Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tarzan, invests a lot of intelligence and humanity in his role as a curiously pathetic underground rogue. When he blows a safe, or cracks a joke, he lets out a little cackle like a parched hyena. And when his character is quite literally resurrected at the film's insipid conclusion, Lambert's performance comes close to resurrecting the picture as well...
From the reaction of the networks, one would think that the spot was in praise of promiscuity or perhaps pornography masquerading as pedagogy. But that's not the case. In fact, compared to most of what one sees on television, the commercial is, if anything, disappointingly insipid...
...first few weeks of the semester a chorus of groans could be heard from undergraduates who worried that they might soon have to affix their signatures to papers and exams and perhaps even report a peer who has run afoul of the rules. The criticisms ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan and enlightened a place...
Perhaps Tesich and director John Badham tried a little too hard to reach; the younger set in this film. The soundtrack is composed of insipid, topical songs that should have been replaced by something with a little guts, like "Carmen" or "Georgia," even at the risk of not being able to sell the record to youngsters. The focus on the younger generation is stronger than in other Tesich films, with middle age characters seldom making any appearence except in two dimensional form. This gives the film the surreal aspect of other movies aimed at teens. After all, the whole world...
...with any country and western product, "Old Ways" is a few nuggets wrapped in a heap of simple-minded fluff. But Young makes no apologies. Rather, as in "Once an Angel," an insipid 6-8 love ode, and "Bound for Glory," a sweet if inconclusive ballad about a trucker committing adultery in the Canadian boondocks, the perennially angst-ridden Young has found a new peace...