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I don't recall his name, but he commented that at first you may think the actor playing Dr. Goddard is a bit awkward, but when you realize the horrible lines and situations, and direction he had to deal with, you will also realize he must have the spirit of Brando in him to pull it off half as well as he did!
Okay, it sounds a little awkward, but hey, maybe we get a well-enough crafted explanation to make it feel believable for the sake of entertainment.
But that is all you get. 4 seasons (and counting for some unknowable reason) of awkward silence, broken by miscues and babbling incoherence.
Instead it becomes awkward and painful to watch.
Walsh enlivens the action scenes but can't rise above the disjointed script, not helped by the awkward storytelling structure.
Also you can tell the transitions between shots as there is a awkward pause before the actors start acting!
It's hard not to see some similarities to GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and LOST, but the awkward mix of on-the-nose comedy and drama never quite works.
I rarely see acting this awkward.
The protagonist of the film is the very attractive Wong Chia Chi (Wei Tang) because of awkward circumstances up a resistances involved in dangerous espionage.
Several years ago, when I first saw this movie, I felt that it was melodramatic with awkward dialogue and clumsy direction, and not worth my time, except for the dancing segment with Moira Shearer and James Mason ("Jealous Lover").
But he was unconvincing and awkward while trying to be serious.
While MacMurray and Douglas seem awkward in spots, eventually they gel enough to hold this farce together.
There are two notably powerful sequences, one involving an awkward during the young girl's birthday party and the other being the painful death-ride of the investigating police officer.
Disappointingly awkward drama from revered director Fritz Lang, here taking an oddly conventional approach to the story and scenario and completely ignoring the suspenseful possibilities.
The outfits were unauthentic and looked like inexpensive costumes, the speech too modern sounding, the acting awkward, and the transition from scene to scene choppy.
Unfortunately terribly awkward dialogue and poor staging give this film a very unsatisfactory feel.
I kinda liked the first movie, if only for its premise and craziness, but the first movie had too many awkward moments (especially the piano scene).
Happily we are spared from the peek-a-boo nudity that is typical of these films: where the director goes to great lengths to get the actors naked then hide their nudity through awkward posing, clever placement of props, and so on.
The fight scenes with the dog looked awkward and bad.
The exposition scenes are painfully awkward, the dialog mostly atrocious, and the performances reflect this (with dismal results).
Leading from the front are the slightly wooden John Hodiak - marriage to Ann Baxter didn't improve his acting -, newcomer Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan and Richard Conte and Mank keeps the balls spinning in the air leaving little time for awkward questions - like why would Conte - who'd got away with murder for three years, introduce Hodiak to a detective friend (Nolan) knowing that Hodiak was trying to get to to bottom of the very murder for which he, Conte, was responsible.
The film lacked transitions between scenes and ideas, requiring the audience to constantly adjust to the awkward gaps.
It was amusing that Beth had to hold her head carefully to support the awkward headdress.
I found that the awkward moments with Mickey (Mike Binder) and his wife (Sonya Walger) looked like bad acting seemed to emphasize that awkward feelings they were having.
This movie will really cheer you up and takes the side of the girls labeled "uncool" or awkward.
This movie is very dark in content yet because there is very little character development the viewer doesn't identify with the plight of the character and the absence of Hitchcock's signature suspense music allows a viewer to laugh at the awkward situation and the ridiculous actions of the characters rather than worry about what terrible outcome could come from them.
While there are adult characters in the film (most notably the coach, who is himself awkward and hardly authoritative), and while we meet Gregory's dad briefly, they come off as backdrop, and the overall impression is that this is like a live-action, Scottish, adolescent version of Charles Schulz's 'Peanuts' movies, where kids run about on their own seemingly at whim after school, but aren't necessarily concerned with being full of destructive mischief given that freedom.
But it's safe to say that overall the moments of greatness far outweigh the few awkward, misdirected moments.
Every time there is a bit which is awkward, yahoo a bit of explanation (slowing the film down) or just bus along and hope the audience will go for the goo (I couldn't get back for a fortnight, so I missed Xmas, or I'm travelling more because of the drugs I'm taking!).
Well, I wasn't that big a fan of Witness, but it's a masterpiece compared to the awkward and frequently blisteringly stupid A Stranger Among Us.
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