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This film centers around the true horrors that the courageous nurses who served in WWII at Corregidor went through.
The script for this film was written by using the stories from journals, and diaries of the actual nurses who served at Corregidor.
Add in the junkie, the idiot savant (more savant than idiot) and a tab of Ecstasy slipped into Dad's antacid, and we're on a strange, unenlightening trip through flashbacks and hallucinations that will leave you checking your watch long before the meal is served.
"The director is apparently on crack" For viewers that are trying to understand the story of Antigone, this film only served to confuse them rather than clarify.
I have never had the privilege of serving but I know men who have served and men who still do and I pray they never have to bear witness to a movie such as this.
Its as if the stars involved were sedated through the whole film, and lets not talk about the plot.The worst performance Edward G.Robinson ever gave in a film, with his emoting over his partners death with as much passion as if a waitress served his coffee black instead of with cream.
Clientele flocked there for the good food, the good music and I daresay the beautiful Ilona who served on the tables.
Apparently, it was too difficult to round up ANYBODY who had ever served aboard a submarine to correct a few of the several hundred mistakes.
However, he is served with a somewhat juvenile script here and, at one point in the film, is given a few lines of 1940's teenage vernacular to speak!
I thought the storyline showed some of the greatest human characteristics that can be shown, both from Elder Groberg and from those whom he served.
While the dinosaurs looked real, and the Sleestak had a look that was less hokey than the show, it is obvious they both served as eye candy for a movie not even good enough to suck (I've finally come to the point of using the word "suck" in a movie review).
Although "Dodge City" is loosely based on the early career of Wyatt Earp, the main character, here called Wade Hatton, is an Irishman who has served as an officer with the British Army in India, taken part in a revolution in Cuba and fought with the Confederates during the American Civil War.
It also blends fact and fabrication in a way that seems fair and reasonable so that the viewer has been well served when the credits roll.
If it weren't for the busty blonde this film stock would have better served as toilet paper for death row inmates.
The mid seventies were a high point for British TV - The Sweeney, Fawlty Towers, Rising Damp, Morecambe and Wise, Are you Being Served and many others; in all other ways British culture was at a low point.
The original, starring Humphrey Bogart, was bad enough, although considering that it was made during the war, it probably served its purpose as a propaganda piece.
To that end, Jamie Kennedy pulls out every trick in the book including fat jokes, gay jokes, racial slurs, bathroom humor, sex jokes, violence, Jewish jokes, retard jokes, a barrage of un-funny parodies of 80's wardrobe, dated colloquialisms, and over-played and un-original jokes resulting from a 20 year coma in a tragic attempt to mix back to the future, you got served, and some Adam Sandler movie.
If you are looking for an intelligent action drama, you are probably better served skipping "So Close", however if you want a fun action drama that is so much more better than "Charlie's Angels", then "So Close" is something for you.
Nonsensical rubbish served as the debut acting vehicle for real-life music diva Whitney Houston, who does passable work off the stage.
Takura Yamashita (Koji Yakusho) has served eight years in prison for murdering his wife and her lover in a jealous rage and attempts to rehabilitate himself by opening a barbershop in an isolated corner of Japan.
This autobiographical character study of real-life New York City detective Eddie Egan, who also served as technical adviser for the film, is definitely underrated.
I say that a mark of a good movie is that you don't have to be familiar with the book, play, etc that served as the basis or inspiration.
Maybe she will eventually use footage from the hand-held camera as it seems to have served absolutely no purpose in this film.
The film isn't melodramatic, thankfully; it's brave, it has a thoughtful, melancholy undermining, and the gay theme is served well (only some of the dialogue dates it).
The most embarrassing moments were the Jeffrey and Melinda scenes in the mansion, who served no real purpose to the poorly thought-out plot.
McKee is aiming at lyricism, and while we should expect that plot is also served, in this film it is secondary.
I was shocked to see how low Mr. Winfield sunk, his acting talent could've served in better films than this.
The local bar has become a nice little restaurant where you get your meal served to you on a conveyor belt, you get to go to a cool place and try to out cliff dive some dude, and you of course end up once again at Monkey Island!
The images made me feel like I was getting a real glimpse at the lives of the men who served during WWII.
As one who served as an MACV adviser (1965) and later in the infantry in Vietnam (1966), I can only echo those that say this is the best Vietnam film ever made.
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