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This movie is hard to score because it excels at one thing while failing miserably at another.
In others words you could see them trying to act and failing and there is no chemistry between any of them.
I attended the movie with two friends, one who is no longer able to do puzzles because of failing eyesight; the other for whom doing the Sunday New York Times puzzle has become a religious experience; we were all equally enthusiastic about the film, although we were all rooting for different people to win the contest.
The story is about a couple trying to make it in the film industry and failing at it, so now they have to decide if they are gonna try to keep working on movies or if they are going to begin their real life with their child.
Enjoy watching the inter-related stories of the dog suffering humiliation from every family member before engineering an escape to the outdoors, a short family holiday film, and the longer adventure of the dog failing to protect the home from thieves, being sent to attack dog training school, and... well you'll have to see.
At home, old carpenter W. Chrystie Miller's wife Claire McDowell is in failing health.
After failing to excite the public about vegetable cereal, Charlie and Phil are fired from their ad jobs.
A better take away might have been for Henry to learn that trying and failing is better than not trying at all, and would have made Bolie a better friend for being that teacher.
Where Q, after failing to save Bishop from falling to his death is told, he's got all the juice now, he just shakes his head and it shows a flashback from when Bishop was his friend, we wanna know if Q and Steel get away with robbing the liquor store!
What a bunch of crap...Malcolm McDowell seemingly attempting to recapture some of the facets of his role from A Clockwork Orange and failing miserably, combined with some of the most offensively brutal violence and vulgarity I've seen in a film recently.
Talk about trying to be "Walkabout" and "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and completely failing.
This movie looks like a project a failing cinematography student may put out.
The failing of the movie is its failure to capture the raw simplicity of the ballad, and the plot comes off as contrived or even sensationalistic.
The mysterious aliens, were just a backdrop for bad flannel shirts and cheesy actors trying to look Canadian, but failing miserably.
Movie remakes of TV shows have been notoriously failing miserably for some time (but they keep getting made anyway, for whatever reason), so it was inevitable that somebody would start churning out these remakes based on classic cartoons.
I realize that Bette walked off the film, some say because of her failing health, others say Bette (as sick as she was) knew that this steaming pile was beneath her.
The most annoying thing about FF7 is Cait Sith, a poor excuse to include humor in an otherwise failing game.
You've got one really funny joke about Guru Pitka's mom getting a job that kills even though it was in the trailer, Stephen Colbert finally hits one out of the park as a robot cyborg after failing three previous times to elicit any laughs, Jessica Alba is gorgeous as always if you overlook her atrocious acting abilities, and Justin Timberlake shows he has no shame and steals every single second of screen time he is given.
But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.
Boring, gray, horrible messes of films, with you trying to get intellectual(and generally failing).
If you must watch this item, I implore you to at least wait until 2 dollar Tuesday - failing that you can probably have mine for the same price.
Its failing, however, was its failure to develop some plot lines to a conclusion.
Adolphe Menjou plays a producer whose movies are failing.
This movie could very likely have been ripped off a failing fourth graders essay paper.Trust me, it was that bad and I am being as polite and considerate as I possibly can.
It tries to be all and ends up failing to be any.
Another weak point is the original music, (a failing also of the much later "Dreamgirls") which especially when set against contemporary classic tracks by The Who, Kinks and Mamas and Papas, to name but a few, is sorely lacking in catchiness and leaves you wondering just how The Stray Cats actually got to the top of the charts.
It's the story of two Italian brothers, Primo and Secondo, who run a failing restaurant in New Jersey.
After only five minutes I knew who did it and it was funny to see the script-writer failing again and again in trying to make you believe someone else did it.
then she meets jim carrey's character: a failing comedian dish washer.
Failing to show the audience the couple's relationship when it was good before showing its collapse and the shallowness and incomprehensible decisions of both of them left me with no one to root for, nothing left to do but ask, repeatedly, "what the hell is wrong with these people?"
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