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When this film opened back in 1976, legend has that it was met with massive jeering and disdain --- it was widely considered a failure.
You had to be very quiet and ninja like but still having minor heart failure when huge pop noises were made when pressing the tablet-like buttons out of fear of being discovered.
This shows a big wish come true trought happiness and sadness, hopeless and failure.
they get compassionate about his history of loss and failure, and utterly misery that he lives on because of his belief in his mastery of small tricks and control of the rules of small crooks.
This is really about the failure of trust, of the human condition.
Apparently it was deemed a failure - and is now practically forgotten (the pan-and scan videocassette - which never did justice to the picture or it's ambitious Panavision compositions is now out-of -print.)
His character, his differences with his father, his love for his family, his desire to stand on his own, his failure, his ego.. Akshaye Khanna completely justifies the role of Harilal.
I will take an ambitious failure over a mass-market hit any day.
While this really can't be described as a failure, the sum of its parts remains ambiguous.
One of the reasons for its failure was that one generation just thought it was over indulgent crap and a younger one was disappointed that it did not show the full hippy glory.
The lead pair are excellent and it is shameful that they took so much flak for the film's perceived failure.
When I told him I wasn't going to see it because I knew the film was a failure he looked at me as if he was ready to punch me right on the face and Donovan is a pacifist!
Despite of the success in comedy or drama, the Turkish directors are failure in horror-thriller.
John Frankenheimer was upset by her failure to report and acted like he was about to fire her, but, always the gracious lady, Ms. Kerr said she was fine just sitting there and would stand in for herself.
Annabelle soon dumps him because of his failure to enlist into the Civil War (they would not take him because he was too valuable as an engineer).
Direct discussion of the point of the whole story could hardly be a spoiler, since the final success or failure f this point is left for readers to discover, if they are still interested.
When characters seem far more intelligent than those behind the camera we have a failure.
As such, it's a total failure.
"They managed to snatch failure from the very jaws of success"!
In 1953 it's Battle Circle and then Beat the Devil (maybe a confusing failure, but not hackwork).
I've seen quite a few Holmes films and, in my opinion, the performances of and chemistry between whoever is playing Holmes and Watson is what largely determines the success or failure of the movie.
The main failure behind it is a stodgy script, which, in hands other than the original author, had much potential, it was as if the filmmakers had started out with the priority of getting the right cast & movie makers, and expecting the rest would fall into place.
Instead, he used the same old tired failure and called this a movie.
This vulgar, scattershot, psychedelic sex satire is an utter failure, but boy what a fascinating failure!!
Whenever a relationship in that era did not work out, society would blame the woman for the failure, never recognizing that men can have flaws, bad motives, and other shortcomings.
Yet the media didn't really cover the failure of the hippie dream.
I suspect that was for two reasons: One, it didn't mean that much to the straight media at the time; and two, there was a lot more money to be made off of the dream than off of its failure.
And yet we all live in the fallout from that of that failure without really understanding it.
Gimme Shelter, the film of the Rolling Stones at Altamont, is one essential document of the failure of that dream.
What a failure for the people who created this film, total failure.
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