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You would think that the fact that he was one of the greatest murderers in human history would preclude any attempt at comedy!
It's like watching Alan Ladd in his fading days attempt to become a swashbuckler in the Black Knight,or horrors James Stewart as Spartacus!
I guess when this was made the director, Antonio Bido, was making a rather valiant attempt to follow in Dario Argento's footsteps.
There's even an attempt to capture Argento's stylishness, but that fails because the film is rather murky and almost grainy at times, unlike the crystal clear work of Argento.
An employee named Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott)frequently working for others is hired some land and he decides along with his family, -his wife (Betty Field), granny (Beulah Bondi)and two sons - attempt farming for themselves.
This film was no more than a very bad attempt to clone the success of films like Naked Gun 1 and 2 (which btw are very good).
Another patch-em-up job with abandoned footage being taken up years later and edited together with new footage in a sadly misguided attempt at making a saleable project out of leftover film scraps.
From Demi Moore's attempt to give herself an abortion with knitting needles to a pro-life crowd outside a clinic, If These Walls Could Talk provides powerful images and intriguing characters.
This "thing" is a pathetic attempt to combine the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Mummy' franchises.
I won't give away too much of the rest of the plot for those who attempt to watch this, but basically the murderer isn't himself.
This is a very ambitious attempt to deal with themes of identity, child abuse, guilt, redemption and acceptance (all wrapped around James Joyce and his Ulysses, for Christ sake!)--with almost none of the requisite writing or directing talent to back up all that ambition.
I'd be hard-pressed to even classify this as a 'real' movie...It's more of a display of Penn's attempt at 'riding on the edge' of any conventional-type comedy film, meaning it's an (obviously)'improvisational comedy that centers around a cardgame ('The Grand')...Fairly enough, it's taglined as 'an improvisational comedy...using a handful of actors playing characters competing in an actual poker tournament', which is quite accurate...So, you have been warned...I think the problem here (aside from the old 'ust because someone gives you the money to do soething, doesn't mean you should), no the problem is that it's a little 'too improvisational' and feels like it might 'all-be' an improvisation...LIKE NO SCRIPTED LINES WHATSOEVER...It's like a musical where the orchestra didn't have any sheet usic, but a guy going "like this: dong-cha-dong-chucka-dong-dong-dong"...At least that's the way I felt watching this...In fact, the thought 'kept' coming into my mind...I said "self"..."I don't think they had a written script"...
The story is narrated by two cheetahs who at least attempt to sound African, but all other roles are done in various accents - none of them consistent or ethnic.
Just like Nagesh Kuknoor's film 'Teen Diwarein,' which was based on parallel stories meeting the same fate in the end or bound by sheer coincidence, an attempt has been made in 'Yun Hota To Kya Hota' to converge four stories to a common fate.
STINKS! "The Lot" is a nerdy attempt to be provocative and profane.
And, they could have at least made SOME attempt to have the characters speak in 14th century (sounding) languages and used subtitles to give it a more authentic feel.
The whole crux of Julie's story has to do with her attempt to hide her parentage and her marriage to a white man.
Yet another attempt a la "Casablanca" to whip up excitement by placing a homely middle-aged American among exotic foreigners, this might have been tolerable had they just lost the dull, abrasive George Raft altogether and made the ultrafoxy Turhan Bey the leading man from the beginning.
Yukie Nakamo does a wonderful job of portraying the tragic final days of Sadako's attempt at a normal life.
The passionate way that Billy Joe talks to and kisses his girlfriend Bobbie Lee might be interpreted as a genuine manifestation of desire, or it might be his desperate attempt to convince himself that he's heterosexual.
For my part, I only do it in an attempt to prevent people from spoiling their temper and wasting their time.
1st watched 2/12/2007 - 3 out of 10(Dir-Sam Newfield): Complex story, but hammy-acting and silly songs make this major attempt to bring to the screen a serious story with midgets(or should I say the "vertically-challenged") a failure.
This actually was a grand attempt to make a Hollywood picture with only the little ones but the mediocre acting stands out, sadly.
His "Discutiamo, discutiamo" (Let's Talk; We're Talking; or maybe Talk and Talk, if you're inclined to be bored) is a dramatic imitation by students of the university movements of the late 1960s, and includes real differences of opinion (it starts with a lecture on Croce's aesthetics; later there's an attempt to set a Croce paperback on fire), and opinions worth remembering once existed.
After a botched attempt to pass off a African-American commoner as the Sultan Of Brunei, Wally, desperate to redeem himself, travels to Vermont to cover the last remaining weeks of Hazel Flagg's (the wonderful Carole Lombard) radium-poisoning-interrupted life.
A good attempt in something different.
Aside from the blatant attempt to cash in on the popularity of Arthurian legend (this story has nothing whatsoever to do with King Arthur, despite the use of some recognizable names), this movie is just plain terrible.
Story lines also included Compo's constant attempt to attract Nora Batty which was always a laugh, but sadly in 1999, Bill Owen (Compo) passed away.
In Tarzan and the Lost City the producers made an attempt to give their story a sense of innocence - which is the very thing that made the Weismuller, Barker, Scott, etc. films work.
Fortunately for writer/director/producer Tony Shyu, he isn't overly pretentious and does never at one point attempt to make his film look like a genuine horror production.
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