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The most glaring absurdity was that while the American inmates in a North Korean POW camp are all supposedly suffering from severe deprivation of food and medicine, going without bathing, shivering in flimsy and filthy parkas, and sleeping on bare floors, and - let's not forget enduring torture - they always manage to sport impeccably coiffed hair.
Previous comments encouraged me to check this out when it showed up on TCM, but it was a severe disappointment.
The plot is incredibly unwise - 2 men survive the genetic catastrophe and find themselves on the planet full of feminist strong, straight and fundamentally severe ladies.
What's even more amazing is that Curly was having severe health problems at the time, and in several of the shorts he made during this period, you can see that he is obviously ill; his timing is way off, he speaks very slowly and haltingly, and has trouble getting around.
If someone with such a severe case of CP as Christie Brown has can do so much, then there's no reason that I couldn't achieve my own dreams.
As a psychiatrist specialized in trauma, I find this film a beautiful shown example of a severe psychic trauma, even a trauma.
However, this is not a story of heartache and family dysfunction even when there is quite a bit of it furnishing the autobiographical account, but that of a man overcoming his severe disability, becoming a functioning human being and a force of be reckoned with in the art world.
Dick Tracy plays the innocence of just being a comic book with villains that have severe appearance disorder and being fun.
She does try to kill herself, but not after a series of severe fights, with God.
Let's see,...we have a case of incest/rape, attempted murder, wife swapping, alcoholism, infidelity, death of a little boy after eating tainted fish, a man with severe depression (he never talks during the movie and looks very scary), a hopeless dreamer who would probably be diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mentally retarded young man who thinks he is a street car conductor and spends all his waking moments "driving" his street car through paths among the garbage piles, a man married to a total shrew (I think I liked her character even less than the incestuous rapist!), etc., etc.
There is John Holmes' perspective (played by Val Kilmer), which makes him out to be a pawn stuck between two kings (with a severe case of cocaine cravings).
The movie was a suspenseful, and somewhat dark, look at the severe results of a genuinely human mistake.
A pre-stardom Danny DeVito in particular is an absolute riot as Getz's cranky carwash owner boss Andy, a lovably cantankerous ne'er-do-well slob who wears very ugly loud Hawaiian shirts and suffers from a severe gambling habit.
VITAL severe MASTERPIECE!
There's some severe butchering going on in this film and the make-up, as well as the sound effects, are very convincing.
Most war films made in the US during WWII were great fun to watch but suffered from severe gaps in realism because they were being produced more for propaganda value to raise the spirits at home than anything else.
Linda Hoffman plays his cheating wife and she is very easy on the eye - unfortunately for her, the little "tryst" with the pool guy brings severe punishment in a way the good doctor knows best - shame about that pretty smile!
She's a young girl who had a traumatizing event in her past that caused her to have a severe case of Agoraphobia which keeps her locked inside her apartment for the past year.
The story is just ludicrous containing so many contrived details that I had to fight back the urge to bust into severe laughter.
However it all changes, when the teacher actually turns up in a very severe accident.
He's called a monster, a heel--which seems a tad severe for a guy who never seems to get any action because his phone is always ringing and his doorbell is always buzzing.
It's very hard to accept or believe that a love for sex is a major problem or a severe disorder.
Not only was he subjected to a severe test of his patience as a film-goer, but had to lose money in the process.
Our Professor, who, never leaves his downtrodden, filthy household is a representation of the stultifying damage that can occur during severe depression.
This is a good start even if the movie never manages to fully rise above it's severe budget restraints.
Writer/director Horace Jackson concocts a somewhat clumsy, but well-meaning and insightful social drama that pertinently addresses how severe parental neglect contributes substantially to juvenile delinquency.
Laura (Jane Wyman) has a severe limp and has trouble getting around--perhaps this explains why she never left.
His brother Charlie (Luke Ford) has severe Autism and Attention Deficit Disorder.
He was subject to severe mood swings, possibly even manic depression but remained an honourable man.
People with a low tolerance for inept cinema are likely to faint or even die from a stroke during the first half hour already and even experienced bad movie fanatics will, in fact, face severe difficulties to sit through R.O.T.O.R from start to finish.
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