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Obviously trying to mimic the classics in film style / plot formation (Critical Jim actually breaks it down for you every 15 minute, in case you forget), the main difference between the painfully predictable plot of ...Cletis Tout and, say, Breakfast At Tiffany's is that at least in Breakfast..., the acting is decent, costumes are memorable, and you actually care what happens to the characters.
Poor acting and painfully slow dialog made this "B movie" appear to last six hours.
This film looks painfully cheap throughout, no explosions barely any action of which is wafer thin, with little special effects such as squibs and bullet holes neccassary to add depth to any action scene and fight choreography is uninspired as is the fact that there seems to be not one good stunt.
The possibilities the plot had are wasted, the script is poor and the direction flat, there is nothing to hold your attention, certainly not the painfully wooden Anderson who is either an Ex-American football player or a stunt man turned actor.
We see here a supposed photographer who painfully tries to evoke John Lennon and who with his French/Russian girlfriend attempts to explore the Mohave Desert in Southern California, supposedly scouting locations for a future shoot but strangely without any cameras along (some photographer he is).
Overall, it was fun, light on the "science" part of the science fiction, and even the dialogue wasn't painfully corny.
Painfully bad to watch.
And a script that foolishly adds multiple, painfully obvious plot lines to the original story so that the taut and gripping plot of the novel is almost completely obscured.
This is one of the most awfully and painfully boring movie I have ever watched.
It started off quite promisingly, well actually the wheels didn't start coming off until burglary/attack on Paltrow when it was blatantly and painfully obvious that the mother had arranged this.
Now I'm convinced that Mike must have some obsession with the penis, because there are so many penis jokes in this movie it just becomes painfully unfunny.
Harrison Ford painfully goes out of his way to be clumsy and a non-action hero throughout all but the last 5 minutes of the movie.
Perhaps I was not on the same wavelength as the director, but I thought it was painfully torpid with little substance.
There are few moments where Dunaway is really really ridiculous: when she was trying painfully to seduce the muscle-man Etahn; when she was prepare a love-potion with a spider and a hazel's shell but especially in the final when she rolls one's eyes and make terrible smirks and laughs.
The lack of effort to capture the time period - the early 1900's is painfully obvious.
It's plot-less (the idiotic IMDb spell checker insists on the hyphen in "plot-less"), endless, and painfully dated -- though it's hard to believe it was remotely funny even in 1972.
The funniest parts in this movie are 1) Joan Crawfords painfully obvious underarm SWEAT STAINS!!!!!I mean obvious...this movie was apparently done before Joan's unpublicized sweat gland operations(just kidding)...... 2)The scene where Robert Montgomery has a boxing match in the living room during a party.
It's painfully dark, and Fred MacMurray is brilliant.
The narrative was painfully choppy, the English translation for the subtitles pitifully stilted (and wrong...at one point,according to the subtitles, the Monsignor tells Joachim the Reverend Mother doesn't trust him.
The acting was painfully wooden on the part of the supporting characters, especially the Madam, Frances Faye (oy geveult!).
Bad acting and a painfully slow and sloppy plot ruined it.
What's less so is Herman Raucher's painfully expository dialogue ("Bobbie Lee, you know the Rural Electrification Project doesn't provide power to remote areas!"), the cast's excruciating Southern accents (all bad, but not even uniformly so)and the teenagers' Gone With the Wind diction.
That is more than I can say for the 'special effects' which comprised mainly of slow-motion(how 80s) and painfully clumsy green screen work.
The plot is painfully obvious, the effects are cheap and silly, the dialogue is painful, the direction mechanical, and the list goes on and on.
Thankfully, "Shrooms" isn't a dopey comedy, written to appeal to the minds of adolescent boys... Unfortunately, it is a painfully boring movie, despite that, seemingly, winning endorsement.
The beginning really conveys a sense of how painfully disconnected and lacking direction Dave Tibble (Trevor Morgan) is.
The script is absolutely horrible and only an idiot wouldn't see that it's chock full of painfully obvious plot holes which they try and cover up with lots of quotes from the bible.
I mean they should have just called this X-Files 2 or something, it's that painfully obvious they are ripping it off, and I'm not even an X-Files fan.
That was what I was asking myself after painfully having to go through the entirety of the utter crap that was Manmadhan.
I had taped this off AMC during the 2002 Halloween marathon and finally had a chance to watch it and while it had the look and feel of a Hammer movie it was amazingly, painfully dull.
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