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It takes a 15 minute story and
stretches
it into 95 minutes.
There are just too many long boring
stretches
of dialogue by the inmates, not a lot really happens until the final twenty odd minutes.
I have had more boring
stretches
of 80 minutes in my life, but none are coming to mind right now.
It consists instead mostly of long, tedious, boring
stretches
of conversation between people that, after a while, you realise you just do not give a stuff about.
W.C. Fields's brief role is fun, though the famous pool table scene
stretches
its welcome a bit because it seems to go on for ten minutes.
The plot line REALLY
stretches
ones ability to suspend disbelief.
Much of the story is simply boring; nothing much happens for long
stretches.
The point of that scene, I suppose, was to introduce some of the primary figures in the story and give a bit of their background - which is somewhat effective when comparing the idealism of the Harvard graduation ceremony to the realism of life in Johnson County, Wyoming, but it just keeps going and going, and that sets the stage for a film that features repeated
stretches
of mind-numbing nothingness, made even worse by the fact that I found a significant amount of the dialogue to be almost incoherent.
If the farmers in Ireland could only harvest during long dry
stretches
then the country would have starved hundreds of years ago.
Total junk except for a (very) few shots of "shocking scenes" separated by long
stretches
of boring non-action.
A few shocking, funny moments (fisting the hollow Carla, a urinating harpy in the Dreamland) and two competing interesting premises (similar to New Nightmare with belief bringing a mythical character to life and also Lost Highway with a man living out a fantasy in his head) but had long
stretches
of no movement and incoherent plot development.
Instead the director Jeff Lieberman conjures up a wonderfully evocative and disquieting atmosphere for great
stretches
of the movie, building the suspense constantly until I was really unsure about what was going to happen but wound up tight as a spring waiting for it.
Multiple
stretches
is more like it.
Interestingly, 'Steamboat Willie' was itself a parody, spoofing the latest Buster Keaton release, 'Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928),' though the connection
stretches
little beyond the title and the general story setting.
It suffers only from some slow stretches; Burt perhaps tried to make it more "arty" than it should have been.
It is also very shocking - the physical and psychological torture (both explicit and implied) is mixed with calm and even humourous
stretches.
It's a shaggy dog story, with Matthieu Kassovitz's simpleton following unlucky-in-cards drifter Jean Louis Trintignant with mutt-like devotion that even
stretches
to killing for him when he's asked to repay his gambling debts in kind.
We can't really get the feel of that, but we do see ordeals that had to be overcome by pioneers on the way west; river crossings, long
stretches
of dry, waterless desert, encounters with Indians and the like, all set to glorious song by the Sons of the Pioneers.
This is a dull movie with lots of long
stretches
where little happens.
(It also
stretches
credibility that a man who has just been given what amounts to a likely death sentence, would cheerfully indulge in a sex romp with a woman he has just met).
As others have noted, your average EOD guy doesn't know jack about being a sniper, and to think any Arab sniper is that good really
stretches
the imagination.
Kilmer's character disappears for long stretches, his girlfriend is dull, the police are jokes.
Still I want to see a horror movie, not a soft core porn flick and as a horror movie it is way to slow moving with way to many slow
stretches
to be even somewhat enjoyable.
I think it may have had an interesting plot, but since I couldn't watch it for long
stretches
at a time I missed a lot.
I must confess that a moment or two of genuine humor can be found between vast
stretches
of unintentional humor.
The love story is a little thin on the ground, but I'd say that's probably for the best, as this romantic comedy has the emphasis firmly on "comedy", and in any case it
stretches
the bounds of credibility just a little more than I like most rom com's to do.
Kurosawa
stretches
for a style that was, in my opinion, his antithesis- that is to say, I feel as if Kurosawa wanted to make an Ozu picture.
Another point worth mentioning is that this is NOT a short film, it clocks in a just over an hour, a little longer in the original Japanese version (72 minutes) and I think this is it's biggest problem, it
stretches
an already thin concept beyond breaking point.
Sprecher's direction is focused and brave (no overtures to broadly comical sensibilities), and she nimbly
stretches
the film's satirical edge quite far without faltering.
If you watched this film on You Tube, there would be long
stretches
when you think your computer has locked up because nothing is happening until you realized that the crawl bar is actually moving.
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