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What you go for is an unusual love story between a 60-yr old man and an 18-yr old girl and what you get are very usual, very common events that neither excite nor surprise.
Every time I think I've seen a film that is so misbegotten, so bad in every way that I think that no one could possibly find something to praise, I just come to the IMDb where I'm greeted with the usual inane "Undiscovered masterpiece" "GREAT film" - I mean, honestly, what movie are you people watching, because it's certainly not the mess I just watched on the new Fox/MGM/UA DVD.
TCM has made an Ann Harding fan of me, and I thought she was fine as usual here.
But the film took great license - as usual with Hollywood.
The acting sucks (as usual), the death scenes are beyond pathetic, and don't be fooled by the title, this thing doesn't have as much nudity as you may think.
Starring Sid James as Vic Flange, Kenneth Williams as Stuart Farquhar, Charles Hawtrey as Eustace Tuttle, Joan Sims as Cora Flange, Barbara Windsor as Sadie Tomkins, Kenneth Connor as Stanley Blunt, an apparently crap (I personally can't remember who he is) Jimmy Logan as Bert Conway, June Whitfield as Evelyn Blunt, Hattie Jacques as Floella (a ridiculous hag character, not as memorable as her usual Matron), Bernard Bresslaw as Brother Bernard, Sally Geeson as Lily, Carol Hawkins as Marge, Jack Douglas as Harry and Patsy Rowlands as Miss Dobbs.
However, despite the different costumes, it's still a "Hercules" movie with the usual stilted dialog, haphazard dubbing, and cardboard characters.
What saves this film from becoming a Hallmark spectacle and debacle of the usual sort, whenever films about serial killers are concerned, is the direction, which is a double-edged sword; director Scott L. Flynn sheds focus enough upon the b-actors not to let their flaws shine through too much, but at the same times created a truly dull and stereotypical view of the American police through the King-angle.
Oh, and Bette Midler had a short role but as usual was terrific.
I really cannot believe that it didn't gain much more popularity when it was released, especially when the main contenders at the time were the usual Wes Craven sequels and copycat horrors, Mute Witness has all the style, suspense and quickfire plot twists of a Hitchcock/DePalma movie, coupled with some very sharp black comedy and a great plot.
The cast is pretty good, Robert De Niro is good as usual and Eddie Murphy pulls off a pretty funny performance.
Sure, they are pure stereotypes of usual slasher characters but, there's something special about them.
So full of realistic disillusion and pathos compared to the usual sentimentality and feel-good comedy!
This Columbo is unusual because the usual murder scene at the beginning doesn't give you any clue to which one did it!
Peter Falk is on form as usual in this episode written by Steven Bochco (who also wrote 'Murder by the Book', my second favourite episode).
Macy Gray is terrific, Mos Def, as usual, wonderful.
"The Usual Suspects" was superb ensemble acting; this is a collection of outstanding individual performances.
(In 1975 I visited Egypt!) Seen today, "The Egyptian" suffers from flat dialog and a few gauche touches, but it's a glorious movie to look at -- the sort of thing Hollywood, alas, just doesn't do anymore -- and it has a great story... not just the usual boy-meets-girl or vengeance-is-mine affair.
It's great to see Cannon here, see's beautiful as ever; Stritch is a hoot; Spiner is a funny comic villain who's plays it deadly straight; De Haven is wonderful; Linden, O'Connor, and McClanahan have a good moment or two; and finally, the two main stars, Lemmon and Matthau, are fine as usual.
A movie totally different from the usual, a clever realization by a great-talented director.
The subject, of a unusual originality, is treated (that's usual with Hal Hartley) with great humor.
Here, what appears to be their usual anarchy over something so simple as getting married, is actually organized chaos.
Tom Selleck does his usual good job.
In England we often feel very attached to British films that we like, as we are so used to the usual American settings and accents.
The story is simple enough, the usual boy-meets-girl (or shall we say girl-meets-boy?).
Dashing Errol Flynn brings his usual flair for drama in this historically flawed but entertaining film of the life of George Armstrong Custer.
Shabana Azmi is incredible as usual.
This is another of those rare movies one feels grateful to be introduced to instead of the usual Hollywood tripe.
I was truly surprised when I first saw this movie directed by Iain Softley; it differs in so much ways from the usual Hollywood mass-production.
He was great, funny as usual.
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