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Where there is no substance to this exchange, the actors (regardless of how good they are normally) can't help but compensate with exaggerated emotion, aka "raising the stakes".
Unlike others, I refuse to call this pitiful excuse for a movie a triumph of style over substance (I don't want to give style a bad name).
Jolie was a joke with a role with virtually no substance.
It wasn't close to any detailed facts, (in fact it barely had any substance at all) It wasn't really morbid or scary or didn't even try to be very disturbing.(as
I have my own theories regarding the whole "banned" hype and hope that anyone who chooses to view this film does so with substantial substance abuse and a sense of humor.
The concept is fresh and full of potential, but the script and the execution of it lacks any real substance.
The real problem with "The Lonely Lady" is that the screenplay, like the original book, looks for sensation rather than substance, and nothing can help with this.
But if you were hoping for something with more substance, see a different movie.
It's pure adventure SF with some substance (here and there) and I've always wondered why Hollywood hasn't filmed it verbatim because it's just the kind of thing they love: massive explosions, super-weapons, uber-heroics, hero gets the girl, aliens (great CGI potential), good versus evil in the purest form, etc etc.
If you've ever wanted to see a film that stresses style over substance, this is for you.
To me, Son de Mar is beautiful to SEE, but there's precious little substance, unless mawkish, melodramatic, manipulative love yarns turn you on.
After the concoction is completed, Jackie and the rest of the gang help themselves with the awful tasting but very sticky substance as everyone gets stuck on the walls as a result.
With an almost 2 hour run, subtitles, and so little substance, "Lies" is simply not recommendable.
No amount of fine acting or black and white film styling can make up for a total lack of substance.
It had all the clichés of movies of this type and no substance.
Style but no substance.
However if the plot had any kind of original substance someone would have seen that it got the necessary funding, this was not the case and movies like this are not necessary themselves and have no purpose in existing.
Despite all the top talent (including Robert De Niro as one of the producers), "Faithful" is fraudulent, with no substance to the story and characters who rarely come to life.
A reporter, Craig Milford, who works for The James Keller Public Telecommunication Center, has an interview with a German professor of a Floridian university, who made an unknown creature based upon some substance of meteor(s).
And the actors were terrible, were talking a hair below the acting in Clerks, except that was an enjoyable movie, this had no substance.
A shame that even a talented director, Desplechin, could not muster a decent performance out of a bleakly-talented actress, Phoenix, Esther Kahn lacks the substance to convey a very concise and clear plot.
The best thing anyone could do with this film is rewrite the end and give it some substance.
A short piece can be effective with a mysterious and unexplained ending, but in a feature film, there should be a bit more substance and the story should make sense.
Sadly, substance and sense are two things missing from "The Broken."
The actors struggle to give the script some substance, but with such thin material all we see are their laborious efforts.
This movie seems to start in the middle, introduces peripheral players as if they were significant and presents main characters without any substance and paper-thin and/or impenetrable back-stories.
It is absolutely distracting and without substance, which could be considered a good thing if you look at some of the quotes from the movie.
For a video clip it is way too long and for a movie it has too little substance.
Dull, predictable and uninteresting story of a man contaminated by a chemical substance (Weller) who goes on across the country just to find his ex-wife and children; meanwhile, he kills everyone in his way only by a single touch of his hands.
There's so little substance that there's nothing there even just to make fun of.
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