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"Standard operating procedure," they lied.
Basically your standard man gets killed and sometime later comes back to life to get his revenge on his killers.
In this standard sci-fi romance, the widow Andrea lives on a Greek island with her son Timmy and, like the other islanders, is amazed when a stranger Keir Dullea washes up on shore during a magnetic storm.
The rooms in the movie were your standard sized Hollywood "barracks room" set.
This is not your standard underdeveloped Lifetime movie fare.
Gobots was standard Saturday Morning schlock.
Siodmak gives the film a distinctly noir-ish feel, as opposed to the more traditional Gothic look: apart from the standard shadowy lighting, we get Louise Albritton as a femme fatale and Robert Paige as the brooding hero!
as i perused some of the dvd extras i discovered why this is...it turns out that standard oil commissioned the production and requested a film that showed the beauty of humanity and positive impact oil can have while being entertaining all the while.
I didn't think it was THAT bad (not "up" to Death in Venice standard for example) but by the end I was wondering what point the film-maker was actually trying to make.
I expected the standard ghetto junkie story but 'The Corner' has an emotional pull that hits you right in the guts.
The film sort of like your standard lesbian vampire film, except this time its lesbian witches and instead of being interesting and erotic, it's slow and boring.
PROJECT X is seriously outdated because of the FX and the boring and cheap production values, which makes this movie look like a standard 1960s TV movie.
Based on a 1945 play by Harry Brown, this dreary movie moves between standard banter between men in a somewhat stressful situation (the bombed out rubble of a house in Italy) who are ordered out but are reluctant to leave a pinned down member of the platoon, and dream sequences that are painful, and populated by Rita Hayworth look-a-likes.
Yul Brynner is in most films only a joy to watch but he never reaches that high standard here.
Chrysalis is highly entertaining and intriguing, unless you prefer the standard, brainless and predictable stuff.
A standard 1940's group of ensemble players, coupled with strength of an Arthur Miller project.
Unfortunately some other of the other performances are quite poor, with the standard dumbed down cops.
The premise is almost bog standard classic British farce (and there is nothing wrong with that at all) and I totally endorse the Woody Allen reference made in another review.
Yes, Moore does make up some crap to get his point across, but that's a standard practice in our wonderful Hollywood, even in documentaries.
I'm probably being generous by giving this a 3 but it is in color and the people do speak on camera so that rates it higher than my all time low 1 of 10 standard, Beast of Yucca Flats.
One assumes the part was created to afford a little feminine light relief, since the central character is -- inconveniently for the standard narrative curve -- already happily married as a young man when we first meet him, and omits to look elsewhere...
It's always syrupy strings, Wagnerian hero-brass, and the standard thumping bass drums and trombones playing ominous minor scales whenever an Indian comes on the screen.
The Public Enemy, along with Little Caesar and Scarface, set the standard for the gangster film.
And, like Yasujiro Ozu, Angelopoulos is a master of ellipses- never fully explaining certain things in a film, nor deliberately not showing the viewer things that would be standard in a more linear film.
In that sense, I think that many posters here are unfairly blasting it, holding it up to some high artistic standard.
I was pulled into this movie, despite a clichéd and standard TV movie type script.
The plot is standard.
Clearly, Pixar is THE studio that sets the animation standard.
Its not as good as friends but its a good choice and should be watched by anyone who likes standard funny sitcoms
The direction by John Robertson was first class, again considering that he was not one of the more well known directors of the time and the photography was the usual high standard that we expect from William Daniels.
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