" Among fans of the nearly forty year old books, this film was mostly disappointing.

After that film's disappointing reviews and reception at the box office, Moore returned to television, and did not appear in another feature film for eleven years.

"... Materialized from out of nowhere was a good film that had been hidden inside the disappointing original one.

While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns ( verbal reversals and wordplay ) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

Though Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee, and Blauner responded enthusiastically to Spacey's work and the film was strongly promoted by the studio, Beyond the Sea received mixed-to-poor reviews upon wide release, and box office results were disappointing.

The movie outperformed the original with a total of $ 16. 5 million at its opening weekend but critical reaction towards the film was largely disappointing, with film review site Rotten Tomatoes calculating a poor rating of 7 % based on 46 reviews.

In February 1965, when on a trip to West Berlin, “ in deference to his recent work with Buster Keaton, he went to see Keaton again in his 1927 film The General, finding it, however, disappointing .”

At Joseph Stalin's insistence, the film was rushed into theaters and the resulting sound recording was notably disappointing, while the visual images were quite impressive, especially the spectacular battle on the ice.

In some of his other roles during the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet several of the films were of uneven quality, down to demands or limitations set by the studio or their scripts: The Angel Wore Red ( 1960 ), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War ; Song Without End ( 1960 ), as Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, a flawed film made under the initial direction of Charles Vidor ( who died during shooting ), and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor, the actor's only disappointing foray into Hollywood ; the campy The Singer Not the Song ( 1961 ), as a Mexican bandit co-starring John Mills as a priest ; H. M. S.

The Undiscovered Countrys strong showing was one of the big successes of 1991, a year in which the film industry experienced disappointing box office results overall.

Ashby was coming off the disappointing commercial and critical failure of Harold and Maude and was in pre-production on Three Cornered Circle at MGM when Jack Nicholson told him about The Last Detail, his upcoming film at Columbia.

However, Mason's 1983 film written by Simon, Max Dugan Returns, was disappointing.

In the 1998 book The Essential James Bond, Lee Pfeiffer and Dave Worrell write: " Although OHMSS was routinely dismissed by critics who cited Lazenby as a brave but disappointing successor to Connery, the intervening years have been notably kinder to both the film and its star.

The score has been criticised as " anachronistic and misjudged ", " bizzarely intermittent " and " the most disappointing feature of the film ".

" Peary also wrote that the " film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed … It would be one of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing.

The film grossed $ 30, 749, 142 in the United States, turning a profit but still disappointing in comparison to the original film's gross.

Paramount initially promoted Smith's film and it proved to be disappointing at the box office.

Mike Bogue of American Kaiju felt the film suffered from " several visual weaknesses " and " disappointing editing ," but that " the positive aspects of the visuals outweigh the negatives " and praised the film for " treating Godzilla with the same awe, majesty, and terror as original 1954 Godzilla ( 1954 film ) | Godzilla.

Upon release, the film was disappointing at the box office.

The highest review score on Metacritic was 60 which came from Variety, who said " Purists will find the pic's obviousness disappointing, but there's no question that the film delivers a sufficient shock quotient to satisfy its youthful target audience ".

In contrast to that, the reaction of Sujata C J, writing for Rediff. com, was that the film was very disappointing.

Ironically, immediately following the disappointing performance of the album and its singles, Texas released a new cover version of the Al Green classic " Tired of Being Alone " in April 1992.

Initial sales were somewhat disappointing, but were soon picked up by the May introduction of a two-door sedan and the Cutlass sports coupe ( a pillared two-door for 1961, which became a pillarless " hardtop " for 1962 ) sporting unique trim, an interior with bucket seats and optional center console, and a four-barrel version of the V8 engine, rated at.

The latter, however, was not released on the ZX Spectrum due to disappointing sales of the original NES version, although a version for the Commodore 64 was finished but never released.

After slow sales of the initial dialogue intense release, a " music only " version was issued, though sales and reviews were still disappointing.

He could not qualify for the European Final this year ( beaten by Isaksson again ), so he then tried his hand at the American version, qualifying for the final before finishing a disappointing 11th.

After a disappointing 1988 season on the greens, Torrance experimented with the long putter that was already being used successfully in the U. S. He debuted his version, which anchored on the chin rather than the midriff, at the 1989 Jersey Open and subsequently finished in the top five.

The Dreamcast port also received a 6. 6 by Park, who found it much better than the PlayStation version, but still found the game disappointing.

1712 was a disappointing year in Norway, as Frederick IV directed Løvendal not to use the Norwegian Army in offensive actions, reserving it for defense and for supplementing Danish troops elsewhere.

The opening performance of the side proved disappointing from the tourists ' point of view, with defeats in its opening three matches by Western Province sides in Cape Town.

Meanwhile it was a disappointing night for the SNP, they failed to gain any seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives by just 79 votes.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

After a disappointing record of 59-73 and a 9th-place finish in 1897, Anson was released by the Cubs as both a player and manager.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

Under his sole leadership Charlton made an appearance in the playoffs in 1996 but were eliminated by Crystal Palace in the semi-finals and the following season brought a disappointing 15th place finish.

After a disappointing back to back seasons of 83-79 records ( 2004 and 2005 ) which were expected to be seasons of contention by the Marlins along with failed attempts to get state financing for a new ballpark, the team began a controversial dumping of players for prospects.

Hedge funds posted disappointing returns in 2008, but the average hedge fund return of − 18. 65 % ( the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index return ) was far better than the returns generated by most assets other than cash or cash equivalents.

In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.

Polgár had another disappointing result later in the month in the category XVIII tournament in Corus Wijk aan Zee which was won by Kasparov.

Picked by many to win their division in 2004 after faring well in the free agent market, the Royals got off to a disappointing start and by late June were back in a rebuilding mode, releasing veteran reliever Curtis Leskanic and trading veteran reliever Jason Grimsley and superstar center fielder Carlos Beltrán for prospects, all within a week of each other.

As reflected by the cancellations of Sunset Beach and Port Charles, it can sometime be more beneficial for a broadcasting network to return a timeslot to its local stations than to keep on the air a soap opera with disappointing ratings.

Despite the disappointing reaction to Y Kant Tori Read, Amos still had to comply with her six-record contract with Atlantic Records, who in 1989 wanted a new record by March 1990.

The result was rather disappointing real-world performance, something that could, perhaps, have been forecast by Amdahl's law.

The need for loading coils was discovered by Oliver Heaviside in studying the disappointing slow speed of the Transatlantic telegraph cable.

When the show's run was threatened by disappointing reviews, Burton and co-star Julie Andrews appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show to perform the number What Do The Simple Folk Do ?.

Soon after, General Motors began offering automatic seat belts, first on the Chevrolet Chevette, but by early 1979 the VW Rabbit and the Chevette were the only cars to offer the safety feature, and GM was reporting disappointing sales.

The band's first recordings, under the auspices of Geffen record label head David Geffen and Kalodner, were considered disappointing by music critics and fans of traditional progressive rock, who found the music closer to radio-friendly Album-oriented rock.

After the disappointing Conquest ( 1937 ), Garbo was one of several major stars — including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, and Katharine Hepburn — called " box office poison " in an open letter published by the National Theater Distributors of America.

In Egypt after the Trojan War, Menelaus is allowed to choose between the real, disappointing Helen and an ideal Helen conjured by Egyptian magicians.

“ the epithet ‘ servant ’ is hardly ever used for kings after David may be related to the fact that most of them were disappointing in their performance as kings appointed by YHVH ”.

However, the disappointing attendance can be at least partly explained by the recession and increased unemployment which was affecting France and indeed most of the rest of the developed world at this time ; when construction of the resort began, the economy was still on an upswing.

Although scripted by Goodman Ace, it also resulted in disappointing ticket sales, and Gobel's career as a Paramount movie star came to an abrupt end.