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If some of the best actors on your series decide to strike on their own to make movies, they should be allowed to come back to SNL if the "first" movie they make winds up stinking as much as this one did.
Colicos, pursing his lips and acting archly defiant, doesn't strike me as the kind of husband who would kill his cheating spouse and her lover--he's the type who'd want to watch and maybe join in.
Two rival ambulance companies battle to be the one that will remain in business when budget cuts strike the town.
It's not for everybody, but it does strike a chord with fans who value the way McKee creates and sustains tension, allows his characters to come alive within the story, and moves the camera with breathtaking effect.
When i first witnessed the horror that was Strike the Tent, i was looking for a good film to watch with my friend, but what we got made a fourth grade spelling bee on film look exciting.
there is no drama just two people who have an affair in a hotel, so theres a little mood going on; a night, a transit strike.
And it's the kind of film that you want everyone to see so you can strike up a conversation about how much you love it!
It's not as if things such as IT aren't scary enough but you have make the ice cream a clown, seriously can we not think of something more standard, no we have strike fear into the heart of kids, by making something that should be nice and sweet into this psychopathic thing that eats kids!
But this episode shows more than any other how it can strike a bittersweet, serious note as well with its spin on the familiar flashback of Fry's last day in the 20th century.
The story is rather depressing and dark, and the events of the movie didn't strike me as a very realistic.
First, when they are on their flight to New York, the pilot says that everyone on board will have to go to Boston (after much time consumed circling over the big city, due to weather conditions), they lose their luggage when they arrive at the Boston airport (and try to find it in a panic, while hurrying to catch a train), they hustle by cab over to one station to board a train, but Gwen has to go to the women's room, but can't find it due to hurrying to make the train (the one they board has no one on but a cleaning lady, and they miss the one they were looking for, which was next to the empty one), then they hustle to another station to get on board one and try to get something to eat on a car with almost no food, they arrive later on at a transit station in New York and discover that all of the transportation services are on strike, so they walk in the rain to their hotel, and Gwen breaks the heel on her shoe while walking before they arrive, only to discover that their room was given away to someone else after the 10 pm deadline, then they walk with a man who helps them find another room (only to rip them off by robbing them at gunpoint, taking George's wallet), then they try to go to the police station to report the guy who scammed them, then go the armory by the police, only to get their route foiled by some liquor store robbers, they get dumped in the park and mugged by a stranger at 4 am while sleeping under a tree (George's watch was taken while he was sleeping), then they find Cracker Jack on a bench for breakfast (that a dog steals almost immediately, which George breaks a tooth on, causing him to whistle on his spoken S's), they get chased by a cop on horseback for an assumed problem with a child in the park, and more funny situations to come.
After a few more mishaps, they finally make it to their same hotel destination with their luggage brought back earlier, thanks to the airport in Boston, but George can't get his suitcase unlocked due to the fact that the scam guy from the night before has his key in his wallet, then George goes to his interview, making it on time, in spite of his disheveled appearance (and he thought he wasn't going to make it due to the strike).
Maybe he subconsciously realized that the screenplay was a bunch of nonsense and his acting talent therefore went on a strike.
The director, Ronald Neame, was responsible for the classic POSIEDON ADVENTURE, but lightning does NOT strike twice with this waste of time.
The first thing that will strike you about this movie is how totally fake the accents are!
Now here is the original, we are all on strike (The actors) and this is where we are gonna hang out and party while being in this movie!
The actor's strike, what an uprising!
3)He would never just sit and wait for a killer to strike, he would think about the facts!
On my first view of Little Britain it didn't strike me as something that was hilariously funny.
I would say for making a movie during the writer's strike, on a very limited budget, this film managed to satisfy the crowd that I sat in when I first viewed it.
The only thing scary about this movie is that it actually manages to strike up some positive reviews... truly horrifying!
"Strike the Tent," are direct descendants of the protagonist.
It smacks of patriotism and tries to strike that chord in the viewer.
in Australia most Woody Allen films of the 70s and 80s were quite popular (until the terrible SHADOWS AND FOG and the stupid MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY and don't get me started on the mind numbing drivel of his latest London effort with Scarlet Johanssen: SCOOP............) and in the 80s at Orion Pictures he seemed to strike a new high in critical and popular successes.
A two-time loser like Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) will do anything to avoid a third strike and a long prison stint.
However, I think this film has a strike against it from the outset and that is because the CARS characters aren't as endearing or timeless as many of the other Pixar creations.
The tale of an an aging movie actress, over 40, put out to pasture by the major studios, and driven by loneliness to alcoholism and then to child abuse didn't strike me in the least bit amusing.
Quaid takes a job working at Sea World in Orlando, and begins to strike up a romance with Bess Armstrong, a dolphin trainer and biologist at the water park.
All-black variation on Biblical stories might strike some today as a stunt, yet the gloss and professionalism of the Warner Bros. studio is in full evidence.
It seems the filmmakers never got over rejection in high school and decided to strike back at their imagined tormentors.
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