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It's not often you see such a strong, disabled female character, Stockard Channing is a master stroke in casting, she plays the role with inteligence and a intuitive subtlety.
After having his cronies beat up Burke The Sandman brandishes a knife in his general direction, stroke's Burke's torso a bit and walks of laughing whilst Burke collapses (due to the damage incurred by two minute Hispanic men slapping his shoulders).
This was especially true regarding the Invisible People who Boorman portrayed as a mysterious and elusive tribe which is demonstrated when they are camouflaged in the jungle and manage to stroke Tommy's face with a feather undetected by his family who are only a few feet a away from the Invisible People.
It looked like the Ape mask was recovering from a stroke.
People with a low tolerance for inept cinema are likely to faint or even die from a stroke during the first half hour already and even experienced bad movie fanatics will, in fact, face severe difficulties to sit through R.O.T.O.R from start to finish.
Who the filmmakers ride as if it's a stroke of comedic brilliance.
A true stroke of genius by the writers, directors, producers, and Annie herself to use the real Annette throughout the movie and to use her real family during Gina's wedding.
"Papillon" stroke me as a little shocking since I wasn't expecting so much "controversial" material in a movie this old, in other words, a movie with Steve Mcqueen.
Larry Fine suffered a stroke and was unable to complete the filming, so Norman Maurer filled the remaining time with scenery and narration by Moe Howard.
Basically Daniel 'Dan' O'Grady (Shay Duffin) has returned to America from Ireland after stealing 100 pieces of gold from the magical and nasty Leprechaun (Warwick Davis), but he manages to trap him in a crate covered with a four-leafed clover before having a stroke.
He rails against the new kids taking over the movie industry with their hand-held cameras, dismissing in a stroke a whole new generation of filmmakers.
I saw this about 14 years ago in a stroke of luck ( a local TV station had picked up a print, and my mother, horror buff that she is, decided to tape it), and the film has stuck with me ever since.
During the final battle with the Fire spewing serpent, Beowulf was losing, but one of his companions remembered his duty and where others deserted Beowulf, Wiglaf returned to stand by his dying lord, shielding him and dealing a stroke that abated the Serpent's fire, enabling Beowulf to deal the death stroke to the serpent with his battle knife.
It described how 2 elderly women live and love each other for many years and suddenly, one of them dies of stroke, the other one is only being recognized as the best friend, not family member.
While FORGOTTEN SILVER provides its share of hilarious moments (the Stan-The-Man sub-plot is a stroke of pure comedic genius,) it's the poignancy of Jackson's film that makes it special.
While this film is by no means a stroke of genius, it has its many flaws (compounded by the fact that it was never theatrically released because of the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games in 1980), it is definitely worth a look.
i could write at LEAST five hundred pages on why this movie was awful, but i would have a stroke if i had to relive this piece of crap again.
It is in black and white - what a stroke of genius of a decision.
Also the casting of a young Richard Long and a very young Natalie Wood was a stroke of genius!!
What a stroke of genius to have this film open the 7th annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
After my dad had a stroke he lost a lot of his speech, but I remember my dad saying to me "Eastwick" and I knew he was talking about this mini-series...
The actors can't hold a cue and are shown making ridiculous and sometimes even illegal shots (the push stroke to roll a ball along the rail is not a legal stroke).
Having her play the head of the president's secret service was a stroke of very poor casting.
The President and Sec. of State are killed when a building collapses, and the Vice President had had a stroke a month earlier, so the Oval office falls to a token black staffmember (played by James Earl Jones).
And the actual meeting of the two former, reconciled enemies at the end is a master stroke.
His sister's husband had a mysterious stroke while jogging and Ed studied Pharmacy in College.
My wife and I figured she had a stroke or perhaps did too many drugs.
The Chief of Defense staff sounded like he had a stroke, and I loved the guy with the overacted Southern drawl.
The Doctor and Rose finally have some purpose in the story this time round, and the idea to have this set in 2012 on the dawn of the Olympics is another stroke of genius.
a good werewolf stroke comedy then dog-soldiers ticks the boxes that this film did not.Every move was so predictable it was pathetic,i mean a joke cracking werewolf come on!!!! the only good part of the film was the eye candy,and this is where so many low budget movies fall short,trying to cover up the shitty acting,bad plot and overall poor movie up by this.
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