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I normally like easy and dull comedies - for example scary movie series - but this failed even for me.
The eighties, some of my favorite movies have come from this time and most of them failed to find an audience.
This film was one of my all time favorites and never failed to give my spirit a lift and help me "consider the lilies of the field".
this movie had a great premise, but failed to develop it in an intelligent manner.
Every time we saw him playing he was making high-risk and not very smart bets that failed to pay off.
The story was terribly narrated, the sex was awful, it just failed to transmit the message I guess it has: how decadent life is.
There are a few failed attempts at humor, and many of the running gags get old.
The coming of the talkies is often looked on as a sad time, when silent stars were washed up, stalwart filmmakers tried and failed to fight the change, and movies in general became a little awkward.
But there have been some really good whole movies that have likewise failed.
But it failed miserably.
Unfortunately, Ms. Kovalchuk completely failed that part, her tone and voice sounded very dull and unnatural.
I didn't have great expectations, so it isn't that ruining the experience for me, but Arn - Tempelriddaren failed to engage me in any case.
However, This film failed on many levels .
If it was supposed to be a black comedy, it failed.
If it was supposed to be a serious drama, it failed.
It exposed the split between those who were able to withstand the crass interrogations and those who failed.
But, despite the good script, had a major issue that did not allow for it to ever be filmed: it did not figure out its audience and failed to reach a demographic to aim for.
Its when the President snaps awake at just the right moment, after just being drugged, and kloncks the bad guy over the heads with a piece of metal all because the villains conveniently failed to strap him down properly!
Many Irish films have failed because they try to be too commercial - The Courier (attempt at an Irish gangster film), I Went Down (attempt at an Irish Tarantino), the list is elsewhere.
Writer/director Richard Casey here in this case completely failed to put the two genres in the blender together and what came out is an embarrassing amateur horror production with retarded jokes and over-the-top clichéd situations that aren't the least bit funny or inventive; not even when you're in a slight state of drunk or stoned.
It failed to be scary on every level, in fact the only scary thing about this movie was the girls hairstyles and the conversations about their clothes, boys and food that was supposed to carry the film along.
I found the scenes in the city to be spectacular and fun, but here the plot failed me.
The documentary maker really failed for me in that he really made no point at all and failed to really question or press Paul Green at all.
The movie failed at the box office but it has done very well on home video, and rightly so.
Mary Shelley succeeded in simultaneously creating sympathy and revulsion for the brute, but Branagh completely failed to pull this off.
People immediately labeled Jean Smart as "family TV" because of one role, so they failed to accept her as Ellie Walker.
Hope was born a poor preachers son who worked his way up to being an unsuccessful lawyer before he failed at writing.
It is obvious what the film tried to achieve, a disaster film on a human level without the budget and the bangs, but you get the feeling that this is a failed experiment and should not be reattempted.
It was an attempt to create a cross between reality and sitcom, but failed miserably!
Even though certainly wasn't the world's best horror director (he's often even referred to as the Italian Ed Wood), but his movies never failed to entertain me, and you could always tell he had great intentions.
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