Word: tastelessness
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...like to credit the film's thesis that Israel arose out of Auschwitz, and do not find the present Israeli cult of the holocaust to my taste. But the trauma is there and makes nought of Mr. Caploe's tasteless numbers game. Hitler actually killed not six million Russians, as Caploe erroneously thinks, but at least twenty million. Yet the cause was not the same as for the Jews and neither was the effect...
Shame! Infamy! Horror! Sam Peckinpah has really tried to do it this time. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a gift to everyone who persists in misunderstanding such Peckinpah films as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs simply as paeans to brutality and orgies of tasteless violence. Alfredo Garcia could almost be dedicated to those benighted types. It is as if Peckinpah, sick of the accusations, decided to hurl them back and really make a film about violence...
...Brooks's latest film comedy, is the feature at Harvard Sq. this week. There's no denying this movie has its hysterically funny moments, like when Alex Karras gets in a belligerent mood and punches a horse in the mouth, but the film is oftentimes uneven and bordering on tasteless...
...Orson Welles Cinema I until Saturday. Woody Allen's take-off on the Casablanca theme is not only hysterically funny, it's heart-rending as well. Both Allen and Diane Keaton give lovely performances here. This one is worth watching again and again. Where's Poppa? is usually pretty tasteless and it belabors an already overworn joke to the point of tedium. In all fairness, though, the movie has its moments. Complete shows start...
Every critic seems, at some point, to be influenced by this syndrome; at their best, the put-downs are clever and amusing--at their worst, crass and tasteless. But what's always offensive about the syndrome is that it is antithetical to any exchange of ideas. It's much easier to come up with a put-down than with solid reasoning explaining why a critic disagreed with or disliked a film...