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After a string of successful 'a man and his monkey films', which included the seminal "Every Which Way But Loose", "Every Which Way You Can" and "Peter's Friends", the genre fell on hard times.
Don Ameche is in almost every scene, and, while he has a mellifluous voice that no doubt contributed to his successful career in radio, he doesn't have the charisma to carry this film.
And of course us Americans just have to remake everything successful into English, because man reading subtitles is SOOOOO Hard isn't it!
The music sequences are far more successful than the attempts at movie satire and, for the first thirty minutes or so, Jack Black's manic enthusiasm is infectious.
We have two friends from the same village in Turkey one "successful" the other not.
the unsuccessful one comes to Istanbul to stay with the successful in an attempt to get a good job at sea.
It was so successful that American International Pictures decided to rehash the formula the following year with FOXY BROWN--not a bad film but certainly almost like "COFFY II".
Perhaps because, by its very nature, those talented in the field of Irish cinema have been quick to abandon their native shore for careers in Britain or America, (Colin Farrell is a recent case in point), and that the really successful Irish directors that have continued to work in Ireland and with Irish subjects have made their films with international money and an eye on the international market.
Hollywood biopics aren't based on the individual lives anymore, they're just rewrites of previously successful biopics.
"House of Frankenstein", released one year earlier and also directed by Erle C. Kenton, was quite a successful effort with interesting ideas and enthusiast performances, but "House of Dracula" is a little too loony for me to recommend it.
On that level, he was successful.
A remake of a successful movie can be a tricky business at best; to remake a true classic, especially one that is veritably the definitive film of a director like Alfred Hitchcock, is something else again.
The movie "Baghban" has been very successful in portraying only one side of the real life.
This movie did not pan out to be what i would expect, the good guy makes it out alive, i mean co mon nobody wants the good guy to be successful.
It is funny how producers seem to think that the combo of Seagal, plus hip-hop star seems to work, because his team up with DMX in Exit Wounds was his most successful film since Under Siege.
The makers of this movie don't get it that what makes all the other such comic-turned-movies (x-men, superman et al.) ventures successful is that they all deviate from the original comic versions and adapt it to make it more watchable.
Bean, Kevin & Perry, UK TV creations that have made successful transitions onto the BIG screen.
Without it "De Dominee" never would have been successful!
He just doesn't get the same amount of attention because his films were never as successful in theaters.
In fact, his best film - 1994's Cemetery Man - was probably his least successful.
The experiments were successful, but the animals became aggressive.
I can't believe people actually a) write scripts like this b) have a budget to make a film c) actually expect it to be successful.
The films Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Predator were all highly successful and created massive followings among general film fans and science fiction fans alike.
It is not successful on being scary either.
What made him so successful?
In such films they struggle to maintain that dangerous demeanor that made their early work successful, but they all end in failure.
I thought maybe the first one was marginally successful, so they upped the ante on this one a bit, possibly delivering some bigger budget scares and fx from the killer scarecrows.
This Italian turkey was inspired by Richard Fleischer's successful slavery-saga "Mandingo", released one year earlier, but since the makers were even too lazy to think up a different title, you shouldn't expect anything that even remotely resembles a narrative depth, character drawings, unsettling atmosphere or thought-provoking statements regarding cross cultural relationships.
If this film had been more successful, would the producers have then made films making fun or people with Cerebral Palsy or a Flesh-eating Virus?!?!
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.
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