Word: impressively
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There aren’t many chances for the acting in the film to impress audiences. The character development is satisfactory but not great: actors spend the vast majority of the movie running, swimming, stumbling, and hiding away from the deadly tripod machines. But the brief development and Cruise’s natural charisma are enough to keep the audience’s sympathy—and attention...
This might be a manageable task except that Camp Chunder Camp, departing from traditional values of community and responsibility, promotes order and good behavior among the campers through an incentive system based on soda. My efforts to impress upon the campers the importance of air rifle safety are rendered fruitless with their veins bathing their trigger fingers in pure Sunkist, digits which, in turn pump, out pounds of ordinance in the general direction of squirrels that stray near the range. Winslow’s quasi-senile and marginally coherent mutterings of, “Shoot to kill?...
...veteran of numerous summits. "These guys don't want to go into a session like this and then have to explain why it was a mistake." Gorbachev, although he appears to have consolidated his power and changed the nature of the way the plodding Kremlin bureaucracy operates, needed to impress the surviving gerontocrats back in Moscow, like Gromyko. "Those guys went to summits with Americans and managed to come home with treaties and agreements--at least with communiqués," says one Moscow-based observer of the Kremlin. "Gorbachev had to show he could do it too. He didn't want...
...green, then they took him out to play golf so he could get a tan, and next they escorted him to dinner with the CIA's director Bill Casey, whose fly was unbuttoned. Reagan doubled up with laughter. So did the free world, the people Moscow was trying to impress with that hilarious yarn...
...film, though, lies dormant in its own decency. Richard Attenborough's movies are like the best-behaved guests at a Swiss embassy reception; they never offend, never impress. So he will not force the narrative into revealing new corners, or visualize a number with anything as raw and tasteless as imagination. But discretion can take A Chorus Line only so far. Onstage the characters were small, vulnerable creatures on a big, bare stage; onscreen they must trumpet XXXXX aborted in midflight to concentrate on all the suffering wimpery of the plot. Zach (Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood...