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Terrible acting, terrible writing, completely hollow and unbelievable characters (no Meisner actors here!) and a total lack of sufficient body count.
I'm surprised that so many established (and good) actors agreed to make such a hollow movie.
When she tries to express fear, anger or grief, it's extremely hollow.
Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron is a cultural gadfly whose previous films laid bare some the artistic excess of the Sixties and the hollow avaricious Eighties.
Was VH-1 treading on hollow ground here?
Yes, she's playing a klutzy ditz with a heart of gold, but Long has no shadings, and when she tries for sincerity it rings hollow (even her overly-clear speaking voice sounds as if it's coming from an echo chamber and not a person).
Shot like a TV rom com, acted like it was shot before a live audience by inexperienced actors (ie they stick with entirely average performances rather than work them into something decent), lit for TV, scripted with a "try to please everyone" dumbed-down - syrup coated - hollow - interconnection of not really connected stories.
It's hollow!
Toward the end when he does his "not alone, not alone" speech, it's just hollow words.
Here in the UK, it was a hollow experience and we were unable to stick the 3 hours plus.
This documentary explicitly details how Metallica went from being one of the greatest bands of all time, to a hollow parody of itself.
i rather enjoyed this movie, but thinking about it afterwards i thought it was a rather disjointed and hollow movie.
This is more evident if you don't need to rely on the subtitles, as the original dialog comes across as hollow and flat in the native tongue.
A real horror movie is about special effects like evil dead, omen, exorcist, sleepy hollow.
They are mere shadows that unconvincingly act out the hollow and threadbare plot.
The emotion portrayed is utterly hollow and manipulative in its dishonesty.
Okay, I am so fascinated with the "Sleepy Hollow" movies, but this one is the most inadequate one.
The movie speaks of an island where one can change the course of one's life, an island that floats like a raft atop the sea, that is so full of caves as to be nearly hollow, so that each of the many holes you may fall into is really a tunnel that will take you somewhere else.
Despite antisemitism running amok, Liza is oblivious to it all--living her hollow and self-indulgent life.
Especially as there's no other music in it, contributing to the stagey, slightly hollow presentation.
Perhaps it's how a spoiled, rich teenager would imagine adults to be, selfish, whiny, demanding and spiritually hollow.
As I contemplated the hollow feeling of having wasted a couple hours watching the film, I switched from passive viewer into active reviewer mode to determine why HTD didn't work on so many levels.
Behaviour of protagonists is far from being natural, and everything rings hollow.
Probably the best thing is that it's a completely fresh film; no hollow, over budgeted, OTT, trillion dollar musical.
It all adds up to one empty, hollow shell of a documentary that forgets to keep its finger on the pulse.
So, if the "Bette Davis/Legend" concept rings a little hollow with you as it did me, watch this film.
In this light The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a fascinating yet ultimately very hollow film.
Top this off with ultra low budget digital film quality, poor acting and a hollow cliché of a soundtrack.
Muccino's "L'ultimo bacio" (to be avoided like the plague!) and his latest, "Ricordati di me", are prime examples of Berlusconi-era cinema: pretty-to-look-at but pointless, riddled with stoopid cliches, pre-packed, pre-digested conclusions, conservative, moralistic and misogynistic undertones that pass for brave portrayals of modern Italy (yeah right), hollow cynicism and shallow "portraits" of middle-class malaise that are merely a smug, self-referential celebration of this milieu (Muccino's own).
John Wayne was a great actor, and not the hollow stereotype that he was often accused of being as his popularity waned.
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