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This is both strikingly strong and breathtakingly shocking: gay love in Auschwitz.
Those were dark and shocking films (Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Mulholland Drive) and this is the opposite.
It is astounding and sometimes shocking.
This certainly isn't without its shocking Waters-esque moments, but it is tamer than his older culty stuff, such as "Pink Flamingoes".
Deodato brings us some mildly shocking moments and a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Casting Joan Fontaine as a poisoner (and an adulteress, which was just as shocking then - I'm not kidding, kids) was a masterful stroke.
This stuff is so weird and shocking that it's probably best for others to see it for themselves.
The rudimentary premise of "What's the matter with Helen?" is quite shocking and disturbing, but it's presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion!
It is a fine mystery and a shocking thriller.
the whole film is shocking disturbing and some scenes may be too much for "ordinary" viewers.the
Cushing is typically good in the weakest segment, which certainly isn't helped by the fact that the wax figure of the woman he's obsessed with down at the local wax museum, is anything but "beautiful" as we are told to believe she is! Someone of shocking beauty was needed and instead we're given a woman with a jaw of a turtle.
I would not call it vulgar ("Dumb and Dumber" is vulgar, "The Sweetest Thing" is both vulgar and unforgivably stupid); I would call it shocking and offensive.
Well, I just discovered that there is a show more disgusting and shocking than "Little Britain" and I like it!
The ideology of the series is horrible, killing and terminating women, mutilating animals and on and on... the first season it was better than the second one with episodes like "Cigarrette burns" (The best of all), "Homecoming" (The most funny), "Imprint" (really shocking).
The final confrontation comes in a snow storm and the last scene is so shocking that you will never forget it.
It has style, it is different, it is shocking... That's why most of you have hated it so much: because it does not try to be pleasing to you.
Her family and community have mixed emotions in dealing with her shocking return.
It was shocking for it's day what with themes of unwed pregnancy, multiple sex partners, and Mildred's vicious language so it is somewhat dated, but still an excellent movie.
It sounds a bit awkward to call a film about war and holocaust shocking since many of us will know only too well of the horrors that war and violence brings.
Movies that were X rated such as MIDNIGHT COWBOY, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, GREETINGS, LAST TANGO IN Paris, and FRITZ THE CAT all seem remarkably tame compared to the shocking things that people can get away with an R rating today.
The violence is very shocking to watch even today, but again it is necessary to the plot to depict the world of a hustler.
It hasn't the depth of characterization, intense performances, suspense or shocking final frisson of Allen's penultimate effort "Match Point," (argued by many, including this reviewer, to be a strong return to form) but "Scoop" does closely resemble Allen's last outing in its focus on English aristocrats, posh London flats, murder, and detection.
When he finally finds her, he gets a shocking revelation on what the real meaning of life is.
Have you seen the hills have eyes 2? The rape scene was funny instead of shocking.
There are some shocking scenes that are definitely not suitable for young children, but they are there for a purpose.
it's quite shocking in parts and really makes you think about so many important issues but it's not didactic.
What is Marjorie going to do with Joe? Director Robert M. Young and screenwriter William Mastrosimone concoct a harsh, gritty and often disturbing morality tale that astutely nails the stark brutality and painful debasement of rape while also showing how any person when pushed to extremes is capable of shocking acts of violence and inhumanity.
Although those events of a year ago are shocking and painful to most Americans and most spectators who saw them unfold live through CNN etc. the majority of the writers and directors choose to show that tragedy is not an American monopoly.
What is interesting to me is how when MIDNIGHT COWBOY came out in 1969, it was so shocking to viewers that it was rated X.
From the fake kisses to the plastered smiles, Page 3 leaves no stone unturned in revealing the shocking lives of the rich and the famous.
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