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None of the other thinly-sketched characters are in any way sympathetic, the setting is within a singularly depressing sodden-hills landscape, and the screenplay is mean-spirited and unfathomable.
The only sympathetic character is Rudge, and his character is also involved in the only piece of truth in the whole shoddy exercise - he gets into Oxbridge because somebody knew his father.
There were some inspired bits of casting: Jane Seymour as the ill-fated, hard-as-nails matriarch; Alison Steadman as Kirsten, the faithful maid (Yes, Shirley Valentine's gal-pal is now playing a middle-aged Swedish maid!), and pop star Lisa Stansfield as Mary, the ONLY sympathetic offspring.
newspaper lady, Janet Leigh, arrives and gets the two to come to N.Y. for a sympathetic last trip with the hopes of increasing the newspapers' circulation.
And the creators of the film were damn smart to write sympathetic characters we could relate to.
This movie isn't terribly exciting, and no one character is enormously sympathetic, but it's an extremely interesting look at the madness that consumed a family and how it shaped the brilliance of the one who managed, almost imperceivably, to escape.
The characters were deep, sympathetic, and non-clichéd, and the story lines were very original.
The songs in this programme created an atmosphere that was unmistakable and I found the treatment totally sympathetic to Weill and his music.
It demonstrates once more that most filmmakers today have no clue in depicting religious experience in either an authentic or a sympathetic fashion.
I didn't like them, I couldn't find them sympathetic, I couldn't relate to anyone, I couldn't understand why they loved each other so much, and in the end I couldn't help but feel that none of them deserved the luck they had (which was a lot in some cases).
I read the reviews, watched it, and came away thinking that if this was a movie about a male teacher who "loved" a female student or a female teacher who "loved" a male student that people wouldn't be so sympathetic.
As in previous renditions, there are a couple of sympathetic characters added for audience appeal while Jason murders the other repulsive young twits one by one.
The most sympathetic characters are Cynthia Patrick and the Mole People.
It's nice to see that both the mother and stepfather are portrayed as sympathetic people.Beery's portrayal manages also to convey the flaws in the character of The Champ,which is why we understand how his wife could leave him.But as an ex-boxing champ he's not very believable.
Morgan is outstanding as the sympathetic white traveler who ultimately is the town's salvation.
However, the female protagonist is sympathetic and there's a certain nightmarish edge to the storyline.
The single drawback to this no-nonsense, high-octane, shoot'em up is the shortage of sympathetic characters.
There's some nice plays on Christianity, the Devil as a mildly sympathetic (or at least likeable) figure, and Lowe and Swanson make a likeable enough couple.
To add insult to injury the characters in this film were completely unrealistic and not at all sympathetic.
Roddy McDowall did a fine job playing the sympathetic ape, Galen.
But it is a very elegant movie, and along the way you become quite sympathetic, even though all the stories describe infidelity and frigid bourgeous lives.
The controversial comedian's rise to the top, his marriage to a sexy stripper, and his eventual downfall into drugs and court hearings is fascinating to watch, however Dustin Hoffman is arguably too genial and soft as Bruce (Hoffman gives the character a sympathetic center, and some may say this works for the picture).
The characters weren't developed enough for me to feel sympathetic for when they get picked off at the end.
Kudos for the fact that the sympathetic characters in the movie (played by Quaid and McDowell) were actually suggesting that marriage problems need to be fought through and marriage held on to rather than thrown away, but still, frankly, I thought this thing would never end, and the ending, when it finally did arrive, was entirely forgettable.
The other characters all incredibly tolerant and unbelievably sympathetic to Jill's activities.
In any case, he may mark the first time Hollywood created a gay character - at least in a big-budget film - who is sympathetic, not stereotypical or ridiculous or treacherous, and is given his fair share of personal dignity.
The uniformly ace acting from a tip-top cast qualifies as another significant asset: Lambert and Locklin make for sympathetic leads, Smith excels in one of his customary bad guy roles, plus there are stellar supporting performances by Jeffrey Combs as flaky, bespectacled computer whiz D-Day, Lincoln Kilpatrick as wise trustee inmate Abraham, Tom Towles as mean roughhouse bully Stiggs, Vernon Wells as vicious top con Maddox, and Clifton Collins, Jr. as scrappy young punk Nino Gomez.
Berenger almost pulls off the sympathetic broken man character, but without enough cheap action to prop him up, he pretty much melts into the part.
If you're hoping for a decent story with some sympathetic characters, don't expect any of that from the human actors.
Maybe watching it at 3 AM muddled my critical sensibilities, but from where I was sitting, Leigh nailed every line in the film, and she was totally convincing and sympathetic.
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