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TIFF07 - Wrap Up: Film Capsules and Links to My Reviews

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2007-09-22 10:05:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
...bombastic mess of a film with some of the worst musical cues heard in ages. Cate Blanchette and Clive Owen are great in the bodice ripper aspects of the film and there is a spectacular image or two in there, but otherwise a complete fiasco Dr. Plonk 5/10 Great concept, great execution, but Dr. Plonk could have been more if the gags were...
 
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DA BOMB: MAMMA MIA!, THE MOVIE

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2008-07-24 10:05:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...bombastic, phonetic-English disco machinery, Ive never resented that they existed or that they have been such a consistent and bankable worldwide success. Until now, perhaps Mamma Mia , the movie version of the runaway stage cash cow in which a dozen-and-a-half or so ABBA songs are clumsily jerry-rigged and slotted into a flimsy plot...
 
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Top 50 of 1960s

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2007-11-01 05:23:49 by clydefro in clydefro
...bombastic spectacle. That isnt Lawrence of Arabia at all. It could have been split into two parts, released a couple of years apart, and both would be equally as good as the whole. And has the film ever been more timely than it is now 6.) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966) - I always hear people rave about how great Sergio Leone is...
 
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The Money Maker

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2007-11-18 14:17:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...bombastic tendencies to tremendous effect, allowing his talented leads to connect the points of the narrative, only showing his flashier side in a deafening, electrifying late-act shoot-out. That is where we would expect the story to end, but Scott has Lucas and Ritchie confront one another across a table in a dank prison cell for a long,...
 
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THE HAUNTING SEASON #3 THE STONE TAPE

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2007-12-12 10:56:00 by Steve Langton in The Last Picture Show
...bombastic Peter Brock (Bryant) - hope to design a revolutionary recording medium, and confound the market leaders, affectionately known as 'old nippon'. With an eager team wanting to press ahead, the schedule is thrown off-kilter when workmen down tools, refusing to renovate one room in particular. A general feeling of unease appears to be...
 
Tags: tape, stone tape hits, stone tape, stone tape casts, over-zealous film directors, kneale, bombastic peter brock, film, peter
 
 
 
 
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Short Film Week, Day 6: Six Chuck Jones Cartoons

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2007-12-07 18:25:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...bombastic music to propel the action along. This is a wonderful short, especially perfect for any already-converted Looney Tunes admirers (and really, who doesn't count themselves in that category?), since it plays with familiar tropes and character dynamics in a totally new setting. You can watch the short here Next up tonight was Duck...
 
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MIND MELD: If The SF/F Community Ran Hollywood...

2008-01-02 00:29:26 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...bombastic or expensive to be good. Take John Carpenter's Dark Star . For all its shortcomings, that film packs more clever ideas into its first 20 minutes than can be found in any 20 films like The Core or Armageddon . Just a quick glance at my bookshelf gives me a good handful of novels that could be turned into fine movies with a total...
 
Tags: science fiction, science fiction series, fiction, hollywood, science fiction films, science, hollywood film, hollywood films, films
 
 
 
 
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Little Black Book 3

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2008-01-03 01:51:00 by Noel Vera in Critic After Dark
...bombastic, inconsistent, often incoherent. He can barely sustain the quality of his storytelling throughout an entire film; hell, he can barely sustain the quality throughout an entire scene This gives his work an unintended element of suspense; you often watch with bated breath, wondering if he will see things through, or sink slowly into...
 
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Damned, The (1969)

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2008-01-03 19:13:11 by admin in FilmFanatic.org
...bombastic emperors clothing. Im in most agreement with the FilmCritic.com reviewer (see link below), who accurately points out that its hampered by several serious flaws: horrendous dubbing (what was Visconti thinking?!), lame performances (very few actors, despite their credentials, emerge unscathed), overly self-conscious camera techniques...
 
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The Bucket List

2008-01-08 01:13:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...bombastic bon vivant weve all come to adore, opposite Freemans equally-endearing portrayal of a wizened sage wise beyond his years The only fly in this otherwise well-oiled buddy adventures ointment arrives when Carter is temporarily tempted to break his marriage vows by a ready-and-willing, seductive vixen (Rowena King). Not to worry. When...
 
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