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What really had the premise for being a great "who-done-it" mystery, falls flat with a script that waned toward the end.
The case for the wandering man being Christ is strong if you tend toward those lines of thinking (obviously that's my first leaning): he died for the main character's sins.
Whereas those three shorts are created out of a spirit of fanboy reverence and earnest enthusiasm for superhero movies, 'The Death of Batman' feels like it was made by a person expressing severe angst toward the concept of the superhero.
Structured a bit like 2002's "Spellbound", the entertaining film that builds toward the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee, first-time director Patrick Creadon uses the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament as his climactic event where a group of nimble-minded crossword solvers vie for the championship.
Blake(Mark Polish)tends to his sick brother Francis(Michael Polish)and tries to interpret his mixed feelings toward the thought of losing his sibling.
I don't even think I really knew that the convention was being held at a hotel until a conversation was held toward the middle of the movie between Helena and Freddy.
And isn't a montage usually place toward the end... not in the first 20 min?
Did someone in Australia put it in a bottle and throw it in the ocean toward the United States, drifting toward North America while we were plagued with "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Mission Impossible 2"? Thank you!
Some of the lousiest special effects imaginable are on display in this all-star dud about a meteor spiraling toward Earth.
At times, the viewer along with the narrator seems uncertain of feelings expressed toward Jean and Neel and the camera plays with the viewer's mind allowing him to suspect the worst and be pleasantly surprised.
I guess my favorite is the "star" - the giant mcnugget that's hurtling toward earth.
With an adolescent attitude toward life, she indulged in every excess.
At the Sundance screening of this film, the director told us that the "evergreen" of the title referred to the green envy the main character feels toward those who have so much while she does not.
Earth, air, fire, and water unite to bring the quadrants together in this man's life, or as Elizabeth Kubler-Ross would say, the physical, spiritual, intellectual and emotional quadrants were moving toward integration by the man claiming his I-ness, his true self -- a self that only The Other could see and bring out.
If you happen to come across it on the side of the road (which is quite possible due to the hatred I had toward this movie once I finished it), maybe then you could give it a watch.
toward the end of his career.
"The Party" had some amusing moments in the beginning of the film but toward the end it degenerated into what Hollywood writers would call a mad-capped romp.
What could have been a good satire turns out to be a warm, fuzzy hug toward every grating detail of spoiled-brat life that should have been its target.
The author's phobic attitude toward the "Boston Marriage" of the two heroines seems to mirror that of the southern chauvinist Basil Ransom (which is offputting) and the book never quite recovers from thoroughly humanizing the doomed females while setting them up to be trounced by the Great White Male.
There's the requisite tentacled monsters, scantily-clad (a light bit of nudity toward the beginning of the movie) sorority girls, and a hidden killer decimating the campus population...the difference in this case being that all three are the same girls.
This film does go a long way toward proving that the French are actually RIGHT about Jerry Lewis, whilst offering up some of the silliest goof-ball antics and dialog I've seen in a while!
Toward the end of the movie, thought we already know it is a ruse, he does this and his secretary -- Penny Singleton in mousy costuming -- says his mother is on the phone.
All of which adds up to 101 minutes of viewing fun, despite a grating, fingernails-on-the-blackboard music score, and dubious production values which, toward the film's end, have a black Lincoln turning yellow, then black, then yellow again, and back to black, in the span of 43 seconds.
I was shocked at the approaches everyone took toward an obviously traumatized boy.
This lends "slightly" toward the sense that we are watching people captured on store security cameras, gas station monitors, ATM's, etc.
I noticed early on that this movie was taking an deep plummet toward tastelessness when I figured out what was happening to the children!
Note with what genius the actor begins in the high register and marches upward every higher toward what someone in rehearsal must have underlined as the key word.
I must confess up front to a favorable bias toward "Times Square".
The somber music returns and you hear the cannon fire and you see Julie cradling Press' head as they head toward the leper island, no fear in her eyes.
An okay shoot, the story fails early on urging the thumb to inch toward the fast-forward button.
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