Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most likely stupid, and certainly irrelevant, to heap invective upon PT 109, the story of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's war exploits in the South Pacific. But being an invective-heaper from way back, I cannot help myself...
...simple as "Mr." In addition, the tactic of the State's attorney was to establish that each one of the Negroes at the ball park had had something to drink; thus attempting to cast these persons in their traditional mold as irresponsible, happy-go-lucky, and rather stupid...
...Jacopetti. The real impact of this film is visual; its point is adequately made by the sequences themselves and the way they are cut. Any narration beyond a minimal identification of what is on the screen is superfluous, and Jacopetti's is not only superfluous but also annoyingly stupid, full of bad puns, idiotic prejudices, clumsy writing, and leaden sarcasm...
Jacopetti has done a beautiful job of finding these films and arranging and editing them for the maximum ironic effect. His purpose is to show that human beings are cruel, stupid and pathetic; he succeeds, at least, in showing that they...
...paper than it does on film. Like a mirror smashed to splinters, the plot fractures into flashbacks, and the spectator spends half his time putting the pieces together. He spends the rest of the show trying to understand the principal characters. The hero is supposed to be a big stupid brute, but Actor Harris portrays him as a big sensitive brute. So of course the spectator can't understand why the heroine can't love him. She seems unreasonable and unmotivated, and before long the whole picture seems unreasonable and unmotivated...