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Wooden performances by Lansing and Lee Meriwether barely rate as one-dimensional, though Patty Duke (playing a cute brat pre-"Miracle Worker") gets a colorful, memorable exit.
I like the concept of CSI, but the show is spoiled by some seriously wooden acting.
Aside from the acting, which is wooden, no tank commander attacks with his tanks parked in nice neat rows, up the middle of roads, and with troops bunched all together with their arms not at the ready.
The plot is completely derivative (Jaws, anyone?), the acting is wooden, the characters are uninteresting, the special effects are beyond bad, and the score is annoying.
The acting is worse than wooden (I could possibly watch a tree for 30 seconds before becoming completely bored, if you can look at this rubbish for that long you're a better man than I!) and the fight scenes would be at home on a kindergarten play yard.
Ward and Dalton aren't so bad, but Alicia Witt's wooden performance made me wince.
He tells the story of how Afzel passed the gift of life to himself & gave life to his own wooden puppets that were part of the Theatre Magique show.
Unless Bonnaire's wooden posturing and flat line readings are supposed to indicate transcendent faith and determination.
It may have some long-term significance as a snapshot of 1950s US thinking, but there is little else to commend in the mawkish storyline, wooden acting and grating style.
Smith's vibrant characterizations are converted into wooden stick figures, all historicity is ignored or discounted, the realism of the books has been changed to include phantom monsters more appropriate to a cartoon.
Jerk hazer Mike(David Zelina playing this college frat man as one major bastard you want to see die right away)and his college cronies leave hypoglycemic diabetic Sam(Caleb Roehrig)hanging on a wooden cross along with this scarecrow which is a legendary ghost story.
With actors that are as wooden as a cigar store indian, a script that was written by the director's 4-year-old son, a camera that was stolen from a burning pawn shop, poverty-row special effects, and to top it off, a director that thought making this crap would make them famous.
The plot drags, the characters are wooden and uninteresting, the motivations of their actions are completely indecipherable.
Remember the wooden, undramatic literary adaptations of the 1970s at their worst?
The acting is so wooden a door could have done a better job.
I've seen more life in a wooden spoon.
Lambert is wooden, as always (his moments of 'emotion' are laughable, as is his accent).
Personally, I think the concept of an evil Geppetto sounds better, he builds an army of wooden killers, and starts a crime wave, funny.
As Cole Younger, Wayne Morris is big and hunky enough but his " cool" demeanour and wooden acting skills undermine things.
The acting was so wooden I felt sorry for the actors!
Mom begins at night in the middle of nowhere, at what looks like a wooden building in the desert.
The script is all over the place, the dialog is wooden, the "action" is laughable and the plot could be summed up on a dirty cocktail napkin.
Naturally the wooden stake gets removed from his heart, and the vampire count comes to live again, immediately enslaving the petty thief to do his dirty work.
Poor Sela Ward, so lovely, but so wooden.... surely she's been better in other movies.
Lazy writing, bad acting and wooden direction lead us to a 2005 Canadian-made TV movie called HUSH, not to be confused with about eight other movies using the same name.
Obviously fake sets, wooden acting and stupid monsters are found in both films.
Reeves is wooden in the lead and casting Dan Aykroyd as a cop is so dreadful it has to be seen to be believed!.
This movie is so stupid that I want my $2.99 back that I paid for!! First this movie starts off with a bunch of wooden actor geeks with fill in talent like they got picked off the street somewhere because the "real" actors either did not show up because of the laughable script or they just couldn't get anybody desperate enough to do this movie!
Their actions and reactions are wooden and predictable, often painful to watch.
In all honesty I have seen less wooden acting from my ironing board.
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