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What do you get when you mix a lump of clichés with a directionless pacing and a group of characters who you don't care about and a failed attempt at creating an appealing visual style and an even bigger lump of clichés and a weak sense of humor and a really big budget?
I can't come up with appropriate enough words to describe the horror I felt sitting in that cinema watching Ramgopal Varma Ki Aag, the director's half-hearted attempt to pay tribute to that classic Bollywood western, Sholay.
This was a horrible attempt at bringing this book to the screen.
An attempt at a coherent story line is destroyed by the sheer absurdity of this elite racing cult and the laughable characters that make up its members.
It's a noble attempt, however, to salvage the unused bits from the first movie, including an entire plot about some pretty benign would-be domestic terrorists called "The Alarm Clock."
The fact that Billy Crystal's career survived this early suicide attempt is a miracle.
I love Julian Sands and will at least attempt to watch anything he's in, but this movie nearly did me in.
the main focus of this movie is not the relationship, but a failed attempt at making a raunchy super-bad-esquire movie with a semi appealing plot.
There is a very small throwaway performance by Christopher Walken as the uncle of the granddaughter which, of course, gives him top-billing in an attempt to sell the film.
turned out to be another failed attempt by the laughable sci-fi channel.
Valentine makes ZERO attempt to be original.
The director attacks this by just making it a formula movie, with no attempt to fool us, and that gives this movie a mild appeal, but it isn't something you're likely to remember a while.
That really eludes me, as I see no attempt to even make this a memorable film.
Could it, then, be an attempt at subversive homoeroticism?
In this Burton movie, an attempt has been made to turn the whole thing into an action movie, but at what cost?
Three writers made a valiant attempt to adapt Jane Stanton Hitchcock's novel for the tube, yet this television movie has ultimately been injected with too much melodrama and just doesn't know when to quit.
The crime caper films of Quentin Tarantino, for example, are filled with violence, profanity, and other sleaze, but are nonetheless highly watchable because Tarantino does not attempt to pass these films off as socially redeeming works of art.
Such a pretentious and lame attempt to hipness.
Everybody has to start from somewhere and their son started off his acting career with this truly awful attempt at 'Tarantinism made in the UK'. 5 years have gone bye, but sometimes I still cringe at the memory of that sad night at the movies!
"Diary of Sex Addict" is a pathetic attempt at a serious drama about sexual compulsiveness.
PLAN B has the appearance of a quickly made, unedited, sloppy script for a movie with the attempt for an outing for the actors involved - an outing that should have been nixed from the start.
The scene where the children throw rocks at the bird until it dies, with Sooner participating in an attempt to be accepted by the other children, made me sick and has haunted me ever since.
I think the author's attempt was to demonstrate the utter banality and hollowness of the capitalist system.
Everything in this film is bad , the story , the acting , the effects but its funny , funny , funny !!!Scott Valentine with the army uniform thats ten sizes too big is so bad with the permanent attempt at a scowl on his face as the leader of a special ops group its hilarious !
I felt that this movie was a failed attempt at distasteful humor.
Her mother said he was an old rooster and thinks this is his last attempt to recapture his youth.
Cut is an Aussie attempt at the modern "slasher," but unfortunately it doesn't bring anything new or exciting to the table.
An attempt to be daring and different but this appears to be a slap-together attempt at recreating the magic of Arthur Penn 's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and George Roy Hill 's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)- truly innovative filmmakers and films - but falling well below the bar.
The editing appears again to be an attempt to duplicate the previous classics but is occasionally disjointed and cause more problems for me technically.
Not even Bob Hope, escorted by a raft of fine character actors, can save this poorly written attempt at wartime comedy, as his patented timing has little which which to work.
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