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If only "Donkey Punch" had SOMEWHERE to go, plot-wise, after the first 30 minutes or at least tacked on a bit more T&A and a lost LESS of that hair lipped-meth-head and overly forced "alpha-woman" BS, it might have been able to hold my interest a little better.
then some tacked on story about some professor with a grudge against the pie shop owner, and i'm like, is this meant to be some statement about small town revelry.
The pot smoking seemed like a gimmick tacked onto the film.
The zombie scenes seem tacked on as an afterthought, so as a horror film this doesn't really work that well.
So why, oh why, did they think to put these no-talents into Dumas' classic tale?! It's even more perplexing because the rest of the film is played so straight and the Ritz moments seem almost tacked on or an intrusion.
The characters are developed nicely and the love story is even handled in a very good way and does not feel tacked on like it does in so many other sports movies.
It seems tacked on and lessens the ecological message Boorman was driving home.
The dialog and humor were sub-par, and the ending felt tacked on as well.
And the solution to the murder is tacked on to the end, as if an afterthought, and it doesn't make a great deal of sense, either.
I recommend this movie for folks who like their movies without the happy, crappy endings tacked on...and which show life as it really can be in that roller-coaster period called being a "teenager."
The characters are all severely lacking in charisma, particularly the so-wet-you-almost-don't-feel-sorry-for-him cat, the animation is lumbering and predictable, the musical number is flat and the story doesn't build naturally, instead resorting to a tacked on and completely unsatisfying finale in which the cat does a too-sudden about face and metes out a workmanlike beating to each individual rat, a production line revenge that is less than thrilling to watch.
WIthout the soundtrack to tie it together, this movie seems like three separate films hastily tacked to one another during a short weekend of Bolivian flake-fueled editing.
Add an exploitative ending that feels like it was tacked on for a sense of serious "drama" and you get one bad movie.
Then there's the so-called character development and horrid romantic sub-plot that feel like they were tacked right after shooting began.
The shocking conclusion has obviously been tacked on just as the gratuitous sex scenes were, to make something from nothing with minimal effort.
After having Arthur's character seemingly make her choice, they tacked on a rather strange ambiguous ending suggesting that the "losing" husband might still have a chance.
So against this background our happy pair of laughable chaps find themselves in prison for trying to sell their home made brew to a friendly LA cop! However there is no real story running through the film, it is no more than a series of separate sketches loosely tacked together with prison life as a common theme.
Indeed, the protectionist elements tacked on to these proposals make them decidedly anti-development.
Its most valuable short-term recommendation – the replacement of current development indicators (GDP or variants thereof) with more comprehensive, inclusive metrics for wealth – seems tacked on almost as an afterthought.
Once in office, Clinton appealed to the left with fiscal-stimulus and health-care bills (both unsuccessful), but also tacked center with a pro-growth deficit-reduction bill.
He tacked to the center with technocratic financial-rescue and fiscal-stimulus plans.
Macri could have spent more of that political capital on a gradual – but substantial – fiscal adjustment early on, pushed sooner for pension reform, and tacked further left on issues like human rights and abortion, where, as an avowed liberal, he should have been less timid.
MMT has merely tacked on a federal job guarantee.
The Nautilus tacked about and retreated from this furnace it couldn't brave with impunity.
One sperm whale exterminated, it ran at another, tacked on the spot so as not to miss its prey, went ahead or astern, obeyed its rudder, dived when the cetacean sank to deeper strata, rose with it when it returned to the surface, struck it head-on or slantwise, hacked at it or tore it, and from every direction and at any speed, skewered it with its dreadful spur.
"Well then, let me tell you, brother," said Sancho, "I haven't got the 'Don,' nor has any one of my family ever had it; my name is plain Sancho Panza, and Sancho was my father's name, and Sancho was my grandfather's and they were all Panzas, without any Dons or Donas tacked on; I suspect that in this island there are more Dons than stones; but never mind; God knows what I mean, and maybe if my government lasts four days I'll weed out these Dons that no doubt are as great a nuisance as the midges, they're so plenty.
But the wind was contrary, the sea bad; they tacked and kept offshore.
At some places the flanks of the mountain formed an angle with the horizon of at least 36 degrees; it was impossible to climb them, and these stony cliffs had to be tacked round, not without great difficulty.
The sails were close-reefed, and they tacked frequently.
A fine breeze blew from the south-west, and the "Bonadventure" tacked on leaving Port Balloon so as to reach Reptile End.
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