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It's 1AM on a weekday, and more than a year after watching this movie for the third time, I'm still haunted by it, like an overwhelming memory that won't fade.
In fact, when I left the theater, I found myself feeling an overwhelming sense of disgust with both the film maker and the audience!
I can't claim to understand the whole movie in a unified sense--it's as jarring, overwhelming, prolific, fast-paced, and difficult to digest as pop culture.
They always persist in running off alone on pointless errands, instead of sticking together and overwhelming an often vulnerable looking killer (such as the "Redeemer" here) through the sheer force of a mass attack while they still have the advantage of superior numbers.
I personally was not over impressed with Wes Craven's Scream trilogy, but I must admit that I have paid close attention to the overwhelming effect that the three movies have had on horror cinema.
Both characters are played brilliantly by the actors and send an overwhelming feeling towards the film.
The handful of scenes which comprise the framing device, some mumbling business about a psychotic guy and the people trying to cure him, are certainly inept and boring enough, but this is actually a relief, because the hallucinations are pretty overwhelming, and you'll be happy for opportunities to catch your breath.
So, they beam down and find most of the people either dead or insane--with an overwhelming desire to kill.
There is no doubt about it, but when Hollywood decides to make a cinematic masterpiece, and at the same time draws upon indigenous American social and cultural mores, as exemplified by a writer of the talent of Carson McCullers, the result can be both breath-taking and almost overwhelming.
Now, maybe Satyricon isn't great art, but to me at that time it was overwhelming.
It seems strange to have the two strongest characters Carter Wong and Lo Lieh as the villains (and nasty villains they are too) but the young students of the school (including Jack Long (Lung) and Mark Long) faced with overwhelming odds are inventive and courageous and unlike many films it is not at all obvious that they will win in the end.
But while I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's "so bad, it's good", I will have to confess that there were times when I laughed because of the overwhelming stupidity.
Glimpses of Sian Phillips, Alexis Smith and Geraldine Chaplin add to the pleasures, making this overwhelming banquet of a film one of the most rewarding film experiences I've ever had.
He sees this as an opportunity to get the ultimate revenge against Nathan who he hates with an overwhelming passion, for taking Marni away, by targeting a 17 year old Shilo, who has been isolated from the outside world, yearning to experience what life is like away from the prison of her apartment.
true it was "powerful",it went into great depth of the overwhelming fear of the oppressed, repressed , exploited people of a certain chaste of Afghanistan, generated through utilizing torture, every form of abuse, rape, humiliation, and intimidation.
I own the R3 DVD of this movie, and my overwhelming feeling is that the storyline is rather weak, however it's not all bad.
The performances are generally good and there are a few bits of imaginative camerawork, but the familiarity of the material proves to be overwhelming.
This disjointed tale of the strange (sex) lives of strange people is amusing, nay hysterically funny for about ten or fifteen minutes as the oddness and non sequitur nature of the story telling and cheapness of the film bombard the viewer in an almost overwhelming barrage of weirdness.
Pizza delivery is a bittersweet job and takes an overwhelming amount of patients and humor.
The emotional impact of the movie was all at once stunning, horrible, beautiful, and overwhelming.
This movie had the ability to allow me to feel what I was unable to as a child and only years later would I be able to understand the reason for the overwhelming sadness I felt then.
It may have been that she was directed to spotlight the costumes -- that can be the only answer to why she flipped around swaying her skirts and otherwise acting like a peahen in the overwhelming number of costumes she wore.
The voice of Joey L. Adams fits perfect in this overwhelming impression.
Some movies are overwhelming with a power to evoke passion in a viewer, which wraps them up in the director's illusion throughout the runtime.
However, the director's choice of using split screens throughout is an overwhelming mistake that gets in the way of everything else he is trying to do.
Also, the structure of the novel, which although overwhelming, is supremely successful, and is again lost in the film.
It was an incredible experience, in the cinema the mixture of Wagner and powerful (if somewhat violent) images were almost overwhelming.
Super Metroid uses some of the same maps from the original Metroid which are now deserted and has an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia.
No overwhelming drama, no thought to guess the plot or who-done-it, just good old fashioned entertainment.
The directing is quit poor as well as it tends to jump from one part to another leaving the audience unsure about what is happening while the funny exaggerations of actor's powers are quit overwhelming.
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