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First, let me give a BIG standing "O" to W. Earl Brown who plays Meat like a man possessed.
The movie had too many instances of long standing dialogue.
Winner of a record-setting 13 Genie Awards (Canada's "Oscar" equivalent), the film was the directorial début for Jean-Claude Lauzon, who received a standing ovation at Cannes in 1987 after the picture's showing there, the audience obviously of the belief that there were more than enough artistically positive elements within it to counterbalance its patchwork plot.
His crazed assistant (as played by Lon Chaney) goes out to collect body parts when he's not standing nearby cuddling his puppy.
Not to mention the bazooka is a 2-man weapon....Story points are not made clear; e.g., why the possessed astronauts are standing in the middle of the road, waiting for a truck that's hauling a mobile home.
The acting is solid in general, with Meiko Kaji standing high above the rest in her as the eponymous heroine.
Whenever two people are talking on the phone, for example, they are rather obviously standing right next to each other with a wall in between them.
For no apparent reason although it's hard to feel sorry for Rachel since she was standing right in the middle of the road.
On the other hand, some of the scenes -- as when John Bowers stands off a herd of stampeding cattle so they won't trample the obvious dummy standing in for Colleen Moore stand up very well.
Every performance in the film works, with Diana Scarwid ("Mommie Dearest") standing out in her small role as Dolly's lover Angela.
The boy is the worst when it comes to standing up for the kids.
So there I was, standing in best buy with four DVDs in my hand trying to figure out which 'Grindhouse' double feature I'd buy.
Standing alone as a comedy, it had some really good moments, but as an action movie, this was beyond unbelievable and incredibly clichéd.
It is supposed to be a frothy romantic comedy, but it has about as much froth as a glass of beer that has been standing in a cupboard for two weeks.
It doesn't peak your interest at all, just Mulder standing in a field with a voice-over.
Characters regularly have spontaneous discussions while standing on the floor on top of thousands of man-eating bugs.
After aiding old time friend and FBI man, Felix Leiter (David Hedison) in a drug bust, and standing up for Felix at his wedding, Bond returns hours later to discover Felix's wife is dead and that Felix is barely clinging to life after being fed to a shark.
There are so many scenes where we just see him sitting, standing or filming somewhere and ... well, he also likes to be filmed without a T-Shirt.
He said that Miss Ross had failed to capture the essence of Billie's music, and that this film had reduced Miss Holiday's standing as the most important Jazz singer who'd ever lived to that of a mediocre pop vocalist.
The entire audience of probably 800 people was very into it and gave it a standing ovation at the end.
As viewers, we feel as though we are truly standing in front of "The Music Lesson," observing the intricately crafted world in the frame and contemplating how the work, so many years later, still connects us to its mysterious creator.
The three children particulerly standing out.
Standing on the very edge of a new frontier.
Meanwhile, the people standing in the way of Vinny Durand's oh-so-promising film career are mysteriously getting killed.
The audience roared with laughter and gave a standing ovation at the end (the ending was really special; the story made sort of a crescendo to the end).
For me, as a pro-Palestian activist of many years standing, I did not care where they were or what they were doing there.
Time goes by where you just see Godzilla and Hedora standing around doing nothing but funky hand movements.
The biggest mistake they make is the under use of Louis Gossett Jr. His character doesn't seem to really have a place, except standing around and barking orders.
This left the movie with a ton of awkward silences with the actors standing just making a silly facial expression for minutes at a time.
Actually, it gets sillier by the minute: from having Sigourney Weaver (playing a researcher in Anglo-Arab relations moonlighting as a high-class escort) chatting up an Arab playboy's cinematic banter at a society party with "Am I supposed to say 'Your place or mine?'" to which he retorts, "No, these days you say "Betamax or VHS?'"; to seeing Michael Caine (as a celebrity British diplomat) standing in the rain holding out a bouquet of flowers for Weaver - whom he has fallen for in the course of her extra-curricular activities and with whom he has had a minor falling out!
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