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I have, over the years, seen a great many god-awful flix, in pursuit of guilty pleasures and merriment.
Character development is jettisoned in favour of a nuts and bolts plot which delivers few pleasures.
Why did the filmmakers forget that one of the pleasures of the serial was the cheap sets and effects?
Well, one of my guilty pleasures is bad movies and I am a devoted fan of Carroll Baker and this movie fit both bills.
Most of the plot is inconsequential and is really a catalyst for more carnal pleasures... Characters have the usual undeveloped back story elements that one expects from a poorly written film that serve only to frustrate the audience.
It's a slice of life sort of thing going on here, with an assortment of people with strengths and faults, but who all value life's simple pleasures, like good food.
In Lily he finds someone who is sweet and good and delights in simple pleasures.
Strictly for those whose guilty pleasures include the DEATHSTALKER and BARBARIAN QUEEN series.
"Happy Gilmore" is one of my all-time favourite "guilty pleasures" and he's done a lot of entertaining films that aren't by any means thought-provoking or life-altering but, for all practical purposes, are fun to watch.
Coming from 1956 is another of Universal-International's science-fiction pleasures.
If sinking your teeth into over-ripe fruit is one of your pleasures, then Jamaica Inn should be your dish.
As for the movie, it has a spot on my list of guilty pleasures.
Glimpses of Sian Phillips, Alexis Smith and Geraldine Chaplin add to the pleasures, making this overwhelming banquet of a film one of the most rewarding film experiences I've ever had.
But much like his previous two films, Platform and Unknown Pleasures, there isn't a single character worth knowing here.
For years, the beautiful queen Omphale has been abducting warrior men who become amnesiacs off to her exotic paradise island where they give themselves up to sexual pleasures until the day she tires of them.
One of the great pleasures of watching Last of the Summer Wine is being able to watch great character actors plying their craft.
There are compelling moments, like the two main lovers Taisheng (Taisheng Chen) and Tao (Tao Zhao) lying on Taisheng's hard dormitory bed and even the schmaltzy wordless communing between Tao and her Russian friend Anna (Alla Shcherbakova), but in the aimless round of daily emptiness of working at this trashy hi-tech carnival falsification of "The World" outside, which the workers will never see in person, Jia loses the momentum of the turbulent, emotional decade he chronicles in "Platform" or the tragic downward spiral of the two boys in "Unknown Pleasures."
It resonates perfectly with the 1970's Australian shock-horror tabloid culture about road accidents, violence, bikie gangs, rebellion, drugs and guilty pleasures.
One view is that Americans are perceived (and like to see themselves) as Calvinist workaholics, whereas Europeans like to think that they know how to enjoy life's pleasures.
As a result, Jews were highly oriented toward education, and willing to defer current pleasures and income to obtain more of it.
Sacrifice used to involve ransoming the body – its pleasures, basic needs, and even vitality – for the sake of the spirit.
Both men are remarkably similar - in physique, their preference for bucolic pleasures and penchant for personalizing politics.
But Italian women (indeed, women everywhere, it seems) feel only anger and humiliation over a man so obsessed with himself, his various criminal trials, and his vulgar pleasures that he appears to them to have no purpose left except to remain in power as long as possible.
Where else in the developed world can one enjoy such accessible pleasures?
Even Adam Smith, who told us that it is not from the butcher’s benevolence that we get our dinner, but from his regard for his self-interest, described the imagined pleasures of wealth as “a deception” (though one that “rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind”).
Such sayings as “The world’s peoples are all brothers” and “Isn’t one of life’s greatest pleasures to have friends visiting from afar?” will be beamed to billions worldwide, expressing the best that Chinese culture has to offer.
There are other potentially harmful pleasures in the environment that are less known, but not less destructive than those that are.
One of the most seductive of these pleasures – and thus one of the most dangerous – is television.
Mill thought that there is a big minority of people who tend to seek higher pleasures and that to be active in democratic politics is one of such pleasure.
To be sure, there were some short-term benefits from the excess investment in real estate: some Americans (perhaps only for a few months) enjoyed the pleasures of home ownership and living in a bigger home than they otherwise would have.
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