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What was needed was someone with vision enough to pull together the positive elements by reworking the script into some kind of coherent whole, instead of the sprawling, awkward mess that it is, (try to figure out the motivations and interplay if you can).
It's about a very awkward and tightly wound man who attempts to navigate his life as a door-to-door fundraiser/salesman.
Andy is a little odd, but in an awkward nice guy sort of way.
Except for an awkward scene, this refreshing fairy tale fantasy has a fun and delightful undercurrent of adult cynical wit that charms its way into the audience as well as a soundtrack that powerfully moves this fairy epic along.
I did not find any of the acting terribly fake or awkward.
And Jason Connery's so cute, as the shy and awkward miller's son, Corin, who falls in love with beautiful and the bold Princess Vera.
For example, there's a telling moment when one of the secondary characters, openly gay, is visited in the hospital by his boyfriend who brings him flowers and tries to kiss him in front of his visiting family, and suddenly we see a wave of awkward discomfort wash through the room.
After a few scenes, you stop noticing the awkward lines or rehearsed sound of some deliveries.
Well, here's another terrific example of awkward 70's film-making!
Sinclair as in the original is excellent and provides the films best comic moments as he attempts to deal with awkward and embarrassing situations but the supporting cast is not as strong as in the original movie.
One big complaint about the movie is the pacing: but the slow and sometimes awkward pacing is deliberate.
She moves to an all white neighborhood where the people are friendly, yet a little awkward toward her.
The plot was weird, Drew Barrymore and DC making out was awkward for both of them.
It sounds a bit awkward to call a film about war and holocaust shocking since many of us will know only too well of the horrors that war and violence brings.
Anybody who has had sex before will know how humorous, awkward, and scary as hell it can be and this film doesn't shy away from any of that.
There are a few downsides, however, Nightwing is nowhere to be seen, and I'm sure Barbara Gordon and Bruce Wayne don't click as a couple, even though is just referenced, Tim Drake(aka Robin) does very little in the movie and to be quite frank, I was never a big fan of Paul Dini and Bruce Timm's Batman character design(especially in their Batman shows post-BTAS), this The New Adventures of Batman and Robin, well, it kinda makes Batman look fat then rather a well-built bulked up individual(kinda like the Jeff Matsuda character model from The Batman). Bruce Wayne seems a bit awkward, those blue eyes make him look more like Clark Kent then Bruce(though it's true they do look very much alike).
The dance sequences seem awkward in some ways and not synchronized with the songs and/or music.
Harris takes an extremely awkward documentary and turns it into a relevant social commentary.
But, his children are unaware that this is his job, and when one witnesses a cold blooded murder by him, he is placed in an awkward position.
Each episode had a maniac, zany energy and rapid-fire pacing that overcame the occasional awkward joke.
The acting is amazing, with Watson very fine as the beautiful little rich girl and Turturro utter perfection as the shy, awkward chess enthusiast.
Bettie Page saw the movie at Hugh Heffner's house (she is now eighty-three) with the producers there, but not the director, in case it got awkward if she didn't like it.
The 40 Year Old Virgin, is about Andy Stitzer, a forty year old man who works in an electronic store and doesn't have much of a social life and is very awkward around women.
One day in the store Andy, meets a woman named Trish, who gives him her phone number and eventually Andy, works up enough courage to go on a date with her and they start to really like each other but Andy, is still very awkward when it comes to sex and he is going to have to tell this to Trish, much to his embarrassment if he can actually get up enough courage to tell her before things get awkward.
This movie could be perfect, were it not for the awkward presence of Ann Blyth; we see that she is trying her best, dressed in the fifties style in scenes just before 1920 - unforgivable.
The acting is fine, and there are some truly disturbing bits such as the awkward orgy scene with the dead father and the chubby woman in the middle of the orgy eating cake and laughing The ending is a weird mix of deformed people and cannibals.
And so, after a chance meeting at a bar with Danny (Greg Kinnear), he latches on and begins a halting, awkward friendship.
It would make for some incredibly awkward moments.
The visit is awkward because the grandchildren and "kids" don't really seem to know each other as one might expect.
Instead of making artificial intelligence awkward and jerky, give him the freedom to express beyond anything you imagined.
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