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He's trying to atone for his sins - yes, Gary did attempt suicide after the initial doc was aired - through correction, commentary, and convention, reclaiming such Hollywood-narrative standbys as the best friend and the defiant happy ending (two different ones, with a telling adjustment in the Glover version) and turning them to his own very personal uses.
But why quibble with an obvious attempt to bribe its male viewers when nothing will change it now?
A fey story of a Martian attempt to colonize Earth.
Now the film aims to convey one very interesting point - the fact that Gandhi in his attempt to be a fair person, ended up being an unfair father.
So, any review or attempt at contemplating a set of comments about it, as Ebert did, is really about Nolte's character actually.
If you have ever read and enjoyed a novel by Tom Robbins you will appreciate this movie as a whole-hearted attempt to translate his outrageously unconventional writing style into a workable piece of big screen art.
At least something good came out of Damon Runyon's misguided attempt to sentimentalize the Mafia.
This film would disgrace the word 'travesty', if I were to attempt to use it, so I will use the word 'rubbish' instead.
For example, when Hercules fights a bear, there is no attempt to make the bear look even slightly real; it's all-too-obviously a man in a bear suit.
This is an absurd attempt to cash in by ex-scenesters who are, in all likelihood, now in nursing homes.
Another abortive, pitiful attempt from Solondz... His problem is that subjects of his films are not interesting at all.
The name is just a lame attempt to cover up a bad movie, which worked for me, because i rented it.
First up, it's an attempt to cash in on the popularity of reality television.
An obvious attempt to hang onto the coat tails of Pirates of the Caribean and pick up the scraps but it even fails in this attempt.
The attempt of the director to give the film a photography reminiscent of the chromatic games of Suspiria is simply pathetic, and is nonetheless the better thing of the movie.
Billy Crudup's weird little attempt at a french accent made me giggle at times, and there is absolutely no chemistry between the leads.
1st watched 2/3/2002 - 3 out of 10 (Dir-Andy Tennant): Attempt at light-hearted romantic comedy which just doesn't seem to click.
With just enough realism and surrealism, Coppola plays this documentary the way a documentary should be played - an individual with a vision and his attempt to push the limits of the envelope in post-WWII industrial America.
Residents of a French village attempt to stop an American from using monkeys in place of human workers on his newly-acquired olive farm.
Harvard Man is transparently what it is: a quickly-made attempt to capitalize on Gellar's fame.
She's probably responsible for gathering the rest of the usually talented cast to participate in what amounts to be a sub-high school level wanna-be's attempt at a Woody Allen homage.
It is as if they have escaped the movie-making process and every directors attempt to control his material seems futile.
I felt his attempt to change keys in the middle of a song during the performance was an amateur stunt at best.
On the other hand, I did like the acting and the attempt of Melanie to find a friend amidst the chaos she was going through.
Propaganda is another failed attempt by Sinan Cetin to make decent, above-average movie.
However, I respect Oprah's attempt at resurrecting a new interest in many people for one of the world's most extraordinary and misunderstood writers of our time.
1st watched 7/12/2009 - 3 out of 10 (Dir-Anthony Hickox): Lame and silly attempt to spoof horror movies in this story about a possessed wax museum visited by brainless teenagers.
It seems a little like a last-ditch attempt to say both "Look!
I'm not sure what Eli Roth and Quentin Tarentino were thinking when they put this crap together, but it's a laughable attempt at a shocking horror film.
A laughable attempt at being shocking.
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