Sentences with word «stilted»

However, the film itself is a failure in delivering its own messages, with stilted dialogue, confused motivations, and lackadaisical delivery.

Action sequences are slow, stilted and clumsy, the more intimate character moments even more so.

Many of the performances have that stilted, pre-Method tinge to them, but both Winters and Mitchum bring something more authentic and unseemly to their roles.

As Pam Hobbs, mother of one of the victims, Witherspoon is relatively unburdened by stilted dialogue and convincingly portrays a tough, working - class woman facing unfathomable grief.

On paper, this film promises precisely zero: a Vegas fratboy comedy with a stilted cameo from Mike Tyson.

It makes controlling the camera - so essential in sneaking around and checking your surroundings - stilted and slow, and if you alert guards and they start coming at you from more than one angle you can kiss your ass goodbye.

I don't want to ruin anything for you, but suffice it to say every single sports movie cliche you can imagine crammed into about 5 hours of gameplay still doesn't tell the full story of how hacky and stilted this thing is.

Some of the supporting performances now seem dated and the line readings stilted; dialogue such as «How will I ever be able to thank you?

Filmed on location in New Orleans, everything has that Deep South stilted humid torpor that soundstages and green screens just can't recreate.

First off, it feels a little stilted, and I got the feeling that there was a lot of material left on the cutting room floor.

That the character's existence eventually has to be justified by a stilted Bruce Willis cameo is something sadder than naked franchise building; it's an inadvertent mea culpa.

The most commendable element of Brimstone is its cast, whose performances (though in several instances, quite mannerist and stilted) are the film's backbone.

In recent years they've been quick to get to the games, and that was the same last night, but without context and without those stilted game developers being dragged up on stage, there were few moments of clarity to be found.

On the other extreme, there will be those who are repulsed by the imagery and dark themes, not really entertained by the very unrealistic characters (especially the man - eating Kevin and the grotesque Yellow Bastard), or the intentionally stilted noir dialogue.

It's also a sharp left turn for Driver, whose stilted hipsterdom in Noah Baumbach's «While We're Young» came as a solid representation of his career to date; of his rise from HBO's millennial - driven «Girls.»

Thoughts that Lehane places in his characters minds, Helgeland transfers to their mouths, where they come out stilted and absurd.

The often impossibly tedious narrative is compounded by stilted dialogue that rarely sounds authentic or even plausible (ie it's as if everything's been translated into English directly from another language), while the total lack of tension ensures that the movie's second half, ostensibly designed to operate as a suspenseful thriller, feels even more aimless and irrelevant than anything preceding it.

I can honestly say even though Rev. Road wasn't the worst (Gran Torino is far worse) or hardest to watch (Frost / Nixon is a serious case of «When are they gonna get to the fireworks factory»), everything is so stagey, stilted and obvious that I had complete apathy to everything I watched.

The remainder of the film's multi-national, multi-racial cast tend to be burdened with underwritten characters and stilted, on - the - nose lines.

The drama is marked by a stilted formality, but it works, especially in the context of a story about how suffocating customs can be for a woman who plans to avoid marriage and stay with her immediate family, where she feels safe.

The film starts off clumsily, a scene in a music shop where Richard (Efron) meets Gretta (Zoe Kazan) features stilted dialogue and an uncomfortably obvious telegraphing of a romantic subplot (though it would turn out to be more of a structural hallmark).

And it doesn't seem to matter how good the actor is, they all seem to have the same stilted delivery as they fumble with these unnatural sentences.

Equals looks terrific, and the acting is superb, but the execution is just a little bit off, making the film an emotionally stilted curiosity and sadly not all that much more than that.

Even if you've never watched The Room, you've probably seen this one particular scene memed to death on YouTube because of its horrifically stilted segue.

Haynes brilliantly uses the restrictions of the genre to critique cultural expectations: Cathy's purposefully stilted dialogue remains bound by the front - office conventions of post-WWII Hollywood (interestingly, Frank's isn't), and unlike the men in the film, her options are as limited as the choice between a happy or a sad ending.

The two go out on a first date, but the conversation is at times stilted as the admittedly odd Olivia calls things out as she seems them, essentially daring Marcus to reveal more to her about his life.

Reeves breaks that silence with on - the - nose narration that, at times, invites unfavorable comparisons to Harrison Ford «s stilted voiceover in the first cut of «Blade Runner.»

It also attempts to weave in serious discussions about sexuality and ethnicity in Hollywood, generally via stilted dialogue exchanges in which the themes are explored in boldface fashion.

It's a willfully stilted and pandering cinematic indulgence — original but not meritorious.

The film does have noticeable faults, such as sub-plots of dubious purpose drifting in and out of the narrative and some stilted dialogue with no purpose other than expository contrivance.

Terence Davies» «A Quiet Passion» takes its time getting started; its early scenes, with first a teenage Dickinson (Emma Bell, her performance blending seamlessly into Nixon's), then with Nixon as the adult poet, feel disarmingly stilted; the precise formality of the language seeming to create a barrier.

The movie flags enormously in its homestretch, marked by a stilted extended cameo from Oscar winner Hilary Swank as an FBI agent.

This all looks like good «murder party» fun, stilted - grandiose line deliveries and all, and will be getting an ultra-wide release November 10th from 20th Century Fox.

The acting is just unbelievably stilted, especially Portman's Queen Amidala, who both looks and sounds like a robot.

What remains is a stilted travelogue with fancy art references.

Poor line readings often go hand in hand with badly written dialogue, but when the stale narration stops and Lively's character and her stilted line deliveries are pushed into the background of the film, things immediately improve.

Every element of the movie feels fabricated, from the stilted conversation to the all - too - convenient obstacles the movie keeps throwing in the path of progress, including a flat tire, an empty gas tank and an implausible detour to a church.

Even stranger, it's actually watchable, though at times I was ready to slap Mel Gibson for his stilted performance, which frequently drags down the movie as he pontificates.

True happiness is achieved through confronting and overcoming fear and insecurity, be it with regards to Oliver, Jordana, or Oliver's dry - as - toast parents, whose stilted marriage (which Oliver spies on, in order to maintain its health) is challenged by the arrival of mom's former crush (Paddy Considine), a wacko psychic with a van featuring a Dark Side of the Moon - style painting of himself on its side.

Even if the De Laurentiis house style demanded a degree of euro - pudding casting (including some slumming by the likes of Silvia Mangano, Max von Sydow, and Jürgen Prochnow), there's a fair number of British stage actors (Francesca Annis, Patrick Stewart) to infuse the awesomely stilted dialogue with its requisite gravitas.

Evangeline Lilly plays Tauriel well, but for me the film more often than not felt stilted when both she and Legolas (Orlando Bloom) shared the screen.

If something appears stilted about the entire proceeding, it could be that the «stilted» is a good way to describe the blah 1950s and early 1960s, men in black suits, white shirts, narrow ties with clasps lest a piece of fabric look natural.

The ever - radiant Maggie Gyllenhaal (as baker Ana Pascal) is fantastic, and believe it or not a good counterpoint to the purposefully stilted Ferrell.

The film is shot in a more old - fashioned approach, which comes off more stilted than nostalgic.

This supports Woody's backstory, including some bleak family history but it also makes the forward trajectory of the narrative and its dramatic peaks seem stilted.

It's embarrassing to watch, and Dignam's clunky, stilted dialogue — which the actors (including Jean Reno and Jared Harris in supporting roles) struggle in vain to rescue via dramatic pauses — only makes matters worse.

The smug, stilted dialogue sounds as if it were written in Greek, run through Google Translate, then smoothed out with diction from Anglo - American plays of the 1950s.

Frances Ha, which starred and was co-written by Baumbach's partner Greta Gerwig, was a meandering black - and - white bildungsroman with contemporary dance and stilted conversation as major themes.

So when he and his anesthesiologist, Matthew (Bill Camp), stroll down a gleaming empty corridor and engage in stilted small talk about swank wristwatches, the deflating effect is thinly amusing, in the affected Lanthimos way.

«The heartbeat of the film is Plaza's nimble performance — the micro-second behind - the - beat inability to glibness, the stilted smile in the selfie and that feral alertness to threat in her watchful gaze» — LL