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Embarrassingly predictable, (they've sifted through every trite cliché they could find and distilled them all into this).
It verges on being trite or cheesy at times, idolizing the "quaint" village, but for the most part stays away from that.
Okay, it's hokey and it's trite, and the acting at times is marginally acceptable.
The acting is deplorable, the dialogue is trite, and the "symbolism" is about as subtle as being poked with a white hot cattle prod.
To write that another "Jewish Holocaust" movie is trite and wasteful, only shows just how lacking in intelligence most of this country is.
His character is trite seemingly disinterested and frequently irritating but wholly believable and realistic.
The director has taken a plot which looks boring and trite and turned it into a unexpectedly good movie.
I consider "Marius and Jeannette" as a really trite love story that takes in a popular district of Marseille (it is useful to add that all Guédiguian's works take place in this big French city).
Why did anyone involved with this wonderful franchise allow this trite to be filmed?
If you think it is a trite film, you must have had an easy life.
While I generally love Reese Witherspoon in many movies (Election and Freeway are awesome) neither she nor the other good actors could rescue the bad story, two-dimensional characters and poor writing in this trite movie.
The cinematography is bad even by the standards of a first-year film student, ranging from washed-out images to trite shots of hummingbirds.
The writing was egregiously bad, the story was uncompelling and trite, the direction was lackluster, the editing was atrocious, and although the actors try valiantly none of them come off at all well.
It was over-dramatic and trite.
All of the actors (or should I say 'over-actors'?) were terrible caricatures of characters in Twelve Angry Men, the plot is trite (they probably stole a good part of it from CSI or something), and the flashbacks of the murders are terribly shot and filtered with something yellow so they are also physically hard to watch.
Already 'A Stranger Among Us' seems trite and contrived.
And the other characters, the victims, are annoying or trite.
Unfortunately, this lame flick doesn't even deliver a little gratuitous T&A as it limps along though its trite and cliche-ridden story about a beautiful hitwoman, a bunch of money, and a broke mom and son destined for a showdown.
My only complaints are that the music is sometime intrusive, disruptive and the tennis match is a little trite -- small criticisms for what is otherwise a really nice movie.
Not only is she tough, but the script is trite from beginning to end and the whole film is garishly lit in bright Technicolor to show off Joan's wardrobe and a neat pair of legs.
The direction is heavy-handed, at times bordering on trite, the production design doesn't contribute much, and the photography is pretentious and annoying -- more appropriate to a music video, than a heartfelt drama.
The characters are one-dimensional and annoying, young people don't really talk like this ("Cab service on this island leaves something to be desired" -- aaugh!), and scenes obviously written to be hip and smart alecky come off as forced and trite.
Overacting, a trite script, distracting voice-over, two dimensional characters and editing out of Film 101.
All the jokes were trite, slapstick humor and could be seen a mile away.
instead, with him, it came off as syrupy, trite and heavy-handed, eliciting no audience empathy at all. to me, sandler seems to have a smirking, sleepwalking quality to his performances, like we're both in on some joke.
I thought this movie was well-written -- the dialogue seemed like conversations between real people, not trite like a lot of Hollywood movies.
The trite dialogue, Ed Wood style special effects and ridiculous plot of this film creates a beautiful "cult" charm.
Voting ONE is to heap unwarranted praise on this trite and pretentious effort.
The treatment of the youngsters is improbable given the time period the film takes place in, and the film has a trite ending that ignores the realities of the situation the boy is in.
Takes place in some future world with trite sets and some maniac wearing a half helmet acting as a guardian, but to what, I have no clue.
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