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It is a very appalling movie, even below Shark Tale's standard, and very very un-original.
Anybody who is sick to death of the standard glut of Summer block busters has a lucky break here.
It is a rarity in its genre, for it goes deeper than the standard formula horror movie, presenting a story under a story.
The acting was excellent and the special effects set a new standard for Hollywood.
It's good that the people behind "Police Squad" did not give up on it after it failed to fit within the confines of standard TV concepts around the same time.
During its 8 season run, this series made fun of every standard genre element.
I later searched for info and realized that the people involved in making the film are not your standard TV movie makers.
As a dealer of rare VHS (and DVD) the answer is standard.
Josef Fares sets a new standard in laughing at the police.
The premise is stock standard enough that a brainless monkey should be able to make a movie around it, but the script is so unbelievable, and oddly structured (moments of grainy flashback flicker sporadically through the plot, gradually advancing an all too obvious and predictable back story), with characters introduced in tossed-off, sitcom-ish scenes, never to reappear again, that its hard to get through more than a scene or two without groaning.
Woods makes the most (which isn't much) out of a standard psychotic-bad-guy role, while Stallone is not only unconvincing but quite laughable, as well.
Color became much more common and eventually standard as the '50s rolled on.
We get lots of typical scenes: the standard fat guy sequence, people splitting up for really vague reasons, the supposedly highly-educated stupid woman being stupid and annoying all over the place, a lot of fire, the works, filmed to perfection.
Not only predating computers by a huge margin, but also predating the Dunn Optical Printer which became a standard in motion picture effects departments.
The standard scares in the film are effective but very cliched and worn out.
I don't expect a film about the apocalypse or premonitions to be the smartest movie ever ... hell, those 'disaster' movies where the hero charges around saving people are pretty much standard Hollywood fluff, and aren't too intelligent - but they are rarely this stupid.
I don't know how to exlain it better than this... the acting is bad, the directing is sub standard the effects are complete crap but it's still an excellent flick.
Lacking the deeper satirical bite or wealth of really hilarious moments and characters powering the true classics of Ealing, this is nevertheless a thoroughly enjoyable little film, featuring the standard role-call of vaguely familiar faces (watch out for a youngish Donald Pleasence in an early scene).
Yes, maybe it sort-of follows the standard plot of this type of film, but there's something about it that makes it stand out...it has heart.
Well, as a fan of earlier 007 movies I was hoping for a restoration of the standard that was set with Sean and Roger.
Although it is a good film the acting is standard and decent while the dialoque is sort of wooden and flat it does feel real and almost accurate.
While the story is bog standard with only one twist, the film is a technical gem.
Then comes the standard cops do not believe a thing scene that usually appear in movies of this sort and then a rather interesting dream sequence.
The plot is fairly improbable: A scholar switches places with her fashion model twin and heads to Paris, then gets involved in mystery/romance/blackmail. I've never read a Harlequin novel, but am assuming that this is pretty much the standard formula.
Perhaps Desi set the standard?
The script is standard with one exception, the surprise twist at the end, which I didn't expect at all, given that everything seemed standard.
doesn't have so much of a standard plot,but a series of comic blackouts/sketches,dealing with sexual issues of the era.
This filmed play was shot on video tape during a live performance,and transferred to film, giving it a different visual texture, than if it had been shot on standard 35mm film stock.
'Porky's Romance' is a film that aims to make audiences laugh, cry and wince in equal measure as we empathise with the nightmare of Porky's heartbreak and then the even more horrific glimpse at the possibilities of married life (a slightly sexist representation by today's standard but this was the 30s!).
Alas, this oater does not rise to the standard of late Gene Autry, Tim Holt or Lash LaRue.
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