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I was initially excited at the thought of Rajiv Rai returning to the action genre but that soon fizzled out.
Earlier this year, when Canada went through a potential constitutional crisis (it fizzled out, thankfully) that might have led to intervention by our Governor-General, the Whitlam dismissal was mentioned in the press.
I will admit the story started out interesting but really fizzled for me in the end.
Collectively and with some of Hollywood's best supporting stars, such as Alex Dreier, Mitch Ryan, Gordon Pinsent, Charles McGraw, Richard Loo and Scatman Crothers, this movie had enough power to reach Mach five, however, it fizzled on the launchpad and went no where.
In spite of his incredible talents as an actor (especially comedic), Christopher Guest has essentially fizzled as a director to the point that his most recent (and best-known) films have been largely-improvised mockumentaries along the lines of Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap" (in which Guest acts, quite brilliantly), which require little of him as a writer or director, instead relying on the cast.
The New Wave fizzled out after producing little of value, and the 1950s (no doubt its faults were real enough; Truffaut probably came close to seeing every single French film of that decade, so in one respect he'd be in a position to know) is looking more and more like a golden age, so maybe the phrase "cinema de qualite" is about due to be reclaimed.
Hopes that a popular uprising might topple the regime have fizzled.
And too many growth accelerations have eventually fizzled out.
Why has India’s growth acceleration fizzled?
Growth collapsed in Africa in the late 1970’s because of the weakness of the former, and fizzled in Latin America after the first half of the 1990’s because of the weakness of the latter.
But, in the last two years, the stock market has predicted six out of the last zero economic recoveries – that is, six bear market rallies that eventually fizzled and led to new lows.
No period of expansion in the US has ever just fizzled out.
Growth momentum has fizzled and, with inflation persistently high, Indian producers are struggling to compete in world markets.
Indeed, previous attempts to isolate more vulnerable Arab states have all eventually fizzled.
In December 2011, mass protests against Putin’s election-fixing and upcoming third presidential term simply fizzled out.
Japan’s vacation-home boom of the 1980’s has largely fizzled with its collapsing stock market and urban land market.
But on that occasion, the opposition blinked first, and the protests fizzled out with the start of the World Cup.