Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teenage heartthrobs. Making a mockery out of the real event, this film persuades moviegoers to fall in love with all those chiseled faces and to forget the fact that their success was made in robbery. The overly-cheesy music and the slow-moving plot also make this film seriously dull...
McDonagh dropped out of school at age 16 and spent five years getting radio and TV scripts rejected before two of his short radio plays were produced in Australia. He turned to theater largely because he thought he could do better than the "really dull" stuff he found on the British stage at the time. Aside from David Mamet's American Buffalo (his favorite play), McDonagh cites filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Terence Malick as his chief influences. This has made him something of a renegade in the London theater world. So have incidents like the row he got into...
...trouble with the idealized Gandhi is that he's so darned dull, little more than a dispenser of homilies and nostrums ("An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind") with just the odd flash of wit (asked what he thought of Western civilization, he gave the celebrated reply, "I think it would be a great idea"). The real man, if it is still possible to use such a term after the generations of hagiography and reinvention, was infinitely more interesting, one of the most complex and contradictory personalities of the century. His full name, Mohandas Karamchand...
...five parts available for viewing, this mini-series is anything but a vanity project. Rather, it is a diligent, well-crafted work that never spins out of control despite its grandiose conception. And yet, as anyone with an ear for faint praise can tell by now, it is pretty dull. That may seem hard to believe, given the subject matter--space exploration!--but watching From the Earth to the Moon induces a state of cognitive dissonance. The acting is first-rate; the details look right; still, the overall effect is boredom...
...prime the diner's palate, the vegetarian samosas ($2.50) are promising: the filling, composed of diced potatoes and peas, is delicately tasty, and the accompanying sauces add life to the potentially dull vegetarian ensemble. The green sauce is adequately but not excessively spicy-- besides, how often does green sauce present itself at a meal? The brown sauce is sweet yet tangy and blends well with the greasy pastry that surrounds the delicious filling...