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This was some pseudo-intellectual director's lame attempt at putting to celluloid a pseudo-intellectual playwright's lame attempt at a shocking and controversial play.
In an attempt to dazzle the audience by interweaving the past with the present using slick editing techniques, the directors weaken the credibility of the story as well as confuse the audience.
Carlin does not make any jokes or punchlines at all, nor does he attempt to make any humorous statement in what can only be called an ugly and hateful rant.
His waxes rhapsodic about suicide rates and sexual perversions, but only describes them, with no attempt to make jokes about them or connect these morbid topics with the audience, much less himself.
She's great in playing sexy, strong or serious women, but her attempt to put on a girlish performance while being in her forties, is just pathetic.
After the incredibly good effort that was the Dawn of the Dead 2004 remake, this film is an extremely cheap attempt to cash in on the name.
It's sad that directors with no talent use odd cinematographic techniques in an attempt to disguise the film's inadequacies.
Unlike most comedies today, however --which pathetically attempt to garner laughs from the audience through the characters' mindless "schtick," pratfalls, and mean-spirited jabs at one other -- the humor in "With Friends Like These" derives organically from the situation the characters find themselves in, aided by their idiosyncratic personalities.
They turned it into a horribly made teeny pop movie attempt.
Yes, Tom your 'Valkyrie' was a decidedly better attempt at good Germans than this long forgotten puerile rubbish.
Translations from the attempt at italian in this movie were terrible.
A fine cast (Douglas, Paltrow, Mortensen, Suchet) was wasted in this feeble attempt.
Must be someone with a wishful attempt to get viewers.
It starts in the middle of the story for some reason,In some kind of construction company warehouse, with Jack the junkie, the "Jason" of this "movie," getting pushed around by some pushers, and injected with some PCP/crack hypodermic in an attempt to kill Jack but instead its suggested that it makes him insanely stronger and insanely insane.
It does attempt an offbeat approach to a formula plot, but that is the only positive thing one can really say about it.
Features the most pathetic attempt at slick film-making i've ever seen.
Some of the performances (especially I thought that of Hardie Albright as Dimmesdale, with the exception of that closing scene) seemed a bit forced, although I appreciated the attempt to mix some humour into a movie that could have been very heavy, as Alan Hale and William Kent portray the attempts of Hockings to help Goodfellow court the widow Crakstone, although in some ways (again, I haven't read the novel) that seemed unconnected to the overall story.
Oh dear.In a desperate attempt to keep up with the Paul Raymond/Fiona Richmond era of tacky English semi - porn,the "Carry On" production team came up with this absolute stinker.They even had the gall to use the same location as the immortal "Carry on Camping" as if they were hoping that some of the magic might brush off onto the dandruff - ridden crumpled shoulders of this dirty mac of a movie.Well,I promise you it didn't.With "Carry on Behind",the comedy lights went out all over Pinewood.
Basically no plot, no suspense, no romance, no fun, no good jokes, no good sex--just a sorry attempt by some excellent movie makers to be cute with no payoff!
The attempt was to bring the Shaft character to the world audience but so much of script is lame.
The attempt to link Thea (Ellen Drew) to malevolent forces didn't really work for me, she was just too wholesome and good looking to imply a serious threat.
Confidence is a poor attempt at making a Snatch/Ocean's 11-style movie.
They spend most of their time arguing and filibustering and take forever and a day to repair the wagon and attempt to catch up with the wagon train - I felt like I was watching Gilligan's Island.
Such images as castration, religious icons, and a tacky Latino soap opera are all intertwined in a vain attempt to give some meaning to the threadbare storyline.
This movie, in its attempt to be clever, ends up being just plain ignorant.
This is a feeble and desperate attempt to tap into what is left of the underground comic book audience.
But this is hardly even an honest attempt.
I'd rather eat a turd than watch such a pitiful attempt at cinema.
The version available in stores was altered by the Executive Producers in a failed attempt at making this a serious horror film.
Juvenile attempt at comedy, about 3 funny lines, overacting by Jackson, annoying acting by Levy, I can't begin to say what a complete disappointment this movie was, and I'm overwhelmed at all the good comments it's getting here.
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