Word: vapid
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...EVEN WITH witticisms and highly skilled leads, the cast of The Buddy System cannot transcend the vapid world of cliche. For every unforgettable line that the screenplay offers us, there are ten others that sound as if they were borrowed from The Brady Bunch. We are constantly confronted with trite statements like, "Wouldn't it be nice if we had a real family and a father who went to work every day?", "I need time to explore my space," and "Love the things you can do well." By the end of the first 30 minutes, the movie sounds like little...
Jaskowiak and Wolf appear equally uncomfortable on stage. Their rigid and unnatural manner of moving, along with the vapid manner in which they rattle off their lines, makes the audience feel self-conscious. Moreover, the whiny manner in which Jasowiak delivers her lines grates on the audience after five minutes of forced, unvaried delivery. Both performances do little more than delay the two long-awaited intermissions...
...both Artistic Director and Patron for the Boston Shakespeare Company. Sellars' commitment to Pericles and his perspective on it must result from much work, yet his points get lost in an amateur hodge-podge of avant-garde theatricality. He sacrifices crucial substance for a vapid style, believing his messages can still come across. The last scene seemed comical to much of the audience, but watching Sellars stare intently and emotionally at the stage, one quickly realized this was no farce to laugh at but serious stuff. Only...
...Grace's Harry bridges the gap between Olivia and Anne. During the 1920s he is the carefree, slightly morose house guest of the prince who becomes a confidant of Olivia. In 1982 he tries to explain to Anne what motivated the earlier characters Grace gives a delightfully stylized and vapid performance endowing Hany with deeply sunk eyes and a degenerate sense of humor...
Despite its apparent intrigue, the story is slow-moving and predictable at its best, simply tedious and dull at its worst. The characterization is vapid, and not just because the novel's richness is lost in the translation, Enchi restricts herself to describing the hair and skin color or the banal speculations of minor players in the story, ("Strong? Of course she is, but only on one level...") They seem to have no personality, no motivation for their actions, and only Yasuko, under her mother-in-law's spell, can be believable in such a state. The author fails miserably...