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For those who don't know, "cinema de qualite" was a phrase coined by one of the New Wave critics (I think it was Truffaut, but don't quote me) to express contempt for what he and his colleagues perceived to be the overly glossy,
empty
product typical of 1950s French cinema.
There were a couple of characters that were somewhat interesting, however, the storyline never delved deeper into their personalities the way I had hoped...and left them being
empty
shells of people with no real backgrounds or insights into what made them tick or why they were the way they were.
There are no saving graces for the film, unlike other remakes that directly rip off the story and give it an 'Indianize' it as American remakes tend to do, this film doesn't which leaves it as an
empty
and hollow commercial shell.
Now, creating an audience response like that is not an easy thing to do, and Haneke did go on to become a brilliant filmmaker, but The Seventh Continent seemed to me a stylish,
empty
exercise in morbidity.
I wonder how the director started filming having such an
empty
script.
Yeah, of what little plot there is, the details don't make a whole lot of sense - like the hospital being mostly
empty
aside from a small group of people and a tornado popping up at the end to ultimately vanquish the "evil"... Robert Englund plays a small but highlighted role as the sheriff who put the psychotic organ-snatcher away and is killed off FAR too soon, while the rest of the cast does nothing but provide clichés that move things along until the film's end.
The Iran sanctions could of course turn out to be an
empty
gesture.
“Look at all those
empty
walls!” he marveled.
Apparently, there was no hiding the 6,000
empty
seats at the Uruguay-Egypt match on June 15.
If they do not follow through on their intentions, promises, and commitments, access to information and instant communication is such that
empty
promises simply will no longer persuade most people.
They recognize that, while their supporters may be devout Muslims, they also need to earn a living;
empty
hotels and beaches would be economically disastrous.
Indeed, reforms announced by Blair increasingly sound like
empty
promises, because the apparently inevitable has happened: the Prime Minister has lost touch with the public.
For example, if any CEO walked into a meeting as ill-informed and poorly briefed as Trump often is, breezily spouting
empty
superlatives and faulty information, they would have quickly lost respect outside the company and support within it.
Such statements ignore the fact that most of these promises are almost entirely
empty.
Empty
talk.
And the benefits of the 2009 Shanghai Expo were rapidly undermined by the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the television screens around the world broadcasting scenes of an
empty
chair at the Oslo ceremonies.
The right often invokes "traditional values," but as socialism is the only tradition anyone remembers, the right’s values turn out to be
empty
slogans -- "tradition," "family," and "Church" -- mouthed by its ambitious politicians.
"My life continues in the lives of my children," we say, but for an individual this is an
empty
phrase.
Rules without any monitoring and enforcement mechanism are merely
empty
rhetoric.
This pledge is both
empty
and easy to fulfill.
It is empty, because the European Commission has no budget to buy US soybeans or any means to impel EU consumers to do so.
They can generally tell when they are being strung along, and they are tired of
empty
rhetoric and half-baked initiatives.
If not matched by resources, mandates are
empty.
Early entry, otherwise, would be an
empty
gesture.
South Korean liberals argue that this policy compromised the national goal of peaceful reunification, by turning it into an
empty
slogan.
To this day, the budget surplus prevails, the services and local tax cuts promised have not been delivered, and the social housing for refugees remains
empty.
“A land where we live well and happily,” the campaign slogan of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), resonated with them, as did the rather provincial and mostly
empty
messages of rival parties.
But once those warehouses are empty, the country and its people will be on their own.
Along with its
empty
threats of interest rate hikes, there is a real danger the ECB will be labeled the central bank that barks but doesn’t bite (animal behaviorists know that barking and biting are substitutes, not complements).
Fifth, the combination of unfavorable demographics and overhang of
empty
homes will prevent a strong recovery in the housing market.
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