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Both movies focus on unlikely human materials having a vocation they fail to recognize and consciously resist.
I think the symbolism of the murdered man is killing the man that likes the stronger personality, but cannot resist the temptation of a younger girl - just like her editor lover who cannot leave his wife but will indulge in side affairs.
The acting is up to scratch and especially moments when the captives are in the prison and they really are feeling the pain and torture and still managing to resist the urge to stop it.
Making a documentary about a philosopher is a particularly difficult proposition; with most other subjects, we welcome and enjoy varying interpretations, but, with philosophy, we tend to resist variance, because the very aim of philosophy, at least until Post-Structuralists came along, has always been to arrive at the Truth.
The script is a comic whirlwind, with too many brilliant scenes to enumerate (I can't resist mentioning the blind date's arrival - the desperate preparations and the pathetic introduction are funny but painful, in that we have all been in that position; his demonstration of authentic Chinese rice-eating technique is another classic).
She and those giant shoulder pads of hers are hard to resist, but this is an atrocious movie.
Best of all, there's a sweet and simple good-natured quality to the whole show that's impossible to either resist or dislike.
Who can resist the obscene spectacle of Charles Bronson's rude hamburger face perched atop one of the most classically sculpted physiques in pre-Schwarzenegger stardom?
"Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never cease to be polite, and never outstay your welcome").
The title doesn't really suggest it but once you begin to watch it it just captivates you and you can't resist the temptation to finish the whole movie.
On the one hand, it's easy for me to watch it so many times because it's a musical and when you find the tunes catchy you can't resist it.
OK, sorry, I couldn't resist.
Who can resist Kitchen's throwaway response to "It's not a good time"?
It delivers on all counts - it's scary as hell (sorry, I couldn't resist!), gruesome in a couple of well placed scenes, and funny without weakening the tension.
Perhaps that's part of the problem then, because in every film version I've seen (save, perhaps, for the Jeremy Brett Granada one, where the hound looked as though it merely wanted a Milk-Bone and a nice tummy rub), scriptwriters can't resist the temptation to add dubious "improvements" to Sir Arthur's masterwork.
Well, shouldn't the others' human spirits also be able to resist Brother Blood, since they're all human?
Rémi tries very hard (honestly, he does) to resist the temptation, but what's a lonely man to do when a scantily clad young gal keeps throwing herself at him and continues to sneak into his bed at night?
This should have been the end of the Home Alone series, seeing that the same premise and cast were used for two films but, naturally, Hollywood just can't resist trying to squeeze more money from a proved formula.
Way to scary for that, but so fun that you can't resist playing it over and over and over.
Into this dysfunction comes Alice, a struggling single parent who has a sad sweetness that Harbour cannot resist.
A total waste of time, this sorry excuse for a soft porn (that doesn't dare enough, anyway) is a botched thriller, with a Budapest scenario, where three sexy, perverted sisters try to lure a naive police inspector (falling to all three of them - well he has his reasons to not resist to these sirens) in making him believe none of them is guilty of the killing of the husband of one of them.
And they even couldn't resist throwing in a line about the baby getting circumcized.
I couldn't resist feeling this is director's self-loving creation.
I can't resist a new David Fincher film.
Being a great fan of Rod Steiger, I could not resist buying the DVD.
I couldn't resist buying the collector's edition DVD of "Candy" but I still have to give it a 1 on the voting scale.
could resist the disgusting jokes only for 8 minutes.nobody
To live your dreams, follow your instincts, to resist social pressure, stay true to yourself, to become who you really are.
The plots are pretty ludicrous and the situations repetitive, but the plots are based on the characters, and once you accept the premise that these elderly men are idle with their one goal in life being to resist being their ages, then their schemes, far fetched as many are, make some sort of sense.
So if you loved the first, resist the temptation to spoil your memory with this second one!
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