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The cinematographer offers us several shots of the ominous shadow of the two bombs, which might be striking if it didn't look like they were cardboard cutouts instead of bombs, the fake atomic fire really does look fake-and why use it when the stock footage on hand is so genuinely stunning and realistic--, and the pervasive brown tone doesn't seem to be thematically appropriate.
Its as if he couldn't be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away.
It's as if every weekend some good hearted Spanish soul gave Orson a few pesos, a 35mm camera and some short-ends of negative film left over from some other production and told Welles to drive out to the Spanish countryside and just keeping shooting anything and everything until the film stock ran out.
It's a hodge-podge of grainy stock footage spliced together with some of the all-time worst acting you'll ever have the misfortune to see.
The opening of "The Jungle" promises us a safari adventure with a science fiction element, but mostly what we get is a travelogue with lots of stock footage and padding (and the odd leopard attack).
The acting is stock, the suspense predictable.
The score is goofy, the original songs are awful, both lead actors' singing is continually off-key (to be kind) and unprofessional at best, the plot is no more complex than "boy meets girl," the acting is laughable, and the only decent cinematic moments are the stock footage scenes.
They both have stock characters of sisters who are very different, an offensive stepmother, a woman friend/confidant, an emotionally unavailable father, a dead mother and a surprise lover.
lame swipes at WalMart, non-union workers, George W Bush and the stock market not to mention the intentional GWB accent that Balwin's character uses in the film just makes him look silly and bitter on screen.
Let me clue you in to something - if you put all your money into one company's stock YOU'RE AN IDIOT.
This one should be allowed to age and disintegrate the way old nitrate film stock does.
Dull is the photography--- the film stock appears old and faded and washed-out.
I remember so many amazing things--a nun dropped out of a coffin to make a raft for a little blond boy; the little blond boy himself adored as a god; lots of stock footage of Peru as an ideal vacation spot.
In fact, early in the film, they show a street scene in the city and all the cars (circa 1942) are old Model T Fords--obviously from stock footage!!!
It is full of crappy stock footage of random stuff in a city (people walking, traffic, the skyline, etc.) that doesn't tie into anything.
It seems miles of stock footage and an incoherent Bela Lugosi is used to stretch this odd and awkward film to 67 minutes.
You see a giant map for about ten minutes, then they unleash the stock footage big time while droning(droning, get it?)on
The acting is stock, but anyone who knows the first thing about Eisenstein would know that that was part of his theory of film.
Of course, Raquel Welch didn't play the kind of sharp character Faye Dunaway did in The Happening, but that doesn't make it a sexist film either - she was practically playing a stock character, almost HER version of a "moll"!
He owes them for costing them Millions of dollars years ago in stock market deal that went wrong.Love kills.
I originally saw this film while I was working as a musician doing musical theatre in summer stock.
I was delighted with Sarandon and Portman's portrayals of otherwise stock characters in a familiar story line.
The movie is made in a style that resembles Lock, stock and two smoking barrels, with lot's of subplots, fancy camerawork, cool music and that great tongue-in-cheek Aussie type of humor you'll find nowhere else.
We have Floyd The Barber from Andy Griffith Show,The stock in trade Old Geezer dude from Many old westerns,and lovable old Frisby.
The characters are all stock characters - feisty heroine, Judas, coward, etc. etc.
I had to order my video copy; none of the local video stores or even the libraries had it in stock.
He gets into the form of the world around him entirely, without a story, bound only to certain aspects of written poetry, as his camera (shooting on supposedly discarded film stock) wanders like in a pure travelogue.
The film is stock full of witty, quick, jabbing, dialogue.
In Jaws and all the other shark films we all have seen or herd about they all use fake made sharks, well in Joe D'Amato's film he takes a new approach by using all stock footage for his shark scenes.
Technically somewhat of a mess and boasting a stock of amateur New Yawk types, this film never bores.
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