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The story is too over-the-top to resonate on an emotional level, but it isn't clever enough to get more than the occasional chuckle.
This one would have worked beautifully on "The Twilight Zone" :) Serling turned out the occasional gem on the series (Emmy-nominated 'They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar'; 'The Waiting Room'; and 'Cool Air', based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft), but the "Night Gallery" pilot film was really his last hurrah on network television.
Peter O'Toole, who's been known to take an occasional drink himself, probably had a lot of experience to bring to the part of Alan Swann, swashbuckling movie star of bygone years who's gone to seed.
Directed with tremendous rip-roaring flair by Mark Lester, with a compact, colorful script by "Unholy Rollers" director Vernon Zimmerman, a constant fast pace, bright, sunny cinematography by Stanley Wright, occasional outbursts of bloody violence, plenty of rousing action (the car chases and shoot-outs are staged with considerable exciting aplomb), Carter's legendary eye-popping topless scenes, the catchy, reflective theme song "City Lights" sung by Bobby Bare, and an uncompromisingly downbeat ending, this sturdy little item really delivers the satisfying lowdown trashy exploitation picture goods.
Perhaps they are saving the release for an in-house party, for except for the occasional television viewing, there is no other way to see it.
And what a great show it was, with wonderful bottom-of-the-barrel flicks interspersed with the occasional legit movie, and hosted by various funny folks like Gilbert Gottfried, Such fond memories.
The few plot holes and the occasional trite dialogue don't detract from the overall work.
Enrico Biribicchi's pretty and picturesque cinematography gives the picture an attractive sunny look and makes nifty occasional use of a hand-held camera.
The only thing that I really enjoyed was the occasional funny dialogue sprinkled among the poorly animated frenzy.
Well me being one to enjoy the occasional fan service gave Ikki Tosen a whirl... big mistake there.
THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THE MOVIE is the action scenes, and occasional good comedy.
Play it again Sam (1972) Dir: Herbert Ross With Diane Keaton's second feature, she begins her frequent onscreen collaboration with her occasional offscreen lover, Woody Allen.
Take away the fact that the film has a very interesting Philip Dick type of premise and some very clever directing (the sound practically carries the movie!) and you are left with cryptic dialogue, shallow (but spooky) characters, kinky sex and an occasional beheading.
The performances and occasional moments of interest keep one's eyes half open, but this is missed opportunity on such an interesting subject matter.
He's getting a little long in the tooth now, but I still chuckle whenever I see him on his occasional visits to one of the late night T.V. shows.
A good mix of science fiction and cop drama, with the occasional good joke.
Nothing ever relieves the misery, save the occasional wry laugh in the face of it all.
Will Smith plays a lead as occasional boyfriend.
After sitting through 2 and half episodes and trying to force the occasional smile, I could stand it no longer.
We are occasional scuba divers and snorkelers and have always loved the magnificent hues of coral reef waters.
Even the truck crash, occasional pyrotechnic explosions, and a shooting, are done off screen, further contributing to this pointless and extremely shallow movie.
Never have I been in a cinema whilst watching a horror movie where not one person has a comment, this movie was pure astonishment followed by the occasional boo scare and gargled scream.
Also visible are occasional film scratches, but it is far superior to anything I have seen since the 70's theatrical release in "Sensurround" or however they spelled it.
I was a little concerned with the occasional swearing and violence.
Despite the characters' constant bickering and occasional fighting, this is a film of refreshing gentleness, an independent film of the type Hollywood seems incapable of even imagining, much less making.
Shoddy production values could be forgiven, even poor editing and lousy pacing could be excused by the occasional good scene or a belly laugh, but these are nowhere to be found.
So you are in this movie-rental place with a horror section that is just miles wide and furlongs in length, and you are, just imagine, scanning the rows for anything that catches your rather jaded (maybe from too many low-budget or low-brow horror flicks, too much mockery, or stilted dialogue, too many effects or musical stings) eye in that special way that only a truly mongoloid flick can do--and what do you see? of course, a really chintzy colored pencil and pastel picture of this tree/man graft that has women trapped (mayhaps metaphorically) in his "roots," but the really bad part is the complete physiological inaccuracy of the picture (witness, in your mind's eye, the nipples of this bare-chested "evil" tree/man placed in the exact (okay, semi-exact) orthocenter of his pectoral muscles--just plain zaniness from look one!), and it has this tag on it that reads, "He does bad things to them...in the Garden!!" and what can you do or say (except fall in love with it on the spot and say "I love you," respectively associated, right there in the orchard of neon horror that is the movie rental place)--and then so imagine your heartbreak when you get home, undress it from its plastic case and discover to yourself the fact that it is completely: affectless, toneless, actionless, heartless, penniless, paceless, plotless, heartless, and, perhaps most horribly, humorless--you and your best bud cannot, for the glory that the world holds, come up with a single joke to combat the ceaseless waves of offense to your senses and sensibilities that this offers--not to mention devoid of a) evil and b)seeds of said evil...there are no effects: it features untold minutes of floral footage, which cause the actors to expire at completely surreal and random moments--with which occasional happening you can utterly sympathize...I went looking for a movie too bad to be believed, and I found it.
It's a "Wag the Dog" type of film that gets only sparse, occasional laughs.
The film was shot in the early sound era and, like other films of that period by Dryer, Murnau, and others, the soundtrack is used for music, sound effects and occasional unintelligible words.
The animation is far from the greatest anime films, with fine backgrounds but terribly drawn characters that seem to come out of a Saturday morning cartoon of the era (despite the occasional brief nudity).
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