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Tom Friedman actually whacked it as hard as he could with a sledgehammer without even scuffing it.
How can you say that a sledgehammer is better than a ball-peen hammer?"
So he built this model, this crazy contraption with levers and wood, and here's his wheelbarrow, buckets, a big sledgehammer.
But as with so much of Joel Schumacher's work, genuineness and authenticity are conspicuously absent, and every point must be delivered via sledgehammer to the midsection.
This is another one of those fundamentalist Christian movies that hit you over the head with religion like a sledgehammer.
The foreshadowing was as subtle as a two ton sledgehammer.
While Justin Timberlake's jealous lover is a plot contrivance I could have done without, neither he nor the sledgehammer subtlety can keep this from being a fascinatingly meditative film.
He's got the sledgehammer out and he's drawn a bead on the side of your head.
The message of this film is definitely delivered with a sledgehammer.
Where Sleepless in Seattle delivered what amounts to be the same message, albeit on a more subtle, somewhat more mature level, Serendipity delivers it with a sledgehammer, and then proceeds to pound it into your psyche for the next tedious hour and a half or so (and that's an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back again, thank you very much!!).
With an already-distended running time of 128 minutes, the film feels twice as long, and spending time with characters this obnoxiously superficial and forgettable (unlike the superior "Rules of Attraction," Scott's attempts to tinge the proceedings with irony via Domino's smug, self-aware-rich-girl voice-over only draws attention to the film's sledgehammer cluelessness) becomes an act only masochists could find pleasurable.
Why would even a non-archaeologist bang open an obviously valuable solid gold chest with a sledgehammer?
The 6 man tag match well I dont want to talk about that cause all I have got to say is swear words and im not allowed to do that.........why does HHH always use that sledgehammer stop it now you make me sick.
The sledgehammer workout is worth a giggle and the way everyone comes together at the end for a happy ending is like the end of Waynes World - just for the two fit girls and the funny ending this gets two extra stars but I've seen better acting in porno and come to think of it better story lines and nicer looking people!
The plot is terrible, they take two bad jokes and beat them to death with a sledgehammer.
Mad Magazine behavior and tabloid sledgehammer comedy add to allow any viewer who knows this is STOOPID but masquerading as a political farce will get most jokes..............the rest...well, read the comments from folk who can't connect the flouro colors..... Stubby Kaye is in fine GUYS AND, er, ROGER RABBIT form and it is fun to see his Schick in full flight with several showstopper musical numbers.
Gerald Green's novel, about a slum doctor in Brooklyn whose sudden positive notoriety has left him with a bitter aftertaste, comes to the screen with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
And finally, it was not lost on me (no more than getting hit with a sledgehammer), was the male rape by the guy who had the bigger truck and as some king of insane plot thread, the rapist has a similar very vocal orgasm during the male rape.
I agree that the politics are sledgehammer PC but this would not have bothered me at all if the film hadn't been so lacklustre.
Rather than carefully balancing the benefits of each government expenditure program with the costs of raising taxes to finance those benefits, the right seeks to use a sledgehammer – not allowing the national debt to increase forces expenditures to be limited to taxes.
But achieving it would require a massive sledgehammer.
Perhaps we should not be surprised that Trump has now taken a sledgehammer to it: systemic awareness has proved to be a major blind spot for the “Artist of the Deal,” whose worldview can be summed up in three words: quid pro quo.
A decision to leave the EU would fall like a sledgehammer on the British economy and greatly diminish its international stature.
Because they are more of a scalpel than a sledgehammer, they were particularly attractive to Europeans, who recognized them as an effective alternative to war.
In Trump’s hands, however, the scalpel has become a sledgehammer.
The sledgehammer of invasion could easily cause far more harm than the ills it seeks to stamp out.
Harming the decent majority in order to punish a misbehaving minority would be like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer – and breaking the table it is on in the process.
This means that regulatory efforts have to be more nuanced – more scalpel than sledgehammer.
And it takes a sledgehammer to the freedom of worship enjoyed by Indian citizens under the country’s constitution.
With his isolationism, wannabe authoritarianism, and sheer capriciousness, Trump gleefully took a sledgehammer to the international institutions and multilateral organizations his predecessors had built from the ashes of World War II and maintained ever since.