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The only thing that prevented this flick from being a total disaster were a couple of interesting stylish touches.
Whoever thought of this movie needs to be prevented from EVER making another one.
Betty never had too much of a problem with her notoriety, although we get the impression that her reputation prevented her from gaining legitimacy in the straight acting world.
It is interesting to contemplate what the movie would have been like had not death prevented Jack Benny from playing George Burns' part, as had been planned.
Author and screenwriter Antwone Fisher joined the U.S. Navy to see new landscapes but the demons of his past prevented him from seeing the world through new eyes.
Her overwhelming guilt prevented her from saying anything, what could she say to defend herself?
As a child bad health prevented me from ever going to a cinema.
However, because they so often lack realism they are prevented from being truly great films.
One amazing scene where Jack Palance, who is infected, is prevented from climbing aboard a ship by a rat-barrier on the rope is ironic in the extreme, reminding us in the most gruesome terms that humans can be the worst carriers and vermin of all.
It's sad whatever happened during production prevented the movie from being filmed as intended.
It was a nice balance to the 70's music and prevented the film from becoming a movie about old music.
However, Merenghi claims that his series was too ground-breaking, and too shocking for the public, and for the past twenty years direct government intervention prevented the shows from ever seeing the light of day.
Herbert Lom (Henry Fengriffen),"La Setta",'91, tried to keep very dark and horrible secrets from his new bride, Stephanie Beacham,(Catherine Fengriffen),"Wedding Bell Blues",'96, who on their wedding night went crazy with all kinds of images appearing out of various paintings in the hallway and in her bedroom, which prevented any love making!
If the style was not done intentionally the director, Aki Kaurismaki, needs to be prevented from ever making another film in his life.
And if his kids ever want to make a movie they should be prevented as well just on the principle of who their father is.
I can't help but think how much tragedy would have been prevented in this movie via the use of a concept I like to call "scouts".
In Minority Report, we see the effects of predicting the future to the point of crimes are prevented by arresting murderers before they kill.
The events take place in a remote Spanish village, days before the great 40th anniversary celebration of the dam that prevented the area from flooding and the subsequent foundation of a brand new town called Desbaria.
Serling was forced to go this route after suffering from censorship early in his career that prevented him from directly addressing current social concerns with criticism that might offend the advertisers.
Starring Mimi Rogers as Sharon, in a film her ex-TC would have no doubt prevented her from doing back in their day, Rogers' character is the stereotypical information operator by day/swinger sin-sister by night.
They might have considered reading an actual book about Antarctica, that might have helped the script although I doubt anything outside of burning it would have prevented this abomination on film.
Unfortunately his health prevented his reprisal of that role.
The exhausted end of the world scenario claims the end of the world can only be prevented by an elite group of men trained for just such an emergency.
Also, the movie was a bit short, which is was prevented the deeper character development.
All corners were cut, except the one that would have prevented this film's release.
I get the feeling his work as McGoo prevented him from getting solid roles.
hedy became a 'household word for glamour, but lacking the spark of personality prevented her from becoming a box office star' according to famed film historian leslie halliwell.
prevented the film from becoming the nasty exploitation highlight it clearly hoped to be.
My brother convinced me to sit and watch moving target and in the end i was pleased i did.It wasn't the god awful acting or the laughable dialogue that brought a smile to my face it was the fact that this movie was basically a remake of an earlier film of wilsons.By changing a few names,filming in a new location (uk) and mixing around a few scenarios they tried to pass this one off as a fresh idea.If you have seen bloodfist4-die trying there is no need to waste 90 minutes on this movie because if you've seen die trying your watching the same story...same ending... same man...just on a different continent,the only reason i kept watching was the constant laughter prevented me from being able to reach for the remote
But, in the aftermath of the Great Depression of the 1930’s, it became clear that such decentralization had prevented the Fed from formulating and implementing a coherent monetary policy.
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