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But the philosophies espoused by Ford in the film, and his white-bread demeanor and points of reference are totally alien to Hogan's own background or his life essence.
A lot of so called comedies get one or two big laughs in the whole film, often by reaching down for a reference to one or another substance that comes from the human body.
It is hard to accept society has not advanced to accept things without reference to religious considerations.
This has gone down in my personal history as THE movie to reference when I want to talk about bad movies.
Amazingly, this movie doesn't appear in any of the film reference books, I've seen and it is doubtless not available on home video...
Mandchurian Candidate seems to keep staying one good reference.
Purported to be loosely based on the original series it has no character called Knight, no reference to the Foundation for Law And Government and has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Knight Rider.
However, even is this is true, the script should have made reference to this hard to believe 'fact' in dialogue, simply because the situation was so unusual and would have breached the strictly enforced wartime regulations concerning the blackout.
This movie rambles along in all sorts of directions with no apparent reference to anything.
I love the whole bizarre set up, the weird coincidences (for example the piece of newspaper stuck on his arm which talks about a man being ripped apart by vigilantes in the very area he can't get away from - and then the weird woman says 'I'll burn it off' - yet more reference to burns) Love the 'Berlin club', and the idea of the plaster of Paris cream cheese bagel paper weights - so evocative of that pretentious era!
From what I've read in factual biographies and works of reference (yes, I find this stuff so intriguing that I study it on the side), the screenplay is rather accurate and faithful when it comes to the basic re-telling of the murder cases.
It breaks my heart when I drop a Freakazoid reference and no one around me gets it.
It's pretty explicit, it seems to me, when we start with a reference to Pretty Woman and end with the theme from Midnight Cowboy.
Say no more, you'll have to see the movie to get that reference.
Note the reference to the wartime car tyre shortage with the line...."I can even get you a set of white wall tyres!" I,ve seen the 'toon loads of times and it always never fails to make me laugh long and loud.
the beach is assumed to be the famous surfing beach, malibu; however reference is made to santa monica.
They feel smart when they recognize the reference.
There was little time reference, continuity, and certainly no character development.
If "Lord of the Flies" is seen as a reference, I think a case can be made that this film makes some very powerful and effective statements about classic Utopianism among the children of the jaded and bored richer classes.
Indeed, if you read the book, you'd be way past page 100 before any reference to the murder appears.
There is minimal reference to the story of Memphis Belle in relation to the bigger picture ie World War II.
For an idea of what it was like during the transition, you can reference Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero (when it goes "real") as a representation of the change.
Funny, check out the reference to Forbidden Planet!
Also, if you get the DVD, be sure and check out the reference section and scene set-up after the film is over.
Indeed, the sequence in the hospital seems to be a clear reference to Truffaut's film version of the Cornell Woolrich novel.
There's not a single verbal reference to Hitler, and yet the presence of the growing Nazi movement all around these decadent misfits is ever present in this film.
Unfortunately the title of this movie isn't an invitation but a reference to the plot, in which the ever-annoying Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) is given a pair of magical trainers and helps his city league basketball team win a tournament.
(The exact year the story takes place is never specified, but the costumes and the reference to a "new-fangled horseless carriage" would put it around 1905 or so.)
Some sort of explanation for this snoozer must lie in its credit reference to Italian television.
I really liked the opening in black and white when they showed the twins as kids, and I loved the reference to Stallone and The Rocky movies with Tammy's(Nina Li Chi) boyfriend Rocky, plus it has some pretty good fights in it too.
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