Word: formulaic
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Often the formula continued to pay off. The precredit sequence almost always packed more gasps, laughs and subplots into six minutes than most movies do in 60. It also meant that conventions established in the early films ran the risk of calcifying in the later ones. Plenty of cleavage, but no nudity. Innuendos but no dirty words. Most important, a dogged adherence to old-fashioned storytelling -- which, in an industry that has thrown narrative logic outuendo, can make an 007 film seem slow moving. But Bonds were never aimed at the thrills-above-all youth market. Or even, primarily...
...seemingly the only source of successful musicals, this past season exported shows that won twelve of Broadway's 19 Tony Awards. The current London stage features seven works already announced for U.S. production; others are under consideration. In addition are the star-cast classics, adaptations of great novels, formula thrillers, trousersdown farces and sociopolitical dramas that make London during any summer week as richly varied a theatrical panoply as Broadway during an entire season...
...headquarters and the branch offices, over the next four years. Jones has expanded cautiously into the suburbs of Chicago and Kansas City, but the firm still primarily looks for homes where the buffalo could roam. Says Jones Managing Partner John Bachmann: "We're not going to fiddle with the formula that has proved successful...
...sleeps in the Hendersons' living room with Ernie, a teddy bear and the family dog. As Harry might say, Uggghhh! Director and Co-Author William Dear, who helmed a funny segment of Spielberg's Amazing Stories, here apes his mentor and libels him. He has taken the E.T. formula and created its reductio ad nauseam...
Then one confronts not a gimmicky variant on a formula but a chilling experience called River's Edge. Tim Hunter, who directed Tex and co-wrote Over the Edge, movies about angry and isolated young men, may not have dealt with an alienated group before, but his vision of small-town American life is remarkably consistent. He works only in gray tones. The sun never shines on his world of ranchette homes and convenience stores. Adults exist only as malevolent authority figures...