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I would have preferred a suspense film where she would have been allowed her own convincing independence and intelligence.
The movie itself was pretty good, although I would have preferred if the movie was entirely serious instead of putting comic relief in the middle.
It felt more like an essay than a movie; rather than chronological development it was as though a point was made and evidenced and then moved on to the next point - I much preferred the chronological growth of the characters in the series.
It started off quite positively - a bit bonkers perhaps but sort of amusing but by the end the audience was variously commenting: "I'd have preferred having needles stuck in my eyes!" or extending toilet breaks so they had less of the film to watch, or lamenting the sheer tedium of this movie.
Madeleine is very excited about a room in the basement of this house and I wondered just why she preferred such a location and of course the story will reveal the reasons for this decision.
I preferred the original, it was much more gripping.
While the "Ripper" preferred prostitutes, the "Avenger" digs blondes.
A lot of people preferred the first film also with James Ryan as Steve Chase in "Kill and Kill Again", but I must tell you that the box-office figures tell a very different story...in fact, depending on how old you are, you might remember a film made by Bo Derek's husband John Derek called "10" ...a 'tits and bums' vehicle to show off the many charms of his lovely wife that did very well at the box-office and was released the same year as "Kill and Kill Again'.
I preferred the first half of the series to the second half.
But I had preferred the idea of David Soul than this horrible picture.
I hate to say this but I preferred the first family, the Pembrokes to the Powells, but beggars can't be choosers.
I know there has to be something, in any level of adult fare, for every sexual taste, but I would have preferred less lesbianism and more hetero-action.
I would have preferred it if Lucas has continued in this direction rather than become overly enamored with special effects in his subsequent films.
I would have preferred a weaker Broly (I'm not saying a pathetic one, of course), so we could see an authentic EXCHANGE of punches, and not this.
In the end, the decision on the quota system was settled by majority vote, rather than the usual – and much preferred – rule of consensus (though the majority was large, with only four of 28 countries opposed).
And a trial, however unsatisfactory, is in most cases still to be preferred to an assassination.
Barack Obama’s administration could have weighed in to help Allawi form a government, but instead enabled Maliki – Iran’s preferred choice – to hold onto power.
But the war in Georgia split the Ukrainian political class three ways, between those who favored alignment with the West, those who favored Russia, and those who preferred a policy of balance.
And yet 52% of those who voted preferred a country where Poles and Romanians would not be permitted to live, work, and compete for a position on the economic team.
In other appointments, Trump has preferred generals and businesspeople to technocrats.
The structural primary budget balance, the International Monetary Fund’s preferred measure of “fiscal thrust,” tightened by an additional 1-1.5% of GDP each year from 2010 to 2012, after which it remained broadly stable.
Many Chinese were disquieted by their government’s decision to evacuate China’s citizens from Libya, and would have preferred a bolder effort to protect the countries’ commercial assets there.
This is clearly Merkel’s preferred choice, at least until after the next election.
Then, as now, the path to peace must always be preferred to the dead end of war.
Unimpressed with what others saw as the beginning of an era of democracy in the Arab world, he preferred not to budge on any front, including Palestine.
As opposed to his dealings with non-Serbs, this wily authoritarian's preferred methods of domestic political struggle are unscrupulous manipulation of friend and foe, bribery, propaganda, and electoral fraud.
But it has received relatively little attention, because observers have preferred to focus on the country’s prolonged economic woes.
Continental Europe did not deregulate as much, and preferred to seek growth in greater economic integration.
Although Santos was both Uribe’s defense minister and preferred successor, relations between the two have soured.
This was a clear reference to Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, allegedly organized and bankrolled by the CIA, which overthrew Viktor Yanukovych, Moscow’s preferred presidential candidate.
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