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Consequently, the movie turns into a story of of a broken family coming together, completely with the cheesiest attempts to jerk tears from the audience, some are even dull rip-off's from other films.
Unlikeable characters, thin plot, and weak attempts at humor drag this dreck to the bottom.
The attempts at humor are not funny and the characters are not believable.
Bill Gunn artsy attempts to disguise the lack of budget with various ingenious camera angles and sound effects, but he still can't hide the fact there's no suspense or involvement in the screenplay.
It seems her little-girl tricks of making songwriter-hubby Ray Milland jealous have turned him away, so Wyman, unconvincingly portraying a musical starlet, attempts to woo Milland back with more little-girl tricks.
While the three leads give decent attempts of depicting characters you care about, their attempts do not pay off.
Dickie Moore (of Little Rascals fame) stars as Dicken's most famous orphan in one of Monogram studios attempts at turning out the classics of literature.
As I was watching the display of some of the most awful attempts at acting that I've likely ever seen, I kept wondering, 'Is this a spoof?
She comes to know why he is there and attempts with her whole life force to avoid the inevitable.
"One of the Hollywood Ten" attempts to tell two fascinating stories: one about writer/director Herbert Biberman and the other about the filming of "Salt of the Earth."
Joan even attempts to sing and is often off-key.
They made some attempts to kick in some action a couple of places in the movie, but they were uninteresting at the best.
It's unfortunate that the costume designer really did a number on Sean Connery, who doesn't let the impending end of the world interfere with his attempts to score with the (no disrespect to Miss Wood) somewhat mumsy Russian translator.
Now Mitsuko is co-opted into the role of wife and, unable to endure the unending cycle of abuse, attempts suicide by jumping from a building.
Unfortunately no one had the nerve to tell him it was a small role and he gives us his usual "lovable" foreign schmuck stereotype,shouting and waving his arms.His comical misuse of the word "Pussy" should have you rolling in the aisle.It has Tom Arnold in a rather bigger role.He too spends most of his time shouting and waving his arms in between "hilarious" attempts to kiss Hugh Grant.It also has Joan Cusack,a sort of madonna (with a small "m") figure worshipped for her fecundity.She too is very loud,her screams in labour are truly terrifying.And then there is Julianne Moore wafting through the movie half - heartedly,looking as though her mind is really on where she left her car keys.She is so disinterested she can barely be bothered to look at Hugh Grant,which is a sentiment I can at least have a certain sympathy for.
This isn't on the inviting level of Jack Lemmon's klutzy attempts to be a cowpoke; Richards seems to have been raised on TV westerns, and gives us a scenario lifted straight from the tube.
The screenplay makes no sense at all as it attempts to blend the mysteries of the occult (an Ouija-board) with an ordinary high school slasher plot.
After discovering the switch, he begins a quiet investigation of her fellow travelers, leading only to several attempts on his life and finally being framed by some unknown party for murder, sending him on the run with only a list of the passengers aboard the unfortunate flight as a starting point for his search for the masterminds behind the androids and their ultimate goal.
The attempts at humour were not only severely unfunny, they were downright embarrassing.
The simple story is wisely left uncluttered, with no attempts to artificially inflate the proceedings with unnecessary thematic distractions.
Dull, cheap, and thoroughly boring, the only time this film attempts to wink at the audience is in the hopes that you'll come back for the Asylum's next feature.
If your interested in seeing a made for cable movie that attempts, and often succeeds, at doing something special... check this one
As for Mr. Patterson's writing and directing ability: One wishes he had kept his penchant for self-expression to himself..... However I am strangely compelled to give this movie a 2/10 just simply because it is so mind-boggingly heinous in its marginal attempts at acting , plot and story that this is without a doubt the most awesome god-awful movie I have ever seen....
Some very strange characters, including some odd attempts at humor.
The post Civil War era in the South shows the hardships the people faced and how one honorable Yankee military governor attempts to handle it.
It attempts to mix comedy with social commentary.
After Kelly attempts suicide, Laura Lee takes her to live in a home in the country for the summer.
The title may sound like this would be a satirical comedy spoof,it sure is not, The director Takashi Miike normally has directed horror film, here he attempts a western, with a decided Japanese flavor.
They make half-hearted attempts to escape but not really.
Something exceptional is presented by way of action sequences, in fact, where attempts at re-enacting simple events on film often fail; namely, the interdiction of a convoy carrying prisoners and a particularly realistic execution scene.
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