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Yes, machines substitute for human beings, making the original lump of work smaller, but they also complement human beings, and the lump of work gets bigger and changes.
The bottom line is that while this is a great movie to watch and hear, it deviates from Jane Austen's novel so much that any student who watched it, thinking she could substitute viewing for reading, would fail!
To see Edward James Olmos in the part once played by James Stewart is heart-breaking; Sean Young is better, but still a poor substitute for Kim Novak.
Also, Visconti's Aschenbach is a Gilded-Age Teutonic composer, which I think works for the film; and the symphonies of Mahler substitute for Aschenbach's novels.
It seemed a lame substitute for characterization, story, and engaging emotions.
An otherwise excellent actress, Russell was a very wooden substitute for Merman.
My wife and I picked up the show after the Swedish show "The Eagle" finished and it seemed by comparison to be a very poor substitute for our then favourite show on TV.
Accept no substitute.
The film to its credit does abstain from gratuitous violence and sex, but has forgotten to substitute good, clean romance or excitement in any other way.
The creativeness of this movie was lost from the beginning when the writers and directors left out a good story line, only to substitute with horrible special affects.
This shot-on-digital Full Moon release is stupid, senseless, has terrible acting and sound and the (Los) Angeles National Forest is a poor substitute for Italy.
I watched this film version of R.D. Blackmore's classic novel as a substitute until the 2001 A&E version was released on video.
For anyone who has seen and fallen in love with the stage musical A CHORUS LINE, the movie is a shoddy substitute.
Actually Bacall and Hudson characters do not interest Sirk.They are too straight,too virtuous.Dorothy Malone -who was some kind of substitute for his former German star Zarah Leander-and her brother Robert Stack provide the main interest of the plot.A plot constructed continuously ,most of the movie being a long flashback.The instability of the brother and the sister ,from a family of rich Texan oil owners,is brought to the fore by garish clothes,and rutilant cars that go at top speed in a derricks landscape.
The Philippines substitute for Thailand and nobody actually goes to Hong Kong.
Taylor, a last-minute substitute for an ailing Vivien Leigh, looks creamy-smooth in her high fashion wardrobe, and her performance is quite strong; however, once husband Peter Finch starts drinking heavily and barking orders at her, one might think her dedication to him rather masochistic (this feeling hampers the ending as well).
That is a good thing but also, quite unexpected in this culture of car chases, explosions, gratuitous sex and general violence that substitute for plot and character development.
The countryside of Portugal is a reasonable substitute for a non-tropical Latin American country.
However, Hank yellows and invites the thief Bobby Lasorda (Brian F. O'Byrne) to steal the store, but things go wrong when their mother Nanette (Rosemary Harris) comes to work as the substitute for the clerk and Bobby brings a hidden gun.
Karen goes into a Japanese house as a substitute nurse to Emma, a strange woman who sleeps at day and wakes at night.
This mystery ruined her life, she tried to substitute husband by lover but failed.
"Dusty" was almost over the top in his offer to be a substitute.
I wouldn't question this movie's earnestness, but good intentions are no substitute for a smart script, something this movie is sorely lacking.
So what better strategy to initiate this cosmic onslaught than to place the vanguard of the invasion force in a dead woman's body disguised as a substitute high school teacher--pretty clever!!
It was already clear that dancing is a great substitute for self-hating activities like smoking, overeating or filling up an ex's voice mail.
And while I think it works well for the film, I certainly hope no ninth grader deems it a substitute for reading the actual epic.
This time around, the heroine discovers she's related to the Candyman rather than being a re-incarnation of his white lover; that said, Kelly Rowan is no substitute for Viriginia Madsen!
He carries on to inform Grant that there are about 4000 Vampires worldwide & they revealed themselves to 'us' to try & live in harmony together, he also says that Vampires are genetic mutations & feed on a synthetic substitute for blood.
Although the PTC are the devil worshipers, Mrs. Paddock the substitute steals the show as the Devil(?).
If Jerry Doesn't have fat midget Lesbian wrestlers from Mars on then this a substitute
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