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You should probably also avoid moving to San Francisco, because he's not really that unusual by SF standards.
Even by Seagal DTV standards this is really... quite something.
Finally, I have to say that some of the scenes in the vault were very creepy even by modern standards - reminded me of some of David Lynch's films.
Bad acting (for most of the part), horrible photography and one of the worst excuses of a script, even for Mexican cinema standards.
Yes as many have stated, by today's standards, the casting of this movie seems ridiculous, but please keep in mind the time period that this movie was made.
Although a source of much embarrassment (and biographical revisionism) to Paul Robeson in later years, by the standards of its day Sanders of the River isn't quite as obnoxiously racist as you might think.
The story line has been replicated, to much better standards, at least a thousand times before the directors of this film were even born.
The acting is certainly up to adequate standards, and the cast is as sterling as they come.
People shouldn't judge independent films like they would the special Olympics, all movies must be held to the same standards.
With its sub-Gerry Anderson gadgets, its rousing 'Thunderbirds' style anthems, and its hokey un-special effects' this movie's production standards seem to hail from at least a decade earlier.
Nicolas Winding Refn, the genius behind the excellent "Pusher" sets new standards for danish movies with his new opus "Bleeder".
The acting, even by Van-Damme standards was woeful.
Many of the jokes aren't up to writer Michael Maltese's usual standards, but anyone who has ever watched this cartoon will never forget the ending sequence where Bugs has to catch the last out of the game to win it.
It is definitely entertaining to watch, but then again, the long scenes of women dancing seductively etc. may have been sleazy and exciting then, but they are quite dated and overlong for today's standards, especially due to the fact that these sequences are very tame compared to what was to come in the 70s.
It shows you how low standards have sunk.
This done to death premise should have worked, even by PRC standards, but the second half of the film just consists of the characters running all over the hotel and basically by the film's end, the audience has to feel disinterested.
and it sure was out of the "ordinary" as far as standards go for the privileged goes, who on the whole do not experience the "extraordinary " atrocities and all forms of denigration these people experience in their daily lives.
After the initial shock, Ms. Vitti decides to kill both herself and her now ex-boyfriend, but before doing so she gives herself a week to live it up, so she sells all of her jewels, checks into a reasonably swank hotel, though probably below her usual standards, and parades around Paris in some very eye-catching outfits.
While the film as a whole may be a bit slow for today's standards, it's main set-pieces (the trapped-in-cemetery scene; the blood behind the locked door sequence; the eyes in the dark scene) retain their shock value.
By today's standards the movie may seem tame, 'stagey' and slow but if you sit there with the lights off and the volume turned up and prepare yourself for some old time atmospherics and chills rather than shocks and gore, you're in for a real treat.
It's interesting to see all of the aerobic exercises in total '80s style, but by today's standards are outdated.
It's a little quaint by today's standards, but the writing is witty and the cinematography is excellent.
Debra Paget was in her late twenties; she had lost her glow and was used up by Hollywood standards.
All the standards are here for this type of movie with a villain, betrayal and all that good stuff that make movies of this type so predictable.
Undoubtedly an excellent film by film making standards, Mike Leigh puts the audience in the position of having to accept his characters' plaintive existence on faith by not showing the psychodynamics which perpetuate their misery and just giving us the result.
How many other older horror movies were good to you peoples standards??? (Directed at DAN GRANT and other people who hate this movie, for other reasons than not liking sharks) Why wouldnt Carl Gottleib want his name on this movie?!?!
Also, Hwang Jang Lee doesn't get to do much of his trademark awesome leg work, nor is his character up to the standards of the thoroughly mean folks he has played in the past.
The movie has the same feel as Mary Poppins, but with cinematography that matches todays standards.
Are you prepared to set aside conventional standards and expectations of a film 'experience'?
For a movie coming from Peru, I think it was very good, but it cannot stand with international standards: most of the actors were pathetic:) Now, don't understand me wrong, the movie is nice, and I recommend it, BUT is still far away from the Italian neo-realism (It is indeed a neo-realist film..) and WAY far away from the Taxi Driver, that many people compare it with.
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