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The Cinematography was good, except for the fact that they chose for a location a real flat desert terrain with no vegetation whatsoever, so the good camera work is somewhat spoiled therein.
.....how this beaten-up man, dispirited, exhausted, malnourished, riding without a hat in the daytime Mexican sun then slung over a horse and riding for unknown hours, over rough terrain, could survive a rattlesnake bite is another story whopper too......
Through the series, I discovered the real Australia; rough terrain, people keeping in contact through 27M7 radio, people living far from each other and the social life on the streets, in small villages.
Seven Mummies starts out on a lonely desert road where a police transport vehicle has crashed, the five convicts can't believe their luck & after killing one guard & taking the other (Carina Vincent) hostage they set off across the inhospitable desert terrain towards the border.
Yor dramatically enters, and proceeds to skip across the desert, arm flailing about, and generally he is looking like he has never ran across rough terrain before.
I've never seen any movie which shows as much detail of a guy in a chair and how he deals with everyday situations -- stairs, transfers, rough terrain, getting in and out of a car.
Filmed on location in some of the harshest terrain, Kekexili is a film for lovers of great cinematography, animals, the environment, and Tibet.
In the vein of Survive (or Alive, if you saw it in the 70s like I did), The Canyon traps human beings in unforgiving terrain only to push the limits of survival.
The fashions are also very 70's, silly looking sideburns and flares, the women in this film look attractive though, but I'm not sure that a mini skirt and high heeled boots would be a good choice of footwear considering the rocky and rough terrain.
Note to auteur (and actor): If you are trying to leave town on your ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE, and the FBI (using both their Humvees and all their personnel) stop you at the only road across the absolutely flat, featureless desert, why not simply go a half-mile away and drive your ATV across the other-than-only-road-out-of-town terrain, like the flat desert, on which you so-desperately want to race tomorrow?
This could have been a good plot had the screenplay wanted to delve deeply into the terrain of conflicted morals; instead of taking it for granted that we accept that the events that happen are the result of a man following his only logical option.
A former Apache hunter, who has lost his taste for violence, becomes embroiled in a running duel across a scorched, rugged terrain with a gang of gunrunners...all over a lousy 100 bucks...and honor...and a woman.
Though truly supranational politics in Europe remains uncharted terrain, it makes sense that a strongly pro-EU politician should be one of its pioneers.
Now the time has come to head back toward more familiar policy terrain.
This is ideal terrain for economic and political nationalism to take root and flourish.
With US/UK ground forces outnumbered in most fights, and with many terrain obstacles to overcome, this dual offensives would be highly risky were it not for air power.
Traversing extremely rough terrain with 200 tunnels and bridges, it promises to cut the transit time by three or four hours.
The war in Afghanistan bleeds more lives and treasure into the inhospitable terrain of that sad land, with little immediate chance of whatever might constitute sufficient success to allow America and its allies to quit.
Interpretation of this amendment has been contested terrain, but the original idea was that citizen militias should be armed.
Traveling by bus, boat, and even on foot through treacherous terrain, around one million Venezuelans have fled to Colombia alone, and another two million are estimated to be in other, mostly neighboring, countries.
From a security standpoint, the occupied territories constituted critical terrain for defending Israel against an attack on its borders by Arab states’ armies.
Bernie Sanders’s “political revolution” in the US, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the UK’s Labour Party, DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement) on the continent: these are the harbingers of an international progressive movement that can define the intellectual terrain upon which democratic politics must build.
Recent studies by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the CASE Foundation show that geographical distance from centres of development, mountainous terrain, lack of "market memory"- recent historical experience of an entrepreneurial tradition - and failures of economic policy are the main causes of the lack of recovery after the collapse of the Soviet-era economy.
Croatia's opposition was for a long time limited to NGO's such as the Helsinki Committee, which challenged the government on the slippery terrain of human and minority rights, an area where the parliamentary opposition kept its collective mouths shut.
To support this effort, we could encourage a new breed of science curators to explore the terrain of scientific knowledge more systematically, looking beyond trending topics to identify surprising but promising linkages between research, as well as conflicting results that merit further inquiry.
This drug trafficking equivalent of the Dakar Rally covers 4,000 kilometers of inhospitable terrain, across regions controlled by rebel groups and terrorists associated with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
If our leaders are ever to realize the world envisioned in the SDGs, they will need a roadmap for navigating the complex policymaking terrain.
In the physical world, governments have a near-monopoly on large-scale use of force, the defender has an intimate knowledge of the terrain, and attacks end because of attrition or exhaustion.
Or is the explanation for Israel’s current predicament to be found on the more prosaic terrain of the country’s dysfunctional democracy?
The strategic options confront equally fresh terrain, perhaps similar to when mass media opened a new era of marketing, or globalization required radical reshaping of organizational footprints.
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