Word: scripting
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...grasps the depths and subtleties of the themes it’s trying to provoke: It extends this air of sophistication and depth yet it never follows up on it. Bad performances all around and a reliance on an auterist aesthetic being able to triumph over a woefully shallow script are to blame here. Combine the long takes with middling actors giving painfully over-articulated performances and you have something of a mess. Set against the background of bold visual filmmaking and the near incoherent plot, the performances stand out—for their lack of skill...
...mother’s boyfriend at the age of 12, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. She faces this conflict after her first stint in jail—she was arrested for either drug abuse, prostitution or all of the above: the incoherent script never clarifies and, honestly, no audience could really care less about these particulars. The point of this movie is to illustrate a fable rather than sticking close to a comprehensible scenario...
...Elise’s credit, she does as much as possible with such a weak script, but every actress would falter in scenes such as when her love interest asks her to tell stories from her time in jail, and she responds jokingly, “I was getting raped in the shower and a woman was pulling my leg, just like I’m pulling yours.” No, I’m not making that up. That is an actual line in the film. This dialogue may have in fact been the best and the worst...
...York Times as “absolutely delightful and deliciously spiteful,” Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’s Matt and Ben follows the lives of Hollywood icons Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, pre-Tinseltown. The two must decided whether to pass off the script for Good Will Hunting as their own, after it falls from the ceiling. This tongue-in-cheek play is a two-woman show and is not to miss. EarthHart Productions, Ltd. Tickets $25 general; $15 undergraduates. Through Nov. 6. Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. 8 p.m. Winthrop JCR, 966 Mill Street...
...Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice Sean (P. Diddy) Combs threw like a girl--nothing changed. "After Any Given Sunday--I'm not kidding--I got a script called The Next Hot Negro. The. Next. Hot. Negro...