Word: contrivedness
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Furthermore, to add to film’s impracticality, Meg Altman is able to cause a plume of propane gas to ignite from the panic room with impunity, yet the same ignited gas burns the incompetent thief, Junior (Jared Leto), despite the thick wall of concrete and steel between him...
Packed with twists and turns, bells and whistles, guns and explosions, Panic Room is an undirected and disjointed mania of contrived triggers. Ultimately for all its trouble, Fincher produces a rather bland movie.
Tara’s journey is not the only venture into uncharted territory; the novel itself treads on virgin soil. It is one of the few recent books about the experiences of immigrants to the United States that does not read as trite or contrived. For the most part, this...
The band also struggled with a deficiency of material. There are hardly any weak tracks on the album, but that doesn’t always translate into gripping live renditions, particularly given the contrived nature of the performance. “Sound Check (Gravity)” gloriously united Albarn?...
If you weren't assured that it all really happened, you would certainly be compelled to toss it away as contrived nonsense. The first issue focused on The Meeting, which took place at Disney's "Magic Kingdom" in Orlando, a detail that would have been intolerable if a story so...