Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The exhibition will also include some board-breaking, featuring the club's Man of Steel, Dave Boring '79.
Boring can tense his muscles to the point where boards will break when whacked against his body. The climax of his performance, however, occurs when he breaks a board over his throat--not his neck, but his throat.
WIEGUES NEVER STRAYS from the visceral tingle of the provocative landscape and the physical existences of the characters. The rich, hot colors of Brazil--lush greens, electric blue seas, lurid sunsets--seem charged with surreal power; even the pastels seem energized, and the slums are unfailingly photogenic in their squalor...
In the second round Hagler starts to fight. Fully Insured is missing all his punches. Hagler bores in, deeper, deeper, his bald head boring in like a phallus. Fully has two inches in reach but Hagler is the one landing the jabs. He is moving constantly and impossible to hit...
YES, MON ONCLE is academic in the extreme, but, miraculously, it's never boring once the action gets started. The film-makers' mixed blessing of cleverness saves the movie from the clutches of dullness and banality. Cleverness is Mon Oncle's dominant characteristic, but in cinema--as in any other...