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One of director Alfred Hitchcock's groaners, a COMEDY which takes place in a sleepy New England town where a Bostonian man lays dead in the woods from a gunshot wound; the thin plot revolves around a handful of kooky residents who each have a run-in with the corpse.
I've been a Sleepy Hollow affectionado ever since i saw the animated Disney classic as a kid, and I suppose I've seen pretty much every version from TV, movies, and cartoons since the 1950's.
My favorite Holmes remains Jeremy Brett, who showed actual modulation in Holmes' personality (irritation and boredom before the case presented itself; excitement, sometimes to a bizarre extent, during a case; rapture at listening to a classical concert etc.) rather than the sleepy, Johnny-one-note performance of Everett.
Alas, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION will elicit sleepy "no thanks'" responses from most audiences.
I've seen it because it was on tv at 2 am and i didn't feel sleepy (too much pepsi)Better wacht child's play if you wanna see some evil toy!!!
Most of the actors sleepwalk through this film(the Red Skull's daughter for example looks particularly sleepy) and there is hardly any adventure to speak of.
The way life is in a typical sleepy smalltown is portrayed perfectly, and the different characters are all funny in their own ways.
Watch it for the social commentary, the sleepy New England setting, but above all else, for the blissful irony that fills its every crevace.
You realize that this mound of goodness was nothing more than fluffy cooked dough that will ultimately make you fat, lazy, and sleepy.
Like in "Sleepy Hollow" why do they turn Ichabod Crane into a long-nosed, clueless moron who is frightened of his own shadow?
The acting alone is terrible, the storyline has more holes in it than Swiss cheese, These two friends set out on a journey and start hitch-hiking being picked up by some SPACE-CAKE who ends up trying to kill them, they manage to escape and end up in a quite sleepy town meeting a beautiful lounge girl in a bar, she turns out to some sort of demon-like thing that wants to live a normal life, the whole town seem to have demonic sense to them, there's some other guy who I think is mean't to be the Devil, he wears a 3/4 length leather jacket and big massive leather biker boots, he's looks like a bad guy in Blade or something, then there's these two brothers who are sent down to earth to kill and then recruit people for 'legion of the dead', they constantly get into awkward situations, one of the brothers manages to get injured by falling objects, moving cars, and finally getting blown up, that was slightly funny, the guy who plays the devil comes down to earth to find his bride(demon like girl)and then there's a big fight in the film between good and evil, apart from that DON'T get this film out, because it is so bad, everything in it is so far fetched that I think the guy who made it must have been taking some sort of drugs, acid or speed maybe, but anyway the bottom line is BAD FILM, BAD ACTING, BAD PLOT, funny in certain bits because your actually laughing at how bad the film is...
In recent nights, the junta’s henchmen have burst into monasteries, lined up sleepy monks, and smashed their shaved heads against the walls, spattering them with blood.
Russia's New Anti-Oligarch WarMoscow's sleepy political summer has been stirred by a Kremlin attack, initiated by President Vladimir Putin's closest aides, on Russia's leading oligarch and the country's richest man--Michael Khodorkovsky, the principal shareholder of the oil company Yukos.
So is America, always stirring sleepy societies out of their torpor – a role begun when Commodore Matthew Perry “opened up” Japan in 1854.
Berlin is not sleepy Bonn, and the world of the 24-news cycle is not the same as the clubby atmosphere of the old Federal Republic, where only the opinion of one or two newspapers mattered.
One teacher in the sleepy Nile Delta village morbidly quips that it doubles as a morgue.
Lhasa, a sleepy, rather grubby backwater only 30 years ago, is now a city of huge public squares, shopping centers, and high-rise buildings, connected to the rest of China with a high-speed railway line.
It began as a sleepy affair – a likely victory for the incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, running against a motley crew of conservative has-beens or upstarts.
A few companies took up Stanford's offer, but the area was still sleepy and unimpressive when I first visited Stanford in the early 1960's.
Now the EU is Balkanizing the BalkansSOFIA: Residents of the sleepy town of Schengen, near Luxembourg’s border with France and Germany, would marvel at the hatred in which their hometown is held across Eastern Europe.
That led to successful serial start-up founders being taxed while sleepy entrepreneurs were not.
At the moment when his lips were closing they extended into a blissful sleepy smile, and with that smile he again fell slowly and sweetly backwards.
He heard his horses chewing hay; then how the master and his eldest son got ready and rode away for the night to pasture their horses; then how the soldier settled down to sleep on the other side of the barn with his nephew, their host's little son; he heard the boy in his treble voice imparting to his uncle his impressions of the dogs, which seemed to him terrible and enormous; then how the boy asked what those dogs were going to catch, and he heard how the soldier replied in a hoarse and sleepy voice that the sportsmen would go next day to the marshes and fire guns, adding, to stop the questioning: 'Sleep, Vaska, sleep, or else look out!'Soon the soldier himself began to snore, and all was still except for the neighing of the horses and the cry of snipe.
Though that quietness, as if she were holding her breath, and especially the peculiar tenderness and animation with which, returning from the other side of the partition, she had said: 'It's nothing!' seemed to him suspicious, yet he was so sleepy that he fell asleep at once.
The workman employed at the tipping-cradle, a red-haired lean fellow, did not hurry himself; he pressed on the lever with a sleepy hand.
He expectorated, and set out behind his sleepy horse, after harnessing it to the empty trams.
Then came their arrival at Montsou, the mad hope of curing her, months of languor, of sleepy exile, the approach of old age which would, perhaps, at last give her back to him.
His work demanded it; a passive obedience finished the benumbing process, and he replied to these questions with the stammered words of a sleepy child.
He also was worn out, but he was not sleepy; painful nightmare thoughts were beating like hammers in his skull.
Mouque appeared with Bataille, whom he was leading to work, and he had to hold him with both hands, for the sleepy old horse had suddenly reared up, and, with a shrill neigh, was stretching his head towards the shaft.
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