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Even being drunk probably doesn't make this movie better (I wouldn't know, I only watched it once sober and am in no way meaning to do that to myself again).
They could have remained sober and created a better movie, Instead there is completely immature scenes which mar the sober atmosphere that the camera-work creates.
Sadly Lance would succumb to his own demons of addiction which would lead him out of show biz and into the religious biz as a clean and sober youth pastor.
Jack Palance was totally miscast, even if he were sober it would have made little difference.
I was stone cold sober.
I don't think you need to get stoned to watch it, but for some of this, if you are sober you feel like you were invited to a party only to be the resident wallflower.
I was stone cold sober when I watched it on television this time also.
It should be regarded not as a movie, but as an experience.The script is tight and sober, reminded me of David Mamet in his most inspiring moments, regarding the dialogs and the exchanges between the characters.
One scene finds an apparently sober middle-aged man at a local bar pouring his heart out to our pair of 19-year old protagonists for no apparent reason except possibly that the author wanted to squeeze in another monologue.
This charming sober film from French filmmaker Ozon poses the questions of loss and denial, sexuality, and the many ways that we deal with grief.
It is doubtful in the extreme, that Ching-ling survived miscarriage and 42 days sloshing through the marshes as portrayed, but until a more sober and satisfactory account of Mme.
For a start I do not recommend watching this movie sober.
Possibly a good party movie, but definitely should not be seen while fully sober.
Mickey Rooney plays Mike Halligan, a retired New York City detective who dies before Christmas and is sent back to Earth to find an alcoholic angel and sober him up in time for Christmas to spread the Christmas cheer to the citizens of New York.
We need to consider such issues in trying to understand why, for example, Italian voters last month rejected the sober economist Mario Monti, who forced austerity on them, notably by raising property taxes.
The success of the Tea Party movement has made many Democrats (and some sober Republicans) nervous.
This year, Juncker delivered a far more sober speech.
From that point on, the specter of a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority in an apartheid state is bound to become a reality, turning Israel into an international pariah, unless a more sober coalition replaces Netanyahu’s suicidal alliance with religious fundamentalists and extreme nationalists.
Moreover, the referendum should be held at least one year after the election, to allow for a proper, sober debate.
As we move towards the next century, I think we would be well advised, precisely because of the victory of 1989, to make a very sober, realistic, and philosophically responsible assessment of the problems that we all may together confront.
It is a sane and sober choice that heralds short-term continuity in Fed interest-rate policy, and perhaps a simpler and cleaner approach to regulatory policy.
But it was informed by his careful and sober reading of the evolving strategic landscape.
Indeed, in pushing for a small Europe, they have asserted, using the sober rhetoric of Realpolitik, that Europe’s integration path is necessarily shaped by the crises that arise along the way.
Nothing reveals the decline of the United States in the region better than the contrast between America’s sober use of power in the first Gulf War in 1991 and the hubris and deceit of today’s Iraq war.
“If you’re poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said,” ran a headline in the popular and normally sober Vox.com news site.
But any sober observer can see that the US is still a long way from the nightmarish atmosphere of Germany in 1933.
Still, consider a recent matter-of-fact report from a sober and respected US magazine.
Fortunately, this does not seem likely for the moment, especially given the Chinese leadership’s sober and pragmatic approach to its resource problems.
Holding the trial in Belgrade might have served better to catalyze a sober examination of the past.
His name is Barbet Schroeder, and the alert that he issued came in the form of his fine, sober film The Venerable W., a portrait of Myanmar’s Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu.
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