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Scenes seemed to have been lifted directly from Milos Forman's script with only superficial changes.
It was of course totally superficial, beautiful English country and seaside or not.The number one mistake was dumping Knightly so early on in the film, when she could easily have played someone a couple of years older, instead of choosing someone ten years older to play the part.
Doris Roberts and James Coco as The Van Danns are relatively superficial in their parts- they're shrill and bombastic, but again, only on the surface.
It was a very superficial movie and it gave me the feeling that I was watching play rather than a film.
Mencia rarely delves past the superficial and the reactionary.
It begins promisingly enough, with some superficial understanding of the values and quirks of U.P. life.
Very superficial, nothing to think about, because the film tells you already what you are supposed to think.
You never get to know any of the characters except for superficial slapstick.
Of course the whole thing was presented in a superficial way, glossed over and not really dealt with.....I mean I would have liked to know more about the father/son relationship between Gere and James Franco, but the story was really about the idea that a great love can CHANGE you for the better; whether it is a lover, a child, a friend etc.
From the beginning he feels foreign in this proper, impersonal world of superficial kindness, surrounded by pleasant but lifeless interior architecture and likewise colleagues.
In a sense, the details are not important--you could change the details and set this film today and it would work just as well--but the loneliness and insecurity and superficial passion and self-righteous anger of the characters is captured well.
This movie comments on society's worship of beauty and all things superficial and is only more true in the culture of the twenty-first century.
Their comfortable and somewhat superficial milieu is up-ended as the two girls confront the ensuing crisis and respond to its conflicting demands of prudence, integrity, loyalty, and love, with consequences that are profoundly different for each of them.
With so much garbage and superficial hype selling these days it is great to see that someone could back an independent flick.
A very rare type of film these days - it holds the attention and stirs the emotions without abandoning artistic integrity and succumbing to manipulative, superficial shortcuts.
Its refreshing, witty humor is never an excuse to remain superficial.
The complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile - if you can stand it.
Because it does not rely on gratuitous nudity, or superficial pop-cult.
The purpose of this film was obviously to entertain small children with a simple story line as in case of "Totoro", so a complicated story as been told in "Spirited Away" or "Princess Mononoke" is not really necessary, but on the other hand, this story was simply too superficial.
If one looked beyond the superficial "action" that was taking place, Keith's character treated Lisa's "deflowering" with tenderness and consideration.
Nonetheless, "Beyond the Clouds" will be fodder for dilettantes and a visual feast for the all albeit superficial, stilted, and lacking in substance.
(Some of the superficial "sports comedy" results from Jack's uncomprehending disbelief at how "basa-boru" is played in Japan.)
First, any comparisons between novel and film are purely superficial.
She obviously has a long history that was not touched upon except in the most superficial way.
The acting is bad ham, ALL the jokes are superficial and the target audience is clearly very young children, assuming they have below average IQs.
Both things have been tried in psychological thrillers, but in this case the movie cannot hold things together, due to poor, superficial scripting, bad acting and a too dark, too dull cinematography.
Having only a superficial acquaintance with Genoa, I had no idea of the intricate alleyways of its Old Town, and that the city was so interesting.
Oh, and because he's a superficial male he falls for Megan Fox at first sight, possibly because her character is as shallow as his.
It's so sad that Romanian audiences are still populated with vulgar and uneducated individuals who relish this kind of cheap and demonstrative shows, as superficial and brutal as the "Garcea" series or the "Vacanta mare" child-plays...
At a superficial level, the faux accents, as others have commented, are simply distracting at best and irritating and vapid at worst.
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