Word: blanding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Just because this film's hero is part of the new generation of action hero - sensitive, bland, little more than a foil for the special effects - doesn?t mean this is a good thing. Granted, there?s only one Chuck Heston, and although I stick by my regret that we will never see the next best thing, a frantically bug-eyed Arnold Schwarzenegger screaming at apes in his inimitable Viennese howl, you knew you were going to sacrifice something in the way of charisma this time around...
...Under pressure from propaganda officials, Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend this month sacked three editors and effectively downgraded itself from the sassiest read in China to a rag as bland as the People's Daily. It's the latest casualty in the Communist Party's battle against the nation's increasingly independent-minded media, a clash that's linked to an internal power struggle over who will assume top party positions in a reshuffle expected next year. More immediately, the party will be celebrating its 80th anniversary on July 1 and wants to ensure that it gets good press...
...work is very large with sharp angles, long views and black shadows." The result of the collaboration was grandiose - five different sets were built involving Dalí's painted decorations and miniature sets - but most of the scene ended up on the cutting-room floor, leaving only a bland three-minute sequence. The exhibit, though, delves into the art behind the scenes: Dalí's sketches of shots never filmed, eliminated story boards. Huge eyes - one of Hitchcock's fetishes - stare from a curtain recreated from the opening dream scene that stretches across the gallery. Object of Destruction...
...Office Space. The social commentary isn’t that trenchant, and the themes are rather flippant, but the movie is truly notable for its caricatures and its satire of the generic American workplace. The monotony of working a 9-to-5 job alongside eccentric people in a bland, quasi-corporate environment is increasingly becoming a universal theme for the babies of the Baby Boomers...
...there's nothing bland or diffident about Mueller's sharp, commanding style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors...