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This one threads a fine line between comedy and sf adventure.
I get the sense that they might have run out of time while making this episode and had to cut things out, since a lot of plot threads are abandoned.
That is the feeling of this movie a construction that tries to pile in as many bizarre narrative threads as possible, lsd, tornados and the FBI.
Just realize that the reviewers are a herd and that you don't have to admire the threads of a naked jerk.
An unsuccessful attempt is made to tie all these loose threads together into one coherent story.
There are so many threads that do not get drawn together in a good way.
The story is also kind of weird, and, like a lot of these very short dramas of the 1930s, there are logical jumps and loose threads.
It has all sorts of separate threads that never really come together, and although the film opens with a bang (car chase, shootout, multiple explosions), then it slows to a crawl as we spent too much time with Traci's relationship problems with her unfaithful long-time (also cop) boyfriend.
From a plot standpoint, it really does not take much skill to throw twelve random plots into the mix, and then in the end reconcile all the threads by saying that it was all imaginary.
The book is quite long and involved, so I was looking forwards to see which threads were omitted to make the film.
He is able to solve crimes based on the thinest (and believable) threads of evidence.
We have several threads of story that start and seem to lead nowhere.
I often get annoyed at movies like this, where you get too many character threads interweaving.
This movie has everything--comedy, drama, pathos, incredible action, slapstick, great acting, a great story, wildly inventive absurdity, actual thematic threads (a long gone element in US films), moments of sheer poetry, and genuine heart.
Many of my email threads consist of a long initial message, a short question from me, another long reply from the original sender, and an unsatisfactory experience for everyone.
And now the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s selection to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, is hanging by the slimmest of threads and could be withdrawn at any moment.
US President John F. Kennedy once warned that “every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment.”
Admirably adept at weaving together all of Lebanon’s political, religious, and nationalists threads, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nazrallah, is today the undisputed master of Lebanon.
On such slender threads of hope hang nuclear peace.
Obama's opponents are delighting in picking apart the threads of the draft resolution in yet another effort to discredit his administration.
Syria’s agony continues unabated; sectarian attacks in Iraq are becoming more frequent and deadly; the threads of Lebanon’s fragile peace are fraying;Jordan is awash in refugees;Libya’s militias are running rampant and distorting its politics;Tunisia faces political crisis; and Turkey’s star as the embodiment of Islamic democracy has dimmed.
Geographical proximity, an intense and bloody history of conflict with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, religious and emotional connections to Shi'a Iraq, and concerns about the United States and its policies in the region are all threads that tie Iran to its western neighbor.
A different and healthy conservative response is possible if the tattered remnants of old threads, torn apart in the course of postcommunist modernization, can reconnect and grow together in a new way.
Indeed, in coming decades, everything will be susceptible to major revision as new cross-disciplines – and undisciplined threads of study – emerge.
But most outsiders fail to grasp the maze of living threads that bind Nigerians to one another.
In return, the UK will have two years to untangle the numerous threads that tie Britain to the continent.
The forces that are now pulling at the threads of the post-1945 international order must be resisted.
It is among the only intellectual threads that connect the teachings of virtually every major religion and those of philosophers through the ages, from classical Rome’s Seneca the Younger to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke, and on to Jean-Paul Sartre and John Rawls.
This is why so many threads of discussion turn from potentially interesting citizen speculation to hate speech and paranoia.
Surely we can begin to see certain common threads running through the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arab revolutions, Iran, Syria, Egypt, and the spread of terror based on religious extremism.
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