Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...apartment. Here the film becomes less about the quiet relationships that develop between characters and more about calling attention to the issue of illegal immigrants. The problem is not that McCarthy’s movie has a message, but that he communicates it in a multitude of tedious ways. When Mouna comments that the detention facility “doesn’t look like a prison,” Vale replies, “I think that’s the point.” In this scene, McCarthy, who also wrote the film, seems to use his characters...
...promoting retraining, says Boni, Poland could save up to $13 billion in premature retirement benefits over the next 12 years. To lure younger Polish talent home, the government also wants to lower barriers to starting a business, and provide better science and technical education. "Some of this can seem tedious," says Tusk. "But for Poland there is no other...
...other hand, Republican nominee John McCain’s “Service to America” biography tour—effectively an attempt to kill time until the fall—has been downright tedious. His well-worn personality parade pales in comparison to the current mood of cliffhanger ambiguity that still hangs over the Democratic nomination. Suddenly, what has often been an automatic nomination process has been ignited with uncertainty and thus interest. The theatrical element to Obama and Clinton’s tussle has generated public enthusiasm at a fever pitch, generating far more media coverage...
...musical moment. And then there were the montages–oh, and there were many. Thanks to the Academy’s desperate preparation for an unscripted ceremony, the audience was treated to a plethora of clips of awards past. I knew it was going to be a tedious affair when Jack Nicholson introduced a montage of every single Best Picture winner—wholly unnecessary and a reminder of how dumb some of those picks were. (“Around the World in 80 Days”? Really?) At least some of the clips of acceptance speeches from decades...
...creators of “Charlie Bartlett” seem to have had an elaborate mental checklist of every high school movie cliché known to man and, item by tedious item, set out to check them off. Hopelessly troubled rich kid expelled from private school and forced to transfer to public? Check. A beating on the first day by a tattooed punk with a mohawk? Check. Love affair with the beautiful (but feisty!) principal’s daughter? Subsequent power struggle with said principal for remainder of the movie? Film resolves in boy overcoming his family issues, getting...