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A huge cast gathered for this remake which sadly was a box office
failure
notwithstanding a great sound track.
Half see this as an experiment while the other half sees it as a chaotic and confusing
failure.
Although it has been a
failure
in movie theaters because mainly Mylene Farmer, one of the 3 top stars in France had not the first role.
It has Clint Eastwood as a near-retirement Secret Service Agent whose one bad moment of
failure
haunts him.
If the good guys and bad guys are too obviously pronounced for a serious film, and yes Sam Waterston's mustachioed, fur-clad villain is comic-opera (and not in the multi-leveled manner of Bill The Butcher from 'Gangs of New York'), and yes, the townsfolk do seem a touch 'Fiddler On The Roof' on occasions, then a few dozen serious films made since then, including 'Titanic' and the graceless 'Cold Mountain' (which bears certain similarities and is a notable
failure
in convincing qualities compared to this film) can be castigated for exactly the same reason.
But are a human being's hopes and dreams all fulfilled?Look at Gretta.She 's a married woman ,about thirty-five,she's still beautiful and healthy but she knows something is broken.What Julia is today,she will be tomorrow,that's why,in her stream of consciousness,she goes back to her past,only to find out how harrowing her memories are: a young man committed suicide for her,a symbol of her youth now waning.The final monologue,if we listen closely to it,involves us all in this eternal tragedy,the doomed to
failure
human condition,John Huston's masterly lesson.
Hughie is a jazz singer in the process of becoming a failure, Lelia's still hopelessly depressed over Tony, and Ben is angsty and violent in general, in desperate need of something to shock him out of his stale patterns of existence.
It deals with relationship failure, and at the same time making a joke of it.
WOW! Honest look at business and
failure
and consequences and family.
Also not uncommon are results that reflect lack of talent, a
failure
of introspection, an abundance of narcissism and, perhaps, an unsubtle quest for publicly-splashed revenge for countless past hurts, real and fantasized.
The music theme is intensely tragic, and from the outset one knows that it heralds
failure
or death.
The tension is taut every inch of the way in this story, and the psychological struggles of Eastwood to redeem himself from an earlier protection
failure
are beautifully shown by his typical understated acting.
This story is about success, it's about
failure.
A matter of bad timing for UNDER CAPRICORN (it was released just as the scandal of it's star Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rosallini broke out) made it seem to be a
failure
(which it wasn't).
Thinking himself a
failure
he returns to Paris, then he realizes (and fears) that the killer can be only one person, even though none of his colleagues can believe his explanation.
"Tommy" was over the top and heavy handed in direction, "Oliver" seemed like crowd control on the silver screen, "The Wall" was so much abstract self important and indulgent dribble, but listening to
"Failure
of the Flesh" from Hair sounds right for our times today, as it did in the eighties, as it must have in the sixties...truly Timeless.
Nazarin is some kind of saint,he wants to live in life exactly how Christ taught man to do.But it's too late:now the Catholic Church is between the hands of a wealthy bourgeoisie,the bishops live in luxury and don't give a damn about the poor and the sick.That's why our hero can't follow the way his hierarchy asks him to follow.So he divests himself of everything,and on his way to purity,he's joined by some kind of Mary Magdelene and a woman who's attracted by him sexually (the scene between this girl and her fiancé is telling).In Spain (it was the late fifties),they thought Nazarin was a Christian movie!Knowing Luis Bunuel,it was downright incongruous:all his work is anticlerical to a fault.Comparing Nazarin and his "holy women" to Jesus is a nonsense.On Nazarin's way,only brambles and couch grass grow.His attempt at helping working men on the road is a failure,he's chased out as a strike-breaker.All his words amount to nothing.At the end of the journey,he's arrested and offered a pineapple by a woman(Bunuelian sexual symbol).
When in 1982, "The Thing" came out to theaters everywhere, it had a cold reception and very poor box-office results, becoming almost a
failure
in John Carpenter's career as a horror director; however, time has proved that "The Thing" was definitely not a failed project and that the disappointing commercial results were not the film's fault.
The interviews of the film makers and the actors has been assembled in a highly entertaining story that illustrates the struggles involved in making the original film, the eventual
failure
of the original project and the phoenix-like rising from the ashes that evolved into this documentary film.
Like Don Quixote, American Movie presents an often-ignored inefficient aspect of freedom -- that people will be drawn toward professions to which they are not particularly well-suited, irrespective of repeated
failure.
This film is a pure
failure.
I admired Rob Marshall for Chicago, but Memoirs of Geisha turns out to be yet another
failure
of combing western and Asian arts.
I honestly believe that ANYONE considering film-making be subjected to this mind-boggling
failure.
The rest was a relentless, over-long (under-edited), over-indulgent
failure.
Lipstick is another glossy movie failure.I am trying to think of one good thing that I could say about the movie, and I am having trouble coming up with something.I guess the red dress that Margaux Hemingway was wearing in the end of the movie was the best part.The writing and the script was not the worst that I have ever encountered,but it could have been a lot better.
Couple this with mediocre directing, really strange scenes (such as the one where the kid reaches over the ravine and mysteriously falls in), and thoroughly abysmal dialog ("Look!" "Musta peed his pants!"), and you get one complete
failure.
The dated aspect aside, Jigsaw suffers from many problems, including overwrought acting, silly and stilted dialogue, LSD flashbacks that go on interminably long even after the point has been hammered home in the first 60 seconds, a
failure
to create any true suspense even though the actual plot is, on paper, a great vehicle to do just that, and an ending that is so trite and predictable (not to mention reminiscent of a lot of bad television shows) that the climax is actually an anti-climax.
If so, it is a total
failure.
So for a thriller it is not tense and unpredictable enough but also as a drama it's a
failure.
The special effect were horrible, I hadn't expected the total
failure
on the part of the director to appreciate military technology.
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