Word: flaccidity
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...brag biggest and finest in the nation more and more evolved into biggest and finest in the world. Battered and impoverished London, humiliated Paris, shattered Berlin, discredited Rome - the old capitals towards which, before the war, Americans had so often looked with sensations of diffident inferiority now seemed flaccid beside this prodigy of the west...
...just me - I mean, me and my infallible film sense - or are action movies getting better while nearly every other genre has gone fallow and flaccid? I'm no special fan of cine-mayhem, but I'm buoyed by the craft and verve of recent entertainments like Iron Man, Speed Racer, Wanted, Hellboy and The Dark Knight. Even so-so entries like The Incredible Hulk and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Billionaire Sexagenarians Trying to Recapture the Glories of Their Middle Years interrupt their meandering with set pieces that are figuratively or literally dynamite - like an old Astaire...
...rebel against the government guards, and only belatedly find a way to escape. Meirelles' camera style is plenty jazzy, with an agitated rhythm and the desaturated color scheme from Children of God (another dystopian English-language social parable from a Latin American director); but his characters are as flaccid as those in so many Euro-films we've seen at Cannes over the years. Their feet glued to the floor, they stand in place and wait for destiny to do its worst. It's enough to make you wish that some Hollywood high hack like Michael Bay had taken over...
...over health care, Canada is simultaneously extolled and excoriated simply for being that pacifist nation next to the warmongering hyperpower. TV personality Tucker Carlson made his views clear after the Canadian government refused to participate in the Iraq war, calling the country out for its “limpid, flaccid nature.” Canadians have been accused of not thinking with their penises for refusing to sign on for a paltry “hundred years of war.” But forget our foresight and prudence—the question has become whether we Canadians can recover...
...Dassin made another seven movies, including Survival 1967, a documentary on the Arab-Israeli war. He did a flaccid adaptation off a Marguerite Duras novel, 10:30 P.M. Summer, and returned to the U.S. for Up Tight! (written by its costar, Ruby Dee). His last film was the preposterous Circle of Two, with Tatum O'Neal, then 16, and a dissipated Richard Burton, then 54, as lovers so mismatched they could be in the Guinness Book. It was 1980, and Dassin had outlived his craft. More sadly, he outlived his son, Joe Dassin, a top-of-the-pops Euro-singer...