Word: banalizing
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DIRECTOR HOWARD ZIEFF used to make television commercials--it shows. Private Benjamin is shot with all the style and imagination of a thirty-second corn flakes ad. The script by Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller is a masterpiece of banality. Everytime Private Benjamin prepares to turn in, another banal plot development rears its ugly head--and Henri, the French gynecologist, has the ugliest head of all. After transferring to France to be near him, Judy must decide between Henri and the Army...
...movie is witty and clever when the characters are witty and clever, and banal when they are banal. Some of the lines fizzle, the way lines fizzle in real life, and often these reveal the most about their speakers. Writers often go for laughs at the expense of their characters, and it is a measure of Sayles' compassion that he maintains little ironic distance from them. Yet the writing is not particularly economical, and the language, while sensitive and colorful and realistic, is not heightened or compressed the way great dramatic language must be. Some of the characters keep threatening...
...know, they are. But The Spike fails to prove it. It doesn't sufficiently create that someone-is-watching-you quality, it does not suck you in and scare you; it makes you feel like a captive audience to a spectacle you've seen before. Evil was never so banal...
...know, they are. But The Spike fails to prove it. It doesn't sufficiently create that someone-is-watching-you quality, it does not suck you in and scare you; it makes you feel like a captive audience to a spectacle you've seen before. Evil was never so banal...
...know, they are. But The Spike fails to prove it. It doesn't sufficiently create that someone-is-watching-you quality, it does not suck you in and scare you; it makes you feel like a captive audience to a spectacle you've seen before. Evil was never so banal...