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Nearly everything is tailored to an adolescent mindset and although it is a straightforward comedy, only those who can still process information with the mind of a young person will be able to enjoy the nonsense.
Certainly, the buggery scene is pretty straightforward in its unpleasantness, but the film's effect derives far more from its slow build-up and the tangible sense of isolation surrounding the four leads, both before and after everything starts to go wrong.
If anything is lacking, it is an extra dose of dazzle, as the film seems a bit too straightforward and prosaic, at times, with a somewhat unimaginative edit.
While the story is simple it is pure and straightforward.
A straightforward and simple description of local Chinese customs, by looking at the daily operation of a public bath, run by the old owner and his retarded son, when older son returns home, wrongly believing his father has died.
The movie's plot is straightforward and there are no plot twists that are too unrealistic.
Good, funny, straightforward story, excellent Nicole Kidman (I almost always like the movies she's in).
Most of this movie is straightforward and teenish but that is the directors/writers fault, still it is a great movie with even better music.
"Silverlake Life" is a documentary and it was plain and straightforward.
He bravely chooses to tell both in a fairly straightforward way.
But director Richard Quine used subtle lighting, pace changes, and unusually-composed shots to indicate the oddness of the witch portions of the film, keeping the other portions very luminous but straightforward in their presentation.
What makes it great especially are two things: one is the straightforward way the characters embrace the stereotypes, with discussions of their costumes and superpowers.
This animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs. evil plot and is all about action.
Rather it presents in a straightforward way a story that the audience can understand, appreciate and applaud due in a large measure to the presence of one of truly legendary giants of American stage and screen, Paul Robeson.
It is a very straightforward plot of a young but poor Irishman who sees no sense in being perpetually cheated for the price of cattle and so dares to form a local cattle drive to bypass the local buyers by taking them directly to market some 40 miles away.
Trad Dad" was straightforward exploitation,"The mouse on the moon" a tired follow - up to the vastly superior "The mouse that roared".
Capably directed by Edward L. Cahn, with a clever and compelling script by Curt Siodmak, a brisk pace, sharp, moody black and white cinematography by Fred Jackman, Jr., genuinely creepy zombies, a spooky, rousing score by Mischa Bakaleinikoff, a tight 69 minute running time, and a thrilling conclusion, this nifty little quickie provides an inspired and entertaining blend of snappy straightforward horror and gritty film noirish crime thriller.
While I've never been a Mormon, I do have a scientific background, and I found the science (and the scientific conclusions) very straightforward and solid, and yet it is done in such a way to make it accessible to the layperson.
The plot is straightforward and easily followed, with a plot twist or two to keep it interesting.
My Brilliant Career is a simple and straightforward narrative skillfully told.
Another movie of Paradise Now is much more straightforward and simple as well as low budget and was much better done.
This is contrasted with the straightforward, innocent shots of the kids setting up the equipment.
The first half of the film is relatively straightforward and rooted in reality, as a soldier stationed in the jungle goes on leave to a bustling city and falls in love with a young man who lives and works there.
This is a simple, straightforward film, about a family moving away from the city, to start a new life in a small country town.
The film felt like a documentary - it was simple and straightforward.
Price's conviction and Fuller's straightforward direction somehow make this preposterous tale ring true (many of the basics are correct, though Fuller certainly over-dramatizes the later confrontations between Reavis and the government with its allies the homesteaders that the Baron is trying to steal from).
I realize most books require a LOT of adapting to work as movies, but Emma Laughlin and Nicola Kraus's biting, insightful "Nanny Diaries" was a slim book, with a straightforward storyline -- we aren't talking "Gravity's Rainbow" here.
She is straightforward to the point of naiveté.
Viewers preferring a straightforward story and/or closure may find this movie tough to take.
Conan Doyle's original novella - often regarded as one of the finest detective stories ever written - is a pretty straightforward affair, one which would seem relatively a breeze to adapt for the screen.
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