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There was no attempt at establishing the historical context.
There are too many mistakes to list, so i won't even attempt to, all I want to know is if the film makers were serious when they made this movie.
Plenty of valiant support too from Robert Buchanan as Charlie who finds himself fresh out of luck with the ladies and is therefore reduced to irritation tactics in a vain attempt to court their favours, all of which goes wrong and he attempts to hitchhike from StrathClyde to 'Caracus', where he's heard that the women out number the men by 8 to 1. Clare Grogan is slow-burningly sexy as Susan and a special mention too for Allison Forster for her brilliant betrayal of Gregory's dour and deadpan sister Madeline.
The Thai bathhouse scenes are what I attempt to "sell" as the highly erotic shots.
This group of movies also represented, I believe, an attempt by the studio to make Edna May Oliver (who was not British, by the way, but solidly American) a leading lady.
That attempt failed, probably because she was not a sex symbol.
Sadly that magic has faded, and boring realism and drama has taken the forefront in an attempt to reinvent Bond, though it may have been acceptable if the Bond was right and if the Bond spirit was still in tact.
The attempt at believability was destroyed by an unbelievable James Bond, the original foundation is too great.
I shall attempt to do the same............
(All of this while doctors attempt to break through the survivors' catatonia).
I guess this was supposed to be some attempt to portray the relationships between a family faced with much adversity, but it feels like it was written and directed by people who have no clue of what that might mean or how it should be portrayed.
This was 20th Century Fox's first attempt to make a movie targeting the Latino community.
There's a reason some films go "straight to video" instead of even making a brief attempt at theatrical release.
Miss Buffy should have blonded her hair again to at least attempt to look younger for the part portrayed.
While Italian sex symbol Valeria Marini tries, she's hampered by her babyish voice - not to mention the exaggerated moans during the love-making and the fact that the couple's relationship never convinces for a second (if it's supposed to evoke "l'amour fou", it's a pathetic attempt)!
Despite not having any experience as a comedian, you would still be infinitesimally more humorous than "10 Items or Less", TBS's new attempt at killing laughter throughout the known world.
A noir-ish attempt with a betrayal-and-treason plot that seems straight out of a Jim Thompson novel.
I tried to watch this movie with my wife and we had to keep pausing the thing in an attempt to figure out whether a particular scene was a flashback, a dream, or what.
A very poor attempt by the man who brought us classics like "App jaisa koi" in Qurbani.
So after a bit of walking about the house frantically,causing me to have a headache as the camera was all over the place, he gets in his car to attempt to reach her.
Although this film wasn't historically accurate as it seemed, I have to admit there was an honest attempt to making it historically correct.
Poor attempt at the Edgar Allen Poe tale. .
As it is, this movie is a poor tribute to those who died that day, and a ghoulish attempt to satisfy our curiosity for what it might have been like to be on the plane that day rather than help us understand what happened and why.
Was their a sinister motive like CIA disinformation or just an attempt to slay the audience with peals of laughter?
A cynical attempt by a studio to create a welsh 'trainspotting'.
High Spirits is set in Ireland where Peter Plunkett (Peter O'Toole) is told he has two weeks left to pay the mortgage on his ancestral Castle turned hotel, unfortunately the hotel isn't very popular & in an attempt to muster business Peter advertises it as an authentic haunted Castle complete with real ghosts.
Peter's attempt's at fooling his guests into thinking the Castle is haunted fail miserably, however all is not lost as then the real ghosts take over.
The graphic sex scene between Selma Blair and Robert Wisdom is blocked out in the R-rated version; Solondz has a big red rectangle over the characters in a successful attempt to show how the MPAA censors can ruin a movie with their silly rules.
Even his attempt at channeling Jack Nicholson in a diner ala Five Easy Pieces doesn't work.
This ultra lame attempt to bring a manga to the screen fails in almost every respect & the only fun to be had with it is if you get the newly released US version & watch it with the horribly dubbed English soundtrack, where no attempt whatsoever was made to sync up the hilariously dopey English voices with the mouths of the Chinese actors.
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