Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effectively to add comedic dimension to the movie. Mitch's final pitch in a baseball game is filmed in slow-motion at an unlikely angle, a funny parody of how B-movies often frame crucial moments. The next scene, of Mitch's hazing (a few guys spank him with wooden paddles) is also slow-motion, and bears clever similiarity to the bull-killing scene in "Apocalypse...
...real muscle fans, the Cirque offers the Lorador brothers, yet another family devoted to getting into awkward positions. These two Portuguese gargantuans appear onstage in green leather tank tops and lift each other onto and off a wooden table. Although it's a little painful to watch them sweat and grunt through the act, the number does present an impressive showcase of original places to put the various parts of the human body...
...four poles like a collection of futuristic monkeys. Ann Bernard and Helene Lemay deliver another excellent set with their dance, reminiscent of groundstomping Spanish flamenco. Dressed in flaming scarlet leotards and mean-looking red high-heeled boots, and yielding gaucho's hunting weapons called boleadoras (a rope with a wooden ball fastened on the end), these women tap and swing themselves into a frenzy that resembles a highspeed cuisinart. Their grip on their whirling weaponry is reassuringly firm; the dancers seem well-trained not to let their boleadoras wing out into the crowd...
...Innocence" isn't a really good movie, nor is it a really bad movie. But it's also not a really mediocre movie. It's either a really good movie flawed by bizarre cinematographic antics, wooden acting and a horrendous voice-over, or a really bad movie partially salvaged by charming period images and a touching plot. In either case, Martine Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of manners gives you, if not a run for your money, at least an elegant trot...
...latent cutup who late at night during the campaign would plant his large wing tips on a plastic tray and surf from first to economy class during the takeoff of his plane, tossing out a chorus of James Brown's I Feel Good. He deals with the inevitable Wooden Al jokes by repeating them. "At a health- care meeting of 800 doctors," he says, rubbing his hands Jay Leno-like in his wing chair, "600 declared me dead...