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When I watched this with my brother we were laughing so much that our stomach were in agony for days... I just watched Cohen's The Stuff and there were similarities like Moriarty's wooden acting and really campy settings and lousy special effects.
Performances feel wooden and terribly uninterested, and it seems to show.
To say that the actors have the acting range of wooden puppets is actually insulting to said puppets.
The problems was not that the movie was awful (apart from the typically wooden performance by Freddy Prinze, Jr. -- and why the heck has Matthew Lillard, who can actually ACT -- see "SLC Punk if you don't believe me -- spent so much of his career playing second banana to that meat-head?), but rather that the last three games are better MOVIES than the movie: they had better casts, better stories, better dialogue, even better visual effects (in the cut scenes, at least) and better musical scores!
Sure it has a few clichéd set pieces and a few moments of wooden acting, but after the first 30 minutes or so it pans out to be a nicely put together movie.
The acting was wooden, the script inconsequential and the direction?
Nia Peeples was the only reason I watched this (principally) But her usual classy acting was let down by her co-stars (the noticeably and unusual wooden Dan Aykroyd) plus her great figure was mostly hidden by a police uniform!
From the wooden acting, pathetically stupid fight scenes, mis-timed action in general, and don't even get me started on the weapons.
Surely this was an unintended consequence of the poor script and bad acting, the seemingly lumbering stupidity of the wooden muscle-bound hero and the obligatory trotting around cardboard sets in g-strings by these supposedly heroic do-gooders.
As much as Kate Hepburn's quivering chin and teary eyes are an annoyance to devotees of serious acting in film, Connie Selleca's wooden gestures and her inability to deliver a line with any meaningful emotion are enough to invoke the "throw-up" doctrine for evaluating films: If an actor's inability to act creates such nausea that vomiting in unavoidable, then the film itself should be consigned to the nearest trash-bin.
A good premise is wasted with bad dialog, wooden characters, and a hero that can't drive a car!
The plot is witless and contrived, the songs are boring and the acting is wooden.
The acting is the worst I've seen on the small screen, throw in a few wooden chairs and the film wouldn't have suffered in the least.
For one thing, she is quite wooden, too mature for the part of a starry eyed nineteen year old and the other she is all wrong physically and facially for the part.
The two actors playing the leads deserved a script that was considerably less wooden.
The acting is wooden, the direction and editing are quite poor as well.
Brent, already one of the most wooden of actors, is made even more so by the presence of Welles, but it's a nice contrast.
Poorly written with wooden performances by the miscast actors.
I have generally found the performances of Lon Chaney Jr. a little wooden(sometimes a lot wooden),with the exception of "The Wolfman" and "Of Mice and Men".This film is no exception in that respect, but it has other redeeming features.The way Katherine Caldwell(Louise Allbritton) makes the state of being undead seem so seductively appealing is a very interesting aspect of this film.
Robert Forster plays the student and his performance is limited to smug expressions and wooden stares.
Along the way he ravages Marisa Mell, who pretends to enjoy his impositions whilst plotting her own secret revenge with police inspector Giulio Santini (the incredibly wooden Richard Harrison).
Not a very good film the acting is surprisingly wooden.
Nathan Lane certainly has his fey acting abilities in tact, but he has no one to play against with Williams being as wooden as that living room cross.
Her acting is just as wooden as it was in that picture.
Ken Russell has never been very nimble with actors, but one expects more fireworks with this large cast (they are largely posed and wooden).
Definitely a "B" movie, with limited special effects and wooden acting, but still fun for kids.
Scared to Scream" is completely lifeless,dull and bloodless outing in the slasher genre.The acting is awful,the pace is extremely slow and the final motif of a knife-wielding killer is so painfully stupid that it has to be heard to be believed.Anne Archer in her first role is incredibly wooden,and there is almost no blood and gore to be seen here.So don't be fooled by other reviews-this is one of the worst,most boring slash'em all flicks I have ever seen.1 out of 10.You'll regret seeing this your all life!
When the magician began causing such rampant sin and perversion as his granted freedom gave way to lascivious appetites, those religious townpeople, who haven't succumb to the lusts of the flesh decide to hang him on a wooden cross in the middle of a cornfield, later burning his bones & burying them in a tomb.
If you have seen the original Disney cartoon based on an Italian story about a wooden puppet who becomes a real boy, then you'll probably know the story already.
The source material certainly is and, no, I don't expect movie adaptations to stick 100% to their source material (like Sin City, which, let's face it, was wooden).
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