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However, for reasons I won't go into it is now part of my job to watch the show for research purposes.
In fact, the vampires dominate most of the proceedings during the latter stages of the film, while early on there's also excess footage featuring a gypsy couple (who, for plot purposes, unwittingly revive the werewolf which subsequently 'marks' Waldemar Daninsky); however, despite the limited resources at the film-makers' disposal, the Gothic atmosphere is well up to par for the course (though dissipated somewhat by the faded print I watched!).
Erotic - NO Female nudity - Technically yes about 1 minute in total Sex - NO For practical purposes this was NOT based on the novel by the Marquis de Sade; in fact in the interview the writer admits he rewrote the story to accommodate Tyrone Power's daughter who could not act.
Obviously inspired by the Saw series, and referencing the phenomenon of video watching (like YouTube), for negative purposes of course, this looked like an interesting horror thriller, from director Gregory Hoblit (Frequency).
I understand that this is a comedy and the actions of the characters may be exaggerated for comic purposes.
The corny emotional dialogue and contrived filler scenes that were made up for dramatic purposes really killed this movie for me.
Oh and are our hero in question (Played not so well by Richard Marchini) must compete in a tournament that the winner gets to have a woman for whatever purposes they wish to fulfill with her.
Others who are big fans of this late genius may want to give this one a look for curiosity or nostalgic purposes, but as a cohesive films it leaves a lot to be desired.
Yeah right, that was fabricated by the US military for propaganda purposes, nothing more.
The book is a warning about advanced technology used for wrong purposes, adapting this to nuclear power in the Disney version was actually a pretty good idea back then as it was a very popular topic used in many b-movies of that period.
For all intense and purposes, the film may as well be dead too as it was blind luck that I caught it.
I guess I can't complain too much, because for all intents and purposes, I got this movie for free.
Now days, featurettes are fairly common for just about any DVD (most of them are for promotional purposes only and are painful to sit through).
For my purposes, this title gets a 8 out of 10.
If you're a male who will be watching this for masturbatory purposes (I don't know who else would be watching it, or why else) I would suggest turning the volume all the way down and playing your own "stroke music" on your CD player or whatever you have, unless you're heavily into "Night on Bald Mountain" (and other old library tunes) and lots of self-satirizingly earnest narration a la Walter Winchell on "The Untouchables," e.g.
Moreover, Iran is building a heavy-water reactor, supposedly for research purposes, but which is also needed to build a plutonium bomb.
And, after two years of unemployment, the worker, accurately expecting to be at the end of every hiring queue, had lost hope and, for all practical purposes, left the labor market.
And though the United States invokes international human rights institutions when doing so suits its purposes, it renounces these institutions when they attempt to assert jurisdiction over the United States.
But this defeats the very purposes – transparency, credibility, and predictability – for which a target was announced in the first place.
Unless and until Europe's leaders shed their confusions, and speak plainly to their citizens about their thinking and their purposes, Europe's economic malaise will likely lead to a dangerous brew of monetary muddle and social unrest.
Of course, military intervention for purposes beyond defending one’s country remains possible, but requires a UN Security Council resolution.
Monetary subsidies to consumption are also often granted in developed countries for a variety of purposes, not least of which is fighting tax evasion.
While a hacker and a government can both create information and exploit the Internet, it matters for many purposes that large governments can deploy tens of thousands of trained people and have access to vast computing power to crack codes or intrude into other organizations.
The US and China both need innovation-led economies for their own purposes – in codependency terms, for their own personal growth.
In developing these new data systems, governments, businesses, and civil-society groups should promote four distinct purposes.
This represents a huge regulatory “black hole” at the center of the global financial system, hitherto not closely monitored for monetary and financial stability purposes.
Instead, central banks were established for two major purposes.
But derivatives can also be used for speculative purposes, allowing banks to take on excessive risk.
Third, the willingness to hold America’s creditworthiness hostage for domestic political purposes will almost surely accelerate the decline of US influence in global economic governance and management.
Unlike hard-power assets (such as armed forces), many soft-power resources are separate from the government and are only partly responsive to its purposes.
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