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However, those playing the roles are NOT the same (although Jean-Pierre Bacri stars in BOTH films but plays totally different roles).
I find that to be a travesty because if you don't stumble on a channel playing it somewhere, you'll never see it again, and for some of us that has become the case.
Faking a terminal illness and playing it up to the hilt, the three daughters (Brigette Lin, Maggie Cheung, and Chingmy Yau) dig up three men (Leung Kar-Fai, Jacky Cheung and Ekin Cheng) to pose as there fiancées.
However, and this made no sense to me, the manner of death was just plain silly and overly melodramatic--like the judge was playing with the librarian much like a cat might play with a doomed mouse.
I don't recall even knowing about it upon its release in 2003, but was aware of its 2006 sequel, "Underworld: Evolution", while it was playing in theatres.
You won't be spared anything: turbid atmosphere and terrible film score, whorehouses, heroin addicted prostitutes taking drugs, plenty of blood, stabbed cats hanging on the wall, and above all a long black mess scene with plenty of details and a doped prostitute playing the sacrificial victim.
The baseball action isn't bad, but less time is spent on the playing field than in the barroom or bedroom.
They sounded like someone was playing some shoot-em-up game!
It's more footage of them singing and playing the songs then anything else.
If you really must go ahead and watch this film but be warned if you're looking for anything other then a series of them playing various songs, forget about this one.
I was expecting a more faithful remake with plenty of Ving Rhames playing himself.
The young rapper, Lil Bow Wow, does an OK job with this acting stint but the rest of the cast is kind of just there and playing characters that their used to playing.
I went to college with people like this too - they were usually the ones role playing to dungeons and dragons while smoking hash on a Saturday night with the dead playing in the background.
Fifty minutes in and I was playing games on my cell.
Thora Birch must be trying to earn indie cred by appearing in this right around the time her career was taking off, and she does have one of the better moments towards the beginning involving playing a Russian roulette-type game with an almost completely loaded gun, but the fact that the gun is loaded is the only fascinating part about this scene because her acting isn't particularly stellar.
I never stopped playing it.
Brittany Murphy played a discharged woman from the NAVY but she didn't act all masculine or had short boyish hair, JTT played a star swimmer who is going to Harvard ( the stereotype would be him playing a boy in the Drama society and the swimmers or the jocks would make fun of him, but he was a sports nut himself and the last one ( which I didn't see too much of).
Key roles from Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti were very much so treasured by the film, Owen who finds himself chucked into a very forceful memorable scene with him taking on a gang of street goons after the life of a pregnant woman, and Giamatti playing a very imposing laughable 'Pussy with a gun' see's the film make great use of CGI, great acting, comedy, action and a odd bit of story to make a sight for sore eyes.
Once upon a time there was this sincere, but painfully dated, hippie era melodrama called SUNBURST about life and love and the importance of getting back to nature to find yourself... Then comes the video boom era of the 1980s and a rising star emerging in the horror genre for playing a certain facially-scarred predator who kills teenagers in their sleep.
It's the only time I recall seeing Jack Carson playing a dramatic part, although he still had some sarcastic lines that were apparently supposed to inject a bit of humor - inappropriate in this movie.
At first dubious, the Actor is eventually convinced that his wife was playing along with him, and the two romantically embrace.
Here he's playing against type and I thought he did a wonderful job.
Light wisely steers clear of explaining Hilley, instead playing the character straight, letting the absurdity of the story maintain the mystery of Hilley.
You can tell they must have went up to people on the streets and said "Hey, want to be in a movie?"! From the laughable performance by the child playing Jack Jr. to the ridiculous writing, directing, plot, ridiculous attempt at special effects, etc..etc..etc..
Art Carney and Lily Tomlin are amazingly well-matched playing the convincingly mismatched pair who unravel the tangled mystery, and Bill Macy is equally fine as a friendly bartender-cum-talent agent.
The best scene involves Fields playing ping pong - it's easily one of the funniest sequences in film history.
The actors surprised me big time, Ray Winstone delivering actually one of his best performances in a long while, Angelina Jolie playing the slinky seductress to perfection and Anthony Hopkins being a joy to watch on screen.
Patrick Swayze does a good dependable job in this movie, but is outshone by the finely understated performances of the men playing his relatives from backwoods Kentucky.
One of the gags has Mr. Miller sitting down in an armchair, the arms of the chair grab him, and he shouts "Old rockin chair's got me", followed immediately by the song Rockin Chair, by Hoagy Carmichael, playing loudly.
Although all this was really cheesy, what I thought was funniest was when people were holding normal shrews and playing with them, as in real life, shrews are insane and would have probably torn them to pieces.
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