Word: boredomization
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...praise can tell by now, it is pretty dull. That may seem hard to believe, given the subject matter--space exploration!--but watching From the Earth to the Moon induces a state of cognitive dissonance. The acting is first-rate; the details look right; still, the overall effect is boredom...
...Conor in 1991, the impersonal, generic pop gloss of this album prevents us from really communing with his pain. The confessional My Father's Eyes, the CD's opening number, is so polished and plodding it never comes close to evoking emotion in the listener--unless you consider boredom an emotion. As for the next cut, River of Tears, it has a central metaphorical construction so lazy that one half expects the next track to be titled Needle in a Haystack. Simple, direct wordplay can work if the lyrics hit upon something primal and urgent. River of Tears, however, merely...
...touring in support of his album of Astor Piazzolla compositions, Soul of the Tango), Ma cracked, "The faster we play, the faster we can have dinner." It was a joke, of course, but it probably sprang from a very real impulse: at this point in his career, fending off boredom may be Ma's greatest challenge as an artist...
...much talk in Kundun, and what talk there is isn't especially revealing or eloquent. However, this ceases to matter very much as the breathtaking cinematography tells its own story, accompanied by a sonorously haunting score by Philip Glass. Kundun's slow pace may cause occasional restlessness, but never boredom. It's too much of a feast for the eyes to lose its power of fascination, and its poetry of color, perspective and motion lingers long after what's actually said is forgotten. Lynn...
...much talk in Kundun, and what talk there is isn't especially revealing or eloquent. However, this ceases to matter very much as the breathtaking cinematography tells its own story, accompanied by a sonorously haunting score by Philip Glass. Kundun's slow pace may cause occasional restlessness, but never boredom. It's too much of a feast for the eyes to lose its power of fascination, and its poetry of color, perspective and motion lingers long after what's actually said is forgotten. --Lynn...