In her capable hands, however, even the most hackneyed occasions are transformed into revealing or comic moments.
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And Mr. Elliott, for whom the story was written and who appears in almost every scene, lends even the most hackneyed moments a faded authenticity.
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SCOTT: And one of the most hackneyed conceits in all of movies — the family holiday from hell — becomes the freshest, scariest, most electrifying domestic nightmare anyone has ever shot.
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Her final close-up might be the film's most hackneyed moment of all, proving that not only does the Devil have all the best tunes, he also has all the best shades of lipstick.
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Even some of the most hackneyed themes—the power of love, friendship, connection, survival, storytelling, and so on—find some nuance throughout, but these moments are fleeting and lost in the overall weirdness and purposely confusing feel of the series.
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Anyone who tells you differently has never cackled their way through an abysmal movie as they made fun of it with good friends, or gleefully beat a joke into the ground, or seen Norm Macdonald spoof a roast by telling the most hackneyed jokes with complete conviction.
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Writing for Esquire, Boston-based critic Luke O'Neil also criticized Wahlberg's character, stating: "For all his talk of honoring his people, Wahlberg seems content to rely on the most hackneyed of Masshole signifiers in their portrayal." Conversely, The Boston Herald gave the film a positive review. In response, Peter Berg stated that some people automatically disliked the film as they may have been in close proximity to the Boston bombings or they believed the film was made too quickly after the events had occurred.
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" Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "Most of For Keeps is entirely predictable, but that should do little to diminish its interest for audiences of high-school age. Here again, Miss Ringwald is the very model of teen-age verisimilitude, and she's most impressive in making even the most hackneyed situations seem real. In fact, she's so good she's almost a problem. Mr. Batinkoff, while pleasant, is no real match for her, and the glowering parents who make their kids' lives miserable for a time are no real threat.
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Suffering is one of her particular gifts." The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that numerous directorial techniques, including all the plunging shots down the staircase, made the film look "rather like an anthology of the oldest and most hackneyed devices in thrillerdom. And yet, in its curious Gothic way, the film works marvelously, though mainly as a field-day for its actors." In Sight & Sound, Peter John Dyer stated that the film had "a frequent air of incompetence," writing of Aldrich's direction that "Like some textbook student of Hitchcock who never got beyond Blackmail, he dispenses suspense with ham-fisted conventionality.
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Serb director tries for third triumph, The Guardian, 15 May 2004Dispute Leads Bosnian to Quit Films, The New York Times, 5 December 1995 French philosopher and writer Alain Finkielkraut, a supporter of the Croatian president Franjo Tuđman during the 1990s, denounced the Cannes Film Festival's jury award, saying: > In recognizing "Underground", the Cannes jury thought it was honouring a > creator with a thriving imagination. In fact, it has honoured a servile and > flashy illustrator of criminal clichés. The Cannes jury ... praised a > version of the most hackneyed and deceitful Serb propaganda. The devil > himself could not have conceived so cruel an outrage against Bosnia, nor > such a grotesque epilogue to Western incompetence and frivolity.
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How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stage framework by filling it in with an observed touch of actual humanity instead of with doctrinaire romanticism." The play has often been interpreted as a kind of satirical commentary on Shaw's own highly successful earlier play Candida (which one of the characters gets tickets to see). It was first performed by Daly in New York as a curtain raiser for The Man of Destiny.
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