Word: overthinks
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...rate. "You can make three comedies for every action movie," says an industry power broker. "It's such an easy 'yes' for a studio exec." For one such pooh-bah, Matt Tolmach, co-president of production at Sony Pictures, the guidelines are simple: "It is critical that you not overthink comedies," he says. "Did this script make me laugh out loud sitting alone on my couch? If it did, I should consider it. If it didn't, I shouldn't. What's funny is funny. Funny is worth taking seriously...
...form of rumors or news broadcasts or an escalation of the federal terrorism-threat level from orange to red. It's when the risk and the consequences of our response unfold more slowly, experts say, that our analytic system kicks in. This gives us plenty of opportunity to overthink--or underthink--the problem, and this is where we start to bollix things...
DEAD OR ALIVE 4 Let's not overthink this: good-looking people kicking each other's buttocks one-on-one, Fight Club style, in high definition. Is there really much more to life? The game play is not cutting edge, but Dead or Alive 4 may be the most visually impressive game on the 360, with fluid animation, wild new martial-arts styles, luscious lighting effects and insanely detailed background environments. And those fighters: really, really good looking...
...course, adults have a tendency to overthink these things. Taylor says that during interviews in her lab, as researchers peppered the kids with questions and scribbled down notes, some of the children grew concerned that the researchers were getting confused. One of the kids leaned over and reminded her interviewer, "It's just pretend, you know...
...probably more than anyone, can beat ourselves," tri-captain Jen Vogt-Lowell said. "We have a tendency to overthink and overreact, so we want to not beat ourselves before anyone else has the chance...