Word: trite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, he notices Close, immersed in sunlight that makes her white hat look like a halo. Although people don't usually attend games dressed completely in white, nor would it seem likely that Hobbs would notice her alone among thousands of fans, the image is somehow more enchanting than trite...
...transition from adolescence to manhood produces some of the film's most memorable and painful scenes, including a moving confessional by Robert Duvall that he is lonely and wants his son Arnold to come home. The scenes between Close and Duvall also are highly powerful, though occasionally encumbered by trite phrases...
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE Ludlum does get fired up. The scene in Bonn when Converse is charged with killing the U.S. ambassador to Germany is pretty good stuff. But for every interesting scene there are two or three with hackneyed, trite, cliched texts. From going into a whorehouse just to sleep and then bribing the prostitute (who we are told has children she takes to dance classes and school--read heart of gold) to get him an escape car, or to detailing the sexual habits of some of the generals, the "plot twists" are just unbelievable...
...fabuluously bizarre episode to another: But seen on a 15 foot screen these same fabulous events have all the subtlety and appeal of Bozo the clown. For example, the movie's motto "Keep passing the open windows" (i.e. don't jump out) somehow sounds much less embarrassing and trite when you read it in the privacy of your own home than when you hear it blasted through Dolby stereo sound speakers every 10 minutes...
...high school prostitution, and even more on crazed sex fiends lurking to kill them, none seems to have failed quite so tragically as Angel. The problem lies, ironically, in the director's attempt to legitimize the film by trying to make a serious social statement in between the trite dialogue...