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Not too mention the non-humour of most of the "funny" parts (like when they are picking on the foreign fellow).
Two poms with bad comedic timing bumble around with a plank, encountering stereotype after stereotype including an equally bumbling Constable Plod who is more interested in picking up than anything.
His first mistake was picking Ice Cube.
Jackson had best start picking his projects with more care, or his career is going to go into the toilet.
After this Twinkle tries copying a caveman's technique for getting a girl, by picking her up and taking her away, but the girl he picks doesn't want it, and they have a kicking and tossing argument.
I know, I know--how stupid of me for not picking up on the "Full House" alumni that are also in the credits.
This movie is set in London, and Hitchcock did a wonderful job of picking out the crew's British actors and actresses such as Alistair Sim and Michael Wilding.
After having developed pretty much the most successful directorial career of the decade, Fincher just refuses to hold back his enormous talent, always picking the risky projects and churning out an exhilarating piece of work.
Once upon a time,back during the second Middle East conflict,the Israelis had a plane in the air 24/7 carrying a nuclear bomb.If they looked like losing(how's that for bad sportsmanship)they would bomb the crap out of Egypt.Sort of like picking up their toys and stomping off home.This plane - or one of a number of planes so equipped - I'm a bit confused on this point - is shot down and lies hidden in the desert for 29 years until it is discovered by Arabs,and a South African(taken over from the Brits in the International Villain stakes) buys it for $400 dollars,selling it on to a unregenerate nazi for $50 million.Said unregenerate nazi (Mr Alan Bates - a chain smoker just to add to his general bastardness) uses it to blow up a football stadium in Baltimore thus plunging the world into the nuclear abyss.Go figure.
I am going to have to stop picking DVD's on their cover graphics, which was the case for EPOCH.
I had the fortune of picking this film up (believe it or not) on DVD and needless to say I wasn't expecting much from a film called Death by Dialogue, with a possessed script and an 80's alt-rock band starring Ken Sagoes, who was one of my favorite characters from NOES.
Other reviewers have pointed out the occasional sparkly bits in this terrible movie, but it's a shame the only enjoyment to be had is in picking it apart.
I wouldn't even know where to begin picking this one apart.
At times I was having more of a time picking out who I recognized from other films....the wanna-be pimp was the gas station attendant from Dusk Till Dawn, the drunk at the bar was the head of the jail from Bad Boys (Sean Penn flick, NOT the Martin Lawrence one with the STOLEN name), the bartender is a bit player in many films.
A previous comment indicated that "Terms of Endearment" (1983) ended present-day for that time and that with this one picking up in 1988, why was Melanie so grown?
Seriously you never hear anyone talking about how annoying all those Law and Orders/ CSI.. they are all the same show but you never hear anyone downing those.There are obviously going to be similarities when watching TV shows so why not watch it for what it is instead of picking out the things that its not?
As such, many film buffs who know little or nothing about Captain America have no doubt been picking this one up at the video store.
If you want to practice picking out continuity errors and shouting out comments, this the movie to do it with.
Make him run around a mythical backdrop searching for props to defeat said sorcerer whilst picking up a small party of comrades.
I have seen a negative review on this movie and I have to say that I am very tired of people picking apart movies to show how smart they think they are!
However watching The Swordsman and then Gladiator Cop is an interesting exercise in picking up what you have seen already, what really belongs in the first film and why you aren't doing something more productive.
Hell, it's not even available on DVD and that's in a world where Peter Jackson picking his nose probably gets a 3-disc with booger collectible treatment.
While drive-in moviegoers are hugging, smooching and backseat bouncing, a lunatic is randomly picking victims to slash, dismember and kill.
Wow, what was the CW thinking by not picking it up?!
In my opinion, when you see this at a video store near you, it's worth picking up.
Another part I had noticed was that they often tried elaborating on certain aspects, like "key capture" software, and the writer/directors knowledge on lock picking.
It has a deceptive cover aimed at drawing the uninformed video renter into picking it up.
The film is somewhere between a porn flick, a cop flick and a psycho flick and the lead character is a man named Eddie; a security guard who gets his kicks during his off-hours by posing as a police officer and picking up young prostitutes.
How about PBS picking up the actors, crew, consultants and writers for a series?
One of the most idiotic scenes in movie musicals has to be Pat Boone, in the boys locker room, instructing Richard (Dick) Sargent on the art of picking up chicks, crooning "Technique" a la Harry Belafonte.
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