It's actually not a remake of the film, but very much a heavy and untransformed version of the 2002 stage musical that grew out of the first movie, and has the same inert look as the 2005 screen version of The Producers.
Like a clay golem, Macuga's inert figure looks as if it's waiting to be controlled by some evil scientist.
Her inert body looks as incongruous as the sculpture of an anchor displayed on shore.
The collages on which these tapestries are based, along with related prints and bronze sculptures — all looking fairly inert — are in one gallery.
The opposite side had looked inert, he thought, so he imported a white storefront from Amsterdam.
It looks inert in the dailies, but then it plays like gangbusters in the movie.
The Yankees looked inert in the early innings, and felt the same way, as if they all needed a good dose of caffeine.
Either way, you looked inert and withdrawn, as if you had been fatally influenced by the catatonic character you played in Awakenings.
They are meant to show "wilderness reclaiming its power," according to the news release, but at this scale they look inert and unthreatening.
But scraps of architecture, even big ones, ultimately look inert, while Matta-Clark's actions entailed forms of pyrotechnical, swashbuckling athleticism that come across best in the films and the photographs, and which speak to his glamorous roots.
Well, if Henley's poem is good enough for Nelson Mandela, it's good enough for the rest of us, but I can't help finding it a stiff, tightly-buttoned piece of writing, appropriate for this massively inert picture, which looks like a heritage-tourism video.
