Licensed To Ill revels in their clever-dumb antics, without ignoring the hip-hop culture that shaped them.
(Scott) 'KISS KISS, BANG BANG' (R, 103 minutes) Clever and dumb at the same time, this hectic pastiche of Los Angeles.
But why the hell should such a clever woman dumb herself down on the off chance that an obscure speech sponsored by the London Review of Books might meander its way a fortnight later into the block capitals of a Daily Mail headline (A Plastic Princess Designed To Breed)?
(Holden) 'KISS KISS, BANG BANG' (R, 103 minutes) Clever and dumb at the same time, this hectic pastiche of L.A. noir conventions offers opportunities for Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer and Michelle Monaghan to have a good time with hard-boiled dialogue, and the audience to have a few laughs watching them.
(Scott) 'KISS KISS, BANG BANG' (R, 103 minutes) Clever and dumb at the same time, this hectic pastiche of Los Angeles noir conventions offers opportunities for Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer and Michelle Monaghan to have a good time with hard-boiled dialogue, and the audience to have a few laughs watching them.
I was just an average kid, not clever or dumb, fat rather than skinny.
Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader wrote, "Undeniably provocative and reasonably entertaining, The Truman Show is one of those high-concept movies whose concept is both clever and dumb".
Sure, their films have always been slightly cold and self-consciously clever stunts about dumb people doing dumb things, but what made the films so engaging was that the film (and the filmmakers) seemed to have a genuine love for these people who had good intentions but lacked the brains to carry them out correctly.
From time to time the writing is good enough to make you hope that one day Safran Foer will produce an "extraordinarily brilliant" novel, instead of Everything Is Illuminated: a ragbag of old tricks; a clever book for dumb reviewers.
They justified their deceit by convincing themselves that the truth — if you took a close enough look at it — was no different from the lie, that even the principles of morality and lawfulness were themselves only lies by which the clever outsmarted the dumb.
