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This trashy B movie attempts to masquerade as a study of sexual addiction, but it is really a poor excuse for a sexploitation flick.
Like 'First Blood', this attempts to make a point about the treatment of Vietnam vets, but there really isn't much time for that in between the monotonous gunfire, burnings, stabbings, torture and explosions as an impossibly indestructible Rambo takes out half of Asia, a ton of Vietnamese soldiers, most of the Russian army, various vehicles and anything else he can point a rocket launcher at.
Bold attempts are made to fill the gap with professional wrestler Bill Goldberg and martial arts expert Michael Jai White.
There is a cute bit- when he first attempts to meet the Ambassador's wife, she is reading a book - we see the title - FOOLISH WIVES by Erich von Stroheim.
It takes a bits from several other "science fiction" movies and badly attempts to join the parts into a pathetically weak story.
Jean Crain attempts a stage accent in alternate sentences and the other members of the cast seem to believe this is a melodrama and not a comedy; indeed, the entire production has bookends that reduce it to tragedy -- doubtless the Hays office insisted.
Gabriel is fascinated and begins a friendship with Pete, but things seem strange when Gabriel attempts to meet him and discovers the possibility that Pete Boland may not even exist.
While the setting is elegant, and the swaying camera attempts to replicate the mood of "Flowers of Shanghai", the film is not in the same league, visually.
Hack direction, poor writing and several unfunny attempts at lowball humor.
Throughout each scene, he attempts a lame Jerry Lewis act and fails miserably.
"Phantasm III - Lord Of The Dead" of 1994 is certainly not a complete failure, it even is quite entertaining, but there is no more originality, and the desperate attempts to bring in something new, are at times tiresome, which makes it quite disappointing in comparison to its predecessors.
The constant and BRUTAL attempts at comedy are painful.
Here one line attempts such as "he just took off" or "I know you don't have love in heart" just do fully evoke something worth the audience's time.
Her attempts at a Texas accent are amateurish and unrealistic.
It's about a very awkward and tightly wound man who attempts to navigate his life as a door-to-door fundraiser/salesman.
A shipload of sailors trying to get to the towns daughters while their fathers go to extremes to deter the sailors attempts.
The adaptation isn't without its problems, there were times when the humour, and there were valiant attempts to get it right, was a little overdone, and the events leading up to the final solution were rather rushed.
To my knowledge Castro did not court the Soviet Union until all attempts to gain acceptance from the United States were exhausted.
This movie strikes me as one of the most successful attempts ever at coming up with plausible answers for some of the nagging questions that have cropped up in recent scholarship concerning the "Passion" (suffering and death of Christ) accounts in the New Testament.
In a stroke a brilliance, the green zone here is called "The Emerald City" and aptly so, for this Oz-like neighborhood attempts to keep out the ravages of war going on elsewhere in the metropolis.
His attempts to prove his alibi - that he was with that mysterious lady - fall because everyone that he can think of (Tombes, Elisha Cook) claims there was never any such person.
The grief process, attempts at moving on, attempts to clear her conscience of guilt, are all done admirably, and the lead actress is superb.
Twists and turns and role reversals abound -- some surprising, some not -- as the aging crusader attempts to unravel the mystery.
She is being unknowingly primed and prepped by the Catholic Church to assume a most important role- one that will guarantee that her soul, which is damned for her two suicide attempts, can be saved.
This time Harry attempts to solve a series of murders while on vacation.
the movie is far more sophisticated and intelligent is its exploration of sexual tension than such American attempts as 9 and a half weeks...the courtroom scene itself...with the couple copulating in the cage while the heroine pleads for their orgasm...is amazing...I have not seen this movie in 20 years...but it made indelible pictures in my mind...it is rich in texture and successful in creating a world where sex is the engine for all activity, and at its bottom is the yawning angst that lives in us all....the plot is European, and it meanders a bit, but so does life...especially when you are 17 and have a constant hard on....
The cartoon switches between the flea's progress inside the dog's fur and the dog's desperate attempts to cope with it.
Most notably, there's the dirty jokes including a huge shot of the dog's behind which causes the flea to wolf-whistle and a hysterical sequence in which the dog attempts to scratch himself by dragging his backside along the floor.
It is the story of a bumbling, wartime Sad Sack (Fred MacMurray) who is listed 4-F each time he attempts to join any branch of the military.
Hiralal struggles to make ends meet and lands up on the streets through failed business attempts and in huge debt, he loses his wife and children.
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