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I caught this flick on cable one night and couldn't believe the sheer awfulness of it.
As it happened the supporting cast included the likes of Ellen Corby and Lucile Watson but there were albeit superfluous as Crawford could carry this one by sheer willpower and force of personality.
When the credits rolled on this one, I just sat in sheer amazement.
No comedy ever written, however classic and hilarious some are, could come close to bringing you the sheer joy you will feel when the credits roll on this film.
But more than Douglas, it's also tremendous, memorable screen time for Lana Turner, perhaps in her most successful performance in just sheer acting terms (not necessarily just in presence or style like in other pictures), and for Dick Powell, who with this and Murder My Sweet has two defining roles outside of his usual niche.
It is exceptionally rare for me to find a program that is laugh out loud funny - but this is it!!! Adam West was born to play this role The sheer absurdity of the deductive process is fantastic.
I'd like to give this 10 stars for sheer inventiveness and audacity not to mention a brilliant eye, but for me it didn't quite work totally as a film, falling apart slightly towards the end.
The idea for this movie creates tremendous potential which is totally wasted on sheer stupidity of conversation and illogical plot.
And with sheer luck this movie lands on my lap and I read somewhere that is a classic story with a forgotten method of movie making.
This film is nothing short of perfection: it has heart-pounding adventure, nerve-wracking suspense, gut-busting humor, exhilerating action, wonderful characters, an excellent plot, sheer unpredictability, romance that isn't nauseating or cheesy, and a brilliant script.
But beneath that, there is genuine genius here, the dialogue, humour, acting, eroticism and, most of all, the send-up of the church (it's a shame Islam cannot be so mocked, for Islam now is as insidious as the Church was in the 1700's) is a sheer delight.
The cast of unknowns may not have the acting chops of more seasoned veterans, but their sheer musical talent compensates for this.
distinct cars (one of them blue, two of them red) within a single scene, to the laughable and meaningless dialog, HORRENDOUS acting, and an all-around stench of amateur pointlessness. the list of examples of sheer stupidity in this flick would be higher than burj dubai!
As Alan Swann, he is sheer perfection - dissipated but handsome, drunken but charming, frustrating but lovable - a man who hides his sorrows, fear and loneliness in drink and debauchery.
It's sorta nice to see that movies can still inspire sheer, honest dislike even after being taught to be accommodating about art.
To me they should be regarded as the "super-race" for the sheer fact that they, along with the Buffalo, after being not only marginalized, tokenized, robbed, and yes, decimated almost to literal extinction (remember, even the kids and babies were shot by the U.S. army), they, into the new millennium are still here and their numbers have increased (as of the year 2000 there are about 2 and 1/2 million Native Americans alive today).
This is easily the better of all the Robin Hood versions, simply for sheer charm.
After the first five minutes, which possess a quirky, 'so-bad-it's-good' charm, the film (snicker) slides into the territory of endless 'ironic' dialog, exaggerated bloodshed, and sheer, plodding obnoxiousness.
And, Japan paces the planet for sheer volume of animated movies.
Even though he met his demise at the end, I was happy to see one of the many antagonist (the crooked police officer) killed off (this is where the sheer delight comes in).
Just like Nagesh Kuknoor's film 'Teen Diwarein,' which was based on parallel stories meeting the same fate in the end or bound by sheer coincidence, an attempt has been made in 'Yun Hota To Kya Hota' to converge four stories to a common fate.
Hi all, I started watching Kung-fu hustle out of sheer boredom on my flight to Japan.
I surely hope anyone who rents this movie will be looking for sheer terror, but with a name like Nail gun Massacre I'm sure your not.
Like "Batman and Robin", The Avengers, through sheer will of its poor critical reception, compels one to see it.
Out of her sheer devotion to him she decides not to cause a scandal when she falls pregnant.
What this beautifully bad baby lacks in credibility and originality (plenty, to be brutally honest) it more than compensates for in sheer riotous absurdity, tasty all-out cheesiness (the shark looks laughably fake throughout), and, since this is an Italian fright feature, the expected in-your-face graphic and unflinching abundance of gory carnage (one poor lass has a leg bitten off by the shark).
But if you just take the American version on it's own merits, it's hard to find another show comparable in quality and sheer grittiness.
Adding Michael Dorn was sheer brilliance on the part of the producers but the loss of Terry Ferral was just brutal (killed off final episode, season before the final season) Marc Alaimo , as Gul Dukat made it east to dislike the Cardassians while Aron Eisenberg made it easy to appreciate the Ferengi!
About the only thing it has in its favour is the fact that the people who made it did so with next to no money (supposedly), and did so for the sheer joy of making it rather than for commercial gain.
After watching this movie for the first time I stayed staring at the TV screen completely numb with my mouth wide open by the sheer horror of it.
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