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Had a little more effort gone into it on the story side, I believe this would've been amazing.
I give it a 10 for effort, but a 5 overall.
William Windom, as the soldier who is the last to "drop in" is the only one curious to make the effort, and it doesn't take long to figure the outcome.
This is not to say that improved aesthetics alone would have salvaged this film, but some meager effort in this direction may have made it tolerable as visual fodder for the accompanying music.
I know this movie came out almost 5 years ago, but does anyone put any effort into making movies anymore?
No new ground was broken, and it turned into a rather mundane effort.
A 3 (of 10) for effort.
But even as such, some effort is required to make jokes that everyone likes and even the most grumpy of viewers can crack a smile.
When I look at the Daily Show, I see the whole "it's funny because it's true" thing, but I don't, however, see the effort and often times I don't if they're being funny or just trying to make a point(I notice this mostly in the interview segments).
Quotes were generously dropped throughout without the first effort at identifying the source.
W.T.F!? Too bad, the writer didn't even take little effort to give the main characters depth.
Oh dear, just what we need another Essex -Cockney garbage effort chronicling the rise of the UK footy hooligan/ rave gangster who did of course follow West 'am (East Londan/Essex style).
The premise is interesting and the cast does the best it can, but the script and the directorial effort are so poor that it is not surprising that this film was buried--which is fitting given the screenplay.
Earnest effort which achieves some success to adapt the classic Odyssey story to a '30's nostalgia period piece.
The story is about a copy cat killer who goes on a killing spree every "5th day, of the 5th month, of the 5th year" (wow, how original), and it's up to two detectives (one of whom gave a valiant effort at trying to make the crapy dialogue good) to stop the killer's bloody rampage.
The leads, Betty Grable and Dan Dailey, are attractive professionals; however, in spite of their every talented effort to uplift the drear and uncompelling material, they fail.
Rarely do I leave the cinema, really it takes a lot of effort for a film to have that effect on me: this one did it in just 30 minutes.
Alas, producer Jerry Weintraub failed to realize it was best to leave the story at the point where it had ended, and convinced Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita to make an extra effort to turn the film into a trilogy.
The acting is terrible, but I'd say the only one putting forth any effort would be the Sheriff.
This cheap sci-fi effort stars returning lovable klutz Charlie(the reliable Don Keith Opper) who is about to eradicate the last two remaining eggs of the Critters' species when Ugh(Terrence Mann)tells him that he's about to break some sort of Trans-galactic Endangered species law.
You can see all the collective effort from the actors, the actual mayor and actual firemen and policemen, to the area location shots used.
I understand money was tight but goddamn what the hell were they thinking there was no thought, plot or effort put into this.
This film pretty much proves that as despite the simplistic plot; it's a sprawling mess and overall, I'd even have to go as far as to say that Tragic Ceremony is WORSE than Freda's insipid Giallo effort, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire.
gwen has some how found the Ability to act by watching actors like James dean or Clint eastward, please give the real people in the world that have to sit behind that box and have to suffer pop stars effort's in trying to act.
It is so slow-moving that the attempt to make it a real film-noir effort does not come off.
Yes, what happened to Solange is terrible but we still pretty much left in the dark over when, why did the [boring] killer decided that it was worth going through the effort of offing those oh so naughty girls.
I'm not going to say too much as this movie isn't worth the effort.
"Need to fill up three more lines for this stupid movie that doesn't deserve the effort... what a stupid piece of ignorant crud.
What a dull and disjointed effort!
"House of Frankenstein", released one year earlier and also directed by Erle C. Kenton, was quite a successful effort with interesting ideas and enthusiast performances, but "House of Dracula" is a little too loony for me to recommend it.
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