Vanity
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Like so many of the star-laden premieres at Sundance this year it felt like this was a secrety studio-sponsored
vanity
project to help the director earn some indie credibility points - it failed in that respect and as a film in its own right.
As a
vanity
project, it rivals Battlefield Earth in its misconception.
Inadvertently, this makes "Her Cardboard Lover" a bizarre monument to an aging woman's
vanity.
Hemo (blood) as a Greek god was so well played by the animation with vanity, arrogance, snobbish superiority and innocent wonder.
A lot of the movie is cheesy, but the emperor's
vanity
(and his making fun of himself in the end), the suspicious guard, the guard chasing Nicholas, and the stupid prince, were all quite funny and seem to be ridiculous quite on purpose.
The director focuses on the depiction of subtle affection and ultimate
vanity
of life rather than mere rock music.
I love Argento to bloody pieces, but this was too self-indulgent for even me, and it seems mostly like a
vanity
project.
Was it his
vanity
to be the first to cross the pole by air, that led to the calamity?
I watched these two stand up comics and I am appalled by their sincere vanity, boasting about the money they earn and gloating in the media attention.
There's no vanity, no attempt to go for the cool or the comic (if anything he undercuts the character's attempts to do so without ever becoming a cheap joke) and little in the way of grandstanding.
It's surely the most depraved and intentionally "oh-my-God" type of short horror films one's likely to see in the years to come, mainly because it takes on a very basic and over-done topic, vanity, and is cooked up (no pun intended) with human beings' attachment to new life.
That, and the fact that there was a lack of visual and oral storytelling, it all looked more like a projection of a
vanity
fair article, at best.
This is apparently a
vanity
project for someone who wanted to dress up and play actor/director.
I tried to read P&P before but couldn't finish the first a couple of pages, under a false impression coming from reading the first quarter of sense and sensibility that the heroine in P&P was also full of
vanity
and conceit.
The screenplay, if one can call this one note monstrosity that, was written by Shore and some guy named Kirk Fox, yet it all smacks of being a
vanity
project, laced with bad one liners where the B listers try to recall who Shore was, after his 'death', then rail against him when exposed.
This is less a western as it is an exercise in
vanity.
But its not the horrid make up effects that make this film special, it's its ability to take you inside the mind of these characters to a point of being uncomfortable, going inside our deep seeded obsession with
vanity.
A basic premise of this film is that it is OK for a pompous man to persecute a girl and try to force his attentions on her to satisfy his lusts and his male
vanity.
Fox execs and shareholders in 1977 must have thrown their collective hands in the air when presented with this infantile
vanity
project from a clearly unrestrained Gene Wilder: he wrote directed and starred in this excruciating and labored so called comedy and it is a blueprint for NOT allowing temporarily popular 'comedians' free reign to be auteurs.
Kim Ki Duk's Bad Guy is a brilliant study of vanity, sexual obsession and moral.
There's the "big" guy, a victim of the "little" guy's
vanity.
For a start, none of the "shows" in this film are presented as anything other than what they are: grotesque pandering to the participants' greed and
vanity
and the audience's deviant voyeurism.
A rare trait in this day and age of
vanity
ridden films.
Kenneth J. Hall's pathetic (mis)direction, Hall's equally dismal script (Hall is the same genius dreck feature scribe who penned the brilliant screenplay for "Nightmare Sisters"), Christopher Condon's endearingly crude'n'clunky cinematography, the dreadful dialogue ("Aren't they the ones who do those schlocky low budget films in Italy?"), the cheesy gore, nil suspense, sluggish pacing, terrible acting, a laughably hokey some-poor-guy-in-an-obvious-rubber-suit monster, Paul Natzke's annoyingly droning synthesizer score, and even a heavy-handed morale about the perils of
vanity
ensure that this hilariously horrendous honey is an absolute campy hoot from start to finish.
This is an obscene exercise in the director's misplaced
vanity.
If this was rubbish, we would be calling it a
vanity
project.
The story focuses on the themes of identity,
vanity
and the constant pressure to improve our own personal appearance.
It's funny, smart, and it has a lot to say about
vanity
and jealousy.
As young people consider themselves immortal, not even appeals to lifelong vanity, let alone warnings about cancer, are sufficient to deter them from the tanning booths.
While the Tsarnaev brothers may have objected to the supposed
vanity
of the secular state, there is another sense in which they might be right that Russia and the West are not so different from each other.
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