Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lessons from Gerard Depardeau, and talks like a graduate from the Wolfman Jack College of Elocution, altogether appearing more fit to push a broom than a pencil. Nolte is supposedly the best teacher at JFK, and that is just the beginning of the school's problems. JFK is so bad that it is being sued by a former student for failing to fail him, and it has hired the best-looking legal help money can buy in the form of JoBeth Williams. Williams is also a grad of JFK who believes the suit will reform the unreformable...
...seems to be the victim of directorial schizophrenia. Arthur Hiller has made films before, and he knows that MGM wants to make loads of money. Therefore his film possesses all the advertising and proper packaging of Porky's or Meatballs. The heavily promoted soundtrack, a good sign of a bad movie, is from well-established dead armadilloes like Bob Seeger, 38 Special...
...teaching, albeit in the unusual format of dressing up as Lincoln, Washington, and Custer. He is the only actor who invests his part with the gentleness that great teachers possess. But Mulligan's work is wasted. No actor can really shine in a role that is essentially a bad joke. Yes, you guessed it: "You have to be crazy to teach...
Like everything else in this film, it looks as bad as it sounds...
Mondale's performance should also rid fellow Democrats of their maddening propensity to refuse to embrace the ticket. It's been fashionable of late to bad-mouth Mondale and his campaign as losers--even Tip O' Neil has gotten into the act--but that should disappear now with Mondale's closing statement. The question, Mondale argued, should not be that posed by the President--are you better off than you were--but will we, as a nation, be better off in the future by the policies being debated. In saying so, he disavowed the repellent selfishness underlying the Republican appeal...