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Once the bodies are at his home, he removes stuff (i hate to use such a general term, but i forget what it was he removed) and puts it into his wife to retain her youth.
He took everything that life could throw at him and still managed to retain a sense of humour.
Lee's battles at the end are the only redeemable part of this movie and you should skip most of the movie to retain your brain matter.
a great film based on true things to get your pulse going even more.The film about a fire demon which a group of friends have unleashed back onto the world through the help of a weejie board, the film could have gone the same way as so many others films have gone but it didn't it kept it individuality as well as help retain many jaw clenching classics.
This has never really been done in any movie before, and there's a good reason for this, even beyond that these clips have to be viewed in their original context to retain the same power.
Such films should have a sufficiently dramatic story to retain the viewers interest throughout, but they also have a very important role to play in conveying to the general public in dramatic terms the actual impact of the event in question on the lives of the ordinary people who were affected.
If you have fond memories of "Here's Lucy" from your childhood, the easiest way to retain them is never to re-watch this series.
This person has since passed on , and now his family who retain the rights have declined to allow reproduction of this truly Aussie Icon Film.
Moreover, Hooper's wise decision to keep the violence largely off-screen enhances rather than detracts from the film's alarming power to scare and disturb; this welcome and refreshing concession to the viewer's imagination ensures that the movie never deteriorates into a mindless and revolting bloodbath while still allowing the jolting outbursts of sudden brutal violence to retain their ability to startle the audience.
The elders retain their culture and roots firmly, while the teenagers flirt with the modern dress and music from France and the United States.
Since I am a child of the 80's(and retain many a fond memory of that time period) every time I watch this movie it brings me back.
The cast struggle gamely with the subpar material: Kelly just about manages to retain his dignity throughout, the lovely and personable Irene Tsu adds some spark and spunk as feisty lady cop Pam, Geoffrey Binney is okay as the hip Joe Chicago, and Brown ain't half bad in a second role as the fetching and duplicitous femme fatale Leslie.
Marcel returns to his apartment that he somehow has managed to retain during his absence and is immediately after visited by a pair of dishonest police detectives who demand $200,000 in cash that he "owes" to them and which he apparently has secreted in too cunning a manner for them to uncover.
Doris Dorrie has got the uncanny knack of rendering us speechless with her serious comic sagas which depict mundane human foibles.Erleuchtung Garantiert recounts a few mirthful episodes in the lives of its "crazy about spirituality" protagonists Uwe and Gustav.Uwe has never meditated in his life but still believes that it would help him in lessening his conjugal distress.The problems arise for them as they foolishly spend all their money in Tokyo.Things come to such a pass that they are forced to spend a few restless nights on the streets.Uwe and Gustav seem to have lost themselves completely in a metropolis like Tokyo where everyone is busy chatting on their mobile phones.The path to enlightenment is tricky for them but they happily tolerate all inconveniences in order to find spiritual bliss.They finally reach the Monzen monastery where they comprehend their innate strengths and weaknesses.Uwe overcomes the agony arising out of his failed marriage.Gustav realizes that he was never happy leading the life as a heterosexual male.He grasps that he has always been a homosexual person.Even though Erleuchtung Garantiert has been shot on Digital Video,it still manages to retain its ineffable charm.
A woman smuggles her cat into the UK, an illegal act, the ban on animals traveling having been put in place to retain the country's Rabies free status.
They made a "bold" decision, or at least I'm sure they thought so, to retain all the racial discrimination stuff.
Etting tries to retain her independence until it is implied that Jimmy rapes her and Etting becomes,in Jimmy's mind, his possession.
What exactly is the point of making a sequel when you don't actually retain anything that was good about the original?
The story concerns local hero Hung Lang, a kung fu supremo, who befriends a talking bird (of course) and is sent on a dangerous adventure to retain the sacred Dragon Blade from the mystically cavernous underworld known as Asteria, facing insurmountable peril along the way, in order to slain the Boar King, a giant pig-looking tyrant causing havoc in the town.
The English-subtitled print available on a US bootleg does not look bad at all, but I would get it on a DVD-R and not a VHS, as the disc will retain the master's tape's sharper picture quality.
But she cannot accomplish her goal alone, for she cannot leave the vicinity of Grayskull and retain her powers.
Marlene is equally smart, tough and determined to retain her current lifestyle.
The film stumbles through the events at Abu Ghraib but fails to retain any real emotion, fluidity or energy throughout the work.
Molly defeated Trish to become the new woman's champion, thank God. Kurt Angle defeated Hulk Hogan and the dead man Undertaker defeated Triple H to retain his undisputed title.
It's all very nice to make human movies, picturing things as we probably retain them in our non-cinematographic heads, but this is ridiculously lacking in the value department.
While the film as a whole may be a bit slow for today's standards, it's main set-pieces (the trapped-in-cemetery scene; the blood behind the locked door sequence; the eyes in the dark scene) retain their shock value.
An aging actress, Lynn Roman(Bobbie Bresee;who, at 37, had one knock out of a body), desperately desires to retain her past glory by nabbing a major part designed for a 20 year old lead, decides to inject an experimental formula given to her by a mysterious scientist.
The characters retain their own names and the lead Carlos actually was Reygadas father's chauffeur for many years (and an untrained actor).
Luckily, I managed to retain a copy during the height of my rental days!
I'd never seen the short 'toon PAGE MISS GLORY until this week (or if I did, it was so long ago that all I retain is a subliminal memory of the denouement), but the cartoon people reminded me of the ubiquitous long-nosed "Kilroy was here" WWII graffiti drawing and also of the cartoon work of Robert Crumb, who emerged in director Terry Zwigoff's 1994 documentary CRUMB as perhaps the most extreme American misogynist NOT behind bars.
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