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Slaughter Trail is a B western with some grand
pretensions.
And he might as well have dropped the Irving
pretensions
altogether.
So if you like self-produced B or C-grade noir-wannabe actors and effects with
pretensions
of surrealism, this could be for you!
They have no
pretensions
at all.
It sounds like a light and playful pinku flick, but it has art-house
pretensions
and is really just incredibly boring.
He seemed like a normal-enough guy, though he had a lot of artistic
pretensions.
So dump all serious
pretensions
and go back to 1980.
This story has the same hilarious feel as Sandy Mackendrick's classic 'Whisky Galore', with the gnomic humour of remote Scottish islanders puncturing the
pretensions
of intruders from outside and enjoying a wee dram from time to time (the actual intervals between those times often being rather short).
Ninja Hunter (AKA Wu Tang vs Ninja) is pure entertainment from start to finish due to its outrageous characters, nonsensical plot and lack of any
pretensions
whatsoever.
It was an exciting,entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions,hidden meanings or alternative agenda.It was fun.
I don't know who this director thinks he is; maybe he has
pretensions
of the surreal like Bunuel, Jordowsky, etc.
It is a film filled with
pretensions
- it opens with a minor quote from "Hiroshima mon amour" and it's all downhill from there.
Soldier Blue is a movie with pretensions:
pretensions
to be some sort of profound statement on man's inhumanity to man, on the white man's exploitation of and brutality towards indigenous peoples; a biting, unflinching and sardonic commentary on the horrors of Vietnam.
Within the first 10 minutes he's given a proposition by Andre 3000 and Big Pussy (of Soprano's fame) which makes NO SENSE AT ALL! Then there's some shooting and then there's Ray Liotta wearing embarrassing bikini briefs, then there's some animation, Ray Liotta's naked butt, lots of shooting, teeth gnashing, art house wanna be
pretensions
and more of Liotta's embarrassing body that elicited laughs at every showing...which I'm not quite sure was the reaction he was looking for...not 5 times anyway.
And let's not kid ourselves: critics were mostly supportive of Allen's Bergman pretensions, Allen's whining accusations to the contrary notwithstanding.
Gratuitous violence is much easier to achieve and is less offensive than the
pretensions
of many art-film directors.)
While the film has pretty modest pretensions, it makes the most of the material.
This one, with its altruistic
pretensions
to expose slavery in the 1970s, shows the best and worst values of Africa, which turn out not to be too different to the values of humanity as a whole.
I'll take an old movie without modern intellectual
pretensions
an day of the week!
It even had Pyewacket, a Siamese cat-familiar with well-timed miaows, Sidney Redlitch, a fake witch expert with atrocious
pretensions
and bad manners.
I've personally never seen a film that is so raw, down at heel and realistic, almost like the cameraman followed these people around and simply filmed the horrors they go through... no cheese, no
pretensions
simply raw and unflinching in its portrayal.
But that "effort" is also what bothers me: Too many
pretensions
for so miserable result: 1)Its pretension of veracity like a documented reality or more likely a "cinéma vérité" work, using real people and non-actors, impostors of emotional states for a very diluted script fails resoundingly: A script exists.
This movie has few
pretensions
at being great art.
Carmonte has cultural pretensions, loving to whistle opera arias from MARTHA and other works, usually just before he has someone rubbed out.
In fact, this is one of those movies that's hard to turn away from because the awfulness is so compelling -- this is a movie with serious Oscar
pretensions
that comes up short in so many ways.
"A Droll Drama, or the Strange Adventures of Professor Molyneux" takes place in Edwardian England, and may be best described for American viewers as a combination of Preston Sturges, French sophistication, the Marx Brothers, slapstick comedy and social
pretensions.
Unquestionably the finest movie produced by Britain's Handmade Films, with some arty
pretensions
that aren't too distracting and a brisk pace supplied by director John Mackenzie.
This film either gets one star based on objective merit, or ten stars on how well it infringes on the rarefied thin air of Ed Woodish
pretensions
to greatness.
The story-line, for those who have never seen it, involves a loveless marriage between Soames Forsyte, who regards his wife as an article of property and Irene, a 19th-century woman who has to marry, being without profession, who grows to despise his miserly nouveau riche pretensions, controlling behavior, and bullyings.
Irene turns to the black-sheep of the family, who had married for love, the artist Jolyon, leaving Soames to confront the colossal failure of his
pretensions.
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