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Once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you.
But it's well done, and, again, it sticks with you.
To explain my experience, let me use this word picture: Imagine that you have been binging on pixie sticks and paint fumes for the last month while watching nothing but Twilight Zone reruns.
French cinema usually sticks to the ultimately arty films, and leaves the shoot-em-ups and star vehicles to Hollywood.
This guy really doesn't seem to like lobsters, cause in one scene he sticks it into boiling water and puts in a stethoscope so he can hear it scream.
Joyce Grenfell as Ruby Gates (oh dear! that name!) plays her 'jolly hockey sticks' constable-incognito to hilarious perfection.
We get Leguizamo's rants about race and sex (the bits about sex are classic), but a lot of it is about family, and what sticks still fresh in my mind is about his father.
It is the kind of movie where you need can't miss a thing, but if you soak it in it sticks with you long after it ends.
There is an obvious comparison to be made with Lloyd Bacon's "42nd Street," which had been made about 20 years before, featuring Ruby Keeler as a dancing sensation, a fresh-faced kid from the sticks who had come to New York to get into show business, who saves the show when the star fails--"You're going out there a kid from the chorus, but you've got to come back a STAR!!" Warner Baxter's "Julian Marsh" is a director who suffers for his art and is unappreciated.
The main actor has one setting for emotions and he sticks to it throughout the entire film, even though he was supposed to go through love and hate and everything in-between.
Second-in-command Melvin Purvis (Ben Johnson), surveys the situations, sticks a lighted cigar in his mouth, picks up two loaded .45-caliber
He cuts a hole, where the Vagina would be if he we're a Female, and sticks some sort of sucking thing up there and sucks out all this blood.
Better luck next time, hope Miss Graham sticks to the type of films that she belongs in like From Hell.
There is a shot where the Aquafresh sign sticks out at you that you can't help but notice it.
My offense became pure horror when just before the closing credits the smarmy demon child sticks his head out from behind a sign and says "Look for Problem Child 2, coming soon!"
Annie sticks out in the movie, as her outfits look like Halloween costumes.
I particularly like the scene in which the inmates are taking turns running around outside beating each other with sticks.
Simon thinks that ancient Aztec buildings were in fact spacecraft control centres & he is on a mission to gain proof that alien lifeforms have visited Earth, while in once such structure he discovers a strange small creature which he sticks in his backpack & takes back home with him to the small American town of Sweetwater in California.
Superman runs around saving people, making sure he sticks to Europe and the US, don't go into darkie areas please.
Laying in the centre of the meteorite is a strange jelly like substance which sticks to the stick, if you know what I mean!
And then the granny sticks her head in the oven- really beautiful, and has absolutely nothing to do with the movie- it's not even in the same tone as the movie.
However, I love bad horror movies, and as you can tell from my username, this one really sticks out.
There are parts that are at least somewhat exciting like jousting and grown men trying to knock each other down with big sticks, and the film at least has a good look to it, but otherwise there's little about this to recommend.
It's the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later.
Skin tearing sounds like somebody is stepping on a pile of sticks.
A minor but essential detail: proper use of the incense sticks was nowhere to be seen.
'The Curse of Frankenstein' sticks faithfully to Mary Shelley's story for one word of the title, which wouldn't be so bad if the changes were any good at all.
Tyne Daley still sticks in my mind from Cagney and Lacey and her voice and accent still had that remembrance in it.
You know: you get into your car and you immediately start thinking,"Gosh, I hope today isn't the day that my accelerator sticks at a comfortable cruising speed of 55 mph, all four door latches break in the locked position, both my main and emergency brake fail, my ignition switch can't be turned off, and I've got a full tank of gas; all simultaneously."
But I think that the fact that Louis Sachar was involved from the beginning helped masses, so that the film sticks close to the story but takes it even further.
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