Word: dopeyness
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...evokes not even queasy sympathy, much less rooting interest. One starts to study action-movie technique for want of anything to think about. And that's not good enough to keep the viewer going either. The best one can say for Cobra is that it is too dopey to pose any threat to the highest values of the republic. May the rest of the movie summer be similarly absent of malice...
...charity production (its take goes to Phillips Brooks House) is an adequate rendition of what is often a dopey, inane script. Just like Garry Trudeau's poorly-received attempt to make his Doonesbury into a musical, Charlie Brown shows that funny comic strips don't always make funny musicals...
...fact, Disney was particularly fond of France. In 1918, when he was 17, Disney lived in Paris while working as a Red Cross ambulance driver. His cartoon creations were a hit in France from the beginning. Generations of French children have grown up with Mickey, Grincheux (Grumpy), Simplet (Dopey) and the other Disney characters, and French tourists by the thousands visit the American Disney parks in California and Florida every year. While anti- Americanism has swelled up in other areas of French life, no one ever seemed to have anything against Mickey Mouse...
...complicated narrative interweaves events in Bombay with a subsequent movie about those events. But rather than push toward deeper understanding, Hare lampoons his argument in dopey scenes from the putative movie and shifts toward melodrama in more elegant but equally sentimental scenes for the "actual" characters. In the most implausible sequence, an American actress offers herself as the prize to the "winner" of the debate between the novelist and the journalist. Even after this conscious retreat from political complexity, Map remains lively and provocative. Yet it leaves a viewer with the sad sense that its author shrank from the dangers...
...this.' And he says, 'Just a moment,' and explains how he's not crazy, I'm crazy. And we keep on going like this. You see, when I hear about physics, I just think about physics, and I don't know who I'm talking to, so I say dopey things . . . But it turned out that's exactly what he needed...