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I ask, and not for the first time: Where a part requires an actor to speak in a regional accent, can we please have an actor who is capable of delivering that accent accurately, even if the actor is hitherto unknown, rather than some "big name" actor who is happy to earn a large pay packet for insulting viewers with a puerile attempt at the accent.
The soundtrack also seemed completely out of place as they tried to squeeze as many death metal songs in, in an attempt to improve this terrible film i can only assume.
A good idea has been sabotaged in a terrible attempt to create what i can only assume was meant to be a film?
Montgomery's attempt at tough guy speech is ludicrous; it's as though he is trying to emulate Humphrey Bogart while at the same time avoiding a comparison.
It did occur to me early on that this whole film might be a mis-packaged spoof of all the bad films that went before, but no - they appear to have been serious in their attempt.
The movie is no more than a poor at best attempt of an ongoing subject, Mummies and their curse.
This movie can claim to be a low, low budget gore movie without any attempt to actually any talent even though it thinks it has.
The screenplay omits two short passages that are important to the plot: (1) Cassius' avowal in the first act, after his attempt to persuade Brutus to oppose Caesar, that if their positions were reversed and he, Cassius, stood as well with Caesar as Brutus does, and Brutus made a comparable appeal to him, he would certainly not listen.
It's obvious that the main reason for this film's existence is an attempt to recapture the magic of the first pairing of Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Leo McCarey, namely 1937's "The Awful Truth."
While implicit in other screwball comedies, here it seems more pronounced, perhaps an attempt by Grant, Dunne, and McCarey to prop up the obviously weak material.
The ending seems to make an attempt at some suspense, but fails along with the rest of the movie.
There isn't even an attempt made to be funny!
Every scene is loaded with fog, strange people, and a failed attempt at producing a sense of mystery.
An obvious attempt at cashing in on the success of I Was a Teenage Werewolf and even I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Teenage Zombies is a complete disaster.
You can stick your finger down your throat or watch this pathetic attempt at comedy/drama about young adults in search of relationships.
Whether this is a stalker's attempt to desperately get a date with a actress he adores, or a clever ploy to jump start some sort of career for Herzlinger (I'm thinking more the latter), the fact remains that whichever it is, te film is manipulative at best and slightly alarming at worst.
There is no point discussing bad films but to save other innocent viewers from the agony of senseless torture it is better if some enterprising reviews are written.This is a righteous attempt in that direction.Travellers and Magicians is a very bad film for many reasons.
As the only film Mitchell & Petrillo did together, this was an obvious attempt to duplicate the feel and tempo of a 1952 Paramount Martin & Lewis movie in virtually every detail.
Way over the top, but utterly and completely hilarious just the same American remake of the popular 1978 French film/play "La Cage Aux Folles" about a gay nightclub owner and his flamboyant drag-queen lover (played by Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, two actors who I might say look like they were born to each be the comedic halves that equal one fall-down hilarious whole) who in an attempt to please and hopefully fool the conservative parents (played by Gene Hackman and Diane Wiest) of Williams' biological son's (from what is obviously a previous liaison with a woman) fiancé, pretend for one evening to be a straight married couple, a la Williams is the husband and Lane is dressed up as the wife, with as it is blatantly apparent disastrous results!
I would not attempt to compare this to another film, although the subject has been done far better innumerable times.
R. Lee Ermy brought something new to his performance in this that I felt was vastly lacking in his first attempt and that was a caring of the series.
As well as all the inconsistencies; the car appearing less damaged the more it was hit, the pitiful attempt to add gunfire sound effects to Wesley's gun, etc.
In viewing TBS's newest attempt at infusing their comedic stature into an original series, "10 Items or Less" shows that perhaps Mr. Turner should stick with acquiring sitcoms and cartoons as the foundation for the network's motto of being 'Very Funny'.
To see a more spirited Ebenezer, check out the George C. Scott version - it puts this half-hearted attempt in the shade.
This movie was a great attempt of Sanjayji to adapt novels into a Bollywood cinema...But the story was very simple ...Two lovers, one man and a girl, They both have their lovers and all that.
Hope tries to escape but the man punishes every attempt.
Bruce Lee stars as Billy Lo, an action star (of the martial arts variety) who mobsters are trying to force to sign with them, however after taking a couple of beatings and an assassination attempt, Lo fakes his death, has reconstructive surgery and looks to teach the mobsters what the meaning of "No" is.
The shows these days are either too melodramatic,have too many characters without much depth or are a terrible attempt at comedy.
This was also Robert Englund's attempt at making a movie.
It's also something of a gamble: Gowariker has never treaded the historical epic in his earlier features, especially one about India's first attempt at religious pluralism.
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