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...tampers with ethics and morality through cloning, supposedly demonstrating the unpredictable and malevolent ends that can come from disregarding the laws of nature. Even though the movie doesn’t live up the character’s potential, De Niro’s monotonic intensity compliments the overriding tedious nature of the film...
...spells, trading items and taking shots in combat. Without them, the game suffers noticeably. The device normally carried by one player, which forces the group to stay within its sphere (thus fostering a sense of togetherness), is a complete nuisance in single player mode. Spell and item combinations become tedious when performed alone. There’s little plot to speak of, providing enough to explain your purpose of being there and leaving the rest up to the human element. Everything feels incomplete from the game universe to your lonesome character. A small blessing, then, that this lopsided game...
That's punk rock. And that's why Bono is a hero. Not because he's a rock star, but because he's a rock star who is willing to spend time on things that are tedious and boring--like long sessions with Senators and Administration officials and meetings at the World Bank and the IMF on torpid Washington Saturday mornings...
...read few “great” novels that didn’t drag terribly. Yes, Ebert also calls attention to some underappreciated gems, but consider this: he likes about as many movies as he dislikes—he has to, otherwise his TV show would quickly grow tedious. And in an industry whose crap-to-quality ratio is perhaps ten-to-one, that means that Ebert will give thumbs up to four or five banalities for every gem, underappreciated...
...dismiss him, something Cavani plays up. It is this contrast that made Hannibal Lecter so scary in The Silence of the Lambs and so empty in Hannibal: his pleasure and thus the audience’s pleasure in his pleasure was lost in the transition from surprising lust to tedious psychosis...