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All Quiet on the Western Front remains his number one effort, but he has made other works on others wars (notably A Walk in the Sun) as time goes by.
We see Mike driving a hearse down a desert road in effort to get as far away from the mysterious Tall Man with Reggie (Reggie Bannister) following Mike.
B for effort, C- for results.
I will always admire Robert Duvall for all the personal effort he put into making this film.
The lost potential in this film is monumental - between gathering the hardware which provides an authentic backdrop (aircraft, uniforms & flight gear, restoring a former WWII base for filming, etc.) and selecting a capable cast, the entire effort was shot in the head when it came time for the script - not to mention some model sequences which, in spite of emerging technology, still just flat don't 'work.'
And after that much expenditure of effort to be wasted, I wouldn't look for any other producer to undertake a similar theme.
Give it a try if you can track it down...it'll be more than worth the effort!
This effort to be clever is really a smokescreen for a badly written adaptation.
I really think they could have put more much needed time and effort into this movie.
I can imagine that some misguided individuals in Hollywood thought the film would "work" or at least make a profit, but how some big-time media people be so taken with so awkward an effort really surprises me.
It is much too easy to fall into the post-World War Two media trap that the war was a man's war, and that women were just incidental to the effort.
Thank goodness there are movies like this to remind Americans that the war was a total effort by almost everyone.
In a real sense, women have not yet received full honor for their contribution to the war effort, whether they were ferrying planes, tending wounded, of carrying intelligence.
If this movie did not inspire the Homefront to greater effort, what could?
As an Arab Muslim, I am mostly impressed at the effort that went into researching various verses in Quran, the understandable Arabic spoken by Mr. Cheadle, and the 'correct' way that he did his prayers.
There were a few good visual tricks (the question-mark shadow in a doorway, bullets through a doorway in a dark room) but nevertheless a weak effort by Lang.
I would give this one star for a horror film and 5 stars for the effort to make a good drama.
while i applaud the effort to make a "mainstream" horror film with a gay "edge", i have to honestly warn others of the absolute horribleness of this movie.
Most characters in the movie barely notice or mention the cones; most of the time the coneheads make little effort to fit in, and only a few people seem to notice the difference.
He manages to conjure up the support of his fellow Southern folk in an effort to drive the outsiders out of their town.
Alas, this titanic effort meets its iceberg in the form of dumb and Disneyesque bombastic dialog.
A visiting scientist, Hanson (Christopher Lee) deduces that a bizarre alien species, possibly the vanguard of an oncoming invasion, is responsible for the weather anomaly as part of an effort to alter Earth's climate to suit their own needs.
A misconceived effort to 'update' Austen.
Captain America is a great character, and I'd love to see him done right, but after two poor TV movies and this wasted effort, I just don't think there's anyone in Hollywood who's willing to take the chance and make movie about a straight arrow superhero.
"They Drive By Night" is difficult to find (as are many pre World War II British titles) but well worth the effort.
Most are bad actors, the images are like a pure home made video...and by GOD the gayness of some jokes are really bad! O.o I can never(i think) give 1 out of 10 to a movie cause there's always some effort and some money and time spent doing one.
However, the performance of Super Star Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore and the music of Rahul Dev Burman are a life a time effort and they have created magic in this movie.
The story is a classic and the movie deserves more than what share it has got in last 38 years and is a timeless classic and is life time effort of all the cast and crew.
A total waste of time, and an incredibly disappointing effort.
Except for the script, a lot of effort went into this production.
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