Word: amateurish
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...particularly amateurish scene, Carruth leaves a steady camera on a panorama of the garage, all four scientists toiling away within. As the garage door closes, it seems as if the scene is going to black out, but the audience is instead treated to a moment of over-indulgent symbolism as the camera zooms in to the garage door to show each scientist boxed into his own window. It seems is if the director wants to tell us that the happy band of science geeks are doomed from the start, but, one hopes, his terrible process of doing so will doom...
...developing countries, counterfeiters tend to target common prescription drugs, including the antibiotic amoxicillin and the painkiller acetaminophen. Many knockoffs are easy to spot because of their amateurish packaging. WHO investigators recently found a fake antimalaria drug circulating in Cambodia called Brainy, a nonexistent brand. Counterfeiters apparently planned to fool unsophisticated buyers by printing the packaging in the Thai language-Thai products are respected in Cambodia. Other fakes, however, come in packages that are nearly indistinguishable from the real products. "Even if there is a new security feature, such as a hologram, the counterfeiters can reproduce...
...culture and local weirdoes. The story follows the two of them as Simon semi-reluctantly drives Nancy to Pacifica in order to spy on Ben, a man who writes obsessive love letters to a woman he thinks lives at Nancy's apartment. If the structure seems a bit amateurish - it has a few too many talky interludes and lucky coincidences - all is forgiven by the deep characterization. Simon and Nancy feel real, with complex, sympathetic personalities that make them compelling in spite of their self-absorption...
It’s like the Olympics, only more amateurish than ever intended...
...initial operations of his cell were amateurish, he conceded. When darkness fell, his little group would don camouflage outfits and black face masks, strap on AK-47s with three or four magazines apiece, grab a few hand grenades or rockets and head for the fringes of one of the 20 Israeli settlements laced into the Gaza Strip. Sometimes they would hit something, often not. "We'd try to shoot settlers or the soldiers guarding the houses. Or we'd fire Qassams at them," he said, referring to the crude short-range rocket called the Qassam II that Hamas began making...