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Filled with unfunny deaths, trite gay characteratures, and hack jokes, this film is more desperate than amusing.
I did not see anything like that, just a bad, boring film with unlikable characters and a trite, sophomoric plot.
The tone is resolutely chirpy (in spite of the dour Black Country accents), but the film lacks 'East is East's vigour and the result seems rather thin and trite.
Basing a key element of a story on someone wearing the wrong hat is trite and contrived.
Paul Naschy wrote the script, and if you ask me he should stick to acting because the dialogue is trite in the extreme, and only serves to make the film even more boring than it already is.
The plot rambles and ultimately goes nowhere, the dialogue is clunky and trite and the director has little concept of how to get the best from his actors.
The acting is poor (Debra Jo Rupp being a notable exception), the plots of most episodes are trite and uninspiring, the dialogue is weak, the jokes unfunny and it is painful to try and sit through even half an episode.
Yes, this is one of THOSE movies, so terrible, so insipid, so trite, that you will not be able to stop laughing.
If we keep morality factor aside, even then the bizarre events looks trite.
The script makes little sense, the whole idea of the sado-masochistic relationship between the two main characters is strangely trite, and John Lydon shows us all, in the space of one movie, why he should never have let himself out of music.
Let it be said right now that almost all content in this dull movie is completely hackneyed and trite.
Writers putting trite mouthings into actors mouths.
The discussions between the characters was grade school, trite stuff always giving the one character the upper hand the writer wanted.
The clunky, plodding (non)direction, trite by-the-numbers script, ugly, washed-out cinematography, ridiculous murder set pieces (a gross fat slob gets blasted right in the face by a miniature cannon!), overwrought string score, morbid gloom-doom atmosphere, largely lousy acting (Karloff notably excepted), cheesy mild gore, poor dubbing and rousing fiery conclusion all lend this enjoyably awful lemon a certain endearingly cruddy and hence oddly amusing ratty charm.
The idea of a movie about a hit-man-seeing-a shrink-wanting-to leave-the-business-and-falling-in-love....sounds trite.
It exposes the romance of movies such as "Titanic" as the trite cliches they are.
In the hands of a lesser actress, her last scene would have seemed trite and corny.
The film has a Seventies feel in the respect that risks are taken in the telling of this story, but unlike the majority of trite films that populate the landscape today, this is a thriller that is sincerely based upon relationships rather than special effects or product plugs.
In the hands of lesser actors than Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan this film could have become silly and trite.
Granted, I can watch it now and realize the animation wasn't that great, and that the plot is trite.
Granted some of the plot is a little trite and the bus incident a bit drawn out and contrived; however the overall movie was worth watching.
His dialogue is so trite it's unbelievable!
The interracial romance in the past feels more cliché and trite than it does in the novel.
The special effects are nothing less than breathtaking, and make any work by Spielberg look trite and elementary.
while so many American indie gay films are grainy, bad sound, amateur acting, trite story lines, and a surprising lack of any nudity or erotica, top-quality foreign gay films have been popping up like this one from France. the cinematography is beautiful, thought out, meaningful.
At the risk of sounding trite, "They just don't make 'em like this anymore!"
The hour long program follows each of them separately through their often screwed up quests to find love and it does it without being boring or trite.
Maybe a little trite in that the "partners" are both type A personalities, while our protagonists are much more relaxed.
The dialogue was hackneyed and trite.
And it's not just the fact that the "film" is to the most part incredibly dull: it's supposed to be like an indirect "homage" to Romero's zombie trilogy and other horror-movie greats; hence the rather trite "idea" of naming the idiot characters after real-life directors, actors, or horror-film characters.
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