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(There May be Spoilers)Freed after doing a six-month stretch in a federal prison for contempt of congress Hollywood writer/directer Herbert Biberman, Jeff Goldblum, as well as his actress wife Gale Sondergaard, Greta Scacchi,future in the world of the movies and theater in America is all but over.
Presumably the budget didn't stretch to a microphone, as the entire thing seems to be dubbed over, making everyone's voice exactly the same volume, despite their location on screen.
Of course you can come across very good low budget movies, and this certainly doesn't rank as one of the worst I've seen by any stretch of the imagination (see scarecrow or the Pumpkin Karver for that accolade for example), but this could have been so much better.
When it comes time to pull together the plot elements, writer/director Simpson makes a long stretch and comes up with something outrageous and a bit too easy, and some of the concluding twists feel somewhat contrived, but by this time, it really doesn't matter.
No matter how much guilty pleasure one derives from dreck like this, by no stretch of the imagination could this film be ranked as high as the greatest films of all time!
i gave him some slack because i enjoyed "punch-drunk love", a movie where he actually seemed to stretch a bit as an actor and try to make you forget for a few moments that it's him on screen.
In Rize, David LaChappelle criticizes contemporary hip-hop for it's exploitative hyper-sexual consumerism, but then proceeds to spend an excruciatingly long stretch of film showcasing close-ups of the glistening Krumpers greased-up bodies in slow-motion.
To say he wasn't successful would be an understatement, as the plot requires a huge stretch of the imagination and the murders that happen early on never get anything in the way of an explanation.
Frank Tashlin-directed chaos isn't very funny, and occasionally verges on ludicrous when it tries passing Lewis off as a sensitive soul (this is no stretch for Jerry, as he manages to turn even his baby lullabies into infantile showstoppers).
Now just because this is better then the first movie (like it could be worse) does not make it perfect by any stretch of the imagination.
Sheba even gets to lead her own horse to water when they reach an oasis: I suppose the budget didn't stretch to servants and other such inessential items.
The Trail Of The Pink Panther was mediocre but it had funny moments; The Curse Of The Pink Panther is a stretch too far.
However, there is a limit as to how far you can stretch the underlying storyline and therefore it tends to be a bit repetitive.
Stretch the limits of credibility in a military espionage/romance.
Now stretch them some more.
Of course there are movies so bad they're fun to watch; this just ain't one of 'em- by any stretch of the imagination.
Actually it's not too much of a stretch to imagine Reiser and Helen Hunt playing these roles... it would have made an eye-popping "Mad About You" series finale!
I finally had to watch it on fast forward, because NOTHING HAPPENS time and time and time again for minutes at a stretch.
And the long stretch focusing on Moose the dog really dragged.
Following a near deadly encounter with the demented attendant of a remote country gas station, two road-tripping friends find themselves hunted in the dead of night down a long stretch of backwoods road.
It is not a comedy by any stretch of the imagination.
What a stretch.
Don't expect any resemblance to facts other than on the barest surface and even then it's a stretch.
The original Dragonheart was no Oscar winner, by any stretch.
It follows 2 women, only one of whom generated any empathy with the audience, and even that was a stretch and only temporary as the movie unfolds.
Bridges is a counterfeiter doing a stretch of time who is confronted by the reemergence of the bank notes he had been passing that got him put in jail.
Directed by the efficient Burt Kennedy and based on an early E.L. Doctorow novel, WELCOME TO HARD TIMES isn't great by any stretch, but it is involving and features some great acting.
This is not some "anti-Soviet" propaganda film by any stretch, and people who think it is need to attend to some history of the time and place.
Bogey, fourth billed here, plays Chuck Martin, an inveterate hood who is released from Sing Sing after a five-year stretch and returns to his old ways back in the big city.
Im not a blind Michael Moore fan by any stretch, in fact I think "The Big One" is probably one of the worst films of all time, and I think that he is an annoying blowhard.
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