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I don't even know where to begin with this wretched excuse for a movie.
Well, the first and most obvious are the wretched songs.
A touching story that I particularly liked: about a carreerist who suddenly realizes that his idea of leaving his wretched family behind and starting a new life is wrong, about a hooker who is trying to escape from the harrassing phone calls by an aberrant and their brothers who are also miserable and helpless.
It wasn't wretched, but it just wasn't that funny and I'm a geezer with a gray beard.
A choice cheesy chunk of wonderfully rancid and wretched two-cent 70's grind-house garbage about a putrid Califonia passion pit that's beset by a shocking series of gruesome murders perpetuated by some mystery maniac.
Someone, apparently at Warner Brothers, suggested this movie, a low-budget musical comedy filmed in a wretched color process that all but killed the project in itself.
If you ever wonder why a feature is released straight to video, rather than to theaters first, look no further for a reason than this wretched mess.
Thoroughly repugnant and wretched melodrama has the foster couple to a little girl terrorized by the child's psychopathic biological parents, who are on the lam from the police.
I had been looking forward to seeing this film, despite the wretched reviews.
The dialog was wretched.
It really makes you wonder who got paid off to get this wretched film made.
I don't recommend this horrid piece of garbage to anyone, even children shouldn't be mistreated and go through the pure torture it is to watch this wretched film.
You know the sort I mean -- clips of ostensibly mundane images edited together with some heavy music, to indicate a wretched emotional state.
The forty years of fiscal irresponsibility that began with Lyndon Johnson's final debasement of our currency has reduced the once-mighty dollar to subatomic dimensions; and at the rate the current administration continues to pile up debt, it will not be long before it will take Avogadro's number of the wretched things just to buy a handyman's special, dry-rotted, termite-infested two-bedroom firetrap in the middle of a malarial swamp.
They grew up with the original Star Wars films, and they went away disappointed and angry at the fact the prequels were inferior in every way to the originals... Lucas's dialogue is wretched, his pacing is totally off, and he seems to be killing time here.
Bill Murray's character was hilarious, one of his best I believe, he's a self-centered wretched old man.
As is well-documented, the film centres on the lives of three similar families living on a wretched council estate in London.
In all that it's downplayed, the realistic speaking type of performance, we were allowed to see the wretched grief, and anger, and blocked memories that do come out with horror and a bang.
People complain about Foreigner and Out for a Kill, but they both look like Oscar winners compared to this wretched piece of excrement.
Well, I believe the two weeks on the script part because the script is utterly wretched, but I don't know about the ten years part because this movie rips off "Rounders" to a huge extent.
Nat Pendleton is on hand as a remarkably dim-witted cop, and the juvenile humor that he provides would have torpedoed this film itself, without any help from its other wretched elements.
But those wretched elements are there in abundance: The plot here makes little sense, the script is by turns fatuous and yawn inducing, the background music is annoying, the "action" is confined to a few rooms, the characters are ridiculous types, and the entire film is tedious and uninvolving.
Let's get it out of the way first thing: The critics of the 80s like Leonard Maltin and Siskel/Ebert who sadistically maligned DEF-CON 4 as a wretched exercise in scum & sleaze were WRONG.
The excellent Calvin Lockhart (Halls of Anger, Room 222) can't save this film from the wretched performances of Waite and Donald Sutherland, who I've never seen to worse effect in his role as a dying aristocrat.
It's a truly wretched film of cataclysmic proportions.
Further escalation in the Middle East will culminate in these wretched alternatives sooner rather than later, unless a diplomatic solution is found (or unless diplomacy can at least buy time).
Although exiting the Troika program is undoubtedly a success, especially when compared with the country’s wretched outlook in late 2010, no one should aspire to what Ireland has been through.
It made a wretched start at independence when the industrial region of Transdnistria – populated by Russian and Ukrainian speakers who feared that the majority of Moldovans, who are of Romanian descent, planned closer ties with Romania – declared independence.
The Jakarta police have begun acting with new vigor: they charged one prominent radical leader with defamation for publicly calling women opposed to the anti-pornography bill “evil, wretched, and immoral,” and then arrested the chairman and twenty members of FPI for attacking a group of cafes.
Yet Dalits feel only marginally better off than their wretched forebears.
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