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When she gets her high heel caught between two train cars, Mr. Raymond is smitten; he tries to pry her high heel loose.
Then, in the first of several changes in tone, we get annoying attempts at humour, where Jackson tries on cowboy hats in a store while still wearing his hockey mask, a cornball sequence where they go for a stroll on the beach one evening at sunset, while Jackson is still wearing his hockey mask(!) - is this supposed to be a comedy or a soap opera love story now?
It doesn't and to make things worse he tries to go back and forth in time, again thinking this would make for some interesting film.
There are two scenes which exemplify Binoche as the best actress in the business; when she decides to take pictures of her sleeping lover against his knowledge, she tries to make it look like she enjoys it but immediately reviles with disgust and disgrace, and when she descends to desperate begging from her lover for his help.
The style is definitely there, but just before it triumphs, something completely illogical is said or done that breaks the suspension of disbelief the film tries so hard to build up.
Although it tries to be both a suspense and love story, it accomplishes neither.
My vote for funniest goes to Jan Hooks as the driving student who tries to seduce Aykroyd.
When Oscar realizes after a while that their relationship has reached the point of no return he tries to break it up.
From that moment, the young man acts like a dog but speaks English and tries to offer advice on how to catch the villain who shot him.
When he finally comes around he finds out he's in small country town called Parris and the local mayor tries to get Arthur to become a citizen.
Strangely there some offbeat things going on in Paris and when the traumatised Arthur tries to leave he realises that he's trapped in this hell of a town.
Cassie tries to terminate the birth but Azazeal manages to stop it.
In the fourth part, the 'witch doctor' tries various strategies to kill Nukie, including running around in fast motion.
This movie blatently tries to rip off Star Trek's Borg (Machines turning humans into robots) and trying to do a little Alien and Terminator like, but fails because of the depressing way the actors were talking.
She works in a diner, and when she tries to forget her lousy life in the Depression she turns to the movies.
Zef, being the older brother, doesn't want to tell Tutu the truth and tries to focus them on finding a new family and avoiding the "Badness."
it tries to be a "David guest" style mocu-mentary, but fails horribly, and ends up giving whoever watches it a headache and a horrible impression of who people like werner herzog and David cross are, don't judge them by the fact that they are in this movie, they are both talented individuals.
It is the typical Adam Sandler comedy that includes beautiful women, sexual humor and a clumsy but lucky guy that tries to be a different or better person The cast is very good beginning with Adam Sandler that although his performance is a little exaggerated, he manages to make it funny.
It tries to be funny and fails every time.
In fact its a cheap, badly acted, stupid movie with rubbish effects that must have been written, directed and edited by a 5 year old.Jack Palance has some kind of eye patch and tries to make up for the wooden acting of everyone else by overacting to a degree that even the most over the top panto performer would be embarrassed by.
Vincent does well, Amos tries hard, but Tim Conway (always an acquired taste) is both broad and boring in a gratuitous supporting role as a flunky.
There have been many movies about jails - or escaping therefrom - but none like "Big House Bunny", in which Bugs Bunny tries to flee some hunters but accidentally tunnels into Sing Sing, where guard Yosemite Sam Schultz locks him up.
COD 3 tries to give the player an 'open field' game where you decide which path to take.
She comes into the film unexpected and tries every way to get away and just when you think she's gone from the picture, she reappears.
Under supervision of a local priest he tries to live a peaceful peasant-life in a place where nobody knows about his past; he becomes a barber, the eal is his friend ('they never say things you don't like..').
It tries to be funny and scary and it's not even close to being funny (in a good way or bad way) and it's definitely not scary.
CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS tries hard to be a major film noir, and does not quite make it.
She alternately appears blonde and brunette for adult audiences (note, no nudity), and tries not to shoot up.
"Poster Boy" tries to hard to not be a gay movie; and when you take that away, it really isn't anything else.
Still, it's so apparent she's trying so hard that, throughout, you can't help but feel for her, a feat helped by the fact that she is obviously the only cast member who tries to create a character, though as written it's still the "hooker with a heart of gold" type, which is NOT the case with the 1980 film.
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