Word: trite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-pity is overwhelming, and only increases as the movie progresses. And Michael Rapaport, while likable at first as the "dumb-blond" boxer Allen tries to fix Linda up with, winds up sounding plastic and rehearsed, without a shred of believable character in him. By the trite end, it is clear that you are supposed to be happy for them. But you can't be happy for people you never liked-or even got to know at all, for that matter...
...John Waters had manhandled this trite premise, "To Wong Foo" could have been at least funny. In Beeban Kidron's directorial thumbs, it becomes schlock. In the spirit of drag and "gay humor," Kidron tried to camp up the movie, and instead made it forced and silly. Catering to straight middle America, Kidron turns drag queens into freaks and drag shows into freak shows. The Webster Hall drag contest at the beginning of the movie was reminiscent of Jabba the Hut's palace from "Return of the Jedi...
Hansen is at first reluctant to talk about his faith on the record. He has done it before--for the Seattle newspapers after he was named a Rhodes Scholar, for example--and thinks he came off sounding trite and simplistic...
There are several possible explanations for the desire to downplay our status as Harvard students. Some of us may feel that we are not worthy of the privilege bestowed upon us. It's like the Room 13 poster, trite but true: "Was I the mistake?" And some of us may feel a need to apologize for being at Harvard, an institution with an international reputation for elitism and egotism...
...guitar which rings loud and clear like a siren, then mimics the sounds of conflict: hysterical sobs, helicopters, motorcylcles tearing through urban canyons, ghostly whistles, nightmarish soft tones bent with the whammy bar, a brief display of pyrotechnics and then silence as the song ends and the world becomes trite again. There is a beautiful moment of absurdity preserved forever on record after "Machine Gun" ends when a lisping voice intones the pathetic replay to Hendirx' forceful musical statement: "No bullets...