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We are in the proses of picking films and I have watched many duds.
She goes to the cabin by the lake to get rid of her guilt, not before picking up a hitchhiker that she'll later screw (her parents would be proud) A mixture of bad and TERRIBLE acting, as well as some crappy split screen.
There were a few careless things overlooked that the police should have noticed but that's just me nit picking.
It's just a silly film about greedy land developers trying to knock down the house of some stubborn old people, who in turn start picking off the workers in an attempt to stop construction.
I found the comment about the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent, not being introduced, until post World War 2, nit picking.
I am so frustrated that CW isn't picking this up.
Fortunately a disrespected scientist appears at the last moment picking up the refugees.
Chingmy is the younger sexy sister who thinks she is picking a virgin.
If the movie was half as long, Mr. Minghella would be picking out a new tux for the Oscars.
We are introduced to one of the workers, Marcos (Vincente Parra) who has a crap job picking all the guts up & generally has a crap life living in an old house in one of the oldest districts in town.
I'm sure that at the time, this movie was quite educational for many people like the two main characters, who thought that you adopt a baby by going to the nearest orphanage, picking out the one you like, and walking out with it.
Most aren't familiar with the Manuel Romasanta story (no reason why they should) and when they see the DVD case (I'm not familiar with theatrical hype), they are quite justified in picking it up expecting a werewolf film.
Having been to Bahrain, I enjoyed picking apart all the inaccuracies in the film.
Costas "sneaking up" on character after character while making all kinds of noise, the enemy compound so sophisticated it controls top secret space satellites, but such shoddy security that the marines' walkie-talkies go undetected as far a underground subs and Costas runs around without any surveillance picking him up.
I made the mistake of picking up this movie at my local rental store based on its cover alone.
I'm generally good at picking up on contrived plots and have spoiled more than one movie for my friends by guessing out loud what would happen next.
When upon Earth our noble hero sets about picking fights with people smaller than him, attacking animals and taking up funding from gangsters.
If you want people picking apart things by actually being funny watch "I Love the 80s", "I Love the 70s", "I Love the 80s Strikes Back", the upcoming "I Love the 90s", or better yet, "Mystery Science Theater 3000".
With so many horrible b rated movies out there crowding the video shelf, you won't be to disappointed by picking this one up.
I have a very hard time picking a favorite, favorite film, but if forced to create a Top 10 List, this film would be there.
In the story, Etting is highly ambitious, and Marty helps her career after picking her up in a dance hall and realizing he's not going to get anywhere.
After a poorly filmed rape scene intro, some nut case in camouflage and a black motorcycle helmet straps a nail gun air canister to his/her back and starts picking off goobers in some small hick town.
This and the two aforementioned films have a dark freak-show like allure to them that as ashamed as I am to admit it now was what initially peaked my curiosity and eventually drew me to actually picking them up from my local mom-'n-pop movie store.
For example, I remember being 14 years old, picking up the newspaper one day and seeing a small headline that read, "Beatles back together!"
It was as credible and plausible as an Eagle picking up a beagle dog taking him to great height, dropping him, the dog catching a pigeon in flight, the Dog landing in pile of Hay, bouncing harmlessly, making a great meal of the pigeon only to be found by the rancher who was just thinking about buying a Beagle for his daughter who had been begging for one.
I could not stop picking it apart as to its complete lack of reality.
i paid $19.96 for this piece of garbage, and after having seen it i wouldn't go through the trouble of picking it up if i saw it on the side of the road.
What could've been a nice little exploration into the psyche of a human who is picking up the traits of a cat, is instead just boring.
...almost invariably do a miserable job picking the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar?
In fact most people have commented that the CW has made a HUGE mistake by not picking it up (the average itune rating is 4 & half stars out of a possible 5).
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