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But the moment the movie hits the streets, it turns into a pathos-laden mess, with occasional "funny" bits interjected (Mel sees a black kid break-dancing for money and tries to do a vaudeville buck-and-wing, yuk, yuk).
The next time someone you don't know tries to tell you their life-story, give them a slap from me.
"A Guy Thing" tries to capture the feeling of "There's Something About Mary" or "Meet the Parents" but comes off more like it was edited up out of cutting-room rejects of those two films.
He tries very hard, but I suspect that he didn't want to make the film, but was contractually obligated or something.
This is a movie that tries to be a romantic comedy and fails.
OZARK SAVAGE clearly tries too hard to be clever, lifting its best sequences from EVIL DEAD 2 and THE MATRIX.
A good supporting cast (Terry-Thomas, Edward Everett Hortyon, among others) tries hard to make some sense out of this, but to no avail.
His girlfriend Beth (Dorie Barton) discovers him and tries to commit suicide.
This one tries to be original, and succeeds to some degree... of course, the formula is basically the same, so it's like watching the same movie for a third time with slightly altered plot.
To disturb the boredom director tries to put few movie video-clips into the movie.
Only Rhys Ifans tries to fill his role with life.
Cary Grant tries to portray his usual charming and urbane persona but at times seems uneasy and staccato in his delivery.
No, The plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes, but with magic, and a very small actual war between dragons(rather big snakes) it just gets ridiculous.
You talking' to Me? (1987) is a pretty bad movie starring some dude who I have never seen before or since starring as a guy from the neighborhood who tries to become an actor.
He has a heavy jones for Taxi Driver as tries to use that shtick to make it big.
But as I was carrying this DVD case to pay for it, I convinced myself, that the less authentic something is the more it tries to be convincing.
This film is cheap, tacky and fails in everything it tries to do.
scenes where Buddy tries to injure Gertrude.
Tries to be a Road Trip/American Pie but fails dismally on all levels.
Bradford escapes and then tries to stop a shipment of gold bullion being "snuck" out of VC by who else other than . . .
The storyline is simple : a catholic priest who does abstract painting tries to find out who (another abstract painter) killed his little brother, a male prostitute (raped by another priest when he was young...).
"The Crush" is a pleasant enough 40-something friends romantic chick flick for the first two-thirds or so, as it tries to be a Brit "Sex and the City".
Roy tries to help her after hearing her screams but is killed.
It wasn't the most pointless animation film experience ever, but it certainly can't be admired as much as it tries to be good.
The friendly lesbian nurse tries to warn her, but she has her throat slit even the same night.
The biggest surprise comes at the end, when suddenly and out of the blue, director Rino Di Silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts.
The film and it's website tries to imply that Ayat has a secret reason for blowing herself and Rachel up- a boyfriend problem- perhaps pregnancy.
He's very narcissistic and does little to convince us that he's truly a good guy (for example he lies to Marie in the bookstore, ridicules his brother about his past girlfriends and tries to make Marie jealous with a 'blind date').
As personally annoying I find Charles Boyer's voice, he's more of a match to pay cosmopolitan, depressed Rudolf--I mean Omar Sharif tries but, no--too cute and vibrant.
After disposing of some competition in the shape of Kelly Hennenlotter (Terri Hawkes) who tries to fix the prom so she wins.
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