Word: tediousness
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...worth twice as much!") and thus a stormy but ultimately fruitful relationship was born. The Marxes, particularly Groucho, had their own ideas about how Marx Brothers movies should be made, and frequently grew exasperated with Thalberg's revisionist notions, which included the resurrection of the serious romantic plotline--a tedious device that had been abandoned after the Marx Brothers' first two pictures "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers"--and "A Night at the Opera features Allan Jones and To Tell the Truth Grand Dame Kitty Carlisle as a pair of nauseatingly naive and boring singing lovers. But even they...
Equus is an even more tedious movie than it had to be. Usually an energetic film maker, Director Lumet (Network) seems to have thrown up his hands on this one. He shoots Shaffer's original stage script as is, to the point of having characters address monologues directly to the camera. The play's gory climax-the blinding of six horses-is rendered realistically, not mimed as it was onstage. Rather than enhance Equus, Lumet's fidelity to the text accentuates every flaw...
...Willie. Nailing one aging expatriate who spent most of his life drinking at the local white man's club, Theroux's mouthpiece observes that "he had failed at being a person, so he tried to succeed at being a character-someone out of Maugham. What tedious eccentricity Maugham was responsible for! He made heroes of these timeservers; he glorified them by being selective and leaving out their essential flaws...
...hunt has none of the excitement of TV's familiar police dramas. At the control center at 109th Precinct headquarters in Queens, the city-wide task force mostly answers telephones, hears out citizens who bring their information personally, dispatches teams to the tedious job of trying to determine if the informants' suspicions have a solid base...
...completely accepted by the Israelis nor the Arab leaders, of course, and we can't say yet that they are completely endorsed by the Soviets either. I think there has been a general acceptance of the proposition that the step-by-step incremental approach is too long, too tedious and leaves unhealed wounds. I think there is a general acceptance of the proposition that we ought to have a comprehensive settlement, based on peace treaties with all the Arab nations and the Israelis being involved together. I can't anticipate now what our position would be. I would...