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It was just like that, because what you started to see is that all of these grand statesmen, these very pompous politicians, they were just like us.
Now, I know it's a bit pompous, my response, but it's an important distinction, because I don't believe that what we need is sensitivity training.
There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police.
But Kanner took a dim view of these abilities, claiming that the kids were just regurgitating things they'd heard their pompous parents say, desperate to earn their approval.
And for the pompous people thinking 'oh well, this story must center characters!" well you're wrong, dead wrong.
I am deeply disappointed, one of the most pompous, pseudo-religious, highly improbable and naive films.
The main actor in the movie is a pompous jackass and both guy and girl in the film are way too modest to be in a film like this.
A great example of how to make a pompous and self-important film with a message.
I'll admit that the conceptually pompous ending does have a certain visual poetry to it.
enchantment and magic are also markedly absent from this particular piece. in fact, all aspects that made the stage version of 'the tempest' full of wonder and intrigue have been sucked completely from this convoluted version about a self-absorbed, pompous arse who can't figure out how to care about anything beyond the blur of his wealth and power.
Although Irene Dunn does a good job with the heavy-handed script, Richard Dix' pompous and overacted role is brutal.
The characters are changed (ie Finny seems more a pompous jerk than anything else whereas Gene seems to be somewhat of a hillbilly), scenes are misplaced or altogether changed (ie.
L'age d'Or was way too long and dull - just a self-indulgent piece of pompous film making created simply as a feeble attempt to try to out-do Un Chien Andalou by creating a full- length movie (and shamelessly leverage Dali's name and fame even though he had little to do with it).
Director Castellari - whom I saw at the Italian B-movie retrospective held during the 2004 Venice Film Festival, where he came off as the most pompous of the cult movie directors present! - shows little genuine feeling for the Western (on the strength of two above-average Franco Nero efforts in the genre, I ordered his collaboration with Castellari KEOMA [1976]...I'm keeping my fingers crossed now!) and the film's tongue-in-cheek approach is equally lamentable.
They give us a pompous lecture on the defense systems near the Arctic.
It would be hard to imagine anybody even vaguely familiar with the masterpieces of the last fifty years of Asian cinema being enthralled by this pompous piece of trash.
To put it simply, this was a pompous piece of canine poopie.
George Clooney is magnificent as the grease haired Everett Ulysses McGill, a honest con on the run whose pompous linguistics and vocabulary are comical and endearing.
I found Michael to be pompous, arrogant, and just plain clueless.
Especially at the start, he continually quotes Shakespeare and acts like a pompous actor.
The best part about each show is that the parents do not come off as pompous self-righteous upper class know it alls but at the same time they are not the stereotypical under-educated parents who are constantly being bamboozled and disrespected by their children.
The English are buffoons,the French vicious - tongued Yank-haters.The Germans pompous and puffed up,(don't mention the war,Clark),and the Italians lecherous bottom-pinchers.Have I forgotten anything?
Overall it seems as if this film is trying to hard and ends up looking pompous in spite of mostly fine performances.
Then there are some anti-human humans, who stand around in their CGI spaceship being so incredibly pompous that it's impossible to take.
Even as a made-for-TV documentary, the sentimental piano solos accompanying interviewees sitting in front of flower arrangements in hotel rooms and the pompous, pseudo-literary narration rang more true of a sleepapedic bed Infomercial.
If these pompous characters that were in this movie have a video library at home, I would bet that American Psycho would be one of those movies.
This might seem more believable if Fred weren't made out to be a completely insensitive, pompous ass who jumps at the first opportunity he sees to leave his wife for another woman.
He tends to get pompous and self serving in films like F is for Fake, really stupid waste of film.Don't waste your time watching it.
The great Gino Corrado is hilarious as a pompous Italian singer terrorized by the Stooges at a society party.
Brilliantly conceived characters such as the shape-shifting dog Ralph (one of a duo of bumbling, rejected heroes), Synonamess Botch (the hilariously foul-mouthed villain) and Rod Rescueman (the pompous novice superhero) breathe life into a uniquely clever concept: Frivoli vs. Murkwood or, the eternal fight between dreams and nightmares.
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