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Using only computer graphics, it attempts to create real looking and believable characters in a futuristic Anime setting.
The characters stumble through a mediocre story that attempts to pull on the audience's heart strings but the whole fiasco just fizzles under the flaccid plot.
Don't be fooled by the "Indy" reputation that this film attempts to hide under.
Despite the synopsis, unintentional laughs are in short supply, although a sequence where one of Curtis' elderly customers is possessed, floats down the hallway and throws herself down the stairs is a mini-masterclass in ineptitude as it fluctuates between failed attempts at humour and laughable attempts at drama.
His machine pumps blood around the body and attempts to keep him alive long enough to design a heart machine that will make him live forever.
A few VERY feeble attempts to mimic FAIL SAFE (a classic!!!) - .... probably the most pathetic acting by James Earl Jones (gotta laugh at the stupid cigarette sequence) - what the hell was that all about?
The rest of the episode concerns the shuttle crew's attempts to survive and repair the ship's ability to lift off, and the Enterprise's search for them.
This movie is one of the typical liberal attempts to rewrite history.
Stuck on You could just as easily have been titled "Any other movie about small town brothers" because it makes no attempts to serperate itself from any other movie about brothers who have been together for most of their lives.
They apparently pose a deep threat to the twosome, yet no attempts at escape entail.
And then of course, the mean count has the Lugosi-like foreign accent and the local folk get involved with the voodie attempts on the admiral.
Hudson essentially pimps out substitute teacher Angie Dickenson to his young virginal protégé, while she makes her own fierce attempts at getting into Hudson's drawers.
This films attempts to be three things: a mystery (wherein it wastes actor Skeet Ulrich), a "first love" story, and a portrait of boys at a boarding school.
Generally when somebody screws up, they go through three sets of filters in the course of attempts at correction.
Leaving aside the overly melodramatic narration, the way that the narrator/director mispronounces many Thai words and shows an alarming lack of local knowledge, I saw no attempts to check the stories he was being fed, and no background information was looked into to validate the stories he reported.
It also demeans just about every group in society with its feeble attempts at humour, and insults viewers in the process.
Then, in the first of several changes in tone, we get annoying attempts at humour, where Jackson tries on cowboy hats in a store while still wearing his hockey mask, a cornball sequence where they go for a stroll on the beach one evening at sunset, while Jackson is still wearing his hockey mask(!) - is this supposed to be a comedy or a soap opera love story now?
When the honour is instead bestowed upon James Cagney, Bugs blows his top and attempts to convince the voters to change their mind by showing a clip of one of his previous performances.
This movie attempts to explore 2 relevant & infinitely interesting topics...a type of D/s relationship & human slave trafficking.
It attempts to intertwine the two in a way that makes no sense.
Lloyd Bridges, cast as police sergeant Ed Stagg, has discovered that the husband (Frank Converse) of his daughter Tina (Sallie Shockley) is dallying with a local chippy and during Stagg's attempts to end the adultery, he accidentally commits a murder, upon which he forges a plan to place responsibility for the crime upon a local inebriate, tangentially providing a question of the title: was Scott's "What a tangled web we weave..." (Marmion) the intended source, inaptly transposed into "tattered"?
Overall, a passable movie experience - it works as a time-filler if nothing else - but some of the attempts at comedy are pretty pathetic.
And his attempts at "choreography" are so banal in spots that you'll want to laugh out loud.
When she attempts to escape from his jeep, he cold-cocks her, not long after, she finds herself in the middle of a wilderness buck naked.
This film, despite obvious attempts by the director to create a piece of art, comes off as an incredibly one-sided, contrived sob-story in its portrayal of illegal immigration between Mexico and the US.
The film attempts to portray a dark period of English history and this is convincingly portrayed in the atmosphere, costume and make up of the actors but by adopting a light hearted portrayal of a serious character, he manages to balance just the right amount of comic relief.
If you are looking for something more sophisticated and that even attempts to approximate 'art', then look elsewhere.
Gross shock and blood peppered with attempts at humor.
Turns out Uncle Bumps is really a hard-drinking, free-wheeling bachelor who dislikes children--yet he is so taken with this uptight artist once he meets her, he attempts to woo her under an alias.
The plot is textbook 80's guff, meaning no purposeful twists or any attempts at building up tension whatsoever, but still it guarantees a good 90 minutes of dopey fun and chuckles.
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