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When Elvis and his Fatal Attraction get into bed together, there's actually a wooden board in between them!
And for good reason: they are unbearably wooden and pretentious imitations of Bergman.
The actors were wooden, unemotional, and aloof.
Michael Caine appeared wooden at times in his role as the Doctor, and at no time no did I actually believe in his character.
I am desperately trying to find something nice about this, I can't except Walken did a fine job with a wooden character.
The acting in "Paperhouse" is wooden, unintentionally a joke.
Nicholas Cage, fairly wooden as far as actors go, imbues the screen with a range of skill from, non-plussed to over the top.
So wooden she makes a rocking horse look like it could do a better job.
Other than Susan Hayward's wooden delivery throughout this film it was as good as any biblical film made.
Andrews is quite fine (a lot less wooden than he's been in the past) and the stunningly beautiful Gene Tierney is stunningly beautiful!
Renoir probably figured that with so much going for her Bergman could get away with a couple of wooden leading men and Renoir picked two doozys in Jean Marais and Mel Ferrer, solid mahogany in both cases.
The acting in this film is of a somewhat high standard, if a little wooden in some spots, and the effects are very real and gritty.
Fontaine is great, but some others, particularly Richard Ney, Ivy's husband, are exceedingly wooden.
I've seen him in numerous movies and tv shows and he is always the same; stiff, wooden and utterly unconvincing.
Brosnan is excellent in this role, gone is the wooden James Bond (a role he was wasted in).
There is some wooden dialogue and some unexplained bits and bobs but it is the super creepy atmosphere that is maintained throughout, that and the super musical score that keep this one moving nicely along.
The film also stars Toni Collette(Who has okay but has been much better) Ewan Mecgreger(Who has also been better but he is still very good here) Alan Cumming(Who I have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here) and Jeremy Northam(Who's performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle, even if that was not what it needed) There have been much better adaptations of Jane Austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching.
While watching this movie I felt like I was sitting in a small restaurant in Madrid, comfortably watching the dancers bang on a wooden plank over a delicious fruit cocktail.
The acting seems wooden and strangely sterile, but this is perhaps a result of its contrast with the visuals which must have been utterly breathtaking at the time of the movie's release, and which still impress today.
The self-destructive brother and sister (Robert Stack, reeling his way through the film in a drunken stupor, and Dorothy Malone, playing a vampish poor little rich girl totally over the top) end up the losers and Hudson gets Bacall - who is rather wooden in this part which does not have enough character or wit to get her going.
I expected this movie to be somewhat of a Halloween rip off with a killer wooden guy.
But it opened with a good scene and the killer murdered two victims immediately and flashed forward twenty years later where his son who had witnessed him kill the two people(including his mother) and he even witnessed his fathers suicide is going to a secluded cabin in the woods with his friends and his girlfriend where he attempts to face his fears until a wooden statue comes to life with his fathers spirit.
We're really talking about creepily creaking doors, eerie portraits that appear to be moving, spontaneously dying candles although there's no wind and smoke coming from underneath heavy wooden chamber doors.
So what if Randolph Scott is a little wooden and fish-out-of-water without either a horse or a six-gun within easy reach and Harriet Hilliard doesn't exactly set the screen on fire; we came to see Fred and Ginger and the only question is, do they deliver.
Everything you need to know is established in 15 minutes and when they step back from it to create the gangsters they end up too wooden and sentimental to be believable.
The performances are about as wooden as one would expect in a typical B film, with only Margo conveying some of the tension one would expect from persons in a small town with a frightened leopard on the loose.
Robert Taylor was wooden; Eleanor Parker, pretty; Victor Jory's face was covered but we were treated to his wonderful voice.
Kasdan's direction and writing is too clever by half, and his characters too one-note and wooden.
Babe Ruth was as wooden as one of his bats, but Pigtails hit a grand slam!
The plot meanders on, the acting is wooden, and in the end you don't know if there was a story there at all.
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