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The situations are unique to the characters and not at all cliched or hackneyed.
The movie is as predictable and cliched as it gets, but it works.
Where one would expect the dark, gloomy cliched castle, we are treated to a sumptuous feast for the eyes.
The story of an adult son visiting his elderly father and retarded brother after a long separation appeared cliched at first, but it proved to be very touching and realistic.
Some of it was poorly acted and other parts were just outright cliched and facile.
Though this film wasn't great.. (too many stereotypes: the "villain" with his side-kicks, the sometimes cliched love story).. and the scene where Salim was burqa-clad during the visit of Farah's parents seemed ripped off from many other Bollywood flicks.
Papertrail is cliched trash with absolutely no redeeming features - period.
I feel sorry for whoever has the misfortune to get roped into seeing this: cliched and dull.
I have always hated the use of period slang and this movie uses 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's slang in it's horde of cliched characters from four decades.
They too were cliched, pointless and boring.
Christmas movies are supposed to be kind of cliched, they have to be because Christmas has become a cliche to most people.
Then he proceeds to spend the next hour recounting the youth's cliched life story in long-winded detail, playing up his hard knocks upbringing in gooey, unbelievable fashion.
The first and third stories are a little cliched, especially the elevator sequence, but they're still quite great.
The story is cliched, much more "like a videogame" than the video games.
The hopelessly cliched story, with all the familiar "haunted house" tricks, would be enough to sink this movie, but the job is completed by the poor direction and the murky look of the film, which often makes it hard for us to understand what's happening onscreen.
"Formulaic" and "cliched" are compliments this stinker doesn't deserve.
The standard scares in the film are effective but very cliched and worn out.
I never did really decide if the dialogue was supposed to be that cliched for its campy effect, or if they really meant it--and the dialogue was the high point of the writing.
Despite borrowing cliched plot elements e.g.demonic possessions, light versus darkness, etc. etc. from more popular films and tempering them with style, the whole movie still seems rather dull and derivative.
Tightly plotted (there's always something happening, but the complications never get too confusing) and smoothly directed, it's a movie that knows how to keep you absorbed, even though its nihilistic ending is slightly cliched.
Most Italian films are either shown in hardly any movie theatres - if any at all - while American blockbusters clog the screens of Italian cinemas up and down the peninsula for months (cliched 1960s terminology such as "cultural imperialism" springs to mind!).
On the way, it is cliched, offensive, obnoxious, predictable, and DULL.
Lifting several cliched ideas from The Omen and Amityville Horror, London Voodoo tells the tale of an unlikely American couple who move to London in an attempt to salvage their relationship, but whose fortunes take a turn for the worse when they discover that their new home is haunted by a voodoo spirit.
The script is highly formulaic and dull, the characters are one-dimensional, there are several holes in the plot, and the ending manages to be both cliched and unsatisfying.
Your traditional cliched plot was something with which almost made me run away, and the fact that you know how everything will happen right from the word go is unbelievably annoying.
Inspired by the national battles of cheer squads on ESPN, screenwriter Jessica Bendinger takes the cliched templates of sports movies and teen movies and reduces both to the least common denominator.
They've decided to throw in possibly the most cliched and outright groan-worthy pseudo plot-twist ever invented.
As for a plot summary, imagine a completely cliched, pandering, and trite attempt at "anarchy"; spearheaded by lots of cheesy intimations to "the man" and rampant overuse of the term "fascists".
I was struggling to find anything of interest in this cliched propaganda movie.
James L. Brooks is a man with a gift for developing interesting characters but with a weakness for squeezing them into cliched and/or manipulative circumstances.
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