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If you want to watch a series that questions the state of things in the world and allows an intelligent and sensible argument as to how we have fallen into this false sense of freedom, that has led to the rise of social inequality and the disastrous attempt to establish democracy in Iraq, which has led to a rise in violent factions in the country itself and the rise of the threat of terror attacks in Britain, Europe and America, this series will draw you in as it is both revealing and eye opening, and the sort of intelligent documentary film making that we need more of.
Barda is the next attempt of director Serdar Akar.
Or is it just some dumb ending slapped on the end in an attempt to tie up the hundreds of loose ends this weird script leaves hanging?
Zhang Yimou's attempt to squeeze yet another Chinese history lesson into one of his movies aside, I still came away unexpectedly moved by "Shanghai Triad."
This is a very poor attempt to translate a marvelous book to the screen.
Perhaps someone will attempt to make another of her books into a movie with better results.
I think an attempt to make viewers more aware of this films spoof nature, as opposed to actual "scary zombie" would garner it a more wide spread enjoyment.
This is a good attempt to show some of the symptoms and family issues which occur when a member develops the illness.
The best part of the film was the first five minutes showing an assassination attempt on the President of the United States.
Thankfully at least, the directors failed in their attempt to get John Carradine for the role of Carlo Lombardi.
The climax in particular is so ridiculous that it becomes obvious that there is no attempt at credibility to any of the action sequences.
Good movie to have around for an early 80's sample of the attempt by Hollywood to make kiddie-porn but as a movie it doesn't hold up.
Survivors barricade themselves in a skyscraper in an attempt to avoid the roaming menace, but even that's no guarantee of safety.
Aside from just making a derivative psycho killer film, it seems obvious that writer Larry Cohen wanted Uncle Sam to have some brains too, which is shown by the attempt to inject a message into the proceedings.
The trigger for the plot occurs right at the outset with a botched kidnap attempt (the girl was walking home from church!!!!), and from then on it's about getting the goods on a traveling prostitution ring.
This confused attempt to replicate the success of Turkish Delight does have some oddball moments that make it slightly entertaining and of mild interest to Rutger Hauer fans.
Don't get my wrong, Im a hard core Meat Loaf fan, but this attempt at a success story was an abomination to him & Jim Stienman.
I suppose this was an attempt to turn an L Ron Humbug...I mean Hubbard novel into a science fiction movie.
Usually mimes can be a little irksome (maybe not, depends on who's miming and how well the audience can take it), but Alejandro Jodorowksy, in his first attempt at film-making, makes this as experimental as something like Un Chien Andalou yet with an emotional core that can be understood by viewers open to it all.
It seems axiomatic that the more cruddy a movie is, the more variant titles it will collect along its merry way, and this pretentious, self-conscious mix of "horror" and "sex" is tedious, dreary and almost embarrassing in its desperate attempt to appear "meaningful".
I don't think that the movie has a bad attempt i mean its a movie for 8 year old's!
I haven't bothered to read all of the other comments but I'm sure it must have been stated before -- this is a completely mediocre comedy that is simply yet another attempt by Hollywood to ride on the coattails of much better films like "Rushmore" and "Napoleon Dynamite."
Was this an attempt to quadruple the laughs?
In this review I will attempt to keep my personal political views out of it as much as possible.
The emphasis here is on "wild" - a wild, scatter-shot, liberal-biased attempt to swipe at every tired, pathetic Southern stereotype.
He survives the attempt because, at the exact same moment, his body becomes possessed by the furious spirit of a murdered gambler.
Throughout the tale, some attempt at drawing a correlation between the above and the exorcism of a 17th century nun fails to explain itself and what we are left with is a "WTF-There's an hour and twenty minutes of my life I will never get back!"
Willy Loman as victim is presented in straight-forward manner with no attempt to excuse the "system" by hints of madness.
The movie starts with the 3 hero's doing a pretty cool obstacle course at their grandfather's place but learn a valuable lesson when he turns off the power and then makes them attempt it backwards.
This predictability, some obvious mistakes in the production(boom mikes and wires being visible) and the low acting expectations from most make this attempt at a fun kids movie even dismal to most kids, probably.
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