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Overall this movie in not bad and it makes for a nice frivolous filler between the more serious Lion King titles.
An improvement after The Enforcer which was a bit more of a comedy and less serious.
"Foxes" is a serious look at the consequences of growing up too fast in the 1980s.
It was never meant to be 'real' or serious.
Must see if you are willing to take something serious and perhaps thought-provoking.
If it lacks the electricity of the most highly charged thrillers, it is because Kazan took it so seriously that he could not hype it up, for after all, the threat of plague is serious enough to scare anybody without the need for extra guns and molls.
Director Duccio Tessari relates the absorbing story at a constant snappy pace, maintains a properly serious and no-nonsense tone throughout, stages the stirring shoot-outs and exciting car chases with considerable rip-snorting brio, and punctuates the narrative with jolting outbursts of explosive bloody violence.
A must see for serious film lovers.
Notable too are Vanity, who should have parlayed this into a serious acting career given the unexpected ability she shows, and Kelly Preston, who's character will haunt you for a few days.
Director Sam Pillsbury and screenwriter Mari Kornhauser lay on the tawdry soap opera-style histrionics something thick while attempting to tell a wannabe serious and insightful story about desire run amok and its potentially dangerous consequences; the plot goes gloriously off the rails in the laughably histrionic last third.
Above this, I believe the movie also offers us a solution to get along with this, illustrated throughout the movie by Sidney's attitude: don't become too serious about yourself or about anybody else ... "even saints were people in the beginning" ... as Sophie once says in the movie.
It's hard to say with some Asian flicks whether they were made to be serious or if they were made as spoofs.
If this one was made to be serious, it's also an excellent spoof.
It seems to me at second look that this film is a realistic look of how a lonley individual with serious past issues can slowly become completly insane and end up murdering people.
To top it off there is some funny dialogue by the old ladies in this film to soften the serious tone.
What I know is that Powder Keg is the more serious The Hire episode, until now.
There's nothing serious about it, and there are no great characters or plot twists.
The story is about a man played by Etan Embry, who has a serious gambling addiction and the ordeals he goes through to try and make good on his marriage.
What amazed me about the exchange was that I realized she was serious and would very probably have taken the time out of her busy schedule to do just that.
I will have serious words with her next time I see her.
Just the fact that it was a serious dramatic turn for director Danny Leiner, yes he of Harold and Kumar fame, was enough to pique my interest.
After 30 films of watching Presley sing to everyone including the guy he just beat up, can you imagine trying to take Presley serious in a western?
It's like minutes 33-37 with Chuck serious mind-fudging' with Keith over this cool riff in "Carol" Just over and over and over.
The obvious targeted costumer here is a middle aged Swedish old lady who thinks movie like "Shindlers list" and "The Godfather" is too serious and violent.
This movie it seems cannot decide whether it wants to be another pointless fun movie or try and get something serious and philosophical across.
Although this film is a comedy, it does a nice job of bringing across its serious underlying message.
Instead, there's a refreshingly serious story about the boundaries of loyalty and friendship.
Miike probably made his most serious film to date with this film.
Every time the electric piano chimed in at the "serious" moments, or one of those bad songs started I wanted to throw heavy cookware at the television!
The films main drawback is that whilst various elements position it as a giallo the original intention was a serious minded dramatic mystery (the script went through a number of rewrites to make it into a marketable giallo) and so it never really manages to be as tense, twisted or exuberant as the genre calls for.
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