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Richard Burton's wildly misconceived, overly stylized variation on the Faust legend completely misses the essence of the myth; it's somewhere buried under the loads of bizarre images and incomprehensible soliloquies.
It's like comparing apples & oranges & bananas & strawberries, etc. Comparing a film to the book or a previous film seems overly critical to me.
The loss of the hero's friend isn't overly convincing or deserving of much mourning, and the exchange student scene at the sorority house is slightly unnerving, but on the whole, this is a fun flick worth watching once.
The older brother is overly serious and ambitious: "Goat on Fire".
Director Tobe Hooper's masterful talent for crafting a raw, rattling and uncompromisingly fierce intensity that slowly, yet surely builds to a nerve-wracking fever pitch in the harrowing last third (the infamous diner table sequence is particularly horrifying) has never been matched or surpassed in either any of the subsequent sequels or in the needless and atrocious overly graphic remake.
The conversation as a whole is very well executed; the modest performances by the two actors never seeps into the overly dramatic, they maintain a natural flow and make it entertaining, challenging and realistic throughout.
i have never been to Iowa, but i can assume that this is an overly dramatic way to portray life.
I've voted 8 out of 10 for Fellini Satyricon, but I can imagine that a few people may find that to be an overly indulgent grade.
The'bad guy' or I suppose antagonist is an overly stereotyped Native American, but come on people-don't be so defensive.
Otherwise, this film was slowly paced, overly perverse, wordy, misdirected, miscast and wildly unclever.
The murder plot and cover-up is elaborate, but not overly and needlessly complicated.
The two great scenes -- Judy Garland's night club performance of the Man that Got Away and her song and dance routine in her living room using a lamp shade as a Chinese hat -- don't make up for all of the other overly long and unnecessary (as far as the plot or the character development is concerned) musical numbers.
From my personal experience, most independent films these days tend to be overly preachy and showoff-ish.
To be fair it's not overly obvious that money was tight.
I suppose it could get on your nerves but it was never meant to be taken overly seriously.
Along for the trip is an overly helpful former student, and a bunch of over-fed rednecks with guns, to take pictures only though, of course.
I must have seen worse movies than this - films that were offensive or overly violent.
This is the first film to show us not only a convincing portrayal of one of these family feuds, but showing us how they start; often by human beings who are hot-headed and overly defensive, potential bad-seeds which can take the whole family down with them, and in a poor society that allows such aggression to ferment and be propelled forward onto another family.
There is the overly dramatic caffeine beer drug laced student tirades that leave you wondering, are there any Teachers at this college?
The whole film takes itself far too seriously and this is especially evident anytime the overly dramatic soundtrack ques in (good example being the very serious sounding synth music being played during a food fight in a school cafeteria as students smile on).
A young interracial couple have to defend themselves against the sneering and overly talkative psychopath Chambers (who enjoys ripping hearts out of people's torsos whilst they're watching), and they receive little to none help from an indecisive nurse and from the Sheriff, played by Robert Englund.
"Heartstopper" is never really scary or disturbing because the plot is overly grotesque and incoherent.
Worse, this scenario is far too neat and tidy--and when the actors aren't being overly 'cute', they're screaming senselessly at each other.
Without giving too much away, this film is very balanced; not overly optimistic, yet not too pessimistic either.
If only "Donkey Punch" had SOMEWHERE to go, plot-wise, after the first 30 minutes or at least tacked on a bit more T&A and a lost LESS of that hair lipped-meth-head and overly forced "alpha-woman" BS, it might have been able to hold my interest a little better.
The end theme, "Here's to You, Harry Truman," is a pretty good ballad, and catchy, even if old Harry himself would probably have scoffed at the overly maudlin lyrics.
However, and this made no sense to me, the manner of death was just plain silly and overly melodramatic--like the judge was playing with the librarian much like a cat might play with a doomed mouse.
All in all it tells of a true Irish tradition, but overly and badly dramatist.
This movie, like so many scifi's today, is overly focused on special effects with the plot and dialog treated as an afterthought.
Unfortunately, there is less of the former and more of the latter - the movie is overly talky.
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