The most difficult films to criticize are the ambitious movies that fail in parts, that are neither bad nor good, neither smash hits or dismal flops, in spite of the intelligence and talents of the people involved.
On the morning of Andy Murray's final against Milos Raonic, the cover of the Observer read, "Weather Terrible, Sterling Tumbling, Politics Dismal, Euro Flops (Not Wales), Brexit Coming, Recession Looming" — and then, in giant letters, "ANDY PLEASE CHEER US UP".
That's just as well given his current dismal run of flops.
After that, aside from the relative success of the remake of John Waters Hairsprayy and franchise property Rush Hour 3, it has been a dismal run of flops for the company.
The play is a late entry for the 2012-13 Broadway season, and the fact that it is going into a prime location like the Barrymore reflects the dismal fall on Broadway, where several flops created more vacancies than usual among Broadway's 40 theaters.
Yet the state of the electric car is dismal, the victim of hyped expectations, technological flops, high costs and a hostile political climate.
Broder essentially attempts to deflate the sunny image of a future filled with electric cars, claiming that "the state of the electric car is dismal, the "victim of hyped expectations, technological flops, high costs and a hostile political climate".
After a dismal 82-80 season, which some called the biggest flop of the baseball year, the Nats had major needs.
When you're flopped on your deathbed in some dismal flat in Clapton, coughing, wheezing, your head a rancid soup of regret and remorse, you will remember this.
