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Wineries around the world are more and more either joining large conglomerates (the American producer, Mondavi, in the case of this film) or paying high-priced experts to help them make "the perfect wine"--and as a result, wines are becoming very standard and predictable.
Though they were knocked out more quickly than the usual Warner cartoons, the Snafu shorts largely maintained a surprisingly high standard.
Island of Death is not really a good movie, by any standard, but it is a curious one.
Or maybe you are like me... and have have a higher standard for acting in films.
I was expecting a blaxploitation/horror flick; but what I got was a very dull, standard "ghost extracts vegence".
I think its safe to say that if you only really watch box office standard films or any premium production don't bother with this film as you will hate it.
Unfortunately the film then proceeds to plod its weary way through a standard Chan formula that is only barely enlivened by the always wonderful Mantan Moreland.
Additionally titled BURNING MAN and FLASH FIRE for its various releases, this Australian made film, shot in New South Wales is problematic for its producers from its outset due to several personality conflicts and extended shooting time that prematurely uses up its allocated budget, and although the storyline is at times nicely detailed, below standard post-production finishing and overmuch cutting jettisons the affair.
There are also some standard gun fights which really only have some nice violent and bloody squibbage going for them.
This is standard procedure with any Biblical Hallmark-made film.
It had the possibility for greatness with a GREAT twist on the standard zombie infection, but they took it an entirely different direction based on Johnny Zombie.
The East Side Kids stuff were never shown even though it was public domain stuff and probably cheap to run, it was just to low a standard for kids to tune in even though we only had like 5 channels to watch.
Instead, they seemed to have opted for a bog standard Hollywood 'Paint by Numbers' disaster movie plot and dialog.
It's just your standard kicks & punches you'd see in any straight-to-video martial arts turkey.
Michael Madsen hams it up in his standard character persona.
Bad points; the writers try to do good science but it falls down in direction and production (eg, a rock drilling mole using superheated rock drilling equipment breaks surface underwater with nary a bubble or boiling cauldron to be seen), the characters are cliché's and the plot unfolding is pretty stock standard.
Don't get me wrong, I assumed this movie would be stupid, I honestly did, I gave it an incredibly low standard to meet.
The plot is a pretty standard mix of parts of "Independence Day", "Speed", "The Day After Tomorrow", "Earthquake", "The Towering Inferno" and several other films.
I enjoyed Carax's "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" and was therefore expecting this film to be of a similar standard.
This sets the standard for many of the other characters.
A bearded, disheveled, long-haired, bead and flower shirt-wearing wild-eyed psycho hippie fruitcake embarks on your standard random gruesome killing spree, graphically slaughtering libidinous young couples who are engaging in strenuous coitus whenever the deranged Mansonesque lunatic attacks.
You can describe the movie with some words also its just the standard horror movie story with all the standard horror movie scenes.
The first film was quite hip and had amusing moments, this film doesn't exactly have the same standard.
It has set the standard.
Unfortunately it was a standard case of "the funny bits were in the preview", not to say it was all bad.
This is a standard action flick as we have seen them many times before.
It's all pretty standard stuff for Hammer, but is handled with a good deal of visual elan, even if the central relationship, between psychoanalyst Porter and Rees, drives the narrative without ever being satisfactorily explained.
No, it is because this was a serious attempt to make a good action movie, conform the Hollywood standard.
It seemed promising, meeting all the standard requirements of any horror movie machine: drawn out beginning with antagonistic character present, a cannot be omitted sex scene, and the all too familiar pre-spook (when they spook you unexpectedly but it turns out to be the idiot buddy).
As soon as all this stuff has happened it's all pretty much standard.
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