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Most striking of course, was Aidan Quinn's performance.
The cast performs this luminiscent piece with striking conviction particularly James Woods and Nick Nolte who remind us of the nerve and daring displayed throughout the course of their careers.
This review cannot be complete without a mention of Philip Glass' striking musical score.
Annibal Ramirez, (Aidan Quinn) a U.S. naval officer who bears a striking resemblance to the mastermind of so many terrorist bombings.
Familiar guest star Mark Lenard, who went on to play Spock's dad Sorek as well as the Klingon commander in "Star Trek: the Motion Picture" is an appropriately grizzled, war-weary commander, a character who bears a striking resemblance to Laurence Olivier's Crassus in "Spartacus."
Great casting! and there are so many beautiful lines/quotes in this movie which is very striking and made me cry hard!
To grasp where this 1976 version of A STAR IS BORN is coming from consider this: Its final number is sung by Barbra Streisand in a seven minute and forty second close-up, followed by another two-and-half-minute freeze frame of Ms. Streisand -- striking a Christ-like pose -- behind the closing credits.
Only Beth Orton and Anthony got within striking distance of Leonard's own versions by using a little restraint.
Stilted, stagy, strange and opaque, if visually striking ... a wannabe-erotic fantasy.
Janeane Garafolo, who is very striking, looks really bad here, probably because she is uncomfortably struggling to make her flat role funny.
The striking Bolkan gives a terrific performance.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow uses striking cinematography, computer graphics, and creative futuristic designs to create a world that is historically familiar yet something quite fresh.
After learning about the last gathering held there--Ellen's daughter's coming-out party--Tilly decides on her artistic theme, never dreaming the daughter died mysteriously before the function even began, nor that she and the deceased bore a striking resemblance to one another!
This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child.
It is true that the movie suffered in the transfer to DVD - some scenes which were complete in the original were shortened and so badly edited that there are striking continuity gaps and that even one crucial scene between Jane and Rochester starts in the middle of a sentence!
In the opening scene of "Malta Story" Mr A.Guinness bore such a startling resemblance to Noel Coward that I fully expected his first words to be "Certain women need striking regularly - like gongs" or some such world - weary bon mot.Unfortunately his dialogue is hardly deathless prose and even the Master would have had trouble bringing it to life.Indeed Mr Guinness wanders through the picture as if looking for a focal point and failing to find one.And therein lies the fatal weakness of the whole movie.Mr J.Hawkins likewise gives up early on and ends up giving a "Jack Hawkins" performance without an ounce of individuality.It could have been spliced from any of a dozen British war movies.Many of the early fifties usual suspects turn up and do their schtick to very little purpose.
The striking N.Y.
At times it works well, the scene where Grace and her maid witness from afar the King's execution is particularly striking.
What is most striking about this semi-musical set in 1920s Berlin is the marvelous cinematography and editing.
She has a very striking appearance and a will of iron to resist the powerful Nebula (Nemesis 2).
Initially striking the audience as filthy, crude and generally unappealing, his Oscar Madison eventually manages to worm his way into our hearts, culminating in a hilariously overplayed confession of emotions that Matthau rasps out in a voice not entirely his own.
Out of anger, Culp kills her by striking her in the face and setting the up the body elsewhere.
There is no doubt that the TV adaptation is visually striking, with some lovely photography and a very haunting music score.
However, director Ivan Reitman and writer Don Payne (of the "Simpson's") almost fatally miscalculate in having their hero G-Girl (played by striking Uma Thurman) come off as a total nut job as both Superhero and secret identity persona Jenny Johnson.
I must say I saw striking similarities between Matt and another Aussie actor, Eric Bana.
Instead of striking oil they tap an underground volcano which threatens all life in the Lost World.
Striking a quick flash of energy that transports a human to another world.
bigger concern,however is a scene very close to the end,where Mr crazy bears a more than striking resemblance(actually a complete rip off)of another famous horror titan.and in the very last scenes,we have our scumbag,once again,looking exactly like the 1st horror icon i mentioned.in
What is most striking to us 40 plus year fans is that Mr. New York himself seems to have a bit of a crush on the mother country.
Reese Witherspoon is astonishingly good in her film debut, displaying every emotion that a 14 year old girl feels in experiencing young love and hurt, never striking a false note.
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