Word: turgidity
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...thrilled. As for me, I have finally fallen out of love with Han Solo, and when I pray, it's for God to whisk me away to the Pinot-drenched Santa Ynez Valley of Sideways. But I am also relishing my old Star Wars anticipation. True, Lucas' beautiful but turgid prequel trilogy has disappointed--but then again I am no longer an awestruck boy secluded in a theater, trying to find himself in that place far, far away...
...baste this absurdity—which has little basis in a culture where ballroom isn’t taboo—in the easy comedy and gentle camp of a date movie. After an hour and a half of marination, what comes out of the oven is something turgid and weirdly bent out of shape...
...This year, that changed with a bang. And a slash and an ouch! After a 2003 festival that was widely derided for its turgid batch of competing films, Cannes's chief programmer Thierry Fr?maux promised that this year's selection would be less stodgy, more Hollywoody, more fun. That meant two things. First, the jury president had to be from Hollywood. (One insider said Tarantino got the call only after Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep had respectfully declined.) Second, for films that offered serious fun, Fr?maux had to look to the East...
...Sims (and now the Sims 2) and Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black and White, The Movies). (See reviews.) There were also a couple of games which hewed to tradition, but stood out by being by far the most breathtakingly, painstakingly real: Doom III and Half Life 2. And the normally turgid genre of movie tie-ins is showing a lot of promise. Instead of following the plot of the movie, Enter the Matrix wraps its own plot around it. Quidditch World Cup takes an aspect of the Harry Potter movies and turns it into an entire tournament. The latest James Bond...
...Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went heedlessly, fearlessly nuts. Soon Cat III was not just a rating but a two-headed genre - and not just a genre but a style - that a many directors executed with cunning and brio. Sure there was junk, but amid the turgid, demeaning stuff were films that provoked astonishment and exultation. ?They can do this!?? gave way to ?They do it so well...