Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two frustrating losses, it would have been easy for the booters to fall apart. They did not. But they did not put it all together either. They seemed to achieve an awkward state of limbo, playing well but losing, controlling the ball but not scoring...
Stallone did not give Assante any room to develop the potential conflicts within Lenny--between his desire to make money and his unwillingness to take advantage of Victor, between his need for love and his inability to accept it. Instead we see an awkward transformation of a sensitive and tortured character into an unfeeling money-grubber...
...beautiful, sings Like crazy, and is known to bankers from a career dating back to the early '60s, when she was the lead singer of the Supremes. Ross is 34, so the script calls for a Dorothy who is 24 and a shy schoolteacher. This is awkward, because if the fantasy is to succeed, Dorothy must be childlike enough to be terrified of witches and wizards, and to talk trustingly with a scarecrow, a lion and a tin man. A woman of 24 who is that innocent should not be teaching school...
...into his relationship with his parents, friends and lovers is essential to a man who survives by the quality of his observations of people. Allen's whole shtick, simplified somewhat and ignoring to a degree the growth and development visible in Annie Hall and Interiors, is that of an awkward, clumsy, neurotic, unconfident, hapless little man who manages to maintain a sense of irony and self-awareness throughout his mishaps and setbacks. Even when he gets the woman the self-mocking tone is always present. So why would a documentary-maker not immediately try to find out how much...
...crammed 48 characters into it, without, it seems, thinking much about who all those people were, and why we needed to meet them. You get the feeling that the improvisatory style which worked so well in Nashville just never got off the ground this time. The characters are awkward stereotypes, and the little vignettes are often cruel and crude. But the film gets better as it goes along. Altman's whipped up a surrealistic storm sequence that will stun you, and in quieter scenes he's evolved some subliminal editing techniques that immerse you in the characters without your even...