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Isn't that just slightly strange?
After reading the other reviews, I don't agree that this is a movie that PETA would love since it portrays an animal rights activist as an embezzling, slightly deranged loner who mistreats the dogs in her care and has no life, no friends, etc. Peggy didn't appeal to the dog lover in me either - she was the one who left her dog out all night, neglected to repair the hole in her fence, mistreated all the dogs she supposedly 'rescued'.
The opening 20 minutes, before the expedition is underway, are the most striking, with colorful touches and a slightly wacky approach that the film later loses, though there is good smattering of creepy moments and everything mounts to a pretty fun finale.
There's no logic or even an attempt to make things slightly realistic or interesting.
yet for some reason I've become slightly obsessed with British culture, movies, literature, music and whatnot.
What it's like: If you took the story ("Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by "Lewis Padgett"--Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore), and gave it to latter-day hippies (such as script-repurposer Bruce Joel Rubin) to make as one of the sharper episodes of the revived THE OUTER LIMITS (it's slightly wittier and better-done than the "Sandkings" pilot).
This strange, discombobulated version of RLS's classic, with the name changed only slightly and the same list of characters slotted into different roles, with characters out of the rejects of a small town high school play, is not merely terrible, it's amazingly awful.
The wonderful Patricia Clarkson is the slightly mysterious school dean.
All these factors make for an excellent combination as this early sound film is a very entertaining feature of slightly less than 60 minutes.
Nothing spectacular, but a good, enjoyable thriller, about a British team (led by Roger Moore, slightly out of character as a serious, sober and somewhat eccentric government agent) trying to overtake an oil platform in the North Sea that has been hijacked by a band of terrorists (led by the late, unforgettable Anthony Perkins, in one of his nervous, unsettling performances).
Had the equilibrium of this movie been tilted slightly more toward suspense it might have (just) succeeded.
Little Dakota Fanning ,who plays Emily,is absolutely awesome in this film and i will be watching her career closely in the future and though this is the sort of role Robert DE Niro,the dad,could play in his sleep,he still puts in a great though slightly muted performance.
All in all I'd say it was a pretty average to slightly above average made for TV movie.
I gotta point out the things that I enjoyed: 1)Washbun's introduction where he is posing as a Cuban gangster was slightly funny.
FOR THE BOYS is a major musical film but tapers off tune wise in the last 40 minutes while the starling and harrowing (but slightly illogical) Vietnam War scenes are played out.
The humour is slightly odd, at times very funny.
Especially as there's no other music in it, contributing to the stagey, slightly hollow presentation.
Also, the colors have a slightly washed out look that makes the movie look much older than it really is.
a slightly surreal atmosphere that transcends nicely!
Frank Oz is so imaginative (Yoda, Miss Piggy... love them!), but I have to say that this film to me is not so Frank Oz, and movies that are adapted from books are quite impressive, but I can only say I was slightly impressed.
Naturally, "Kindergarten Cop" scenarist Timothy Harris and Bowers have diverged slightly from the original, but they have kept the essential storyline largely intact.
Instead I felt like I was watching a slightly more sexed up Ye Olde Hollyoakes.
In one scene, Tanz even seems to enjoy perplexing Corporal Hartmann - he smiles slightly and says, "Any conclusions you may draw from my behavior are false."
Scenes of violence were done tastefully and the only thing slightly objectionable might be a few swear words.
Some highlights include the music score, which is slightly more creative than most films from this genre, but I laughed out loud when Lamas confronts an art museum tour group by pointing at a photo of a homeless guy and angrily yelling, "Do any of you see that the man in this photograph spends the night freezing, out in the cold?"
American romantic comedies seem built according to specifications designed only to provoke that slightly nervous, overly sweet feeling in the majority of female audience members.
Hope yet for slightly awkward American girls.
It has its moments and a certain creaky, campy charm, but suffers mightily from its amateur cast and crew and is paced only slightly faster than your average snail and has about as much intelligence.
Not one slightly attractive woman.
Unfortunately this film doesn't make it into the last category which may have redeemed it slightly.
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