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"Career Opportunities" starts off promising enough, but after an hour it slips into "Home Alone" territory and becomes silly.
What a shame too, since a drive-in movie theater would be prime "massacre" territory.
The Crusades were a provoked response by Europeans against increasing encroachment of Jihadists into European territory.
Before invading a territory, Muslim commanders were required to give their enemy three choices: 1. Accept Islam and everything that is required of a Muslim (you know, fun stuff like, no pork, no alcohol, paying zakat, praying five times a day, oh yeah...and circumcision).
The trio of main characters move in war-torn territory that comes off almost as another planet, where food is about as scarce as brain-cells are in Sean Penn's bloated head.
Jane Russell received top billing playing Egan's wife, and she's not bad except that her accent (perhaps laid on for a colorful, comical effect) slips in and out of Frito Bandito territory.
Yes, you see it all coming and it's familiar territory, but THAT IS THE POINT.
When I first set out to try and use film to help me with learning French, it was a completely uncharted territory except for one title I had heard of previously: La Femme Nikita.
This B-movie thriller marked a new territory for MGM.
Yes, we're back in dodgy Italian barbarian film territory, where well-oiled beefcakes duel with rubber swords against helmet-clad stuntmen who die without being touched.
The script was okay about a curse put on the family of Fengriffin, but it covered territory seen before(most notably in Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles).
Looking like MAD MAX or Sunday TOO FAR AWAY and in mining territory, this is a blokey comedy with excellent leading pals (Colin Friels and Harold Hopkins).
Same territory and equally as enjoyable.
It was not unheard of for those unscrupulous managers to abscond with the box office receipts, stranding the actors in hostile territory without a penny.
Now don't get me wrong, this clearly isn't anywhere near "Casablanca" territory, but it had all the elements of a creepy late night scare fest, especially if you're about nine or ten years old.
I've been seriously thinking; since there isn't a whole great deal of brilliant comedies being released these days, why not set out for foreign lands, why not plough the uncharted territory, where weed like "Gaslight" is growing a plenty, rip it up with its roots, and scour it for any signs of laughter-gas.
You are meant to help gain territory for the Empire until you have enough strength to conquer Rome itself and the other two factions.
This is a nifty, no nonsense thriller that starts out almost like Thelma & Louise and then veers sharply into darker territory.
The contrived Love story didn't work at all for me, it felt like they were again trying to take the story into more adult territory and in that lost the point of what makes the first one so good...
Whatever,it's an unwelcome and redundant return to Mean Time territory (now over over 20 years old) that reeks of the late '70s/early '80s and,despite its pretensions has little of the flavour of modern Britain.
Perhaps that's not saying a lot for the territory, but this one hurt to sit through.
This movie tries to tackle too much territory.
Other, later pictures mining this territory have improved upon the ghostly basics.
Indeed there are so many MacGuffins in this thriller involving props such as a microfilm or a heart-shaped box that you feel it edging almost into the territory of parody.
From the title and what little I knew about its subject-matter, I was expecting a BELLE DE JOUR-meets-JACK THE RIPPER kind of thing but imagine my disappointment when, after an intriguing start, this is forsaken for boring political machinations which ineffectively breach thriller territory towards the end.
And to the director of this abomination I can only say: Welcome in Uwe Boll territory, Mr. Zombie.
Byler is working in Cassavettes territory...
Milch has said that the underlying theme of Deadwood is the development of order in a culture where laws do not yet exist (Deadwood is in Indian territory, and hence outside of the U.S. proper).
Woo had never worked with special effects, so he was treading into new territory.
Thw whole show is just HILARIOUS !!! Hight quality entertainment.. lots of action..Meerkats running around fighting for their territory, food.. Main Characters : And EVERYONE GET READY THEY ARE COMING BACK TO ANIMAL PLANET September 29th SO GET READY FOR ACTION !!!!
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