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In my opinion, it didn't succeed in either.
On another hand, Schroeder doesn't succeed in gaining the audience's emotion and adherence in front of the two main characters' distress.
A group of men are hired to coerce the remaining residents out of the town before it will be drowned, and for the most part they succeed amidst some fairly odd situations and townspeople.
Too much is unintentionally funny (the phony sound of dripping water in Drago's quarters, for example, or the silent-movie mugging by some of the actors) or simply confusing (Why exactly does Drago want to leave the fort the first time?) for the film to succeed as a coherent work.
Quentin Tarantino once said that to succeed in the film industry you had to make your own Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs.
They do succeed in making fun of themselves by beating the critics to the punch by portraying themselves as "dinosaurs."
Judging by some of the other comments even that did not succeed that well.
All these people are loosers and the filmmaker doesn't succeed in making them interesting at all.
Some spectacular special effects don't succeed in hiding a labored and globally conventional screenplay.
There are a few good (funny) scenes, but in total it is just another boring second-rate try of German film industry that cannot succeed (nearly as usual).
It tries to be provocative, yet deep, with its full frontal homosexual sex scenes - it doesn't succeed!
It doesn't merit one line, much less ten, but to adhere to the rules of IMDb, here goes and I probably won't succeed the first time around and have to type some more to make up for this submission to be accepted.
Fast forward (actually, you'll want to fast-forward through much of this mess) to the present day, where a couple of campers are butchered; the teens follow in their wake, while a semi-concerned park ranger (a sleepwalking Jackie Coogan) and his healthier cohort (who spins a lot of time tuning his banjo) succeed partially in steering our attention from yards of run-of-the-mill nature-footage padding.
The movie tries to stay on the borderline between erotic and insightful and it cannot succeed at either.
The searchers will come upon the gatekeeper of Hell, Andrey(Val Kilmer), and will strike a deal to continue their venture; only to succeed in being scared almost witless when realizing they are among walking dead.
That only the heartless can succeed?
After the first virtually unwatchable 40 minutes, the film does improve (relatively), but it remains WAY too far-fetched (not to mention unfunny) to be successful as a satire, and has too little substance to succeed as a drama.
I don't think that any movie can really succeed in depicting the titanic struggle and suffering that actually occurred, but I still wanted to see what a relatively recent German movie production would be like.
Alas, very seldom these attempts succeed.
Directed by E. Elias Merhige "Begotten" is an experiment with a few interesting ideas that don't quite succeed in what they were trying to do.
"Ordinary Decent Criminal" is sad because it is obviously trying to succeed and equally obviously hasn't a chance in hell of making it apparently owing to the absence of a clear sense of purpose.
1st watched 2/9/2008, 4 out of 10(Dir-J.S. Cardone): Sexual political thriller that doesn't really succeed in any of these areas very well except early on where there are some interesting soft-core scenes.
The performances are uniformly good though, which is necessary for a film of this nature and about this topic to succeed.
For the most part they succeed wonderfully.
A hard life surrounded by the love of a close family and extended family of companion workers created a person able to succeed in the world.
Unfortunately it did not succeed at the box-office, and we might never see a film of this calibre again.
There probably are a lot of failed Star Treks that just never had a chance to succeed.
The shattering climax of the film comes when each of the three has to confront the need to do battle again,each for his own happiness; and all three succeed in finding the courage to go on fighting--each for his own happiness, which is now being threatened by a curiously anti-self, anti-reality indifferent an un-American United States.
And yes he did succeed to seduce the beautiful Monica Belluci, beyond the film, during this creation.
It was hard to believe that Kevin James could play in a convincing role, that Will Smith could satisfy without action, and that such a hackneyed genre of film could succeed in such a way.
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