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He then proceeds to try and kill this other guy, and he tries to break into his house by squeezing himself into the fireplace.
He then enters through the basement and then tries to kill the guy by smothering him in his bedroom.
He tries everything he can think of and comes across as an actor rather than real person and that's what's needed in a love story.
There is so much campy uniqueness to this movie that it might have been better if it was an all-out satirical comedy on suburban life, but the director instead tries to scare you every couple minutes until you wish he'd just get over it and bring out the gore.
Horrible camera work...count the times the camera tries to remain steady on one person and can't.
For starters, "Hobgoblins" tries to ape the more successful "Gremlins".
I hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film.This is SO different than the prequels,it tries,and tries,but this one tried the hardest,and got slapped back on the face.Again there were hadly any death scenes,although they were different,they sucked bigtime.
He didn't go to their car, instead he has been kicked and well beaten while she tries to run the car engine which betray her and she has been gang raped.Then somehow she is in her fathers house and one of bad guys is her neighbor so she took shotgun and wanted to kill him...
Within the first few minutes of this Dutch thriller, we learn that Krabbe is a gay alcoholic writer who sleeps sans underwear, fantasizes about murdering his roommate, tries to steal a magazine from a news stand, and lusts after a studly young man he meets at the train station.
When someone else tries, they're not playing a character, they are modeling a recognizable actor.
Pitch tries to ruin Santa's Christmas by making three boys naughty, and by creating diversions, like moving the chimney and making the doorknob hot.
The cast tries, but the script is so tired and clichéd that even the efforts of the always wonderful Brenda Vaccaro are defeated.
Sliding Doors, w/ Gwyenth Paltrow and directed by Peter Howit, did what Melinda & Melinda tries to do much much MUCH better.
Jean Claude Van Damme tries to rescue his career by making the sequel of Universal Soldier.
The film tries too much to cover many aspects from the book, the result being a concoction of scenes that may make some sense to someone who read the book.
Another example of the humor in the show, a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier.
Basically, whatever plans the cop tries the thief somehow knows them beforehand.
Another vast conspiracy movie that tries to blame the US government and the Armed Forces (especially the Army) for every disaster since the Great Flood.
Dr. Heller (Christopher Plummer) tries to help him through the post traumatic stress.
Man To Man tries hard to be a good movie: it has its heart at the right place, it aspires to be epic and it has a message that no doubt everybody will appreciate.
It tries to grab your heart (even if your brain thinks that it is too obvious) and succeeds most of the time.
This odd hybrid of adventure film, love story and religious parable trivializes the very insights it tries to communicate.
It really tries too hard to immerse you in the moment and build to a suspenseful ending but the movie just has so many half conceived characters and non relevant script it just leaves you feeling disappointed and confused as to why they tried to go so deep with it.
He tries getting out of the contract and horrible, painfully unfunny gags ensue.
The film also tries to talk about coming out experiences in young men and women, relationships, disturbed parenting, the club scene with all the wild antics that accompany such events - and murder.
"The Second Coming Of Suzanne" is yet another one of those surrealistic films that tries to come across as extremely sophisticated, yet all it does is put the viewer to sleep.
His brother gets killed and Dolph tries to figure things out.
Gene Wilder (star AND co-writer) tries hard at it all: he plays a romantic lead (with his looks!! and his age!! he and Woody Allen should start a club for clueless, mirrorless ageing comedians), and he tries to be moving and funny and poignant and smart, and tries to sing and dance, and succeeds in NONE!!
The plot is plausible but banal, i.e., beautiful and neglected wife of wealthy and powerful man has a fling with a psychotic hunk, then tries to cover it up as the psycho stalks and blackmails her.
He could probably make millions for the institution that he is working at, but the head of the institution tries to sabotage his teleporter every step of the way.
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