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So tell me - what serious boozer drinks Budweiser?
Its closer to a tongue-in-cheek parody than a disaster movie, but alas they were serious.
Some people think of Sweden in a negative way: too neat, too clean, too serious, too organized and too Northern.
It was funny and had the perfect balance of highly comical acting and a serious plot.
Whatever else you do with Austen, the dialog should sparkle (even in this, perhaps her most serious work), and melodrama should be strictly out of bounds.
The woman in a hurry, Mary(June Clyde), is linked to the death scene; but it is McMillan that has to try and solve the case to avoid serious suspicion.
Combining serious drama with adequate comedy is touchy at the best of times.
Of course, the movie tries to be funny but the result doesn't work as the humor introduced in the movie is often crude and pretty low-level whereas in the "fifth element", the humor was zany, involuntary and enabled to overlook the serious side of the action.
It makes any points she is trying to make as a serious actress drop off quickly.
Doom as the locals call it) is in some serious trouble.
Right from first glance of it's cheesy looking cover art, one may cast doubts upon the integrity behind this serious subject, shown on front case relegating the search for Jesus's tomb to a generic action font that looks more National Treasure or Tomb Raider then any informed debate and examination of the historical burial site should.
I was an Elijah Wood fan in the '90s (see "The War") and I learned to enjoy Mandy Moore's shifts from bubbly to serious this year (see "Chasing Liberty" which is surprisingly entertaining).
But I recognized him, which led me to believe that he was making a movie that had more of a serious, suspenseful mood.
We sure prefer something serious like The Godfather.
The whole cast takes everything dead serious and actually aren't too bad as actors.
My mistake for thinking this was a serious war-is-hell movie prior to seeing it.
It turns out, she was serious.
In line with this illicit scheme, Fane arranges for an arsonist to perform the incendiary deed, a young man who also happens to be the boyfriend of Anderson's daughter, and due to the future resort's being in the midst of a critical fire hazard sector (one of the many unexplained elements of the screenplay) Julian has every expectation that his dastardly design will come about without serious hindrance.
As a serious horror fan, I get that certain marketing ploys are used to sell movies, especially the really bad ones.
It's not the worst western ever made, but prepare for some serious yawning.
And what's worse, Weber made lots of money off of it, and poor Johnson is going to have serious "issues" the rest of his life.
Alex Ferns is not bad in the lead role and I did not pick the ending for a change, but apart from that this has no great direction solidly two dimensional characters and is not funny enough to be a comedy or serious or dark enough to be any form of decent drama.
Mena Suvari was hardly in the film, presumably just there to make people think it was a serious attempt at producing a film.
There was serious concern about the spread of Bolshevism and the troops were there ostensibly to protect their nations' interests.
He seems more like the serious guy trying too hard to be funny.
Uneasy to watch in places, it is no less than very well written, 2 of the stories having a darkly comic twist to them while the 2nd story a serious (and shockingly realistic) plot to it.
there are some movies that are so bad they are unintentionally funny, then there are movies that make you physically unwell and then there are those that lead to serious contemplation of suicide.
For this movie, based off of a TV show, and a serious finale.
I thought that it was a lousy way to end off a serious.
When coupling Norris' "serious" acting turn with over-the-top musical cues signaling every forthcoming scene in predictable fashion, the film becomes a chore to sit through.
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