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Every once in a while DeMille floats dangerously close toward the truth, but just as easily veers away from it into unabashed spectacle and showmanship.
They can push the boundaries of satire ('The Simpsons'), good taste ('South Park'), spectacle ('Aladdin'), or reality ('Toy Story').
Well what can you say... just witnessed this spectacle ... completely crazy...yet still manages to have depth.
Watching Primo prepare meals is a real spectacle to behold.
In 1962, director Robert Aldrich delivered, to an unprepared world, the amazing spectacle of aged Bette Davis and Joan Crawford going at each other and chewing up the scenery in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Two years later, Aldrich followed up with "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte," with Davis, Agnes Moorehead and Olivia de Havilland engaged in similar nasty hijinks.
It's a subconscious spectacle, a view of humanity through a fun house mirror in an alternate universe.
Enjoy this spectacle if you are going to go out and see it!
Jolly good mystery set in pea soup London, mix in a bit of Boarding School rivalry, a mad professor, a tragic love interest and a big dollop of Egyptian spectacle.
Paris 1915, Folies Bergere where Mata Hari is playing a spectacle impersonating the Goddess Kali with several hands.
Who can resist the obscene spectacle of Charles Bronson's rude hamburger face perched atop one of the most classically sculpted physiques in pre-Schwarzenegger stardom?
"Show Boat" is one of those garish musicals from the 1950s where scope and spectacle dwarfed content and story.
I will be part of the rabid throngs of people lining up to catch a spectacle as huge as Reloaded and Revolution.
Basically, "Apocalypto" amounts to a soul-stirring spectacle about human sacrifice and survival set against the last days of the Mayan Empire on the eve of the arrival of Europeans in Central America.
Truly a boring spectacle awaits you when you watch this flick...at least for me.
It's quite possibly one of the most Enjoyable Films I have EVER seen....and it's little over 2 hour running time flew by,Now I was aware and so should all viewers be that C.S Lewis was a devout Christian,and therefore Christianity does feature rather heavily and at times Too Heavily, But most should be able to ignore the bible lesson and enjoy the spectacle.
Watching this embarrassing spectacle was a reminder that the dumbing-down didn't start just yesterday with Paris Hilton's generation.
But the fiercely proud and self-sufficient Katherine refuses to prostitute her impending death into a hideous spectacle for a jaded audience's sick enjoyment.
Still we do have the spectacle of Karl Malden having a severe hair malfunction during the 'money' shot when the Hudson river, or what looks like either (a) chocolate soup, or (b) sewage, engulfs the assembled anti-Meteorites.
A typical Irwin Allen spectacle, this has its moments--the daring publicity stunt involving a tightrope walker crossing Niagara Falls is genuinely exciting--but for the most part is just too prosaic and small-minded to be the blockbuster it was undoubtedly intended to be.
While Coppola does mood and message, DePalma spectacle and effect, and Scorcese place and psychology, Cassavetes is all about the character, and nowhere do you see that more than in Killing.
Sion Sono returns to themes of loss of personal and group identity first covered in Suicide Club However, I believe that Norikos Dinner Table is his most coherent treatment of alienation and atomisation driven by westernisation Having watched this movie and having sat through the seemingly never-ending making of documentary (where the director provides no insight into his intention except, (he States in the opaque documentary of the making of this movie) 'to make a beautifully grotesque spectacle', my take is that Sion Sono vision is flawed.
Unfortunately however, the script is full of holes, too predictable and the total lack of spectacle is pretty hard to forgive.
One hundred and fifty-seven minutes of lavish romance, intrigue, and politics, dished up by MGM's superb spectacle factory.
One of the wonders happens in this picture en-route all five minutes could be need by this complete failed spectacle itself.
A sadly boring spectacle of a biblical film, even though almost all the production values are of a high quality (except that special effect vulture).
The artistic cinematography had me glued to my seat and the tight plot is reason enough to watch this eye-popping spectacle.
This film was quite literally a banging spectacle.
To any of these the film applies a perversity, and a fascination in their spectacle if carried out disgustingly.
As Sci-Fi goes, the superior ones focus more on futuristic and/or scientific concepts, with action and/or special effects adding to the spectacle.
A truly awe-inspiring spectacle of destruction and abandonment that mirrors man's insubstantiality when measured up against nature in his own power to destroy it.
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