Word: shallowing
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...short, some of our compatriots—not least of all the president—seek to reduce us to a caricature, a stereotype as ugly and shallow as the toothless Mississippi hillbilly. We’re blasted for being so far from the mainstream that we’re standing on the “Left Bank” with John Kerry, playing accordions and looking French. But this belies the truth...
...expects deep policy thinking on the campaign trail. George H.W. Bush ran a shallow, hostile race against Michael Dukakis in 1988; Bill Clinton exploited a nonexistent recession in 1992. But in office, the first Bush Administration conducted a serious, nuts-and-bolts foreign policy; the Clinton Administration was notable for its sophisticated economic thinking. The current White House has done neither. Quite the opposite: it has dumbed down governance, scorned serious planning, politicized formerly nonpartisan agencies. One example: having the Medicare administrator mislead Congress about the true cost of Bush's Medicare prescription-drug plan. The Administration distorted the prewar...
...flipping the Ramones' gimmick of assuming the same last name) and played superfast punk riffs stolen from the Dead Boys and Voidoids. On Gold Medal they're going by their real names, and they have expanded their thievery to include licks from Loverboy, Kiss and other high priests of shallow catchiness. The music is nothing you haven't heard before. Songs like Fall Behind Me and Revolver fly by on the same mix of punk reverence and hair-band irony that fuels Weezer, the Hives and dozens of other bands. But the Donnas are better musicians than most of those...
...sure what he’s doing, Foxx’s performance does not resonate. It bears a greater resemblance to a three hour-long impression rather than an Oscar-worthy performance. Foxx is acting, and doing a damned fine job of it, but one knows this: the transparent, shallow notions embodied in the script cannot be hidden by Foxx’s technical skills...
...never 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...