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Let me give you a résumé in a few sentences.
The dialog is written in clichés; you can complete a great many sentences in the script because of this.
No concept, a wafer-thin storyline, primitive acting and rare dialog - I think I counted about 10 sentences in the whole movie, each one repeated about 20 times... same for a lot of film-sequences (may be an indication for which kind of audience this crap was made!!!) The story seems to be that a young boy had to watch his father rape and kill his mother, got psychological damaged and as an adult goes touring, performing a show of self-mutilation.
Clipped sentences?
Handy tip - we Brits clip words, not sentences.
Contains spoilers The movie plot can be summarized in a few sentences: Three guys go hunting in the forest.
Jean Crain attempts a stage accent in alternate sentences and the other members of the cast seem to believe this is a melodrama and not a comedy; indeed, the entire production has bookends that reduce it to tragedy -- doubtless the Hays office insisted.
- did we just have a dud DVD or was the original film done like that - sentences left hanging in mid-air?
The storyline can be told in two sentences.
And if you are going to choose your cast from a whole lot of criminals serving long sentences for the most heinous crimes, you can be sure there will be plenty of time for rehearsals.
Reporter Royce Brier of the San Francisco Chronicle won a Pulitzer for his account of the event.California Governor James Rolph Jr. was quoted as saying he would like to turn over all jail inmates serving sentences for kidnapping to the custody of "those fine patriotic San Jose citizens, who know how to handle such a situation."
It is my understanding that the film tried to demonstrate that smart sentences may be the best way to face a criminal.
When you consider the horrible script and bad grammar, nonsensical "science," run on sentences Dr. Goddard had to try do something with, anyone who has any intelligence at all will conclude that the actor who had to speak these lines did an incredible job.
It is as if all the Japanese people use very long sentences even for expressing simplest of ideas.
So the self-righteous judge sentences him to death.
Myrna Loy is a judge who sentences Cary Grant to Shirley Temple in "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," also starring Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands, Ray Collins, and Veda Ann Borg.
I just wonder what made the actors choose to be in the film after reading the script " two sentences.
Like meeting someone one evening and then spending the night without knowing anything about each other, without even exchanging a few sentences.
It's almost painful to watch her act; as if you want to finish her sentences for her to save her the trouble.
One could make out the pauses in the middle of sentences as the cue cards were switched.
Miranda was convicted of rape and kidnapping and sentenced to 20 to 30 years imprisonment on each charge, with sentences to run concurrently.
Am I gonna run out of sentences here?
The American photographer (Mr.Harris) was acting awful, his sentences were real-clichés.
The sentences he passes out to anyone arrested are merciful and fair.
just absolute piece of utter drivel..although I admit I only lasted about half an hour somewhere in the middle You can't even call this rubbish... for instance, I caught the scene where they are supposedly digging in the wrong place, find the right place (72 steps, but no ones counting) and about 20 metres away the heroine brushes away a few CMOS of sand BY HAND and uncovers the tomb....a few rubbishy sentences later we see someone put a dynamite YES DYNAMITE stick in the very same sand, it blows up, and you have this beautiful SQUARE HOLE with nice clean staircase going down to the tomb.
This guy absolutely can't talk for more than a couple sentences without lying to make himself seem big and important and it's obvious to most people that he is a complete jerk.
And even though neither of them is capable of producing full sentences, we're supposed to believe that they're intelligent enough to trick health inspections and a pair of private investigators?
I'm not talking sentences, I'm talking entire paragraphs, entire childhood accounts.
It could be used as a substitute for the electrical chair for death sentences.
Despite of all the setbacks and jail sentences, the main character does not get broken.
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