Word: maudlinity
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Despite its many pitfalls, there are enough hilarious quips, sight gags andbathroom humor jokes to provide relief from the movie’s more maudlin moments. If you are looking for a film that does not require deep concentration and will provide a few good laughs, Kingdom Come...
...film to wrestle with such knotty themes as racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear holocaust (On the Beach) and Nazi war crimes (Judgment at Nuremberg). Toward the end of his career, critics routinely panned his films--even box-office successes like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner--as oversimplified and maudlin...
...particularly nauseating section reads, "She thinks I'm holding on to pain. She thinks pain is a souvenir. Perhaps she thinks pain is the only way I can feel. As it is, the pain reminds me that my feelings are damaged." The only real pain comes from reading the maudlin sentimentality that resonates throughout the text...
...impressive, borrow heavily from the British QAF, though this version is more of an ensemble. Its style is pleasingly candy-colored and frenetic, even if after a few too many whooshing camera moves, you will think you're watching The Gaytrix. QAF is too funny and fresh to get maudlin, thanks especially to the surprisingly versatile Sparks, whose Michael, a romantic with an unrequited crush on Brian, is the de facto liaison to the straight world: "He's so accessible," says Sparks, "he almost forgets he's gay." Harold's preening-sexpot performance can be stiff (not just in that...
Insipid, tepid and vigorously lacking in originality, the Pucker Gallery's current exhibit of pastels by Mallory Lake, Italy Light and Shadow, is a fuzzy romantic nightmare, Hallmark style. These lifeless, flat and relentlessly maudlin landscapes do the impossible: resurrect the bourgeois landscape of the 19th century without even the slightest hint of irony. Such unremitting cuteness might just as well have been the result of Snuggles the detergent teddy bear's experimentation with a paint-by-numbers kit while on vacation in Tuscany. To Lake's credit, several of her horizontal compositions are unusually strong in their geometric structure...