Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that science sneers at and country people swear by. He is a dowser. As people all over the back hills of Vermont will tell you, dowsers can find water in the ground when almost no one else can-literally at the drop of a forked branch or the twist of a metal rod. No one knows how dowsing works, if indeed it does work. Yet as MacLean displays his baffling powers even a visiting skeptic and would-be apostle of science is impressed...
...well ask, has the death of these 94 elderly gentlemen to do with this most dubious of achievements? Well, the 94 are, unwittingly, the adoptive fathers of 94 perfect little replicas of der Führer, and now it is necessary, if you are to give the final nasty twist to their personalities, to replicate the great shaping experience of Hitler's adolescence-the death of the domineering father at age 65. A fairish number of "parents" are disposed of before Lieberman finally catches up with and confronts the wicked Mengele in a Pennsylvania farmhouse...
...Good Soldier O'Neill defended the White House bill as another step toward an egalitarian America, but he did not have his heart in his speech. He actually sounded as though he were apologizing for the President, and he pointedly told the White House that he would not "twist any wrists" on behalf of the bill. Referring to the fact that Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and other Administration officials were still hotly lobbying for the measure even as the bells summoned Congressmen to their seats, Illinois Republican John Anderson castigated the "late-blooming Blumenthal bill." Enough Democrats agreed...
...couple dickers with a sleazy film producer over a role in a pornographic film. As the scene unfolds, it becomes clear that the female in the dirty movie will have to, er, "do it with a monkey." But surprise, kids, the couple agrees to the contract, and the twist is revealed; the woman won't be in the film, rather, the actress will be their ten-year-old daughter. You could split your sides laughing, but you probably...
...short, Eyes is a real stinker. Even the twist ending is stupidly handled and unsatisfying. The film never quite holds one's attention; both the plot and the characters are so far-fetched and poorly constructed that the attempt at suspense fails miserably. The unintended audience laughs of absurdity come more often than the intended gasps of horror. Yes, this is definitely one film where the nays have it. Enough said...