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He claims his throne, forcing his former's two children to flee into the woods, where they hide near a huge stone statue for 10 years.
Therefore, it seems that the good people's only hope is the stone statue, which is where a demon god sleeps; they want the god to help them.
Sinhue the physician,sits in front of his small stone hut writing his memoirs.
Despite all the tinkering, it survives,and you'd have to be made of stone not to be moved by it.
Knute Rockne led the game of football out of the "stone age" with innovations such as the forward pass and offensive formation shifts.
However, it could be that she banged the back of her head on the edge of the stone step, which if so, really would produce a very dangerous injury, and would make the scene more convincing than the scene in the 1995 version, where she falls farther but is clear of any sharp edge that could plausibly cause a major head injury.
Not long before they call upon giant stone samurai Daimaijin for help.
Since they occur mostly at the heart's level (no intellect yet!), they define your soul's contours like a sculptor would do with a stone.
Hey all you jive hustlers, you stone foxes, you mean dudes.
As the deterioration of a couple and their grown niece becomes more grimly clear, the ironic imagery becomes more potent, from the old clock that is reset each night to the stone gods that gradually pile up outside the heroine's door.
The Mancuso family live in a place that is not even a hamlet, just a stone cottage set amid the harsh, unyielding stones of a country that cannot offer even a single blade of green grass.
Myrna Dell is a bad girl, and she puts on an excellent face of stone, with eyes of agate, and you are just waiting for her to kill as many people as possible to cheer herself up.
The welfare system was initially set up as a stepping stone for those families who needed that extra hand to get back on their feet.The movie showed an accurate portrayal of how the welfare system breaks down the family unit.
Serve cold in a big, plain stone cauldron.
Anyway, it was the show that set a stepping stone on my interest on robot series (especially anime mech series like "Gundam") Now that I'm 18, I'd like to think this show is pretty cheesy to me now.
Lucky for our hero, there happen to be gymnastic equipment in fortunate spots, like the stone pommel horse in the middle of a square (for no reason) amidst crazy town.
But who can forget such memorable scenes as the high bar with chalk, the stone pommel horse or the five minute chase scene through the village of the crazies in slow motion.
In terms of production values, the film is so bad, that at one point, while Loren is mouthing "O Patria Mia," she leans onto what looks to be a stone wall for support, and the canvas set billows and shakes.
And in the final scene when Martin's character removes his hat for the woman he called a "pig," almost made me go outside and find a stone to throw through my television screen.
It almost worked the first time because McQueen was such a vital presence on the screen--even stone silent and weary, you could sense his clock ticking, his cagey magnetism.
Sharon stone is OK this time...not even half as good as the original mind you.
Sharon stone is a bit old for this too.
You'll be glad you left this stone unturned.
The box for this flick seems to indicate that Jill is the stone fox with long hair with highlights.
Laid up and drugged out, as a kidney stone wended its merry way through my scarred urinary tract, with absolutely nothing better to do than let the painkillers swoon me into semi-oblivion, I happened to catch this movie on cable.
I tell you, that director is either mentally retarded, or he's just a monster with a ''heart'' of stone.
I mean, the fact that the boy happened to snatch the evil stone from the collector on the same month and day it was found, what's the point of that?
Oscar Wilde said it best, in reference to Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop": "One would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh out loud at the death of Little Nell."
Oliver stone does his worst directing ever.
The script by Halperin, Howard Higgin & Rollo Lloyd all uncredited, has a good central idea but is killed stone cold dead by being dull & as exciting as watching paint dry.
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