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Though the Our Gang comedies still have their followers, I've got to say that their attempt to graduate to feature films, courtesy of Hal Roach came up way short.
But, instead, I realized that these films have made the very determination of the great "tragedy" trivial when the same boring situations, the same suffocating dysfunctional families and friendships continue to play out just have they been over and over again in some sort of attempt to knock out previous distortions of family life (much of it existing in the 1950s and earlier with personality and character aberrations being made ever so subtle), supplanting it instead with the "reality" of how things actually are.
This is a terrible attempt to parody The Godfather with annoying cartoon sounds, and bad dialogue.
Barely an attempt at plot development, awful acting, silly effects, clichés, and an abrupt ending.
Respectable filmakers struggle to get their vision realised, yet this blasphemous, pathetic attempt at a mini-series makes it to our television's, with 3 oscar winners making appearances.
Worst of all is the attempt to pass off the aging and very hairy Connery off as the sex symbol he indeed was in the '60s.
This is basically a rip off of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Timecode" I was very let down with this film makers attempt to be cool.
Sound stupid, implausible and a lame attempt at modernizing the genre?
It is always going to be hard to capture the feel of the comics in a film without using animation, and I didn't feel this attempt was worth it ultimately.
This feeble attempt at veering your typically bland Japanese horror movie more towards a creepy cult hit did not have the ammunition needed to keep the viewer involved throughout.
"Nero" as the title of the movie is in Germany is a another attempt to show one of the most interesting Roman emperors, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, better known as Nero.
Although this attempt at least tried to show a more historic accurate Nero than the amusing but completely fictitious Nero Peter Ustinov played in "Quo Vadis!" it still is a major failure.
To not have any real violence but have enough nudity in an attempt to cover up the fact there is no real plot?
I really had no sense of the films eighties backdrop, since I was unsatisfied with the lame attempt at making believe it was the eighties just because ms Ricci wears a madonna inspired dress to her "lost my virginity" celebration.
Simon West's remake of the 1979 horror classic is a pathetic attempt to bring old school thrills to a contemporary audience.
Irene goes to rehab and comes home to a clueless husband who has no idea how to support her attempt to kick her habit.
Could be subtitled "Sleazy Hollywood types attempt to make money from Chinatown rip-off".
All in all, another silly attempt on the part of the British to imitate Hollywood pulp at its most rubbishy.
This movie must have been a misguided attempt to introduce a new element to the talking picture.
The direction left a lot to be desired and I almost felt bad for the cast and crew of this weak attempt at a Christmas special.
If you do attempt to watch it, be sure to stick around for the "suprise ending".
German officer's with a spotless English accent, they didn't even attempt to be German.
There is no serious attempt to act or entertain.
I couldn't believe that they tried to pass it off as a serious movie, it was so bad I couldn't even laugh at it's pathetic attempt to entertain me.
Eva Mendes's casting is really the poster sign for how wrong, how ill conceived this commercial attempt turned up.
The creators lousy attempt to make a futuristic city even deepened my dislike for the film.
No, it is because this was a serious attempt to make a good action movie, conform the Hollywood standard.
Our "brilliant" story begins with some billionare who has nothing better to do than look in volcanoes in a vain attempt to find his lucky charms.
The movie does attempt to portray some feeling that the previous one lacked but it is done in a lackluster way that makes for a flat boring movie.
This very forced attempt to fuse Robert Altman and Quentin Tarantino (who is wildly overrated himself) is neither informative nor entertaining.
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