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Now up to this point it has been standard horrible movie fair, bad acting, dialog and everything else, but has still been pretty plausible, yet after Jigsaw catches fire things take a turn for the worst...Jigsaw comes alive.. How you ask?
Uta Hagen's "Respect for Acting" is the standard textbook in many college theater courses.
Set in Porky's Fish Shoppe, 'Porky's Poor Fish' occupies an uncomfortable area between a standard black 'n' white Porky cartoon and one of the books-come-to-life Merrie Melodies that were popular at that time.
Inconcievably (or perhaps it should have been expected), Artemisia's entire character and all that she stands for, had been reduced to a standard Hollywood, female character; a pitiful, physically flawless, helpless little creature, displaying none of the character traits that actually got her that place in history which was being mutilated here.
I found the acting to be laughable, the scenery (your standard dessert, horses and cowboys) boring and the music and its timing teetering on the edge of painful.
You begin to really ask yourself, what does it mean for our society that the standard is so terribly low?
In many cases, the films were essentially similar plot-wise to standard Hollywood fare, but with a much, much lower budget--and usually horrid production values.
In 17th Century Japan, there lived a samurai who would set the standard for the ages.
It's always obvious that this film was made for television as the acting is very standard, the plot lacks ideas and the gruesome murder scenes seen in the previous three are kept to a bloodless minimum.
This ludicrous film offers the standard 1970's "hippie mentality" in a nut shell and bores us in the process.
Each group gets about the standard three minutes, the exception being the Mills Brothers, who for some reason warranted two numbers.
The film starts after the standard "lets be scary" movie intro, which by now every film watcher has become accustomed.
But this is nowhere near up to standard.
This threadbare cast, whose combined star power would struggle to illuminate a standard lamp, is perfectly matched by the crummy production values.
The acting was below standard and story was unbearable.
Now we have stupidity substituting for humour and gross out gags(toilet humour) as the standard operating procedure .
"Air Buddies," which is about as original as recycled paper, fails to meet that standard.
To this is added the standard evil brother who wants the fiance for himself, and a different ending!
Redd Foxx does his standard schtick, Michael Warren at least tries to bring humanity to a one dimensional character, and Pearl--Pearl what were you thinking--?
I guess it's Jack's great empathic ability that makes him the powerful performer that he is, but empathy comes at a price like all things-when he's surrounded by mediocrity he instinctively lowers the standard and becomes one with it.
I felt it was very unfortunate that "gay culture" took on certain standard forms in the 80's out of Castro and Christopher Streets and these defined the movement and left out huge numbers of gay men that were more subdued in their lifestyles.
Broad and dame are standard terms and gay baiting and bashing are represented for what they were in the day (camp- wise).
This is a poor film by any standard.
The script contains all the standard mystery film props-sliding panels, secret passageways, thunder and lightning and poisoned blow-darts.
All the standard romantic-comedy scenes, even down to the taxi sprinting to the airport to stop the woman flying away.
We wanted to be true movie critics... to have a standard to base all other movies on it is hard to justify saying you have seen the best movie (a 10)they always come up with something better.
Third, there are a lot more good black actors to choose from than these standard picks.
Limited animation as well as sub standard character and background design will limit its mass market appeal.
Standard procedure for Swedish movies today seem to be to start by throwing plausibility out the window and continue down that path for the rest of the process.
A movie should be judged on its own standard and how it fits in society.
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