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Can a movie receive less than one star?
I implore you all: read the book, or the cliffnotes even; watch the previous versions of it, even Kusminsky's; but stay away from the numerous future reruns, during which you will not receive the benefit of the commercial-free premiere.
I wrote to the director asking him to refund my movie ticket, of course I didn't receive a refund (or even a reply) but it's the point that matters.
I think this movie should receive the worst possible rating it could get.
That guy who played the nasty comedian was completely annoying and it was implausible in the first place that he would receive such a mass audience.
How on earth do people get to make films like this,or indeed receive finance for such rubbish?
Bruckheimer productions are nearly always sure fire hits at the box office but nearly always receive critical pannings from the critics .
Dull, cheap sci-fi thriller, made with an almost total lack of conviction (a control room full of computers and other devices used to receive and decipher messages from outer space is run by only ONE MAN, and is VERY poorly guarded at night), and full of campy sound effects.
Cash, a female cyborg, travels to a wasteland doctor to receive news that she is pregnant.
Michael O'Shea (as London) has some Londonesque speeches; and, it's nice to see his bearded Jack receive "The Call of the Wild" after spending some quality time alone, in the snowy mountains, with his dog, "Buck".
This is probably grossly unfair, the rather sordid tale is the fault of Harold Robbins book; considering the nature of the story Pia's exposures certainly do not receive undue attention, and perhaps Pia (who once won an acting award in Butterfly) is deliberately satirising her part rather than attempting to act in an almost unplayable role.
They would receive a D for this.
College kids would receive an F or asked to leave the school.
Bored Londoners Henry Kendall and Joan Barry (as Fred and Emily Hill) receive an advance on an inheritance.
Now these dorks have been given a final project by their idiot teacher, five of them are given pieces of a mannequin and told to design it in any way they see fit, and since there are only five pieces the other students in the class receive and automatic A, oddly enough there are only six students in this entire class so the one goth chic gets a free A, good for her!
And this one was no exception to the people at Disney to give a weak story to receive a quick reward.
It was not the fact that the human body could not receive a transplant from a different species without rejecting it.
I don't understand how "2 of us" receive such a high rating...
I couldn't wait to receive the DVD after hearing so much about the film.
Daddy's girls Florence Lawrence and Dorothy West receive some terrific news at the local post office, unaware they are being stalked by burglar Charles Inslee.
I do not know if this show is trying to show what a lousy welfare system exists in the US or if you beg hard enough you will receive.
But you have to stay open and ready to receive it -- all your life.
The Rocky Mountain Rescue receive a distress call set by a brilliant terrorist mastermind Eric Quaien (John Lithgow).
When a possessive lover murders who was supposed to be his next father-in-law(and Lily's new lover), the sky's the limit for Lily as she has written down her various relationships in a diary and subtlety makes it known the papers will receive it if certain pay doesn't come into her hands.
John Schlesinger's 'Midnight Cowboy' is perhaps most notable for being the only X-rated film in Academy history to receive the Oscar for Best Picture.
I am slowly purchasing all her movies and watching them as I receive them.
Too bad it didn't receive more publicity at the time it was released.
Fawcett and Russo are both outstanding in the leads; they receive fine support from Diana Scarwid as the passive Terry, Alfre Woodard as the sensible Patricia, and Sandy Martin as sympathetic policewoman Officer Sudow.
Last Christmas, I was lucky enough to receive one of the 1200 Ultimate Bourne boxed sets from my Better Half but put off watching the final part of the trilogy until yesterday.
It took far too long for Washington to receive the Academy award he deserved for Malcolm X, Philadelphia, Devil In A Blue Dress and The Hurricane, let us hope that Luke does not have to wait so long.
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