Word: cliched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baseball pic "Bull Durham" was given the task of mentoring a young pitcher named Nuke LaLoosh on how to break into the big leagues. On the eve of Nuke's promotion, Crash coaches him in dealing with the media: Crash: "You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down, 'We gotta play it one day at a time.'" Nuke: "It's pretty boring." Crash: "'Course it's boring; that's the point. Write it down...
...Playing like a man possessed" may be a rock clich, but Poem Rocket's guitarist deserved the tag. He glared at the audience through fierce, bulging eyes, and at numerous times the veins on his head seemed ready to explode. He was certainly an intimidating presence on stage, but he became an even greater menace when during one song he jumped off the stage and stared various members of the audience down face to face as he shook a little shaker ball to the drummer and bassist's beat...
...handed side - but I think it evokes the sheer strangeness of watching Being John Malkovich, perhaps the oddest romp of a movie I have ever seen. It is a comedy about getting inside other people's heads, and it has the kick of a head trip, which is a clich even though the film is not. This film will polarize people. There will be many people who will hate this film as much as they have ever hated anything, who will break off relationships with dates who dare to enjoy it. And there are those (the odd Harvard student among...
...reason for Lynch's initial apprehension. Every day and all over the world, the lost are found; those who were separate become joined; the estranged are reunited. This is a universal good--the stuff from which our favorite movies are made. Of course, it's also a potential clich in the making. Some amount of significance, separate from the allure of universality, must exist to merit the making of a new film. Still, Lynch sticks to his tried and true methods in The Straight Story. Again, Lynch collaborates with composer Angelo Baladamenti to create a score that is hauntingly reminiscent...
...into the real life desperation of the thousands of crying and hysterical teeny-boppers. I felt their pain (the screaming, oh the screaming!). I saw the faces of true love--so close yet so far. I was touching the stars, but could not quite reach them. I became a clich...