Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wacky content, the film has strangely subdued feel; the lack of energy is palpable to the viewer. Brian Tufano's camera, which was so sharp and dynamic in Trainspotting and so creepily sedate in Shallow Grave is only able to capture flat, washed out images. Setups that ought to be bold and striking are rendered as drab and sluggish...
...dark, claustrophobic interior settings of his previous films, Boyle captured a great deal of energy caged up in a small space; even simple scenes in Trainspotting were crackling with intensity. In the great outdoors of America, though, Boyle seems lost, taking in the luscious scenery with huge, flat, boring wide shots...
Reeves gives a solid performance, doing his best with a role that requires him to alternate between smugness and smugness-with-a-hint-of-outrage. It is only when he attempts to be too serious--or when he sporadically adopts a Southern accent (a la Elvis)--that he falls flat. Charlize Theron (best known for her role as an icy femme fatale in Two Days in the Valley) also does a good job with a somewhat underwritten character...
Penn State came out flat but survived thanks to two touchdowns by Curtis Enis and a late Minnesota turnover. Chris Snyder's fumble recovery set up Enis' game-winning, 10-yard touchdown run with 3:59 to play...
Coetzee's taut style proves effective in describing the arid beauty of the veldt: "The kraal walls ramble for miles up and down the hillside. Nothing grows here: the earth has been trampled flat and killed forever, he does not know how: it has a stained, unhealthy, yellow look...