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Dazzling special effects and a fast-paced story make this lively film a textbook case of college comedy!
This 1973 remake of the classic 1944 Billy Wilder film, "Double Indemnity," is a textbook example of how to destroy a great script.
Diane Keaton was horridly unfunny as a middle-aged chain-smoking dog hoarder, the textbook overbearing mother character, a relentlessly irritating woman who clearly suffers from some kind of personality disorder.
If you want to learn the basics of quantum mechanics, spend your $9 on a used textbook, not this movie.
The only useful purpose for the film is as a textbook example of how not to make a gross out picture.
After the first half hour, naturally the inevitable happens and "The Cold" turns into a textbook Rebane-production with retarded plot twists, the dumbest dialogs ever and a total lack of excitement.
The lead actress (Dorothy Stone, textbook blonde with curly hair and an ugly nose) irritated me enormously and I kept hoping a ravenous undead would suddenly appear out of nowhere to devour her.
It's a textbook example of how NOT to make a movie.
Uta Hagen's "Respect for Acting" is the standard textbook in many college theater courses.
Too crowded Every thing depicted here is exactly how it is prescribed in bollywood textbook of romances.
Any good textbook on writing screenplays will advise layering of characters, incorporating character arcs, and three act structure.
I liked the first movie, but this is a textbook example of a sequel that would have been better of left on the drawing board.
However, this is a textbook example of an early slasher flick, and if that is your "thing" (its mine!) then you will enjoy this one.
That is my take, and I was vastly entertained by Johnson's prior debut film Brick, which tells the classic film noir story in the milieu of everyday high school kids who rap the textbook Chandlerisms and sollipsistic slang.
The story is engaging, the characters (though textbook heroes) are still well-written, and that's it.
The plot is textbook 80's guff, meaning no purposeful twists or any attempts at building up tension whatsoever, but still it guarantees a good 90 minutes of dopey fun and chuckles.
The dialogue is horrible, the acting sucks (save for a pretty OK performance by Monroe), and the directing is a textbook of cheesy bad timing.
This is a textbook example of how the Hollywood cookie cutter factory takes a nice sleeper hit documentary and turns it into 2 hours worth of clichés.
As to the critics of historical accuracy, the author was not presenting his work as a non-fiction textbook; but rather a novel set against the background of events leading up to and including World War II.
Along with Gone With the Wind and The Four Feathers, this is the finest use of color I have seen in a movie, and it should be used as a textbook on how to shoot a film in color.
Needing to grasp on to a strand of optimism, perhaps only the thickness of a human hair, I long ago decided that the film existed purely as a textbook demonstration for future filmmakers on how not to make a successful sequel to a hit movie.
This is a textbook on how not to get away with a crime.
I can't stop thinking that this is the textbook definition of "worst movie ever".
Truly textbook psych101 stuff but still fun to watch.
"The Naked Cage" is a textbook anthology of "Women-In-Prison Drama" cliches (innocent heroine, sadistic warden, lesbianism, catfights, stabbings, riots, etc.).
John Payne is a textbook noir guy -- just out of prison, tormented, misunderstood and kicked around by the cops (who do not come out smelling good in this story) and a terrible trio of criminals.
It was so hopeless it was actually kind of fun! Seriously though a must-miss unless you want a textbook example of how NOT to do a horror film.
Satyricon, the most visually glorious film I've ever seen, is an art history textbook liberated from its pages and transferred to film.
In fact, North Korea provides a textbook example of Putin's diplomatic method.
But in the current crisis, the academic evidence has overwhelmingly shown that fiscal austerity does what textbook economics says it will do: the more severe the austerity, the greater the drag on growth.
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