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It is wrought with enough action and mayhem to keep men with the shortest attention spans glued to the screen.
Inside the interviews and conversations of all involved with the project there is a common sense of comradery and rebelliousness that spans backgrounds, social classifications, and even geography.
Given that American audiences (seemingly) have the attention spans of a gnat when it comes to the humor that does not consist of profanity laced diatribes, or has a preoccupation with scatological functions (both sound and smells), shows like this will be few and far between.
Nice movie with a great soundtrack which spans through the rock landscape of the 70's and 80's.
It is full of nuances and a perception of life as being quite ordinary and often fearful but what lifts this movie to a height rarely realized is its focus on the little incidences in our lives to which we normally only offer the briefest of attention spans.
I would not recommend this film for people with short attention spans; it requires sufficient intelligence to comprehend that there maybe a kernel of truth in this story.
It spans a time period from the 1920s to the 1970s, in a fictional South American country, also a lot to fit into the time available.
The combination of the characters and their nationalities coupled with the show's fluidity for moving backwards and forwards thus extending dead characters "life spans" all adds to the overwhelming sense that this show is something very different from what we are used to.
The film is also quite interesting from an anthropological angle in terms of how the documented phenomenon quickly takes root, consumes these good peoples' identities 24-7, organically grows, divides, mutates, rapidly spans generations and groups, sweeps up even infants who intuitively jack right in to the main line, and seems to strongly channel ancient ancestral rites straight into South Central, where it weaves a crazy web of hope and ecstatic optimism through the beleaguered community like beautiful wildflowers in a cracked asphalt lot.
Almost perfect: It has space ships, laser battles, a cool drooling grinning skulled alien, abundant gratuitous female nudity, an excellent early electronica musical score, buckets of gore, slimy alien killings, voyeurism, stuff exploding, girls sunbathing naked in space, is over quickly (77 minutes: perfect for limited attention spans) and the hero is actually the movie's brilliant dork character, whom the surviving female hottie (Dawn Dunlap, who gets naked a lot in her movies) was secretly really in love with all the time.
The story and 'visuals', though not fantastic, was I think good enough to hold the shortest of attention spans.
The movie traverses several continents and spans almost four centuries.
Seriously, folks, it's jaw-dropping misfire after misfire, as Lord David Warner chases David Warner the Taupe with an army of vikings, ay-rabs, pirates, and various castle types who thankfully have very short attention spans, because they never chase Warner and his ward for very long... or maybe Warner lost 'em at the inn/whorehouse.
Late in the night, Don Plutarco(Angel Tavira) answers his grandson's question about returning home with a story that spans the breadth of time.
Lust spans over the time line of 4 years in World War II torn Shanghai and Hong Kong.
He is wearing a terrible wig and a terrible three-piece suit during the whole film, which spans during a 5 day period, but the worst part is the script and dialogs.
This is the definitive version-- Even those with the shortest of 21st century attention spans will be rapt.
Marco Tullio Giordana deserves praise for bringing this saga about two brothers in Italy that spans a few decades and paints a picture about the country.
Some may complain that this movie is too long and slow, but I would wager that their attention spans are somewhat lacking.
The film spans the period from the formation of the Chinese Republic in 1911 to the take-over by the Communists in 1949.
I'll make this simple for you with short attention spans: Al Pacino's best performance of the 90s.
With Slovakia’s entry on January 1, the euro spans 16 countries and 329 million citizens.
Composed of many modest spans, the structure involved no radically new design concepts and seemed to be a mere application of proven technology.
As such, its development into ever longer spans is following the historic pattern that in the past has led to failures.
So the current crisis may thus, accidentally, establish a pro-globalization consensus that spans East and West.
With the accession of 10 new states in 2004 and another two at the beginning of 2007, the Union’s membership now spans central and eastern Europe.
It is a country that spans the economic scene from information technology - to which India contributes some of the world's finest engineers and programmers - to rural squalor deeper in few other places.
That agenda, with obvious country differences, spans five important areas, which together should be the focus of policy attention aimed at solidifying the region’s transformation.
The information carried on the new networks spans public health, medical care, education, banking, commerce, and entertainment, in addition to communications among family and friends.
Making matters worse, the official retirement age has not been adjusted to account for longer life spans.
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