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Joan Crawford's first talkie reveals her to be irresistibly sexy and personable, but her role is hamstrung by the inane plot and contrived dialogue.
The way Joe relates to the various characters, causing them to easily open the hearts and souls seems contrived today and perhaps seemed that way even in the late 40's, but I suspect Saroyan was not particularly interested in "realism".
Seems that some folks watched this movie in the expectation of riveting sex scenes, and while I thought that the whole ending sequence was very contrived, the sex scene did work to make sense of the movie, which was just as well since the rest of it was kind of ludicrous.
Horrible screen writing, atrocious acting, contrived bullshit plots, and unbelievable characters.
The acting was bad and contrived.
This movie is so contrived, I wanted to hypnotize myself in to shutting it off but stayed to course to see how lousy a top notch cast/production could screw up.
This - number seven in the popular series - is a feeble comedy in which the plot is poorly contrived, the actors look totally indifferent, and the comic moments are tired rehashes of scenes from the earlier films.
It tells us a whole lot about the golden age of television, of the country's torpor in the 50's, of the days when people who cared more for those dependent upon them than they did for themselves got run over by the corporate machine, and of the contrived and deliberate dumbing down of our national intellect.
But its a not surreal; its just contrived...badly.
Leslie Howard who has been brilliant in nearly al his films (esp The Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage, Pygmallion, Teh Scarlette Pimprenel and of course GWTW) realy gave a stiff, false performance in this 1939 movie that he himself co-produced with David o' Selznick of the Gone With The Wind (1939) -- I'm thinking that both their creative juices were at a major low --- this movie was so insincere and contrived and lacks any universal appeal that makes movies "classics".
The humor is infantile and the jokes are contrived and forced.
and then there is the title, which i doubt could possibly be any more contrived.
No sympathy for the characters, bad language, Chicago (again)!, contrived plot ---------- that's enough!
Next scene: in a nightclub (after the "hosing down" of the prostitutes - a highly contrived scene, calculated to make us think of Holocaust victims in the showers - come on Amos, what are you really trying to say?
Contrived gratuitous sex scene with Rose and her boyfriend (?).
I didn't do an exhaustive search, but their story also felt contrived.
There is no chemistry between any of the actors, the writing is on middle-school level, and any movie that dares to invoke Katharine Hepburn in one scene and then drags its characters through one contrived and pointless and flatly-acted episode after another is indeed crud.
The humor comes from the characters' personalities, not from contrived situations.
Well-known writers Stephen J. Cannell of "The A-Team" and Philip DeGuere of "Simon & Simon" have contrived a formulaic, half-baked World War II secret mission behind enemy lines that is neither convincing nor exciting.
good few plot twists come as a surprise, at times drastically changing the tone of the movie, but never coming across as contrived.
The failing of the movie is its failure to capture the raw simplicity of the ballad, and the plot comes off as contrived or even sensationalistic.
As "Erik Kessler," a man who returns under an assumed identity to the wife who has remarried because she though he was dead, he's heavily made-up and talks with a corny and contrived sounding German accent.
It tries to be a love story between an middle-aged man and a under-aged school girl, this too is misguided and contrived.
Granted, some of the events feel a bit contrived, but this is a dramedy, not a realistic war drama.
Next, the movie plays on it's vagueness, we don't understand the motivations behind any of these characters and the dialogue comes off as contrived and phony.
The cast of youthful aspirants in this contrived film are all so cheerful you want to slap them.
But the characters themselves are a little too archetypal, their feelings theatrically contrived into dialogue; personally I couldn't care too much about their ultimate tragedy.
And I'm not even going to get into the ridiculous plot holes or how incredibly lame the killer is, or how anticlimactic and contrived the climax is...
This might have been made to honor all the giant bug movies from the 50's, but personally I thought the plot was thin, the premise was formulaic and the whole movie was a little contrived.
i saw the 185 minute version and maybe that's why i don't give it a higher review...i don't agree with Roger Ebert's take on this but i do think it's way over rated...the acting is good enough and the settings, hues, rooms, buildings, camera work etc. are spectacular and beautiful to look at...the couple's relationship gets to be a drag to watch...one, no nuttier than they other...if he cared about her he would've come up with a shrink or something...i felt, after awhile, the thing was too contrived...i heard one reviewer say Betty Blue is great and Million Dollar Baby was lousy and i wished i hadn't read that dude because he told the ending...at least this is a spoiler...i think Betty Blue is OK but Million Dollar Baby light years more enjoyable and moves along telling lots more in the time alloted...this is a pretty film, a slow film, well acted and put together...the story is contrived too much...a different, but same, Cuckoos Nest...it's a comedy at times cutting itself up i think...some of the characters , at times , 'over acted'...i enjoyed it though.
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