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If there's ever a global shortage of guitar picks, the negatives of this rambling, incoherent ragbag of crummy ideas and dire performances may well serve some purpose.
Second-in-command Melvin Purvis (Ben Johnson), surveys the situations, sticks a lighted cigar in his mouth, picks up two loaded .45-caliber
So I rented this from Netflix because somebody gave me Roger Ebert's book "I hated, hated, hated this movie" and he gave this one a rare zero-star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review "Mad Dog Time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor".
A car stops and picks her up (just so being the people she needed to see, amazing?)
Basically you had this very slow pace and this naturalistic style of acting, but it was all there to prop up a very formulaic and predictable story, complete with all the trappings one would expect from any small town melodrama -- everything from the boy cheating with his teacher's wife to the handicapped kid who everyone picks on.
On a particularly difficult mission, he casually picks up a sniper rifle and shoots Osama Bin Laden from a distance of about 3000 yards.
The film picks up a bit in the second half but for a more decent Lundgren flick, rent RED SCORPION instead.
In fact the movie only picks up in the station-house scenes where hard-bitten cops discover the hidden powers of innocent-looking gas station attendants.
So I was really looking forward to seeing Azumi 2, but after finally seeing it I felt like i had won the lotto and lost the ticket:( Azumi 2 picks up where Azumi left off, however these are completely 2 different movies.
The plotline goes like this: When a doctor and his fiancee get caught in an accident, she gets decapitated and he picks up her head and takes her to his lab, where he sets up her head in a pan with some special liquid that keeps it alive.
The husband and wife are both bored, but rather than put energy into their stale relationship would rather seek out new partners (though the wife picks poorly, as the man she "throws herself at" happens to be gay---OOPS!).
Karen kicks him in the balls, picks up the gun and runs away!
I would rather of had my eyes gouged out with rusty ice picks than have had to sit through this abortion.
When I caught a glimpse of the title I thought are we going to get another try-hard hip slasher, but actually I found "7eventy 5ive" to be a mildly passable, and almost 80s throwback after a tediously slow mid-section it picks up momentum for the final half-hour leading to it's outrageously tacky climax and downright cop out ending.
"Everyone picks on me.
But the silliest part is when all of a sudden (and i mean that literally) it's one YEAR later and Molly is still wandering the woods after having escaped the nymphs, and then lo and behold, Shaun Hutson picks her up...of course not without a line to promote his books!! (altho admittedly he is one of my fav authors) but suddenly, and with absolutely no hint of an xplanation as to how and why... she's evil herself and lures Hutson to his death, then we cut to the crazy dude from the beginning suddenly wandering round the woods with a petrol can, even after his 'dazzling' performance on why no-one should ever venture there for whatever reason...cue the nymphs stupidly slappin each other around a bit for fun while Crazy pours petrol everywhere....and here endeth the film....finally!
The movie picks out current and old movies to rip-off.
The host - William Shatner, at his obnoxious smarmiest - asks the contestant if he wants to "lock into the answer" and when the contestant says yes, he picks a 'dancer', to whom he yells "Show me the money!"
There is also a "Killer Card" and if the contestant picks the girl who has that vile scroll, but he has answered properly, nothing happens.
Though not before he picks up a new girl (Patty Shepard) and photographs her topless!
I always disagree with many of the Oscar picks, but this movie might very well be the worst movie of all time to be honored by the Academy.
Then the movie picks up a bit as she has a confrontation with 4 punks who took up 2 parking spaces on this busy xmas eve.
After everyone has given up, flatlined heart monitor picks up a pulse.
Third, there are a lot more good black actors to choose from than these standard picks.
The film picks up after last years remake with the military setting up electronic surveillance equipment in the desert where the attacks in the first film happened.
There are some good parts through the movie, the first half starts off slow and then in the last half the pace picks up.
Gillian Anderson is an arrogant, driven, career woman who picks up working class oik Danny Dyer for a night of fun.
A woman picks E.P. up on the beach and then proceeds to take over his life--and he doesn't seem to care!
This picks off with Karen White's funeral (she was killed at the end of the first film).
It starts off a little slow maybe, but then picks up and turns out to be pretty funny.
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