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In fact, what he did deliver to the powers at Dreamworks was an absolutely terrible comedy of horrors that undoes everything in the previous movie while simultaneously making the audience wish that they themselves were drowning in the bottom of that damn well.
You see, Nanny McPhee is no ordinary nanny; she possesses magical powers that can practically do the impossible.
"Julie Walking Home" is about a woman coping with a rocky relationship with the father of her children, her son who has cancer and may or may not be healed by a faith healer, and her feelings for a man who believes he has mystical healing powers.
The scant few teenagers who went to see "976-EVIL" in 1989 probably had no idea who Sandy Dennis was (just as the kids who first saw "Carrie" didn't know who Piper Laurie was), but the veteran actress manages to bring a few minutes of class to an otherwise lousy, fifth-rate screamer about a nerdy high school kid acquiring demonic powers from a satanic phone number.
why does everyone in the film have super powers?
But she cannot accomplish her goal alone, for she cannot leave the vicinity of Grayskull and retain her powers.
No explanation is given as to why the head thug has amazing seductive powers over women, without even saying a word, yet it seems every female character falls madly in love with him.
The men on the list wrote many films between them always showing one side of a story, making the little guy the victim & big business the villians, This is what irked the powers in both Washington & Hollywood, Since in the thirties & early forties,there many left wing sympathizers in Hollywood.
His powers of persuasion soon get the Brazilian singer a job as a featured performer at the Copacabana - twice over.
It was a very good and clever short film, but the powers that be fell prey to the idea that bigger just had to be better.
Irrespective of temperament and motivation, his characters preach to the camera on the corruptive influence of mainstream television, the liberating powers of learning and movies as a moral institution.
As luck would have it the crystal skull was indeed buried with Jesse's great great Grandfather & even luckier that no one else had thought to look for it there... However it seems that the crystal skull has magical powers & Jesse's great great Grandfather, who thankfully for my typing finger likes to know as just Gramps (Royal Dano), is alive.
All you need to know in a nutshell is that the crystal skull has magical powers & the house was built as a temple to it & various people & creatures throughout time & space want it including Gramps old partner in crime Slim (Dean Cleverdon).
There has to be something wrong, when you start to sympathise with the second leads instead of the two leads, which is the main problem with Griffin Dunne's mildly amusing, nasty, mean and cruel romantic comedy about obsessed and crazy ex-lovers Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan combining their powers to separate their past lovers Kelly Preston and Tcheky Karyo from one another by playing tricks on them.
I realize they can become invisible and also have some other powers in their little alien bag of tricks, but you take one look at them and you just feel like a group of military folks (even ones like the misfits we so clearly have here) ought to have been ransacked these aliens in and out of this secluded island in about 5 minutes.
An antique mirror with deadly powers is tracked down by a guy who's been researching into the deaths of the past people who have owned it.
An artist at the peak of her powers.
There are glimpses of Sadako's strange powers, which she can't seem to control when she's threatened.
Sadako then ends up with the leading role in the play but when the meddling reporter slips a tape in that isn't meant to be part of the play, it changes everything and Sadako's telekinetic powers are unleashed on the unsuspecting audience and cast, but stopped just short of harm to anyone....except, herself.
What I liked about this one is that the movie explored the flip-side of having super powers.
In a way, they are powers the mutants love and hate.
It did have some unintentional amusement, however, like when the huge mirror weapon powers down and the general (using very poorly dubbed lips) spouts "Dammit, why is everything going wrong today!?" out as fast as possible.
And it was set in a reality where Hellraiser is acknowledged and it powers a super hip video game.
He slashes through religion, political powers and so on until nothing is left but himself.
No powers are legitimate to him, but is own free, untamed will.
And only our eternal submission to those powers confers them the power to rule our body and mind.
As he demonstrates his powers, it is slowly revealed that he is a time-traveler, and his brother, in fact, once traveled back 2,000 years further in time.
Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) a government agent is betrayed by a fellow friend/agent Ben Childress (John Cassavetes), who kidnapped his son for his psychokinetic powers.
"Oblivion" is right; further misadventures of Reggie and Mike pursuing the Tall Man still leave too much unexplained; we do find out the Tall Man's identity (Jebediah Morningside) and how he became interested in his "work", but it's never explained exactly how he got his supernatural powers, what exactly the "other side" is, what the flying spheres are or where they came from, how the "other side" transforms bodies into gnomes, and most of all, we still don't know what in the HELL the Tall Man means to do with his evil power.
Only the owl turns out to have magical powers and transforms the real-life boy into a cartoon cat.
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