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I give credit to the director for atleast attempting to make a semi-accurate adaptation...even though he failed miserably.
The greatest sequence involves our heroes attempting to get a piano across an Alpine valley rope bridge - the precarious position of artificial human culture within a dangerous natural world is exposed.
While it can be admired that To (along with co-director Wai Ka Fai) is attempting a new genre, the romantic comedy, the cheap gags definitely threaten to bog down the entire picture.
Attempting to do a film on a beauty pageant could very easily have been nothing more than fluff, but this is a film that doesn't try to uncover anything more than the raw emotions that happen during the pageant.
Some interesting results may emerge in the hands of an experienced photographer who understands his subject matter, has a good eye for composition, lighting, and action, and who is a genuine artist attempting to communicate something about the human condition to his audience.
Absurd adaptation of a dinner-theater perennial by Alec Coppel has television-writer Glenn Ford attempting to cover up a murder by burying the corpse underneath wife Debbie Reynolds' garden gazebo.
This is one of those excellent short subject films that doesn't seem like either TV episode or someone attempting to get investors to expand it to feature length.
Attempting it on a movie which isn't backed by the big bucks is like trying to purchase an engagement ring for 10p... you'll only end up with a cheap imitation.
Then he continues to act like a jerk while attempting to cover up whatever misdeeds he previously took part in.
2 bit actors attempting to look as though they are being filmed without their knowledge.
We are introduced to two other groups, a trio entering a desolate, wind-swept village in search of food and supplies, and this unstable collection of bickering people attempting to fend off an endless number of zombies, trying to hold their area outside a forest which keeps producing them.
Most actors cannot stop acting, and they are constantly attempting to shine attention on themselves.
The film just doesn't stop attempting to prepare us for tension and excitement and building up these encounters and situations before resulting in a huge anti-climax and more stretched out, aimless roads to nowhere.
While attempting to save his family from a devil cult in the desert, Shatner is captured and tortured in excruciating scenes of ineptitude.
Attempting to pull off an anthology in the tradition of "Creepshow" and "Tales from the Crypt", "Trapped Ashes" simply embarrasses the film makers it under-utilizes with obstructed short concepts that contain not an ounce of wit, clever construction or creepiness, which makes it a horrible waste.
A female counselor gets her head and face twisted in barbwire while attempting to flee in a jeep.
A few highlights include: Curtis gyrating around to canned disco music as he pours himself a beer into a wine goblet, Stevens attempting to keep a straight face in the light of her ludicrous role (she eventually exits the film altogether without explanation), Sothern's home being trashed, yet her false eyelashes never move a tad (she barely registers in this film at all, a person would have to hit "pause" to get a decent look at her!), surgeon Cedar being forced to cut himself with his own scalpel by the unborn ancient hobgoblin, a nod to the 70's disaster cycle in which a hospital office shakes and rattles as if it were unused footage from "Earthquake" and the heinous space effects when Strasberg's room becomes an inter-dimensional playground (complete with her doffing her hospital gown and taking on the creature TOPLESS!)
Guilt for what happened to the boy's father keeps him in touch with the hoodlum and attempting to help him.
Meanwhile, Ms. Vitti also has experiences that are quite fun, such as pretending to be a reporter and becoming a groupie of a famous rock band, and she has some terribly sobering experiences, such as saving the life of an elderly man who is attempting suicide, only to have him curse her for being a rich lady who has everything while he has nothing.
The main character, Raymond Joshua, is an amateur poet and drug dealer who gets sent to prail(prison and jail, which I'll talk about later) after making the moronic mistake of attempting to jump a fence instead of running away from the fifty year old "doo-wop" cops.
Mark and Jenifer Baines are attempting to reopen the mine, but find themselves in trouble when the workers won't go down for fear of an ancient curse.
I give this show a 3 for what they are attempting to do.
Not to mention the confusing side crime story that I'm still attempting to decipher three hours after seeing the movie.
Susan, attempting to escape Silk, falls from a building, bumping her noggin and garnering amnesia.
When we first meet Ann, she's getting arrested by a store detective in a department store after attempting to steal an expensive piece of jewelry.
It starts when a priest(Henry Fonda) attempting to flee from a Centroamerican country, because Christianity being pursued by a totalitarian govern.
My very favorite episode was the one where Corky hides quite a large pig in the house, attempting to save it from being slaughtered (I think).
Hangar 18 stars Gary Collins as one of three shuttle astronauts who see a UFO in space while attempting to launch a satellite.
Please Simon (Writer & Director - so you have to take responsibility) think really long and hard before attempting another film.
Based on a novel set on the Cornish coast by Daphne Du Maurier, the same author and setting as "Rebecca", Laughton plays a decadent, deceitful nobleman who shelters a young orphaned woman from a band of cutthroats living down the road; seems these land pirates are in league with a not-so-mysterious benefactor to sabotage the ships attempting to port, ransacking their vessels and killing everyone on board.
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