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Seven years after her unexpected success with "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding", star Nia Vardalos looks slimmer and more glamorous than she did in her debut, yet she portrays almost the same self-defeating character as Georgia, a history professor who came to Greece to teach but ends up leading tourists around its ancient ruins.
The sets are either obviously something else (power plant standing in for secret underground base) or so minimal (burned out 50 gallon drums for Iraqi war zone, a few Styrofoam pillars for Greek ruins) as to be distractingly laughable.
Would you spend the night, following a traffic accident, in a bizarre futuristic home built atop the ruins of a fortress perched over a horrific World War One battlefield?
Sometimes sex scenes make a movie but in this case it just ruins it.
It is beautiful, touching, but too sentimental at times, which almost ruins it.
What the trailer doesn't show is the almost non-stop dreck that litters and ruins the rest of the film.
A couple of the death scenes are tolerable but the acting ruins it.
It handles about a bus-load of social misfits (guided by a priest who lost his faith and impregnated a foxy nun) on a sightseeing tour around Aztec ruins in Mexico.
Characters just keep meeting in the half ruins of Mexico City.
Unfortunately, Just On Time, has the feel of a moronic T.V. sitcom, and is so tedious it ruins the fun.
The dialogue is absolutely horrible, there is no plot, and even though there are some decent actors, Freddie Prinze Jr ruins it by coming off as a big dope.
Also watch for the bad acting in the flashback scene (yes, they even used flashbacks, it ruins them all.)
Saying that there have been dozens of films about how war ruins men so it's a cliché, and that this one is too dreary and slow means that a person has stopped feeling for what is really hurtful, is even in denial.
Joan Crawford's least likable character could be the one she played in this film, as a controlling and vindictive woman of wealth who runs and ruins (or nearly ruins) the lives of all those whom she has relationships with in her large southern plantation mansion.
Donald Duck had been mentionened as an idea since 1931 but this was his first actual appearance.I was introduced to the character mainly by the comicbooks and at a lesser extents by some great shorts as "Commando Duck".Donald is obviously the most interesting character in this short.According to comics continuity he was 14 years old.Not bad for a teen-ager.But this short introduces as to his voice actor"Clarence"Ducky"Nash.Why should Donald's speaking be almost incomprehensible?I usualy hate hearing it.Since his name is Donald a slight Scottish accent would be more acceptable.A nice short but Clarence ruins it for me.I greately preferred Scrooge's voice in Ducktales.
Yup the background music in this film is what completely ruins this movie it is cheesy and the whole film in general feels like " Made for TV ".
Gere ruins it all.
She single-handedly ruins any credibility the film might have ever had.
The opening shot is of a desolate post-apocalyptic world with what were once our cities but are now crumbling ruins, a lawless world where acid rain falls from the sky & the strong prey on the weak.
He ruins what could have been a decent relationship with his boss(played by Anne Marie Johnson) to be a pig and is constantly running back to that gold-digging self-centered trollop Monica, even though her love for him was only on a financial level.
In fact, I am not really a big fan of SW's Expanded Universe since its purpose is to explore the possibilities beyond the movies (which in turn ruins the rhythm of the saga's overall presentation).
What really ruins it is the ridiculous casting and character design, they had no idea what they were doing.
We see that Oscar, when given this rare opportunity in the eyes of the average man, totally blows it and ruins a most ideal relationship.
However, the director ruins everything.
Togehter with the sister-in-law and her sick child, Noqreh and her father are looking for a place to live in the ruins, they briefly stay in a crashed airplane and the bombed parliament building, before leaving the city for a more traditional country side...
And Michelle Williams, who miraculously found her sons toy rabbit in the ruins of the football stadium, clutches it to her chest in almost every scene.
James Marshall stars as an ex-crook trying to go straight however this is hard because his criminal record keeps haunting him and ruins his chance for any decent employment, however when he gets his hands on a counterfeit plate, three sets of mobsters come gunning for him.
Robert Redfords PBS "Mystery" adaptations of Tony Hillerman's Navajo police novels completely ruins the two main characters, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn.
He ruins the movie completely.
This single moment of deception and witchcraft triggered her mistrust of all men and ruins her innocence.
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