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Half the vignettes are bizarre, with very little entertainment value.
A mummy narrates vignettes about men, women, and the sex between them.
It plods back and forth between vignettes of Bettie's story and re-creations of the Klaw short films.
Instead they're stuck in these vignettes by themselves.
The Lampoon film unreels in three separate and unconnected vignettes, each featuring different performers.
Sutherland makes a curiously unappealing Casanova and the odd goings on in a series of unrelated vignettes taken from the great lover's autobiography fail to engage the viewer.
He recalls various vignettes of his childhood and delinquent teenage years along with his early days as a stunt rider and blossoming celebrity.
I saw this regurgitated pile of vignettes tonight at a preview screening and I was straight up blown away by how bad it was.
The worst thing you can do on any film, is to make it look like you're having fun, because you detract from your objectives, just like "Slackers" does, by burying it's plot outline under a pile of gross out gags, pointless vignettes, and lack of construction.
It's a kind of strange combination of a bio of Michael Jackson, a collection of musical vignettes, and a story about a super hero fighting to save some little kids.
The vignettes are good (especially Speed Demon), but the best part of this movie is the super hero segment, in which Michael Jackson turns into a car, a robot, and finally a spaceship (and it's just as weird as it sounds).
A series of vignettes, most of them spoofing television of the 1970's, but also with some digs at the government and corporate America.
I was somewhat disappointed that most of this group of vignettes, while original and artistically done, did not capture the "light" and beauty of the city very well.Nor enough of the romance!
Not only does this rare mockumentary feature many of Yankovic's more memorable videos ("Like A Surgeon" and "I Love Rocky Road" among them), but they are inter-spliced with funny vignettes supposedly highlighting the parodist's rise to fame.
18 directors of 18 seemingly unrelated vignettes about love in the city of lights.
Another demonstration of Kurosawa's genius, his first colour film is a darkly surreal look into the tragic lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, essentially a series of interweaving vignettes depicting several groups of people eking out a perilous existence in a harsh and uncaring post-war shanty town.
Part vignettes of NYC political life, and part moralizing tale.
It does tend to follow a formula that is increasingly popular these days of separate, seemingly unrelated vignettes, all contributing the the overall story in unexpected ways.
Trio's vignettes were insightful and quite enjoyable.
mixing comedy and drama to create some bittersweet vignettes).
Narrated through all three vignettes by Eric Stoltz's character, the character is 6 or so in "1954" when a young woman (Brittany Murphy) returns from the Navy with a Section 8 discharge for "deviant sexual behavior".
On the surface, this tale of a brutal gang who rob a gas station (hence the name!) and take the workers hostage appears to be just another been-there, seen-that Asian thriller, but underneath there's a soft centre waiting to be discovered - short vignettes give us clues as to how these thugs came to be this way, one of the hostages learns to stand up for himself, characters who are even nastier than the robbers end up worst off, and even the thugs themselves get a shot a redemption.
The director gives us vignettes of life in Pakistan, circa 1980 and 1999, and paints the portrait of a country in the grip of a ruinous Islamization.
Instead of the modern notion of story-telling and action, the crew was breaking new ground and made a bizarre film that appears more like a series of vignettes instead of a coherent film.
A portrait of a "regular" guy, who spends his days barely getting by in a series of dead-end jobs, and his nights perfecting his comedy routine in a series of sparsely-attended "open-mike" sessions at local comedy clubs, this film fails to deliver anything but a depressing series of vignettes centered around it's main character, played by Frank Whaley (who also wrote and directed).
If, as it is with old musicals, you can accept that this is a series of vignettes rather than a tightly bound story, you're home free and you'll know ecstasy.
For some reason all the vignettes seem to have a really weak plot that involves either gratuitous violence or naked cartoon women with lots of t&a.
"The Gypsy Moths" is divided into a series of vignettes that explore a plethora of interesting characters.
The vignettes in this movie were all scary, and at the time, our local residents were trying to claim the frat brothers' vignette was based on the old Oregon Institute of Technology -- several buildings that were abandoned and haunted.
As we meet dozens of characters in thinly connected vignettes, we get a vivid picture of a time, a place, and a group of people.
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