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When you add to that the thousands of other sites my team and I have discovered, what we thought we knew pales in comparison to what we have left to discover.
Yet each pales to insignificance with the completion of that magnificent accomplishment of twenty-first-century technology, the Digital Superhighway.
And to realize that this is just the tip of an iceberg that when you compare everything here to South Africa, it just pales, because in South Africa, each year 300,000 mothers with HIV give birth to children.
The filmmakers of course neglect to tell us the back-story--why were the Soviets in Afghanistan?--but that omission pales in comparison to their failure to reveal that support for Islamicist extremists in Afghanistan in the name of rabid anti-communism ultimately strengthened the hand of anti-western forces and was a big contributing factor to the mess that we find ourselves in today (9/11, terrorist networks, a prolonged ground war in Afghanistan, etc.).
But all pales beside the hideous, loathsome, and yet horribly fascinating (like a bad car accident) spectacle of Ms. Lopez' smug, self-satisfied, snotty performance .
The acting is bad, but is nothing like as bad as the script, which itself pales before the production values.
It pales terribly in comparison to the Coppola classic.
In place is a c-grade action no-brainer, wich is not all bad, but pales in comparison to the original.
And while the Hulkster on the screen pales a bit in comparison to the Hulkster in the ring, seekers of the ultimate cheese will certainly not be disappointed by this backhand gem of a flick.
It is a labored knock off that might have worked for me if I had seen it before "Lola" - but it pales in comparison.
Philip S. Hoffman's amateurish scene chewing in a disgusting and unfunny role pales to Renee Zelweger's appearance as a corn-fed dynamo who bursts miraculously upon the scene of Kidman's lonely farm to save the day.
And while I am no fan of Star Trek, I recognize that this film pales in comparison to the series Trekkies ooze over.
It's been said that Batman Begins in the first Batman movie to "get it right" but I think that's a horrible overstatement, for I think the new Batman film, although greater that Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, pales compared to Tim Burton's classics, with this one being the best of the five.
Sure, the movie is mediocre at best and pales in comparison to its earlier counterpart w/ Katherine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby.
She is so evil that everyone else pales next to her blind ambition and ruthlessness to rule the valley and everyone in it.
The recently produced Moulin Rouge pales by comparison.
In this respect the film pales in comparison to Rising Damp's brilliant series.
I would say the movie is mildly entertaining in its self, with a few decent bits but it pales when held up to it's big brother.
With its odd dreamlike quality, the film is at best interesting, yet pales beside Louis Malle's surreal and brilliant 'Black Moon' from the same era.
Granted this is a children's movie, but the plot is so painfully weak (heaven forbid I mention the animation) that it pales in comparison to the original series.
Uriah Heep) and well directed moments (e.g. the beating), but on the whole it really pales in comparison with the 1999 BBC version, as well as earlier versions.
The script needed some serious rewriting as it seems to be completely devoid of any feeling and pales in comparison to the book.
He is so into character that all else around him pales in comparison.
He clearly shows his genius early on in his distinguished career with "Ossessione", a film based on James Cain's "The Postman Always Ring Twice", which was later made by Hollywood, but that version pales in comparison with what Visconti achieved in the movie.
Little Britain pales into insignificance as a poor imitation of their ideas.
I found a used copy of Jesse Colin Young's Greatest Hits and it's on there, but his version pales in comparison to Lisa Torban's.
Even the more well known Altamont festival took years to be as known as it now is, which still pales in comparison to Woodstock.
Personally I don't think this is quite as bad as some people claim, it's no worse than any other mindless sequel (for example: Saw V) but it's no prize winner either, and it pales in comparison to the original Hills Have Eyes.
Their work pales in comparison to almost any Allen film.
The 1999 Martin/Hawn remake pales by comparison.
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