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( If this is an attempt to show that she doesn't need a man to protect her than wuss man is superfluouse to the film and ought not to be in it at all).
December holiday specials, like the original Frosty, ought to be richly-produced with quality music and a wholesome, yet lighthearted storyline.
It's a nice little flick but for one thing it's also highly poor and, for another, those 3 words ought to have been saved for the next re-release of the original!
If there's one thing that annoys me most in seeing a bad film, it's seeing it done by experienced film-makers who ought to know better.
Not because it's abysmal or because given the collective credentials of the creative team behind it really ought to deserve them but because in every category it was nominated Prizzi's Honor disappoints.
If by some miracle, it does get wide release, they ought to totally overhaul it and let Hollywood take over.
Anyone who could find redeeming value in this piece of crap ought to have their head examined.
If that guy who thinks artists ought to be interested in this slop is really serious, no wonder most people think artists are insane.
The character of Tarzan has been subjected to so many clichés, and so many bad interpretations, that those who are hoping for a different kind of version (people like me, I mean, who liked the Tarzan books as a kid and have always wished for a movie version that followed the books just a little) ought to know how the recent renditions stack up.
Scripture says that a man ought to love his wife as his own flesh, and that no man ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it.
overall this show didn't get the best viewing times and they ought to have held on a bit longer.
And I ought to single out Walter Brennen, as well.
but it wasn't long before I realized that this wasn't being done in a dehumanizing way, as the images unfold I felt that the problem was entirely the audience's: we are conditioned by Hollywood and also movies from just about everywhere actually to feel that to watch people above a certain age behave in a sexual way is something unseemly, something that ought not to be shown.
It simply does what a good film ought to do, which is to willingly suspend disbelief for two hours and enjoy the adventure.
Film lovers ought to see it at minimum twice as its artistic nuance is worthy to be over comprehended.
The first-rate make-up f/x are every bit as gory, gross and upsetting as they ought to be.
In this context, the MOR-infused songs on the soundtrack ought not to have worked but somehow they do.
More TV movies ought to be made like this one.
Gary Merrill is great as Scalese, a crime boss that Andrews is obsessed with bringing down, and the tension between them gives the film its energy and drive, especially a scene in a bath house with Merrill, Andrews, and Neville Brand, and the night time rendezvous outside of Bellevue Hospital, that sets up what ought to have been the film's conclusion.
Bernard Hepton makes Mr. Woodhouse a figure of almost Carrollian absurdity; Samantha Morton as Emma's protégé is exactly as soft and exactly as firm as she ought to be.
If anything, the luxurious graphics and framing have made certain scenes (the car chase, for instance) more pedestrian than they ought to be - not that they don't look lovely and have some very original design and occasionally novel camera angles - but they are missing the kinetic movement and close-up shots that are part of the language for any normal action/thriller.
Sure this was mostly a movie for kids, but if you are going to spend this much money making a movie you really ought to at least give the story enough body to go beyond that of Dr Seuss.
There is no doubt that this film ought to be made available on DVD - it is well crafted and most performances are well realised.
Well maybe there ought to be.
This one ought to be a cult fave!
The movie shows us that we ought to take advantage of the opportunities we have, not the ones we do not or cannot have.
What anyone who rates and reviews movies ought to bear in mind is what the respective movie aims at.
I've always thought that juries ought to be showed 12 Angry Men before they go through with their duties.
They ought to!I've told all my musician friends.
Even with these faults, I think this version is a seminal one, and if it's not as powerful a drama as it ought to be, it's every bit the literary work that it equally ought to be.
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