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Kirstie Alley and Diana Highland play transparent characters.
Why do the plots have to be transparent?
The 1970's are almost certainly the worst years of British comedy - we had such "greats" as Love thy Neighbour, George and Mildred and Robin's Nest - the story lines and (supposed) humour of which were not only obvious and transparent but very shallow and unsophisticated.
There really isn't a lot of action until the end, but I can't imagine it being categorized as anything else because the plot was so transparent and shallow that it couldn't be considered a drama or anything.
His comedy is filled with whimsy, non sequiturs, twisted cliches, notions that seem to emerge recklessly from nowhere, scarcely masked libidinous allusions, ridiculously transparent self justifications -- the kind of humor associated with the Marx Brothers.
Another biologist, previously working on a secret government project, is being protected by a detective who is forced to battle the transparent assassin while the government tries to track him down.
"To put the kindest face on it," says forceful Broadway theater queen Carlotta Marin about Nanny Ordway, a young woman found hanging in the bathroom of Peter and Iris Denver's apartment, "the girl was a little horror...a transparent.
With such transparent effects as pentagram scars drawn on with pencil crayon and werewolf transformations that simply dissolve from a pair of bare legs to a pair of hairy ones, this isn't exactly the most sophisticated movie, even for its time.
Melanie Thierry is not bad but a bit transparent here despite extraordinary facial features.
If you look it up on this marvelous website, you stumble upon the page of a seemingly stylish, artistic and somewhat psychedelic film entitled "The Coming of Sin", which showcases a cover image with a golden and transparent horse standing in a meadow.
Shallow, transparent, contrived, and just plain stupid.
Second, it invokes Kurt Cobain, another transparent attempt to pass this off as a Gen X film by linking it to the over-commercialized and overpraised rock star.
While the plot may remain a bit transparent, it leaves you asking the question of yourself - how long would you keep battling to get what you really want out of life?
Set in the deep south of 1950's America the plot is as transparent as it always is in a film were nothing is always about to happen.
Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass.
The scene where the guy is fighting the monster is clearly superimposed as you can see the water in one part showing right through the other part making the guy in the water look transparent.
The acting was pretty good (loved Margot Kidder's portrayal of Bobby's mother) though some of the characters were rather transparent.
This is a joy - the music is terrific, the plot so thin it's transparent.
It is entirely made up of 100% stereotypes: Lenny's transparent con-man, Lila's funny/sad nebbish, Kelly's Ice Goddess, Kelly's father's WASP image, Kelly's Mother's...well...Mother image.
So transparent...
The story line is really pretty weak with transparent characters and very little plot.
The plot is transparent; the characters, unbelievably shallow, hackneyed and stock.
The failure Leslie is a transparent rewrite of Michael Scott, a failure trying to succeed in a field he is totally unqualified for that grasps for the approval of those around him.
Acting was stiff and transparent.
An independent watchdog would require all employers to demonstrate that their hiring practices are transparent, competitive, and meritocratic.
First, the ECB’s analysis of the economic challenges facing the eurozone should be very transparent.
Trump’s battle with China merely underscores his eagerness – transparent from the start – to use economics as a foil in his pitch to “Make America Great Again.”
What NATO can and should do – in a transparent manner – is scale up defensive military support for its members close to Russia.
By giving charities an incentive to become more transparent and more focused on being demonstrably effective, GiveWell could make our charitable donations do much more good than ever before.
Last year, ILD began, with pro bono support from Silicon Valley firms, to determine whether information technology, and specifically blockchain (the transparent, secure, and decentralized online ledger that underpins Bitcoin), could enable more of the world’s population to get in on globalization.
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