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Brotherly tempers started to get strained.
So we strained it from the edges, and we held it by cables.
At some point, in one of our strained conversations, my dad mentioned the Stonewall riots.
At the Phi Phi Hill Resort, I was tucked into the corner furthest away from the television, but I strained to listen for information.
Whenever it got strained, it hurt.
Full of clichés, unrealistic moments: punching the air in celebration after putting a fire out, never mind that someone's lost their home and possessions!!, announcing a pregnancy in a bar along with all your mates before telling you in private first, walking on the roof of a burning building for no apparent reason, the stereotypical funerals and strained relationships, the very dodgy, cheesy music at the end, the unrealistic treatment of the girl who was rescued from her apartment, the very unrealistic explosion from that same apartment!! Did they have a couple of oxygen tanks in the attic or something!!? Anyone with an ounce of wit can see that this movie was a joke.
The peace was strained, at best, but with that skeletal monster running rampant making it's victims vanish without a trace, soon Krantz wants answers to why members of his crew are missing..Evans begins losing citizens as well.
As time passes, their relationship becomes more and more strained until finally he begins yelling at his house guest--who is out of work and doesn't appear all that eager to find work.
Uma Thurman, great in nearly every role she's ever played, comes off as strained and confusing.
The chemistry between her and Travolta is strained and uncomfortable.
Obviously their relationship becomes strained.
Dobbs informs them that they must spend three days in their childhood home 'Crenshaw House' and fill it with 'sexual harmony and marital love' that it had never known because of the strained relationship between their father and mother.
Strained and humorless (especially in light of its rather dubious psychology), but well-paced and comfortably lurid, this genteel body count movie highlights the unusually hypnotic presence of Angharad Rees as a young woman periodically possessed by Jack the Ripper, thus allowing for some nasty gore effects amidst the Edwardian propriety.
Feeling Minnesota, directed by Steven Baigelmann, and starring Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz and Vincent D'Onofrio: The strained relationship between two brothers, Sam (D'Onofrio) and Jjaks (Reeves), is pushed to breaking point when Jjaks arrives at Sam's wedding and makes off with the bride, Freddie (Diaz), a former stripper, marrying Sam to repay a gambling debt owed to night-club owner Red (Lindo).
The dialog is shallow and obvious, the acting strained at times and as the story moves along, isn't it just funny how EVERYTHING happens at the same time...
It was strained, illogical with full of meaningless massacres.
You could have strained spaghetti with the plot and I'm sure that the script was written by some adolescent schoolboy in a high school English competition.
Their relationship with their step-mother is strained to say the least, with the step-mother appearing to be increasingly becoming unstable in her battles with the younger girls.
kiera knightley was superb, even with that slightly strained welsh accent,and it is a sad tale that they tell.
The acting is a bit strained but the work of the Second Camera Assistant is stellar!
They used to be friends in the old days but now their relationship is strained because one of the women has become a successful moneylender and the other two owe her.
They usually had someincredibly strained plot and lots of 27 year old actors pretending to be students.
It's wonderful when actors/actresses wish to expand their horizons, but it's another thing to try too hard so that a performance becomes strained.
The film draws unfortunate "Yellow Peril" parallels between London's life and World War II, which are both strained and insulting.
Cary's usual charm and effortless comedy are AWOL from this entire movie; he comes across as strained, bored, and just not himself.
Strained comedy, a sketch-like revue which was initially a vehicle to showcase one-time radio star Jack Pearl but is now best remembered as America's introduction to The Three Stooges.
This was not at all imaginative, there was no redeeming moment, anything remotely funny was shown in the trailer (and nothing amusing was in the trailer), performances were strained (especially Molly's, totally unconvincing).
The plot is tired, the acting is strained, the language is consistently foul and at times the over use of the "F" word seemed like a lack of dialog was prevalent so 'let's throw in another couple of "F's" for good measure, that's what the American public wants to hear'.
It strained my credulity too far.
Ajay Devgan is quite a disaster as Heero, the comedy is strained and the slurred talk that really was effective in Company sounds fake.
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