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In short, I hated his character, which ruined the film for me, even though without those qualities there would not have been a film.
No Japanese track was a disappointment to begin with but then as the commentators just glad handing themselves about there edit's, re-written dialog and complete disregard for the original film I realized this was just a ruined film.
(WARNING - CONTAINS MILD SPOILER) The somewhat unresolved nature of the very last scene is ultimately dissatisfying, leaving a feeling that the film may have been inherently overly familiar - a chronicle of a straight- laced, unsatisfied couple who taste forbidden fruit and are almost ruined by it.
But its potentials were ruined by its laughable plot (though I understand the producers looked for something rather comic) and terrible screenplay.
Another good idea ruined by the TV people.
The only good part of the movie is the few sexy women wearing mid drift tops but that was soon ruined as soon as they spoke.
Honestly I was angry there about a great movie being ruined so heavily... sitting there and kind of screaming "zoomout and pan, goddamnit" to the camera man.
He also ruined the romantic relationship between Victor and Elizabeth, which in the book started as deep admiration and built with some suspense and tension until it finally culminated in their marriage and her demise, but Branagh decided to have them fondling each other more or less within the first ten minutes of the film.
I normally wouldn't care enough about such a worthless movie to write about it, except that it has all but ruined Joan Crawford in the eyes of audiences, who often know the star only by this movie.
However, the movie ruined it on so many levels.
At the end of this film you will be at one of two opinions; "must buy the book because the plot is so original and they just ruined it by a bad film" -or- "I never did really understand the '70's!"
The saddest thing about the movie is how beautiful Whitney Houston used to be before drugs and her husband ruined her.
It promised introspection, scope, meaning, and a bit of beauty, yet the first three were still-born, and the last ruined by triteness.
The appearance of some of the original Real World casts was a plus, and then the actors came in to play and ruined it all.
I miss this show a lot and wished that NBC Network never altered the programming because I think it really ruined the station.
But Arbuckle’s career was ruined, the victim of an ambitious prosecutor and a popular press that made money out of scandals.
Leviathan is about a decent man whose life is ruined by the mayor of his town in collusion with the Russian Orthodox Church and a corrupt judiciary.
At the end of his struggle, Nikolai's life is ruined.
Decades of constitutional uncertainty caused companies to leave Quebec in droves, which ruined Montreal as a corporate hub.
In the bloody mountains and ruined cities of Chechnya, Putin established his credentials as the hard man Russia needs to restore order and stop the country's internal disintegration by revitalizing state power.
Violence must give way to security for inhabitants; lawlessness and political exclusion must give way to the rule of law and participatory government; ethnic, religious, or class/caste polarization must give way to national reconciliation; and ruined war economies must be transformed into functioning market economies that enable ordinary people to support themselves.
Seventy years later, all that remains of this world are ruined palaces, empty Baroque churches, and synagogues leveled and never rebuilt.
You could easily rescue the child, but your expensive new shoes would be ruined.
It was not just small investors who were ruined; what stands out is the greed and gullibility of the rich who were sold the same rubbish by the “young and stupid” salesmen Belfort preferred to hire.
Belfort was (is) obviously a super-slick snake-oil merchant, brilliant in his trade until drugs ruined his judgment.
Oil sales will not help people in the region for many years; meanwhile, for many people in the ruined economies of the Caucasus, life is no less harsh than in war-torn Chechnya.
Kosovo's Constitutional FictionPRISTINA, KOSOVO: One year after NATO's war over Kosovo, renewal is to be seen everywhere: in reconstructed houses; in the many shops opened in the ground floors of ruined buildings; in the budding cultural, intellectual, and journalistic life of Pristina.
Behind the cold statistics, lives are being ruined, dreams are being dashed, and families are falling apart (or not being formed) as stagnation – depression in some places – runs on year after year.
In Liberia, Bush called for Taylor's resignation as a precondition for constructive dialogue and a more active involvement by the US in seeking a peaceful solution to the 15 years of internecine war that ruined the country's economy and infrastructure, as well inciting wars in most of its neighbors.
On the contrary, “the disastrous turn toward austerity has destroyed millions of jobs and ruined many lives,” he argued, with the US Congress exposing Americans to “the imminent threat of severe economic damage from short-term spending cuts.”
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