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Hmmm, started well, like a hybrid of X-Files & First Wave, unfortunately, if the mere notion of Da Vinci's lost time machine is preposterous to you, then the final 'battle' between one man with a pistol and 4 16th century monks armed to the teeth with automatic weapons will seem positively ridiculous equalled only by poor acting, poor script and screenplay, or, in other words, giggle factor 5 captain.
Throughout her long career, she was interested in the shifting narrative and the notion of conflicting agents.
All "This is a spoof" musings aside, and while I certainly have tried to give it due consideration, have left me with a certain notion, namely; "This is quite possibly the worst film ever made."
I was not disappointed by this latter notion.
I've tried to watch three episodes of "Paranormal State" and only use up my time commenting on it because it's so bad and perpetuates the notion that anyone who believes in the paranormal is a gullible freak.
But this film just adds nothing to the notion.
It ends by portraying the faulty notion that unusual stress without physical exertion always brings on cardiac arrest.
The most frustrating part of sitting through this was that I could see what moods/atmospheres were trying to be created and the notion of these could have been interesting if they had been fleshed out more.
(to my notion) as documentaries often are.
It was as if they took every other similar film and pulled out all of the ideas and put them in one place with out the real notion of character.
This movie shows what you can create if you have a camera, some spare paint and cardboard,a toy ship, a few friends who acted in community theater, and the incorrect notion you can make a film.
The notion that this is a "thriller" is comical; that would imply some kind of tension and twists.
Shining Path and Alberto Fujimori should blast away any notion that Peru is a vacation paradise.
I'm a computer scientist and take offense at the notion that just because Garry lost, IBM must have cheated.
You see him becoming more and more paranoid, and increasingly unravelled, all because in the second game, Deep Blue made a move that seemed too human for his preconceived notion of chess computers.
This stylized notion of organized crime being too influential and powerful to overcome has become a standard component in every gangster picture.
To me this is a scary notion!
Their bitter experiences and their realization of their own need to fight again against what was happening on the homefront poses a strong and sobering counterpoint to the conventional notion being sold that "all was well with "America"".
One other notion seems to run through Ellis Island experience: the tribulations of pass immigrants was grueling, later, in 2006, one only had to pay a coyote or boat owner and sneak into the county under the darkness of night, no questions asked!
Basically, Judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin.
I laughed at those veiled glances around the dressing room in "Pool Days"; I smiled at the notion that fans of Bette Midler, Judy Garland, and Barbra Streisand are assumed to be gay in "A Friend of Dorothy"(ie.
Sherry resists this notion as absurd and is quite happy to relay news to her husband that she is indeed pregnant.
And although I wouldn't consider this film to be perfect, it does bear out that notion very well.
That said, the simplistic notion that Ingmar Bergman's great 1968 film Shame (or Skammen) is merely an anti-war film does a great deal of damage to the reputation of this very complex, and highly nuanced, film.
A recent survey of children in the UK re-enforced the notion put forth by this film 27 years ago.
It posits the notion that sometimes there are things more important than your own personal safty or well-being.
It's a film that doesn't glamorize the notion of a robbery but shows it for what it is.. theft.
The psychology in this crisp antique, one of Warners' many efforts to assert its place as the "socially conscious" studio, doesn't run deep: Digges is bad just because the script requires him to be, and there's the quaint notion that juvenile delinquents will turn into swell kids if they're just given a dash of autonomy.
It works best as a Gallic ode to Hitchcock's Rear Window, because the notion of voyeurism is the constant theme that fires the intricate screenplay.
The notion of marital fidelity portrayed in the film seems outdated today, but it is exactly the main characters' adherence to that notion which makes the entire story so touchingly tragic.
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