Word: tastelessness
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Although the film is certainly not tasteless, either in plot or in presentation, violence--and violence of a particularly bizarre and painful character--runs continually throughout Marathon Man. And if those in the audience are unprepared for, or less than anxious to partake in a two hour experience of this sort, the effect of the film will be unpleasant at best. With that warning, and noting that there are weapons of destruction employed in this film unlike any you have ever seen, know also that this screen version of the William Goldman novel is about as exciting and captivating...
Badlands. The basic ambiguity in this 1974 fictionalization of the Stark weather murders of the fifties is whether the director did it on purpose. Either way we lose. If the film is serious, it is a tasteless romanticization of mass murder as teenage alienation in the silent 50's: if it's not, the film can only be taken as a coy parody of James Dean which has nothing to offer beyond its original kitchy conception...
...Tasteless ... like distilled water ... zero content of a cognitive sort... I was the universe moving in itself... no longer quite human ... somehow divine"-in describing his own six mystical experiences. Bharati manipulates the vague traditional formulas. He also confirms that the "zero-experience," as he calls it, may be accompanied by feelings of unspeakable ecstasy. But then he springs a heresy: "Fasting, prayer, drugs, self-mortification, fornication, standing on his head, grace, listening to Tristan and Isolde unabridged three times in a row ... for a mystic, whatever leads to the zero-experience is good...
...need not be reminded that evil, demented people enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on others. Such exposures are tasteless to normal people and dangerous to others...
...prescription-drug prices. As part of its ruling, the court also made clear for the first time that the free flow of commercial information is generally protected by the First Amendment so long as the information is truthful and legitimate. Wrote Justice Harry Blackmun for the majority: "Advertising, however tasteless and excessive it may seem, is nonetheless dissemination of information...