Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silly or obnoxious mood, "Fatal Instinct" offers generous portions of belly-laugh humor and counterintuitive surprises. In a movie devoted to poking fun at how seriously American thrillers take themselves, there is hardly the space or the generic license to develop interesting characters or an original plot. The main characters are all larger-than-Hollywood caricatures, designed to mock rather than to intrigue...
...about a little devil who comes to earth to find love and happiness, has been repeatedly composed, decomposed and recomposed over the past 63 years (the composer, 71, wrote a first version when he was eight). It is a modest children's opera whose chief characteristic is its inoffensive, generic amiability...
...stunningly ugly Wild West vulture on the cover), Way Out Where is more "rock," more straightforward than the last two Verlaines outings. On the one hand, as the inspiring title track and the pounding "Incarceration" show, incitement to rock has only helped Downes' songwriting. On the other hand, a generic Hollywood producer gave Way Out Where a digital sheen more suited to WFNX (which won't care) than to the fans who will actually buy the record. If you've never heard the Verlaines, don't start here--start with Juvenilia (Homestead/Flying Nun), their best and earliest work, recently reissued...
...storyline of the generic 50s romance involves the love of a soldier and the evils of infiltrating capitalist spies. It unfolds as the screen switches from the storyline to footage from old Soviet films (such as musical performances) to shots of animals in a desert to shots of such natural wonders as volcanoes and snowdrifts to surreal images of a man with huge wings trying to fly. Moving back and forth between these disparate elements, the film nonetheless holds together convincingly...
...drifts suggest a wasteland, presumably Siberia, that, accompanied by haunting music, add to the sense of the impending doom of the love affair. The bizarre sequences involving a flying man form a stark contrast to the jovial musical scenes and make the film a surreal montage rather than a generic documentary...