Word: inexpert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dogma's greatest shortcoming, however, is glaring: amateurish cinematography. Not one for lush visuals, Smith has never been overly concerned with the aesthetic aspect of movie making. Although inexpert camerawork is not only pardonable in his previous films, but also considered a Smith trademark, the home video ambiance just doesn't work in Dogma. With few action sequences and even fewer special effects, Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy didn't demand much camera movement (even Smith, before beginning work on Dogma, self-effacingly assured that he'd "move the camera this time.") The inconsistent camera angles are so vexing, they...
Long family chronicles were once, of course, staples of Victorian and Edwardian fiction, and the reason they have been far less commonplace since is their tendency, in inexpert hands, to be enslaved by chronology, to become little more than one damned thing after another. Updike aims to avoid this danger by using overarching themes to bind up the threads of his lengthy story: the decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies...
...Bush's fractured syntax, pronouns mysteriously vanished, words were slurred together and odd idioms like "Don't cry for me Argentina" inserted themselves awkwardly into attempts at solemn oratory. Bush never seemed in total control of his language; he was like a somewhat inexpert horseman on a bucking bronco, jerking around abruptly from clause to clause and sometimes falling off altogether mid-sentence...
...whole, the acting in The Mandrake is inexpert and inept. It is a high school production with pretensions. Cabranes-Grant has clearly given a lot of thought to the mannerisms and orations of his cast, but the actors ultimately prove incapable of lifting this direction out of the realm of the artificial...