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PM: Okay, those head shakes are much easier to spot once you know to look for them.
And that shakes me to the core.
Yeah, I see some shakes.
I see more shakes.
And that means you could get ketchup out of the bottle in two ways: either give it a series of long, slow languid shakes making sure you don't ever stop applying force, or you could hit the bottle once very, very hard.
What the real pros do is keep the lid on, give the bottle a few short, sharp shakes to wake up all those tomato particles, and then take the lid off and do a nice controlled pour onto their heavenly fries.
And when they do, it's always because the American public shakes them.
Lamb goes on the ground, lamb takes two steps, falls down, gets up, shakes a little, takes another couple steps, falls down.
Jonah looks up timidly and shakes his head.
And the proper translation of "cogito ergo sum" is "I shake things up, therefore I am." (Laughter) Metaphor shakes things up, giving us everything from Shakespeare to scientific discovery in the process.
Sadly, this movie never shakes the feeling that these 20th century movie people don't grasp the 19th century repression and desperation Wharton's work depicts.
On close ups, the camera shakes, the subjects move, and I get a headache.
Sure, the show shakes the brains of sweet, innocent, and easily brain-washed children and meager, lousy, pariah, stupid people of the Internet Wrestling Community that actually consider the company anything good.
When the Seaview shakes, the actors fling themselves about, sometimes in opposite directions to one another.
Just like on the good old STAR TREK TV series, when the bridge shakes.
Sadly Sandra really is not in this movie, her role is minor: "Panicky kidnapped girlfriend" (She is in fifth place on the actors listing for Jeebus shakes!)
The biggest insult of the film: trying to further develop Herbie's lover personality via shakes, beeps, flashing lights and movements indicative of a horny seventeen year old, Disney's writers do an injustice to our cute little VW.
The acting, while no great shakes, was slightly above par for horror movies in this budget range.
Lauren Graham isn't any great shakes as Evan's wife nor do any of the children strike the right note.
The film takes tame and easy swipes at religion when it ought to rip the concept to shreds, indeed the opening church sequence in The Simpsons Movie shakes religion harder than Evan Almighty's whole 95 minute run.
It shakes you up and forces you to take sides.
I can't say enough great things about this movie, the only bad thing is that you really tend to notice the camera work and it shakes a bit.
My Mother Frank begins as a warm, amiable comedy about a middle-aged Catholic woman (Frank, short for Francis, played by Sinead Cusack) who shakes herself out of the doldrums by enrolling as a student in her son's university.
71 minutes of eye-candy (the plot, having something to do with nefarious derrings-do in ancient Egypt, is beside the point) offers the cinematographer and audiences the delectable sight of Debra Paget wearing an assortment of see-thru veils, most of which hit the ground when she shakes and shimmies thru a slave-girl production number unparalleled in film history.
It shakes, judders, part captures scenes and simply confuses the viewer.
In terms of production values, the film is so bad, that at one point, while Loren is mouthing "O Patria Mia," she leans onto what looks to be a stone wall for support, and the canvas set billows and shakes.
In fact, the camera shakes and looks worse than the average home movie.
At one time, much earlier in her career, Linda Darnell was one of my favorites - no great shakes as an Actress, but very beautiful and pleasant (particularly in films like "The Mark of Zorro" and "Blood and Sand") but when I saw this monstrosity, the memories of her golden days faded quickly.
Oberon was no great shakes as an actress, but she was usually competent enough, and despite their reputed off-screen dislike of her, worked well with Olivier.
I believe it give great insight into a sub-culture who shakes the very ideas that the viewer has of society.
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