Word: trite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times, Hope and Glory tries to be an artsy film, but Boorman should have skipped the ridiculously Freudian dream sequences as well as the numerous subplots which end up being trite. Nor does Boorman's use of newsreel clips and radio speeches give any flavor of the era, partly because the director generally shows us what we've seen before in other movies...
Hello Again abuses the talent of its cast with an inexcuseably trite fairy tale of a plot. Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a frumpy, suburban housewife who feels somewhat displaced in the glitzy Manhattan cocktail set that she mingles with for the sake of her ambitious husband (Corbin Bernsen). "Isn't this party just suhblime!" coos Lucy's best friend and society beauty, Kim (Sela Ward). But nervous Lucy commits one social faux pas after another, culminating in a grand exit down the balustrade where she exposes more than just her sheepish grin...
...extremely emotional. People are dumping stocks with reckless abandon. As trite as it may sound, the market is going down because it's going down...
...accordance with the traditional laws of fairy-tale telling, The Princess Bride has a mawkishly happy ending, reinforcing the mistaken notion that a happy ending is a cliche. Even Reiner's framing device is trite: he has a grandfather, played by Peter "Columbo" Falk, read "the Princess Bride" fable to his ailing grandson...
...since the days when the three girls shared a flat in London and he came around to court pretty Richeldis with her "kind, insensitive eyes." It requires very little effort -- a nice French lunch with a glass of Beaumes de Venise at dessert -- to acquire Simon and launch a trite, messy affair...