Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin considered the picture " one big Edsel, with totally forgettable score and some of the shoddiest special effects ever . " In 2008, " Entertainment Weekly " called Helpmann's depiction of the Child Catcher one of the " 50 Most Vile Movie Villains ."
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:: That was my first guess, and I do suspect something about the disk, which is the shoddiest and cheapest looking commercial release I have ever seen, caused the problem, since you have to go through a series of submenus to change the language, and I certainly did nothing like that intentionally.
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"Holy Man " is the latest and arguably the shoddiest recent Hollywood movie to exploit mass culture's rampant " Touched by an Angel " syndrome, in which a heavenly figure intervenes in earthly matters to provide a comforting glimpse of spiritual enlightenment and sometimes also to solve characters'romantic problems.
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This week we got a taste of shallow journalism at its shoddiest from people who usually do a whole lot better _ Boston's WBZ-TV devoted a news segment to a survey of exploding air bags, the children allegedly killed by them, a repair shop that will be glad to disconnect your air bag _ and a demonstration of the technique on camera.
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In " Entertainment Weekly " magazine, columnist Bob Strauss said that the design of the PC version was " appealing enough ", but that it plunked players down into " shoddiest baseball simulation " he'd seen, with " pixelated generic-looking players; awkward, superfluous voice commentary; and a static interface that makes live baseball seem like the invasion of Normandy . " He strongly preferred HardBall'95 instead.
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After several more mess-ups, Hamilton makes a stand against Basil in front of the other guests, vilifying Basil for his unprofessional and outrageous behaviour and branding the hotel as " the crummiest, shoddiest, worst-run hotel in the whole of Western Europe "; several guests agree with him, but Major Gowan disagrees, saying " . . . there's a place in Eastbourne . . . ", apparently making Fawlty Towers the second worst.
