Word: contrivedness
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Newsies is after innocent fun, but, unfortunately, can never go beyond it. The story, which is meant to be less an assault on capitalism than a celebration of a victory over injustice, lacks the effect of sincerity which would stick with you long after you leave the theater. In a...
When it works, his seat-of-the-pants filmmaking is grand. Yet it carries great risks. As disciplined and carefully plotted as The Player is, it's still an Altman movie. The end of the movie seems a bit contrived, he is told, not quite consistent tonally with the rest...
Many bands fall into the trap of trying to outdo themselves and end up sounding contrived, but not Def Leppard. Adrenalize is a wholly original album that has some of Def Leppard's best trademarks yet is not a direct copy of their previous successes.
The contrived gaiety of the spontaneous birthday celebration, so unlike U2, seemed curiously appropriate in the surrounding commercialism of Achtung Baby and the whole Zoo TV tour. In exploring new musical directions and casting aside its seriousness and social concerns for the new album and tour, U2 seems to have...
The pieces fit logically. Three yuppieish children who ungratefully depose their father in the interest of fiscal stability are stand-ins for the whole indulged baby-boom generation. The burnt-out father, who obsesses about the past and about a supposed universal abandonment of standards, epitomizes a dying elitist culture...