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Yes, the two leads are rather dull and the complete breakdown of society in about 48 hours, while explained by a few throwaway lines of dialog is a little hard to swallow.
Comment 1: I had to stop watching the movie after i heard the line, 'Do I have to swallow John Stamos's Semen?' i , i, I could not finish this movie and i am mad that i cannot punch Chris Seaver in his throat hole.
Now, the "serious" side of this movie flounders like the fully dressed blacks diving into the pool--we're supposed to think here of baptism, even before we see the image of the little boy floating in the crucifixion pose--and we are also supposed to swallow yet another screenwriter's slam-dunk of a terribly complex and many-sided situation, that of racial injustices of sixties Alabama.
So when the nincompoops at NBC decided they weren't going to give it a fair shot, it must have been a bitter pill to swallow.
Putting freshly-scrubbed Sissy Spacek in the role as 'the other woman' doesn't really sit right with us because, basically, it's tough to swallow Spacek as the proverbial homewrecker.
If he just would have used is own it might have made it a little better to swallow.
I don't know if the script can be blamed on the source novel, but I could not swallow Carmelite nuns at a voodoo ceremony any more than I could swallow the sudden and inexplicable love affair between Joachim and Gaelle.
However after having seen this highly artistic film,I am ready to say that it is one of the most original films made in recent times.I find it difficult to swallow the comparison made with US film "Taxi Driver".
We had much too many of them and they are always hard to swallow because they always end in a catastrophe.
The old saying "One swallow does not make a summer" is particularly apt when discussing this film.
The plot is not as disjointed or hard to swallow as one might think, there are good characterizations, especially by the overseer/devil character.
The EU is understandably eager to support a pro-European government in Serbia, for this might pave the way for Serbia to swallow the prospect of Kosovo’s independence.
They then tried to force the Ukrainian people to swallow this sham – threatening to ban public gatherings, close our borders to new visa seekers, and silence any word of our protests on television.
Over a period of a few years, her muscles will weaken until she can no longer walk, use her hands, chew, swallow, speak, and ultimately, breathe.
The candidate states, on the other hand, have, in order to qualify for membership of the EU, to swallow 80 000 pages of rules and regulations known as the 'acquis communautaire'.
Although Bernanke is right to view a soft landing as the most likely outcome, common sense would suggest agreing on some prophylactic measures, even if this means that the US, China, and other large contributors to the global imbalances have to swallow some bitter medicine.
Entrepreneurs and managers swallow their anger and show their disapproval only by silently speeding up their relocation decisions.
As cities expand, they swallow up land that would otherwise be used for food production.
They might well be reluctant to swallow the harsh medicine that Italy needs.
This renewed embrace of the market, reminiscent of Deng Xiaoping’s original turn to capitalism in 1979, will be hard medicine for China’s entrenched business and government elites to swallow.
So, before we swallow all of the bad news, we should look at history, which suggests that technological change more often affects the nature of work, rather than the opportunity to participate in work itself.
Rather, it must embark on a broader and deeper process of reform and renewal; and it must be willing to swallow the bitter pill of slower short-term growth in the interest of long-term goals.
This is a bitter pill for many to swallow, but it is the reality.
Instead of engaging in a costly strategy of escalation with their biggest trading partner, Europe’s leaders should swallow their pride and humor Trump when he insists on running the US economy into the ground.
France, in turn, had to swallow the Stability and Growth Pact to convince a reluctant German public that the euro would be as stable as the Deutsche Mark.
South America is booming, as India and China swallow up its exports of iron, copper, soybeans, coffee, coal, oil, wheat, poultry, beef, and sugar.
Four years ago, doomsayers forecast that the LHC would produce microscopic black holes that would swallow the Earth in a matter of months.
Austerity and its DiscontentsAusterity is always a bitter pill, and one that a growing chorus of political and business leaders, economists, and voters is refusing to swallow.
They didn't agree to anything....Who can swallow this?
For many people, the idea of spending time and resources on such otherworldly pursuits is difficult to swallow.
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