Word: vacuously
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...argument for working within the system is morally vacuous and ultimately disingenuous in view of the decades of stagnation and movement away from real reform in South Africa. A policy that claims to be working towards change while the system becomes more oppressive, more violent, more abominable, is a policy that has been coopted...
...characters can get mighty boring mighty fast. Even the protean Peter Sellers could not save the Panther films from a sense of mechanical flatness that was a reflection of the monotony of the protagonist's character. Clouseau was an original idiot, nothing more. When Sellers played a truly vacuous character in Hal Ashby's Being There, he could give the film an ironic tenderness that the Panther faces could have used. Perhaps Edwards, whose films have no other virtue than that they are funny, can only imagine men with similar single-minded interests...
...just get the hell out of Christine's beachhouse inferno. He is, infact, put in the position of playing straight man to all the outrageous "clues" the plot offers Krabbe's magnificent portrayal of a very un-straight obsession keeps the character from being an imbecile, even given the vacuous tackiness of Herman, Christine's lover and his object of lust. Herman turns out to be a German plumbing contractor who not only looks, but sounds, like a talking centerfold...
...vacuous feeling that Repo Man ultimately engenders could perhaps have been averted. A plot exists here somewhere, mostly in the madcap race between government agents, two groups of thugs of all stripes, and the heroic repo men for the '64 Chevy commandeered by J. Frank Parnell. There is something slightly extraterrestrial about this car, and it interests the government radiation squad, beaded by metal-handed Agent Rogersz. The thieves, the no-good Rodreiguez brothers and a three-man gang of punk liquor store robbers, also want the car- for the money, apparently, as do the repo men, who are interested...
Matthew himself seems equally unconvinced that he is actually having an affair with the 15 year old daughter of his best friend. "Last night never happened," he tells Jennifer the night after their moonlight encounter on the beach. "I know," Jennifer says, smiling smugly, "I was there." These vacuous lines do nothing to enforce the believability of the relationship...