Word: cliches
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...discovery of what the couple is up to, the rental of a love nest, the first illicit meeting, the initial acknowledgment of mutual attraction, with which the film ends. There is something smug and self-conscious about this conceit, but it is also unbalancing. Since the triangle cliché is so familiar, the only possible way to impart suspense is by focusing on what happened first...
...Southern California, mixing conventional imagery of Beach Boys serenades and fast rides in convertibles with darker asides about "a big nasty redhead" and a bum "down on his knees." Like the other keynote songs on the record-Christmas in Capetown, Miami-I Love L.A. turns the topography of tourist cliché into a nightmare landscape on which the sun never sets...
Bubbling over with enough "relationship" and "starting over" clichés to fill a week of Phil Donahue shows, New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, 52, last week announced "a new era for the third time." And with that flourish of Rotary Club optimism, he introduced as the Yankees' new manager Billy Martin, 54. "I'll be handling all the trades," said Martin stagily, playing off the pair's old Lite beer ad. "What do you mean?" Steinbrenner blustered. "I'm handling all the trades . . . And if you don't like...
...they prepare for the Super Bowl or any other game, the coaches' handiest cliché is that they don't worry about the things they can't control. It's not true...
Weir's movies have always boasted pristine imagery and avoided visual clichés; Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli are among the smartest-looking pictures in recent cinema. But in his attempt to blend his preoccupations with the plot of C. J. Koch's 1978 novel, Weir has perhaps packed too much imagery and information into his movie. The sound track is wallpapered with dialogue and Billy Kwan's pensive narration. The plot becomes landlocked in true-life implausibilities; the characters rarely get a hold on the moviegoer's heart or lapels...