Word: subplot
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...bummer of epic proportions?" The $140 million Bruckheimer-Bay spectacular posted disappointing numbers at the box office. While Disney execs blame the movie?s long running time, we think the movie?s unsatisfactory performance may have had more to do with unbearable dialogue and a ridiculous subplot...
...sort of morbid fascination rather than real affection. Some fans are repulsed by the thug image perpetuated by some of the players—Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason four years ago or Latrell Sprewell and Kurt Thomas today. Other fans are only mildly interested by the constant subplot, but never really grow attached to the actual team...
...fill time? To create characterization? In a movie about movement, it is the actions that speak louder than words, and the dialogue often comes second to the acting as a means of establishing personalities. In addition, the script offers plenty of promises with no payoffs. A romantic subplot involving Tanto and a female reporter leads absolutely nowhere, and could easily have been excised without affecting the movie in the slightest. Ditto regarding a plot strand concerning Tanto’s ex-wife. And the character of Sophia, so integral to the first half of the movie, becomes nearly invisible...
...cable network (and yes, I'm counting "The West Wing"): a hilarious allegorical story of independence, relationships and mortality, told through scary stories (just as "The Twilight Zone" did), that has gotten ever more touching and audacious in its fifth season. See this year's outlandish subplot, in which Whedon introduced Buffy's younger sister Dawn - we'd never seen her before but the cast acted like she'd been there all along -who turned out to be an ancient mystical "key" disguised by a spell that made her friends and family believe they'd known her for years. What...
With this dear-daddy subplot, the film finally tries to persuade you that George is a man worth feeling sorry for. O.K., so his father loved him, his mom didn't. He loved his kid, she deserted him. What's this got to do with the price of coke? In truth, all George deserves is the grudging respect one might give to any captain of industry who, with guts and a shrewd sense of an expanding market, made a bundle selling people something they didn't need. That's not quite enough for a wannabe-great movie...