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What I anticipated to be just another made-for-TV soap opera was a movie with a story about people whose lives seem ordinary but are actually special.
Irene Dunne really busts out of her more ordinary characters and shines in this film with humor, intelligence and, in the wonderful final scene, even sexiness!
Ordinary human brain just can't stand too much of weird Michel Gondry's world, but if you try, you'll see, that world is a great place to be.
It has certain touches that make it quite a bit more than ordinary, like Thomas's dad, who has a thing for garbanzo beans (they're everywhere) and a bleak, industrial-type setting in a big city.
I think the humor was supposed to stem from the odd "situation" of two ordinary guys cracking safes, but it didn't ring true.
"A Better Way To Die" is something that's anything but ordinary.
Its story is about cops and criminals and a few ordinary folks trying to get by.
Most of the others are mainly static and ordinary.
It's better to make movies about ordinary people, with whom the audience can relate.
He was no ordinary fellow , but then again Nicola Tesla was a genius as well and who knows how his childhood was like ?
The movie has a soft look and there's quite a bit of focus on relationships and friendships, unlike ordinary horror flicks that are more like loosely connected gore segments.
One had Roddy McDowell playing his usual malevolent character to the max, in an ordinary tale made better by acting and production.
You see, Nanny McPhee is no ordinary nanny; she possesses magical powers that can practically do the impossible.
Also of special note is Barton Heyman, who plays the world-wise Segundo, who quickly realizes that they are not after any ordinary man, and provides a great surprise ending.
Though the end (which results from a twist in the storyline) seemed quite odd and ordinary to me after I finished watching, it is different now.
Showing clearly Stalins ruthlessness but also giving so much well deserved credit to the ordinary Soviet peoples struggles and efforts to survive both their own and a foreign dictator.It gives a much more balanced look on how the war was fought and can give much understanding also to the development of the cold war and also understanding on what can be seen as a Russian obsession with the war.After have studied this documentary and read books in the subject one have no doubt anymore that the war affected the Russian people hardest of all nations.A brilliant historical documentary at its best!
This is one of the great war films, not because it shows some epic event such as "Pearl Harbor" or aspires to maudlin sentimentality and false realism like "Saving Private Ryan," but because it shows the ordinary plight of common people who happen here to be soldiers.
Not people get powerd up, ordinary things do like a comb, a key, or a glas eye.
Maybe that's why he is so good in this because he looks like such an ordinary guy.
I rented this DVD last night and actually really enjoyed it.It was a good realistic movie with a believable plot and real ordinary looking people.Even though it's a horror,I haven't laughed so hard in my life.
Short, blandly handsome Jason Carns, a seemingly ordinary and unassuming nice guy next door type gone horribly bug crazy wrong, gives a frightfully plausible performance as lowly security guard Eddie, who gets his twisted deviant carnal kicks by pretending to be a Los Angeles police officer who joyfully browbeats, manhandles and elicits unpaid sexual favors from street hookers while wearing a fuzzball uniform and driving around in a phony cop car.
The life they try to lead however is anything but normal and they are doing things ordinary people would not do.
Michael Wilding delights as "Ordinary Smith", and while he started off a tad wooden, Richard Todd was fine too.
The film explores the destructive force that a monstrous ideology can have on ordinary people, artists, athletes, and even on love itself.
I also liked the fact that ordinary items, or 'objects' are used as props to advance the story in a very cheap yet efficient way.
This is not an ordinary love story, although love is always lurking in the background.
I think it might even pass House and The Unit and lots of ordinary humans (the ones that don't have a DEVIL for a boss) will check out the Show If they didn't already.
He must have double the muscles in his forehead and scalp than the ordinary mortal as evidenced by some of the mugging he does in this flick.
Each story is presented with ordinary people displaying qualities of evil and depravity.
This is not an ordinary horror film with a ghost or a slasher/killer with a knife but a combination of people who are capable of psychotic behavior.
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