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I think the film succeeds because it made the "thousand faces" the backdrop to the life of the man and the difficulties he faced.
Jack needs to find John, bring him to the L.A. county jail within four days, and Jack will collect 100 thousand dollars.
When Samson fights Sidqa's forces with the ass's jawbone, he's supposed to slaughter a thousand men, but in this version he dispatches about fifty while Von Sydow and his sidekick watch stiffly in the hammiest fight scene in movie history.
This is an old story told a thousand times by a thousand different filmmakers and for some reason I actually enjoyed this one.
Alex is attacked and savaged by the animal, and made permanently lame as a consequence, and his offer of a ten thousand dollar reward for the beast if captured unharmed is soon claimed by successful Siamese beaters, following which the hunter keeps the caged mankiller at his remote palatial home while preparing for a rematch.
Where they land is a few thousand feet below sea level where time is stuck back in the Mesozoic era.
This is good for about a thousand Hail Marys.
I tripped through the hallways with everyone else singing "Let's Hear It For The Boy" because it was on the radio eighty-four thousand times a day.
Its all stuff you've seen a thousand times before, and almost always done better than it is here.
Louise and Albert have been married for nine years and she needs Albert to write her a check for one thousand dollars for the merchandise that she bought for here antique store.
This movie would have been a thousand times better without the stupid teenage lust fest.
A thousand chimpanzees with typewriters could have done better in two weeks time than Weeks and crew have done here.
Right...first of all, and this is CRUCIAL, hmmmm?! Bin any bullshit you've heard about Twin Town being the Welsh Trainspotting as it is a thousand, zillion times a better film.
The basic premise of this film could have been vehicle for a thousand gags and one liners.
I have purchased hundreds of movies of the last 10 years and currently have over a thousand in my library.
Chant ten thousand geeks, as Wesley Crusher appears on screen.
There's nothing special or significant about Glass Trap that hasn't been done about a thousand times before in these types of B-grade Sci-Fi movies.
Likewise, President George H.W. Bush could not have dragged the recalcitrant Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991 had he not been willing to take on what he described as “some powerful political forces” made up of “a thousand lobbyists on the Hill.”
The shrine, which honors more than a thousand indicted war criminals who took part in Japan’s disastrous war in Asia, remains a place of fascination for Japanese rightists, who persist in claiming that Japan’s war in Asia was a war of liberation against Western imperialism.
Fifteen thousand Ukrainians were taught concrete skills in avoiding emotional manipulation, verifying sources and credentials, detecting paid content and hate speech, and debunking fake videos and photos.
This is why taxation in our country remains excessive: the state has to pay for a thousand things which it would not have to pay if an advanced civil society existed, because citizens would pay for them directly.
Over the years, Hezbollah has received and stored several thousand rockets and some one hundred longer-range missiles from Iran.
It is true that we may be, for valid reasons, troubled or irritated by a thousand and one things that have accompanied the dramatic reconstruction of democracy, market economies and civil society in Central Europe.
In October, tens of thousands of villagers protesting inadequate resettlement compensation held a local official captive for several hours before ten thousand People’s Armed Police officers rescued him.
(Note that the rich countries spend several thousand dollars per student per year.)
More recently, Canada beat the US in a bid for a new Toyota plant, in part because private health-insurance costs in the US add several thousand dollars to the cost of manufacturing a car there.
In another instance a dashing young Afghan, who convinced the program’s administrators that his uncle (in reality a nonentity) represented many growers whom he could persuade to stop cultivating poppy, walked away with one hundred thousand dollars worth of aid.
(To engage in some macabre accounting, the difference is that hundreds of thousands have died in Syria, versus a few thousand in Yemen.)
Syria’s Humanitarian LifelinesNEW YORK – After more than a thousand days of death and misery, two important recent public statements show why policy toward Syria must enter a new phase of intensity and focus.
The opposition is fragmented, comprising more than a thousand armed groups.
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