Word: amateurishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of these criticisms may seem petty, but in sum, they create a clear picture of a production with a fair script and great actors that somehow comes out looking very amateurish. The oft pretentious HRDC mainstage shows are indeed put on by college students, but they usually achieve professional quality, even brilliance at times. They have in the past at least shown themselves capable of avoiding the high school style mistakes that haunt this production...
...putative heroes of these two bloodbaths--the kid who cried vampire too much and the I-eat-steal-wontons tough cop in Dragon look and feel so ... phony. More to amateurish acting in Fright Night and more to Mickey Rouke's pretentious acting in Dragon, both movies convey that condescending sense of cinematic closed-captioning for the slow...
...outset, the final stage was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair. The coqueros were content to ship cocaine into the U.S. via "mules," who would coat their stomachs with cod-liver oil or honey, then swallow the cocaine wrapped in condoms. If they were lucky, they could flush the drug out once they were over the border. Soon enough, however, the cocaine czars could afford to send bulk shipments into the U.S. in their own DC-6 aircraft or by high-powered speedboats. By 1983, indeed, the system was running so efficiently that the market was glutted with cocaine...
Well, if plot is not the strong point of Fast Forward dancing must be. At first this does seem to be the case. While the eight actors deliver their lines with unconvincing, amateurish sincerity, their dancing is powerful, professional and precise. Unfortunately, choreographer Rich Atwell gives these dancers little with which to work. After two routines the steps become monotonously similar. The energy of each dance stays at full blast making high kicks, split leaps and multiple turns seem ordinary. The art of dancing is lost in Atwell's desire to exploit the dazzling tricks of the trade...
...first generation of how-to tapes has not exactly advanced the video art form. Some use a celebrity host to liven up a dry presentation; more often an anonymous lecturer is aided only by crude graphics or amateurish dramatizations. Attempts to make the material more "visual" are frequently awkward. First Aid: The Video Kit, produced by the American Red Cross and CBS/ Fox Video, buries its valuable information amid hokey sketches in which two couples are instructed in proper first-aid techniques by a helpful neighbor...