Quarter
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I'm not one to trash other people's movies, but I make an exception when they waste an hour and a
quarter
of my time and return NOTHING.
This Bollywood production features three swinging bachelors from India who share a swanky apartment in a high class
quarter
of Sydney, Australia.
Only see this movie if u want to laugh at errors and not to take it to serious because European football is nothing at all the way they put it in the movie (And the Champions League is not played like the superbowl playoff there are 2 games in the quarter, semi-finals so it's not enough to win just one game)
Saw this film when it came out, more than a
quarter
century ago.
Well it did, but not until the last
quarter
of the movie.
Fannie Hurst's tear jerking 1933 novel about the sacrifices mothers make for their daughters spawned two popular movies separated by a
quarter
century of glacially-changing social attitudes - a highly regarded 1934 version that remains faithful to the book's narrative and an elaborate 1959 remake which changes certain plot details to service German-born filmmaker Douglas Sirk's heavily Baroque style of film-making.
What it is, is a very pretentious waste of an hour and a
quarter.
The only complaint is that the laughs stop in the last
quarter
of the movie, which is rather uninteresting as the focus shifts from comedy to romance.
The actress who played his sidekick for the 3rd
quarter
of the film looked completely lost, struggling vainly to add some meaning to her lines, with the long, poorly composed two-shots only prolonging the agony.
(If you put in a
quarter
instead of a nickle, you got six plays.)
Richard Stark's novel "The Seventh" becomes a great-looking all-star heist flick with a football backdrop which, unfortunately, completely falls apart in the final
quarter.
remains after more than a
quarter
century one of the most perfect reflections of the gradual process by which the Holocaust could have happened in a Europe which believed itself civilized.
One can only marvel at Scorsese's direction on this one; coupled with the stunning and clever cinematography, this film paints a lovingly detailed tapestry of the lives of well-to-do New Yorkers, in the last
quarter
of the 19th century.
The high point of C.H.U.D. was a scene where Reverend goes to use a payphone, a guy walks up trying to look all cool and intimidating, clicks the reciever down and eats the
quarter.
The target, a bank, which in its vault has over a
quarter
of a million dollars for the railroad salaries.
I found the opening
quarter
a little rough (editing, footage choice), and had to overlook some exaggerations and oversights.
The famous "buck and a
quarter
quarterstaff" scene that opens the film is the finest example of this.
no
quarter
was given nor expected.
"Go Greased Lighting you're burning up the
quarter
mile" Grease is the word...
Ashoka was born of one of Bindusara's Indian wives, which makes Ashoka at least one
quarter
Greek -- he was the very fusion of the Greco-Indian classical tradition, snd it was he who caused to be erected the collossal Buddhas at Bamiyan, destroyed earlier this year by the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Strangely watchable, but not at one sitting!!!! Just look at the cast and story - NFL owner dies, leaves team to son-in-law (Kennedy)if he recreates travel of Chat Choo Choo to song (leaves Pennsylvnaia station at a
quarter
to four, etc) who is married to Hanley (Here Come the Brides, remember?),
We see Friar Tuck, Porky Pig, laughing hysterically as Daffy gets out, and he decides to teach Porky a lesson with his (buck and a quarter)
quarter
staff, but he hits his beak twice before the Friar comes to stop him, get him in the lake again, and Daffy joins laughing for a bit.
Shameless asrtoturfing in the comments section, obvious in the first
quarter
of the film, warranted an IMDb registration.
I especially like the scene in which Daffy uses his buck and a
quarter
quarter staff.
The first hour and a
quarter
scarcely set the stage, with the duration moving no quicker or more palatably, and I'm more than patient with artistic efforts that appear to want for plot, but this was pointlessly plot less and otherwise utterly bereft of potentially other redeeming features.
One consequence was they had to park the caravans a
quarter
mile away and then walk the actors to the set and also use a "simple" lighting rig to simulate a full moon which reflected light off the clouds and manged to cause a complaint from aeroplanes landing at Gatwick Airport 10 miles away!
Holy crap I could have spent that money on a
quarter
pounder with cheese and had some sort of temporary satisfaction.
Dying for a
quarter
pound of weed seems a little excessive for a jail, however, if only that had happened the suffering could have turned to slight laughter with mild nausea.
French couple Marie and Jean have been married for a
quarter
of century.
The last
quarter
of the movie was just agonizingly drawn out.
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