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Its not that I don't get how this film is trying to portray the way people interact, it's just that in this film they are very boring.
SO19 or whoever the gun toting arm of the Met they were trying to portray was happily running around the streets with their guns out chasing after Snipe's along with the CIA.
Cary Grant tries to portray his usual charming and urbane persona but at times seems uneasy and staccato in his delivery.
The characters they portray are shallow and unconvincing.
He is an enormous talent and the best at what he does, which is portray a nervous, lovably befuddled loser thrown into a position of authority.
Sadly this movie does not portray either of these.
But whatever chances you're ready to give to "Cama de Gato", they shrink to zero within 10 minutes: it's an unbelievably preposterous, verbose, ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray Brazilian upper-middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo-Nazis hooked on bad sex, drugs and violence (and they're made to look like closeted gays too), made with no visible trace of talent, imagination, expertise or notion of structure.
Or is this need in Hollywood to portray the sick side of human nature indicative of a more general malaise in the movie industry?
A lot of the vindictiveness he is showing also is hurting the very sick patients at the hospital and the is not a good storyline to portray.
There's nothing inherently wrong with using films eased moral constraints to portray an erotic side to the Tarzan legend.
The movie tried to portray some kind of moral, but fell flat with its message.
Jamal Woodward is not convincing or realistic enough to portray Notorious B.I.G.
The first big turn-off I had was the way in which Pacino tried to portray a Georgia accent; at times it was weak and unattractive while in other segments it seemed too overdone.
I realize that some people out there feel the need to praise him, because he's Black and trying to portray a positive image about the culture.
The other big name actors seem to be making desperate attempts to give the characters they portray some modicum of humanity... these characters have the humanity of wet cardboard.
To portray the artist as someone in love with her real-life rapist, someone whom she in reality accused of raping her even when under torture, just plain pisses me off.
This is just one more of those hideous films that you find on Lifetime TV which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner.
From the beginning of the movie, it gives the feeling the director is trying to portray something, what I mean to say that instead of the story dictating the style in which the movie should be made, he has gone in the opposite way, he had a type of move that he wanted to make, and wrote a story to suite it.
This movie is a blatant attempt by the left in Hollywood to portray Reagan's administration as incompetent and bungling.
I understand what this movie was trying to portray.
Very unnecessary movie with characters that are acting so unsympathetically that I really didn't care who would fare the best (or was that the purpose of the film, to portray some smooth talking cold-hearted New York city folks?)
The performance doesn't leave an imprint on the viewer (he's just Ben Stiller, Jack Black manages to actually portray a character - though not a challenging one).
The director obviously tried to emulate his French colleague Tran Anh Hung by recreating an ambiance which is suppose to portray Viet Nam...
1940. - A visit to the Lodz ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, recorded by a German cameramen with the naive co-operation of the Jewish community, is combined with archival footage, clips from international newsreels, and excerpts from related cultural films to portray the World's Jews as swindlers and parasites.
Mark Steven never seems to know how to portray this mysterious Jack Slade.
I feel the movie did not portray Smith historically.
The supporting players also look tired and run down, and Sid Caeser's presence is offensive even without his constant references to "Chinks!" (One bright spot: this would be one of the last times a major motion picture would portray Asians so insultingly ... or, for that matter, star a non-Asian as one!).
How dare they take our beloved Mother and portray her as a horror that makes people chop their eyelids off!?
Improvements could have been made to the original Beatty plot - which in itself did not masterfully portray the life-after-death idea - but they certainly were not to be found in "Down To Earth".
I'm not trying to portray the movie as a love story or a drama; it's a rolling in your seats comedy.
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