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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.
Everything about this film production-wise is very static and flat, the film has no energy or pace.
This film uses all art-house clichés (slow pace, long static shots, minimal amount of dialog) to try to hide the fact that there really is nothing worth watching here: There is no plot to speak of, the characters are dreary (female lead) or cliché (Tersteeghe's character), and they do not ever talk to each other about anything that concerns their rather uneventful lives.
But this film is static.
The plot was bad and there wasn't a single likeable character.I could get more entertainment watching static.
The static one-room sets don't help either, and neither does director Feist's obvious lack of feel for the material.
One exception is the novel entitled "The Lad and the Lion", brought to the screen as "The Lion Man" (1936), an over-talkative, static, old-hat, slow-moving and rather dull movie, despite being filmed on real desert locations.
For starters, Victor Halperin's static (non)direction lets the meandering and uneventful talk-ridden story plod along at an excruciatingly slow pace.
What was so photogenic thru Verhoeven's lens looks like mutton dressed as lamb in the hands of gun-for-hire Michael Caton-Jones, who's flat, drab colours and static camera render her undeniable beauty totally moot.
Syberberg's entire approach is so static.
Problem is, the overall film is pretty static, and Cordell simply ain't Jason or Freddy.
We are soon introduced to the main actress and from this point it becomes clear to all that you have just wasted your hard earned and would be better off watching static.
You would be better off to rent a tape full of static than to waste your time on this crap.
Yet his style and grammar originate and remind viewers of films made in the World War 1 era of film-making: the frame composition, use of mid-shot, the static camera.
No action, no movement, just a static train.
We know nothing about the characters as the story begins and are given little new information as the story progresses, only silence and static shots of lovers who don't speak, who interaction through silent dances but share no apparent emotional intimacy.
Sometimes some static storyboarded compositions add appealing low-angles that adds to the malaise...but for a film that calls itself horror, I did not even get close to flinching once.
There were movies which are painfully static and dull, like "Dracula" with Bella Lugosi, and there were those that just don't give it a rest, sometimes in a good way and other times not.
(MTV brought to television and video a static movement that races through, often irrelevant cuts, from theme to theme without forward movement and without clear relationships to theme or storyline.)
Before Sunrise which I think employs more static angels and brighter color schemes, seems to try to capture the smallest atoms of liveliness surrounding Jesse and Celine, the world is always full of hope whether or not the characters feel it.
I admit that maybe the 'faces' of the bugs were a little more static than in 'Antz' and they only had four legs (in 'Antz' six...).
I always thought this would be a long and boring Talking-Heads flick full of static interior takes, dude, I was wrong.
I think this movie was probably a lot more powerful when it first debuted in 1943, though nowadays it seems a bit too preachy and static to elevate it to greatness.
It's so forthright, uneasy, repetitive and awkward, it becomes a static transformation of stage material onto film.
But in place of a story we get a series of static and talky (because they come from stage-plays) and disconnected scenes, all much the same as one another.
The acting is static and makes you feel like you are watching the first performance of several understudys.
The action, war and dueling scenes are just as outstanding as the static opulent court and palace scenes.
Furthermore, these static, one-dimensional characters never engage our sympathy.
Very static and horrid to watch, it DID try something different and this is an amazingly important film historically--I just would NEVER want to have to watch it again!
There was some interesting camera work, but then, and especially in the dialogue scenes, there was the most awful,awful talking heads thing going on, the most static and boring shots I have ever seen in a motion picture.
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