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The story is totally formulaic, and the cinematography has a cheap, overexposed look, as if the film stock was left out in the sun too long.
Two loonies supposedly operate the factory, yet they provide a nation-wide stock of cat food supplies?
I'm really not putting much stock in the Dimension Extreme branding anymore.
If there were an award for the most amount of stock footage in a film, this would have to win.
The producers probably shot only about 10-15 minutes of extra scenes and spliced them into an hour of stock footage from several different films.
Over the stock footage there is a narrator trying to connect the whole mess together.
Slow to pick up, it's worth sticking with past the stock plot setup routines.
More such pictures will enhance the stock of Bollywood films.
Other things to watch out for include the stock footage of London, grinning zombies, a blinking corpse, and an "out of left field" plot twist.
You see an American call center director has his section outsourced and he reluctantly travels to India to keep his job for a few weeks more till his stock options vest.
Dusty, repetitious stock car comedy-musical with Elvis Presley as the driver being hounded by an IRS agent looking for taxable winnings.
This short features a lot more violence than usual, and it also uses a lot of stock footage spliced into the movie to add realism and special effects.
The movie begins with stock footage from some old war movie.
It does have an interesting bit on Lenny Bruce while Carlin is there only in stock footage from one of his shows.
Moreover, the characters are introduced as stock archetypes and are mostly undeveloped; Don Andres the cruel capitalist, Meche the unassuming maid, Paloma the adulterous wife (Katy Juardo, in a performance that, looking back, boarders on misogynist in its hypocritical implications of female sexual aggression), and of course, Pedro, the beast turned from his wicked ways because of a good (looking?)
All this is done with a montage of stock footage of bomb tests,missile launches,voice overs warning of "Bacillus carrying warheads!" and bit later, we learn that "Jonathan Matthias" was once a news commentator as things went to Hell, as the plague takes full effect with scenes of overcrowded hospitals, people dropping on the street, and him on TV talking to dead viewers about "Judgement day".
(Another character shows up and explains what happened) Then the ending is all stock footage and dissolves to footage we've already seen.
When compounded by adding tinted black & white stock footage as a plot device, a 50-cent plastic toy spaceship with a bic lighter for propulsion(I swear I'm not making this up), and a "Spectum Analyzer" that is clearly a caulk gun, it transcends the normally accepted standard of "so-bad-it's-good".
This scientist, Evelyn Avery(Dawn Wildsmith),an obsessive fan of Roman's, caused the deaths of her boss, Dr. Zeitman(John Carradine; whose role was actually lifted from stock footage of another proposed Fred Olen Ray project, Frankenstein's Brain)and fellow colleague using a formula designed from alien DNA.
Obviously Mr Grubin had to fill up his 6 hour doc with idle images because he couldn't use stock film footage they way used on his other docs.
Not to mention that this film excessively steals stock footage heavily from such movies as Iron Eagle, Interceptor, Clear and Present Danger, US Navy Seals, Diamonds are Forever and includes a battle sequence constructed entirely from edited footage of the bombing scene from Flight of The Intruder, where the only noticeable difference is Brad Johnson and Williem Dafoe have been conviently edited from the scene.
And the center attraction, a stolen SDI satellite, is actually stock footage of the killer satellite from James Bond "Diamonds Are Forever."
Cheap (and I mean CHEAP; I don't know what they paid the actors, but the rest of the budget must have been around 50 dollars; it was shot on KODAK film stock!) softcore thriller is mostly talk, with minimal horror elements and a monotonous performance by Monique Parent.
It's hard to imagine which of these stock figures is the most annoying (my vote would be the fur-trapper who hails from New Jersey), yet the film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by William Saroyan, has garnered some good reviews.
The actors are awful (even Dylan Walsh), the script is written by primary school students, the action scenes and visual effects are laughable (with extensive use of stock footages) and yes, the story.
The King gets together with fast cars and Nancy Sinatra in this romantic comedy about the exciting worlds of stock car racing and tax evasion.
Vitus' solutions to his various problems involve the stock market, his doting grandfather's trust, daddy's hearing aides, an airplane, losing his gift and then wrapping the whole thing up with a grand concert (Schumann).
Okay, so it's kind of a stock movie story with stock characters but what really makes it a view-more-than-once flick are the characters, especially Benicio Del Torro who puts in another stellar performance.
Horton is a favorite of mine and I was pleasantly surprised to see him efface his usual and stock effeminate mannerisms and exaggerated double-takes.
Plus the same stock footage gets used over and over and over.
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