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Some of the staging is awkward, as well, perhaps due to the source and director's theatrical traditions.
The acting is awful, with primitive dialog and awkward pauses that don't help.
This left the movie with a ton of awkward silences with the actors standing just making a silly facial expression for minutes at a time.
Let's not forget the absurdity of Senta's mother and the mother's lover, played by untrained dancers (it's very obvious) who spend their waking hours practicing the tango in awkward and clumsy moves.
The first 10 minutes of the movie seems awkward, but the story gets better.
Like many of the characters in this Fame-wanna-be film, the acting and the plot are extremely clumsy and awkward, but the film's heart is big and definitely in the right place.
The aging "second generation" cast members look awkward, particularly Spanky McFarland, who is really too old to portray a kid.
The correlation between Bambi and Bambi 2 is brilliant too; no awkward adjustments are made to accommodate an altered storyline.
She didn't, and this is her entrance into talkies, awkward, stiff, with little to do but enunciate corny lines.
One among this group is a narc for the DEA, led by Campbell(James C Burns)and partner O'Bannon(Stephen Basilone)who bust in unannounced, causing quite the awkward situation as zombies run amok outside eating cops or anyone with the misfortune of being in the general area.
Josh Brolin's character is especially awkward and unrealistic.
Like real love, they have their ups and downs, their awkward moments, and their little fights and all those little things that make it a real and believable love and not just a movie love.
It's very serious and awkward.
By the end, I wanted terribly for these two awkward people to get together.
There's no sense of drama, no building of tension, no interesting characters, nothing but Diana Ross bumbling around the sets looking awkward and projecting little personality.
Very good overall, but Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin is better (even though it has an awkward title) if you're looking for something from this era.
Some awkward law stated a daughter, Kirsten (who appeared out of nowhere) is said to marry Edvard.
Nichols almost undoes it all with awkward pacing and way too much wallowing in the town's redneckiness.
There are too many awkward moments in which nothing is happening, and the characters are quite wooden and quite lackluster.
Zwigoff, Schmigoff - this movie was boring, awkward, and very rarely funny.
As one can imagine, this feels very awkward and out of place considering everything that surrounds it.
This awkward piece of celluloid garbage was allowed to escape the cutting room floor.
The carnage has begun I guess it was that these seemingly unstoppable creatures looked so ordinary, except for their awkward gait and gruesome stitches, that made them seem so scary.
Director Allison Anders, who also adapted the screenplay, does hit an awkward snag or two in exploring these characters' emotions, but her feel for Nowhere U.S.A. is rich with complexity.
The film is peppered with brilliant moments from the awkward to the bizarre and the laughs come thick and fast, with Paris as a backdrop the lovers weave in and out of one situation to another always in love yet always on the verve of break-up.
Her presence is most rewarding in a rather awkward film.
I think we all know that every movie, whether it's comedy, drama or otherwise puts our main character through some challenges and awkward messes.
Now it's true that buddy cop movies have been copied since 48 hours, but this one uses the formula they all use and cuts out all the cheesy special effects and awkward dialogue that the "bad boys" films had.
Why would a ten year old boy put himself in such an awkward position where he was obviously aware of the damage it could cause the people involved.
Introducing a computer wiz never actually doing any wizzing other than shouting commands at his homebuilt and amazingly awkward computer system.
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