Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Step back: Jackie Brown is fundamentally a boring movie, which has to be bought into to be enjoyed or believed. The devices that worked in the past are now really straining under the pop culture pressure and expectations: the tangled slice-of-underworld-life plots, time sequence double-takes, vintage...
The frustration-with-detachment theory may sound more plausible than the apocalyptic, but is only slightly more down to earth. From the mid-1970s on, there has been an increasing disengagement of people from government, politics, community and, in some ways, from themselves; moreover, this disengagement has been actively sought...
Hearing these testimonials, a skeptical journalist is tempted to set up an 800 hot line for anyone with an unkind word to say about the actress, anonymity guaranteed. But there may be more urgent Hollywood news about Hunt. Yes, she's now a big star, winner of Emmy, Golden Globe...
But our stew is incomplete: Let's pull that pot right over the stove again and add another ingredient. Actually, just a bigger helping of the same--piping hot self-consciousness, now of consummate sequelhood. Result? Scream 2 is a boring, wrecky bundle of nerves so obsessed with one-upping...
Francis Ford Coppola missteps in a heavy-handed moralistic mess that has none of the storytelling grace he's displayed on happier occasions. In fact, he's succeeded in making John Grisham--the king of popcorn thrillers--lethally boring. There is no shameless entertainment here, no chance to be swept...