Word: distractive
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...allegations surrounding Clinton distract the President from the business of Mideast peacemaking? ?There?s no evidence that it had any impact whatsoever,? says Fischer...
...Harvard golden boy Matt Damon sheds layer upon layer of complexity until finally we reach the core of his character near the movie's end. The film itself is nothing particularly exceptional. Director Gus Van Sant prefers a straight up telling of the tale--there's little to distract you from the fable playing out on screen. --Soman S. Chainani...
...film is nothing particularly exceptional, certainly not what you would expect from quirky indie fave Gus Van Sant. Van Sant goes for a straight-up telling of the tale with little to distract you from the heart-stuffed fable playing out on screen. After two hours, the film collapses miserably in the last 15 seconds--indeed, it is the first time in his career that Van Sant has stuck with a happy ending, and it dilutes the rest of the film's impact. Instead of a powerful character study, we're left to ponder a sudden dive into mainstream cheesiness...
DIED. JOYCE WETHERED, 96, unflappable first lady of the links; in London. Unknown and not yet 19, Wethered easily outshot Cecil Leitch at the English Ladies' championship in 1920. Her textbook swing and unswerving concentration (once, a passing steam locomotive failed to distract her eye from the ball) won her four more of those titles and four British championships...
...which melodrama is made--or as if it could be a heart-wrenching and uplifting success. As it happens, it's neither. Bent lies somewhere in between, neither a failure nor the transcendent triumph it aspires to be. The film suffers from a number of structural problems which distract from its central themes. It's too slowly paced, weighted down by scenes consisting either entirely of dialogue, or of silent, slow and repetitive motion--there's little action and much less spectacle. And, since most of the movie's lines are delivered either in a hyper-dramatic fashion...