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In a lot of films like this someone will shine through the material and you make a note of them for future reference.
Such as the bathtub scene and the post-explosion scene with the Picasso reference.
I've tried to watch this show several times, but for a show called "That '70s Show," I don't find much apart from a few haircuts and the occasional reference to disco that actually evokes the '70s -- the decade in which I grew up.
This is not a reference to Chen's scrawny physique but to the two early scenes in the film where he is scarfing down food, one of which, being rice porridge off the floor of the lower deck on an old ship.
Were the scriptwriters trying to make a snide reference to the fact that John Wayne's birth name was "Marion"?)
Oscar Wilde said it best, in reference to Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop": "One would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh out loud at the death of Little Nell."
I can remember a scene where I heard glass smash, suddenly, I was reminded of some bad high school plays (I know that I reference high school too often here, but this film did seem very juvenile) both in terms of the set, which seemed far too fake, but also as if the people were reading their lines from the script, not entirely sure what was actually going on.
If every reference to him was removed it wouldn't be noticed.
And even though a car accident is the event that gets the story going, there is never any reference to an insurance company, to the person who was driving the other car, or to the police who would have been required to do a report.
NOW! (Seinfeld reference.)
There's even a chess reference in the code names, which was in the dialog of RE.
I searched IMDb, and the User Rating of 6.0 was an excellent reference.
The film's cultural influence is demonstrable by the number of people who will understand a reference to 'banjo territory' - perhaps only Get Carter has done such an effective hatchet-job on a region's tourist industry.
Normally the best way to annoy me in a film is to include some reference to Orson Welles.
I have noticed other comments on the site and reference to the film Sommersault.
, so I didn't have any reference to the first installment done by Joe Don Baker.
When i first saw the title i was already deducing the theme of the film - it clearly wasn't a reference to British currency, so it had to be Shakespearian and about pounds of flesh - taking them, or giving them.
Anyone who uses the word "bigot" in reference to Silverman, or who claims that she only aims to "shock"... is way off the mark... She's exactly the opposite; just Google her and you'll quickly see that she's a huge proponent of civil rights, etc.
I've never seen many online movies in most of my life, but if I'd pick any of them, I'd pick Spatula Madness, A clever reference to most movies like star trooper (etc.), using a camera, and wits of steel, Jason Steele mastered the art of turning a normal image into a painting, and then putting it all together with frame-by-frame animation to get a world inhabited by spatulas.
I loved the episode but seems to me there should have been some quick reference to the secretary getting punished for effectively being an accomplice after the fact.
If you have not seen this film and you only have the modern day Tarzan films as a reference..you are missing a Real treat.
For those out there that hated "Scream," there is not one reference to "the horror rules" in this movie (even though the old slasher movie rules do apply here).
The portrait of her never seems to ring false in reference to all those images and snippets of (dreadful) movies that many of us will have already seen.
I did have a problem with the reference to the private parts made by the 5-year old.
I liked Sheedy's reference to how her face had gotten fatter.
It is a powerful statement of the divisions of our people over small issues, and our failings to recognise the bigger picture and the need to unite in order to make a difference... Despite its reference to the black community, all viewers can learn something from the message this film seeks to portray.
Washington, a former CIA operative with a drinking problem, gets a good reference from a former fellow agent which sets in motion the plot's outline.
The movie is played like a 50's horror film only alot more fun, look for the "Leasurely stroking of the ankle" reference to know what I mean.
Each thing has to be judged in it's own time reference and for what it is trying to achieve on its own terms.
Though shot on a small budget in NYC, the film looks and sounds fabulous, and takes us on a behind the scenes whirl through the rehearsal and mounting of what actors call "The Scottish Play," as a reference to the word "Macbeth" is thought to bring on the play's ancient curse.
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