Sentences with phrase «wooden performances in»

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.

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.

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 artificiaIn 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 artificiain 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.

On Clark Island, the Park District will restore the 70 - year - old stone picnic shelter and footbridges, remove the wooden stage attached to the shelter and build a seating wall with steps for spectators to use during Shakespeare in the Park performances.

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).

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.

«Short Circuit «is an obvious «WarGames «ripoff in which a robot steals every scene from wooden performances by the always - too - eager - to - p lease Steve Guttenberg and the usually likable Ally Sheedy.

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.

Even more damagingly than the distracting style choices are the performances, which feel wooden or exaggerated, as if there's a style that Tully is going for in the acting as well but not quite reaching.

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.

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

Her performance in Force Awakens was really wooden.

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.

The movie is pretty awful in most respects — its script formulaic (James R. Webb, adapting John D. MacDonald's novel The Executioners), its direction plodding (the lumbering J. Lee Thompson), its lead performances wooden (Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin).

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.

Indeed, Eastwood showed more personality in his Dirty Harry movies than Smith does in his wooden performance here.

While I agree that Bale gave a wooden performance, I think Joel Edgerton was great, he elevated the scenes he was in.

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.

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.

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.

Video (Lines in the Sand 2002/2005, colour, sound, 47:45 min), projection, blackboard, wooden structure, paint, video (Pillow Talk, 2002, colour, sound), monitor with performance video, green wooden couch, sand and relief box, plaster, photographs, paintings).

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.

This pop - up wooden theatre in Southampton, England, was designed by London architecture collective Assemble to look like a cross between a performance venue and a football stadium (+ slideshow).

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.

A common, and serious, problem, in interview performance is the «wooden interviewee syndrome» in which interviewees don't act naturally, but in a forced, uncomfortable, manner.