Word: clumsier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goodbye Girl's direction has been entrusted to Herbert Ross (The Turning Point), a film maker who has a bizarre knack for making almost any screenplay look as if it were written for radio. This time around he photographs his leading lady from unflattering angles and highlights the clumsier narrative contrivances of the story...
Marion Hedgepeth (Jan-Michael Vincent) wants to be a Marine. His ambition recalls that old joke: he wants to be a Marine in the worst way. The harder he tries, the clumsier he becomes, until the Marines give up. He washes out of boot camp as a "baby blue." His uniform is taken away and he and his fellows-in-disgrace are sent on their way in powder-blue fatigues...
...John Frankenheimer (Seven Days in May) made the sequel, and his style, while clumsier than Friedkin's, is at least not so sparkly. Now Gene Hackman can be more than a cog in a lulling machine (2 complex contraption with a cash register attached), and this new non-commercial version of the trials of Popeye Doyle in search of Frog One--a major supplier of New York's heroin--is therefore a great deal more interesting. Doyle was originally the kind of cop that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their...