Word: althoughe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Glick said that although people were not able to go on the boat for munchies, music and mingling, the event still achieved its goal: members met punches...
...most impressive aspect of Lynch's adaptation is the absence of any canonizing or aggrandizing tendencies. Although both David Lynch and Freddie Francis, the director of photographer, pay homage to Straight's perseverance, The Straight Story is by no means a documentary. The wheels on Straight's lawnmower blend with the turning of tractor wheels. Bicyclists, cars, trucks whiz right by. Never for a moment are you made to forget that Straight is riding a 1966 John Deere. And for those of us willing to trot along at five miles-per-hour, the story is unexpectedly rewarding...
...thousand better ways. The bats produce only laughter rather than gasps of fear as they crawl gargoyle-like across the screen. Casper and Kimsey are flat and undeveloped. In fact, the sole target audience that will not be disappointed by Bats would appear to be the masochists. Although quite honestly, the same affect could be achieved by banging one's head against the wall for an hour and a half, and it would be far less expensive. For after viewing the movie whose posters claimed it would "suck you dry," this reviewer merely found herself drained...
...plot of the film is largely incidental. It appears pieced-together haphazardly, as though the script were written after the bat attack scenes were filmed, to add human faces a the cast of winged mammals. Although compared to the wooden performances of Lou Diamond Phillips and Dina Meyer, the bats are surprisingly human. Bats is so painfully unaware of its own ridiculousness that it qualifies for a place in the annals of camp classics.Yet, there is nothing tongue-in-cheek about this film. It is marketed as a thriller, in the tradition of Hitchcock's classic The Birds. Bats totally...
...anywhere. Poor Neve. First she was abused all last season on "Party of Five," and now she's stuck in acting limbo. She's in danger of becoming the female Chris O'Donnell--part girl, part woman and hard up for roles that really serve her talents (although I give her a great deal of credit for Wild Things, one of the unsung gems...