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Or was he by any chance a longtime family friend/distant relation doing this out of sheer, misplaced kindness?
You should know that I am the type of person that watches even the worst of movies to the finish, often out of sheer morbid curiosity.
This movie could have been great(cause its got a somewhat fascinating premise) but it never rises above sheer caricature.
When you can't help but bust out laughing at the sheer terrible nature of the trash littering your screen?
The film contains a handful of moments of sheer cinematic brilliance, unfortunately, they deserve a film worthy of their genius.
Martin, Dan Aykroyd and Phil Hartman squeeze a couple of laughs out through sheer effort, but they're all better than this and it's quite painful watching them work with such thin material.
Why do people rent it and not immediately burn the copy once they've seen its sheer horror?
Unfortunately, it turned out to be a pointless film with only a couple of laughs mixed in with two hours of sheer boredom.
I have come out of several years of lurking on these boards due to the sheer lack of intelligence that is communicated through the reviews that periodically appear on this film's IMDb space.
I too was in the Toronto International Film Festival audience last night where a room filled with over 2000 people walked out in an eerie silence after being absolutely dumbstruck by 2 hours of sheer nonsense.
The bright and colorful scenes done in CG are attractive for the sheer colors and brilliance but it can get overwhelming before long.
Tatie Danielle is all about a ghastly old hag who torments her loving and oblivious family out of sheer spite.
I found the sheer absurdity of Zoolander utterly hilarious when it was released, Starsky and Hutch was also enjoyable, and then Dodgeball kept the laughs going for a lot of people, although personally i was a bit tired of the over-the-top characters - especially when the scenario wasn't quite so funny (perhaps the comedy of a Dodgeball tournament doesn't quite translate to Australia, where it's rarely played).
I must say, the mind reels... "Grease 2" is a truly lame enterprise that doesn't even have the courage, moxy or sheer gall to take the memory of its predecessor down in flames (like "Jaws 2" or "Exorcist II").
It's difficult to precisely put into words the sheer awfulness of this film.
The people in this film do not represent the average Gay American or even the average Trandgender American, what they do represent is a sheer and utter nightmare.
Beating 'Good Will Hunting' Baise Moi' and 'Flirt' for sheer awfulness.
" Skycaptain bludgeons the viewer with its sheer excess.
I kept waiting for this movie to "get started"... then I waited for it to redeem itself... and when it did neither, I just sat there, dumbfounded that: 1) it could possibly be this bad, and 2) that I had just wasted a couple of hours on just sheer stupidity.
It has nothing to do with his performance, which is terrifyingly convincing.The movie occupies an uneasy position between sheer exploitation and a half way serious treatment of the subject, without quite settling into either mode.
I can still remember my sheer disappointment and loathing for the movie when I first saw it.
However, the major failing is that the sheer artificiality of the mise en scene creates an alienating effect in the viewer.
There are scenes which make you gulp with sudden emotion, and those which even put a smile on your face through sheer identification with the characters and their situation.
Either sheer genius from a fledgling auteur or just one of those lucky mixes where everything clicked (probably some of each), this simple little slice-of-urban-life ethnic first love flick fleshes out its young characters with such depth you can almost read their minds.
Unlike many other films, which are disturbing either by dint of their naked unpleasantness (Man Bites Dog) or their sheer violence (most Peckinpah films), Deliverance shocks by its plausibility.
So bad in fact, that by sheer freakiness, this movie must get a ten rating because it has to be seen to be believed.
The legend of Andrei Konchalovsky's towering 4 and a half hour poem to Siberia is not to begin at once, because it must hold back for space, because it takes its time in roundabout explorations of half-remembered childhood memories in a turn-of-the-century backwoods village, yet the movie goes on picking up steam building in emotional resonance as though even the sounds and images which compose it become imbued by sheer association with their subject matter with that quality of fierce tireless quiet dignity that characterizes the Soviet working spirit.
I first saw a track from this DVD at a hifi show Nov 2006 in London ( i was not really into cream until now!!).It was through a high end Arcam system,it sounded great with dts.I had to get this DVD and i'll tell you this is by far the most exciting music DVD i have ever watched.The performance of Cream at their age was just mind blowing and sound quality is the best i have heard on a music DVD.It does not matter what type of music you like,this one will definitely grow on you.It's the sheer brilliance of their performance that will make you watch it again and again.Even new musicians don't cut the mustard these days, as these old rockers do.
Dr Eugene Sands(Duchovny)is a drug addicted doctor struck off for malpractice.By sheer accident he becomes a private doctor for criminal millionaire Raymond Blossom.However the FBI take an interest in using Eugene to snare Blossom.
If you are fortunate enough to watch this legendary Classic, you will enjoy films the way they use to make them; for the sheer pleasure.
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