Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The movie takes its time reaching warp speed. The Zion debates drone on, and much of the acting and dialogue is stilted, perfunctory, at a level somewhere between a Star Trek TV episode and a Star Trek convention. But the ass kicking starts early, when Morpheus and Trinity have a...
Opening night had a few kinks, with a missed sound cue or two and actors in painful heels stumbling over the cruelly uneven and cramped stage. But overall, the production went smoothly. The soundtrack, which highlighted themes of love and questionable taste, was a well-chosen selection of â?...
Temptation is a retelling of the Faust tale (coincidentally, another Faust rendering goes up in the Loeb Ex next weekend), and is lucky to find an excellent lead in Greg Gagnon ’04 as Dr. Foustka. Though Gagnon is particularly good at seeming small and meek�...
The supporting cast works together very well. Morton mixes irony and earnestness splendidly, showing tremendous promise in her Harvard debut. Sara Petersen, as Foustka’s long-suffering love interest Marketa, starts her attraction to him suitably wide-eyed and ends it in a disturbingly potent way. Cassie Fliegel...
The conversation was stilted. What I’d stumbled upon was an end-of-the-road hideaway in an area now controlled by Bosnian Muslims. Perhaps this small Catholic cell had been here during the ethnic cleansing, or maybe they were shuffled here thereafter—either way, this...