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While things should have been wrapped up a couple of scenes earlier, no real harm was done.
And how in the world does someone with as big a name as Val Kilmer get wrapped into something so awful?
Indeed, Agnieska is a wonderful character, her long limbs wrapped round her, carrying "everything I possess" round everywhere, smoking cigarettes avidly, demanding "wide screen, like an American movie"- you can see why the Party and her superiors want her to succeed and why they fear her.
The entire paper thin script seems to have been wrapped around an 85 minute commercial for the 2004 Pontiac GTO.
The lead character is a narcissist so wrapped up in his work & making appearances that he's unaware of the impact he has on those around him.
Anyway, Columbo is a guest in their country and he becomes wrapped up in the investigation.
I felt real sorry for all the people who had to work in her household and especially her husband, Wendell Corey, (Walter Craig) who Harriet kept wrapped around her finger so to speak.
It's an honest mystery, full of secrets and lies, wrapped around a paranormal thriller.
This isn't I. Robot or that type of science fiction, which is Asimov wrapped up in a shiny steel and glass box.
I wrapped it and put it under the tree for my 3 year old daughter.
Some guy standing in the bushes wrapped in toilet tissue, supposed to be an alien mummy.
There are two sides to every story so if you want to hear The Game's side and you're in the mood for drama and comedy wrapped into one, then grab the DVD! It's 100% biased so purchase at your own risk!
Maybe they could do that with a new DVD release with the thespians doing things in a 'Blue Screen' room, (they couldn't use the same setting, because apparently this was a story they created, that was wrapped around a brief availability of a mountain skiing lodge, and they may not be able to get the set again, although they could 'MacGyver' a virtual version of the same original sets in the CGI 'Blue Screen' room, to superimpose later) for an alternative or extended ending with more CGI special effects added to make the storyline stronger.
For a lot of the movie you get so wrapped up in the characters that you almost forget about the real headless horseman.
We first watched it in early 1980s on TV and became capitvated by the strength of these women.........you become wrapped up in the lives of each one of them.
My girlfriend cried a couple of times, she got wrapped up in the love story.
I can only imagine how he must have felt when this wrapped and he looked at the finished product.
A great musical wrapped around a love story.
I like action movies, I like Lore movies, like Lord of the Rings, I like Sci-fi movies, but this is like getting ALL those genres wrapped into one, and it's NOT hokey or fake-comical, it's all very believable and wonderfully acted by James Caviziel, and Sonia Myles, with John Hurt, and the guy who played Hell Boy...wow, it has sword fighting in it, great sets...I just really enjoyed this movie from the very beginning to the very end!
Minor titilation wrapped around one badly-made movie.
It took time to realize that there would be no smooth break with the EU and that negotiations would not be wrapped up in two years.
The “holy war” persists, even if the missiles with which each side demolishes the other’s proposals are now wrapped in diplomatic velvet.
Nationalism is essentially a modern political creation wrapped in the mantle of a common history and shared memories.
But, increasingly, the many issues wrapped up in the bilateral relationship are anachronistic.
But maximal security – for example, an insufferably long timetable for withdrawal, unreasonable territorial demands wrapped up as security needs, an Israeli presence in the Jordan valley, and full control of Palestinian airspace and the electromagnetic spectrum – would inevitably clash with Palestinians’ view of what sovereignty entails.
The journalist Matt Taibbi’s memorable description in 2009 of Goldman Sachs – “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” – still resonates, and for good reason.
Today’s China seems to recall Winston Churchill’s description of Russia as a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” – a new, great power rival that is difficult for US policymakers to understand.
Practically, this must all be wrapped up before mid-December, when a new president should, and must, be elected in free and fair elections supervised by the UN and the OAS.
To overcome the enormous lobbying power of investment banks – and thus help to ensure global financial stability – any tool is helpful, even if it comes wrapped in a package of European ideological bias.
Communism, still wrapped in the laurel leaf of anti-fascism, had a wide intellectual and emotional appeal, not only in the so-called Third World, but also in Western Europe.
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