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I've worked in the industry and made several (short) films myself, so okay my standard is pretty high but seriously, i absolutely hate this film.
Back in the cold and creepy early 90's,a show called "Family Matters" aired and became an instant classic.The trick was to buy a manual in standard family situations and their solutions and insert some attempts to sarcastic remarks in it and you had yourself a lovely little stealing-is-wrong,parents-are-right-show.
Shame to see an interesting story diluted into standard "Vietnam made for TV" fare.
It's sad that the last 1/2 hour has to result in the standard arnie 'uzi 9mm' finale.
This movie is standard goofy sci-fi fare from the 50s.
This movie was the foundation that set the standard for many great films that we now enjoy.
This is your standard junk that certain annoying women love- old English era drama with lots of costumes and cliché characters that seem to be plucked from either directly from oliver twist or some other dickens novel.
From the blurb on the box I expected a flashback thriller along the lines of 'Memento' - unfortunately this is nowhere near that standard of movie.
Well, it is standard Hollywood schmaltz that you can see coming a mile off.
When it started, i thought that the opening sequence was pretty good, fairly standard for this kind of film, but pretty good anyway.
Back then it would have been a standard "billy club" not the side handled PR 24.
He was good in Starship Troopers, and even made a menacing villain in Hitcher 2. But here, he just chews the scenery in standard bad guy mode.
For the purposes of this movie, I think the MPA should create a new rating standard: IQ-20.
This isn't a premiere sci-fi film from the Golden Age by any standard, but it is very watchable and zips by at fast pace.
But in the end, it plays like a standard TV episode from the 1970s with some nudity thrown in.
The acting is completely wooden, consisting mainly of ad-libbing, which results in the sub standard actors dribbling the first thing they can think of, repetitively.
The story might be the cutest romantic little something ever, pity I couldn't stand the awful acting, the mess they called pacing, and the standard "quirky" Japanese story.
Notwithstanding that "The House of Adam" is meant to be a mainstream gay movie; that Anthony (John Shaw), who is gay curious and a major cutie-hunk and Adam (Jared Cadwell) who is openly gay, and a close second in looks; that there is a whole minute of wonderful, convincing, and naked lovemaking (sorry, no frontal) between Anthony and Adam 41 minutes into the movie (that alone may be sufficient for many of us) --- notwithstanding all that (to which I give a thumbs up), "The House of Adam" is a horrible movie by most any other movie making standard.
The basic storyline was OK (pretty simple and standard) - nothing too exciting or objectionable.
That itself tells me the producers and director didn't have any core understanding about a western other than those standard shoot'em up scenes and violent themes.
The actors gave good performances, (all except the "Assassin Droid" whose performance was nothing outside of comical) but the movie really lacked depth and purpose; simply not enough to fill up 1hour and a half of standard movie time, so we're stuck with the main characters aimlessly wondering around from place to place for an hour or so, until the ball gets rolling.
He might have set a new standard for himself.
No noticeable climax and a very standard resolution.
This stylized notion of organized crime being too influential and powerful to overcome has become a standard component in every gangster picture.
Okay the formula is standard.
Love Jones is my all time favorite, it is the standard by which I judge any Modern Urban Romantic Comedy.
But as far as an unadaptable book has been adapted, it is of good standard.
While the "date doctor" concept is the one thing that saves this film from being an otherwise average romantic comedy with a standard plot for the genre, I found it enjoyable enough to elevate my opinion of it so I ended up liking it a lot more than if it'd had just a mediocre plot without many twists.
Ted Raimi handled the standard "bumbling assistant" role admirably enough, and Bruce is funny as the arrogant, sardonic, condescending American jerk.
So no, not just your standard slice and dice.
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