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The acting is superb and the characters are engaging and oddly endearing.
But this is an oddly non-Hispanic film in the same way West Side Story was many years ago.
He is oddly affecting throughout, and in the end, is the character whose fate really hits home and who made me think most vividly of the fate of more than 200,000 Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It is by no means a perfect movie, but it is oddly hypnotic - one of those rare, special films that creates its own world.
Oddly the only person of honesty is someone not even elected to the position and tells the truth in the end.
This movie made him famous, and I totally recommend it :D It's highly entertaining, the music's wicked and you will laugh right along with Shahrukh here...You'll genuinely feel scared for the hero and heroine and oddly enough you will identify with at least one of the characters.
In spite of the title, (oddly in English) it really isn't much of a comedy, in spite of a few droll moments.
Behind it tells the story of a mother and her daughter who is oddly attached to her doll Pinnochio who seems to talk to her.
Apocalypse, however, takes the boundaries of what we can endure to a global level - Coppola's sweeping footage of the humid, murky jungles of Cambodia and an opening sequence of helicopters amid exploding forests and an orange sky - set to an oddly fitting Doors soundtrack - as well as chilling scenes on the river and of an air raid on a village with Wagner blasting from speakers (a scene which has gone down as one of the most chilling, darkly humorous, and strikingly pointless war scenes ever) - this all contributes to the sense of Apocalypse - the end of the world - and not at some distant point in the future, but Apocalypse Now and forever.
Oddly enough, the more I watch the film the more inspired I become.
While these early Speedy shorts are better than those later atrocities in which he was frequently (rather oddly) paired up with Daffy Duck, they still leave much to be desired, relying on predictable gags usually based around a similar chase formula.
Yes, even better than the werewolf group-sex scene, Reb Brown's acting, and the oddly simian-looking werewolf suits.
What I found so curious about this film--I saw the full 4 hour roadshow version, is how oddly dispassionate it is.
If Sally saying hark 12 times (all oddly sounding exactly the same) doesn't kill you, nothing will.
The hero's hair probably should've gotten its own credit, it was so oddly attention- grabbing...not to mention that it gave one of the better performances in the pic.
Tim Robbins is oddly benign here, cast as a garage mechanic in 1950s New Jersey who falls in love with a perky blonde who turns out to be Albert Einstein's niece!
Unfortunately, the man that is most in love with her is a few cards short of a full deck and he tries to kill the Medusan ambassador (who, oddly, lives in a small crate--this is a lousy way to travel).
The story jumps around oddly (I've since learned that the film is missing a section), and characters appear and disappear with irritating suddenness.
Now these dorks have been given a final project by their idiot teacher, five of them are given pieces of a mannequin and told to design it in any way they see fit, and since there are only five pieces the other students in the class receive and automatic A, oddly enough there are only six students in this entire class so the one goth chic gets a free A, good for her!
Oddly, Lynne Overman is given the best lines and this veteran master of the sneer does very well by them.
Oddly enough, while cheap and very poorly acted (especially by McCabe as Mitchell), the total outlandishness of the plot keeps attention throughout.
Oddly, it is also explained that Lassie had no "legal" owner, which is, apparently, also against an old Scottish law.
Dear me... Peter Sellers was one of the most oddly talented actors there has been.
It started with the oddly upbeat quality of the opening score (what - no brooding music?) and then the rather slow moving opening sequences.
But for the first half taps into an oddly humorous and dark mixture which is a surprising accomplishment.
Also nominated (oddly) was the disjointed, pointless and almost inacessible screenplay.
Foxx would seem ideal casting, but he seems oddly withdrawn and bored.
Dad hasn't seen his daughters in ten years, they (oddly enough) don't seem to mind and think he's wonderful, and meanwhile Precious seems to lead a life mainly run by her overbearing mother (Alice Brady), a woman who just wants to see to it her daughter marries a rich man.
The clunky, plodding (non)direction, trite by-the-numbers script, ugly, washed-out cinematography, ridiculous murder set pieces (a gross fat slob gets blasted right in the face by a miniature cannon!), overwrought string score, morbid gloom-doom atmosphere, largely lousy acting (Karloff notably excepted), cheesy mild gore, poor dubbing and rousing fiery conclusion all lend this enjoyably awful lemon a certain endearingly cruddy and hence oddly amusing ratty charm.
For a film that's ostensibly about sex and leather, it doesn't have any right to be as oddly sweet as it is.
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