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The special effects aren't bad given '76 standards and low budget.
After all, by today's standards it's a very dull and contrived movie--not nearly as interesting as Paramount's other comedians, WC Fields and The Marx Brothers.
Even by surgeons' standards,Doctor Stone is horrible and arrogant.Disliked by fellow medics in his big city hospital,none of whom will be sorry to see the back of him,he is on his way to L.A. keen to make his first million in Cosmetic Surgery.After taking an illegal route round a traffic jam he runs his vintage Porsche into a picket fence owned by the Judge in a one - ute town down south.Failing to bamboozle them with his big city ways,he ends up in the Judge's courtroom and is sentenced to do community service at the local hospital which is under threat due to the imminent retirement of the town doctor,a wise and experienced old-style MD.The rest is pure Preston Sturges.
Another plot angle details tension between Garfield and his mother over his girlfriend who doesn't meet the demanding mother's high standards.
While there is much to admire in The Departed, the ending is one of the worst I have ever seen, below the standards even of Training Day and John Q.
Also the ending is horrifying, even by today's standards.
Well done episode, certainly by early 60's standards, cast and direction of Norman Lloyd, create feel of summer in a small southern town.
Even by modern Horror Sequel standards this is a total stinker.
With a story as deep as a kiddie pool, we're exposed to black ops stupidity as an entourage of B-movie standards leads us through a tour in Nam'! Can't get any more badass than that huh?
The rooms at the Manai are huge, and by hotel standards, rather top notch.
The graphics weren't up to say Episode1 standards, but were convincing enough (and I loved the raspy engine noise for the Rapiers).
His treatment of them comes off as brutal and mean-spirited (even by Stooge standards!)
This film is atrocious, even by the abysmal standards of Tony Zarindast.
The story of this film is a bit tiresome by today's standards and drags in spots.
Never have our body standards been so small that I at 230lbs (and 5'6") could not go into any store and find clothes.
This was bad, even by slasher movie standards.
'13 seconds' sucks on all fronts: the acting, the story, the sound, the camera-work - all sink below any standards I can recall having ever seen on this side of my father's home videos from the 1980's.
This isn't academy award winning by any standards but it is a descent heart warming story that kids and adults alike can enjoy.
But even by those lowered standards, this film is a big bore-fest.
Over all this movie's concept seems to be a bit played out and parts of the movie seem awkwardly squeezed and manipulated to fit PG-13 standards, turning this potentially serious sci-fi movie into a low budget comedy.
Well, it is always a bit difficult in Western countries to get to see Bollywood movies with English subtitles, and though I have made a bit of an effort to spot them in the last few years I wouldn't call myself a Bollywood expert - and of course I've grown up with Western rather than Indian aesthetic standards ingrained.
Burns and Ives combine to produce a work that's very much up to Ken Burns' standards.
As I have seen some other watchers don't seem to like this movie but I think it's good by any standards.
Well... maybe not, it did lower my standards for any movie... of any genre... ever.
Paul Hagas's "In the Valley of Elah" follows carefully and closely all the long held and well affirmed standards of any good murder mystery.
Several of the songs have become standards and continue to turn up in Gershwin orchestral compilations and in the repertoires of top cabaret artists.
The hysteria that follows seems ludicrous by today's standards.
Sure, it looks slick, with above-average (by DTV standards) production values, international locations, and some great stunts.
I was worried about the team mix as well (Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Braniac 5, Timber Wolf, Phantom Girl and Bouncing Boy ) but it worked and it was mixed enough with other Legion standards that there only seemed to be a static team in press releases only.
He must have felt his career was going backwards as the production values here are second rate even by the marginal standards of his earlier films.
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