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The direction, editing, sound (do we really need a heavy-metal video in the middle of a gunfight?),
The casting was quite good, and it was shot beautifully - but stylistically much of the direction was inconsistent (overstylized fast editing been there done that to no effect....
Second time I managed to force myself to digest over an hours worth of shoddy acting, lame SFX and extremely poor direction.
What has to happen to get them to quit going in that direction?
The poor performances (Perlman is sadly wasted here) become an outgrowth of the script, and Carpenter's direction feels exhausted, as if 'Pro-Life' is the source of his next hot meal.
The same plot except with the story excised from it; the world's most intelligent and horribly annoying macaw; Tim McInnerny proving that he really can't do comedy (everone remembers Percy in Blackadder but that was his high spot - it's all been downhill since then); direction so poor that if a group of college students had made this you'd throw it in the bin and tell them to do it again - properly this time.
A pedestrian Dennis Hopper and a game Richard Grieco add nothing significant to their resumes, although the art direction is not half bad.
Incompetent acting, direction, and production values all contribute to this toothache of a flick.
The direction only goes as far as grabbing a camcorder and walking around a bit, but obviously I'm supposed to dig that because it makes stuff so much more realistic.
There are plenty of good actors out there, and it would be fun to see how Jennifer Beals, Daniel Sunjata and Gloria Reuben would do with an appropriate cast, good script and decent direction.
The direction seemed to be of realism.
The direction, by longtime PRC no-budget specialist Al Herman, is semi-comatose at best.
Heck, even seen in its proper context, it's pretty bad!! Mostly, this is due to a silly plot and very self-indulgent direction by the famed Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni.
Unfortunately, the film offers bland, unimaginative direction from Michael Winner who wastes an outstanding cast with a screenplay massing crater-sized plot-holes.
The direction alternated between sluggish and confusing (one was not at all sure exactly who was doing what and with what and to whom at at least one crucial juncture).
Somehow, his direction is not enough.
With a screenplay by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses and direction by Robert Downey Sr. (whose son Robert Downey Jr. has a cameo early on in a soccer scene), Up the Academy is uneven with the politically incorrect humor but unless you're really offended at the scatological and sexual content, this is actually a pretty harmless comedy that Mad Magazine and its trademark cover boy-Alfred E. Newman-shouldn't be ashamed of even though they once had their name and character taken off the picture...P.S.
The direction and production is so amateur, I wouldn't even hire these people to shoot my worst enemies wedding video.
The problem isn't with direction, acting or anything technical.
There's a lot of scrambling around, but the direction and editing were so shoddy and choppy, it was like watching outtakes or deleted scenes.
But to me, the cast was largely squandered, their personalities muffled by the masks, while the direction I think of as being unusually static, and the photography murky.
The acting was barely there and the direction was uninspired.
The actors, the accents, the dialog and the direction were amateurish and the writing was dismal.
The other movie I saw last week was "Wake Up Sid" which was simple slow love story with good direction & acting despite average music
The direction struck me as poor man's Ingemar Bergman.
The film could have been made twice at 1.25 hours, and been pretty good, kinda like "Seven Samurai" but the director and writer didn't go that direction, even if the "townsfolk" finally find their backbone and want to help.
To me this is a sign of bad direction through and through.
Again better direction was needed.
It's especially typical and typically bad, shot in two bit hotels and public parks with thin direction, high school level acting and "gee whiz...lets see what this button on the camera does??" photography.
Bad acting, bad music, bad screenplay, bad editing, bad direction and a bad idea.
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