Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistaken my questions as an advance of some kind, and I suppose one could read my question about readership in more than one way. It was clear the magazine meant more to her than research--she had too many copies of the same magazine, and her copying was too earnest. Then again, she might have mistaken me for a regular reader of the Digest, and decided there was nothing to talk about. Hey! I was only doing research...
Lemmon is at the center of the film, and he brings down the entire enterprise. Dreadfully earnest and concerned, he is the virtuous, apolitical innocent with whom the audience is supposed to identify. Lemmon's performance is twitchy and insufferable. It is almost impossible to believe that this man is the same Jack Lemmon who tangoed with a rose between his teeth while dressed in a flapper's dress. What's really "Missing" here is the real Jack Lemmon...
Luve is redder than the red, red rose--dear reader, it's turned a Technicolor shade. Poor old Robert Burns would gi'e a wee turn in his Scots grave if confronted by the all too earnest romping on "Rob Roy"'s highland stage. What is it about mediocrity of the sincerest kind that is so especially depressing? If you can't squeeze out the requisite tears over Liam Neeson's trials and tribulations, turn your thoughts to current mainstream moviedom and weep. "Rob Roy" is only symptomatic of a greater...
Sometimes, talented actors can redeem a poorly conceived movie from complete failure--no such luck this time. The characters prove so stereotypical and shallow that even earnest attempts from usually likable actors like Bullock and Pullman fall flat...
...experimental," and that's probably what Jordan Valdina, writer and producer of "As Breath in the Wind" intended. But you could also call it incoherent, superficial, and condescending. This play is little more than a string of random special effects and gimmicks, held together only by the consistently earnest performances of the cast...