Word: corniest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competent cast. Rourke has genuine negative charisma in this film, in contrast to his vapid, one dimensional sex magnet persona in 9 1/2 Weeks. Here he's a sex symbol straight out of the Cuisinart, with his bloodstained tee shirts and battered face, and he remains likeable through the corniest moments. For all his apocalyptic late night poetry scribbling and implausible literary references, we can understand why Wanda and Tully fall in love with him, and even come to blows over him in (where else) a barroom...
...battle, are extended to the point of satiety. The other flaw is the ending: in all three films, Lucas has almost entirely avoided the rank sentimentality to which his story is vulnerable. In the final minutes of Jedi he succumbs, however, and ends his trilogy with one of the corniest conclusions in recent years...
...influence does not guarantee indulgence. As the great Russian scrutinizes the great Spaniard, revisionism becomes the order of the day. Sancho's celebrated proverbs are in fact "not very mirth provoking . . . The corniest modern gag is funnier." Don Quixote's attempts to act like an old cavalier show "a rather limited schoolboyish imagination in the way of pranks." As for the author, "Cervantes. . . seems to have had alternate phases of lucidity . . . and sloppy vagueness, much as his hero was mad in patches." Don and squire wander and blunder through Spain, tilting at customs and rituals, obscure priests...
Eyewitness is saved by some appealing characters--Deever, his father, his girlfriend. Tony Sokolow says to Deever at one point: "You just come right out and say the corniest things." Deever responds, "I meant it." With these characters, the audience believes anything--even if the meal winds up a little half-baked...
...their bit to keep someone else from toppling--if no one can invade like a relative, no one can be there as fast with the ambulance. The spirit of Gemini is very precious, and its hero is the Drama: it makes these trivial people very grand, renders the corniest platitudes heroic and profound, and gives us insight into those big and little dramas we enact every day, performing to keep the cold...