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Urban in sentence

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But even a few urban folk might understand it, and appreciate it for what it is: a good, down home movie that'll make you laugh, cry, and be inspired.
The film serves as an anthology of four urban legends told from the point of view of four teenagers whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
First, the positives: an excellent job at depicting urban landscapes to suit the mood of the film.
It's the most realistic I've seen on urban youth.
The struggle for life is ruthlessly vivisected all of the time; the characters are plunged into scenes of affliction and distress, in an urban landscape accented with greenish tones and seen in its own reflections through the windshield of a taxi.
The movie was made in 1985 and most people probably could identify with the stereotypical urban gangs that are cast in the movie.
"Lackawanna Blues'is so emotionally powerful in its portrayal of urban Blacks during the 50s and early 60s.
Pre-integration urban life was a time of sensory intoxication, sight, sound,and smell, that could almost be experienced by watching the drama "Lackawanna Blues" unfold.
This movie made quite an impression on me because of its realness and its appreciation of detail of life in urban New Jersey.
Lee and Gomez covered every detail in this urban drama from the music, clothing, slang, and location.Unlike some of the movies I mentioned earlier, the actors performed as if they weren't "actors".
I've also noticed that many times when urban kids are portrayed, the slang is overused or just outdated.
Acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike can't seem to get the wheels moving with this torpid thriller, an adaptation of Yasushi Akimoto's book concerning an evil old woman (and child abuser!) who is part of a new urban legend: if your cell-phone rings with a strange tone--and you see the message 'One Missed Call'--you will replay the message only to hear your own final words before your death.
It plays on the urban paranoia of the 70s/80s and puts it into a school context.
I'm not saying that urban crime wasn't a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren't/aren't problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit.
As consultant Ron Jeremy will tell you, 1980s Los Angeles was a colorful, stylish porno Mecca, more like the movie "Boogie Nights" than Leonard's dark, shadowy world of hijacked tourist buses, grimy apartments, and drug deals in depressed urban squalor.
They then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived.
Poorly-made "blaxploitation" crime-drama aimed squarely at the black urban market of the early 1970s.
Part of the problem is that story's roots don't translate well into the urban setting of this film, and the script fails to make the update work.
Instead of delivering a pointed commentary about the role of urban women struggling to stay afloat in a world where men cruelly abuse and humiliate them, Gray, Bufford and Lanier prefers to pummel their unsuspecting audience with highbrow notions of operatic tragedy.
He was a great actor, From Here to Eternity and The Man with The Golden arm are a proof of that, but he did not have the physique of a western hero, you identified him as an urban guy.
In short: a hep young urban professional (possibly the most loathesome screen character ever) somehow seduces a nubile Asian-American associate into camping in the woods with him.
Chris Rock, apparently desperate for a cozy star-vehicle which would cross his appeal over to white and mainstream black audiences, updates the hit 1978 comedy "Heaven Can Wait" with an urban agenda.
True! Cagney and Bogart are too urban, too XXe century to be credible in a western movie.
And second, my movie-watching companion professed doubt that any urban horror film would surpass the seminal Leprechaun In the Hood.
And what a relief to have one in an urban school, with naturalistic, realistic Latinos and believable use of Brooklyn project settings.
I don't know why people except a lot from low budget indie films but I enjoyed this one as I'm a fan of urban horror.
There's not too many urban horror movies out there so when I saw this one on the shelf, just the title alone peaked my curiosity.
This is grass roots film making at its best with snappy dialogue carrying a "Midnight Cowboy" kind of story about grifters doing whatever it takes to survive in urban San Francisco.
The very real English setting added to my enjoyment - it was England in the 90's, both urban and rural, without being depressing.
To pick up on the previous reviewer's remarks, the claustrophobic feel and off colors of the film is I sense quite intentional and conveys the sense of limited space, drab architecture, overall drabness that constitutes the urban environment of most people in Eastern and Central Europe.
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