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Everything looked pretty real, the Horizon was always ash-covered and the cities really looked bombed out, and the meteors towards the end looked REALLY good, blasting through buildings like they were mere paper.
A few funny moments stretched paper thin.
When Bert offers her his paper clip collection, she doesn't laugh, but instead she recognizes that it's one of his favorite possessions and she is honored that he would offer it to her.
Since food is scarce in the film's world, Clapet has devised a scheme to provide himself and his tenants with a regular supply of meat--he runs ads in the local paper for handymen, and after they fix a few things on the building, they become the main course.
I saw the movie in class and I have to right a paper on how I perceived it.
It had a very simple story that wasn't even told very well and I only understood it by reading it on paper not on screenplay.
The plot is paper thin, the acting is cardboard (Corey Feldman included) and character development consists of good guys in white, bad guys in red.
There is no way this could have looked good on paper.
For the third time this year comes a movie that on paper sounds like good ol' fashioned campy Nazi fun, and then turns out to be something quite a bit different than its premise, turning it in directions it really doesn't need to go.
This movie looks good on paper, but suffers from weakness factoring in from all aspects that go into the making of it.
Sterne agrees to look into Weiss's claims but eventually admits there is nothing he can do, especially after Weiss gives him some newspaper cuttings from 1944 which appear to show Olivier but since the paper is over 30 years old and Olivier would now be in his 60' or 70's and the guy on T.V. is still in his 20's & therefore Weiss's story is psychically impossible.
If you see the clothes, cars and the TERRIBLE (in both senses) snow that seems more like spheres made of paper; you think that if I were the director I'd prefer to do no movie, instead of make this thing.
The characters are so paper thin that they could float away.
This is a script which must have appealed on paper to the actors - there's lots and lots of snappy dialogue - BUT the pacing, structure and action sequences are woeful and in the end it leaves Paul McGann, Susan Lynch and Tom Georgeson, to name but three, in limbo, mouthing silly platitudes at the end and embarrassing themselves and us in the process.
I love the whole bizarre set up, the weird coincidences (for example the piece of newspaper stuck on his arm which talks about a man being ripped apart by vigilantes in the very area he can't get away from - and then the weird woman says 'I'll burn it off' - yet more reference to burns) Love the 'Berlin club', and the idea of the plaster of Paris cream cheese bagel paper weights - so evocative of that pretentious era!
She corners him in a room for a school paper interview and asks important artistic questions such as, "Are you married?" and "Have you ever been in love?"
This movie, on paper, looks good.
Remember back in school when you would get a tedious math assignment like long division or multiplication and instead of actually doing the work you turned to the trusty calculator and just wrote the answer in prompting the teacher to scribble across the top of the paper in red ink "show your work please".
He does manage to get a dance with the girl of his dreams though, by wrapping his face in toilet paper.
The unexpected fact will be that the prisoner's daughter, after her long prayers to God, will decide to replace the real flower Narcissus near her father's window by a similar paper flower that will, naturally, never faint.
At one time he had his own by- line in a Michigan paper in which he discussed hypnosis, Father Stan Murphy (Asumption College Windsor, Ontario Canada) had him on The Christian Culture Series, and demonstrations for the Canadian Police.
It's safe to say that Kam Heskin can't act her way out of a paper bag.
To compare any film to its paper bound inspiration is unhelpful and unfair.
I bet on paper this movie is way better.
On paper this should have worked, you have a good cast, a good director, a decent script (in theory) and enough money to do something special.
But it has about as much depth as a piece of typing paper.
The film being an adaptation of a fantasy trilogy that I haven't read, and the movie itself promising an interesting story that just advertises for the old paper medium, I just had to rent it on DVD to give it a shot.
Film is now, for the most part, a commodity like toothpaste and paper towels - and it shows!
It begins with Charlotte sitting in a railway carriage rolling up a cigarette with a type of paper that wasn't on the market until after the war (i.e. with tapered corners).
Its almost like the script came from toilet paper some guy used in a stall.
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