Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous efforts have been for the most part rather uninspiring. Ever After, his most recent work, had all the costumes, pomp and circumstance that you could wish for, and provided some lovely cinematic images, but again, was sorely deficient in any deeper meaning or weight. It seems a shame that Tennant has been selected to guide this project, because with such talented stars as Foster and Chow, Anna could be something special and meaningful in examining two contrasting cultures. However, Tennant's visuals are probably the reason he has been brought in on the project; the studio probably doesn...
...shame. Such brilliant advertising wasted on so ponderous a movie...
Still, the strange victimhood complex among conservatives at Harvard persists. It's a shame Harvard Magazine gave credence to the assertion that conservatives are an embattled minority at Harvard in the same sense racial minorities and homosexuals were in the past...
...fact is, this stale groove is just a pose of countercultural shallowness -- mistaking selfish cruelty for an authentic rebellion within the soul. Lester isn't tuning in or dropping out; he's just turning the reins over to his inner selfish teenager. It's a shame, really, that for all its gorgeousness and thoughtfulness, there isn't more underneath American Beauty. After all, as the promotional tagline insists, this is a movie that invites "look[ing] closer." It should, by all accounts, be remarkably subtle. For a time as I watched (from somewhat farther away), I agreed -- snowed...
...about the way he made it. And why should he be burdened at all? In an era when a great many less appealing and pleasant people than he blissfully screw others to get ahead, Richard did it the old-fashioned way, and with the woman he loves. Free of shame, he is also free to love his highly profitable girls wholeheartedly, which--it is clear for all to see--he does. He kept them out of the juniors because he wanted them to concentrate on their education...