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Before i geared up to watch this movie, I hadn't expected much (which perhaps fuelled my enjoyment even more) as other reviews on the internet promised bad fighting sequences and flat acting.
OK, forewarned that the first episode was exceedingly slow, but promised that later episodes grew in depth and gentle village humor, I slogged through for the first five (a fan friend shared the first seven episodes with me in the usually strong theory that immersing oneself in characters one can lose yourself in their world) and skipped to the finale which involved amateur theatricals and somehow seemed emblematic of the whole enterprise.
The cover featured a man in a Mohawk popping out of a TV screen and the movie description promised things like "video demons control your every move" and a "gruesome journey into a world of subliminal psychic nightmares".
This blatant "Day Today" rip off promised a new, cutting edge BBC comedy.
I'm always interested in seeing a horror/western and this unofficial sequel to "Django" directed by Sergio Garrone and starring Anthony Steffen promised to offer just that.
We were promised the 'origins' of Jason and all we got was a half-attempted beginning that really didn't explain much at all.
For some, it might have promised a delightful Technicolor movie of Viennese operetta and Hollywood soubrettes.
Not only did the movie fall far short of what the critics promised I found most of it to be unwatchable.
Well-made with excellent performances, but not at all what was promised.
Right...well Ali (based on a "true" Story) is a bit of a Fat Phobic (just like almost in one in America who's never felt the pain of being fat)..thinking it all about your attitude..and when she loses her sports scholarship..she decides to enter a student film competition for the prize money for school.....and her idea is to prove being unhappy and fat is all out the fat person's negative attitude....if only people like her little brother(overweight) had a positive attitude their lives would be better..thats why she's popular (not because she's a pretty blonde jock)..the commercials leading up to this promised a true look/insight into one area of life where bigotry and prejudice are allowed to reign supreme... i "thought" finally people see something about the cost of our obsession with weight...how thou bashing of gay and others may be illegal...but fat bashing is More than OK....But the promise of the commercials was NEVER delivered...even although Ali don's the "Fat suit" for at least a month...at the end of it..she's still very hateful over her mom's past weight (its treated like a very dirty little secret)..never asking why people over eat...or even some the different causes people gain weight, her partner on the film has a hard attitude towards the world in general and never stops calling the one "fat" girl and meets and befriends.."her Fat friend"...after a month spent on this Ali changes only a little..after lying to everyone very little is said after ward...you keep waiting/hoping for her "a Ha! Moment" when finally the light turns on...but we all stay in the dark...along w/her...even at the end when her "boyfriend" admit being a jock if she were to quote "get fat"...he would dump her..because well he's a jock basically...she just shrugs smiles...but then again Jenny Craig was the sponsor...guess that should have told me something....at the end she more or less right and don't let the world decide who you are....or I'm not Shallow...just selectively deep;(
Craven promised an interesting career in the Horror genre with The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes during the 1970's.
A new chapter that promised to have both the charm and aura of the old while incorporating the new technology of the day.
The first half was pretty good and promised an intriguing finale, but the second part descended into a confused and unconvincing mess where the crew weren't the only ones to wonder what was going on.
The plot outline for this film promised so much, a group of French/Italian (its difficult to tell) female prisoners break out of their prison, and set out on the run, killing a few police officers and kidnapping a bus load of young tennis players, this seems a perfect setting for an "erotic thriller", but as is to be expected from a very low budget European film from the late seventies, the film fails to live up to any of this potential.
A captivating tale of a couple returning to The Soviet Union, and finding out the trip was not exactly as advertised or promised.
So the promised action-fest is pretty boring overall.
... is what the box for "Rubberface" promised.
One day, when Preston doesn't drop everything to attend a dress fitting for Julie that he had originally promised to attend, she defiantly insists that she purchase a red dress, breaking the white dress only tradition for the ball they were attending.
After arriving in the new town the father discovers that he does not have the job he was promised and the wife takes a low paying job despite her husband's objection.
They agree but only after substantial financial rewards are promised.
From the TV trailers this promised to be an exciting story of the deceitful nature of advertisers who manipulate and lie so as to entice us, the unsuspecting general public towards the products.
I ordered the DVD hoping it was a controversial satire on the superficiality of the gay ghetto, as promised.
The trailer promised a sardonic View Askew property.
Overall, not exactly the rip-roaring comedy promised by the ads.
After watching a successive trend of boring movies which promised to be wonderful comedies I did not have very high hopes from this one but it seems I was totally wrong for this movie as it does wonders with comedy, it really proves how a clean entertainer can be made and enjoyed without going through vulgar gestures and cheap jokes.
An attraction grows stronger, but Manja's hand in marriage is promised to a local farmer.
Can two people promised to others and from very different worlds be happy?
Her eyes promised so much!
It promised 'gang warfare'.
However I promised myself that I will wreak vengeance onto my tormentor.
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