Word: dullness
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...brief passage has gotten so much attention that it will have to be a downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He shows us the approach of Mother through the shower curtain, which would theoretically dull the effect of the attack that follows, without lessening the primal terror we feel when she does attack one bit. The shower runs throughout the scene (and well into the following one), draining the blood in a forshadowing of Norman's own obsessive cleaning...
...trite as the plot is, the main characters rescue it from oblivion. The trenchcoat-and-sunglass-clad, play-it-by-the-book Doug Chesnic is perfect contrast to the odd but kind Tess Carlisle. Several political references also spice up the dull script. Some are to past administrations, like when Tess says that all Agnew and Johnson ever did was play golf: "If was a blessing for the country." Others allude to Bill and Hillary. When Tess watches old news clips about her husband, the audience learns her Clinton-like history relatively painlessly. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle met at Denison...
...work now is always interesting, sometimes tiring and never dull," Nye said in a phone interview Sunday night...
...choreographed several of the distinctive works that gave the group its early repertory. Morris can usually be counted on to grab an audience right away and never let go. When he errs, it's by going over the top. Mosaic is a rarity for him; it is plain dull...
...movie ends. Oh, what a devious way to undermine the function of the Chase in film! Wait until the French get a hold of this! What we get is a surreal and paradoxical mix of "high-speed" vibes (mostly due to speedy cuts from shot to shot) and incredibly dull footage of two people in a car, cruising at 30 MPH tops, with a bunch of police cars meandering down the highway after them. Every few minutes there's a big explosion, or the corpses start to fly, or she throws up, or they fuck...and then It's right...