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A very bad attempt at a young spinal tap.
To me this has all of the looks of a "fresh outta film school gonna set the world on fire" first attempt.
The grotesque climax utilizes every available cliche, spent or not, and fittingly ends this drab attempt at comedy.
Toy rubber bats on strings with no attempt to hide the strings, arrows that appear to be drawn on the film and look to be the shape of an arrow you'd find on a street sign, and a laughable story line.
I felt that the dialogue was just an attempt to transfer information to the audience instead of real people trying to talk to each other.
The attempt at a narrative in which they grounded their ideas was absolutely pathetic, which almost anyone will tell you.
It's an attempt to get inside a male relationship, but the careful, sterile presentation is a cheat.
The director over-uses slow motion during special effects perhaps as an attempt to compensate for the poor performance of the actors themselves.
An attempt at crossover to appeal to those who don't appreciate opera, exploiting the fame of one of the greatest opera singers of all time, it fails badly.
The attempt to manipulate the viewer with a mixture of emotional breakdowns and sad music is a real turn off for me.
My first attempt at watching this ended in 8 minutes, roughly after the TV report scene, which I couldn't handle.
The film does indeed have a creepy feel as it deals with a coven of satanists/witches in a small town and a young woman's attempt to escape them.
His first move is to attempt drowning her, until his mafia don benefactor tells him to knock it off.
This movie is a very poor attempt to make money using a classical theme.
A bad rip-off attempt on "Seven", complete with sub-second-grade acting, awful camera work, half-baked story and strong aftertaste of lame propaganda.
It seems that Salvatores couldn't decide what to do with this movie: some of it is a very weak thriller (and I say very, very weak), some of it is an attempt to explore the relationships between the main characters.
Unsuccessful attempt to update the film noir genre, without enough sting or wit (or involving plot dynamics) in the screenplay.
Wayne makes no attempt to hide the fact that he is definitely checking out her butt.
A pitiful excuse for a movie, and a pitiful attempt to associate hockey and skating.
Although the director tried(the filming was made in Tynisia and Morocco),this attempt to transport the New Testament in the screen failed.The script has serious inaccuracies and fantasies,while the duration is very long.But the most tragic is the protagonist Chris Sarandon,who doesn't seem to understand the demands of his role.
Blatant propaganda with no attempt at objectivity.
The usual creaks and moans attempt to make-up for a muddled, but thin story.
Don't waste your time even thinking about this attempt at acting.
Leopold just made another attempt.
That becomes more and more obvious with every attempt made in the genre.
In an attempt to bring back the teen slasher genre that was taken away by spoofs like Scary Movie and Shriek if you know what I did last Friday the 13th, Valentine fails.
Eric's rewrite of 'The Most Dangerous Game' is at least an attempt at modernizing the classic tale, but fails to give us any motivations for why the characters are doing this.
During a rescue attempt to free Markov, KGB steps in, takes Markov to a secret location and lures him to reveal his secret by saying they are in Sweden, and working for the UN.
I doubt Jigsaw was hip even at the time, the whole LSD theme married to a murder mystery being a patently obvious attempt to grab a young audience of the era without in the least truly showing any understanding of the sixties counterculture.
That a figure of providence and salvation would work to match Verne (Clark Gable at his most cockily mannered and self-regarding) and Julie (Joan Crawford, snarling and spitting out every other word in an attempt to be the Queen of Tough Dames) seems ludicrous at best.
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