Word: vapidly
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...film required 600 effects shots, against the movie average of around 50. Tom Roston, senior editor for film magazine Premiere, believes that comics give studios "intelligent" blockbusters: "Studios want to use their new digital effects, and a lot of the true-life extravaganzas created for that purpose are vapid, like Pearl Harbor. There is often a sense of exploitation of history. Ironically, these comic-book movies with their strong characters and moral themes are deeper, while still entertaining...
Most of all, Adams and the contestants mocked typically vapid, fluffy beauty pageants...
...morning, as the Fed chairman settled into his usual bob-and-weave under oft-vapid questioning from senators and congressmen, that stability was falling away under his feet. Stock markets had opened with the bulls Wednesday after Intel and IBM met lowered Wall Street expectations and signaled that tech life was indeed going on. Big Blue didn?t even change its fourth-quarter outlook...
...know the one, with the chorus of “Give me my money back! / Give me my money back, you bitch!”) which included some impressive metal-style guitar shredding by Snuzz. In a time when bubble-gum pop, bad rap-rock crossovers and vapid divas seem to control the airwaves, Ben Folds, thankfully, is back...
...brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand...