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It combines the bleak seriousness of Threads with an anarchic blend of alternative comedy, and the results are a severely dark, but outrageously funny satire on the brinkmanship policies of both the Western and Eastern blocs at the time.
Well Terry and June was never clever, it was never a well-written tale with different threads which intersect at the conclusion.
Takes off right away, but the script is full of flimsy threads and any excitement dies out quickly.
No doubt a better cast (and a better-focused direction) would have knit these threads together, as Martin surely intended, to demonstrate how one moral flaw leads into and sustains a host of others...but good intentions do not necessarily a great film make.
Pretentious storytelling such as this always uses the same technique: 1) Throw opaque, unstructured threads around to perplex the audience.
One of the Message Boards threads at IMDb had two women talking about Colin Firth, how they watched the movie only because of him.
The remake loses the most interesting of the three plot threads, that of a farmer whose meager livelihood depends on drugs as a paying cash crop and whose increased involvement with the drug trade in an effort to better himself destroys himself and his family.
The theme may seem superficially to be obsessive love, but the film is really about the magic of everyday chance events, the invisible threads behind the tapestry, the ineffable.
A tragic romance intertwined with a complex mystery whose threads are all but invisible until they all unravel at the end in one fantastic rush.
In other threads of the underdeveloped plot Jesus comes back as a powerless and frustrated vagabond to symbolically unleash the wrath of God.
As many have said here and on other comment threads, Janeane is not ugly, but in fact, quite beautiful.
Another frustrating thing about the movie was the way it opened up with some interesting - albeit middlebrow and high-school level - philosophical musings of the lead character, but left the threads of his thinking there, only to pick them up again in the middle of the film very briefly, when Livien says, "before God, there was music" (ever seen that ad for Tia Maria in the 1990s, "Before time, there was Tia Maria"?
Kinjite may not be for everyone with it's somewhat disturbing plot threads but it is well made and indeed entertaining.
However, do not address elements of artistic expression in a vacuum in which the audience is in a continual struggle to grasp at skimpy narrative threads.
After the three go their separate ways, the film splits into three threads.
I wouldn't say each of the threads were as strong as the strongest, but I say this movie basically kicks ass and would highly recommend it. . .
And the ending, which ties together all the loose threads, seems very ridiculous.
The three storyline threads given us by Kazan each have their unique and separate pleasures.
My on negative comment is that at times I find the film too simplistically buying in to the various narrative threads that run through it.
These three plot threads weave intricately together throughout the entire picture blended with good acting, dazzling special effects, and some solid sentiment and humour as well.
"Young Master", from the same period, also feels underdone, but at least all its central threads are tied together at the end.
This film ran at least an hour longer than it should have and contained too many dead-end threads that should have been left on the cutting room floor.
he got some tight threads. he probably gets laid all the time too, but they ain't showin' that in this movie.
This movie tells the story of how the killing _might_ have happened, without pointing any fingers at who were pulling the threads.
I recommend "Threads"(BBC 1984).
There are at least a half-dozen major plot threads running concurrently; give the director credit for at least TRYING to fit everything that matters in from another of Tom Clancy's super-fat bestsellers.
This comes out best at the very end when all the loose threads are finally resolved.
If you are a fan of Jan Michael Vincent and would like to see him with very little threads on, this is the film for you!
While a decent enough sequel, Ring 2 is a bit of a disappointment in that it tries to weave too many threads and characters, tries to have too much going on and too many characters and ultimately gets a bit muddled and incoherent towards the end.
Lets see what I can remember..... alien chamber with long threads of vapour inside, check.
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