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Don't even remotely attempt to take this movie seriously in any way, just enjoy it for what it is and appreciate the amazing talents of two of the greatest actors in movie history.
And in an attempt to be 'ground-breaking' the producers picked them.
Another late 60's entry into Hollywood's attempt to answer the question, What kind of movies/TV shows do these drug-addled kids want to see? Older producers never did really figure it out.
There's no vanity, no attempt to go for the cool or the comic (if anything he undercuts the character's attempts to do so without ever becoming a cheap joke) and little in the way of grandstanding.
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, an attempt to cash in on the quirky British teen book of the same name...no wait...that was called 'Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging', my mistake.
Gregory Peck, with his feeble attempt at a British accent, is horribly miscast.
What could have been a great vehicle for exploring the ancient Aztec civilization turned into a sad excuse for a film that was an attempt to push the envelope and lost.
Teenage girl Gillian Bellaver (Amy Irving) has been developing such powers & her Mother (Joyce Easton) agrees for her to spend some time in the institute in an attempt to help her.
It skirts right around some interesting and important social & economic issues, preferring instead to attempt to create an illusion of hip-hop, street-gang cool - which it fails miserably to succeed with.
An honest attempt at doing the same thing millions of movies have done before.
We witness an unsuccessful attempt of Royal family to leave the country that brought both, the King and the Queen to the trial for treason; execution of her husband on the guillotine, separation from her son who was taken from her on the very day of Louis XVI's death, brought to court to testify against her, and died in captivity when he was 12 years old.
No Her attempt are laughable and her refusal to disrobe leads the director to have the most obvious body double I have EVERY witnessed.
This cheap imitation of "The Night Of The Living Dead" is an earnest attempt to revive the "appeal" (and the chills) of the 1968 film, but while most of the appropriate ingredients seem to be in place, somehow they don't work.
Persians attempt to buy out "lesBos", a reference to the Persians attacking the Spartans.
This was an attempt to return to a genre that officially died in the late 90s - The slasher.
Failed attempt to match the typical Wes Craven witty monster (Freddy, Wishmaster, Horace Pinker) combined with more sexually explicit junk to make it seem more over-the-edge.
This Zombie (Rob) film is nothing more than a feeble attempt to shock you into numbness, as is shown with most of the victims in this story.
And there is no real attempt to explain or define what the motivation for all this butchery is.
This is the only movie I know of to make the attempt to take the events of the Arthurian legend as seriously as possible, portraying them as realistically as possible, thereby making this the best film version of the legend to date.
This attempt to mix two genres of American pie type and alien type does not mix well.
On this journey through India, these three brothers attempt to also attain some spirituality by undergoing ridiculous made up spiritual rituals.
He tries to get rid of her, but every time he makes an attempt, she some how manages to get back in his trailer.
Another lame attempt at a "politically correct" Cinderella story, but with Elmo in place of Brandy.
Other then that the film is an attempt to be a sequel to an overrated first film done by people with even less talent and money.
Unfortunately, this guy's sad attempt at breaking into show business isn't very interesting.
It's a pathetic attempt to cash in on an established and recognizable name.
Whatever the reason may be - no resources or interests, an attempt to pacify mutual allies, or simple apathy because it's 'not a Western problem', it fills me with anguish to see the results.
if you want to watch an idiotic attempt at an interesting second world war story, with no thought at all towards realism then this is the film for you.
This movie just rushes from one scene to the next, in an attempt to create a breathless and exciting tone I guess, but scenes aren't allowed to play themselves out.
To anyone who even considered renting this pretense of an attempt to a good remake: Don't waste your money or your life on it.
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