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But truly the actors each take on and portray not a role, but the person.
It seems that the Americans truly adore men that portray overgrown kids and act like idiots for 90 minutes.
It takes a wonderful actor to be able to portray an emotion such as insanity just with his eyes, and he did so wonderfully!
Although Donald Sutherland was a great choice for a character voice actor and will be as easily recognizable as he was in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, his portray of evil bad guy was more lighthearted than James Woods evil bad guy in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
I still believe the film was good and I understand for the most part that is really what happens but Boorman could have made the film a bit more interesting and different and still portray his message.
The movie trailers portray a human serial killer, but it is the furthest thing from it.
Maybe this is simply a trait of Bollywood actors and actresses across the board-understandable, since they make so many movies, it would be quite difficult to really learn each character and portray it believably.
I understood the movie lacked the necessary resources to stage the great battles that took place, but I was still hoping for a fair portray of Vlad and his environment.
By making this scene the establishing shot for each time the viewer sees a different point of view begin, the director is trying to portray how significant gathering for a game of Dominos in the cantina is in the daily lives of those in Midaq Alley.
'Mitr' attempts to portray the conflicts experienced by a traditional Indian mother living in the USA.
All too calculated, staged for my taste - there are so many other films that I find more honest in their portray of poverty and misery (but with dignity).
Craig doesn't portray that and he doesn't look or act right.
Based on historical accounts that I've read, this movie is very faithful to details and does not necessarily portray the Earps in the most sympathetic light, though they are definitely the protagonists here.
I guess this was supposed to be some attempt to portray the relationships between a family faced with much adversity, but it feels like it was written and directed by people who have no clue of what that might mean or how it should be portrayed.
i have never been to Iowa, but i can assume that this is an overly dramatic way to portray life.
Both of the versions of "Ghost World" portray a world full of sad and annoying people, pedophiles, typical idiotic high school students, and most of all, people faking individuality.
I have an issue with reviewers who are constantly comparing characters on the screen with the actors who portray them.
First thing is, and you get this from the opening scene, that this can't just be a comedy.No, it feels a need to falsely become something greater than that by trying to portray some kind of racy cop flick.
There are some disturbing moments (the opening fight/murder, where we don't even know who the villain is; the barking kids; the bathtub scene), but the film lacks a clear idea of how it wants to portray the "infected" people; most of the time they behave like energetic sex maniacs, but at other times they become the plodding zombies of the "NOTLD" variety.
Well, i cant believe what a film that was, If you are like me, then you will find that horrors nowadays are not what they used to be, But JACKPOT BABY, I mean i know that it is made in 1998 but it does not stop it from being probs one of the greatest horrors to be made, Right from the start it actually maintains the course of looking like a genuine home video, and when they realise the aliens are actually after them, The horror on there faces, Some believe Sum Do not, it is just brilliant, And the Way that they portray that Rosie has been taken over somehow is just brilliant, Also they bring in the racist side of it tackling that view with great authority, they make every bit of the film as enjoyable as the ever, People who are looking for flaws in the film i have this message( My God Get A Life ) its a film go bloody have a pop at a Disney film or summit, As for me This is Danny Robinson Signing out with a big 10 outa 10
Some of the performances (especially I thought that of Hardie Albright as Dimmesdale, with the exception of that closing scene) seemed a bit forced, although I appreciated the attempt to mix some humour into a movie that could have been very heavy, as Alan Hale and William Kent portray the attempts of Hockings to help Goodfellow court the widow Crakstone, although in some ways (again, I haven't read the novel) that seemed unconnected to the overall story.
It was a role which not every preteen could portray.
Naive, virginal teenager Natalie Lawrence (the comely, but extremely vapid Leilani Sarelle, who went on to portray Sharon Stone's mannish possessive lesbian lover in "Basic Instinct" and married character actor Miguel Ferror, who she co-starred with in the first-rate south-of-the-border film noir thriller "The Harvest") survives a socko sanguinary park slaughter in which six of her friends are brutally butchered.
The boys in this film portray these two dichotomies and they do it very well.
The SFX used to portray the Ticks are actually pretty good and they are suitably gross little critters, a case of practical special effect doing a better job than CGI ever could and the gory scenes of them burrowing into the flesh of their victims are quite well rendered.
It is a ridiculous attempt by the writers to portray a perfect middle America Mayberry RFD town to appeal to the masses -- unfortunately, that kind of town hasn't existed in about 50 years - if it ever did.
The movie does portray a world that is now so very complicated in the raising of children, but the writer needs to move beyond mere events and situations.
not that it was ever meant to portray a true sense of young love.
moreover, the scale on which they portray love and relationships is beyond fairytale proportions which Walt Disney himself could not have conceived.
It takes skill to portray a leading character who is such an unbelievably charmless neanderthal.
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