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This movie is really just an incessant cell phone ringing and someone picking it up looking harried and worried.
The director fails to create an atmosphere, despite heavy use of the same gimmicks (tired look of the main character, phone or door bell ringing all the time, water dripping and medications).
The two women figure out that the town is full of Werewolves, and that the key to killing them all is by ringing the bell in the Tower of Drago (imported from Drago, Transylvania stone-by-stone).
This short is loads of fun, but be warned...you'll have the theme song ringing in your head for days.
If these friends are so telepathic, why would one have to answer a, and Im not making this up, a ringing gun...then talk trough it like it was a telephone!! Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee, and Tom Sizemore, what on earth were you thinking?
At the end, Niven was so impressed with those heroes that he sent them off to The Savoy in London for the weekend, ringing the manager with instructions to give them whatever they wanted: women, drink, food, making sure the bill was sent direct to him.
For me at least, alarm bells immediately start ringing if I learn that a recent action or horror film has been shot in an Eastern European location.
(it IS however writer R.J. Robertson's best, but compared to House 4, Munchie strikes back, or Beastmaster 2, that's not particularly a ringing endorsement) Dexter accompanies Marisa to Transylvania in order to get to her uncle's funeral and subsequent viewing of the video will.
But the scenes that open the film of Heston hefting a cool-looking machine gun while decked out in Austin Powers-style finery (!) staring in angst at an old calendar or losing his mind for a moment hallucinating the sound of telephones ringing in the deserted city still pack a punch.
When the prima donna's voice fails, the conductor quits and all is about to fall apart, until the heroine Alice Brady, who wanted to be an opera star on her own, turns out to be an heiress and saves the day.The sound track suggests that someone has done a spectacular job of restoring the print; Tibbett's ringing voice impresses in baritone favorites, "The Road to Mandalay," "Largo al factotum" from Barber of Seville, "The Toreador Song" from Carmen, and "Si puo," from I Pagliacci.
If there is a distinct shrill ringing throughout us as the film plays out, it's because while conforming to gangster genre conventions, we see most of the world and most of the film unfold through the eyes and ultimately with two females: a very young girl and a middle aged woman, two people we feel are under threat and will have harm come to them if they're caught.
Her character (the wife's) is the most compelling, very well acted by Phyllis Kirk, as she fights and does everything she can to save her man, in one scene holding his hand down so he can't answer the ringing black telephone, while we hear her begging him not to answer.
It clearly looked like a rushed job, I'm sure if you listen carefully you can hear the actors' cell phones ringing, it should have gone straight to viewing on some small airline, but that wouldn't be fair to subject the passengers to that.
Unfortunately, too few voices have been ringing out.
As voters in these countries are inundated with good intentions, ringing assurances, and solemn commitments, they will expect parties and candidates to follow through if they are elected.
For this reason, whatever fine, ringing pronouncement, do emerge from the Earth Summit, they are doomed to failure.
Thirty-two years and four presidents later, Barack Obama’s recent inaugural address, with its ringing endorsement of a larger role for government in addressing America’s – and the world’s – most urgent challenges, looks like it may bring down the curtain on that era.
But while Bush was not held back four years ago by the lack of a popular mandate in pushing his agenda, he may be emboldened by the seeming ringing endorsement to push even harder - such as making the tax cuts permanent and partially privatizing social security.
Even if the 59 million votes cast for Bush represented a ringing endorsement of his Iraq policy, it would not restore America's international credibility.
The alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear across Asia – an export-led region that cannot afford to ignore repeated shocks to its two largest sources of external demand.
They tremble at the fact that Marshall Fahim's army, the country's largest, sits in garrisons ringing Kabul.
King called his August 1963 march on Washington, which I joined and at which he delivered his ringing, unforgettable “I Have a Dream” speech, a march for jobs and freedom.
Her espousal of free markets – indeed, her ringing declarations about the link between political and economic freedom – inspired the Soviet bloc’s peoples, who had suffered under the Soviet yoke for 40 years.
Otherwise, they can expect alarm bells to begin ringing again – and, next time, they may not have the tools they need to silence them.
So, barely two months into the second Bush administration, alarm bells about the China threat seem to be ringing again.
Parliamentarians across Europe and the West must join their voice together in a well-defined, united and ringing declaration that forces Western leaders to apply real pressure to Europe’s last dictator.
The warning bells are ringing: like the Turkish lira, the India rupee has lost over 5% of its value in the last month.
Broken PromisesPRINCETON – In 2000, the world’s leaders met in New York and issued a ringing Millennium Declaration, promising to halve the proportion of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
We saw the people, assembled in Wenceslas Square, hundreds of thousands of them, jingling their keys and ringing hand-bells in their good-humored farewell to communism: “Your time is up.”
The median rate of growth in developing-country per capita GNP between 1980 and 1998 was 0.0% - no ringing endorsement of Washington Consensus policies.
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