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A movie like Evil Dead gets credit for being bad at it's own expense because it's the intended result-it' stupid and cheesy because Sam Raimi succeeded at what he was trying to do.
It succeeded for me in that the role was very different from what I'm accustomed to seeing her in - there was very little of the outrageous physical comedy she later became famous for, although the movie tried to maintain a gently amusing feel throughout.
I could not believe it was possible to get something worse than the first House of the Dead but amazingly the director has succeeded.
This movie succeeded because it was first of its kind in Russia.
I found that basically it succeeded in not being much of anything.
If the intent was to make in "Camp" then it succeeded.
This adaptation decided to spice up the story by adding kinky sex, extreme violence, genital monsters, body piercing and incest and it succeeded in creating a bizarre yet hilarious film.
Paul Thomas Anderson rose to the challenge and succeeded.
In 1937 Darryl Zanuck, who had recently moved from head of production at Warner Brothers, was trying to get his newly created company, 20th Century Fox off the ground and on a level playing field with his old bosses at Warners and the glitter palace at MGM. "This Is My Affair" was an attempt to cash in on the current success of historical films set around the turn of the century ("San Francisco" "In Old Chicago")and in retrospect he succeeded quite mightily.
Everyone knows that Lindburgh succeeded in the first transatlantic flight.
Although I brought this film by accident (I thought it was the original Halloween(stupid eh!)) I was surprised by how good it was, many sequels just continue the events of the previous films, this however tried and succeeded in explaining the events of the prequels, why does Michael Myers kill people and how come he seems to have supernatural abilities.
His primary focus was on getting his characters right, and by and large he has succeeded.
Iron Eagle succeeded for one reason...it was F.U.N - Fun.
In New York, a group of freshmen join the High School for the Performing Arts after being well succeeded in their audition.
Shortly after his recovery all ladies wanted to have fun with him, and some of them succeeded including the director of the school(Geraldine Page).
This film features a Red Army that is NOT victorious, in fact they are encircled, in a retreat mode, with many people dying, including the hero, in a film set after 06-02-41, the German invasion of Russia when Germany introduced the Barbarossa Plan, a blitzkrieg invasion intended to bring about a quick victory and the ultimate enslavement of the Slavs, and very nearly succeeded, actually getting within 20 miles of Moscow in what was a Red Army wipe out, a devastation of human losses, 15 to 20 million Russians died, or 20% of the entire population.
He succeeded to make the fighting scenes nice to watch.
A tense & thrilling story of courage and determination which truly pays homage to all those who succeeded and failed the treacherous journey to West Berlin and freedom.
This film, for what it was set out to be, succeeded.
Not surprisingly, she succeeded once again.
No directors from Romania came out to the attention of the international public, as some from other countries from Eastern Europe like Hungary, Czekoslowakia, or Yugoslavia succeeded to do.
This film succeeded in bringing me inside the dysfunctional life of these two women without dragging me down into depressed frustration.
Not every director succeeded but more did than not and the flick seems to improve with each viewing over the years.
That Clouds Of May succeeded on any level was a testament to Ceylan's talent as a budding filmmaker.
Babenco made this film to wake us up, to shake us to our very core, and he succeeded.
"Tommy Boy" succeeds as a comedy for the same reasons that the SNL skits Farley and Spade starred in succeeded: their well-timed extemporaneous silliness and mayhem makes them humorous despite their immaturity.
He succeeded in getting great performances out of his entire cast, and the great French actor, Jean Gabin was in rare form.
Although the director has succeeded in showing the status of women in rural areas and how they suffer at the hands of male-dominated culture, he has neglected Phoolan's character a bit and has focussed more on the violence faced by her.
Vicente Aranda has succeeded in depicting the time (1830) with meticulous care.
To some extent, this might even be true, especially because the producers had to be sure that the film succeeded with the masses.
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