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Nevertheless, I think it's fair to say that the story somehow tries to emulate Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery".
He tries to stay cool, but fails to hide his love for the fairy-tale princess-to-be.
The management tries to get Logan to allow one or two socialite ladies to sleep on a couch and a day bed in his rooms, but he refuses.
It is such a compelling story of a 12 year old Vietnamese girl named Holly and an American man named Patric who tries to save her.
"Vampires: Los Muertos" tries the same starting with a rock-star Jon Bon Jovi playing one of the main characters, but does that almost too well...: I haven't seen Jon Bon Jovi in any other movie, so I am not able to compare his acting in "Vampires: Los Muertos" to his other roles, but I was really suprised of his good performance.
Just think of the massacre in the bar compared to the scene in which the vampiress tries to seduce Zoey in the ruins: the bar-massacre is what you expect from american popcorn-entertainment, the seducing-Zoey-in-the-ruins-scene is ALMOST european-like cinema (the movie is eager to tell us more about the relationship between Zoey and the vampiress, but refuses answers at the same time.
The fact that Cox tries to make some kind of folk heroes out of these characters, with party scenes and a montage of their loot, is weak and insulting.
Hog tied and battered himself, Joe tries to explain himself to Marjorie's roommates(Diana Scarwid and Alfrie Woodard) when they get home.
Claire Danes is riveting as the woman Gere handpicks to replace him - a woman he tries to teach all he can while investigating one final case in which Gere's character is convinced one of those he is charged to monitor may be holding a young girl hostage.
She does what she knows works so she tries to seduce him, well it doesn't work and she proceeds to burn his tuition money up.
Michelangelo Antonioni, in one of his few tries at making films inside of the US (after Red Desert, he did Blow-Up, this film, China, and The Passenger, all filmed outside his native Italy), I could sense he almost tried to learn about the ways of the country through his own mastery of the medium.
Before leaving, he tries to persuade one of his men, a Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), out of marrying Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) since that's a violation of military fraternization laws.
His anarchistic rantings and delusions inspire a nerdy garbage collector (James Urbaniak) to write poems, while Henry half-heartedly tries to boink the guy's sister (Parker Posey).
Fay Grim (played brilliantly by the iconic Parker Posey) tries to track down her missing husband's notebooks, and finds herself amid conspiracies and espionage.
We follow him around as he tries to make contact with people and function day to day.
His girlfriend tries to hold him to life but failing to, decides to follow him after his finally occurring death.
The horror just keeps going as the critter tries to outrun the impossible.
Corbin Bernsen gives a surprisingly non-lackluster performance as a crazed dentist who I guess tries to kill people but he only works on their teeth so it's not really working out.
Semra Turan plays Aicha, a second generation Turkish immigrant, who tries to break the mold.
Most spoofs deal with the pure gore without making the viewer think as Romero tries to do with his films.
Soon Sammi is giving Eddie advice on how to get even with his preppie torturers but when the messages escalate in scariness ("Waste'em ALL... no false metal!") Eddie tries to destroy the album, which results in Sammi coming back to life via Eddie's stereo speakers.
Ahmad tries to fight his way to the Princess, but Jaffar smashes the 'eye'.
Jaffar tries to flee on the mechanical flying horse, but another shot from the bow finishes him.
Ahmad is ruler again and plans to wed his Princess; but when he tries to make Abu his vizier, the young thief refuses, saying that what he wants is adventure, not hard work and confinement in a palace however grand it may be.
He's been in prison three times, yet at the beginning of the film, he tries to make it four.
One day, Cheech wants to get his freak on so he tries to get Chong out of the house.
Kay Pollack (the man behind this movie) is a real great man who tries to share his life philosophy in different ways.
To thwart that, the FBI tries to bust one of the mafia lords.
Everyone in the cast is amazing from Sutherland who tries to accommodate him and provide ways for the police to coordinate their efforts, to the troubled citizen x.
Aragorns alter ego is yet another accident prone idiot who tries to fix his broken sword ("Ulrike" the legend) with scotch tape.
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