Word: botched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make a musical version of their tryst. Trintignant, who looks weary and has every reason to be, gets lost in the desert and is rescued by Bedouins. One young actress, Evelyne Bouix, looks the fitting image of Aimee; another, Marie-Sophie Pochat, weeps becomingly. Everything else is a stupid botch. For those who loved A Man and a Woman, and for those who thought it was swank swill, this is a movie to avoid...
Joffe's and Davidson's defects drag The Killing Fields under the threshold of cinematic glory. But its tough, unsparing depiction of two witnesses to one the 20th centuries greatest tragedies excuses the occasional cinematic botch-ups. The Killing Fields has the courage of its convictions, an encouraging case of substance winning over style...
...play worked. As witty and discreet as if it had been written in the 1930's, it defined Bennett's rebellion against his austere schoolmates as one of style and substance. The film version, directed by Marek Kanievska, is a botch. Every shot is vaselined with romanticism; every dewy undergraduate looks ready to pose in his Calvins; and Rupert Everett's Bennett, a dandy dandy on the London stage, has become gross onscreen. Instead of a national tragedy in embryo, what we get is a posh summer camp. -By Richard Corliss...
...under-21 year olds live apart from their parents in dormitories or apartments and do not protect themselves or their possessions or their friends. Some enter military service and find themselves ill-equipped to deal with the stresses, or of late, with combat. Some work to make money and botch their jobs totally or nearly...
Rumble Fish is the messiest, most provocative inkblot of the year. On the naturalistic level, Francis Coppola's film is a botch, a hoot. The two main characters-Rusty-James (Matt Dillon), a 17-year-old punk who figures he moves with the swagger of stardom, and his older brother the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), tired of being an outlaw legend in Rusty-James' eyes-are little more than the sum of their mannerisms. Their father (Dennis Hopper) is a philosophizing sot who comes and goes with the whim. Rusty-James' girlfriend (Diane Lane) is a mere...