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You can't but admire the tenacity and the complete obsession of John Doe with his project.
Many of the recent cartoons like "Bratz " "Trollz " or the infamous "all grow up "start to became annoying stories about pre -teens that keeps talking about stupid things that nobody cares about the drama of being a teen or their obsession to be "cool ".
Good performances, especially from Adrien Brody as a psychotic sadistic killer with a Houdini obsession and Maura Tierney as a cop, make this film stand out.
If somewhere on the package it had stated that the movie was about a mentally challenged man, who learns to get over his obsession with his childhood best friend, whom he used to have sex with, I would have never made the mistake of shelling out money for this garbage.
Driven to obsession, he follows the trail of the pickpocket through the seedy underworld of post-war China, in an attempt to regain his honor.
It's a sleeper, a B movie, a thriller about relationships, obsession, and a million other things you should never do in your own life.
It's a film of big ideas, in particular about the folly of America's obsession with guns; presumably it's this liberal agenda that enticed an astonishing cast, each member of which is as bad here as they've ever been before (Jeff Daniels plays an arrogant businessman who gets away with murder; Joan Allen is the wife who leaves him to work for loopy billionaire Gary Sinise; they and four or five others get intertwined in a web of violence).
But its not the horrid make up effects that make this film special, it's its ability to take you inside the mind of these characters to a point of being uncomfortable, going inside our deep seeded obsession with vanity.
The camera has a strange obsession with smoke billowing from chimneys of boats and factories.
The makers of "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession" take a potentially fascinating subject and completely botch it.
He has no savant skills (Hollywood's usual obsession with the disorder), think Rain Man; similarly there is no 'miracle cure' offered.
Though, soon there obsession turns to murder and the Doctor don't seem to worry how they are getting their cadavers.
A fine character study of a flawed man and his obsession with religion at any cost.
What's so different about this romantic/fantasy dark comedy is it that uses the British (and European at that - it was set in Euro 1996) enthusiastic obsession with soccer as a backdrop, and thus provides an emotionally dramatic fantasy setting of 'what ifs' and anticipation for the main drama of quirky romance.
This film is a drama about love, obsession, and despair.
This goes on ad nauseam as their romantic obsession with one another continues to get the best of any sense they might have to call it quits.
Sensitive director Patricia Riggen has, in LA MISMA LUNA (UNDER THE SAME MOON), succeeded in creating a story about the travails of the illegal immigrants from Mexico that serves as a reminder to all of us that one of the reasons for the obsession to take the risks of crossing the border is an attempt to find a better life.
From the beginning, the juxtaposition of opposites is obvious and the 'tough' bad guy's obsession for this girl displays the fragile emotional nuances of the human condition that can change people for better or for worst.
Jas was NOTHING like I imagined to be; a rather blank girl with an obsession with her fringe and the environment.
Elements of the latter genre include a female main character and her obsession with a lover who has moved on.
While I can admire anyone willing to open up and bare their soul on camera warts and all, throughout the entire movie, I never once got the feeling that the director/star ever felt a bit of remorse that his obsession with hookers lead to the demise of several of his relationships with women.
As Usual, Candyman is Stalking his latest Obsession.
Before he knows it, he is caught in her obsession of reviving her long gone-career, moving into her mansion... and more than meets the eye unfolds!
The explosive combination of jealousy, affair and obsession leads the quartet to a tragic end.
This movie is a really frightening thriller about obsession.
The themes (sexual "deviance," violence, obsession) that Cronenberg was exploring are very relevant to today's post-modern society.
Supposedly the book by James Ballard deals more with our obsession with fame and celebrities; that was not dealt with in the film and it should have been.
Kim Ki Duk's Bad Guy is a brilliant study of vanity, sexual obsession and moral.
It is another exploration of human obsession undertaken by Herzog with brilliant (as usual) results.
Shedding itself of any accompanying score or conventional direction, Keane tightly and uncomfortably focuses on the title character's obsession for the first and last sections of the film.
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