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The film attempts to lead the audience down convoluted paths without any sense of symbolism or meaning, to make them sympathize with one-dimensional characters, and above all hopes that they will ignore the underdeveloped plot, full of unreconciled loose ends, by hiding it under a veneer of CGI effects and neo-surrealism.
Brujo, who is looking after her, attempts to take her to Los Angeles on the train.
Englund is just in it for a cameo and his performance is as unnecessary as most of the lame attempts at jokes (and scares).
The acting and dialogue are absolutely excruciating, the plot is ludicrous and utterly predictable despite constant attempts at plot twists, and contains nothing but one dimensional stock characters and clichés.
There is an air war movie with lots of footage of WWI vintage planes swooping about and there is the stupid attempts at humor that Blake Edwards seems to think he has to insert in every one of his pictures whether it is appropriate or not, In this case, it was not.
Lame attempts at humor and romance.
Natalie Wood portrays Courtney Patterson, a polio disabled songwriter who attempts to avoid being victimized as a result of involvement in her first love affair, with her partner being attorney Marcus Simon, played tepidly by Wood's real-life husband, Robert Wagner.
I tired on several attempts to sit down and watch this program "Gilmore Girls".
George Peppard attempts an Australian (I think) accent, then gives it up halfway through.
The pitiful attempts are not too often, and the movie flows fairly well.
One of Bolls better attempts.
Jamie Lynn Spears is useless for acting, singing and anything else she attempts for that downward spiral she calls a career.
Leland goes to jail for stabbing a retarded kid to death, and the movie attempts to figure out why he did it.
It attempts the old "Horror Anthology" approach, but fails miserably.
The music sequences are far more successful than the attempts at movie satire and, for the first thirty minutes or so, Jack Black's manic enthusiasm is infectious.
The attempts at Spielberg sentimentalism are embarrassing, such as the burley sergeant crying in a field of red flowers!!!
Several times during the movie it made attempts at humor.
No doubt there is a lot of talent to be tapped in this cast and crew but something went horribly wrong The very talented Gretchen Mol attempts to pull this film out of the mire but even she can't seem to rise above the silly dialogue.
Im a little more mature than some of the "players" in this show, but am still appalled that the whole dating game has been boiled down to a gameshow: where goofy dudes can score points on their lame ass attempts to pick up chicks.
The lame attempts at comedy fall flat on their face, the special effects consist of a worm-like handpuppet "monster"...
He attempts to marry the refugee rather than the boss's niece and so begins an attempt by Ives to discredit the refugee as a suitable wife for a corporate executive.
Decent but overrated dramatic thriller, film attempts to depict the spiraling out-of-control inner demons of a tormented artist.
Its attempts at the latter flop totally, however.
The cabana boy threatens the husband and repeatedly attempts to seduce the wife.
This movie attempts many things but never really accomplishes anything, the plot time travels, meanders and weaves along without really satisfying.
Produced at a point in his career, where he had the juice to do whatever he wanted, Eddie Murphy took on the task of producing, directing, co-writing and starring in HARLEM NIGHTS, an expensive-looking but ultimately empty gangster saga about a group of black nightclub owners/gangsters running a ritzy club during the 1930's, headed by a wisecracking hot shot (Eddie Murphy)and his adopted father (Richard Pryor) and their attempts to avoid being overrun by white gangsters who think they are taking over turf that, it seems, they think is rightfully theirs, simply by virtue of their color.
MGM production values only so-so, however director Gottfried Reinhardt tries adding some visual flavor to the flashback segues and he attempts a lively pacing for the movie's initial half-hour.
In fact, as expected, the soundtrack is a much better investment than the movie itself, which like the 70's rock and roll lifestyle it attempts to portray, is characterized by excess, drugs, and over-the-top antics, but unfortunately is not nearly as much fun.
Near the end when he attempts to chase down the train to catch his fleeing romance, neither my wife nor I wanted him to catch her.
The dumb sub plots never lead anywhere and they're definitely the most pathetic and desperate attempts to stretch a movie's length I've ever seen.
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