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Instead it is truncated, and for me, ruined by cinematic tricks.
It has no special effects or any computer tricks, it is as simple as it gets, and I believe that that's the secret to a great film.
It's a somewhat dire stew about a spoiled belle in 1850s Louisiana who hopes her shocking little-girl tricks will light a fire under her stoic sweetheart, enough to jolt him into making a commitment to her.
Good looking, and with camera angles and tricks to disguise his short height, he was soon a leading star at the studio.
There is no acting, no directing, no camera moves or tricks or effects...
Sure, the environment and the tricks are looking a little cheap today, so what.
Unrealistic, boring, packed with low action tricks, very emotionless as a drama though dealing with such a painful topic.
I don't have a lot to say about this movie really except boring, poor acting, annoying complaining kids, stupid RV tricks.
Anyway, the dog does all kinds of deadly tricks, like a curling iron in the bath tub, jumping out of the seat of a car to scare the owner backward into oncoming traffic, and even strangulation of her owner's boyfriend with the dog leash while he's dozing up against a tree.....and the guy is dead and the dog is lying by his side as though nothing had happened, and the cops are looking for someone that strangled him while a 100-lb.
Shot on a relatively low budget but managing to not seem so, the films main tricks are in the editing, jump cuts and flashbacks only adding to the suspense as you begin to piece together the whole sordid story.
The visual tricks and images are becoming increasingly irritating.
In trying to achieve his goal, he tricks the pirates into thinking he wants to join their band.
It seems her little-girl tricks of making songwriter-hubby Ray Milland jealous have turned him away, so Wyman, unconvincingly portraying a musical starlet, attempts to woo Milland back with more little-girl tricks.
This screw around guy is confronted by one of his tricks who thought he was more than a trick, but he was just another lay that didn't matter.
He was one of these jerks who wants a relationship to fill in between the gaps of tricks.
When you get experienced enough as a filmmaker and you learned most of the tricks of the trade, you realise that the best thing to do for an art-house director is to stick mindlessly to whatever made you successful with the festival-going crowd and the film critics earlier.
One of Melies' elaborate story productions, ranking with VOYAGE TO THE MOON, using camera tricks, sleight of hand, elaborate costumes and interesting model work.
It's extremely violent and concerns a highly traumatic situation involving young children -- not to mention that the hero is a juvenile delinquent (NOT the misunderstood kind) who wins out by playing all sorts of illegal tricks.
So...? Doesn't mean that he has to be incredibly clever and know all the tricks in the book, now does it?
A prominent but discredited doctor tricks a group of criminals onto a ship to continue his experiments on healing the criminal mind, but the criminals have other ideas when they decide to take over the ship.
In his quest to reveal to the world about the tricks the tobacco giants are employing to increase the sales of cigarettes , he is haunted and tormented to the extent of even losing his family for a just cause he believed in .
The hopelessly cliched story, with all the familiar "haunted house" tricks, would be enough to sink this movie, but the job is completed by the poor direction and the murky look of the film, which often makes it hard for us to understand what's happening onscreen.
Director Bob Fosse's take on Bruce is self-enamored and creepily voyeuristic, with lots of quick cuts and cinematic tricks.
In the technical sense this is "limited" animation - the handful of animators (just four are credited) charged with bringing the story to life restrict themselves, when they can, to less than the full 24 frames per second, and often use all manner of cunning tricks to avoid having to animate at all.
Not actually killed in Manhattan (surprise, surprise), Jason is still at it until an undercover FBI agent (Julie Michaels, who makes time to take a shower) tricks him into an ambush where he's blown to pieces.
If I wanted to see better tricks I could head off to the beginners slope at the local ski hill.
Corey Yuen once again proves he does not have to rely excessively on tricks like wires or rotoscoping to create good fight scenes.
Camera tricks to simulate the surreality of the events was gratuitous, gimmicky, and simply didn't work.
There are a lot of scenes in which you're supposed to cry, but delivery is so phoned and trite you're left wondering how could anyone more than six years old would fall into these cheap Hollywood tricks in which they make you automatically cry via a mix of pompous music, ruffian camera angles and redundant lines.
At times, the story seems a bit melodramatic but it is the quality of the script that allows you to accept it, as there are no intentional cheap tricks to move the viewer.
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