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Charlie walks with his bulldog and finds a "good luck" horseshoe when he
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a training camp that is looking for a boxing partner "who can take a beating".Charlie won't take a beating, that he has decided.After watching the others lose, he puts the horseshoe inside his glove and wins.Now the trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion.Can Charlie win this time.There's also a nasty gambler who wants him to throw the fight.And there's also some love in the air with the trainer's daughter.What a great silent short from Charles Chaplin.The Champion is from 1915 and it also stars Edna Purviance (Trainer's Daughter), Ernest Van Pelt (Spike Dugan), Lloyd Bacon (Second Sparring Partner etc.) and Leo White (Crooked Gambler).You can also see Billy Armstrong, Ben Turpin and Broncho 'Billy' Anderson.This is a perfect comedy.There's no stop to laughter once you get started.When Charlie trains for his match and he keeps getting hits on his nose.When he shows off to Edna with the weights.How he kisses the dog on the head before going into ring.And the fight itself is priceless!
Much better than what
passes
for entertainment these days.
We hear Matthau rage about him, we see him hanging out in gay bars (to indicate his moral degeneracy), but not a single word of dialog
passes
his lips.
What
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for a plot centres on the infamous Australian tour of 1974 when Sinatra spoke his mind as usual and wound up a virtual prisoner in his hotel room until honour had been satisfied.
Residents of a lawless, three-horse town in the Old West are paralyzed with fear after psychopathic stranger Aldo Ray arrives and starts shooting people and setting fires; time passes, and lawyer turned mayor Henry Fonda helps rebuild what's left of the community, but when Ray returns, Fonda has to confront his own fear and morality.
In between the cheaply made creature roaming around doing his thing, we're 'treated' to such mindless padding as a woman waking up & showering with a sad lack of nudity, a mindless sub-plot ( or what
passes
for a semblance of a plot in all honesty) about ex-cons that goes nowhere fast, hippies being hippies (complete with an absolutely horrid song), and a rather strange nightmare that has jack all to do with anything.
While the philosophers are commenting, we see images of the various portions of the river (in Romania, ex-Yugoslavia, Austria, etc), and images of the countries that it
passes
through.
This garbage
passes
for art!
Luckily since we had
passes
for the convention, it was free, but even then i felt ripped off.
The seedy Berlin night life is not overly useful and a bit tawdry, but it
passes
as just a spicy interlude.
The canoe overturns when it gets caught in the wake of a speedboat that
passes
too close.
is however,stupid in all the bad ways possible there are some talented actors in this movie,but i guess sometimes actors sign without reading the script,(or what
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for one,in this case)Dana Carvey certainly has some comedic talent,but aside from the two "Wayne's World" films,he hasn't has a chance to showcase it.i
It it true that light
passes
through the retina of an invisible man, but in most "invisible man" movies I've seen one way of locating an invisible man is using night-vision goggles witch show the sub-red part of electromagnetic spectrum.
Dennis Potter, who
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before these works, "Karaoke and Cold Lazarus" could be produced, asked in his last interview with Melvyn Bragg, "Where will the writers who want to tell stories about life as it truly is, beneath the hype and glitter, get their opportunity as I did in the 60's, in our current world of Rupert Murdoch sensibilities?" Karaoke is a tale of personal responsibility that reaches deeper than "E-network" can imagine in its most profoundly affected moments of easy sanctimony and sentimentality.
The basketball scenes were real slow so the kid could make the under the leg
passes
and trick shots.
The Living Dead Girl is one of the worst horror films ever because it has nothing to offer the audience, not even schlock or eerie premises, what
passes
as "gore" is supposed to douse us with some appreciation of this awful film, and yes, it is terrible.
Some of the sequences had a dream like air to them.To a layman the title of the film "Days of Santiago" suggests how he
passes
his days.But to a serious film goer it denotes the entire past,present and future life of Santiago.
If this is what
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for adult comedies in Hollywood, no wonder Indie films are getting awards.
Not sure what normally
passes
for entertainment with some of these other reviewers, but my guess from their praises of this movie is that it must feature either Teletubbies, Smurfs and any creature repeated being bludgeoned with an over-sized mallet.
Mae stars as a poor girl supporting her parents and a no account uncle who
passes
herself off as the notorious showgirl mistress of a Duke and becomes a sensation in a New York nightclub.
He
passes
a sign saying that sparring partners are wanted, people who know how to take a punch, and heads in.
And that speaks volumes about what
passes
for entertainment these days.
Initially, she laces a bodice on Snow White and our heroine
passes
out and the Queen leaves.
All of her moments with Larry, that include: Getting tipsy, mimicking him, averting his disgusting passes, singing to him and later seducing him are all pure comedic genius.
Their yard is a washing machine graveyard and their meals depend on which animal
passes
away first, and for Thanksgiving dinner, Woody and his wife Pauline are anxiously awaiting their TB ridden turkey to pass.
The bloodbath finale is so painful to watch that you end up hoping a stray dum-dum
passes
through your TV screen straight into your brain!
Do they intend for their homegrown movies to be so cheap, so silly, so patently obvious in what
passes
for plot?
After the girl is finished jumping rope, an older woman
passes
by and proceeds to drown her husband in a tub after he has had an amorous interlude with a younger woman.
My cousins and I almost didn't get to see it because the nim-witted box office staff decided ticket stubs would be needed to get into the theater even though we had Shoot 'Em Up
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directly from New Line Cinema reps.
He
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his days avoiding the publisher's phone calls and spending his advance money seducing pretty young women writers who come to him seeking advice or an entrée into the writing business.
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