Word: tediousness
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Surprisingly, Expos, the course everyone loves to hate, did not appear to be fazing the intrepid SPAHsies. Most of them simply found it tedious and too time-consuming. As Pattabiram put it, surviving in the writing class is a matter of "figuring out how to juggle things...
Unfortunately, with so much of the film perfectly fitting Tim Burton's talents, it suffers from Burton's perenial downfall: weak continuity. Poor Jack's character shifts a few too many times for comfort. The romantic subplot is weakly developed, tedious and extraneous. Interestingly, in Burton's book version of the film, Iushly illustrated by the author himself, the romance angle is completely excised. It is tragic that with every other aspect so fully realized, Burton could not muster up a solid storyline once...
Matthew Bernstein literally plays the straight man to the rest of the cast's antics, portraying the indignant homophobic lawyer with an energy that keeps some of the court scenes from dragging. Towards the end of the play, the courtroom arguments get tedious, broken occasionally by Richard Yanowitz's convincing rendition of a batty judge...
...understanding what dreams represent and what import their meanings may have upon life is the major practical and philosophical question that Mark-Alem must face. Yet as he attempts to evaluate this unreal world, he slowly drifts away from the one he had been a part of. "How tedious, grasping, and confined this world seemed in comparison with the one he now served," he reflects on his first day off. Here Kadare explores not only the immense, controlling structure of the state, but also its influence on those who participate in it, conscious of their collaboration. And although his musings...
...mother "stupid," and his brother "decidedly dim." Broadbent's incomparably pompous English accent and straightfaced Monty-Pythonesque expression are perfect. But after the first few unemotional narrations and reenactments of his gruesome crimes, the Earl's understandably predictable stories, coupled with the unexciting cinematography, begin to verge on the tedious. Still, a few choice lines, expertly delivered by Broadbent, make the short sit through this film worthwhile...