death-row Last Meal request of Hackman for a bowl of Eskimo Pies by giving him Eskimo Pie ice cream pops, instead of the (nearly ) unique traditional Eskimo Pie seemed to underline what seemed like a lack of authenticity found throughout the movie.
The many changes made no sense to me at all, and as is usual in a situation like this, the movie ends up being nearly terrible.
I saw this movie at a film festival when it first came out and, after skipping over it at the local library for the last nine months, finally borrowed it on loan to see what my younger roommate would think of it and to view it again myself, nearly a decade later.
By that I don't mean watch just one or even a couple of episodes, but the whole entire series and, if your up for it, the movie as well.What really caught me off guard about the show is how each episode was at least or nearly a masterpiece of all of the elements it had for positive reviews.Everyone's positive complimants concerning the music, storyline, and art direction is true.
The second wasn't nearly as good, with a less original plot and more attention spent on special effects (the aliens) than plot details.
I don't usually get so worked up over a film but this was just a pointless waste of time on an insurmountable scale that it is nearly impossible to comprehend...
Each episode is nearly identical: some bad thing kidnaps the chick, then Ken-doll caveman turns into Mightor, while his kid brother (son?
I just watched the whole thing the other day and blimey it nearly blew my head off.
Ash chops up his possessed girlfriend, loses essential body parts and nearly goes completely insane up in that shed.
Policemen Joe Van Nort (Peter Boyle) and Jack Holtz (Gary Cole) spend nearly 6 years trying to get info on the guy.
An underrated actor, Scott was nearly always cast playing lounge lizards and other assorted slimeballs.
As with all of these movies, there's gratuitous nudity, but not nearly enough, as well as hints at lesbian erotica - but only the most teasing of hints.
Indeed, it nearly deep-sixed David Caruso's career, as he left "Hill Street Blues," at its peak of popularity to appear in this film.
ROUGH RIDERS, John Milius' tribute to the legendary Spanish-American War volunteer unit headed by future President Theodore Roosevelt, can be nearly considered a 'prequel' to his classic, THE WIND AND THE LION.
There's a pretty stupid and totally unnecessary plot twist near the end that nearly ruined the entire film for me .Admittedly the twist is ambitious and unexpected, but there was absolutely no need for that to happen.
One comment here said, "They don't make 'em classy like this anymore" and he couldn't be more right: from the restrained, low-key performance of Streep (accent-free but looking perhaps more beautiful here than in any other film she's done; she nearly resembles those women in a Dutch Renaissance painting), balancing the "livelier" performance of Scheider, to the lovely muted blues, browns, greys and blacks of its cinematography.
If there is any one fault with the film, it is, as one user has already commented, how slight the script is - it's nearly a puff of smoke!
Nearly every time you hear or see this number, you'll think "What if it was true?".
Sauntering (if that verb can be used to describe something so sloooww!) around in a variety of surprisingly flattering Edith Head gowns, Miss West cashes in on nearly every one of her memorable quotations from years gone by.
So this little 'classic' just spins its wheels for nearly two aptly named desperate hours.
The nearly four hour film just flies by.
i've seen worse movies - movies that were less inspired and movies that were more wholly inept - but only a handful, if that, were even nearly as painful.
The main character has difficulty walking without tripping, accidentally exposes himself to nearly every other character in the movie, and finds it necessary to practice putting a condom on a banana around his friend's waist while receiving direction, despite clearly labeled instructions provided with all condoms.
Not nearly as effective as in mean streets.
He was also correct that the armed forces would depend on air power, a fact the armed forces ignored until nearly 1939 when Hitler proved what a modern air force could do.
Writer-director Neil Jordan (on a roll after the critically-acclaimed "Mona Lisa") nearly took his name off the credits of this low-level whimsy, saying the final result had been altered by outsiders.
Poorly shot on digital video, with a nearly nonexistent plot, lousy script, poor directorial choices that include jumpy editing and an annoying, extremely repetitious performance by Norman Reedus, who seems to be more interested in chewing his nails or smoking a cigarette than croaking another line of bad dialogue.
It kept my interest in a most peculiar way, and it took me nearly to the end of the picture before I figured it out.
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