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Thus the shock was not only not funny, but not shocking anymore.
The event will only be remembered for one thing, Rey Mysterio's shock victory in the 30 man over the top rope battle royal.
The movie opens on back to back, shock you into the movie scenes, that set up the parallel stories that will be played out.
Although clearly made on a low budget (there was a war on, you know), this movie still has the power to shock, albeit mildly.
The next shock for me was to search here on the IMDb for it... Rating 8.1!! Come on: Ed Wood (in drunken condition) would it done better!
I have fortunately never been diagnosed with a terminal disease but I would imagine the shock of such an announcement would be on par with watching this movie.
The climax is elaborately staged and exciting, with Hitchcock finally shaking off the cobwebs and giving us some of his trademark shock effects, and Harry Stradling's cinematography is first-rate.
It was by no means up to the quality of the other films in the festival and there was a great deal of shock after the screening from audience members who were really surprised at the less than average quality of the film.
Taxidermia will shock, upset, disturb and make nauseous all but the most sturdy and unflappable cinema viewer.
For a western viewer, Omaret yakobean is like a journey where you land at the airport and are immediately carried away by the atmosphere, the culture shock, the bustling streets, the misunderstandings, from which you emerge with challenged assumptions and a wider view of the world.
Wow! I am still in absolute shock from this film.
How this got a distribution is truly a shock.
She wakes up in a state of shock.
No they did not shock me with any of their actions, they just made me sad.
Yes, there are facts that will shock anyone thoroughly unfamiliar with Brazil's political and social problems--and even some that might surprise those who are.
They are all a hoot as the title hero and the villains, respectively--watch out for their robot like body movements and feeble attempt at shock value with the "gun in the mouth scene".
the winner was Rey mysterio a bit of a shock and sorta of un believable though.
If the girls disobey they get a shock - literally.
But the "shocking" stuff, like the racial issues in "Fiction", wasn't really that shocking, yet it came across as being more done for shock value than the well-defined, nuanced characters of the much more shocking Happiness.
Everything else is a blur and I'm guessing that I repressed the rest of the movie, even though I watched it a few more times in simple shock that it was so bad, even by my lax standards.
"Jeruselema" might shock some middle-class viewers, but it is riveting fare and the crowd I saw it with clapped and cheered along with the action.
The shock ending is kind of gratifying in a stupid way but it's not worth the pain.
But far from simply contenting himself with the shock factor, the director finds the root of beautiful emotions, sincerity, loneliness, and therefore serves to us a palette of characters so sincere and touching that one cannot help but be carried into the story.
Lampanelli does have a gift for spouting out crass opinions in a deadpan style that keeps building one shock on top of another until you can't help laughing.
However, the plot is genius, a kind of twisted allegorical look at sexual revolution and the bourgeoisie, and the crude but effective special effects make for many effective shock scenes.
If they are hit by an adverse supply shock or terms-of-trade shock in the meantime, the right step would be to loosen monetary policy sufficiently that the currency depreciates.
Indeed, if the shock is an increase in the dollar price of oil, an inflation target in theory dictates tightening monetary policy enough that the currency appreciates.
But such a policy would mean that the adverse shock is reflected in a sharp fall in output.
And this assumes that there is only a one-time permanent downward shock, with no additional slowdown in the rate of potential output growth.
Admittedly, the country’s economic performance after the oil shock of the early 1970s was poor, marked by slow growth, high inflation and unemployment, huge fiscal deficits, increasing debt, a declining currency, and inadequate infrastructure.
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