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He was aware of his shortcomings and he also had confidence and and a great sense of humor about himself.
If they get any credit, it's that they don't stoop even lower and use the horrible "shaky, camera on a string" crap to further cover the shortcomings!
The special effects are not too hot either, but if the scripts were better, the plots less predictable, the acting less bad and direction less clunky you would forgive any shortcomings in the level of production.
My favorite is where he argues with "colleagues" about their medical shortcomings, saying, "incline your heads to the right Gentlemen.
I decided to continue watching it to see if there really was a plot buried amidst all of the other shortcomings of the film.
Spoiler Alert!! --- Vincente Minnelli's overwrought expose of Hollywood and all its shortcomings.
In a horror film, that should help the film accomplish its ambitions, but it really doesn't, it just draws attentions to its shortcomings.
"Invasion from Inner Earth" has all the shortcomings of Bill Rebane's other, better known films like "Giant Spider Invasion" and "Monster a Go-Go" and more, in spades.
There are some shortcomings though.
This movie despite its shortcomings got me started researching the life of Fred Noonan nearly ten years ago.
Even the best reviews on this site mention the bad acting and the (obvious) low budget, but try to say that those aspects of the film are simply something a "low budget" or "indie" film maker must deal with and the writer/director/actor should be commended for dealing with such shortcomings and still finishing the production.
His deadpan delivery and obliviousness to his own shortcomings (or maybe it's denial, tough to tell from just one episode) is really what fuels the comedy here.
With all the shortcomings of the era being shown in full detail, we still have to also admit that the music then was great, and maybe even wish that music today could be so good.
This travesty of a movie is the kind of thing that happens when talentless people fail to recognize their shortcomings and start trying to be the next Tarantino or Lynch.
I also thought it was well written and well directed, despite the shortcomings of a low budget urban film.
I feared this film highlighting one the most dramatic events in modern history would be hampered by bare stage sets and other shortcomings resulting from short funding in Hungary, or the portrayal of events would be marred by national self-pity.
They use typical kid shortcomings instead of writing a clever script.
Despite all of this movie's shortcomings, I did like it.
In many ways it is a tribute to Wood himself and his unflinching desire and drive to make movies despite his obvious lack of talent and other shortcomings.
If one can judge by this film alone (as, unfortunately, I must, though that won't be the case for long), Marins' big influences are Jung, Bosch, and E.C. Comics, which places this picture in heavy company by virtue of its aspirations alone, despite its technical shortcomings.
For being the introduction to one of the most enduring horror series in European cinema, FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR is rather lame - apart from being an edited variant of the original Spanish cut, bearing the more accurate title THE MARK OF THE WOLFMAN - but one tends to forgive Paul Naschy the many shortcomings of his script on this occasion because here he was still treading the waters, as it were.
The story and setting are so entertaining, however, that it manages to overcome its shortcomings and remain a memorable experience.
The behavior of the actors and actresses in the film is convincingly human, i.e. people having their merits and shortcomings in their lives, there is no fictitious models of behavior.
With the same amount of money, someone else could have made a better movie because they were emotionally detached from the content and could have seen the obvious shortcomings.
However, despite all the shortcomings, this is interesting because it's one of the very few times you get to hear Miss Brooks speak on film.
The film builds a psychodramatic suspense in the characters of Lange and Paltrow that transcends the shortcomings of the plot details.
Comedy is particularly satisfying when it deals with the shortcomings of human nature, not when it denies natural emotions and intellect as this story does so inexcusably.
He was already a great director who could get some real gripping action or situations even with all the shortcomings of his equipment.
Duvall has created an imperfect hero, a hero much easier to relate to because he has shortcomings and flaws.
It's a pity, Keira Knightley is a good actress, I wonder what she is doing in this doomed enterprise of a movie that has all the shortcomings of this sort of movie, including void aestheticism.
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