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In my defense, I believe I made a valiant effort to stand my ground - hoping things would turn around.
This movie is a real waste of time and effort.
With all due respect to the effort put in this, maybe it would be a good idea to terminate all the copies of this film - or whatever it is.
I would encourage anyone to watch him in his effort in Holiday, with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
Without much of a storyline, no effort to really examine the turbulent times they lived in took place.
I thought this film was a poor effort by the British film council - fell flat as hey, come on, Tim Robbins is an old guy and here is this beautiful young woman who falls straight for him as well.
Apparently years earlier, her mother was involved in a scandal and Ingrid returned in an effort to irritate kin who would have sooner forgotten she or her mother existed.
It doesn't even score points for effort, to be honest.
All in all, lame, bad, and not worth effort.
that being said, i gave this a 4 outta 10 for effort cos horror is a hard genre to make.
It is difficult to rate a writer/director's first effort.
This film makes every effort not to be understandable.
Snakes on a Plane was an enjoyable Action film, so obviously the film makers wanted to cash in on the success, with this low budget effort.
This effort is a clear example of that and I really do believe in my heart that a film like this is racially irresponsible.
But this movie was a total waste of effort.
This is the first recorded effort to put sound with a movie, and a the oldest that, obviously, is still in existence.
"Land of the Minotaur" is a boring and extremely slow-paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn't bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details.
It was a good effort, but as Max says, they missed it by THAT MUCH!
I was severely disappointed by the clumsy script which never flowed and the apparent lack on the effort of the actors and director to understand anything about the culture they endeavored to portray.
why o why? they add a lot of hot Dutch chicks in an effort of saving this movie from redemption, and guess what?
At first you can sit there with and groan, wince, and laugh at it, but very shortly the whole effort of watching just becomes too ponderous.
The second effort I managed to get through 35 minutes but yet again I found myself asleep.
Despite a great soundtrack and the presence of the ever amazing Rappaport and Woods, this is another one of those moronic comedies where New York throws itself at the hero in an effort by the writer and/or director to show what a zany place it is.
This film was so unfocused, rambling and uneven that it was an effort to watch the whole thing.
This appalling effort of a film delivers a rambling plot in the first half, blending into an equally confused arch Christian biblefest in the latter.
Despite the fact that the show only ran for one season, anyone even vaguely in touch with pop culture recognizes the rubber-faced social 'tard, so great is the talent and effort put into the performance.
The time and effort put in to animate this is greatly appreciated as it gives the characters so much more life, the detail and care it takes makes the movie turn out so much better.
There is nothing wasted in Schaffner's effort.
Bearing this in mind, "Just Before Dawn" becomes a highly admirable horror effort and actually a lot better than its contemporary blood-soaked colleagues.
The fascists are among us and they are doing all they can to sabotage the war effort and to prepare their victory and their seizure of power then and their establishing an effective totalitarian state.
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