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Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books and has been since childhood, but William Hurt's weary, throwaway acting style is completely unsuitable to the bold passion of Edward Rochester and poor Charlotte Gainsbrough looks like a bored, petulant teenager whose dental braces hurt!
Perhaps it was released at a time when the establishment had grown weary of knockabout, thrill-a-minute adventures?
Mr. Goldsworthy was given the gift and the mission to extend that sort of play to create profound visions of nature, and to open our often weary eyes to it in brilliant new ways.
American dancing star & heartthrob Jerry Halliday (Astaire), on a European tour & weary of the screaming female crowds generated by the lurid propaganda of his manager (Burns), is unwittingly caught up in the marriage prospects of frustrated heiress Lady Alice Marshmorton (Fontaine).
It has all the right ingredients - a mystery corpse, a weary middle-aged cop Corrigan (Walter Kinsella) and his rookie sidekick Tobin (John Miles), a shadowy killer on the loose and even love interest for the Tobin in the shape of a female botanist Mary (Patricia Wright) who helps solve the crime.
As Moe a weary street peddler selling neck ties (and who also sells information) she is terrific in a role that brought her another Oscar nomination.
"Marmalade Wine" a two person teleplay introduces us to a weary hiker caught in a rainstorm and a friendly country doctor who offers the young man refuge in the storm, only to have a truly grisly ulterior motive.
This weary piece of crap was obviously sold on the Matt LeBlanc(of "Friends" fame) bandwagon and having gotten this jewel in their crown, the makers gave no thought whatsoever to their limp script.
Film technique was a little weary, but for a cherry popper, it is just fine.
In fact credulity is put to the test a lot of times, nevertheless "16 Blocks" is a kind of movie that makes you reflect on what you saw. Bruce Willis plays the unusual part of a broken down cop ready for both rehabilitation and retirement, weary of working and living as well; Bruce has never looked more unkempt and scruffy but his part his acting is really persuasive and cogent.
In this film, one finds the horrors of war go beyond the battle lines into the minds of those who faced the reality of a world weary and frightened of war.
Richard Boone and Michael Dunn play a pair of world weary private detectives in this superb television movie of the week from 1972.
If this is liberation then women should be weary.
The plot is a standard and unsurprising affair but what sets it apart is James Woods' sardonic, cynical and hilarious portrayal of a tough, world weary cop who has no time for 'do-gooders' and over sensitive types.
At first, being only 22, I was weary about renting it because it was released before I was even born, and thought that the movie could possibly be out-dated.
We see an assortment of colorful characters wanting a room such as: a weary hooker, a masquerading wife with her severely disturbed husband and frantic child, a father and daughter looking for a missing person, and a young Robert Englund who happens to be an arrogant patron of the local whorehouse... "Eaten Alive" is basically Hooper working off the success of "TCM" to a visually lesser extent... Every interior and exterior is obviously a set and, as I mentioned, the characters seem to role in, one after another, just to be killed off by the croc.
This movie is further enhanced by a wickedly funny sense of black-as-coal gallows humor, with the loony hick clan -- the weary, bitter old man (marvelously played by Jim Siedow), unhinged hitchhiker (a deliciously batty portrayal by Edwin Neal), and the freakish, squealing, gibbering Leatherface (an astonishingly bestial and bloodcurdling Gunnar Hansen) -- serving as a strikingly grotesque caricature of your typical American family.
Willis is excellent as the weary cop who sees his last chance to do something right.
Her apathy is something unimaginable in Day previously, a weary cynicism expertly underplayed.
While we wait for the kid to harden and become "a man", we're treated to fake high drama featuring a weary old cast of character-actors (if ever you want fake drama infused into the proceedings, you get Bo Hopkins or Geoffrey Lewis or Anthony James--this picture has all three).
This reminds me a lot of those old movies they call "filmes noir" nowadays, the ones with the weary cynical cop, played by someone like Mark Stevens or William Lundigan or Dana Andrews who gets mixed up with the dangerous dame who may or may not be a killer.
Foyle is so well done, that even I can overlook the commie claptrap and strongly recommend it to weary viewers tired of the usual rubbish we are force fed here in America.
Robbie C. gives a speech about the title's meaning, but Robbie P. adds a little world weary flair by the flapping.
Aside from the lackluster plot, stock characters and painfully unfunny bathroom jokes which seem to run rampant throughout the movie (most of which are so belabored as to remove the possibility of eliciting even a measly chuckle) there is something so weary about the movie that you begin to wonder if it may have been written by an Old Hollywood heavyweight trying to make a comeback in the new century and only succeeding in poorly rehashing the old jokes and stereotypes that made him successful forty or more years ago.
The late, great, sorely missed tough guy supreme Steve McQueen gives a typically cool, laconic and utterly engaging performance as rugged, but weary modern-day bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson, who goes after dangerous criminals who have skipped bail and has trouble adjusting to an ever-changing world he feels increasingly out of place in.
With the considerable talents of Gordon Pinsent as The President of the United States, Leonid Rostoff as the Russian Premiere, Susan Clark as Dr. Cleo Markham and William Schallert as CIA Director Grauber, the dream of war weary officials to finally create the ultimate defense machine, comes true.
Huston looks lethargic and weary.
I grew up during the war years and had become weary of WWII movies, but this one stood out as one of the fastest paced and most authentic seeming war films.
I Love You Alice B Toklas may have been cutting edge social commentary in 1968 but now it looks as weary and worn out as its dramatic counterpart, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
"How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of 'Trapped.'"
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