примитивный до безобразия

[Елена *]

Помогите, пожалуйста, перевести предложения: "Может быть когда-то он (спектакль) и поражал воображаение, но сейчас порядком устарел. К тому же, сюжет примитивный до безобразия."

[Usher]

Very

[ВВЗ]

Very what? :)

[Translucid Mushroom]

totally primitive

[Usher]

very primitive of course

[Olga X]

Здесь нужно красиво закрутить - ведь totally and very - это не передает нашего русского возмущения. Поэтому предлагаю написать

сюжет gives/brings a whole new meaning to the word 'primitive'.

[Usher]

я не согласен со значением русского слова. "до безобразия" уже стало банальным синонимом слова "очень" и никакой эмоциональной подоплёки уже не чувствуется. Моё имхо чиста.

[ВВЗ]

utterly primitive

[askandy]

couldn't be more primitive

[ms801]

You could say "shamefully primitive"

[kath]

Option:
Perhaps this play did stir the imagination at one time, but now it has become rather dated. Furthermore, the plot is painfully primitive.

[ms801]

I like Kath's "painfully primitive" better. I think it catches the Russian meaning best. I retract my previous suggestion. :)))

[Irisha]

dreadfully?

[Talgat]

kath made a perfect suggestion, the perfect, perhaps. not that this has ever stopped me :-)

the play, although a daring piece in its glory days, is now inexorably passé. to top it all off, the story line is monsterously/freakishly primitive.

my version is more colloquial than kath's. but i do believe mine would not look out of place in any broadway play review.

[kath]

2talgat - touche! :) i like your version and agree that it is most fitting in most review sections. and it isn't colloquial. it's passionate.