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An attempt to make a modern-dress Gothic melodrama that is just not successful.
Movie tries to be funny but fails in its attempt.
The movie has that unsatisfying, cheap digital look that, when combined with the horrible acting and the lousy plot, make the film look like a failed attempt for a high-school project.
I would assume that this was an ultimately lame attempt for a scary movie, but jeez, does it fall flat!
There isn't a hint of the shaky imbalance that plagues movies that attempt to cross comedy and drama as he tells the story of Joan and Bernard Berkman (Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels), a couple that has spent years in a downward spiral of unhappiness, affairs, and crushed hopes.
They attempt to get this guy to turn them in.
I don't know, why American filmmakers always try to make remakes of French movies and fail on the attempt.
This movie was an attempt to undermine conservative opinion of the time.
Martin is a strong, capable actress who should be commended for this attempt to broaden her capabilities, but the film's budget is low and the script, while well-meant, is full of tired clichés (updated clichés for the 1980's).
This horrible attempt of a "movie" was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot of horrible B-movies).
You can tell they must have went up to people on the streets and said "Hey, want to be in a movie?"! From the laughable performance by the child playing Jack Jr. to the ridiculous writing, directing, plot, ridiculous attempt at special effects, etc..etc..etc..
This is not art; it's an attempt to show skin for the foreign fetish market.
In fact, the basic premise of Bridget Jones is transposed to this disastrous attempt at making a serious drama.
No attempt at balance, just a totally one-sided, biased point of view passing as fact.
Blake Edwards, the very talented comedy/musical director who gave us The Pink Panther and Victor/Victoria, lays an egg with this unbelievably stilted attempt at a mystery/comedy/film noir/western.
This film seems to be an inept attempt to recapture the magic of Casablanca (it even features the ending scene of the plane taking off) and fails despite having Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
The film, to me, seemed to be a very poor attempt at a 'romantic comedy', where everything for the main character goes horribly wrong, and then a very unrealistic see's all her dreams come true.
I don't understand why it was ever released on DVD...maybe it was an attempt to capitalize on the study hall market- bored kids watching the movie because they can't be bothered to crack open the book...Why on earth Robert Wagner chose to get involved with such a lame project is beyond me...
Cronenberg's first movie of note, Shivers (AKA They Came from Within), is the director's first attempt at tackling a theme that would eventually become his trademark: the progression of man's evolution through technology.
We are in the crowd that follows Claude Atkins as he carries away the kid who is bitten after being stupid enough to climb atop a truck carrying orange crates in a fatal attempt to catch a spider with his bare hands.
But the botched attempt to be snappy means that it looks REALLY good up against the trudgery of Astro-Zombies or my last Filipino outing, Curse of the Vampire.
I believe that there is a cult of film making and watching that "like the Emperors new clothes" permeates the industry where begin,middle and end are inconsequential and there more avant Gard they appear the more they are accepted.Techniques are fine but they must be employed within the frame work of a genuine story told in believable format with the enjoyment or compulsion of the watcher paramount.It is fine line between puerile rubbish and this type of film but an attempt to relate to the masters of previous successful productions would lead to far more success than this banal attempt to be modernistic and yet void of real incident.
I was so bored by this cliché attempt to criticize art school culture, that I was seriously considering turning the movie off halfway through, but I stuck it out hoping it would all come together and actually reach a final destination.
The attempt, I believe, was to honor monster movies, but despite many other horror character actors appearing it doesn't do a very good job at this.
The movie had an intelligent story, and though it's called Spectres, it was more about a mother struggling to make life with her teen daughter as close to normal as possible after a suicide attempt.
I have never seen such an atrocious pathetic attempt at a crime thriller.
The first live action cartoon based film with Walther Matthau and little Mason Gamble is quite amusing, and this was straight-to-video sequel attempt.
The movie is merely an attempt to capitalize on gore, nudity, and controversy.
Driven to obsession, he follows the trail of the pickpocket through the seedy underworld of post-war China, in an attempt to regain his honor.
failed to avoid i.e.endlessly re - cycling the same old stuff with only the names changed to protect the Swiss bank accounts.With "K & P" the signs were not good,but seven years down the line it remains the sole attempt by Mr E and Mr W to squeeze a few more bob out of their former TV audiences and I applaud them for their restraint.
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