Sentences with phrase «wooden performance of»

Add this to the piss - poor wooden performance of Malin Akerman in Watchmen, and I'm slightly concerned it will repeat with Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.

Not exact matches

-- In his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificial.

While Jones» performance still lacks the dexterity of his colleagues (some of the dialogue with Hardwick comes off particularly wooden), The Defenders makes some smart moves in how Iron Fist bounces off his new super pals.

Theo did unfortunately also put in a string of average performances (albeit often from the bench) in advance of scoring a hat - trick in the Premier League equivalent of a wooden spoon match.

Says Downhill Charlie of Colo, «He was racing on wooden skis with cable bindings, and considering the equipment, his performances were extraordinary.

The performance of David Duchovny struck this viewer as pretty wooden and left one wondering how he went from interested skeptic to heart - felt believer.

The acting was okay for the most part (Marsden and Perabo were pretty good but Glenn and Thornton gave two of the most wooden performances I've seen recently), the attacks by the bear were not that well made but it could've been worse but, ultimately, the movie is entertaining and in the end you really care for the 3 main characters (Perabo, Marsden, Jane).

With any luck, the endearingly wooden Dornan will have better performances ahead of him, while Johnson, whose radiant intelligence and tremulous sensitivity have brought more shades to this story than anyone could have dreamed, will surely have better movies.

For all the grace of the animation and visual splendor, the stilted script and emotionless «performances» give this digital artifact a distinctly stiff, wooden flavor.

I don't normally notice, or care about, such trivialities, but this was one of the most plotless movies I've seen in a long while, filled with wooden acting performances (Urban seemed to be on auto - pilot, and Clancy Brown as the lead Viking looks to have had his usual menace stifled by the uncomfortable head gear) and underdeveloped characters.

These mobsters, mistresses and their surrounding Broadway types — especially Dianne Wiest giving one of the greatest ever Oscar - winning performances — are a hoot to spend time with, as are the New York crazies that populate Deconstructing Harry, a film that sails along nicely until it turns into a curiously wooden (hah hah, right!)

Australian actress Clemens, who looks like the long - lost sister of Carey Mulligan and Michelle Williams, fills her duties just fine, but the wooden dialogue gives her no chance to rise above a TV - level performance.

Much of the problem lies in Dillon's pale, wooden performance in the lead role: The part seems to call for effortless, bohemian, slightly sleazy charm, but Dillon plays the character as a clueless, charisma - free jock.

The dialogue, ghost - written by Tom Stoppard, isn't always unspeakable, and the performances of Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman aren't nearly as wooden as they were the last time around.

Despite another wooden performance, she does manage to generate an aura of mystery as she slinks in and out of the shadows, her allegiance to any one group perpetually impossible to verify.

Only Ben Affleck hurts the production with another one of his trademark wooden performances which make it impossible to figure out what his character is thinking or feeling.

Giving a performance of some power, John Travolta plays a dedicated builder of wooden yachts of a kind no longer much in demand.

Are her deliberate, arguably wooden line readings a sign of an impressively controlled and confident performance?

In his Hong Kong work, he usually coaxes understated performances from capable actors such as Chow Yun - Fat; Van Damme, on the other hand, isn't much of an actor, and as such his attempted «subtlety» comes off as just plain wooden.

Johnson and Dornan's performances are wooden and their chemistry nonexistent (particularly in the movie's more - of - the - same sex scenes), but think of it all as ultra-deadpan entertainment and it kind of works.

Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, and Octavia Spencer give really solid performances to their characters while the rest of the acting is fine but felt incredibly wooden throughout.

It brought new meaning to the term «wooden performance»; its stars were literally puppets, a rather bland and interchangeable marionette family of clean living Hardy Boys, or in this case the Tracy boys.

Also, Ed Speleers as our hero Eragon gets my vote as most wooden performance in a fantasy / sci - fi flick since... well... Hayden Christensen as Young Darth Vader in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

The standard features of the SC430 include 18 - inch alloy wheels rolled over with performance tires, fog lamps, adaptive xenon headlights, a wooden trim, heated auto - dimming exterior mirrors with built - in puddle lamps, driver memory functions, dual - zone fully - automatic climate control, and Bluetooth mobile phone connectivity.

With its massive wooden beams, plasterwork, gleaming hardwood floors, ironwork details, and grand fireplace, the Playhouse has been enjoyed by generations of Santa Monicans and used almost continually since its inception as a meeting hall and performance venue.

Character performances are generally good with voice acting for the most part being done really well with only a very few minor extras sounding a little wooden, but this can be forgiven considering the amount of other main characters that are available to interact with throughout.

Think of Vito Acconci's 1971 Seedbed, performed at the Sonnabend Gallery, then in SoHo, where the artist masturbated under a wooden platform, or West Coast artist Chris Burden's arrangement to have himself shot in the arm; Benglis's 1974 advertisement in Artforum, in which she is naked except for a giant, strategically placed dildo, or her dramatic, vibrantly pigmented urethane pours on gallery floors; Martha Rosler's famous performance video Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975); and Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party (1974 — 79).

While Kubota's interdisciplinary work pointed to her influences from John Cage and Marcel Duchamp, in her compositions of television monitors embedded in wooden boxes and other sculptural structures, Kubota emphasized form and permanence rather than the destruction and mutability found in many Fluxus performances.

Graduate student Danny Paulete had originally planned to build a platform using wooden slats, but, due to time constraints, he instead refocused his performance on walling the sides of his climbing platform — with the audience's help.

Following the performance, the projected film, the resultant wooden plank object - sculpture, and text will all remain (precisely in the place they were left) as an movement - inscribed installation for the duration of the exhibition.

When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new building in Manhattan's meatpacking district on May 1, it's the big things everyone will notice first: the sweeping views west to the Hudson River; the romantic silhouettes of Manhattan's wooden water towers; the four outdoor terraces for presenting sculptures, performances and movie screenings; and the tiered profile of its steel - paneled facade, intentionally reminiscent of the Whitney's Modernist, granite - clad Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue, which had been the museum's home since 1966.

The participating artists explore different aspects of the instrument, in sculptures, installations, performances and works on paper; its form, its mechanism, the soundboard and strings, its wooden case, as well as the Piano's history and our perception of it.

Conceived as a performance sculpture, the work confronts the viewer with a tall, labyrinthine assemblage of black - lacquered wooden beams and invites them to choreograph their own passage through the space.

Sculptures made of car bumpers, fabric scraps, old puzzles, and cut - off wooden blocks, meet with collages made of shredded and ripped paper, alongside performances using metal hardware as instruments and textiles.

Images: Chosil Kil, Ducks and Drakes, 2014, latex balloons, helium, hi - float, thread, aluminum, rubber bands, coins, Courtesy of the artists and One and J. Gallery; Chosil Kil, Doubles, 2014, leather, aluminum, wooden frame Courtesy of the artists and One and J. Gallery;; Chosil Kil, Volume II, 2013, performance, Courtesy of the artist; Chosil Kil, Doubles, 2014, leather, thread, wood, copper, Courtesy of the artist and Aoyama Meguro; Chosil Kil, You owe me big time, 2012, concrete floor, acrylics, filler, corks, Installation view, Objectif Exhibitions, 2012, Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Opdahl; Chosil Kil, 49th Attempt, 2012, lambskin leather, thread, sound baffling, Styrofoam peanuts, zip, Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Opdahl

Gilmore's Like This, Before is a large - scale «performance - based installation» in which white paint Abstract - Expressionistically cascades down one black, wooden roof - like structure, pooling in a bed of jutting, fragmented glass shards and dripping the onto the ground beneath.

Spreading across wooden panels in the style of wallpaper, these enlarged images are overlaid by sculptural objects, including a monstrous rubbery bat and a salamander, akin to the handmade props and costumes that populate Chetwynd's performances.

Undertaken for the company's performance of The Red Room (later known as Post Meridian) at the legendary Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Katz's contribution consisted of three enormous red panels that defined the stage, and round wooden discs capable of holding two dancers, which floated down from the top of the theater rafters.

The same is true of «Migrant» (2015), an intermittent performance that took place on an extended wooden framework reminiscent of a tunnel.

It's not a museum, but here is a list of just some of the current offerings: an up - to - the - minute program of filmic contemplations on race by one of today's most sought - after American artists (Carrie Mae Weems); an invigorating pairing of enigmatic artists from the mid-20th century (Francis Picabia) and today (Sigmar Polke); witty, laboriously hand - carved wooden replicas of cheap plastic seating by a young South African (Cameron Platter); little - seen commercial work by an artist best known for his ruminations on photographic truth (Larry Sultan); a reinterpretation of a well - known installation - cum - performance from the 1980s (originally by Sultan and Mike Mandel); a show of serious political works by distinguished artists, pitched as an interactive project to young audiences («Rise Up!

Sprüth Magers gallery caused quite a scene with a performance piece by a beautiful chainsaw - wielding woman destroying a wooden statue of John Bock (made by Bock himself).

Carpenter Department of The Air Force — Beale AFB, CA 2012 - 2016 • Trained many junior carpenters • Received performance - based bonuses and rewards • Obtained vocational training on woodwork from the Craft Club Chicago • Constructed, installed, repaired and modified wooden and metal structures • Adequately performed regular roofing repairs including asphalt, tiles, slate roll roofing, felts and shingles • Maintained safety procedures and regulations • Prepared reports of completed and pending work