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The plot involves a Hollywood film star named Don Bolton (Hope), and his attempt to evade military service at the beginning of World War II, followed by his enlistment by mistake in a confused attempt to court a colonel's daughter (Dorothy Lamour).
I know some people gave this good reviews, but, well, they're lying in a sadistic attempt to trick you.
What's really confounding my neurons is the attempt to fathom the relevance to the plot of the naked girlie fondling her slick oily body, made extra-tacky by being filmed on cheap video.
I put my trust in the film-makers that this lurid attempt to lure viewers would be justified.
The second attempt by a New York intellectual in less than 10 years to make a "Swedish" film - the first being Susan Sontag's "Brother Carl" (which was made in Sweden, with Swedish actors, no less!)
This film is a calculated attempt to cash in the success of Sex in the City and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
By my "Kool-Aid drinkers" remark, I mean that these are such devoted fans of the man Pavarotti that they make no attempt to objectively rate this film.
Her bitchy demeanor from "Law and Order" carries over in a failed attempt at comedy.
However, this movie is akin to a first filmmaker's attempt at making a pseudo art video.
I instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie.
Leave it to geniuses like Ventura Pons, the Spanish director, to convince the higher ups in his country to subsidize this misguided attempt of a film.
The ignorant masses might be entertained by the hand-waiving arguments and the absurd "conclusions" drawn (without even an attempt at a logical reason) from real science.
This movie is a blatant attempt by the left in Hollywood to portray Reagan's administration as incompetent and bungling.
It's really just a bad attempt at showing a character slide slowly into insanity, which again, isn't a bad plot, but is done poorly here.
This film is an obvious attempt by Renoir to recapture the success he had with THE RULES OF THE GAME, as the movie is very similar once the action switches to the country estate (just as in the other film).
Its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young, innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups.
I could never quite work out if it was an attempt at a humourous film that failed miserably, or an attempt at a serious film that failed miserably.
But unfortunately it fall short in its attempt.
Fulci seemed to attempt to combine his earlier work(zombie,beyond,gates of hell)in an effort to somehow improve on them.He failed,but definitely not miserably,like a number of people would have you think.I have a soft spot for zombie films, so i admit that i'm somewhat biased when it comes to reviewing them.All i'm saying is that this movie is good for one time around,if there wasn't so much descension in the making of this film(fulci quit and bruno(i can hack with the best of them)mattei took over)it could have been much better and more focused.It's going to stay in my collection as fulci's zombie swan song.One surprising note, is that there is a scene in zombie 3 that cemetery man actually ripped off,i couldn't believe it myself,check it out you'll be surprised.
"Nada" was the most inadequate follow-up to "Les NOces Rouges" which,with hindsight,appears now as the last good movie of Chabrol's golden era (1967-1973) "Nada" is Chabrol's first real attempt at a wholly political movie;its previous work "les Noces Rouges" had also political elements but it was more a psychological thriller with the usual look at society in French provinces."Nada"
Several scenes were dragged out way too long in an attempt at suspense and the effects were non-existent.
The attack by the skull in the pond should have been completely removed from the final cut and every attempt to bring life to the skull was obvious with stick pokes and strings.
It just seemed like a very poor attempt at a Segal/Willis type action man flick.A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY!
(I say shocking because the ending does not even attempt to end with humor) I dont know what else to say except that is a sloppy rushed sequel done to make Miramax some more cash on the backs of dumb teenagers.
The only thing of interest here was their attempt to show the feds being a lot like the gang.
This is the only attempt at good film-making.
There seems to be an attempt at a "Naked Gun" - esque kind of comedy, but the timing is off; there is too much space between each actors line, as if they're holding for laughter (there wasn't any).
I was too insulted by this attempt at humor and satire to do anything but roll my eyes at the screen.
As Walter tips the latest failed attempt down the sink the pipes leak the florescent green liquid into the basement where escaped lab rats begin to drink it... Five of Walter's friends, Alicia (Leah Rown in a very fetching outfit including some cool boots that she gets to stomp on a rat with), Gary (Richard Peterson), Burke (Derek Hofman), Frank (David Bradley) & Chelsea (Alexandra Townsend) decide that he has been working too hard & needs to get out so they plan to pick him up & party the night away.
This lame attempt at a comedy has nothing to recommend it.
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