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"Those cherished bad movies — full of jerry-built effects, abominable acting, ludicrous story lines" have been "driven to extinction," the critic A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in 2005.
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During his extraordinarily prolific five-decade career, Mr. Kuchar (pronounced KOO-char) stayed true to a style of demented, do-it-yourself movie production whose amateur acting, fractured narratives, ludicrous sets, preposterous dialogue, murky sound and all-around squalor expressed a core sensibility of cinematic sophistication, psychological acuity and moral urgency.
And yet most of the movies themselves are awful, marred by slapdash production, melodramatic acting and ludicrous plots.
There's something ludicrous about acting all the time".
But look a little closer, and under all the usual rhetoric there is a realistically commercial affair.The space station may be a ludicrous mansion in the heavens, but acting as its grocery van is a valid business.
AntiTrust was widely panned, because of its ostensibly ludicrous plot (and, to be fair, bad acting).
On the other side, and equally certain, are those who think that the idea of individuals acting as a conduit to the spirit world is ludicrous – certainly not worth the time and attention of a rational person.
To portray a cabal of community leaders acting as an all-powerful thought police for the 1.5 million British Muslims is ludicrous scare mongering.
A threesome video involved such ludicrous "acting" and bizarre quick-cuts that I asked to find a new one before there was even a threesome to speak of.
All three are adaptations of violent video games with devoted followings -- much of the bile directed at him on the web comes from disgruntled gamers -- and each one really offers the whole package: incomprehensible plotlines, ludicrous acting, subpar special effects, clueless camerawork, hacksaw editing, and dialogue crafted of pure cement.
9.28pm GMT 63 mins: I'm not entirely sure what just happened, because I watched the replays and thought that Vertonghen had horribly embarrassed himself, his club and his nation with his ludicrous play-acting, but on ITV Andy Townsend thought Zuzulya had been "a very silly boy".
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