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all i got from this film was clichéd characters, contrived dialog and an unemotional script.
Respiro seems made with an all too contrived and self-aware intent to be artistic, symbolic, spiritual, provocative, metaphorical... mythical, even.
Most of the dialog is contrived and sensationalized, and feels stale and artificial.
However, instead, we got a contrived family drama that appeared to dip into Lear when the writer had run out of ideas, the cast worked hard but it just didn't gel.
The story is contrived to the point of complete incredibility.
The writing was contrived and the plot confused - no not confusing just confused with what it was trying to do.
"The King is Alive" is a flawed and contrived mess of a movie which comes off like a self indulgent auteur's excuse to transport a bunch of actors to a Godforsaken Namibian desert where he can play major-Dogme-domo and film his selfishly conceived, silly, overwrought drama with utter disregard for the real forces of human nature, market appeal, common sense, and even good art.
Leon Errol handles his double role of Uncle Matt Lindsay and Lord Basil Epping superbly, but I have trouble liking the "Mexican Spitfire" Series because they all are contrived to produce mistaken identities, and these are telegraphed way in advance.
The movie has a contrived plot of a bitchy, empty-headed woman's (Jeanne Tripplehorn) search for love.
If it was re-written with less contrived lines and better acting it could have actually been prety good.
Convaluted, contrived and very loose.
Even the "miracle" scenes were contrived & un-believable.
Of course you didn't bother to look further than the good but in my taste contrived performances of the Tackacs quartet, but OK I have to admit that the performances at least have quality as contrast to the movie you've made.
The suburbs come across about as well as they do in every piece of Australian writing (book or film) since 1960 - surprise surprise, the suburbs have a dark underbelly - and the plot is as contrived as any you've seen.
This was one of the most contrived, tedious and clichéd films I have ever seen... and, yes, I've seen Pearl Harbour.
The story is wafer thin (I honestly can't think of another film I've seen with less plot) and it never makes much sense, but its a very contrived, calculating movie, so it feels consistent.
Check out the scene with Jill calling her friends at the high school bonfire/pep rally or whatever it's supposed to be, it looks like some kind of "Burning Man" festival, ??!!?? There's all kind of contrived scares in this including the cool cat Chester who of course pops up here and there, one of the tiredest "horror movie" clichés there is.
For a Seagal movie it has very little (almost no) action but he does put in some reasonable (for him) acting in contrived character development scenes.
Hannibal is bad, terrible, inept, lame, droll, idiotic, contrived, laughable and utterly atrocious (no pun intended).
The bookend beginning and ending of the film about Lou having to babysit a troublemaker is contrived at best, although I found the tall cop part to be humorous.
For anyone else, don't bother, the story is so contrived, random stuff happens that really doesn't follow in a coherent way.
overnight was a contrived effort of self indulgent retribution on a man who was going up against the forces of Hollywood to retain story integrity.
The sequel falls into many of the same traps, the plot line was completely forced, the dialog was so bad that the film might be better on mute, and the action was contrived and far from the heart pounding brilliance of each monsters original films.
The whole set-up of this contrived Disney family film (ad-exec gets his teenage daughter a horse because she "wants one more than anything else in the world") is just an excuse to film the big climactic horse-show at the end.
The ending was totally contrived.
From Lorenzo's return and the coincidental viewing of Ines' daughter by Goya, everything seemed nothing more than contrived.
Garden State must rate amongst the most contrived and pretentious films of all time.
But the "oh God is great" seems very contrived.
Elijah Wood is unimaginably bad in the primary role, and the plot points are contrived and sappy.
Also, much of the action was extremely contrived and poorly thought out.
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