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Adam tries to refuse, but the slime balls cut out his mother's tongue.
The game is afoot and along the way (with a slight tongue in cheek) we learn where Holmes picked up some of his more famous trademarks and most infamous nemesis.
No one but Howard Hughes could have produced a sexest, yet tongue in cheek, film like "Son Of Sinbad".
But this movie has a good deal of tongue in cheek humor as well.
Thom Fitzgerald wrote and directed the picture with a thudding hand (and a barbed tongue, which I'm not sure is supposed to be funny).
You get the impression he made this film with his tongue firmly placed in his cheek.
Great martial arts scenes(one where he is out matched)and the tongue in cheek humor these movies are noted for.
There was a lot of tongue in cheek humor thrown into the movie that kinda killed the horror in some parts.
Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck try to outdo each other in the worst ever accent stakes to such an extent that one has to question whether or not this was actually made as a tongue in cheek comedy!
He undresses while sticking out his tongue.
From the great character bios some of the more gruesome deaths this film has its tongue firmly in its cheek.
As connoisseur ratings go, this might not be his best film (Jules et Jim, Argent de Poche, Le Dernier Metro, Baisers Volés, Tirez sur le Pianiste, and Les 400 Coups are all at least as good and possibly better) but there is just so much life, tongue in cheek, unbridled pleasure in directing and in treating life as art, and the acting is so deceptively simple that I have to say this is probably my most favourite film by one of my most favourite directors.
Back in April of this year I heard that The Worlds Greatest Lover was going to be on AMC and I was like yes I'm finally going to get to see this movie, I'm a big Gene Wilder fan so.....yeah, anyway the only problem was that it was going to come on at 3 in the morning on a Monday which was a school night for me so I asked my mom to record it for me, so when I came home from school I saw it and thought it was awesome, two or three months later I ordered the DVD off of Barnes and Nobles and I now have it on DVD what I had heard from this movie was that Gene not only stars in this movie but writes, directs, produces, and surprisingly wrote a song for the film as well, I think Gene's take on Rudolph Valentino was pretty cool and I think he came up with some clever ideas like "histerical laryngitis" and sticking your tongue out or twisting your words around whenever his character is nervous.
The first talking movie, for instance, featured Chinese day laborers speaking their native tongue.
Her tongue was that of a wasp (Stinging and painful).
Like many of Doug McClures movies, "At The Earths Core" and "The land that time forgot", made with a hint of tongue in cheek.
The performances were very good considering this was tongue in cheek.
Honours go to Sheila Burrell, a veteran actress who looks like the Red Queen from Tenniel's pictures for Alice in Wonderland, and has a voice and tongue to match.
I will not write of the non existent talent in this piece of trash, nor that I think any person (gay straight or refined beyond that) who writes positively about this is either playing tongue in cheek or totally high.
They are entirely tongue in cheek.
A true atheistic satanist, Valentine was obviously having fun throughout and clearly had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek more than once.
Clever, well directed, Katkin keeps his tongue firmly in cheek as he takes material that could have been pedestrian and adds both wit and silliness to make it come alive.
His mother tongue will be English; if he ever learns to speak his father’s language, it will be as a foreigner.
For this, he had only his tongue, and not even his native tongue, but the French that he learned in an orphanage for deported children at age 15 – and later turned into his violin.
First, the next time the eurozone crisis flares up, the US will simply have to bite its tongue; after all, the shutdown spectacle revealed pathologies no less severe than those that have characterized the European Union’s economic and political negotiations over the past five years.
Because the imperial tongue found it difficult to pronounce “Myanmar,” the country’s no-nonsense British masters renamed it Burma (redrawing its borders as well for good measure).
When, in demanding the right to have their children educated in Turkish, they proclaim that the "mother tongue is a human right", Germany's Turkish residents are not asserting some primordial identity but marking out a new, freely-chosen identity in the language of universal rights.
From adopting bilingualism with English (in addition to the mother tongue of Mandarin, Malay, or Tamil), to its focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Singapore anticipated many of the key education strategies being adopted by today’s policymakers.
And, among the fragmented, distraught children of the Enlightenment, among the zombie heirs of Rousseau fibrillating between aggressiveness, blindness, and despair, equality is no longer a task but a taint, a sort of dark shroud, a halo of resentment and hatred to which our common tongue is tied as to a buoy in a tide.
That phrase is on everyone’s tongue nowadays.
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