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Now, what's common to all of these things is the idea that we've had these technologies to control nature only for the last 70, 80 or 100 years and essentially in a blink, we have
squandered
our ability to control, because we have not recognized that natural selection and evolution was going to find a way to get back, and we need to completely rethink how we're going to use measures to control biological organisms, and rethink how we incentivize the development, introduction, in the case of antibiotics prescription, and use of these valuable resources.
Your cities can be saved or
squandered
in one generation.
The dance of our glances, the clash, pulling each other through our perceptual punctures, then holocaust, holocaust, host on host of ill, injured presences, squandered, consumed.
This movie not only
squandered
a wonderful cast and was consistently unfunny, it actually managed to be rather brutally disturbing and misogynistic.
It's a shame because the opening shot of Charlie Sheen opens out with great promise which is
squandered
almost straight away with a preposterous wedding set piece.
I wanted that hour and a half back in my life - it was the most amazing, hideous torture to know that I had
squandered
precious minutes of my life on this dreck.
They butchered a very fun story and
squandered
the talents of Richard E. Grant.
Malcolm McLaren apparently
squandered
the majority of the Sex Pistols earnings on this waste of film, which makes it that much more obnoxious.
Having seen the movie years ago and been disappointed by its
squandered
potential, when I heard that it was becoming a TV series, I flatly refused to watch it.
(This is just Romeo and Juliet, minus the death, after all!) Nicolas Cage is wonderful, showing all the early promise that, it turns out, he has
squandered
on overblown action crapola.
Treat Williams reached a degree of stardom with this movie, and really
squandered
it.
This was an unfortunate film, because the basic idea had possibilities and those possibilities were
squandered.
But the remainder of Welles career is, unfortunately,
squandered
on material unworthy of his talent and too flimsy to withstand his filmic embroidering.
In fact in this case, the small budget is probably the films sole achievement in that it prevented large sums of money from being
squandered
on a one legged race horse with the shits.
But to me, the cast was largely squandered, their personalities muffled by the masks, while the direction I think of as being unusually static, and the photography murky.
Rudolph
squandered
it.
I'm certain that some starving kids in Africa could have used the money
squandered
on this project.
There's a curiously flat feel throughout, with all seemingly
squandered
on below-par material.
It is unfortunate that a true story like this, which could have changed people's attitudes, has been
squandered
on a low budget, badly directed movie.
A setting ripe with atmosphere and possibility (an abandoned convent) is
squandered
by a stinker of a script filled with clunky, witless dialogue that's straining oh-so-hard to be hip.
They've
squandered
what they have been given and are largely empty vessels.
Cracking C list cast - Hopper, Hendrickson, Fahey - but it's all
squandered
for the simple fact that nothing makes any sense.
THE DARK TOWER is an obscure movie that had a lot of potential but
squandered
the whole interesting idea of an evil building due to some really weak acting, a listless script, totally unfocused direction, and a cast that's seemingly above the age of 40! It's always great to see Jenny Agutter in anything but she deserved a better project than this.
To think that there are so many deserving film makers all around the world that struggle to even get the necessary equipment and film stock to make their pictures, and here we see it
squandered
on what any deranged monkey could see was a piece of rubbish.
However, this idea is
squandered
immediately because of the fact that his voice sounds ridiculous, thus giving the whole piece a jokey sort of feel, and it's
squandered
further because most of what he's saying is delivered in a very patronising manner.
Edward G. Robinson is
squandered.
Anyway, the "Greek god in modern NYC" plot had comic potential to be sure but, despite the scarce felicities (Hercules is insulted on seeing an impostor posing as himself in a fictional sword-and-sandal flick playing in a movie theater), it is generally hopelessly
squandered
by the sheer amateurishness of it all.
There's almost no gore or suspense, even the bits that should be exciting never really pay off in a worth while way, and the few good ideas in the movie (traps and some cool locations) are pretty much
squandered.
A subplot about an Internet millionaire's affections for Kinki (which could've been nicely lampooned is instead squandered) never takes off.
this is thus far a
squandered
opportunity.
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