Word: depths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treatment of character development. The eponymous Romeo is overdeveloped, while Mona and the other female roles are paper-thin. Jack is basically a greedy bastard primarily concerned with satiating his appetites. Through incessant and insufferably cliched voice-over introspection, however, Medak insists that Jack is a man of true depth. He is not, and he does not deserve all the attention paid...
aMINIATURE Depth Five Rate Six CD (Restless...
...mood I tend to let these things go.) Almost all the best noisy bands still around (Frances Gumm, for example, or Circus Lupus) are indebted to Honor Role in some way; aMINIATURE, who are one of the best, are also more indebted than most. The guitar sound on Depth Five Rate Six is thicker--"grungier," if you will--than Dinty Moore's Beef Stew, thicker than you get on most metal records, and a total contrast to the painfully thin sound Honor Role cultivate. The bass and drums, though, come straight from the Honor Role fakebook--together, the parts...
...Depth Five Rate Six was a collection of (similarly) good, (slightly) off-balance, (very) rocking individual songs, Teen Beat 96 Exploder is that rarity of rarities, an album that you'll have to listen to AS an album. There are superb, symphonic pop songs--we'll get to them shortly, don't worry--but they fade, at first, before the brightly ridiculous concept of Exploder as a whole--it's got an intro ("Eggs Teen Beat 96 Exploder Go!"), an outro ("Eggs Teen Beat 96 Exploder Bye Bye"-- the same minute-long set of pounded-out chords as the intro...
...great, it'd take the edge off the need for more films like this. So whether or not Larry Kramer buys it -- and I don't think it's his job to buy it -- he has to fight on behalf of the AIDS and gay communities for greater, in-depth material. We're just a little splash in the ocean...