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And on Wooster Street, in a building with the creaky hallways and the loft with the 12-foot ceilings and the darkroom with too many sinks under the color-balanced lights, she found a note, tacked to the wall with a thumb-tack, left over from a time before towers, from the time before babies.
We just took a simple sailing boat and we tried to pull something long and heavy, but as we tacked back and forth, what we lost was two things: we were losing pulling power and direction.
Brass nails tacked into the ebony wood, your face has been carved five times.
They handcuffed him to a chair, and they tacked his penis to a table with a six-inch nail, then left him there to bleed to death.
And that's what you see here: These little salt spots are just DNA tacked onto glass, and so I can put thousands of these on our glass chip and use them as a detection reagent.
And then tacked on at the end of it are about 15 years for retirement.
Nevertheless, the film gets so caught up in the romance that it ultimately doesn't know what to do with itself, resulting in an ending so tacked on that you're left wondering what it is that you've been waiting around for, or if there was ever anything to begin with.
The Klingons make a tacked on appearance, which actually will set up the much better Undiscovered Country movie.
Scene after scene is tacked on to an otherwise overdone premise.
It had started out as a short, but gradually more was tacked on until - clocking in at 58 minutes - it accidentally became the first all-talking feature film.
"The Mascot" isn't a "bonus feature"-- it's tacked on as a chapter in "Vampyr".
The ending was just stupid and tacked on.
The dream-like ending felt tacked on.
In fact, the director has written here at IMDb.COM that he directed only eight minutes of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and the studio tacked on part of "Dollman" helmer Albert Pyun's sequel to his own "Alien from L.A." with Kathy Ireland.
The dog scene in this felt so tacked on and useless.
What a disappointment... admittedly the best of the prequels, but the story is weak, the plot is rushed and the end result is just a collection of set pieces, poorly realised and tacked together amateurishly.
The film is tacked together with little regard for whatever state the original shooting script was.
Those are the types of movies where the ending or viewpoint is conceived first, and the story simply tacked on.
It just rushes all over the place with zero tension and suspense, totally moving away from the original story and then going back to it in the finale which by that point just feels tacked on to mess it up even more.
The movie DOES include a song by the Spencer Davis group, two by the Animals, and one tacked on live film of the Beatles doing their live version of Twist and Shout (all 1:20).
As it is though, despite the third act having the most vicious and bloody of the encounters, the way it was handled made it feel tacked on, and almost, insults the viewers intelligence since it felt it had to go this far to get it across.
The missing episodes that were never shown prior to being run on Sci Fi channel are in the box set, but are tacked on the final DVD.
I tacked all those pics on the wall of sports heroes and decorated that phone booth where larry makes a phone call for a cab.
Its inpenetrable plot seems to be winding up, just as a second ending is tacked on.
The tacked on love angle.
Even the ending seemed like it was tacked on for some kind of message, that somehow would justify the brainwashed cult.
The directing is at times questionable though, there is little sense of pacing and there are some parts that feel tacked on (the crazy flumride anybody)just because its supposed to be a summerfranchie.
The ending feels tacked on.
When Doris sings the old standards,it's great but MGM tacked on two numbers that sounded OK but they threw the ambiance off.
The happy-endings, which are then tacked on, have no exhilaration, no juicy kick.
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