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The actors occupy screen space and screen time, but do not compute as compelling human beings.
The implication was that Comedy Central was a pathetic TV channel for miserable people with nothing else to occupy their time.
Add to this an excellent performance by Raul Julia, plus good work by Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman and Molly Ringwald, and the film becomes a nice little treat to occupy the space behind your eyes.
Brian (Chris Pine of "Star Trek") is driving and his girlfriend Bobby (Piper Perabo of "Coyote Ugly")has shotgun, while Brian's younger brother, Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci of "Fanboys") and his friend--not exactly girlfriend--Kate (Emily VanCamp of "The Ring 2") occupy the backseat.
To begin with, the Germans did not occupy the Provence section of France until late in the war, it was controlled by the Vichy French puppet government.
Every once in a while I will rent an action/adventure film just as a way to relax and occupy my mind with nothing important.
As a failed sequel, Basic Instinct 2 will come to occupy similar cinematic ground as Exorcist 2 The Heretic, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure and XXX2.
I won't, but only because I no longer want to occupy my "mind" with this trash.
How and when did women come to occupy positions of authority in the Cameroon?
It isn't a masterpiece, but it definitely can occupy the same kind of ground that something like The Princess Bride has (though I don't like it quite as much as the earlier film).
However, the movie itself was so weak I was looking for other things to occupy my time while it was on.
I know it's not perfect and can't really be compared to the great movies that occupy the IMDB top250 list, but it's great fun.
Before you can even adjust to the tone of this suburban sex-opera, the most colorful character in the cast is given the shaft, with nothing left to occupy the interest except surgery footage and low-watt scandals.
He doesn't have enough talent to occupy minor character roles, and if he weren't so pretty, we would never have heard his name.
That's not to say that this is the only thing men respond to, it's just that there's precious little else to entertain or occupy you during these long hours of this film.
This film does nothing, is nothing, and means nothing; it has all the Disney stereotypes: the unsure new kid in town, his surfer-talking, typical-teen older brother punk rock guitarist (played hilariously by Trevor Wright), the hot snowboard instructor girl (who inevitably falls for Wright's character, despite lack of screen time together), the single father, bumbling criminals under a kingpin boss who should just fire the two, and the apparently psychotic monkey lady who follows her chimps across two countries on airlines that apparently allow monkeys to use passports and occupy seats.
John C. Reilly couldn't find something else of higher quality with which to occupy his time?
Sitting at home on a Sunday night, expecting an average sort of telemovie to come on and occupy my otherwise boring night.
The shots of the people in the pubs and on the streets confirmed that no matter how large the world is and how many occupy its vast space -- we are ultimately alone.
From the wardrobes to the apartments these characters occupy, the film is pretty stylin'.
It's a crying shame that this show doesn't occupy its rightful place in the pantheon of late night talk shows.
And Julia and Lillian occupy little screen time together hence the basis for their relationship must be assumed.
From him follows, that it is necessary to occupy with Russian urgently Plevna for the case there goes Osmanli turk - plough.
A recent study by the Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) of 3,000 companies in diverse sectors and countries, however, yields a more depressing conclusion: women occupy only about 13% of top management positions (CEOs and people who report directly to them), on average, with even the highest rate, in North America, amounting to only 15%.
As the historian Robert Kagan argued in 2002, Americans and Europeans do not only have different worldviews; they occupy entirely different worlds.
Non-Russians comprised half of the Soviet population; they now make up 20% of the Russian Federation and occupy 30% of its territory.
For example, they occupy nearly half of the top 20 positions in the United Nations Human Development Index.
It is time for America, and Europe, to learn the lessons of Iraq – or, rather, relearn the lessons of virtually every country that tries to occupy another and determine its future.
Developed after the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, the doctrine calls for Indian troops to move rapidly to occupy 300-500 square kilometers of Pakistani territory in the event of another terrorist attack.
This partly explains the current tensions between China and Japan over their conflicting territorial claims to islands in the East China Sea, which occupy an area of only seven square kilometers, but are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves.
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